October 16
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[edit] Events
- 1978 - Karol Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II.
[edit] Births
- 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish author
[edit] Deaths
- 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
- 1591 - Pope Gregory XIV
- 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
- 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy
- 1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist
- 1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago
- 1946 - Hans Frank, German war criminal
- 1946 - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal
- 1946 - Alfred Jodl, German military officer
- 1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer
- 1946 - Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer
- 1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician
- 1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist
- 1946 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal
- 1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austria]n Nazi leader
- 1946 - Julius Streicher, German propagandist
- 1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1959 - George C. Marshall, general and United States Secretary of State
- 1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana
- 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, actor
- 1973 - Gene Krupa, musician
- 1978 - Dan Dailey, actor
- 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author
- 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general
- 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer
- 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
- 1989 - Cornel Wilde, actor
- 1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
- 1992 - Shirley Booth, actress
- 1997 - James Michener, American writer
- 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer
- 1999 - Jean Shepherd, writer and actor
- 2003 - Stu Hart, professional wrestler
- 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer
- 2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist
