Anniversaries 16 October

Birth

Frederick IV of Naples2

King of Naples 1451–1504

Olaudah Equiano7

African abolitionist 1745–1797

Adolph Freiherr Knigge20

German writer and Freemason 1752–1796

Noah Webster6

lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling … 1758–1843

Karl Kautsky9

Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoret… 1854–1938

Oscar Wilde812

Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

J. B. Bury11

Irish historian and freethinker 1861–1927

Austen Chamberlain12

British politician 1863–1937

Otto Mueller6

German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement 1874–1930

David Ben-Gurion39

Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel 1886–1973

Eugene O'Neill36

American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature 1888–1953

Michael Collins (Irish leader)9

Irish revolutionary leader 1890–1922

William O. Douglas52

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1898–1980

Enrique Jardiel Poncela1

Spanish dramatist 1902–1952

Dino Buzzati1

Italian writer 1906–1972

Robert Ardrey8

Screenwriter and author of several books on anthropology 1908–1980

Enver Hoxha27

the Communist leader of Albania from 1944 until his death i… 1908–1985

Nancy Bird Walton3

Australian aviatrix 1915–2009

Robert E. Machol24

American systems engineer 1917–1998

Louis Althusser20

French political philosopher 1918–1990

Kathleen Winsor4

American author 1919–2003

Sita Ram Goel192

Indian activist 1921–2003

Max Bygraves3

Singer, comedian, actor 1922–2012

Günter Grass4

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic art… 1927–2015

Mary Daly7

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian 1928–2010

John Polkinghorne5

physicist and priest 1930

Charles W. Colson2

Lawyer, public servant, Christian advocate 1931–2012

Nico15

German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superst… 1938–1988

Larry Laudan1

American philosopher 1941

Joseph Bruchac1

American children's writer 1942

Elizabeth Loftus10

American cognitive psychologist 1944

Paul Monette2

American writer 1945–1995

Robert Bringhurst2

Canadian writer and typographer 1946

Andrew Zimbalist17

American economist 1947

André Leon Talley2

American journalist 1948–2022

Hema Malini12

Indian actress, dancer and politician 1948

Frank Chipasula2

Malawian writer 1949

Mary Ruwart18

American scientist and libertarian activist 1949

Meg Rosoff15

American-British children's writer 1956

Marc Levy4

French writer 1961

Flea (musician)5

American musician 1962

John Feffer5

American foreign policy writer 1963

Alafair Burke1

American novelist and legal scholar 1969

John Mayer61

guitarist and singer/songwriter 1977

Pippa Black2

actress 1982

Divya S. Iyer7

Indian bureaucrat 1984

Death

Hugh Latimer6

British bishop 1485–1555

François de Malherbe3

(1555–1628) French poet, critic, and translator 1555–1628

Ahmed Shah Durrani11

founder of the Durrani Empire, considered founder of the st… 1722–1772

Joseph Strutt65

British engraver, artist, antiquary and writer 1749–1802

Marie Antoinette3

last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution 1755–1793

Nachman of Breslov18

Ukrainian rabbi 1772–1810

John Wentworth1

American newspaper editor and politician 1815–1888

Wilhelm Frick6

German Nazi official 1877–1946

George Marshall49

US military leader, Army Chief of Staff 1880–1959

Wilhelm Keitel10

German general 1882–1946

Gaston Bachelard35

French writer and philosopher 1884–1962

Julius Streicher43

German politician 1885–1946

Alfred Jodl10

German general 1890–1946

Arthur Seyss-Inquart7

austrian chancellor and politician, convicted of crimes aga… 1892–1946

Alfred Rosenberg17

German architect and politician 1893–1946

Joachim von Ribbentrop13

German general 1893–1946

Fritz Sauckel15

German general 1894–1946

Liaquat Ali Khan1

Pakistan Movement Leader and 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan 1895–1951

Hans Frank22

German war criminal 1900–1946

Ernst Kaltenbrunner25

Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for … 1903–1946

James A. Michener55

American author 1907–1997

Hale Boggs2

American politician 1914–1972

Moshe Dayan16

Israeli military leader and politician 1915–1981

Art Blakey2

American jazz drummer and bandleader 1919–1990

Джин Шеперд1

1921–1999

Jean Shepherd2

American writer and radio host 1921–1999

Harish-Chandra2

Indian American mathematician and physicist (1923–1983) 1923–1983

Kigeli V of Rwanda5

Rwandan king 1936–2016

Jon Postel7

American computer scientist 1943–1998

Per Bak1

Danish physicist 1948–2002