January 16 Deaths |
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| January 16th, 2007 (January 16 2007) | Death | Ron Carey, American actor (born in 1935) | |
| January 16th, 2007 (January 16 2007) | Death | Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (born in 1941) | |
| January 16th, 2006 (January 16 2006) | Death | Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (born in 1923) | |
| January 16th, 2005 (January 16 2005) | Death | Marjorie Williams, American journalist (born in 1958) | |
| January 16th, 2004 (January 16 2004) | Death | Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (born in 1930) | |
| January 16th, 2003 (January 16 2003) | Death | Richard Wainwright, English politician (born in 1918) | |
| January 16th, 2002 (January 16 2002) | Death | Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (born in 1916) | |
| January 16th, 2002 (January 16 2002) | Death | Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (born in 1923) | |
| January 16th, 2002 (January 16 2002) | Death | Bobo Olson, American boxer (born in 1928) | |
| January 16th, 2002 (January 16 2002) | Death | Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (born in 1948) | |
| January 16th, 2002 (January 16 2002) | Death | Ron Taylor, American actor (born in 1952) | |
| January 16th, 2001 (January 16 2001) | Death | Laurent-Desire Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born in 1939) | |
| January 16th, 2001 (January 16 2001) | Death | Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (born in 1939) | |
| January 16th, 2000 (January 16 2000) | Death | Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (born in 1928) | |
| January 16th, 2000 (January 16 2000) | Death | John Morris Rankin, musical entertainer (born in 1959) | |
| January 16th, 1999 (January 16 1999) | Death | Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor, politician, Minister, Royal Commissioner, judge (born in 1915) | |
| January 16th, 1998 (January 16 1998) | Death | Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (born in 1921) | |
| January 16th, 1997 (January 16 1997) | Death | Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (born in 1969) | Bill Cosby Quotes |
| January 16th, 1996 (January 16 1996) | Death | Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (born in 1903) | |
| January 16th, 1995 (January 16 1995) | Death | Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (born in 1924) | |
| January 16th, 1993 (January 16 1993) | Death | Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (born in 1960) | |
| January 16th, 1988 (January 16 1988) | Death | Andrija Artukovic, Croatian war criminal (born in 1899) | |
| January 16th, 1988 (January 16 1988) | Death | Ballard Berkeley, English actor (born in 1904) | |
| January 16th, 1987 (January 16 1987) | Death | Bertram Wainer, Australian pro-abortion campaigner (born in 1928) | |
| January 16th, 1986 (January 16 1986) | Death | Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (born in 1892) | |
| January 16th, 1985 (January 16 1985) | Death | Robert Fitzgerald, U.S. poet and translator (born in 1910) | |
| January 16th, 1982 (January 16 1982) | Death | Red Smith, American sports columnist (born in 1905) | |
| January 16th, 1981 (January 16 1981) | Death | Bernard Lee, English actor (born in 1908) | |
| January 16th, 1979 (January 16 1979) | Death | Ted Cassidy, American actor (born in 1932) | |
| January 16th, 1979 (January 16 1979) | Death | August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (born in 1897) | |
| January 16th, 1972 (January 16 1972) | Death | Teller Ammons, American politician (born in 1895) | |
| January 16th, 1972 (January 16 1972) | Death | Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American actor and creator of The Chipmunks (born in 1919) | |
| January 16th, 1971 (January 16 1971) | Death | Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (born in 1890) | |
| January 16th, 1969 (January 16 1969) | Death | Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (born in 1903) | |
| January 16th, 1969 (January 16 1969) | Death | Jan Palach, Czech protester against the Soviet led invasion.(born in 1948) | |
| January 16th, 1967 (January 16 1967) | Death | Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (born in 1901) | |
| January 16th, 1963 (January 16 1963) | Death | Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (born in 1918) | |
| January 16th, 1962 (January 16 1962) | Death | Ivan Mestrovic, Croatian sculptor (born in 1883) | |
| January 16th, 1962 (January 16 1962) | Death | Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (born in 1885) | |
| January 16th, 1957 (January 16 1957) | Death | Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (born in 1867) | |
| January 16th, 1957 (January 16 1957) | Death | 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, Governor-General of South Africa and Canada (born in 1874) | |
| January 16th, 1942 (January 16 1942) | Death | Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada (born in 1850) | |
| January 16th, 1942 (January 16 1942) | Death | Carole Lombard, American actress (born in 1908) | |
| January 16th, 1936 (January 16 1936) | Death | Albert Fish, American serial killer (born in 1870) | |
| January 16th, 1935 (January 16 1935) | Death | Ma Barker, American criminal (born in 1871) | |
| January 16th, 1924 (January 16 1924) | Death | Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (born in 1859) | |
| January 16th, 1920 (January 16 1920) | Death | Reginald De Koven, American music critic and composer of operettas (born in 1859) | |
| January 16th, 1919 (January 16 1919) | Death | Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (born in 1848) | |
| January 16th, 1917 (January 16 1917) | Death | George Dewey, U.S. admiral (born in 1837) | |
| January 16th, 1906 (January 16 1906) | Death | Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company (born in 1834) | |
| January 16th, 1901 (January 16 1901) | Death | Hiram Revels, U.S. Senator, first African-American to serve in the United States Congress (born in 1822) | |
| January 16th, 1901 (January 16 1901) | Death | Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (born in 1825) | |
| January 16th, 1901 (January 16 1901) | Death | Arnold Bocklin, Swiss painter (born in 1827) | |
| January 16th, 1898 (January 16 1898) | Death | Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (born in 1802) | |
| January 16th, 1891 (January 16 1891) | Death | Leo Delibes, French composer (born in 1836) | |
| January 16th, 1886 (January 16 1886) | Death | Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (born in 1834) | |
| January 16th, 1879 (January 16 1879) | Death | Octave Cremazie, French Canadian poet (born in 1827) | |
| January 16th, 1865 (January 16 1865) | Death | Edmond Francois Valentin About, French writer (born in 1828) | |
| January 16th, 1864 (January 16 1864) | Death | Anton Schindler, Austrian biographer of Beethoven (born in 1795) | |
| January 16th, 1856 (January 16 1856) | Death | Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (born in 1795) | |
| January 16th, 1834 (January 16 1834) | Death | Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (born in 1769) | |
| January 16th, 1817 (January 16 1817) | Death | Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (born in 1759) | |
| January 16th, 1809 (January 16 1809) | Death | John Moore, British general (born in 1761) | |
| January 16th, 1794 (January 16 1794) | Death | Edward Gibbon, English historian (born in 1737) | Edward Gibbon Quotes |
| January 16th, 1752 (January 16 1752) | Death | Francis Blomefield, English topographer (born in 1705) | |
| January 16th, 1750 (January 16 1750) | Death | Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (born in 1667) | |
| January 16th, 1748 (January 16 1748) | Death | Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (born in 1684) | |
| January 16th, 1747 (January 16 1747) | Death | Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (born in 1680) | |
| January 16th, 1711 (January 16 1711) | Death | Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (born in 1651) | |
| January 16th, 1710 (January 16 1710) | Death | Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (born in 1675) | |
| January 16th, 1659 (January 16 1659) | Death | Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (born in 1580) | |
| January 16th, 1585 (January 16 1585) | Death | Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (born in 1512) | |
| January 16th, 1554 (January 16 1554) | Death | Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (born in 1480) | |
| January 16th, 1547 (January 16 1547) | Death | Johannes Schoner, German astronomer and cartographer (born in 1477) | |
| January 16th, 1545 (January 16 1545) | Death | George Spalatin, German reformer (born in 1484) | |
| January 16th, 1400 (January 16 1400) | Death | John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (born in 1352) | |
| January 16th, 0960 (January 16 0960) | Death | Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople | |
