Died On December 16th
Discover the most famous people who died on December 16. The list includes people like Colonel Sanders, Camille Saint-Saëns, Alphonse Daudet, Asai Chu, William Maugham. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, playwrights, novelists and economists and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Canada and many more countries.
Colonel Sanders09 September 1890, American
Founder of KFC
Lee Van Cleef09 January 1925, American
Actor
Wu Zetian17 February 0625, Chinese
Chinese Empress
Carwood Lipton30 January 1920, American
United States Army Officer
Camille Saint-Saëns09 October 1835, French
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Alphonse Daudet13 May 1840, French
Novelist, Short story writer, playwright, poet
William Maugham25 January 1874, British
Novelist & Playwright
Asai Chu22 July 1856, Japanese
Painter
Laxmikant Berde26 October 1954, Indian
Actor
W. Somerset Maugham25 January 1874, French, British
Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter
Yi Sun-sin28 April 1545, South Korean
Naval commander
Nicolette Larson17 July 1952, American
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Stuart Adamson11 April 1958, British
Singer-songwriter, Musician, Guitarist, Pianist
Lillian Disney15 February 1899, American
Philanthropist, Secretary, Artist
Silvana Mangano21 April 1930, Italian
Actor, Model
Afonso de Albuquerque1453 AD, Portuguese
Statesman
Fumimaro Konoe12 October 1891, Japanese
Politician
Giovanni Agnelli13 August 1866
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Businessperson, Racecar
Emperor Go-Momozono05 August 1758, Japanese
Emperor , Sovereign
Blue Demon24 April 1922, Mexican
Actor, Professional wrestler, Film actor
François Quesnay04 June 1694, French
Philosopher, Economist, Physician,
Agnes Martin22 March 1912, Canadian, American
Painter
Arun Khetarpal14 October 1950, Indian
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda07 January 1858, Russian
Lexicographer
Wilhelm Grimm24 February 1786, German
Lexicographer, Anthropologist, Librarian, Writer,
Thomas Bilotti23 March 1940, American
Kakuei Tanaka04 May 1918, Japanese
Politician
Yegor Gaidar19 March 1956, Russian
Economist, Politician, Professor
Laurens van der Post13 December 1906, South African
Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter, Journalist
Pope John VIIIItalian
Pope
Victor Kugler05 June 1900, Canadian
Electrician
William Petty26 May 1623, British
Economist, Mathematician, Philosopher,
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Hugo Münsterberg01 June 1863, German, American
Psychologist, University teacher, Philosopher
Jackie Mittoo03 March 1948, Jamaican
Musician, Record producer, Singer-songwriter,
Robert Stanfield11 April 1914, Canadian
Politician, Lawyer
Snuff Garrett05 July 1939, American
Composer, Record producer
Gabriel Narutowicz17 March 1865, Lithuanian, Polish
Polish professor
Johann Adolph Hasse25 March 1699, German
Composer, singer
Charles of Valois12 March 1270, French
Author
Eugène Dubois28 January 1858
Curator, Geologist, Physician, Anthropologist,
Karl-Heinz Kurras01 December 1927, German
Police officer
William Somerset Maugham25 January 1874, British
John II Casimir of Poland22 March 1609, Polish
King
Charles Moore31 October 1925, American
architect
Harry Scott27 October 1937, British
boxer