Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
93031August 16Death1532 – John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
93032August 16Death1661 – Thomas Fuller, English historian and author (b. 1608)
93033August 16Death1678 – Andrew Marvell, English poet and author (b. 1621)
93034August 16Death1705 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1654)
93035August 16Death1733 – Matthew Tindal, English philosopher and author (b. 1657)
93036August 16Death1791 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
93037August 16Death1836 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1755)
93038August 16Death1855 – Henry Colburn, English publisher (b. 1785)
93039August 16Death1886 – Ramakrishna, Indian mystic and philosopher (b. 1836)
93040August 16Death1888 – John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
93041August 16Death1893 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
93042August 16Death1899 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)
93043August 16Death1900 – José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)
93044August 16Death1904 – Prentiss Ingraham, American colonel and author (b. 1843)
93045August 16Death1911 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)
93046August 16Death1914 – Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835)
93047August 16Death1921 – Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
93048August 16Death1938 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
93049August 16Death1938 – Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
93050August 16Death1945 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
93051August 16Death1948 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
93052August 16Death1949 – Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
93053August 16Death1951 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and director (b. 1887)
93054August 16Death1952 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
93055August 16Death1956 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
93056August 16Death1957 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
93057August 16Death1959 – William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
93058August 16Death1959 – Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
93059August 16Death1961 – Abdul Haq, Indian linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
93060August 16Death1971 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)

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