| 118591 | October 16 | Death | 1730 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, 3rd French Governor of Louisiana (b. 1658) |
| 118592 | October 16 | Death | 1730 – Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Greek politician, 139th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1666) |
| 118593 | October 16 | Death | 1750 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (b. 1687) |
| 118594 | October 16 | Death | 1755 – Gerard Majella, Italian saint (b. 1725) |
| 118595 | October 16 | Death | 1774 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750) |
| 118596 | October 16 | Death | 1781 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705) |
| 118597 | October 16 | Death | 1791 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (b. 1739) |
| 118598 | October 16 | Death | 1793 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France (b. 1755) |
| 118599 | October 16 | Death | 1793 – John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728) |
| 118600 | October 16 | Death | 1796 – Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726) |
| 118601 | October 16 | Death | 1799 – Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist (b. 1760) |
| 118602 | October 16 | Death | 1810 – Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian religious leader, founded the breslov hasidic group (b. 1772) |
| 118603 | October 16 | Death | 1822 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer (b. 1724) |
| 118604 | October 16 | Death | 1877 – Théodore Barrière, French playwright (b. 1823) |
| 118605 | October 16 | Death | 1888 – John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815) |
| 118606 | October 16 | Death | 1908 – Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (b. 1837) |
| 118607 | October 16 | Death | 1909 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (b. 1856) |
| 118608 | October 16 | Death | 1913 – Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885) |
| 118609 | October 16 | Death | 1937 – Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899) |
| 118610 | October 16 | Death | 1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician (b. 1900)Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior (b. 1877)Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890)Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian |
| 118611 | October 16 | Death | 1951 – Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895) |
| 118612 | October 16 | Death | 1952 – Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and poet (b. 1876) |
| 118613 | October 16 | Death | 1956 – Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873) |
| 118614 | October 16 | Death | 1957 – John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining (b. 1887) |
| 118615 | October 16 | Death | 1959 – Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897) |
| 118616 | October 16 | Death | 1959 – George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880) |
| 118617 | October 16 | Death | 1962 – Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884) |
| 118618 | October 16 | Death | 1964 – Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906) |
| 118619 | October 16 | Death | 1966 – George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899) |
| 118620 | October 16 | Death | 1968 – Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b. 1914) |