28 notable people died on March 16, including Sir Austen Chamberlain, John Macleod, Derek Barton.
21st Century
1 death
Vilém Tauský
composerconductor
Czech conductor, music educator and composer (1910-2004)
20th Century
13 deaths
Sir Austen Chamberlain
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Peace (1925)
John Macleod
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923)
Derek Barton
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1969)
Mervyn O'Gorman
engineermilitary flight engineer
English engineer
Henry Timken
coach makerinventor
American inventor and businessman best known for his roller bearings (1831-1909)
Emil Fagure
editorjournalist
Romanian prose writer, translator, journalist and theatre and music critic
Alma Söderhjelm
authorhistorian
Finnish historian (1870-1949)
Heinrich Sutermeister
composeruniversity teacher
Swiss opera composer (1910-1995)
Karl Ernst Papf
painterphotographer
German painter and draftsman (1833-1910)
Lydia Délectorsckaya
modelpainter
Painter (1910-1998)
EG
Evan Green
journalistnovelist
Australian journalist (1930-1996)
VK
Veljo Käsper
film directorscreenwriter
Estonian film director (1930-1982)
RR
Robert Russ
exlibristillustrator
Austrian painter (1847-1922)
19th Century
7 deaths
Félix Savart
engineerphysician
French physicist (1791–1841)
Lyman Coleman
academicauthor
American scholar and author
James Wolfe Ripley
military officerwriter
Union Army general
Maurits Hansen
pedagoguewriter
Norwegian writer
Henrik Gabriel Porthan
historianpedagogue
Finnish professor and rector (1739–1804)
Tivadar Puskás
engineerinventor
Hungarian inventor (1844-1893)
Aubrey Beardsley
authordraftsperson
British illustrator and author (1872–1898)
18th Century
1 death
Cristina Roccati
physicistpoet
Italian scientist (1732-1797)
17th Century
3 deaths
Henri de Guénégaud
Beamterchancellor
French politician
Hans Bock
painterrestorer
German artist (1550-1624)
Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont
bretteurpolitician
Colonial governor of New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts
16th Century
1 death
Luca Gaurico
astrologerCatholic bishop
Italian astronomer
13th Century
1 death
Drakpa Gyeltsen
Buddhist monkwriter
3rd of the 5 patriarchs of the Sakya tradition
2nd Century
1 death
Marcus Aurelius
monarchphilosopher
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
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