24 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
11 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
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)
VK
Veljo Käsper
film directorscreenwriter
Estonian film director (1930-1982)
RR
Robert Russ
exlibristillustrator
Austrian painter (1847-1922)
19th Century
6 deaths
Félix Savart
engineerphysician
French physicist (1791–1841)
Maurits Hansen
pedagoguewriter
Norwegian writer
Henrik Gabriel Porthan
historianpedagogue
Finnish professor and rector (1739–1804)
Lyman Coleman
academicauthor
American scholar and author
James Wolfe Ripley
military officerwriter
Union Army general
Tivadar Puskás
engineerinventor
Hungarian inventor (1844-1893)
18th Century
1 death
Cristina Roccati
physicistpoet
Italian scientist (1732-1797)
17th Century
2 deaths
Henri de Guénégaud
Beamterchancellor
French politician
Hans Bock
painterrestorer
German artist (1550-1624)
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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