October 16th
187 Notable deaths
Harish-Chandra
Indian american mathematician and physicist (1923–1983).
Born October 11th, 1923 in Kanpur.
Died October 16th, 1983 at 60 years old in Princeton.
Mel Carnahan
Governor of missouri, 2000 u.s. senator-elect (1934–2000).
Born February 11th, 1934 in Birch Tree.
Died October 16th, 2000 at 66 years old in Jefferson County (airplane crash).
Hans Selye
Austro-hungarian canadian endocrinologist.
Born January 26th, 1907 in Vienna.
Died October 16th, 1982 at 75 years old in Montreal.
Arsen Pavlov
Rebel leader known by his nom de guerre motorola, k.i.a., commander of the sparta battalion.
Born February 2nd, 1983 in Ukhta. [ref]
Died October 16th, 2016 at 33 years old in Donetsk. [ref]
William Sealy Gosset
British statistician.
Born June 13th, 1876 in Canterbury. [ref]
Died October 16th, 1937 at 61 years old in Beaconsfield (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Victor Hugo Green
American travel writer.
Born November 9th, 1892 in Manhattan.
Died October 16th, 1960 at 67 years old in Manhattan.
Vladek Sheybal
Polish actor (1923–1992).
Born March 12th, 1923 in Poznań, Zgierz.
Died October 16th, 1992 at 69 years old in London (aortic aneurysm).
Sergey Taboritsky
Russian white emigrant, monarchist and nationalist.
Born August 2nd, 1895 in Saint Petersburg.
Died October 16th, 1980 at 85 years old in Limburg an der Lahn.
Gordon Haskell
British singer (1946-2020).
Born April 27th, 1946 in Bournemouth. [ref]
Died October 16th, 2020 at 74 years old [ref]
Herbert Henry Dow
Canadian american chemical industrialist (1866–1930).
Born February 26th, 1866 in Ontario.
Died October 16th, 1930 at 64 years old in Midland (liver cirrhosis).
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks