July 16th
227 Notable deaths
Yuri Kara
Russian film director,.
Born November 12th, 1954 in Donetsk.
Died July 16th, 2025 at 70 years old in Yalta. [ref]
Nikoloz Muskhelishvili
Georgian mathematician (1891-1976).
Born February 16th, 1891 in Tbilisi.
Died July 16th, 1976 at 85 years old in Tbilisi.
Mikhail Matusovsky
Soviet poet (1915–1990).
Born July 23rd, 1915 in Luhansk.
Died July 16th, 1990 at 74 years old in Moscow.
Wilhelmina von Bremen
Athletics competitor (1909–1976).
Born August 13th, 1909 in San Francisco.
Died July 16th, 1976 at 66 years old in Alameda.
Teresa Feoderovna Ries
Russian-born austrian artist.
Born January 31st, 1877 in Budapest. [ref]
Died July 16th, 1956 at 79 years old in Lugano. [ref]
Alexander Koenig
German naturalist (1858-1940).
Born February 20th, 1858 in Saint Petersburg.
Died July 16th, 1940 at 82 years old in Klocksin.
Wilfried
Austrian singer (1950–2017).
Born June 24th, 1950 in Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee.
Died July 16th, 2017 at 67 years old in Lilienfeld (esophageal cancer). [ref]
Rosa María Britton
(1936-2019) panamanian obstetrician gynecologist and writer.
Born July 28th, 1936 in Chimán.
Died July 16th, 2019 at 82 years old in Panama City.
William Russell
U.s. political figure (1857–1896); governor of massachusetts from 1891 to 1894.
Born January 6th, 1857 in Cambridge.
Died July 16th, 1896 at 39 years old in Quebec.
Víctor Víctor
Dominican composer, singer and percussionist (1948-2020).
Born December 11th, 1948 in Santiago de los Caballeros.
Died July 16th, 2020 at 71 years old in Santo Domingo (COVID-19). [ref]
Hubert Jedin
German theologian and historian (1900-1980).
Born June 17th, 1900 in Brzeziny.
Died July 16th, 1980 at 80 years old in Bonn.
Claus Peymann
German theatre director and manager (1937—2025).
Born June 7th, 1937 in Bremen. [ref]
Died July 16th, 2025 at 88 years old in Köpenick. [ref]
Aleksandr Boloshev
Basketball player (1947–2010).
Born March 12th, 1947 in Elektrogorsk.
Died July 16th, 2010 at 63 years old in Volgograd (stroke). [ref]
Sergei Rudenko
Russian-ukrainian-soviet anthropologist and archaeologist (1885–1969).
Born January 28th, 1885 in Kharkiv.
Died July 16th, 1969 at 84 years old in Saint Petersburg.
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée
French philosopher (1838-1912).
Born October 18th, 1838 in La Pouëze. [ref]
Died July 16th, 1912 at 73 years old in 2nd arrondissement of Lyon. [ref]
Giulio Rinaldi
Boxer (1935–2011).
Born February 13th, 1935 in Anzio.
Died July 16th, 2011 at 76 years old in Anzio. [ref]
Louis de Maud'huy
French general (1857-1921).
Born February 17th, 1857 in Metz.
Died July 16th, 1921 at 64 years old in Paris.
Aleksandr Kolchinsky
Ukrainian wrestler (1955-2002).
Born February 20th, 1955 in Kyiv.
Died July 16th, 2002 at 47 years old in Kyiv (heart failure).
Enrico Accatino
Italian abstract painter (1920-2007).
Born August 22nd, 1920 in Genoa.
Died July 16th, 2007 at 86 years old in Rome. [ref]
Zheng Zhengqiu
Chinese film director (1889-1935).
Born January 25th, 1889 in Shanghai.
Died July 16th, 1935 at 46 years old in Shanghai.
Vira Vovk
Ukrainian writer, critic, and translator (1926–2022).
Born January 2nd, 1926 in Boryslav.
Died July 16th, 2022 at 96 years old in Rio de Janeiro. [ref]
Manfred Wekwerth
German theatre and film director (1929–2014).
Born December 3rd, 1929 in Köthen.
Died July 16th, 2014 at 84 years old in Berlin (disease).
Adèle d'Affry
Swiss painter and sculptor (1836-1879).
Born July 6th, 1832 in Fribourg.
Died July 16th, 1879 at 47 years old in Castellammare di Stabia (tuberculosis).
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Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. Jo Nesbø