Famous people died on August 16

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Mark Heard 37

Tom Brown, Jr. 3

American Celebrity

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 17

Pakistani Musician

Jacob Bekenstein 6

Peter W. Schramm 4

American Academic

Joseph Delaney 16

Author

Aretha Franklin 41

American Singer

Peter Fonda 29

American Actor

Elvis Presley 112

American Singer

Nicola Cabibbo 2

Italian Physicist

Michael Parkinson 8

British Journalist

Ronnie Drew 3

Irish Singer

Idi Amin 22

Statesman

Atal Bihari Vajpayee 44

Indian Statesman

Max Roach 3

American Musician

Bobby Thomson 6

American Athlete

James Patrick Murray 2

American Journalist

Brother Roger 1

Swiss Monk

Wahbi Al-Hariri 4

Masanobu Fukuoka 11

Japanese Farmer

Alfredo Stroessner 4

Statesman

Robert Johnson 6

American Psychologist

J. Irwin Miller 9

American Businessman

Oveta Culp Hobby 2

American Psychologist

Wolcott Gibbs 4

American Writer

Margaret Mitchell 106

American Author

Babe Ruth 85

American Baseball Player

John Diefenbaker 10

Canadian Statesman

Selman Waksman 1

American Scientist

Bela Lugosi 51

Austrian Actor

William Halsey 10

American Admiral

Irving Langmuir 11

American Chemist

Wanda Landowska 2

José Maria Eça de Queiroz 14

Portuguese Writer

Ramakrishna 196

Indian Mystic

John James Ingalls 4

American Politician

Benjamin Harvey Hill 1

American Politician

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 2

American Politician

Jacob Bernoulli 3

Mathematician

Andrew Marvell 38

English Poet

Thomas Fuller 166

English Clergyman

Thomas Heywood 6

English Playwright

See also: Famous people born on August 16