Did you know
Walter Winterbottom was the first manager of the England national team (1946–1962) and Director of Coaching for The Football Association.
Notable Deaths on February 16
2002 — Walter Winterbottom
English footballer and manager (born 1913)
February 16 has 85 recorded notable deaths across history, from 549 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
85 source records
549 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on February 16
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1945 The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law. Source
- 1940 World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. A total of 299 British prisoners are freed. Source
- 1942 World War II: In Athens, the Greek People's Liberation Army is established Source
- 1900 The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieves a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier. Source
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In 1984, her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name.
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Billy Steinberg achieved his greatest success in the 1980s with songwriting partner Tom Kelly, together they wrote or co-wrote the No.
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Smiley Burnette was also a prolific singer-songwriter who is reported to have played proficiently over 100 musical instruments, sometimes more than one simultaneously.
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At the 62nd Academy Awards, he was honored the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his "outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes".
More major people who died on February 16
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1992
Angela Carter
English novelist, short story writer (born 1940)
Angela Olive Pearce, who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realist, and picaresque works.
2026
Billy Steinberg
American songwriter (born 1950)
William Endfield Steinberg was an American songwriter. He achieved his greatest success in the 1980s with songwriting partner Tom Kelly, together they wrote or co-wrote the No.
1967
Smiley Burnette
American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1911)
Lester Alvin Burnett, better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and other B-movie…
2001
Howard W. Koch
American director and producer (born 1916)
Howard Winchel Koch was an American film producer and director.
1984
M. A. G. Osmani
Bangladeshi general (born 1918)
Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani was a Bangladeshi military officer, revolutionary and politician. His military career spanned three decades, beginning with his service in the British Indian Army in 1939.
1579
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
Spanish explorer (born 1509)
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia.
1907
Giosuè Carducci
Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1835)
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy.
1998
Mary Amdur
American toxicologist and public health researcher (born 1908)
Mary Ochsenhirt Amdur was an American toxicologist and public health researcher who worked primarily on pollution.
1932
Ferdinand Buisson
French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1841)
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson was a French educational public servant, pacifist, and Radical-Socialist politician.
1997
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist and academic (born 1912)
Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics.
1998
Sheu Yuan-dong
Taiwanese politician (born 1927)
Sheu Yuan-dong was a Taiwanese politician who was the 15th governor of Taiwan's central bank from 1995 until his death in 1998.
1961
Dazzy Vance
American baseball player (born 1891)
Charles Arthur "Dazzy" Vance was an American professional baseball player. He played as a pitcher for five different franchises in Major League Baseball (MLB) in a career that spanned 16 seasons over 21 years.
2015
R. R. Patil
Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1957)
Raosaheb Ramrao Patil, better known as R. R. Patil, was an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was an MLA for Tasgaon vidhan sabha constituency from 1991 to 2015.
1932
Edgar Speyer
American-English financier and philanthropist (born 1862)
Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet was an American-born financier and philanthropist.
2009
Stephen Kim Sou-hwan
South Korean cardinal (born 1921)
Stephen Kim Sou-hwan was a Korean prelate of the Catholic Church and the Korea's first elevated to the rank of cardinal. He is a former archbishop of Seoul, South Korea.
2000
Lila Kedrova
Russian-French actress and singer
Yelizaveta Nikolaevna Kedrova, known as Lila Kedrova, was a Russian-French actress of the screen and stage.
2019
Bruno Ganz
Swiss actor (born 1941)
Bruno Ganz was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years.
1184
Richard of Dover
Archbishop of Canterbury
Richard was a medieval Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Canterbury.
2006
Johnny Grunge
American wrestler (born 1966)
Michael Lynn Durham was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Johnny Grunge.