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Baldwin IV (1161–1185), known as the Leper King, was the king of Jerusalem from 1174 until his death in 1185.
Notable Deaths on March 16
1185 — Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (born 1161)
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (born 1161)
March 16 has 118 recorded notable deaths across history, from 37 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
118 source records
37 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on March 16
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- 1995 Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. Source
- 1966 Launch of Gemini 8 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit. Source
- 1926 History of rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. Source
- -597 The first siege of Jerusalem by the Neo-Babylonian Empire ends with the city surrendering to king Nebuchadnezzar II. Source
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Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture.
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Jesse Colin Young was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the Youngbloods.
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With home runs limited by playing in Forbes Field, the most difficult park for power hitting in the National League (NL), he compensated by reaching double digits in triples eleven times, leading the league in 1923.
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After being discovered, he joined the Communist base in Jiangxi and participated in the Long March.
More major people who died on March 16
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1957
Constantin Brâncuși
Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (born 1876)
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer.
2025
Jesse Colin Young
American singer and songwriter (born 1941)
Perry Miller, known professionally as Jesse Colin Young, was an American singer and songwriter. He was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the Youngbloods.
1972
Pie Traynor
American baseball player (born 1898)
Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor was an American third baseman, manager, scout and radio broadcaster in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career between 1920 and 1937 for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1961
Chen Geng
Chinese general and politician (born 1903)
Chen Geng was a Chinese military officer who served as a senior general in the People's Liberation Army.
1935
John Macleod
Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
John James Rickard Macleod, was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism.
1698
Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
Danish countess, author of Jammers Minde (born 1621)
Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, born "Countess Leonora Christina Christiansdatter" til Slesvig og Holsten, was daughter to King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk and wife of the Steward of the Realm, the…
2005
Dick Radatz
American baseball player (born 1937)
Richard Raymond Radatz was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball.
2011
Richard Wirthlin
American religious leader (born 1931)
Richard Bitner Wirthlin was a prominent American pollster, who is best known as Ronald Reagan's chief strategist, serving as his political consultant and pollster for twenty years, from 1968 through the end of his…
1868
David Wilmot
American politician, sponsor of Wilmot Proviso (born 1814)
David Wilmot was an American politician and judge from Pennsylvania who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and as a judge of the Court of Claims.
2008
Bill Brown
Australian cricketer and soldier (born 1912)
William Alfred Brown, was an Australian cricketer who played 22 Test matches between 1934 and 1948, captaining his country in one Test.
2007
Manjural Islam Rana
Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1984)
Manjural Islam Rana, also known as Qazi Manjural Islam, was a Bangladeshi cricketer who played six Tests and 25 One Day Internationals for Bangladesh. Born in Khulna, he was a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler.
2003
Rachel Corrie
American activist (born 1979)
Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American nonviolence activist and diarist.
2013
Jamal Nazrul Islam
Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (born 1939)
Jamal Nazrul Islam FRAS was a Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist.
1841
Félix Savart
French physicist and psychologist (born 1791)
Félix Savart was a French physicist and mathematician who is primarily known for the Biot–Savart law of electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his colleague Jean-Baptiste Biot.
1935
Aron Nimzowitsch
Latvian-Danish chess player (born 1886)
Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world.
1903
Roy Bean
American justice of the peace (born 1825)
Phantly Roy Bean Jr. was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos." He held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate…
2001
Bob Wollek
French race car driver (born 1943)
Robert Jean "Bob" Wollek, nicknamed "Brilliant Bob", was a race car driver from Strasbourg, France.
1983
Fred Rose
Polish-Canadian politician (born 1907)
Fred Rose was a Polish-Canadian politician and trade union organizer, best known for being the only member of the Canadian Parliament to ever be convicted of a charge related to spying for a foreign country.
1983
Arthur Godfrey
American actor and television host (born 1903)
Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer.