Notable Deaths on November 16

Gu Yanhui (顧彥暉) was a warlord late in the Chinese Tang dynasty, who controlled Dongchuan Circuit from 891, when he succeeded his brother Gu Yanlang, to 897, when he, facing defeat against one-time ally Wang Jian,…

Ælfric of Abingdon was a late 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury. He previously held the offices of abbot of St Albans Abbey and Bishop of Ramsbury, as well as likely being the abbot of Abingdon Abbey. After his…

Dobrodeia Mstislavna of Kiev was a Byzantine empress by marriage to co-emperor Alexios Komnenos. She was also an author on medicine.

Ibn 'Arabī was a Sunni Muslim Arab scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and Muslim philosopher from al-Andalus, who exercised notable influence within Sufi metaphysics and Islamic thought in general. There are 850 works…

Henry III, also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.

Prince Hisaaki , also known as Prince Hisaakira, was the 8th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.

Theda Ukena was from 1466 to about 1480 regent of the County of East Frisia.

Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland was an English nobleman, politician and Roman Catholic rebel leader, who led the Rising of the North against Elizabeth I in 1569. After the failure of the Rising, he fled first…

Trajano Boccalini was an Italian satirist.

Paolo Quagliati was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was a transitional figure between the late Renaissance style and the earliest Baroque and was one of the…