October 16
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Art and culture
- 1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
Births
- 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
- 1890 - Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
- 1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
- 1923 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
- 1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
Deaths
- 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
- 1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
- 1990 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)
Notes
- 1854 - Andrzej Munk (October 16, 1920–September 20, 1961) was a Polish filmmaker
- 1854 - Repetition (Kierkegaard) Repetition (Danish:Gjentagelsen) is a book by the 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and published on October 16, 1843 under the pseudonym Constantin Constantius.
- 1854 - Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a symbolist Swiss painter.
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