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.
- 1843 - Repetition by Kierkegaard published
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Births
- 1827 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter. (d. 1901)
- 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
- 1890 - Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
- 1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
- 1920 - Andrzej Munk, Polish filmmaker (d. 1961)
- 1923 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
- 1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
- 1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
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Deaths
- 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and printmaker (b. 1472)
- 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)
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