Tuesday 16th of November 1548

Theologian and church reformer Caspar Creuziger aka Cruciger the Elder dies of unknown causes at the age of 44 in Schloßkirche, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

Saturday 16th of November 1686

48-year-old King of France and Navarre Louis XIV aka Le Roi du Soleil is operated on an anal fistula by Dr. Charles François Felix in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Dr. Felix first practised on several peasants.

Thursday 16th of November 1724

Thief and gaol-breaker Jack Sheppard aka Gentleman Jack aka Jack the Lad is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Tyburn Tree, London, Tyburn, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Sheppard's slight build had aided his previous prison escapes but it condemned him to a slow death by strangulation from the hangman's noose.

Friday 16th of November 1849

28-year-old Writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is sentenced to death for his allegedly antigovernment activities linked to the radical intellectual group the Petrashevsky Circle in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

Tuesday 16th of November 1869

Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est is born in Beaufort, Rhône-Alpes, France.

Saturday 16th of November 1895

Actor Jack Virgil Dougherty is born in Bowling Green, Missouri, United States.

Saturday 16th of November 1895

Composer Paul Hindemith is born in Hanau, Hessen, Germany.

Monday 16th of November 1896

Founder of the British Union of Fascists Oswald Ernald Mosley aka The British Führer is born in 47 Hill Street, London, Mayfair, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Friday 16th of November 1906

33-year-old Tenor Enrico Caruso is arrested and charged with indecent behaviour for pinching Hannah Graham's bottom in the monkey house in Central Park Zoo, New York, New York, United States.

On 23 November 1906 he was fined ten dollars, the maximum fine for disorderly conduct.

Saturday 16th of November 1907

Oklahoma is admitted as 46th of the United States in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.

Saturday 16th of November 1940

37-year-old Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber leaves his first bomb, a short length of brass pipe filled with gunpowder with an ignition mechanism made of sugar and flashlight batteries, on the window sill in Consolidated Edison Plant, West 64th Street, New York, New York, United States.

Metesky's device was found before it could go off. It was wrapped in a note written in distinctive block letters and signed 'F.P.', stating "CON EDISON CROOKS – THIS IS FOR YOU." F.P. stood for 'Fair Play'.

Monday 16th of November 1953

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Monika Helbing is born as Monika Brigitte Freifrau von Seckendorff-Gudent in Flein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Saturday 16th of November 1957

Hair stylist and experimental filmmaker Ross Cannon is born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

Saturday 16th of November 1957

58-year-old Bernice Worden is shot dead by murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein aka America’s Most Bizarre Murderer in Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States.

Upon searching Gein's property, investigators discovered Worden's decapitated body in a shed, hung upside down by ropes at her wrists with a crossbar at her ankles. The torso was dressed out like a deer.

Wednesday 16th of November 1960

Actor Clark William Gable aka The King of Hollywood dies of coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, 1300 N Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Ten days before Gable suffered a severe heart attack. There was speculation that Gable's physically demanding role in'The Misfits' contributed to his sudden death soon after filming was completed.

Wednesday 16th of November 1966

43-year-old Presumed murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is found not guilty of the murder of his pregnant wife Marilyn in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

Sheppard had been sentenced to life in prison 12 years earlier.

Sunday 16th of November 1969

44-year-old Suzanne Merienne is shot dead by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in 106 rue Faidherbe, Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France.

Tuesday 16th of November 1971

Heiress, socialite, actress, and fashion model Edie Edith Minturn Sedgwick aka The Girl of the Year dies of acute barbiturate intoxication at the age of 28 in Santa Barbara, California, United States.

The coroner ruled Sedgwick's death as 'undetermined/accident/suicide'.

Tuesday 16th of November 1976

36-year-old Double murderer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song attempts to commit suicide by swallowing barbiturates in Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, United States.

Gilmore's 20-year-old girlfriend Nicole Barrett did the same in Provo. They both survived.

Tuesday 16th of November 1982

30-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Christian Klar is arrested near the RAF arms cache 'Daphne' in Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Friday 16th of November 1984

31-year-old Serial killer Bobby Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist is arrested outside the Main Street Cinema in Tampa, Florida, United States.

Long had been watching the movie 'Missing in Action' with Chuck Norris.

Sunday 16th of November 1986

Mass murderer Omar Mir Seddique Mateen known for the Orlando nightclub shooting is born in Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York, United States.

Sunday 16th of November 1986

26-year-old Serial killer Richard Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez aka The Night Stalker is transferred from the Los Angeles Central Jail to Death Row in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Sunday 16th of November 1997

25-year-old Estelle Magd is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille in 12 Rue de la Forge-Royale, Paris, XIe, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 16th of November 1999

Multiple murderer Desmond Dominique Jennings is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

At the time of execution Jennings refused to cooperate so a specially trained five-man team used physical force to take him from a holding cell to the death chamber.

Wednesday 16th of November 2005

Triple murderer Shannon Charles Thomas is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Tuesday 16th of November 2010

Noise music band Club Moral play their 135th concert in Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Mutsaardstraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 16th of November 2022

Double murderer Murray Hooper is executed by lethal injection at the age of 77 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Hooper's last words were "It's all been said, let it be done. Don't be sad for me. Don't cry. I'll see you later, let's go."

Wednesday 16th of November 2022

Double murderer Stephen Dale Barbee is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.