Famous people died in 16 August

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth was an American baseball player considered to be among the best to have ever graced the game

Aretha Franklin

Popularly known as ‘The Queen of Soul’, Aretha Franklin was an American singer and musician

AmericanMarch 25, 1942175 views

Selman Waksman

Selman Waksman was a noted Russian-born American scientist who discovered the antibiotic streptomycin

UkrainianJuly 22, 1888178 views

Robert Bunsen

Robert Bunsen was a German chemist who developed the Bunsen burner with Peter Desaga

GermanMarch 30, 1811309 views

Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir was an American chemist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry

AmericanJanuary 31, 1881156 views

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a Pakistani musician and singer, counted amongst the greatest voices ever recorded

PakistaniOctober 13, 1948109 views

Abune Paulos

His Holiness Abune Paulos was the Fifth Patriarch of the ‘Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church’

Jacob Bernoulli

Jacob Bernoulli was a renowned Swiss mathematician

SwissDecember 27, 1654159 views

Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell was an English poet famous for his poem, ‘To His Coy Mistress’

BritishMarch 31, 1621110 views

Jean-Martin Charcot

A French neurologist and professor, Jean-Martin was instrumental in developing modern science in the field of neurology and had 15 eponyms to his praise

FrenchNovember 29, 1825157 views