[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Oct 16

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)

Deaths:
1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
1555 - Hugh Latimer, English protestant (martyred)
1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English protestant (martyred)
1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)

Other Events:
456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and
becomes master of the western Roman Empire