French Queen consort Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a Revolutionary court and then guillotined on October 16, 1793. The queen consort was convicted of conspiring with foreign powers, depleting the treasury, and high treason only four days after her initial arrest on October 12. Her husband Louis XVI was executed nine months prior. Learn more about the trial and execution of Marie Antoinette.

On October 16, 1946, 10 Nazi war criminals, including former German Foreign Minister von Rippentrop, were hanged following the verdicts of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal.