Famous Birthdays In May - 16

1558  On May - 16 birth of andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)  

1578  Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606) was born on this day in history.  

1609  On May - 16 birth of ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands  

1641  Dudley North, financier/economist was born on May - 16.  

1659  On May - 16 birth of campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist  

1710  On May - 16 birth of william Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)  

1718  On May - 16 birth of maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)  

1748  Antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch was born on this day in history.  

1761  John Opie, artist was born on this day in history.  

1763  On this day in history birth of louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)  

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1782  John Sell Cotman, water color artist was born on this day in history.  

1788  Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866) was born on May - 16.  

1801  William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872) was born on May - 16.  

1804  On May - 16 birth of elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)  

1806  On this day in history birth of george C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879  

1816  Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886 was born on May - 16.  

1819  On this day in history birth of daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898  

1821  Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894) was born on May - 16.  

1822  On May - 16 birth of eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor  

1824  Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 was born on May - 16.  

1824  Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93) was born on this day in history.  

1827  On this day in history birth of petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)  

1831  David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter) was born on this day in history.  

1832  On May - 16 birth of philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)  

1845  Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916) was born on May - 16.  

1850  Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer was born on May - 16.  

1857  On May - 16 birth of juan Morel Campos, composer  

1858  On May - 16 birth of frank Lynes, composer  

1858  On May - 16 birth of hanus Trnecek, composer  

1860  Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896) was born on May - 16.  

1866  On May - 16 birth of ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)  

1878  Taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely) was born on May - 16.  

1880  Julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment) was born on May - 16.  

1887  On this day in history birth of bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory)  

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0583  On this day in history death of saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)  

0942  On May - 16 saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies  

1265  On May - 16 death of saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)  

1434  On May - 16 pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60  

1569  Death of Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr on this day in history.  

1620  Death of William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564) on this day in history.  

1657  Death of Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591) on May - 16.  

1667  Death of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607) on this day in history.