Famous Birthdays In May - 16

1558  On this day in history birth of andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)  

1578  On this day in history birth of everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)  

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

1641  On May - 16 birth of dudley North, financier/economist  

1659  Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist was born on May - 16.  

1710  On this day in history birth of william Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)  

1718  On this day in history birth of maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)  

1748  On this day in history birth of antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch  

1761  John Opie, artist was born on May - 16.  

1763  On May - 16 birth of louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)  

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1782  On this day in history birth of john Sell Cotman, water color artist  

1788  On May - 16 birth of friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)  

1801  On this day in history birth of william H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)  

1804  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten) was born on May - 16.  

1806  On May - 16 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  Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898 was born on May - 16.  

1821  On May - 16 birth of pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)  

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

1824  On this day in history birth of edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893  

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

1827  Petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station) was born on May - 16.  

1831  David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter) was born on May - 16.  

1832  Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods) was born on May - 16.  

1845  Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1858  Frank Lynes, composer was born on May - 16.  

1858  Hanus Trnecek, composer was born on May - 16.  

1860  On May - 16 birth of herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)  

1866  Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school) was born on May - 16.  

1878  On May - 16 birth of taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)  

1880  On this day in history birth of julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment)  

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 May - 16.  

1620  Death of William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564) on May - 16.  

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.