Famous Birthdays In May - 16
Monday, 27 March 2023
1558 Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600) was born on this day in history.
1578 Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606) was born on May - 16.
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 this day in history.
1710 On May - 16 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 On May - 16 birth of john Opie, artist
1763 Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium) was born on this day in history.
1782 John Sell Cotman, water color artist was born on May - 16.
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 On this day in history birth of elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)
1806 George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879 was born on this day in history.
1816 On May - 16 birth of henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
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 Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor was born on May - 16.
1824 Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 was born on May - 16.
1824 On May - 16 birth of levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
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 this day in history birth of philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
1845 On May - 16 birth of ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)
1850 Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer was born on May - 16.
1857 On May - 16 birth of juan Morel Campos, composer
1858 On this day in history 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 this day in history.
1866 On May - 16 birth of ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
1878 On May - 16 birth of taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)
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)