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Famous Personalities Born In May - 16

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

1558  Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600) was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1578  Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606) was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1609  Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1641  Dudley North, financier/economist was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1659  Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1710  On May - 16 birth of william Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1718  Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1748  Antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1761  On this day in history birth of john Opie, artist  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1763  On this day in history birth of louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1782  On this day in history birth of john Sell Cotman, water color artist  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1788  On May - 16 birth of friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1801  William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1804  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten) was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1806  George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879 was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1816  Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886 was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1819  On this day in history birth of daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1821  On May - 16 birth of pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1822  Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1824  Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1824  On May - 16 birth of levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1827  On this day in history birth of petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1831  On May - 16 birth of david Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1832  On May - 16 birth of philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1845  On this day in history birth of ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1850  Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1857  On this day in history birth of juan Morel Campos, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1858  On May - 16 birth of frank Lynes, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1858  On this day in history birth of hanus Trnecek, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1860  On May - 16 birth of herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1866  On this day in history birth of ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1878  Taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely) was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1880  On this day in history birth of julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1887  Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Deaths In May - 16

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0583  Death of Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0942  On this day in history saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1265  On May - 16 death of saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1434  Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60 on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1569  Death of Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1620  On May - 16 death of william Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1657  On May - 16 death of andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1667  On May - 16 death of thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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