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  On this day in history birth of dudley North, financier/economist  

1659  On this day in history birth of campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist  

1710  William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782) was born on this day in history.  

1718  Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799) was born on this day in history.  

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 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  On May - 16 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  On this day in history birth of george C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879  

1816  On May - 16 birth of henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886  

1819  On May - 16 birth of daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898  

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

1822  On this day in history 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  On May - 16 birth of david Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)  

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 this day in history birth of juan Morel Campos, composer  

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

1858  On May - 16 birth of hanus Trnecek, composer  

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 May - 16 birth of julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment)  

1887  Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory) was born on this day in history.  

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0583  Death of Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484) on this day in history.  

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

1265  Death of Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165) on this day in history.  

1434  Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60 on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history death of andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)  

1667  On this day in history death of thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)