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Famous Personalities Born In May - 16

Tuesday, 15 July 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 May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1641  Dudley North, financier/economist was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1659  Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1710  On this day in history 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  Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium) was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1782  On May - 16 birth of john Sell Cotman, water color artist  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1788  Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1801  On this day in history birth of william H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)  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  On this day in history birth of george C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1816  On this day in history birth of henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886  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  On this day in history birth of edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1824  Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93) was born on this day in history.  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  David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter) was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1832  Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1845  Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916) was born on this day in history.  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  Juan Morel Campos, composer was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1858  Frank Lynes, composer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1858  Hanus Trnecek, composer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1860  Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1866  On May - 16 birth of ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1878  On this day in history birth of taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1880  Julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment) was born on this day in history.  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 May - 16.  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  On May - 16 death of saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0942  On May - 16 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 this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1569  On May - 16 death of dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1620  On this day in history 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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