Famous Birthdays In May - 16
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
1558 Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600) was born on this day in history.
1578 On May - 16 birth of everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1609 On May - 16 birth of ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands
1641 Dudley North, financier/economist was born on this day in history.
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 On May - 16 birth of louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
1782 On May - 16 birth of john Sell Cotman, water color artist
1788 Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866) was born on this day in history.
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 George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879 was born on May - 16.
1816 Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886 was born on this day in history.
1819 On May - 16 birth of daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898
1821 On this day in history birth of pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
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 On May - 16 birth of levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
1827 Petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station) was born on May - 16.
1831 On May - 16 birth of david Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
1832 On this day in history birth of philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
1845 Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916) was born on this day in history.
1850 On this day in history birth of arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
1857 On this day in history birth of juan Morel Campos, composer
1858 Frank Lynes, composer was born on May - 16.
1858 Hanus Trnecek, composer was born on this day in history.
1860 Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896) was born on this day in history.
1866 On this day in history birth of ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
1878 Taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely) was born on May - 16.
1880 Julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment) was born on this day in history.
1887 Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory) was born on this day in history.