Famous Personalities Born In May - 16
Saturday, 22 March 2025
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 May - 16 birth of dudley North, financier/economist
1659 On May - 16 birth of campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist
1710 On this day in history 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 Antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch was born on May - 16.
1761 John Opie, artist was born on May - 16.
1763 Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium) was born on this day in history.
1782 On this day in history birth of john Sell Cotman, water color artist
1788 On May - 16 birth of friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
1801 William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872) was born on May - 16.
1804 On May - 16 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 Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886 was born on May - 16.
1819 Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898 was born on May - 16.
1821 On this day in history birth of pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
1822 Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor was born on this day in history.
1824 On May - 16 birth of edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1824 On May - 16 birth of levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
1827 On May - 16 birth of petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)
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 May - 16.
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 this day in history.
1858 On May - 16 birth of hanus Trnecek, composer
1860 On this day in history birth of herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)
1866 On this day in history 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 this day in history.
1887 On this day in history birth of bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory)