Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 16
Births
[edit]- 1578 – Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
- 1611 – Pope Innocent XI (pictured) (d. 1689)
- 1801 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)
- 1845 – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist (d. 1916)
- 1919 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
- 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
- 1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
Deaths
[edit]- 1703 – Saint Andrew Bobola, Polish martyr (b. 1591)
- 1830 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (b. 1768)
- 1891 – Ion Brătianu, Romanian politician (b. 1821)
- 1926 – Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
- 1957 – Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
- 1990 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)
- 1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)