On This Day — May 16
3959 noted people were born and 1837 died on May 16 in our archive, including Emmanuel Todd, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin and Roy Kerr.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 16
Emmanuel Todd
b. 1951
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
1763 – 1829
Roy Kerr
b. 1934
Alan Mackay-Sim
1951 – 2023
Andrzej Duda
b. 1972
Anne O'Hare McCormick
1880 – 1954
Arturo Uslar Pietri
1906 – 2001
Carlton J. H. Hayes
1882 – 1964
Dick Geijskes
1907 – 1985
Ephraim Katzir
1916 – 2009
Eva Nogales
b. 1965
Georg Bednorz
b. 1950
Henry John Elwes
1846 – 1922
Hideki Sakurai
1931 – 2024
Irena Lichnerowicz
b. 1974
Ivan Sutherland
b. 1938
Ivor Jennings
1903 – 1965
Joseph Polchinski
1954 – 2018
Karl Lehmann
1936 – 2018
Kenneth O. Morgan
b. 1934
Kristin Lund
b. 1958
Lorenzo Sousa Debarbieri
b. 1960
Marcel Griaule
1898 – 1956
Mariano Gago
1948 – 2015
Nancy Ajram
b. 1971
Ossian Aschan
1860 – 1939
Pascal Salin
b. 1939
Petr Vopěnka
1935 – 2015
Philippe Desan
b. 1953
Pierce Brosnan
b. 1953
Pyotr Abrassimov
1912 – 2009
Ricardo Patiño
b. 1955
Robert Jay Lifton
1926 – 2025
Roy F. Baumeister
b. 1953
Tanel Tammet
b. 1965
Tetiana Yakovenko
b. 1954
Yogie Suardi Memet
1929 – 2007
Aawatif Hayar
b. 1967
Abul Fateh
1924 – 2010
Adrienne Rich
1929 – 2012
Aleksander Paldrok
1871 – 1944
Aleksandr Laktionov
1910 – 1972
Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev
1854 – 1931
Alfred van der Poorten
1942 – 2010
Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri
1923 – 2010
Alphonse Fleuriot de Langle
1809 – 1881
Andrew Lack
b. 1947
Andrés Gómez-Lobo
b. 1965
Ann Chiang
b. 1955
Anthony Luzzatto Gardner
b. 1963
Arkady Ponomarev
b. 1956
Barry Boehm
1935 – 2022
Brewster H. Shaw
b. 1945
Campegius Vitringa
1659 – 1722
Catherine Cusset
b. 1963
Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland
1815 – 1888
Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire
1843 – 1928
Cyril Sinelnikov
1901 – 1966
Dafydd Williams
b. 1954
Dan Coats
b. 1943
Daniel Goossens
b. 1954
David Boreanaz
b. 1969
David Edward Hughes
1831 – 1900
Dawda Kairaba Jawara
1924 – 2019
Dwight E. Evans
b. 1954
Dylan Jones-Evans
b. 1966
Ebenezer Emmons
1799 – 1863
Eduardo Bhatia
b. 1964
Egon Flaig
b. 1949
Emma Georgina Rothschild
b. 1948
Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin
1848 – 1909
Franco Venturi
1914 – 1994
Friedrich Rückert
1788 – 1866
Gabrielle Balicka-Iwanowska
1867 – 1962
Geoffrey Page
1920 – 2000
George Miksch Sutton
1898 – 1982
George Sawatzky
b. 1942
Georges Marty
1860 – 1908
Gert Weisskirchen
b. 1944
Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell
1848 – 1913
Grigory Ginzburg
1904 – 1961
Guillaume Dubufe
1853 – 1909
Gustav Adolph Hagemann
1842 – 1916
Harrie Massey
1908 – 1983
Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk
1739 – 1779
Hermann Muhs
1894 – 1962
Heymann Steinthal
1823 – 1899
Higashifushimi Kunihide
1910 – 2014
Horacio Rivero, Jr.
1910 – 2000
Iakob Nikoladze
1876 – 1951
Jakub Skiba
b. 1961
Jean-Antoine Rioux
1925 – 2017
Jeanne Theoharis
b. 1969
Jeremy Denk
b. 1970
Jess Walsh
b. 1971
Ji Sang-wuk
b. 1965
Jim Hunt
1937 – 2025
Johan Quirijn van Regteren Altena
1899 – 1980
John Conyers
1929 – 2019
John L. Ray
1943 – 2025
John Madden
1844 – 1918
John Robinson
1919 – 1983
Joseph DeSimone
b. 1964
Juan José Gómez Centurión
b. 1958
Juan Pardo de Tavera
1472 – 1545
K. Natwar Singh
1929 – 2024
Karl Golser
1943 – 2016
Kauthar Bouchallikht
b. 1994
Kenneth L. Taylor
b. 1941
Kenneth Nowakowski
b. 1958
Krystyna Zachwatowicz
b. 1930
Larry M. Bartels
b. 1956
Lawrence M. Principe
b. 1962
Leontii Voitovych
1951 – 2023
Linda Reynolds
b. 1965
Lowell Weicker
1931 – 2023
Lucien Moraud
1885 – 1951
Manfred Stolpe
1936 – 2019
Marian Aguiló
1825 – 1897
Marie-Thérèse Lefebvre
b. 1942
Marko Kravos
b. 1943
Martín Quezada
b. 1977
Michel Poniatowski
1922 – 2002
Midam
b. 1963
Milutin Milanković
1879 – 1958
Morris P. Fiorina
b. 1946
Nancy Roman
1925 – 2018
Nicholas Goodison
1934 – 2021
Nikki Iles
b. 1963
Nina Mikhailovna Chernovna
1935 – 2010
Nobuchiyo Kishi
b. 1991
Ofer Gabber
b. 1958
Olav Anton Thommessen
b. 1946
Oldřich Kaiser
b. 1955
Olga Zaitseva
b. 1978
Otmar Suitner
1922 – 2010
Otto von Oehlschläger
1831 – 1904
Paul Anastas
b. 1962
Paul Benjamin Vogt
1863 – 1947
Peter Kremsner
b. 1961
Petras Auštrevičius
b. 1963
Philippe De Montebello
b. 1936
Pierre Cuypers
1827 – 1921
Piotr Gadzinowski
b. 1957
Rachel Griffith
b. 1963
Ramon Margalef
1919 – 2004
Roy Chaplin
1899 – 1988
Rudolf Brestel
1816 – 1881
S. Jay Plager
b. 1931
Sigurd Willoch
1903 – 1991
Slavomir Miklovš
1934 – 2011
Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman
b. 1953
Susana Graciela Landriscini
b. 1952
Suzanne Lapointe
1934 – 2015
Theodore Holmes Bullock
1915 – 2005
Tomek Bartoszyński
b. 1957
Trevor Traina
b. 1968
Tymoteusz
1901 – 1962
Victor Augagneur
1855 – 1931
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
1849 – 1917
Victor McCrary
b. 1955
Viktor Ostapchuk
b. 1955
Vladislav Grib
b. 1972
Volker Perthes
b. 1958
W. F. Taylor
1877 – 1945
Werner Romberg
1909 – 2003
West Ridgeway
1844 – 1930
Willem de Zwart
1862 – 1931
Yanina Zhejmo
1909 – 1987
Yurii Chertkov
b. 1962
Éric Lombard
b. 1958
Aaron Jaffe
1930 – 2025
Abdón Cifuentes
1835 – 1928
Ahmad Ali
b. 1969
Ahmed Chami
b. 1961
Albert Osswald
1919 – 1996
Alexander Boteler
1815 – 1892
Alexander Vesnin
1883 – 1959
Alexandra Wong
b. 1956
Alfred Pellan
1906 – 1988
Alice Portugal
b. 1959
Alice Wetterlund
b. 1981
Aliko Nikusuma Kibona
b. 1956
Alphonse Laverrière
1872 – 1954
Andrei Ivanovich Sychevoi
b. 1969
Andrew H. Longino
1854 – 1942
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
b. 1985
Andrew Nethsingha
b. 1968
Andrey Fursov
b. 1951
Andrieus A. Jones
1862 – 1927
András Simonyi
b. 1952
André Salvat
1920 – 2017
Anette Hoff
b. 1961
Anna Costanza Baldry
1970 – 2019
Annette Groth
b. 1954
Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso
b. 1957
Antonio Erman González
1935 – 2007
Antonis Fostieris
b. 1953
Arnie Johnson
1920 – 2000
Arthur Gilbert
1913 – 2001
… and 3,759 more
Died on May 16
Frederick Hopkins
1861 – 1947
Joseph Fourier
1768 – 1830
Peter Lax
1926 – 2025
Ailsa Land
1927 – 2021
Aleksandr Stoletov
1839 – 1896
Alfred Hoche
1865 – 1943
Bashir Rameyev
1918 – 1994
Bronisław Malinowski
1884 – 1942
Christian Pfister
1857 – 1933
Hector Munro Macdonald
1865 – 1935
Heinrich Rohrer
1933 – 2013
I. M. Pei
1917 – 2019
James Ewing
1866 – 1943
Jan Terlouw
1931 – 2025
Jean-Louis Pascal
1837 – 1920
Kaneko Kentarō
1853 – 1942
Louis Finot
1864 – 1935
Nikolay Shaklein
1943 – 2023
Ralf Törngren
1899 – 1961
Tarsy Carballas
1934 – 2026
Tatsuya Hori
1935 – 2026
Viktor Shudegov
1952 – 2020
Walter Oliver
1883 – 1957
Wilhelmina Iwanowska
1905 – 1999
Alfred Otto Carl Nier
1911 – 1994
Anatolii Havrylov
1932 – 2021
Anders Lindstedt
1854 – 1939
Andrei Mylnikov
1919 – 2012
Andrew Goodpaster
1915 – 2005
André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers
1772 – 1840
Aristarkh Belopolsky
1854 – 1934
Bob Hawke
1929 – 2019
C. Allen Thorndike Rice
1851 – 1889
Camille Gira
1958 – 2018
Casimir Perier
1777 – 1832
Charles P. Mattocks
1840 – 1910
Clemens Krauss
1893 – 1954
Collier Cudmore
1885 – 1971
Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme
1909 – 1992
Erna Hamburger
1911 – 1988
Ernest F. Acheson
1855 – 1917
Frank Land
1928 – 2026
François de Vial
1904 – 1984
Frederick McCoy
1817 – 1899
Fredrik Lange-Nielsen
1891 – 1980
Félix Armando Núñez
1897 – 1972
Gavyn Farr Arthur
1951 – 2016
George Aitchison
1825 – 1910
Gerald Lathbury
1906 – 1978
Giovanni Coppa
1925 – 2016
Gohar Gasparyan
1924 – 2007
Hank Jones
1918 – 2010
Hans Friedrich Gadow
1855 – 1928
Hilarion Kapral
1948 – 2022
Igor Grabar
1871 – 1960
Ivo Bruns
1853 – 1901
Jadwiga Rappé
1952 – 2025
James Hennessy
1867 – 1945
Jeremy Michael Boorda
1939 – 1996
Jerzy Wilk
1955 – 2021
Josef Abrhám
1939 – 2022
Joseph Knauer
1764 – 1844
Jules Lair
1836 – 1907
Karl August Krebs
1804 – 1880
Karol Adamiecki
1866 – 1933
Laura Mary Bragg
1881 – 1978
Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon
1917 – 1993
M. S. Narasimhan
1932 – 2021
Maria Bieșu
1935 – 2012
Marianne Bernadotte
1924 – 2025
Maurice Maunoury
1863 – 1925
Militsa Nechkina
1899 – 1985
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
1836 – 1910
Miriam Griffin
1935 – 2018
Mitsuo Horiuchi
1930 – 2016
Modibo Keïta
1915 – 1977
Nathaniel Davis
1925 – 2011
Nicolae Rădescu
1874 – 1953
Nicolai Emanuel de Thygeson
1772 – 1860
Oswaldo López Arellano
1921 – 2010
Otto Faller
1889 – 1971
Peter Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton
1915 – 2004
Peter J. Ortiz
1913 – 1988
Peter Rolfe Vaughan
1935 – 2008
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke
1720 – 1790
Reinhold Tüxen
1899 – 1980
Rubí Sanz Gamo
1952 – 2025
Rudolph Sohm
1841 – 1917
Selden P. Spencer
1862 – 1925
Sevda Sevan
1945 – 2009
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet
1772 – 1828
Takahiro Tamura
1928 – 2006
Thomas Hastie Bryce
1862 – 1946
Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton
1607 – 1667
Thorvald A. Solberg
1894 – 1964
William Berg
1938 – 2021
William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton
1845 – 1895
William Edouard Scott
1884 – 1964
William Hammond Wright
1871 – 1959
William Nast
1807 – 1899
A. Philip Randolph
1889 – 1979
Ademola Okulaja
1975 – 2022
Akbar Torkan
1952 – 2021
Albert G. Riddle
1816 – 1902
Albert Londres
1884 – 1932
Albert Nikolayevitch Benois
1852 – 1936
Albert Paris Gütersloh
1887 – 1973
Aleksander Szniolis
1891 – 1963
Alexander M. Zaleski
1906 – 1975
Andrzej Bobola
1591 – 1657
Andrzej Szczypiorski
1928 – 2000
Anton Franzen
1896 – 1968
Bindon Blood
1842 – 1940
Bones McKinney
1919 – 1997
Boris Derjaguin
1902 – 1994
Boris Miranda
1984 – 2021
Bruno Covas
1980 – 2021
Bruno Tesch
1890 – 1946
Camillo Siciliano di Rende
1847 – 1897
Campbell Hone
1873 – 1967
Carey Orr
1890 – 1967
Chan Htoon
1906 – 1988
Charles Anderson Wolverton
1880 – 1969
Charles Perrault
1628 – 1703
Chrétien-François II de Lamoignon
1735 – 1789
Claude Jeantet
1902 – 1982
Clifford Ragsdale Hope
1893 – 1970
Cyril Argentine Alington
1872 – 1955
Dabney Coleman
1932 – 2024
Daniel Paul
1943 – 2023
David Rendel
1949 – 2016
David Urquhart
1805 – 1877
Dean Potter
1972 – 2015
Diana E. Murphy
1934 – 2018
Edmund Gosse
1849 – 1928
Eduardo Grez
1875 – 1929
Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
1754 – 1839
Edward Henry Bickersteth
1825 – 1906
Edward Williams
1890 – 1963
Elijah Phister
1822 – 1887
Eliot Ness
1903 – 1957
Ellen Mary Kent Hughes
1893 – 1979
Emil Stehle
1926 – 2017
Emmanuel Le Maout
1799 – 1877
Enrique Méndez Jr.
1931 – 2024
Eugene W. Biscailuz
1883 – 1969
Eva Macapagal
1915 – 1999
Felicity Lott
1947 – 2026
Fernand Halphen
1872 – 1917
Francis E. McGovern
1866 – 1946
Francisque Sarcey
1827 – 1899
Franjo Vlašić
1766 – 1840
Frank Nigel Hepper
1929 – 2013
Frank W. Mayborn
1903 – 1987
František Krajčír
1913 – 1986
François Bréda
1956 – 2018
François Hussenot
1912 – 1951
François-Xavier Lemieux
1811 – 1864
Fred H. Dore
1925 – 1996
Friedrich Grimm
1888 – 1959
Frédéric Bastien
1969 – 2023
Gene Rossides
1927 – 2020
Georg Julius von Schultz
1808 – 1875
George A. Malcolm
1881 – 1961
George Robertson
1790 – 1874
Gheorghe Manu
1833 – 1911
Gilberto Rodríguez
1929 – 2004
Giuseppe De Santis
1917 – 1997
Gustaf Lindström
1829 – 1901
Guy de Gisors
1762 – 1835
Gérard Jouannest
1933 – 2018
H. B. Reese
1879 – 1956
Hajibaba Azimov
1938 – 2026
Harold Finch-Hatton
1856 – 1904
Hassan Khaled
1921 – 1989
Henri-Auguste Patey
1855 – 1930
Huguette Dreyfus
1928 – 2016
Irving Widmer Bailey
1884 – 1967
Irwin Shaw
1913 – 1984
Ivan Greaves
1860 – 1941
Ivar Kallion
1931 – 2013
J. J. P. Corrigan
1901 – 1982
Jacques Servranckx
1928 – 2017
James Abdnor
1923 – 2012
James Dalton II
1910 – 1945
James Edmondson, 1st Baron Sandford
1887 – 1959
James Hirshfield
1902 – 1993
Jan Tarnowski
1488 – 1561
Jim Henson
1936 – 1990
Jim McMillian
1948 – 2016
John Armstrong
1813 – 1856
John C. Sanborn
1885 – 1968
John Grier Hibben
1861 – 1933
John H. Druffel
1886 – 1967
John Maclean
1946 – 2026
John Pennington Thomasson
1841 – 1904
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough
1781 – 1847
John Saylor Coon
1854 – 1938
John Stevens Henslow
1796 – 1861
John Templeton, Jr.
1940 – 2015
… and 1,637 more