Anniversaries 16 May

Birth

William H. Seward19

American lawyer and politician 1801–1872

Jean Fautrier1

French painter 1898–1964

Henry Fonda2

American actor 1905–1982

Margaret Sullavan3

actress 1909–1960

Studs Terkel19

American author, historian and broadcaster 1912–2008

Edward T. Hall3

American anthropologist 1914–2009

Juan Rulfo2

Mexican writer 1917–1986

Merton Miller5

American economist 1923–2000

Bobbejaan Schoepen3

musician, performer 1925–2010

John Ziman5

New Zealand physicist 1925–2005

Billy Martin3

American baseball player and coach 1928–1989

John Conyers6

American politician from Michigan 1929–2019

Adrienne Rich51

American poet, essayist and feminist 1929–2012

Peter Levi3

writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest 1931–2000

Barry Boehm18

American software engineer 1935

Dan Coats1

5th and current Director of National Intelligence, former U… 1943

Danny Trejo1

Mexican American actor 1944

Robert Fripp17

English guitarist, composer and record producer 1946

Bruce Coville3

American writer 1950

Robert Spitzer (priest)1

American Jesuit priest, scholar and educator 1952

Pierce Brosnan2

Irish-American actor, film producer, and environmentalist 1953

Joseph Polchinski3

physicist working on string theory 1954–2018

Ann Chiang1

Hong Kong politician 1955

Andy Stanley10

American Christian minister 1958

Richard Carlson35

Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker 1961–2006

George Bacouni1

Greek Catholic Archbishop 1962

John Salley2

American basketball player 1964

Krist Novoselic16

Croatian-American rock musician 1965

Kim Janey1

American politician 1965

Janet Jackson11

singer from the United States 1966

Tucker Carlson24

American political commentator 1969

Julie Gregory1

American writer 1969

David Boreanaz10

American actor, famous for Angel and Buffy 1969

Richard Blackwood3

British comedian 1972

Laura Pausini4

Italian singer 1974

Franklin Foer1

American journalist 1974

Brian Viglione11

American musician 1979

Jens Spahn1

German politician 1980

Megan Fox5

American actress 1986

Death

Charles Perrault15

French author 1628–1703

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto13

Italian rabbi 1707–1746

Joseph Fourier4

French mathematician and physicist 1768–1830

Asahel Nettleton2

American theologian 1783–1844

Felicia Hemans17

English poet 1793–1835

Wilhelm von Pressel1

German official and railway engineer 1821–1902

Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter)2

English Anglican bishop, died 1906 1825–1906

Charles P. Mattocks3

American soldier, lawyer and politician 1840–1910

Edmund Gosse3

Poet, author, and critic 1849–1928

George Ade11

American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright 1866–1944

Nesta Helen Webster2

British far-right conspiracy theorist and author 1876–1960

Bronisław Malinowski1

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and… 1884–1942

A. Philip Randolph1

African-American civil-rights movement leader 1889–1979

James Agee1

American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film cr… 1909–1955

Irwin Shaw4

American politician 1913–1984

I.M. Pei1

Chinese American architect 1917–2019

Mary Douglas1

British anthropologist 1921–2007

Charles Keeping2

British illustrator and children's writer 1924–1988

Heinrich Rohrer6

Swiss physicist 1933–2013

Tomás Rivera4

American academic 1935–1984

Jim Henson78

American puppeteer 1936–1990

Ronnie James Dio15

American singer 1942–2010

Andy Kaufman2

American stand-up comedian and actor 1949–1984

Adam Kilgarriff4

linguist from England 1960–2015