Anniversaries 16 May
Birth
![William H. Seward photo]()
American lawyer and politician
1801–1872
![Studs Terkel photo]()
American author, historian and broadcaster
1912–2008
![Edward T. Hall photo]()
American anthropologist
1914–2009
![Merton Miller photo]()
American economist
1923–2000
![Bobbejaan Schoepen photo]()
musician, performer
1925–2010
![John Ziman photo]()
New Zealand physicist
1925–2005
![Billy Martin photo]()
American baseball player and coach
1928–1989
![John Conyers photo]()
American politician from Michigan
1929–2019
![Adrienne Rich photo]()
American poet, essayist and feminist
1929–2012
![Peter Levi photo]()
writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest
1931–2000
![Barry Boehm photo]()
American software engineer
1935
![Dan Coats photo]()
5th and current Director of National Intelligence, former U…
1943
![Danny Trejo photo]()
Mexican American actor
1944
![Robert Fripp photo]()
English guitarist, composer and record producer
1946
![Robert Spitzer (priest) photo]()
American Jesuit priest, scholar and educator
1952
![Pierce Brosnan photo]()
Irish-American actor, film producer, and environmentalist
1953
![Joseph Polchinski photo]()
physicist working on string theory
1954–2018
![Ann Chiang photo]()
Hong Kong politician
1955
![Andy Stanley photo]()
American Christian minister
1958
![Richard Carlson photo]()
Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
1961–2006
![George Bacouni photo]()
Greek Catholic Archbishop
1962
![John Salley photo]()
American basketball player
1964
![Krist Novoselic photo]()
Croatian-American rock musician
1965
![Janet Jackson photo]()
singer from the United States
1966
![Tucker Carlson photo]()
American political commentator
1969
![David Boreanaz photo]()
American actor, famous for Angel and Buffy
1969
Death
![Joseph Fourier photo]()
French mathematician and physicist
1768–1830
![Asahel Nettleton photo]()
American theologian
1783–1844
![Wilhelm von Pressel photo]()
German official and railway engineer
1821–1902
![Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter) photo]()
English Anglican bishop, died 1906
1825–1906
![Charles P. Mattocks photo]()
American soldier, lawyer and politician
1840–1910
![Edmund Gosse photo]()
Poet, author, and critic
1849–1928
![George Ade photo]()
American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright
1866–1944
![Nesta Helen Webster photo]()
British far-right conspiracy theorist and author
1876–1960
![Bronisław Malinowski photo]()
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and…
1884–1942
![A. Philip Randolph photo]()
African-American civil-rights movement leader
1889–1979
![James Agee photo]()
American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film cr…
1909–1955
![Irwin Shaw photo]()
American politician
1913–1984
![I.M. Pei photo]()
Chinese American architect
1917–2019
![Mary Douglas photo]()
British anthropologist
1921–2007
![Charles Keeping photo]()
British illustrator and children's writer
1924–1988
![Heinrich Rohrer photo]()
Swiss physicist
1933–2013
![Tomás Rivera photo]()
American academic
1935–1984
![Jim Henson photo]()
American puppeteer
1936–1990
![Ronnie James Dio photo]()
American singer
1942–2010
![Andy Kaufman photo]()
American stand-up comedian and actor
1949–1984
![Adam Kilgarriff photo]()
linguist from England
1960–2015
