Anniversaries 16 May
Birth
American lawyer and politician
1801–1872
American author, historian and broadcaster
1912–2008
American anthropologist
1914–2009
American economist
1923–2000
musician, performer
1925–2010
New Zealand physicist
1925–2005
American baseball player and coach
1928–1989
American politician from Michigan
1929–2019
American poet, essayist and feminist
1929–2012
writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest
1931–2000
American software engineer
1935
5th and current Director of National Intelligence, former U…
1943
Mexican American actor
1944
English guitarist, composer and record producer
1946
American Jesuit priest, scholar and educator
1952
Irish-American actor, film producer, and environmentalist
1953
physicist working on string theory
1954–2018
Hong Kong politician
1955
American Christian minister
1958
Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
1961–2006
Greek Catholic Archbishop
1962
American basketball player
1964
Croatian-American rock musician
1965
singer from the United States
1966
American political commentator
1969
American actor, famous for Angel and Buffy
1969
Death
French mathematician and physicist
1768–1830
American theologian
1783–1844
German official and railway engineer
1821–1902
English Anglican bishop, died 1906
1825–1906
American soldier, lawyer and politician
1840–1910
Poet, author, and critic
1849–1928
American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright
1866–1944
British far-right conspiracy theorist and author
1876–1960
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and…
1884–1942
African-American civil-rights movement leader
1889–1979
American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film cr…
1909–1955
American politician
1913–1984
Chinese American architect
1917–2019
British anthropologist
1921–2007
British illustrator and children's writer
1924–1988
Swiss physicist
1933–2013
American academic
1935–1984
American puppeteer
1936–1990
American singer
1942–2010
American stand-up comedian and actor
1949–1984
linguist from England
1960–2015