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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-07-25
Births
1490-05-16 - Duke Albert of Prussia (d. 1568)
1578-05-16 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1611-05-16 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
1710-05-16 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
1718-05-16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
1763-05-16 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (d. 1829)
1788-05-16 - Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
1801-05-16 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)
1821-05-16 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
1827-05-16 - Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (d. 1921)
1845-05-16 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916)
1891-05-16 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948)
1898-05-16 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980)
1905-05-16 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
1906-05-16 - Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988)
1906-05-16 - Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1910-05-16 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
1910-05-16 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (d. 1972)
1912-05-16 - Studs Terkel, American writer
1913-05-16 - Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)
1917-05-16 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (d. 1986)
1917-05-16 - James C. Murray, American politician (d. 1999)
1919-05-16 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
1920-05-16 - Martine Carol, French actress (d. 1967)
1923-05-16 - Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927-05-16 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian football player
1928-05-16 - Billy Martin, baseball player and coach (d. 1989)
1929-05-16 - Adrienne Rich, American writer
1930-05-16 - Betty Carter, American jazz singer (d. 1998)
1930-05-16 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (d. 2000)
1931-05-16 - Natwar Singh, Indian politician
1936-05-16 - Roy Hudd, British radio and television actor
1936-05-16 - Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal
1944-05-16 - Billy Cobham, American virtuoso drummer
1945-05-16 - Nicky Chinn, songwriter (The Sweet, Suzi Quatro)
1946-05-16 - Robert Fripp, English guitarist (King Crimson)
1946-05-16 - Roger Earl, British rock drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat)
1948-05-16 - Judy Finnegan, British TV presenter, Richard & Judy
1950-05-16 - J. Georg Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1950-05-16 - Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician
1952-05-16 - James Herndon, American media psychologist
1953-05-16 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
1955-05-16 - Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast
1955-05-16 - Jack Morris, baseball player
1955-05-16 - Hazel O'Connor, British singer
1955-05-16 - Debra Winger, American actress
1961-05-16 - Charles Wright, American professional wrestler known as "The Godfather"
1963-05-16 - Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
1964-05-16 - Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)
1965-05-16 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana)
1966-05-16 - Janet Jackson, American singer
1966-05-16 - Scott Reeves, American actor and singer
1966-05-16 - Thurman Thomas, American football player
1969-05-16 - David Boreanaz, American actor
1969-05-16 - Tucker Carlson, American television commentator
1969-05-16 - Tracey Gold, American actress
1969-05-16 - Steve Lewis, American athlete
1970-05-16 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
1970-05-16 - Danielle Spencer, Australian singer and actress
1973-05-16 - Special Ed, American rapper
1973-05-16 - Tori Spelling, American actress
1974-05-16 - Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer
1974-05-16 - Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)
1975-05-16 - Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)
1977-05-16 - Dolcenera, Italian singer
1977-05-16 - Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Canadian hockey player
1978-05-16 - Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer
1979-05-16 - McKenzie Lee, British pornographic actress
1982-05-16 - Joo Ji Hoon , Korean actor/model
1983-05-16 - Kyle Wellwood, Canadian hockey player
1983-05-16 - Nancy Ajram, Lebanease singer
1985-05-16 - Anja Mittag, German footballer
1985-05-16 - Corey Perry, Canadian hockey player
1986-05-16 - Megan Fox, American actress
1987-05-16 - Scott Peters, Australian cricketer
1990-05-16 - Thomas Sangster, British actor
Bizarre
2006-05-16 - Love a Tree Day
2006-05-16 - National Sea Monkey Day
2006-05-16 - Wear Purple for Peace Day
2007-05-16 - Love a Tree Day
2007-05-16 - National Sea Monkey Day
2007-05-16 - Wear Purple for Peace Day
Deaths
1620-05-16 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
1657-05-16 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1667-05-16 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1669-05-16 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (b. 1598)
1691-05-16 - Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)
1703-05-16 - Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)
1778-05-16 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
1782-05-16 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
1790-05-16 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)
1830-05-16 - Joseph Fourier, French scientist (b. 1768)
1891-05-16 - Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1926-05-16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
1944-05-16 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
1947-05-16 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
1953-05-16 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
1955-05-16 - James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
1957-05-16 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
1959-05-16 - Elisha Scott, footballer (b. 1894)
1969-05-16 - Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954)
1979-05-16 - A. Philip Randolph, American activist (b. 1889)
1984-05-16 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
1984-05-16 - Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
1985-05-16 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
1988-05-16 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b. 1924)
1990-05-16 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)
1990-05-16 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)
2002-05-16 - Big Dick Dudley, professional wrestler (b. 1968)
2003-05-16 - Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)
2006-05-16 - Dan Ross, American football player (b. 1957)
Declared
2007-05-16 - Teacher's Day in Malaysia.
2007-05-16 - Middlesex Day.
2007-05-16 - 4.1 Liturgical feast days
Events
1992-05-16 - STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
2002-05-16 - Star Wars: Episode II is released into theaters.
2003-05-16 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2004-05-16 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100.000 Ukrainian civilians.
2005-05-16 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2006-05-16 - A large magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurs near New Zealand.
1204-05-16 - Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527-05-16 - The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
1532-05-16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1568-05-16 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.
1605-05-16 - Paul V becomes Pope.
1770-05-16 - 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1777-05-16 - Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
1811-05-16 - Peninsular War - Allies (Spain, Portugal & Britain) defeat French at the Battle of Albuera.
1836-05-16 - Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia.
1843-05-16 - The first major wagon train heading for the Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
1866-05-16 - The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1866-05-16 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
1868-05-16 - President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
1874-05-16 - A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroyed much of four villages and killed 139 people.
1877-05-16 - May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
1910-05-16 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
1919-05-16 - US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1920-05-16 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
1929-05-16 - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
1938-05-16 - A fire at the Terminal Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 35 people.
1943-05-16 - Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1943-05-16 - World War II: The Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
1948-05-16 - Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
1960-05-16 - Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
1960-05-16 - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1965-05-16 - Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
1966-05-16 - The Communist Party of China issued the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1969-05-16 - Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
1972-05-16 - Decimal currency introduced in Malta. The Pound sterling is henceforth divided into 100 cents.
1975-05-16 - India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state held a referendum where popular vote was in favour of merging with India.
1975-05-16 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1988-05-16 - A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
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