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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    May 16 1558

    Andreas of Austria Bohemia cardinalgov of Netherlands (1598-1600)

    May 16 1609

    Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria Governor of the Spanish Netherlands Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church and military commander during the Thirty Years War born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial Spain (d. 1641)

    May 16 1611

    Innocent XI [Benedetto Odescalchi] Italian 240th Pope (1676-89) born in Como (d. 1689)

    May 16 1710

    William Talbot 1st Earl Talbot English politician (d. 1782)

    May 16 1718

    Maria Gaetana Agnesi Italian mathematician (d. 1799)

    May 16 1748

    Antonius van Alphen apostolic vicar of De Bosch

    May 16 1761

    John Opie English painter born in Trevellas Cornwall (d. 1807)

    May 16 1763

    Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin chemist (discovered chromium beryllium)

    May 16 1782

    John Sell Cotman English water color artist born in Norwich England (d. 1842)

    May 16 1788

    Friedrich Rckert German Poet Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)

    May 16 1804

    Elizabeth Palmer Peabody American educator founder of first English-language kindergarten in the US born in Billerica Massachusetts (d. 1894)

    May 16 1806

    George C. Cadwalader American Major General (Union Army) born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1879)

    May 16 1816

    Henry Hopkins Sibley Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1886)

    May 16 1821

    Pafnuty Chebyshev Russian mathematician (d. 1894)

    May 16 1824

    Edmund Kirby Smith American General (Confederate Army) born in St Augustine Florida (d. 1893)

    May 16 1827

    P.J.H. [Pierre] Cuypers Dutch architect (Amsterdam Museum Central station) born in Roermond the Netherlands (d. 1921)

    May 16 1832

    Philip Danforth Armour founder (Armour Foods)

    May 16 1858

    Frank Lynes American composer born in Cambridge Massachusetts (d. 1913)

    May 16 1866

    Ernest Watson Burgess US sociologist (ecological school)

    May 16 1878

    Taylor Holmes American actor (Sleeping Beauty Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) born in Newark New Jersey (d. 1959)

    May 16 1887

    Bull Montana [Luigi Montagna] Italian actor (Brass Buttons Victory The Son of the Sheik) born in Voghera Lombardy Italy (d. 1950)

    May 16 1887

    Jakob van Hoddis [Hans Davidsohn] German Jewish poet (d. 1942)

    May 16 1889

    Joan Collette Dutch (male) painter (New Church Delft)

    May 16 1892

    Coenraad B van Haeringen linguistetymologist (Dutch Dictionary)

    May 16 1892

    Richard Tauber [Ernst Seiffert] AustriaBritish tenorconductor

    May 16 1893

    Jose Calvo Sotelo Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)

    May 16 1898

    August de Schrijver Belgian politicianfounder (CVP)

    May 16 1898

    Tamara de Lempicka Polish-born painter (d. 1980)

    May 16 1902

    Jan Kiepura Polish vocalist and actor (Her Wonderful Lie Give Us this Night) born in Sosnowiec Poland (d. 1966)

    May 16 1904

    Hugh Plaxton Canadian ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1928)

    May 16 1905

    H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates novelist (Feast for July Love for Lydia)

    May 16 1906

    Arturo Uslar Pietri Venezuela writerminister (Lanzas Coloradas)

    May 16 1906

    Ernie McCormick cricketer (Australian quickie of late 30s)

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    May 16 1204 Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople

    May 16 1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England

    May 16 1547 Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg

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