May 16

May 16 is the 136th (one hundred thirty-sixth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 137th in leap years. There are 229 days left to end the year.

Events

• 218: Julia Mesa, aunt of Caracalla, is expelled from her house in Syria by the self-proclaimed Macrino and declares to her 14-year-old grandson Heliogabalo, emperor of Rome.
• 1204: Balduino IX, count of Flanders, is crowned as the first emperor of the Latin Empire.
• 1321: Jaime II de Aragón and Ismail II de Granada sign a treaty of peace and friendship for five years which will be renewed.
• 1527: Florentines expelled the Medici for the second time and Florence re-established as a republic.
• 1584: Santiago de Vera becomes the sixth governor General of the Philippines.
• 1605: in Rome, Camilo Borghese is named pope and adopts the name of Paulo V.
• 1703: In Russia the construction of St.Petersburg begins.
• 1764: The Royal College of Artillery, the oldest military academy in the active world, is inaugurated in the Alcazar of Segovia (Spain).
• 1770: In France, Marie Antoinette, 14 years old, married Louis Augusto, 15 years old (who will be King Louis XVI).
• 1811: In the framework of the war of Spanish independence: Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom defeat the French army in the Battle of La Albuera.
• 1812: General Mikhail Kutúzov signs the Bucharest Treaty, ending as the Russian-Turkish war. Besarabia is annexed by the Russian Empire.
• 1822: In the framework of the war of independence of Greece, the Turks capture the Greek city of Souli.
• 1825: Simon Bolivar issued a decree that the provinces of Upper Peru (forming the current Republic of Bolivia) should meet in assembly and freely express their will on their interests and government.
• 1829: in the Ducale Theatre of Parma (Italy) the opera is premiered ZairaVincenzo Bellini.
• 1850: Napoleon boot, first steam warship.
• 1860: In a third round of voting in the Republican National Convention, Abraham Lincoln beats his internal rivals and becomes the official presidential candidate of that party for the election of that year.
• 1866: In the United States, the Government creates the currency of 5 cents.
• 1877: A political crisis is happening in France: President Patrice MacMahon compels Prime Minister Jules Simon to resign, but parliament rejects the new government so the president dissolves parliament.
• 1903: In the United States, George Wyman starts the first motorcycle trip from extreme to extreme of that country.
• 1916: the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Third French Republic that divided the Ottoman Empire into states such as Syria and Iraq is signed.
• 1920: in Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as saint.
• 1920: the bullfighter Joselito el Gallo is fatally wounded in the bullring of Talavera de la Reina by the bull Dancerof the Viuda de Ortega.
• 1929: in Hollywood (California) the Oscars are awarded for the first time.
• 1933: In the United States, President Franklin Roosevelt proposes a universal covenant of non-aggression.
• 1940: As part of World War II, the city of Münster in Germany is first bombed. At the end of the war he lost 1294 citizens and 90% of the historic center. In 1943 he suffered 49 air strikes and 53 more until the end of the war.
• 1943: In the framework of the Holocaust, the Nazis ended up with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• 1945: the German garrison of Alderney yields, a week after the official German capitulation in World War II.
• 1948: In Israel, Chaim Weizmann is elected first president.
• 1956: first agreement, and creation, of the Paris Club. Renegotiation of the debt of Argentina.
• 1958: In the Enewetak atoll (Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), the United States detonates its 9 kiloton Wahoo atomic bomb. This is a test in the depths of the ocean (975 m). It is the bomb number 127 of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1960: In the Hughes Research Laboratories the first functional laser is fired.
• 1961: In South Korea, Park Chung-hee leads a coup to overthrow the Second Republic.
• 1966: Bob Dylan launches to the American market the first double album in the history of music.
• 1966: Beginning of the Cultural Revolution organized by Mao Zedong, leader of the Communist Party of China
• 1966: Disc is published Pet Sounds The Beach Boys.
• 1969: on the surface of the planet Venus lands the Soviet test vehicle Vénera 5 (from the Vénera program).
• 1974: India announces that it has atomic weaponry.
• 1974: Tito is re-elected President of the Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. This choice is vital.
• 1975: India annexes the Sikkim.
• 1975: in Nepal, Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest.
• 1988: In the United States, a report by C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to that of heroin and cocaine.
• 1988: the teletext appears for the first time on Spanish televisions, specifically on TVE.
• 1988: Pope John Paul II begins his visit to Paraguay.
• 1989: China and the Soviet Union restore diplomatic relations.
• 1993: Birth of Colombian actress Lin Yin Neiza.
• 1995: In Granada, the Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes was inaugurated.
• 1997: President of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko, left power after more than 30 years of dictatorship. Laurent-Désiré Kabila proclaims the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1997: In Washington, United States, President Bill Clinton asks for formal apology to the eight survivors of the Tuskegee experiment: between 1932 and 1972 the Government held 400 families in Macon, Alabama, who were suffering from syphilis, providing them with placebo instead of treatment.
• 2001: Puerto Rican Independence Leader Rubén Berrios is sentenced to four months in prison by a U.S. federal court.
• 2002: the film is released Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
• 2003: In Morocco, Islamist attacks in Casablanca resulted in 45 deaths.
• 2007: in France, Nicolas Sarkozy assumes as president.
• 2007: Sevilla FC gets its second UEFA Cup in Glasgow.
• 2021: Andrea Meza wins the title of Miss Universe, in front of 73 candidates from different nations, giving Mexico its fourth crown.
• 2013: Wikipedia in Spanish reaches the million articles.

Births

• 1418: John II of Cyprus, Cypriot king (f. 1458).
• 1490: Alberto de Prussia, aristocrat Prusian (f. 1568).

Easter Dance.

• 1540: Pascual Bailón, lego franciscano y santo español (f. 1592).
• 1605: Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, an Italian aristocrat (f. 1623).
• 1611: Inocencio XI, Italian pope (f. 1689).
• 1708: Torcuato Ruiz del Peral, painter, sculptor and Spanish imager (f. 1773).
• 1718: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematics (f. 1799).
• 1763: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (f. 1829).
• 1788: Friedrich Rückert, German writer and poet (f. 1866).
• 1797: Pascual Echagüe, a military and political Argentinean (f. 1867).
• 1801: William H. Seward, American politician and lawyer (f. 1872).
• 1809: Juan de la Pezuela, writer, military and Spanish politician (f. 1906).

Pafnuti Chebyshov.

• 1821: Pafnuti Chebyshov, Russian mathematician (f. 1894).
• 1824: Juan Cordero, Mexican painter (f. 1884).
• 1824: Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd Vice President (f. 1920).
• 1826: José Zapater and Ugeda, a Valencian lawyer and writer (f. 1899)
• 1827: Pierre Cuypers, a Dutch architect (f. 1921).
• 1831: David Hughes, American physicist and inventor (f. 1900).
• 1836: Juan de la Luz Enríquez Lara, Mexican politician and military (f. 1896).
• 1845: Iliá Méchnikov, Russian microbiologist, nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1908 (f. 1916).
• 1856: Fritz Kurt Alexander von Schwerin, German botanist (f. 1934).
• 1860: H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (f. 1896).
• 1882: Teodoro Bardají, culinary writer and Spanish cook (f. 1958).
• 1882: Anne O’Hare McCormick, a British American journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (f. 1954).
• 1888: Royal Rife, American inventor (f. 1971).
• 1889: Antonio Chacón, Spanish flamenco singer (f. 1929).
• 1890: José Álvarez Fernández, a Peruvian missionary (f. 1970).
• 1891: Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (f. 1948).
• 1894: Joan Salvat-Papasseit, Spanish poet (f. 1924).
• 1898: Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter (f. 1980).
• 1898: Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese filmmaker (f. 1956).
• 1900: Juan Félix Sánchez, Venezuelan artist (f. 1997).

Henry Fonda.

• 1905: Henry Fonda, American actor (f. 1982).
• 1906: Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer, journalist and politician (f. 2001).
• 1907: Antonín Puč, Czechoslovak footballer (f. 1988).
• 1909: Ubaldo Martínez, Uruguayan actor (f. 1977).
• 1909: Margaret Sullavan, American actress (f. 1960).
• 1910: Olga Bergholz, Russian poet (f. 1975).
• 1912: Studs Terkel, American writer (f. 2008).
• 1913: Woody Herman, American musician (f. 1987).
• 1913: Juan Suárez Martínez, Spanish entrepreneur (f. 2006).
• 1914: Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist (f. 2009).
• 1915: Mario Monicelli, Italian filmmaker (f. 2010).
• 1916: Adriana Caselotti, American actress (f. 1997).
• 1916: Ephraim Katzir, Israeli politician (f. 2009).

Juan Rulfo.

• 1917: Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (f. 1986).
• 1917: George Gaynes, American actor (f. 2016).
• 1919: Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace), American pianist (f. 1987).
• 1919: Ramón Margalef, Spanish ecologist (f. 2004).
• 1920: Martine Carol, French actress (f. 1967).
• 1920: Leopold Tyrmand, Polish-American writer and journalist (f. 1985).
• 1921: Harry Carey Jr., American actor (f. 2012).
• 1922: Eddie Bert, American trombonist (f. 2012).
• 1923: Merton Miller, an American economist, a prize in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1990 (f. 2000).
• 1924: Dawda Jawara, gambiano politician, first president (f. 2019).
• 1925: Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian musician (f. 2010).
• 1925: Ola Vincent, Nigerian economist (f. 2012).
• 1925: Nancy Roman, American astronomer (f. 2018).
• 1927: Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (f. 2013).
• 1928: Alfred Manuel Billy Martin, American baseball player (f. 1989).
• 1930: Friedrich Gulda, pianist and Austrian composer (f. 2000).
• 1930: Alberto Terry, Peruvian footballer (f. 2006).
• 1931: Vujadin Boškov, footballer and Serbian coach (f. 2014).
• 1931: Magda Guzmán, Mexican actress (f. 2015).
• 1935: Angelo Martino Colombo, Italian footballer (f. 2014).
• 1936: Francisco Sánchez Martínez, Spanish astrophysicist.
• 1936: Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (f. 2018).
• 1936: Cesáreo Gabaráin, Spanish composer (f. 1991).
• 1937: Antonio Rattin, footballer, coach and Argentine politician.
• 1937: Yvonne Craig, American actress (f. 2015).
• 1938: Marco Aurelio Denegri, television driver and Peruvian sexologist (f. 2018).
• 1941: Carlos Perciavalle, actor, humorist, producer and Uruguayan driver.
• 1942: Graciela Iturbide, a Mexican photographer.
• 1943: Marcelino Vergara, ballri español (f. 2010).

Danny Trejo.

• 1944: Danny Trejo, an American actor of Mexican origin.
• 1944: Juan Villarzú, Chilean economist and politician.
• 1944: Billy Cobham, Panamanian jazz drummer.
• 1944: Ana María Ruiz-Tagle, politics and Spanish deputy.
• 1945: Carlos Osoro, Spanish bishop.
• 1945: Martha Beatriz Roque, Cuban economist.
• 1946: Robert Fripp, British musician, of the King Crimson band.
• 1948: Jesper Christensen, Danish actor.
• 1950: J. Georg Bednorz, German physicist, nobel physics award in 1987.
• 1950: Rubén Alberto Gomez, an Argentine military criminal and torturer.
• 1951: Christian Lacroix, a French high sewing designer.

Pierce Brosnan.

• 1953: Pierce Brosnan, an Irish actor.
• 1953: Luis Javier Argüello García, Spanish bishop.
• 1954: Ana Laguna, Spanish dancer.
• 1955: Canelon Charity, Venezuelan actress and singer.
• 1955: Olga Kórbut, a Belarusian gymnast.
• 1955: Debra Winger, American actress.
• 1955: Claudio Garella, Italian footballer.
• 1957: Joan Benoit, American athlete.
• 1957: Antonio Maceda, Spanish footballer.
• 1958: Lalo Rodríguez, Puerto Rican salsa singer (f. 2022).
• 1959: Cynthia of the Eagle, teaching and Guatemalan politics.
• 1959: Roberto Piazza, Argentine designer.
• 1959: Mare Winningham, American actress.
• 1961: Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (f. 2007).
• 1961: Jeannette Rodríguez, Venezuelan actress.
• 1961: Charles Wright, American fighter.
• 1962: Nuria González, Spanish actress.
• 1962: Roberto Iniesta, Spanish singer, of the Extremoduro band.
• 1963: Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politics.
• 1964: Boyd Tinsley, American violinist, Dave Matthews Band.
• 1964: John Salley, American basketball player.
• 1965: Krist Novoselic, American musician, from the Nirvana band.

Janet Jackson.

• 1966: Janet Jackson, American singer.
• 1966: Thurman Thomas, American football player.
• 1969: David Boreanaz, American actor.
• 1969: Tracey Gold, American actress.
• 1969: Steve Lewis, American athlete.

Gabriela Sabatini.

• 1970: Gabriela Sabatini, Argentinian tennis player.
• 1970: Silvia Wheeler, German actress.
• 1970: Chuti Tiu, American actress.
• 1971: José Oscar Flores, footballer and Argentine coach.
• 1972: Khary Payton, American actor.
• 1973: Jason Acuña, American actor.
• 1973: Special Ed, American rapper.
• 1973: Tatiana de Liechtenstein, Princess of Liechtenstein.
• 1973: Tori Spelling, American actress.

Laura Pausini.

• 1974: Laura Pausini, Italian singer.
• 1974: Sonny Sandoval, American singer, of the Payable On Death band.
• 1975: Tony Kakko, Finnish musician, of the band Sonata Arctica.
• 1975: Khalid al-Mihdhar, a Saudi terrorist who participated in 11S (f. 2001).
• 1975: Jean-Christophe Devaux, French footballer.
• 1975: Yoshitaka Fujisaki, Japanese footballer.
• 1977: Dolcenera, Italian singer.
• 1977: Zatu, rapper, Spanish.
• 1977: Randy Ebright, American battery.
• 1977: Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress.
• 1977: Emiliana Torrini, Icelandic singer.
• 1977: Fernando Silva, footballer andorrano.
• 1977: Lynn Collins, American actress.
• 1977: Asami Imai, voice actress and Japanese singer.
• 1977: Milivoje Vitakić, Serbian footballer.
• 1977: Pedro Spadaro, Peruvian lawyer and politician.
• 1977: Iñaki Otxandorena, Spanish ballri.
• 1978: Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer.
• 1978: Ernesto Sevilla, Spanish actor and presenter.
• 1978: Jim Sturgess, British actor.
• 1979: McKenzie Lee, British porn actress.
• 1979: Sergio Roitman, Argentine tennis player.
• 1979: Nikos Katsavakis, Greek footballer.
• 1980: Mikel Alonso, Spanish footballer.
• 1980: Juan Arango, Venezuelan footballer.
• 1981: Joseph Morgan, British actor.
• 1981: Ricardo Costa, Portuguese footballer.
• 1981: Claudiano Bezerra da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 1982: Billy Crawford, American actor and musician.
• 1982: Joo Ji Hoon, South Korean actor and model.
• 1982: Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player.
• 1982: Masaki Chūgo, Japanese footballer.
• 1982: Clément Turpin, French football referee.
• 1982: Tiya Sircar, American actress.
• 1983: Nancy Ajram, model, writer and Lebanese singer.
• 1983: Paola Jara, Colombian singer.
• 1984: Darío Cvitanich, Argentine footballer.
• 1985: Stanislav Ianevski, Bulgarian actor.
• 1985: Ricardo Jesus da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 1985: Henrique Pacheco Lima, Brazilian footballer.
• 1985: Elias Mendes Trindade, Brazilian footballer.

Megan Fox.

• 1986: Megan Fox, American actress.
• 1986: Andy Keogh, Irish footballer.
• 1986: Fernando Carralero, Spanish footballer.
• 1986: Ana Varela, Portuguese actress.
• 1986: Darina Apanaschenko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1986: Boris Rotenberg, Russian footballer.
• 1988: Jesús Castillo, Mexican footballer.
• 1988: Abella Anderson, American porn actress.
• 1988: Anton Kanibolotskiy, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1989: Alvaro Domínguez, Spanish footballer.
• 1989: Behati Prinsloo, Namibian model.
• 1989: Fabio Sciacca, Italian footballer.
• 1989: Sergio Garabato, Spanish footballer.
• 1990: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, British actor.
• 1990: Quique González Casín, Spanish footballer.
• 1991: Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player.
• 1991: Rage Bashir, Somali footballer.
• 1992: Nadir Minotti, Italian footballer.
• 1992: Andrew Bevin, New Zealand footballer.
• 1993: IU, singer, songwriter and South Korean actress.
• 1993: Karol Mets, Estonian footballer.
• 1993: Ricardo Esgaio, Portuguese footballer.
• 1994: Bryan Rabello, Chilean footballer.
• 1994: José Carlos Cracco Neto, Brazilian footballer.
• 1998: Ariel Waller, Canadian actress.
• 2001: Carlota Boza, Spanish actress.
• 2002: Ryan Gravenberch, Dutch footballer.
• 2007: Ivy George, American actress.
• 2007: Lia McHugh, American film and television actress.

Deaths

• 290: Wu of Jin, Chinese emperor (n. 236).
• 895: Qian Kuan, Chinese noble.
• 1160: Saint Ubaldo, Italian religious.
• 1265: Simon Stock, holy English (n. 1165).
• 1529: Francesco Morone, Italian painter (n. 1471).
• 1561: Juan Amor Tarnowski, chronicler, speaker, commander and military theorist (n. 1488).
• 1607: Cacique Calarcá, Mohán and leader amerindio pijao (n. centuryXVI).
• 1620: William Adams, British navigator (n. 1564).
• 1657: Andrés Bobola, missionary and Holy Polish (n. 1591).
• 1669: Pietro da Cortona, Italian Baroque architect and painter (n. 1596).
• 1696: Mariana of Austria, queen consorte española (n. 1634).

Charles Perrault.

• 1703: Charles Perrault, French writer (n. 1628).
• 1826: Luisa de Baden, a Russian empress (n. 1779).
• 1830: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (n. 1768).
• 1891: Ion Bratianu, a Romanian politician (n. 1821).
• 1894: Germán Hernández Amores, a Spanish painter (n. 1823).
• 1899: Francisco S. Rivera, Argentinian Marine (n. 1858).
• 1908: Mariano Casanova, Chilean archbishop (n. 1833).
• 1920: Joselito, Spanish bullfighter (n. 1895).
• 1926: Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (n. 1861).
• 1931: Emiliano Figueroa Larraín, a Chilean politician (n. 1866).
• 1933: Filareto Kavernido, German anarchist physician (n. 1880).
• 1943: Carlos Pareja Paz Soldán, Peruvian jurist (n. 1914).
• 1947: Frederick Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist, nobel medical prize in 1929 (n. 1861).
• 1953: Django Reinhardt, guitarist and Belgian composer (n. 1910).
• 1954: Clemens Krauss, director of Austrian orchestra and musician (n. 1893).
• 1955: James Agee, American writer (n. 1909).

Eliot Ness.

• 1957: Eliot Ness, American agent (n. 1903).
• 1971: Gregorio Pedro XV Agagianian, Armenian Cardinal (n. 1895).
• 1973: Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian Cubist sculptor (n. 1891).
• 1974: Óscar Pulido, Mexican comic (n. 1906).
• 1978: William Steinberg, director of German orchestra and musician (n. 1899).
• 1979: A. Philip Randolph, American activist (n. 1889).
• 1980: Luis Heysen Incháustegui, engineer, sociologist and Peruvian politician (n. 1903).
• 1984: Wessel Couzijn, Dutch sculptor (n. 1912).
• 1984: Andy Kaufman, American comic (n. 1949).
• 1984: Irwin Shaw, American writer (n. 1913).
• 1985: Andrés Espinosa, Spanish climber (n. 1903).
• 1985: Margaret Hamilton, American actress (n. 1902).
• 1990: Fernando Claudín, Spanish Marxist theorist.
• 1990: Sammy Davis Jr., American singer and actor (n. 1925).

Jim Henson.

• 1990: Jim Henson, producer and director of American cinema, creator of Muppets (n. 1936).
• 1990: Eduardo Mateo, a Uruguayan musician and composer (n. 1940).
• 1992: Chalino Sánchez, Mexican corridist (n. 1960).
• 1995: Lola Flores, Spanish singer and dancer (n. 1923).
• 1997: Giuseppe de Santis, Italian writer and filmmaker (n. 1917).
• 1998: Mayrata O'Wisiedo, Spanish actress.
• 2006: Jorge Porcel, Argentine actor and comedian (n. 1936).

Ronnie James Dio

• 2010: Ronnie James Dio, American singer (n. 1942).
• 2010: Alfonso Escámez, Spanish banker (n. 1916).
• 2010: Hank Jones, American pianist and composer (n. 1918).
• 2011: Herman Brady Roche, Chilean military (n. 1919).
• 2011: Edward Hardwicke, British actor (n. 1932).
• 2013: Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 (n. 1933).
• 2014: Gerald M. Edelman, American biologist, nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1972 (n. 1929).
• 2016: Jim McMillian, American basketball player (n. 1948).
• 2019: Bob Hawke, Australian politician, Prime Minister between 1983 and 1991 (n. 1929).
• 2019: Ieoh Ming Pei, American architect of Chinese origin (n. 1917).
• 2020: Pilar Pellicer, Mexican actress (n. 1938).

Celebrations

• International Day of Convivence in Peace
• International Day of Light
• In Malaysia it is Master's Day.
• In Costa Rica it is the National Microbiologist and Clinical Chemical Day.

Catholic saints list

• Virgin of Bisaccia, Marian advocation originated in Montenero di Bisaccia and also venerated in Timbues
• San Abdás, bishop and martyr
• Saint Abieso, bishop and martyr
• Saint Adam of Fermo
• San Andrés Bobola
• San Brendán
• San Carentoco
• San Fídolo
• San Germerio de Tolosa
• San Honorato de Amiens
• San Peregrino de Auxerre
• San Posidio de Calama
• San Simón Stock
• San Ubaldo de Gubbio
• Blessed Vidal Vladimir Bajrak
• San Juan Nepomuceno.