• 1806-05-16 - George C Cadwalader: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
  • 1816-05-16 - Henry Hopkins Sibley: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
  • 1819-05-16 - Daniel Ammen: Captain (Union Navy), died in 1898
  • 1822-05-16 - Eduard Hille: Dutch composer / conductor
  • 1824-05-16 - Edmund Kirby Smith: Florida, United States -- General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
  • 1824-05-16 - Levi Parsons Morton: (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
  • 1827-05-16 - Petrus J H Cuypers: Architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)
 

  • 1782-05-16 - Daniuel Charles Solander: Botanist
  • 1805-05-16 - Christian Brunings: Hydraulic engineer, dies at 68
  • 1819-05-16 - Alexander van Bylandt: Military, dies at 75
  • 1830-05-16 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Mathematician
  • 1835-05-16 - Felicia Dorothea Hemans: Poet / hymn writer
  • 1847-05-16 - Kaspar Ett: German Organist / composer, dies at 59
  • 1863-05-16 - Lloyd Tilghman: Confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at 47
 

  • 1747-05-16 - Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth
  • 1763-05-16 - James Boswell's 1st meeting with Samuel Johnson
  • 1763-05-16 - Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
  • 1770-05-16 - Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
  • 1792-05-16 - Denmark abolishes slave trade
  • 1796-05-16 - Lombardije Republic forms
  • 1803-05-16 - Peace of Amiens ends
 

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