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| May 16th, 2007 (May 16 2007) | Event | Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotlandied in He is the first Scottish National Party leader to be elected as First Minister after winning an historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May. | |
| May 16th, 1997 (May 16 1997) | Death | Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (born in 1903) | |
| May 16th, 1977 (May 16 1977) | Birth | Dolcenera, Italian singer | |
| May 16th, 1977 (May 16 1977) | Birth | Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| May 16th, 1967 (May 16 1967) | Event | The city of Jerusalem is captured by Israel during the six-day war | |
| May 16th, 1957 (May 16 1957) | Death | Eliot Ness, American federal agent (born in 1903) | |
| May 16th, 1947 (May 16 1947) | Birth | Bill Smitrovich, American actor | |
| May 16th, 1947 (May 16 1947) | Death | Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1861) | |
| May 16th, 1937 (May 16 1937) | Birth | Yvonne Craig, American actress | |
| May 16th, 1927 (May 16 1927) | Birth | Nilton Santos, Brazilian footballer | |
| May 16th, 1917 (May 16 1917) | Birth | Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (died in 1986) | |
| May 16th, 1917 (May 16 1917) | Birth | James C. Murray, American politician (died in 1999) | |
| May 16th, 1917 (May 16 1917) | Birth | George Gaynes, American actor | |
| May 16th, 1877 (May 16 1877) | Event | May 16, 1877 political crisis in France. | |
| May 16th, 1827 (May 16 1827) | Birth | Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (died in 1921) | |
| May 16th, 1777 (May 16 1777) | Event | Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later. | |
| May 16th, 1667 (May 16 1667) | Death | Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (born in 1607) | |
| May 16th, 1657 (May 16 1657) | Death | Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (born in 1591) | |
| May 16th, 1527 (May 16 1527) | Event | The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic. | |
