May 16 Deaths |
Read about how to open files in Open File Database. |
| May 16th, 2003 (May 16 2003) | Death | Mark McCormack, American businessman (born in 1930) | |
| May 16th, 2002 (May 16 2002) | Death | Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (born in 1899) | |
| May 16th, 2002 (May 16 2002) | Death | Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (born in 1968) | |
| May 16th, 2001 (May 16 2001) | Death | Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (born in 1944) | |
| May 16th, 2000 (May 16 2000) | Death | Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (born in 1988) | |
| May 16th, 1997 (May 16 1997) | Death | Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (born in 1903) | |
| May 16th, 1996 (May 16 1996) | Death | Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (born in 1939) | |
| May 16th, 1994 (May 16 1994) | Death | Jack Dodson, American actor (born in 1931) | |
| May 16th, 1993 (May 16 1993) | Death | Marv Johnson, American R&B and soul singer (born in 1938) | |
| May 16th, 1992 (May 16 1992) | Death | Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b, 1960) | |
| May 16th, 1990 (May 16 1990) | Death | Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (born in 1925) | |
| May 16th, 1990 (May 16 1990) | Death | Jim Henson, American puppeteer (born in 1936) | |
| May 16th, 1988 (May 16 1988) | Death | Charles Keeping, English illustrator (born in 1924) | Charles Keeping Quotes |
| May 16th, 1985 (May 16 1985) | Death | Margaret Hamilton, American actress (born in 1902) | |
| May 16th, 1984 (May 16 1984) | Death | Andy Kaufman, American comedian (born in 1949) | |
| May 16th, 1984 (May 16 1984) | Death | Irwin Shaw, American author (born in 1913) | |
| May 16th, 1981 (May 16 1981) | Death | Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (born in 1922) | |
| May 16th, 1979 (May 16 1979) | Death | A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist and labor union leader (born in 1889) | |
| May 16th, 1969 (May 16 1969) | Death | Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (born in 1954) | |
| May 16th, 1961 (May 16 1961) | Death | George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (born in 1881) | |
| May 16th, 1959 (May 16 1959) | Death | Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (born in 1894) | |
| May 16th, 1957 (May 16 1957) | Death | Eliot Ness, American federal agent (born in 1903) | |
| May 16th, 1956 (May 16 1956) | Death | H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese s (born in 1876) | |
| May 16th, 1955 (May 16 1955) | Death | James Agee, American writer (born in 1909) | |
| May 16th, 1954 (May 16 1954) | Death | Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (born in 1893) | |
| May 16th, 1953 (May 16 1953) | Death | Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (born in 1910) | |
| May 16th, 1947 (May 16 1947) | Death | Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1861) | |
| May 16th, 1944 (May 16 1944) | Death | George Ade, American author (born in 1866) | George Ade Quotes |
| May 16th, 1943 (May 16 1943) | Death | Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (born in 1865) | |
| May 16th, 1926 (May 16 1926) | Death | Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (born in 1861) | |
| May 16th, 1920 (May 16 1920) | Death | Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (born in 1824) | |
| May 16th, 1913 (May 16 1913) | Death | Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (born in 1849) | |
| May 16th, 1891 (May 16 1891) | Death | Ion Bratianu, Romanian statesman (born in 1821) | |
| May 16th, 1830 (May 16 1830) | Death | Joseph Fourier, French scientist (born in 1768) | |
| May 16th, 1790 (May 16 1790) | Death | Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (born in 1720) | |
| May 16th, 1782 (May 16 1782) | Death | Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (born in 1736) | |
| May 16th, 1778 (May 16 1778) | Death | Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (born in 1718) | |
| May 16th, 1703 (May 16 1703) | Death | Charles Perrault, French author (born in 1628) | Charles Perrault Quotes |
| May 16th, 1691 (May 16 1691) | Death | Jacob Leisler, American colonist (born in 1640) | |
| May 16th, 1669 (May 16 1669) | Death | Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (born in 1596) | |
| 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, 1620 (May 16 1620) | Death | William Adams, English navigator (born in 1564) | |
| May 16th, 1265 (May 16 1265) | Death | Saint Simon Stock, English saint (born in 1165) | |
| May 16th, 0583 (May 16 0583) | Death | Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (born in 484) | |
