Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 16
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[edit] Births
- 1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
- 1611 - Pope Innocent XI (pictured) (d. 1689)
- 1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)
- 1845 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist (d. 1916)
- 1919 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
- 1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
- 1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
[edit] Deaths
- 1703 - Saint Andrew Bobola, Polish martyr (b. 1591)
- 1830 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (b. 1768)
- 1891 - Ion Brătianu, Romanian politician (b. 1821)
- 1926 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
- 1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
- 1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)
- 1990 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)

