What happened on May 16 ?

583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)

1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)

1657 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)

1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)

1669 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (b. 1598)

1691 - Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)

1703 - Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)

1778 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)

1782 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)

1790 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)

1891 - Ion C. Br?tianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)

1926 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)

1944 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)

1947 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1861)

1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)

1955 - James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)

1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)

1959 - Elisha Scott, footballer (b. 1894)

1984 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)

1984 - Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)

1985 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)

1988 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b. 1924)

1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)

1990 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)

2003 - Mark McCormack, American businessman(b. 1930)

2006 - Dan Ross, American football player (b. 1957)