May 16 Famous Birthdays

The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Taurus ♉ (The Bull) – a fixed sign with Earth as element. May 16 is the 136^th day of 2025 and there are 229 days remaining until the end of the year. Friday is the day of the week. This is the 20^th Friday this year.

Famous May 16 birthday celebrants include John Salley, B.Slade, Henry Fonda, Glenn Gregory, Roy Hudd, David Boreanaz, Sonny Sandoval, Gitane Demone.

The following famous people celebrate their birthday on May 16^th. The list is arranged in chronological order and includes celebrities like actors, actresses, models, singers, rappers and producers. Click the after the name to explore the birth date info and know the meaning of their life path number.

The epic list contains 235 persons. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1611
  Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689). Life path number 3
• 1641
  Dudley North, English economist and politician (d. 1691). Life path number 6
• 1710
  William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (d. 1782). Life path number 3
• 1718
  Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1799). Life path number 2
• 1763
  Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (d. 1829). Life path number 2
• 1788
  Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator (d. 1866). Life path number 9
• 1801
  William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (d. 1872). Life path number 4
• 1819
  Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (d. 1890). Life path number 4
• 1821
  Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician (d. 1894). Life path number 6
• 1824
  Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President (d. 1920). Life path number 9
• 1827
  Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (d. 1921). Life path number 3
• 1831
  David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (d. 1900). Life path number 7
• 1845
  Élie Metchnikoff, Ukrainian-French biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916). Life path number 3
• 1861
  H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (d. 1896). Life path number 1
• 1879
  Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic (d. 1962). Life path number 1

• 1882
  Simeon Price, American golfer (d. 1945). Life path number 4
• 1883
  Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey (d. 1986). Life path number 5
• 1888
  Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker (d. 1971). Life path number 1
• 1891
  Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor and actor (d. 1948). Life path number 4
• 1897
  Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic (d. 1994). Life path number 1
• 1898
  Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (d. 1980). Life path number 2
• 1898
  Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic (d. 1993). Life path number 2
• 1898
  Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 1956). Life path number 2
• 1900
  Aage Winther-Jørgensen, Danish actor (d. 1967). Life path number 4
• 1905
  Henry Fonda, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1982). Life path number 9
• 1906
  Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter and educator (d. 1988). Life path number 1
• 1906
  Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author (d. 2001). Life path number 1
• 1906
  Margret Rey, German author and illustrator (d. 1996). Life path number 1
• 1907
  Bob Tisdall, Sri Lankan-Irish hurdler (d. 2004). Life path number 2
• 1907
  Luigi Villoresi, Italian race car driver (d. 1997). Life path number 2

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