22 notable people died on May 16, including Sir Frederick Hopkins, Heinrich Rohrer, Magnus VI of Norway.
21st Century
3 deaths
Heinrich Rohrer
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1986)
Inger Sandberg
cartoonistfilm director
Swedish writer (1930–2023)
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Amalendu De
historianteacher
Historian, professor and writer
20th Century
9 deaths
Sir Frederick Hopkins
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1929)
Fredrik Lange-Nielsen
mathematicianstatistician
Norwegian mathematician
Frederick Walton
businesspersonchemist
English manufacturer and inventor (1834–1928)
Luigi Bartolini
art criticartist
Italian painter, writer, poet (1892-1963)
Margaret Paton
missionarywriter
British missionary
Edmund Gosse
art historianlibrarian
English poet, author and critic (1849–1928)
Cyril Argentine Alington
Anglican priesthymnwriter
English scholar, cleric and author
Louis Perrier
architectpolitician
Architect and politicien, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1849-1913)
Aleksander Szniolis
engineer
Polish engineer
19th Century
8 deaths
Emmanuel Le Maout
botanistnaturalist
Naturalist (1799-1877)
Anne Isabella Byron
activistaristocrat
English educational reformer and philanthropist (1792-1860)
Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft
botanistscientific illustrator
American botanist, scientific illustrator, writer and advocate for women's rights (1781-1828)
Asahel Nettleton
Christian ministertheologian
American theologian (1783-1844)
Vicente Rocafuerte
diplomatpolitician
President of Ecuador (1834 - 1839)
Ōta Nanpo
bureaucratpoet
Japanese poet, fiction writer and samurai bureaucrat of the late-edo period (1749–1823)
Jan Baptist van der Hulst
painterprintmaker
Painter (1790-1862)
Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder
draftspersonpainter
Flemish-Belgian painter (1792-1883)
17th Century
1 death
Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo
diplomatwriter
German travel writer (1616-1644)
13th Century
1 death
Magnus VI of Norway
monarch
King of Norway (1238–1280)
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