17 notable people died on May 16, including Heinrich Rohrer, Sir Frederick Hopkins, Magnus VI of Norway.
21st Century
1 death
Heinrich Rohrer
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1986)
20th Century
7 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)
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)
Asahel Nettleton
Christian ministertheologian
American theologian (1783-1844)
Ōta Nanpo
bureaucratpoet
Japanese poet, fiction writer and samurai bureaucrat of the late-edo period (1749–1823)
Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft
botanistscientific illustrator
American botanist, scientific illustrator, writer and advocate for women's rights (1781-1828)
Vicente Rocafuerte
diplomatpolitician
President of Ecuador (1834 - 1839)
Jan Baptist van der Hulst
painterprintmaker
Painter (1790-1862)
Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder
draftspersonpainter
Flemish-Belgian painter (1792-1883)
13th Century
1 death
Magnus VI of Norway
monarch
King of Norway (1238–1280)
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