On This Day
Thursday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
May 16 1968
Born on This Day
Albert Osswald🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1919–1996) · 1919–1996
Days lived
28,216
Angelika Bachmann🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1979
Axel Röhrle🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1971
Bernhard Pankok
deceasedGerman architect and painter (1872-1943) · 1872–1943
Days lived
25,890
David Lieske🇩🇪
German artist · b. 1979
Dieter Hogen🇩🇪
athlete · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Dina Rae🇺🇸
singer · b. 1976
Donald Fullilove
Actor · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Doug Leeds🇺🇸
businessperson · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Els Dottermans🇧🇪
Belgian actress · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Gabriela Sabatini🇦🇷
Argentine tennis player · b. 1970
H. H. Holmes
deceasedNotable Trials · 1861–1896
Days lived
12,775
Harry Stonecipher
Actor · b. 1936
Days alive
11,688
Helga Radtke🇩🇪
German long jumper · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Henry Fonda
deceasedOscar Winners · 1905–1982
Days lived
28,212
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IU🇰🇷
actor · b. 1993
IU (Lee Ji-eun)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (Solo Artist) · b. 1993
Ivanon Coffie🇨🇼
Dutch baseball player · b. 1977
James Fauntleroy II🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1984
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Janet Jackson🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Jim Sturgess🇬🇧
singer-songwriter · b. 1978
Kenji Mizoguchi🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese film director and screenwriter (1898-1956) · 1898–1956
Days lived
21,284
Krist Novoselic🇺🇸
Bassist · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Krystyna Zachwatowicz🇵🇱
athlete · b. 1930
Days alive
13,880
Laura Pausini🇮🇹
singer · b. 1974
Lukács Árpád Daczó
deceased(1921–2018) Hungarian Catholic priest and ethnographer · 1921–2018
Days lived
35,582
M.C. Bakker🇳🇱
deceasedDutch baseball player (1900–1988) · 1900–1988
Days lived
32,368
Mario Monicelli🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director and screenwriter (1915–2010) · 1915–2010
Days lived
34,896
Martina Heinlein🇩🇪
Olympic field hockey player · b. 1981
Megan Fox🇺🇸
American actress and model · b. 1986
Melanie Lynskey🇳🇿
Actor · b. 1977
Nílton Santos🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian association football player (1925–2013) · 1925–2013
Days lived
32,337
Oskar Deecke🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1986
Pepa Nos🇨🇿
singer-songwriter · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Peter Onorati🇺🇸
American actor · b. 1954
Days alive
5,114
Pierce Brosnan🇮🇪
musician · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Richard Byrd🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1892–1958
Days lived
24,140
Robert Fripp🇬🇧
English guitarist, composer and record producer · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Robinson Reichel🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Royal Rife🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1888–1971
Days lived
30,395
Rudolf Kompfner🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian-born engineer and physicist (1909-1977) · 1909–1977
Days lived
25,038
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Ryan Gravenberch
association football player · b. 2002
Tamara de Lempicka🇵🇱
deceasedartist · 1898–1980
Days lived
29,891
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Tori Spelling
actor · b. 1973
Tucker Carlson🇺🇸
Pundit · b. 1969
Tyler Cloyd🇺🇸
film director · b. 1987
Ursula Buschhorn🇩🇪
actor · b. 1969
Werner Sobek🇩🇪
German engineer and architect · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
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Yuri Shevchuk🇷🇺
actor · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
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Zygmunt Chmielewski🇵🇱
deceasedactor (1894-1978) · 1894–1978
Days lived
30,690
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Died on This Day
Ademola Okulaja🇩🇪
deceasedbasketball player · 1975–2022
Days lived
17,112
Andy Kaufman🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican entertainer (1949–1984) · 1949–1984
Days lived
12,903
Dabney Coleman🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1932–2024
Days lived
33,737
Django Reinhardt🇫🇷
deceasedRomani-Belgian /French jazz musician (1910–1953) · 1910–1953
Days lived
15,819
Donald Malinowski🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian politician (1924-2003) · 1924–2003
Days lived
28,917
Emil Stehle🇩🇪
deceasedGerman bishop and theologian (1926–2017) · 1926–2017
Days lived
33,128
Erich Brunner🇨🇭
deceasedchess composer (1885-1938) · 1885–1938
Days lived
19,148
Frido Frey🇩🇪
deceasedbasketball player · 1921–2000
Days lived
28,692
Fritz Hoopts🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1875-1945) · 1875–1945
Days lived
25,547
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian anthropologist (1912–1994) · 1913–1994
Days lived
29,647
Giuseppe De Santis🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1917–1997) · 1917–1997
Days lived
29,314
Götz Briefs🇩🇪
deceasedGerman social ethicist and economist (1889–1974) · 1889–1974
Days lived
31,180
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I. M. Pei🇺🇸
deceasedChinese-American architect (1917–2019) · 1917–2019
Days lived
37,275
Jim Henson
deceasedtelevision director · 1936–1990
Days lived
19,592
John Henry Mackay🇬🇧
deceasedwriter · 1864–1933
Days lived
25,301
Julius Schreck🇩🇪
deceasedNazi officer, First commander of the SS (1898-1936) · 1898–1936
Days lived
13,821
Karl Farkas🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian actor and writer (1893–1971) · 1893–1971
Days lived
28,323
Kurt Felix🇮🇹
deceasedSwiss television presenter, entertainer and journalist (1941-2012) · 1941–2012
Days lived
25,983
Louise Dumont🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1862–1932
Days lived
25,650
Luigi Bartolini🇮🇹
deceasedartist · 1892–1963
Days lived
26,029
Margaret Hamilton🇺🇸
deceasedTeacher · 1902–1985
Days lived
30,109
Marika Rökk🇭🇺
deceasedactor · 1913–2004
Days lived
33,067
Marisa Mell🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian actress (1939–1992) · 1939–1992
Days lived
19,440
Rainer G. Rümmler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect (1929-2004) · 1929–2004
Days lived
27,347
Rildo da Costa Menezes🇧🇷
deceasedfootball player · 1942–2021
Days lived
28,968
Ronnie James Dio🇺🇸
deceasedHeavy metal singer · 1942–2010
Days lived
24,782
Salcia Landmann🇨🇭
deceasedJewish writer (1911-2002) · 1911–2002
Days lived
33,052
Sammy Davis Jr.🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican entertainer (1925–1990) · 1925–1990
Days lived
23,535
Tadeusz Pacuła🇵🇱
deceasedPolish basketball player (1932–1984) · 1932–1984
Days lived
18,923
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,138
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,809
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,982
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,679
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,252
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,694
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,660
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,294
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,738
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,390
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,189
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,703
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,721
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,390
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,742
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,285
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,195
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,172
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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