What Happened In May 1916 In History

Historical Events for May, 1916

• 10th » Sailing in the lifeboat Voyage of the James Caird named 'James Caird', Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands or South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
• 20th » The 'Saturday Evening Post' publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ('Boy with Baby Carriage').
• 31st » World War I: Battle of Jutland The British Grand Fleet under the command of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty engage the Imperial German Navy under the command of Reinhard Scheer and Franz von Hipper in the largest naval b

Famous Birthdays on May in 1916

• 1st » Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (d. 2006)
• 3rd » Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor (d. 2006)
• 4th » Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
• 4th » Richard Proenneke, American meteorologist (d. 2003)
• 5th » Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (d. 1987)
• 6th » Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (d. 1997)
• 6th » Sif Ruud, Swedish actress (d. 2011)
• 6th » Adriana Caselotti, American voice actress and singer (d. 1997)
• 7th » Huw Wheldon, Welsh-English broadcaster (d. 1986)
• 7th » W. B. Young, Scottish rugby player (d. 2013)
• 8th » João Havelange, Brazilian water polo player, lawyer, and businessman
• 8th » Chinmayananda Saraswati, Indian spiritual leader and educator (d. 1993)
• 9th » William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (d. 1993)
• 10th » Milton Babbitt, American composer and educator (d. 2011)
• 11th » Camilo José Cela, Spanish author, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• 12th » Albert Murray (writer) named Albert Murray, American author and critic (d. 2013)
• 14th » Robert F. Christy, Canadian-American physicist and astronomer (d. 2012)
• 14th » Lance Dossor, English-Australian pianist and educator (d. 2005)
• 14th » Del Moore, American actor (d. 1970)
• 14th » Marco Zanuso, Italian architect (d. 2001)
• 15th » Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress
• 16th » Adriana Caselotti, American actress and singer (d. 1997)
• 16th » Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (d. 2009)
• 20th » Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic
• 20th » Alexey Maresyev, Russian soldier and pilot (d. 2001)
• 20th » Ondina Valla, Italian sprinter and hurdler (d. 2006)
• 21st » Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter (d. 2002)
• 21st » Harold Robbins, American author (d. 1997)
• 24th » Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (d. 2002)
• 25th » Brian Dickson, Canadian politician, 15th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1998)
• 25th » Giuseppe Tosi, Italian discus thrower (d. 1981)
• 26th » Moondog, American drummer, composer, and poet (d. 1999)
• 26th » Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
• 28th » Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
• 30th » Justin Catayée, French politician (d. 1962)
• 30th » Mort Meskin, American illustrator (d. 1995)
• 31st » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 31st » Bernard Lewis, English-American historian and author

Famous Deaths for May 1916

• 3rd » Tom Clarke (Irish republican) known as Tom Clarke, English-Irish activist (b. 1858)
• 3rd » Thomas MacDonagh, Irish commandant (b. 1878)
• 3rd » Patrick Pearse, Irish commander (b. 1879)
• 4th » Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary) called Edward Daly, Irish commandant (b. 1891)
• 4th » Joseph Plunkett, Irish journalist and general (b. 1887)
• 4th » Willie Pearse, Irish activist (b. 1891)
• 5th » John MacBride, Irish soldier (b. 1865)
• 5th » Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866)
• 10th » Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author (b. 1846)
• 11th » Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873)
• 11th » Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
• 12th » James Connolly, Scottish-Irish general (b. 1868)
• 13th » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 17th » Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
• 28th » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)

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