Did you know
Although her follow-up albums brought mainstream success, it was only after the release of "Good Day", the lead single from her 2010 EP Real, that she achieved national stardom.
Famous Birthdays on May 16
1993 — IU
Korean singer-songwriter and actress
May 16 has 212 recorded notable births across history, from 1418 to 2002. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 2005 Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote. Source
- 1812 Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia to Russia. Source
- 1777 Continental Army officer Lachlan McIntosh fatally wounds Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, in a duel in Savannah, Georgia. Source
- 1974 Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia. Source
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Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman (1993).
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As a child actor, he gained recognition for his roles in the commercially successful films Love Actually (2003) and Nanny McPhee (2005).
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David Boreanaz is set to star in a reboot of The Rockford Files in 2027, which he will also serve as a producer.
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Tori Spelling's first major role was Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, from 1990 to 2000.
More major people born on May 16
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1955
Debra Winger
American actress
Mary Debra Winger is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for…
1990
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
English actor
Thomas Brodie-Sangster is a British actor. As a child actor, he gained recognition for his roles in the commercially successful films Love Actually (2003) and Nanny McPhee (2005).
1969
David Boreanaz
American actor
David Paul Boreanaz is an American actor, television producer, and director known for playing the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on The WB/UPN supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire…
1973
Tori Spelling
American actress, reality television personality, and author
Victoria Davey Spelling is an American actress. Her first major role was Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, from 1990 to 2000.
1928
Billy Martin
American baseball player and coach (died 1989)
Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman and manager, who, in addition to leading other teams, was five times the manager of the New York Yankees.
1961
Kevin McDonald
Canadian actor and screenwriter
Kevin Hamilton McDonald is a Canadian actor, comedian and writer.
1991
Joey Graceffa
American internet celebrity
Joseph Michael Graceffa Jr. is an American YouTuber, vlogger, actor, author, and producer. He runs four active YouTube channels, all named after him.
1984
Rick Rypien
Canadian ice hockey player (died 2011)
Richard Joseph Rypien was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a forward for parts of six seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vancouver Canucks from 2005 to 2011.
1938
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and academic
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C.
1876
Fred Conrad Koch
American biochemist and endocrinologist (died 1948)
Frederick Conrad Koch was an American biochemist and endocrinologist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Koch graduated from the University of Illinois in 1899.
1954
Dafydd Williams
Canadian physician and astronaut
Dafydd "Dave" Rhys Williams is a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions.
1801
William H. Seward
American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (died 1872)
William Henry Seward was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.
1991
Ashley Wagner
American figure skater
Ashley Elisabeth Wagner is an American former competitive figure skater.
1898
Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese director and screenwriter (died 1956)
Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956.
1920
Martine Carol
French actress (died 1967)
Martine Carol was a French film actress. She frequently was cast as an elegant blonde seductress.
1986
Andy Keogh
Irish footballer
Andrew Declan Keogh is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for semi-professional side East Perth FC.
1937
Yvonne Craig
American ballet dancer and actress (died 2015)
Yvonne Joyce Craig was an American actress best known for her role as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in the 1960s television series Batman.
1898
Desanka Maksimović
Serbian poet and academic (died 1993)
Desanka Maksimović was a Serbian poet, writer and translator. Her first works were published in the literary journal Misao in 1920, while she was studying at the University of Belgrade.
1929
Adrienne Rich
American poet, essayist, and feminist (died 2012)
Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist.