Nílton Santos

Brazilian association football player (1925-2013).

Born May 16th, 1925 in Rio de Janeiro.

Died November 27th, 2013 at 88 years old in Rio de Janeiro (respiratory failure). ^[ref]

Friedrich Gulda

Austrian pianist and composer (1930-2000).

Born May 16th, 1930 in Vienna. ^[ref]

Died January 27th, 2000 at 69 years old in Steinbach am Attersee (myocardial infarction). ^[ref]

Mario Monicelli

Italian film director and screenwriter.

Born May 16th, 1915 in Rome.

Died November 29th, 2010 at 95 years old in Rome. ^[ref]

Mikel Alonso

Basque footballer.

Born May 16th, 1980 (age 44 years) in Tolosa.

Robert Jay Lifton

American psychiatrist and author.

Born May 16th, 1926 (age 98 years) in Brooklyn.

Joseph Polchinski

Physicist working on string theory.

Born May 16th, 1954 in Hawthorne.

Died February 2nd, 2018 at 63 years old in Santa Barbara (brain cancer). ^[ref]

Barry Boehm

American software engineer.

Born May 16th, 1935 (age 89 years) in Santa Monica.

Robert B. Wilson

American economist and nobel laureate.

Born May 16th, 1937 (age 87 years) in Geneva.

Vujadin Boškov

Serbian footballer (1931-2014).

Born May 16th, 1931 in Begeč.

Died April 27th, 2014 at 82 years old in Novi Sad (Alzheimer's disease).

Nancy Roman

American astronomer and principal in the hubble space telescope project.

Born May 16th, 1925 in Nashville.

Died December 26th, 2018 at 93 years old in Germantown. ^[ref]