List of Famous people born on May 16th

Jan Mikulicz-Radecki was an ethnic Polish surgeon who worked mainly in the German Empire. He was born on 16 May 1850 in Czerniowce in the Austrian Empire and died on 4 June 1905 in Breslau, German Empire. He was professor in Kraków, Wrocław, and Królewiec (Königsberg). He was the inventor of new operating techniques and tools, and is one of the pioneers of antiseptics and aseptic techniques. In Poland he is regarded as one of the founders of the Kraków school of surgery.

Sergey Vasilyevich Andreyev is a football manager and a former Soviet and Russian player.

Franca Squarciapino is an Italian costume designer who won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1990 for Cyrano de Bergerac. She has spent much of her career designing costumes for major theatres and opera houses, including the Burgtheater in Vienna, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Zurich Opera among others.

Steven Paul is an American independent film producer, screenwriter, director, actor, and talent manager. He is the chairman, founder and CEO of Crystal Sky Pictures.

Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, was a British civil servant and colonial governor. He was known as "Sir West Ridgeway".

Brewster Hopkinson Shaw Jr. is a retired NASA astronaut, U.S. Air Force colonel, and former executive at Boeing. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 6, 2006.

Dafydd Rhys Williams OC OOnt CCFP FCFP FRCPC FRCP is a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and a retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two space shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research. His second flight, STS-118 in August 2007, was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. During that mission he performed three spacewalks, becoming the third Canadian to perform a spacewalk and setting a Canadian record for total number of spacewalks. These spacewalks combined for a total duration of 17 hours and 47 minutes.

Alejandro Javier Schiapparelli is a former Argentine football defender and the current manager for Sportivo Desamparados in the Torneo Argentino B.