List of Famous people born on May 16th

Albert Osswald was a German politician (SPD). He served as the 3rd Minister President of the state of Hessen from 1969 to 1976 and as the 27th President of the Bundesrat in 1975/76.

Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. senator, and the 85th Governor of Connecticut. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 1980. He was known as a very liberal Republican in Congress, causing conservatives to abandon him in the 1988 Senate election where he was replaced by a Conservative Democrat. Sometime after his defeat, Weicker was sent a letter by President Barack Obama thanking him for his work on the Americans with Disabilities Act in Congress. Though a member of the Republican Party during his time in Congress, he later left the Republican Party and became one of the few third party candidates to be elected to a state governorship in the United States in recent years, doing so on the ticket of A Connecticut Party.

Joseph Gerard Polchinski Jr. was an American theoretical physicist and string theorist.

Carlos Osoro Sierra is a Spanish Roman Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Madrid since 2014 and been a cardinal since 2016.

Bruce Norris is an American character actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Joseph Parrenin is the incumbent first Vice-President of the Franche-Comté Regional Council.

Marina Massironi is an Italian actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 1987.