List of Famous people born on May 16th

Norman Jay Colman was a politician, attorney, educator, newspaper publisher, and, for 18 days, the first United States Secretary of Agriculture.

Paul Amadeus Pisk was an Austrian-born composer and musicologist. A prize named in his honor is the highest award for a graduate student paper at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society.

Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas was a Spanish general, governor of Havana, captain general of Cuba, and viceroy of New Spain.

Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg (1644–1693) was the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1683 to 1693.

Sebastiano Baggio was an Italian cardinal, often thought to be a likely candidate for election to the Papacy, and the President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State in 1984 and the prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops in 1973.