About the day » Thursday May 16, 1867Calender converter
May 15, 1867Died on Thursday May 16, 1867
- Anna Gertrui Cardous (41), Maastricht (Maastricht) (Limburg)
- Anna Catrina (Helena) Meijer (37), Amersfoort
- van ZWEDEN (0), Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Nederland
- Adrianus van der Voort (1), Nieuwe Wetering, Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Amelia Van Goethem (19), Clinge
- Albert Hartman (3), Wilsum
- Anne Adelaide Brinkman (28), Rotterdam
- Anne Adelaide Brinkman (28), Rotterdam
- Alexander Perley Hill (87), Wellsville, Cache County, Utah Territory, United States
- Anna Catharina ELINCKX (43), Gooik,1755,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
Born on May 16
- 1859 » Horace Hutchinson, English golfer († 1932)
- 1862 » Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (d.1940)
- 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
- 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
- 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
- 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
- 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
- 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
- 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
- 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)
Died on May 16
- 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
- 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
- 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
- 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
- 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
- 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
- 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
- 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
- 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
- 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
Names that were popular for boys in 1867
- Johannes
- Jan
- Cornelis
- Hendrik
- Willem
- Pieter
- Gerrit
- Jacobus
- Petrus
- Jacob
- Adrianus
- Franciscus
- Wilhelmus
- Hendrikus
- Dirk
- Joseph
Names that were popular for girls in 1867
- Maria
- Johanna
- Anna
- Cornelia
- Catharina
- Elisabeth
- Wilhelmina
- Hendrika
- Adriana
- Jacoba
- Petronella
- Marie
- Elizabeth
- Grietje
- Helena
- Geertruida
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1867
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
- February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
- March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
- June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
- July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
- December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
The weather on Thursday May 16, 1867
The temperature on May 16, 1867 was about 11.6 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI