About the day » Saturday May 16, 1992Calender converter

• bob peulen, helden-dorp
• anke karis, venlo
• Evert Jan Christiaan Borgdorff († 1992)
• Mindy Josephina Margot Souren

• Anna Maria Catharina Steffens (88), Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland
• Ada Godby Barber [iWki] (95), Lincoln County, Kentucky
• Anna Maria Van Bogaert (84), Terneuzen
• Catharina Petronella Kokke (78), Hoeven, Nederland
• Angele Noele Hubertine CORTHOUTS (67), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Barbara Voet van der ongehuwd (85), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Fokkenrood (85), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Chester Moses Weirich (81), Thomaston, Litchfield, Connecticut
• Agatha Catharina Boot (77), Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arthur Raemdonck (77), Temse, België

• 1990 » Amanda Carreras, Gibraltarian tennis player
• 1990 » Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor
• 1991 » Ashley Wagner, American figure skater
• 1991 » Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player
• 1991 » Joey Graceffa, American internet celebrity
• 1992 » Jeff Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Kirstin Maldonado, American singer and songwriter
• 1993 » IU, Korean singer-songwriter and actress
• 1993 » Johannes Thingnes Bø, Norwegian biathlete
• 1993 » Karol Mets, Estonian footballer

• 1984 » Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
• 1984 » Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1913)
• 1985 » Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1939)
• 1990 » Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, created The Muppets (b. 1936)
• 1990 » Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1938)
• 1994 » Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939)
• 1997 » Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
• February 26 » Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
• March 2 » Start of the war in Transnistria.
• April 27 » The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
• June 17 » A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
• July 23 » Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
• December 9 » American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.

The temperature on May 16, 1992 was between 8.8 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.