Famous people died in 16 May

Django Reinhardt was one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century

Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986

Irwin Shaw was an American author, novelist and playwright best remembered for his poignant and compelling style of writing

Fredrick Gowland Hopkins was a Nobel Prize winning biochemist who discovered vitamins

Levi Parsons Morton was the 22nd Vice President of the United States

A top-class French mathematician and physicist, Joseph Fourier brought about a revolution in science with his research

A stand-up comedian and performance artist, Andy Kaufman was known for his eccentric acts, especially his character of Latka Gravis

William Adams was an English navigator, the first Englishman who traveled to Japan and became a Western Samurai

George Hill Hodel was a suspect in the notorious murder case of Elizabeth Short