Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 16


 * 1925 – Birth of illustrator and caricaturist Hannes Hegen, creator of Mosaik
 * 1936 – Birth of Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz and chairman of the Congregation of the German Bishops
 * 1950 – Birth of physicist Johannes Georg Bednorz, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * 1974 – Helmut Schmidt is elected Chancellor of Germany