May 16, 1944

1944Billy Cobham, Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader^[†]

William Emanuel Cobham Jr. is a Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

1944Antal Nagy, Hungarian footballer^[†]

Antal Nagy is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as a striker. In his only season for Standard de Liège (1968–69), he won the Belgian championship and he became the Belgian First Division top scorer.

1944Friedrich Schorlemmer, German Protestant theologian (died 2024)^[†]

Friedrich Schorlemmer was a German Protestant theologian. He was a prominent member of the civil rights movement in the German Democratic Republic, leading to the Peaceful Revolution. Remaining active in politics and society after German reunification in 1990, he was engaged in the Wittenberg town council and several organisations as an activist for peace and nature preservation, and as a critical voice.

1944Danny Trejo, American actor^[†]

Danny Trejo is an American actor. Known for his large body of work as a character actor, films in which he has appeared have grossed over $3.7 billion worldwide.

1944George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (born 1866)^[†]

George Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, librettist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", a column that used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago, and a column of his fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization in his characters' dialog.

1944Filip Mișea, Aromanian activist, physician and politician (born 1873)^[†]

Filip Mișea was an Aromanian activist, physician and politician. Mișea became an Ottoman deputy, with him and Nicolae Constantin Batzaria being the only Aromanians to ever enter the Ottoman parliament. He would later move to Romania and devote himself to medicine there.