Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 16

1925 – Birth of illustrator and caricaturist Hannes Hegen, creator of Mosaik
1936 – Birth of Karl Cardinal 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