What day of the week was May 16, 1947?

The day of the week May 16th, 1947 fell on was a Friday.

Barbara Lee the American singer (The Chiffons) (d. 1992) was born on 16 May in 1947. As was Bill Smitrovich the American actor , Darrell Sweet the English-Scottish drummer (Nazareth) (d. 1999) , Roch Thériault the Canadian religious leader (d. 2011) .

Frederick Gowland Hopkins the English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861) died on this day in 1947. As did Zhang Lingfu the Chinese general (b. 1903) .