What day of the week was May 16, 1957?

The day of the week May 16th, 1957 fell on was a Thursday.

Joan Benoit the American runner was born on 16 May in 1957. As was Benjamin Mancroft the 3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician , Yuri Shevchuk the Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (DDT) , Anthony St John the 22nd Baron St John of Bletso, English lawyer and businessman , Nigel Twiston-Davies the English horse trainer .

Eliot Ness the American federal agent (b. 1903) died on this day in 1957.