What day of the week was May 16, 1891?

The day of the week May 16th, 1891 fell on was a Saturday.

Richard Tauber the Austrian tenor and actor (d. 1948) was born on 16 May in 1891.

Ion C. Brătianu the Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821) died on this day in 1891.

The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt the Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).