| Birthday |
Name |
|
| 1672-05-01 |
Joseph Addison |
English essayist Spectator |
| 1769-05-01 |
Duke of Wellington |
C |
| 1830-05-01 |
Mary Harris Jones |
Mother Jones |
| 1881-05-01 |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
French philosopher |
| 5/1/1900 |
Ignazio Silone |
Italian novelist |
| 5/1/1909 |
Kate Smith |
singer God Bless America |
| 5/1/1910 |
Cliff Battles |
NFL halfback Boston/Washington Redskins |
| 5/1/1916 |
Glenn Ford |
Actor Big Heat |
| 5/1/1917 |
Danielle Darieux |
in France |
| 5/1/1918 |
Jack Paar |
Tonight Show host |
| 5/1/1925 |
Malcolm Scott Carpenter |
Mercury astronaut Aurora 7 |
| 5/1/1925 |
Chuck Bednarik |
NFL center |
| 5/1/1930 |
Ollie Matson |
NFL halfback Cardinals |
| 5/1/1939 |
Judy Collins |
in Seattle Wash |
| 5/1/1945 |
Rita Coolidge |
in Tennessee |
| 1660-05-02 |
Alessandro Scarlatti |
Italian composer |
| 1729-05-02 |
Catherine II the Great |
empress of Russia 1762-96 |
| 1837-05-02 |
Henry Martyn Robert |
author of “Roberts Rules of Order” |
| 1840-05-02 |
Theodor Herzl |
founder of Zionist movement |
| 1860-05-02 |
Sir DArcy Thompson |
zoologist |
| 5/2/1902 |
Brian Aherne |
Actor |
| 5/2/1903 |
Benjamin Spock |
pediatrician |
| 5/2/1904 |
Bing Crosby |
crooner |
| 5/2/1924 |
Theodore Bikel |
folk singer |
| 5/2/1946 |
Leslie Gore |
in Tenafly NJ |
| 1469-05-03 |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
politician The Prince |
| 1844-05-03 |
Richard DOyly Carte |
impresario |
| 1874-05-03 |
Francois Coty |
perfumemaker |
| 1892-05-03 |
Sir George Thomson |
demonstrated electron diffraction Nobel 1937 |
| 1897-05-03 |
V.K. Krishna Menon |
Indian nationalist |
| 1898-05-03 |
Golda Meir |
4th Israeli PM 1969-74 |
| 5/3/1906 |
Mary Astor |
Actress |
| 5/3/1919 |
Pete Seeger |
folk singer |
| 5/3/1919 |
Betty Comden |
song writer |
| 5/3/1920 |
Sugar Ray Robinson |
boxer |
| 5/3/1937 |
Franki Valli |
singer |
| 5/3/1939 |
Samantha Eggar |
in England |
| 5/3/1941 |
Nona Gaprindasvili |
of USSR |
| 5/3/1942 |
Vera Caslavska-Odlozilova |
Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast |
| 1796-05-04 |
Horace Mann |
educator |
| 1820-05-04 |
Joseph Whitaker |
English publisher |
| 1820-05-04 |
Julia Gardiner Tyler |
2nd wife of President John Tyler |
| 1825-05-04 |
Thomas Henry Huxley |
scientist and humanist |
| 5/4/1918 |
Kakuei Tanaka |
Japanese prime minister convicted of bribe-taking |
| 5/4/1929 |
Audrey Hepburn |
Brussels Bel Breakfast at Tiffanys |
| 5/4/1930 |
Roberta Peters |
operatic soprano |
| 5/4/1954 |
Julie Budd |
Bkln |
| 5/4/1961 |
Mary McDonough |
|
| 1813-05-05 |
Síren Kierkegaard |
founder of Existentialism |
| 1818-05-05 |
Karl Marx |
|
| 1832-05-05 |
H.H. Bancroft |
historian |
| 1846-05-05 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz |
Polish author Quo Vadis Nobel 1905 |
| 1867-05-05 |
Nellie Bly |
name became a synonym for female star reporter |
| 1890-05-05 |
Author Christopher Morley |
| 1899-05-05 |
F.F. Gosden Amos |
|
| 5/5/1900 |
Spencer Tracy |
Actor Guess Whos Coming to Dinner |
| 5/5/1903 |
James Beard |
American culinary expert and author |
| 5/5/1915 |
Richard H. Rovere |
journalist |
| 5/5/1919 |
Tony Canadeo |
NFL halfback Green Bay Packers |
| 5/5/1925 |
Monica Lewis |
|
| 5/5/1926 |
Ann B Davis |
in Schnectady NY – Brady Bunch maid |
| 5/5/1927 |
Pat Carrol |
in Shrevport Louisiana |
| 5/5/1930 |
Michael J. Adams |
X-15 pilot |
| 5/5/1942 |
Tammy Wynette |
country singer |
| 0973-05-06 |
Henry II |
Holy Roman emperor 1014-24 |
| 1740-05-06 |
John Penn |
signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| 1758-05-06 |
Robespierre |
French Revolutionary leader |
| 1843-05-06 |
Grove Karl Gilbert |
geologist |
| 1856-05-06 |
Robert Peary |
artic explorer |
| 1856-05-06 |
Sigmund Freud |
cigar smoker |
| 1859-05-06 |
Luis Mar¡a Drago |
Argentine statesman |
| 1861-05-06 |
Rabindranath Tagore |
Hindu poet |
| 1870-05-06 |
AP Giannini |
founder of Bank of America |
| 1888-05-06 |
Emmanuel Celler |
former congressman |
| 1895-05-06 |
Rudolph Valentino |
sheik |
| 5/6/1902 |
Harry Golden |
writer |
| 5/6/1902 |
Max Ophulus |
film director |
| 5/6/1903 |
Aram Khachaturian |
composer |
| 5/6/1904 |
Harry Martinson |
Swedish novelist |
| 5/6/1905 |
Toots Shor |
raconteur |
| 5/6/1907 |
Weeb Ewbank |
NFL coach Baltimore Colts |
| 5/6/1915 |
Theodore H. White |
historian |
| 5/6/1915 |
Orson Welles |
Actor Citizen Kane |
| 5/6/1924 |
Mimi Benzell |
in Bridgeport |
| 5/6/1926 |
Marguerite Piazza |
operatic soprano |
| 5/6/1931 |
Willie Mays |
baseball player |
| 5/6/1962 |
Lori Singer |
in Chorpus Christi Texas |
| 1774-05-07 |
Sir Francis Beaufort |
naval officer who devised scale of wind force |
| 1812-05-07 |
Robert Browning |
English poet |
| 1833-05-07 |
Johannes Brahms |
enjoys a good lullaby |
| 1840-05-07 |
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky |
Russian composer 1812 Overture |
| 1847-05-07 |
Archibald Primrose |
Earl of Rosebery Lib |
| 1892-05-07 |
Josip Broz Tito |
WW II partisan |
| 5/7/1901 |
Gary Cooper |
Actor High Noon |
| 5/7/1909 |
Edwin Land |
founded instant photography Polaroid |
| 5/7/1919 |
Eva Per¢n |
Argentine 1st lady |
| 5/7/1922 |
Darren McGavin |
Actor Night Stalker |
| 5/7/1923 |
Anne Baxter |
Mich Razors Edge |
| 5/7/1926 |
Val Bisoglio |
Actor |
| 5/7/1931 |
Teresa Brewer |
in Toledo Oh – Put another nickel it |
| 5/7/1932 |
Pete Domeneci |
R |
| 5/7/1933 |
Johnny Unitas |
NFL quarterback Baltimore Colts |
| 5/7/1944 |
Sivi Aberg |
|
| 5/7/1945 |
Robin Strasser |
in NYC |
| 5/7/1951 |
Janis Ian Fink |
in NYC |
| 1737-05-08 |
Edward Gibbon |
historian Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| 1786-05-08 |
Thomas Hancock |
founded British rubber industry |
| 1824-05-08 |
William Walker |
filibuster |
| 1828-05-08 |
Henri Dunant |
of Switzerland |
| 1829-05-08 |
Louis Moreau Gottschalk |
1st internationally recognized US pianist |
| 1884-05-08 |
Harry S Truman |
32nd President 1945-1949 |
| 1895-05-08 |
Jose G¢mez Joselito el Gallo |
bullfighter |
| 1895-05-08 |
Fulton J Sheen |
bishop |
| 5/8/1920 |
Sloan Wilson |
American novelist |
| 5/8/1926 |
David Attenborough |
Environmentalist |
| 5/8/1926 |
Don Rickles |
comedian |
| 5/8/1928 |
Theodore Sorenson |
former presidential advisor |
| 5/8/1930 |
Gary Snyder |
beat poet Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems |
| 5/8/1930 |
Doug Atkins |
NFL defensive end Cleveland |
| 5/8/1935 |
Salome Jens |
in Milwaukee |
| 5/8/1937 |
Sen Dennis DeConcini |
D-Ariz |
| 5/8/1940 |
Peter Benchley |
author Jaws |
| 5/8/1940 |
Ricky Nelson |
rock star Hello Mary Lou |
| 5/8/1942 |
Angel Cordero |
Jockey |
| 5/8/1943 |
Toni Tennille |
only female Beachboy in Montgomery Ala |
| 5/8/1964 |
Melissa Gilbert |
LA |
| 1800-05-09 |
John Brown |
abolitionist |
| 1843-05-09 |
Belle Boyd |
Confederate spy |
| 1860-05-09 |
James M Barrie |
Scotland |
| 1860-05-09 |
Sir James Barrie |
Scottish author Peter Pan |
| 1873-05-09 |
Howard Carter |
Egyptologist found King Tut |
| 1882-05-09 |
Henry J Kaiser |
built Liberty Ships |
| 1883-05-09 |
Jose Ortega y Gasset |
Spanish philosopher Revolt of the Masses |
| 5/9/1910 |
Barbara Woodhouse |
Dog training expert |
| 5/9/1914 |
Theodore Kheel |
labor negotiator |
| 5/9/1918 |
Mike Wallace |
host of 60 Minutes or 0519 |
| 5/9/1928 |
Pancho Gonzales |
U.S. tennis champion |
| 5/9/1931 |
Vance D. Brand |
U.S. astronaut Apollo-Soyuz |
| 5/9/1936 |
Terry Drinkwater |
CBS newsman |
| 5/9/1936 |
Glenda Jackson |
in Cheshire England |
| 5/9/1936 |
Albert Finney |
Actor The Dresser |
| 5/9/1940 |
James L Brooks |
Producer-director |
| 5/9/1946 |
Candice Bergen |
in Beverly Hills |
| 5/9/1948 |
Billy Joel |
Bronx Pianoman |
| 1730-05-10 |
George Ross |
lawyer |
| 1788-05-10 |
Augustin-Jean Fresnel |
pioneer in optics |
| 1843-05-10 |
Kaufmann Kohler |
Reform rabbi |
| 1843-05-10 |
Benito Perez Gald¢s |
Spanish novelist Fountain of Gold |
| 1850-05-10 |
Sir Thomas Lipton |
tea magnate |
| 1878-05-10 |
Gustav Stresemann |
German chancellor 1923 Nobel 1926 |
| 1886-05-10 |
Olaf Stapleton |
British religious sci-fi writer Star Maker |
| 1898-05-10 |
Ariel Durant |
writer The Story of Civilization |
| 1899-05-10 |
Fred Astaire |
tapdancer |
| 5/10/1902 |
David O Selznick |
film producer |
| 5/10/1908 |
Carl Albert |
D |
| 5/10/1921 |
Nancy Walker |
in Phila |
| 5/10/1957 |
Phillip Mahre |
World Cup ski champion |
| 1722-05-11 |
Peter Camper |
anatomist |
| 1852-05-11 |
Charles Warren Fairbanks |
R |
| 1888-05-11 |
Irving Berlin |
dreaming of a white Christmas |
| 1892-05-11 |
Dame Margaret Rutherford |
British Actress Murder Most Foul |
| 5/11/1902 |
Bid£ Sayao |
Brazilian soprano |
| 5/11/1904 |
Salvador Dal¡ |
surrealist |
| 5/11/1912 |
Phil Silvers |
U.S. comedian |
| 5/11/1916 |
Camilo Jose Cela |
in Spain |
| 5/11/1927 |
Mort Sahl |
comedian |
| 5/11/1938 |
Doug McClure |
Actor |
| 1812-05-12 |
Edward Lear |
in England |
| 1820-05-12 |
Florence Nightingale |
nurse |
| 1828-05-12 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
poet |
| 1842-05-12 |
Jules Massenet |
composer |
| 1845-05-12 |
Gabriel Faure |
composer |
| 1880-05-12 |
Lincoln Ellsworth |
led 1st transarctic |
| 5/12/1904 |
Robert Baldwin |
L |
| 5/12/1914 |
Howard K. Smith |
TV newsperson ABC |
| 5/12/1925 |
Yogi Barra |
NY Yankee catcher |
| 5/12/1929 |
Burt Bacharach |
composer |
| 5/12/1936 |
Tom Snyder |
TV host Tomorrow Show |
| 5/12/1937 |
George Carlin |
Comedian |
| 5/12/1939 |
Ronald Ziegler |
Nixons press secretary |
| 5/12/1942 |
Susan Hampshire |
in London |
| 5/12/1950 |
Bruce Boxleitner |
|
| 5/12/1950 |
Shozo Fujii |
judo champion |
| 5/12/1968 |
Prince |
rock singer |
| 5/12/1969 |
Kim Fields |
LA Facts of Life |
| 1717-05-13 |
Empress Maria Theresa |
of Austria |
| 1730-05-13 |
Marquess of Rockingham |
Whig |
| 1842-05-13 |
Sir Arthur Sullivan |
in England |
| 1856-05-13 |
Peter Henry Emerson |
1st to promote photography as an independent art |
| 1867-05-13 |
Sir Frank Brangwyn |
Welsh painter |
| 5/13/1914 |
Joe Louis |
world heavyweight boxing champion 1937-49 |
| 5/13/1926 |
Bea Arthur |
Maude |
| 5/13/1942 |
Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 27/39/T6/T12/T13 |
| 5/13/1950 |
Peter Gabriel |
rocker |
| 5/13/1950 |
Stevie Wonder |
singer |
| 1316-05-14 |
Charles IV |
king of Bohemia 1346-78 |
| 1686-05-14 |
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit |
physicist or 0524 |
| 1771-05-14 |
Robert Owen |
English fActory owner |
| 1787-05-14 |
Thomas Gainsborough |
English landscape |
| 1885-05-14 |
Otto Klemperer |
German conductor |
| 5/14/1919 |
Heloise |
and her helpful hints |
| 5/14/1925 |
Patrice Munsel |
in Spokane Wash |
| 5/14/1944 |
George Lucas |
skywalker |
| 5/14/1946 |
Robert Jarvik |
invented Jarvik 7 artificial heart |
| 5/14/1952 |
David Byrne |
in England |
| 1856-05-15 |
L. Frank Baum |
childrens book author Wizard of Oz |
| 1859-05-15 |
Pierre Curie |
French physicist Nobel 1903 |
| 1860-05-15 |
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson |
1st wife of Woodrow Wilson |
| 1862-05-15 |
Arthur Schnitzler |
Austrian playwright |
| 1890-05-15 |
Katherine Anne Porter |
U.S. novelist Ship of Fools |
| 1891-05-15 |
Mikhail Bulgakov |
Russian playwright |
| 5/15/1902 |
Richard Daley |
D |
| 5/15/1905 |
Joseph Cotten |
|
| 5/15/1909 |
James Mason |
Actor Lolita |
| 5/15/1910 |
Constance Cummings |
|
| 5/15/1918 |
Eddy Arnold |
Country singer |
| 5/15/1918 |
Joseph Wiseman |
Actor |
| 5/15/1919 |
Wladziu Valentino Liberace |
pianist |
| 5/15/1923 |
Richard Avedon |
|
| 5/15/1924 |
Ursula Theiss |
|
| 5/15/1926 |
Anthony Shaffer / Peter Shaffer |
twin brothers Playwrights |
| 5/15/1936 |
Anna Marie Alberghetti |
Actress |
| 5/15/1936 |
Paul Zindel |
Playwright |
| 5/15/1937 |
Trini Lopez |
singer |
| 5/15/1942 |
Lainie Kazan |
Bkln |
| 5/15/1948 |
Brian Eno |
singer |
| 5/15/1953 |
George Brett |
KC Royals |
| 5/15/1955 |
Lee Horsley |
Actor |
| 1763-05-16 |
Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin |
chemist |
| 1801-05-16 |
William H. Seward |
bought Alaska |
| 1824-05-16 |
Levi Parsons Morton |
R |
| 5/16/1905 |
Henry Fonda |
Actor Mr. Roberts Grand Is Nebraska |
| 5/16/1912 |
Studs Terkel |
author Working |
| 5/16/1913 |
Woody Herman |
Bandleader |
| 5/16/1919 |
Liberace Wladziu Liberace |
candelabrist |
| 5/16/1924 |
Frank F. Mankiewicz |
columnist |
| 5/16/1928 |
Billy Martin |
baseball manager NY Yankees |
| 5/16/1931 |
Lowell Weicker |
R-Conn |
| 5/16/1952 |
Pierce Brosnan |
in Israel |
| 5/16/1955 |
Debra Winger |
in Columbus Oh Officer & Gentleman |
| 5/16/1955 |
Olga Korbut |
Soviet Olympic gymnast |
| 5/16/1966 |
Janet Jackson |
singer/Michaels sister |
| 1749-05-17 |
Edward Jenner |
English physician |
| 1836-05-17 |
Joseph Norman Lockyer |
astroarchaeologist |
| 1866-05-17 |
Erik Satie |
composer |
| 5/17/1900 |
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
Irans spiritual leader |
| 5/17/1911 |
Maureen OSullivan |
in Boyle Ireland |
| 5/17/1912 |
Archibald Cox |
1st Watergate special prosecutor |
| 5/17/1912 |
Clarence Ace Parker |
NFL quarterback Brooklyn |
| 5/17/1923 |
Birgit Nilsson |
soprano |
| 5/17/1936 |
Dennis Hopper |
an easy rider |
| 5/17/1956 |
Sugar Ray Leonard |
boxer |
| 1830-05-18 |
Karl Goldmark |
Hungarian composer |
| 1836-05-18 |
Wilhelm Steinitz |
of Austria |
| 1850-05-18 |
Oliver Heaviside |
physicist predicted existance of ionosphere |
| 1865-05-18 |
William Heinemann |
English publisher |
| 1868-05-18 |
Nicholas II |
the last Russian tsar 1894-1917 |
| 1872-05-18 |
Bertrand Russell |
British mathematician |
| 1883-05-18 |
Walter Gropius |
German Bauhaus architect |
| 1885-05-18 |
Eurico Gaspar Dutra |
president of Brazil 1945-50 |
| 1891-05-18 |
Rudolf Carnap |
German Logical Positivist philosopher |
| 5/18/1900 |
Sarah Miriam Peale |
American portrait painter |
| 5/18/1902 |
Meredith Willson |
musician-composer The Music Man |
| 5/18/1904 |
Jacob K. Javits |
R |
| 5/18/1912 |
Perry Como |
singer |
| 5/18/1917 |
Dame Margot Fonteyn |
English ballerina |
| 5/18/1918 |
John Paul II |
264th Roman Catholic pope 1978- |
| 5/18/1922 |
Bill Macy |
Actor |
| 5/18/1930 |
Pernell Roberts |
Actor Adam Cartwright |
| 5/18/1946 |
Reggie Jackson |
Yankees |
| 5/18/1950 |
Rodney Milburn |
Jr. |
| 5/18/1956 |
Sugar Ray Leonard |
boxer |
| 1795-05-19 |
John Hopkins |
Philanthropist |
| 1890-05-19 |
Ho Chi Minh |
trail blazer |
| 5/19/1925 |
Malcolm X |
Muslim |
| 5/19/1935 |
David Hartman |
TV personality |
| 5/19/1941 |
Nora Ephron |
NY |
| 5/19/1947 |
Glenn Close |
Actress |
| 5/19/1952 |
Grace Jones |
in Jamaica |
| 1750-05-20 |
Stephen Girard |
bailed out U.S. bonds during War of 1812 |
| 1768-05-20 |
Dolly Dandridge Payne Madison |
first lady |
| 1799-05-20 |
Honore de Balzac |
French novelist Pere Goriot |
| 1806-05-20 |
John Stuart Mill |
philosopher |
| 1818-05-20 |
William George Fargo |
helped to found Wells |
| 1822-05-20 |
Frederic Passy |
cowinner of 1st Nobel Peace Prize 1901 |
| 1882-05-20 |
Sigrid Undset |
Norweg. novelist Kristin Lavransdatter Nobel28 |
| 1890-05-20 |
Beniamino Gigli |
Italian tenor |
| 1894-05-20 |
Adela Rogers St. Johns |
journalist |
| 5/20/1901 |
Max Euwe |
of the Netherlands |
| 5/20/1908 |
Jimmy Stewart |
Actor |
| 5/20/1913 |
William Hewlett |
cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co |
| 5/20/1915 |
Moshe Dayan |
Israeli general & politician |
| 5/20/1919 |
George Gobel |
Comedian |
| 5/20/1933 |
Constance Towers |
|
| 5/20/1934 |
Alexei A. Leonov |
Soviet cosmonaut Voskhod 2 |
| 5/20/1940 |
Sadaharu Oh |
of Yomiuri Giants Japan |
| 5/20/1944 |
Joe Cocker |
in Engl |
| 5/20/1946 |
Cher Bono |
California “I got you babe” |
| 5/20/1958 |
Ron Reagan Jr. |
Presidents son |
| 5/20/1958 |
Jane Wiedlin |
GoGos |
| 5/20/1966 |
Mindy Cohn |
LA Facts of Life |
| 0427-05-21 |
Plato Aristocles |
in Athens? 427 BC |
| 1471-05-21 |
Albrecht Durer |
great German Renaissance painter |
| 1527-05-21 |
Philip II |
king of Spain 1556-98 and Portugal 1580-98 |
| 1584-05-21 |
A. Durer |
|
| 1688-05-21 |
Alexander Pope |
poet The Rape of the Lock |
| 1780-05-21 |
Elizabeth Fry |
Quaker minister |
| 1834-05-21 |
Charles-Albert Gobat |
Swiss politician |
| 1844-05-21 |
Henri Rousseau |
French na‹ve painter |
| 1851-05-21 |
Leon Bourgeois |
French politician |
| 1860-05-21 |
Willam Einthoven |
invented the electrocardiograph |
| 1865-05-21 |
C.J. Thomsen |
Danish archeologist |
| 1878-05-21 |
Glenn Curtis |
aircraft pioneer |
| 1898-05-21 |
Armand Hammer |
millionaire industrialist |
| 5/21/1904 |
Fats Waller |
jazz pianist |
| 5/21/1904 |
Robert Montgomery |
Actor |
| 5/21/1916 |
Harold Robbins |
author Moneychangers |
| 5/21/1917 |
Dennis Day |
singer |
| 5/21/1917 |
Raymond Burr |
Actor Perry Mason |
| 5/21/1921 |
Andrey Sakharov |
Soviet physicist |
| 5/21/1952 |
Mr T |
|
| 1665-05-22 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
in Eisenach |
| 1813-05-22 |
Richard Wagner |
composer The Ring |
| 1828-05-22 |
Albrecht Grafe |
pioneer eye surgeon |
| 1844-05-22 |
Mary Cassatt |
American Impressionist painter |
| 1859-05-22 |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice |
| 1895-05-22 |
Jiddu Krishnamurti |
Indian spiritual philosopher |
| 5/22/1907 |
Lord Laurence Olivier |
stage & screen Actor Rebecca |
| 5/22/1920 |
Thomas Gold |
established the steady-state theory of the universe |
| 5/22/1922 |
Judith Crist |
critic |
| 5/22/1922 |
Satyajat Ray |
Indian film director |
| 5/22/1924 |
Charles Aznavour |
singer |
| 5/22/1927 |
Michael Constantine |
|
| 5/22/1934 |
Peter Nero |
pianist |
| 5/22/1938 |
Frank Converse |
|
| 5/22/1938 |
Richard Benjamin |
Actor |
| 5/22/1938 |
Susan Strasberg |
in NYC |
| 5/22/1940 |
Michael Sarrazin |
Actor |
| 5/22/1941 |
Paul Winfield |
|
| 5/22/1942 |
Barbara Parkins |
in England |
| 5/22/1943 |
Tommy John |
Yankee & Dodger pitcher |
| 1707-05-23 |
Carolus LinnΓÇÿus |
biological classifier |
| 1734-05-23 |
Friedrich Anton Mesmer |
German physician |
| 1844-05-23 |
Abdul-Bah |
|
| 1883-05-23 |
Douglas Fairbanks |
1st & greatest of Hollywoods swashbucklers |
| 1891-05-23 |
Par Lagerkvist |
Swedish novelist |
| 5/23/1903 |
Walter Reisch |
US screenwriter Ninotchka |
| 5/23/1908 |
John Bardeen |
physicist Nobel 1956 |
| 5/23/1910 |
Artie Shaw Arthur Arshawsky |
band leader and husband |
| 5/23/1919 |
Betty Garrett |
in St Joseph Mo |
| 5/23/1923 |
Alicia de Larrocha |
Pianist |
| 5/23/1928 |
Rosemary Clooney |
in Kentucky |
| 5/23/1931 |
Barbara Barrie |
in Chicago |
| 5/23/1933 |
Joan Collins |
in London |
| 5/23/1943 |
John Newcombe |
Australian tennis pro |
| 5/23/1949 |
Alan Garc¡a Perez |
pres of Peru 1985- |
| 5/23/1951 |
Anatoliy Karpov |
of USSR |
| 5/23/1952 |
Boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler |
in NJ |
| 1544-05-24 |
William Gilbert |
pioneer researcher into magnetism |
| 1743-05-24 |
Jean-Paul Marat |
French revolutionist |
| 1816-05-24 |
Emanuel Leutze |
American painter Washington Crossing the Delaware |
| 1819-05-24 |
Queen Victoria |
1837-1901 |
| 1895-05-24 |
Samuel I. Newhouse |
American millionaire publisher |
| 5/24/1905 |
Mikhail Sholokhov |
novelist And Quiet Flows the Don Nobel 1965 |
| 5/24/1909 |
Wilbur Mills |
former U.S. congressman |
| 5/24/1914 |
Lilli Palmer |
German Actress The Gentle Sex |
| 5/24/1918 |
Coleman Young |
civil rights leader |
| 5/24/1923 |
Siobhan McKenna |
Irish stage Actress Saint Joan |
| 5/24/1932 |
Elaine Malbin |
opera singer |
| 5/24/1934 |
Mayor Jane Byrne |
of Chicago |
| 5/24/1941 |
Bob Dylan |
in Minnesota |
| 5/24/1943 |
Gary Burghoff |
M*A*S*H |
| 5/24/1944 |
Patti Labelle |
|
| 5/24/1945 |
Priscilla Presley |
wife of Elvis |
| 1803-05-25 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
American essayist |
| 1847-05-25 |
John Alexander Dowie |
Elijah the Restorer |
| 1865-05-25 |
John R. Mott |
worked in internatl church movements Nobel 1946 |
| 1886-05-25 |
Philip Murray |
founder of Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| 1889-05-25 |
Igor Sikorsky |
developed a working helicopter |
| 1898-05-25 |
Bennett Cerf |
publisher |
| 1898-05-25 |
Gene Tunney |
world heavyweight boxing champion 1926-30 |
| 5/25/1917 |
Theodore Hesburgh |
ex-president of Notre Dame |
| 5/25/1918 |
Claude Aikins |
Actor |
| 5/25/1925 |
Jeanne Crain |
in Barstow Calif |
| 5/25/1926 |
Miles Davis |
trumpeter |
| 5/25/1927 |
Robert Ludlum |
spy novelist |
| 5/25/1929 |
Beverly Sills |
in Brooklyn NY |
| 5/25/1932 |
Georgi M. Grechko |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 17 |
| 5/25/1935 |
Barbara Harris |
in Illinois |
| 5/25/1943 |
Leslie Uggams |
singer NYC |
| 5/25/1947 |
Karen Valentine |
in Santa Rosa California |
| 5/25/1947 |
Jessi Colter |
in Phoenix Arizona |
| 5/25/1955 |
Connie Sellecca |
in Bronx |
| 1689-05-26 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
English essayist |
| 1799-05-26 |
Alexandr Pushkin |
Russian writer Eugene Onegin |
| 1886-05-26 |
Al Jolson |
jazz singer |
| 5/26/1907 |
John Wayne |
shootist |
| 5/26/1908 |
Robert Morley |
English Actor |
| 5/26/1910 |
Laurance Rockefeller |
chairman |
| 5/26/1918 |
A. Pushkin |
|
| 5/26/1920 |
Peggy Lee |
in ND is that all there is |
| 5/26/1923 |
James Arness |
Actor Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke |
| 5/26/1939 |
Teresa Stratas |
in Toronto Ontario |
| 5/26/1947 |
Sherry Bain |
in Califor |
| 5/26/1949 |
Dale Haddon |
in Montrael Canada |
| 5/26/1949 |
Pam Grier |
|
| 5/26/1949 |
Hank Williams |
Jr. |
| 5/26/1951 |
Sally K. Ride |
1st American woman in space STS-7 |
| 5/26/1962 |
Genie Francis |
in Los Angeles |
| 1332-05-27 |
Ibn Khaldun |
Arab historian |
| 1626-05-27 |
William II |
prince of Orange |
| 1818-05-27 |
Amelia Bloomer |
suffragette known for her pantaloons |
| 1819-05-27 |
Julia Ward Howe |
author |
| 1836-05-27 |
Jay Gould |
American railroad executive |
| 1837-05-27 |
Wild Bill Hickok |
|
| 1867-05-27 |
Arnold Bennett |
English novelist |
| 1878-05-27 |
Isadora Duncan |
US interpretive dancer |
| 1894-05-27 |
Dashiell Hammett |
author who created the hard-boiled detective |
| 5/27/1907 |
Rachel Carson |
ecologist |
| 5/27/1908 |
Harold Rome |
composer |
| 5/27/1911 |
Hubert Humphrey |
D-Minn. |
| 5/27/1911 |
Vincent Price |
Actor The Fly |
| 5/27/1912 |
John Cheever |
writer Wapshot Chronicle |
| 5/27/1912 |
Sam Snead |
pro golfer |
| 5/27/1915 |
Herman Wouk |
American author Caine Mutiny |
| 5/27/1918 |
Yasuhiro Nakasone |
Japanese PM 1982-87 |
| 5/27/1922 |
Christopher Lee |
Actor |
| 5/27/1923 |
Henry Kissinger |
secretary of state |
| 5/27/1935 |
Lee Merriweather |
Miss America |
| 5/27/1943 |
Cilia Black |
in Liverpool England |
| 5/27/1944 |
Christopher J. Dodd |
D |
| 1660-05-28 |
George I |
king of England 1714-27 |
| 1738-05-28 |
Dr Joseph Guillotin |
guess what he invented |
| 1759-05-28 |
William Pitt the Younger |
C |
| 1807-05-28 |
Louis Agassiz |
Swiss naturalist |
| 1888-05-28 |
Jim Thorpe |
chosen greatest U.S. athlete of the 1st half century |
| 5/28/1906 |
Phil Regan |
singer |
| 5/28/1908 |
Ian Fleming |
gave James Bond a job Goldfinger |
| 5/28/1912 |
Patrick White |
Australian novelist Happy Valley Nobel 1973 |
| 5/28/1923 |
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao |
Indian film star |
| 5/28/1931 |
Caroll Baker |
in Pennsylvania |
| 5/28/1934 |
Dionne quintuplets |
Annette |
| 5/28/1944 |
Gladys Knight |
in Atlanta Ga |
| 5/28/1946 |
Madeline LeRouix |
in Wyoming |
| 5/28/1947 |
Sondra Locke |
in Shellyville Tennessee |
| 1630-05-29 |
Charles II |
king of England 1660-85 |
| 1736-05-29 |
Patrick Henry |
American revolutionary leader |
| 1826-05-29 |
Ebenezer Butterick |
inventor of the tissue paper dress pattern |
| 1874-05-29 |
English novelist |
GK Chesterton |
| 1874-05-29 |
G.K. Chesterton |
English writer |
| 1880-05-29 |
Oswald Spengler |
German philosopher The Decline of the West |
| 1894-05-29 |
Bea Lillie |
comedian |
| 1897-05-29 |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
Movie composer |
| 5/29/1903 |
Leslie Townes Bob Hope |
entertainer famous prrofile |
| 5/29/1917 |
John F Kennedy |
35th President 1961-1963 |
| 5/29/1922 |
Yannis Xenakis |
Rumanian composer |
| 5/29/1939 |
Al Unser |
auto racer |
| 5/29/1954 |
Reby Jackson |
Singer |
| 5/29/1956 |
LaToya Jackson |
Singer |
| 5/29/1963 |
Lisa Whelchel |
in Ft Worth Tx Facts of Life |
| 1672-05-30 |
Peter I the Great |
tsar of Russia 1682-1725 |
| 1757-05-30 |
Henry Addington |
Viscount Sidmouth C |
| 1835-05-30 |
Alfred Austin |
poet laureate of England |
| 1846-05-30 |
Peter Carl Faberge |
Russian goldsmith |
| 1888-05-30 |
James A. Farley |
U.S. postmaster general 1932-38 |
| 5/30/1902 |
Stepin Fetchit |
Actor In Old Kentucky |
| 5/30/1904 |
Ernesto de la Guardia Jr. |
president of Panama 1956-60 |
| 5/30/1908 |
Mel Blanc |
the voice of Bugs Bunny |
| 5/30/1909 |
Benny Goodman |
swinger |
| 5/30/1926 |
Christine Jorgensen |
Pioneer transsexual |
| 5/30/1927 |
Clint Walker |
Actor |
| 5/30/1936 |
Keir Dullea |
Actor 2001 |
| 5/30/1939 |
Michael J. Pollard |
Actor |
| 5/30/1943 |
Gale Sayers |
NFL running back Chicago Bears |
| 1469-05-31 |
Manuel I |
king of Portugal 1495-1521 during era of exploration |
| 1819-05-31 |
Walt Whitman |
American poet Leaves of Grass in West Hills |
| 1857-05-31 |
Pius XI |
259th Roman Catholic pope 1922-39 |
| 1872-05-31 |
Heath Robinson |
English illustrator |
| 1887-05-31 |
Saint-John Perse |
French poet |
| 1898-05-31 |
Norman Vincent Peale |
clergyman |
| 5/31/1908 |
Don Ameche |
Actor Cocoon |
| 5/31/1912 |
Henry Jackson |
D |
| 5/31/1920 |
Edward Bennett Williams |
attorney |
| 5/31/1923 |
Rainier III |
prince of Monaco 1949- |
| 5/31/1929 |
Elaine Stewart |
|
| 5/31/1930 |
Clint Eastwood |
Actor/mayor Dirty Harry |
| 5/31/1933 |
Shirley Verrett |
American mezzo-soprano New Orleans La |
| 5/31/1938 |
Peter Yarrow |
of Peter |
| 5/31/1939 |
Terry Waite |
Church envoy |
| 5/31/1941 |
Johnny Paycheck |
Country Singer |
| 5/31/1943 |
Joe Namath |
NY Jets QB |
| 5/31/1943 |
Sharon Gless |
in LA |
| 5/31/1950 |
Tom Berenger |
|
| 5/31/1950 |
Gregory Harrison |
|
| 5/31/1965 |
Brooke Shields |
Actress/model NYC |
