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May 1, 1909 - Kate Smith, singer

May 1, 1916 - Glenn Ford, actor

May 1, 1918 - Jack Paar, TV personality

May 1, 1925 - Scott Carpenter, astronaut

May 1, 1945 - Rita Coolidge, singer

May 1, 1960 - Steve Cauthen, jockey

May 1, 1967 - Tim McGraw, country western singer

May 2, 1729 - Catherine II Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great)

May2, 1837 - Henry Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order", the standard for parliamentary procedures.

May 2, 1860 - Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism

May 2, 1892 - Baron Von Richtofen, Germany's' WWI "Red Baron"

May 2, 1903 - Benjamin Spock, physician, author, child-rearing expert

May 2, 1904 - Bing Crosby, singer, actor

May 2, 1945 - Bianca Jagger, actress, ex-wife of singer Mick Jagger

May 2, 1946 - Lesley Gore, singer

May 2, 1972 - Dwayne Johnson, wrestler, actor

May 3, 1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Renaissance writer

May 3, 1919 - Pete Seeger, singer, songwriter

May 3, 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, champion boxer

May 3, 1933 - James Brown, singer songwriter, producer, actor

May 3, 1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, singer

May 3, 1937 - Frankie Valli, singer, the "Four Seasons"

May 3, 1946 - Greg Gumbel, sportscaster

May 3, 1951 - Christopher Cross, Grammy winning singer

May 3, 1964 - Wynona Judd, country singer

May 3, 1974 - Jewel Kilcher, singer

May 12, 1820 - Florence Nightengale, English nurse and public health activist

May 4, 1889 - Francis Joseph Spellman, archbishop of New York

May 4, 1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Dutch actress

May 4, 1930 - Roberta Peters, opera singer

May 4, 1959 - Randy Travis, country singer

May 4, 1979 - Lance Bass, singer, member of "NSYNC"

May  4, 1989 - Rory McIlroy, Irish Golfer

May 5, 1818 - Karl Marx, socialist, political theorist

May 5, 1913 - Tyrone Power, actor

May 5, 1926 - Ann B. Davis, actress

May 5, 1934 - John J. Sweeney, labor leader

May 5, 1938 - Michael Murphy, actor

May 5, 1942 - Tammy wynette, country singer

May 5, 1943 - Michael Palin, actor, comedian, member of Monty Python

May 5, 1959 -  Brian Williams, journalist, TV news anchor.

May 5, 1981 - Danielle Fishel, Actress, "Topanga" on TV series "Boy Meets World"

May 5, 1988 - Adele, British singer-songwriter

May 6, 1856 - Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founded psychoanalysis

May 6, 1856 - Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, first to reach the North Pole

May 6, 1895 - Rudolph Valentino, actor

May 6, 1915 - Orson Welles, actor, director, "War of the Worlds" radio hoax on October 30, 1938

May 6, 1931 - Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball player

May 6, 1945 - Bob Seger, singer, songwriter

May 6, 1953 - Tony Blair, British Prime Minister

May 6, 1960 - Roma Downey, actress

May 6, 1961 - George Clooney, actor, director, producer

May 7, 1812 - Robert Browning, poet

May 7, 1833 - Johannes Brahms, German music composer

May 7, 1840 - Peter Tchaikovsky, composer

May 7, 1901 - Gary Cooper, actor

May 7, 1922 - Darren McGavin, actor

May 7, 1933 - Johnny Unitas, NFL quarterback

May 7, 1945 - Robin Strasser, actress

May 7, 1950 - Tim Russert, TV journalist

May 8, 1828 - Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross

May 8, 1829 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist, composer

May 8, 1884 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd U.S. President (1845-1853)

May 8, 1895 - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, religious leader , radio/TV

May 8, 1926 - Don Rickles, comedian/actor

May 8, 1932 - Sonny Liston, boxing champion

May 8, 1940 - Ricky Nelson, singer, actor

May 8, 1943 - Toni Tennille, singer

May 8, 1964 - Melissa Gilbert, actress

May 8, 1975 - Enrique Iglesias, singer

May 9, 1800 - John Brown, abolitionist, led attack on Harpers Ferry

May 9, 1860 - Sir James M. Barrie, novelist, children's author

May 9, 1914 - Hank Snow, country singer

May 9, 1918 - Mike Wallace, TV journalist

May 9, 1936 - Albert Finney, actor

May 9, 1946 - Candice Bergen, actress (Beverly Hills, CA)

May 9, 1949 - Billy Joel, singer, songwriter

May 10, 1838 - John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln

May 10, 1899 - Fred Astaire, dancer/actor, born Frederick Austerlitz

May 10, 1902 - David O. Selznick, producer

May 10, 1944 - Judith Jamison, dancer/choreographer

May 10, 1960 - Bono (Vox), singer, member of U2

May 10, 1966 - Jason Brooks, actor

May 11, 1888 - Irving Berlin, songwriter

May 11, 1891 - Henry Morgenthau Jr., conservationist

May 11, 1911 - Phil Silvers, comic actor

May 11, 1912 - Foster Brooks, comedian

May 11, 1918 - Richard Feynman, physicist

May 11, 1933 - Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader

May 11, 1946 - Robert Jarvik, physician, invented the artificial heart

May 11, 1982 - Jonathan Jackson, actor

May 12, 1812 - Edward Lear, artist, author of light verse

May 12, 1820 - Florence Nightingale, British pioneer in the field of nursing

May 12, 1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, politician/historian

May 12, 1907 - Katharine Hepburn, actress

May 12, 1925 - Yogi Berra, baseball player, manager

May 12, 1928 - Burt Bacharach, songwriter

May 12, 1936 - Tom Snyder, broadcaster, journalist

May 12, 1937 - George Carlin, comedian

May 12, 1948 - Steve Winwood, musician, singer

May 12, 1950 - Bruce Boxleitner, actor

May 12, 1962 - Emilio Estevez, actor

May 12, 1966 - Stephen Baldwin, actor

May 12, 1973 - MacKenzie Astin, actor

May 12, 1978 - Jason Biggs, actor

May 13, 1914 - Joe Louis, boxing champion

May 13, 1923 - Beatrice Arthur, actress

May 13, 1927 - Herbert Ross, actor, choreographer, director

May 13, 1950 - Stevie Wonder, singer, musician

May 13, 1961 - Dennis Rodman, NBA basketball player

May 13, 1964 - Stephen Colbert, television talk show host on The Late Show.

May 13, 1977 - Samantha Morton, actress

May 14, 1686 - Gabriel D. Fahrenheit, physicist, mercury thermometers, created Fahrenheit scale

May 14, 1914 - Joe Louis, American boxer

May 14, 1925 - Patrice Munsel, opera singer

May 14, 1944 - George Lucas, filmmaker, Star Wars creator

May 14, 1948 - Meg Foster, actress

May 14, 1955 - Dennis Martinez, baseball pitcher

May 14, 1969 - Cate Blanchett, actress "Lord of the Rings"

May 14, 1984 - Mark Zuckerberg, Cofounder and CEO of Facebook.

May 15, 1856 - L. Frank Baum, children's author

May 15, 1859 - Pierre Curie, chemist, research on radioactivity

May 15, 1915 - Paul A. Samuelson, economist

May 15, 1923 - Richard Avedon, photographer

May 15, 1937 - Madeleine Albright, secretary of state

May 15, 1951 - Chazz Palminteri, actor, playwright, screenwriter

May 15, 1953 - George Brett, baseball player

May 15, 1955 - Lee Horsley, actor

May 15, 1969 - Emmitt Smith, Hall of Fame NFL Running Back

May 16, 1905 - Henry Fonda, actor

May 16, 1913 - Woody Herman, musician, bandleader

May 16, 1919 - Liberace, pianist

May 16, 1928 - Billy Martin, fiery baseball player, manager

May 16, 1929 - Adrienne Rich, writer

May 16, 1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor, "James Bond", Mama Mia

May 16, 1955 - Olga Korbut, Olympic gymnast champion

May 16, 1955 - Debra Winger, actress

May 16, 1966 - Janet Jackson, pop rock singer, Michael Jackson's sister

May 16, 1971 - David Boreanaz, actor, Television series Bones and Seal Team.

May 16, 1973 - Tori Spelling, actress

May 17, 1749 - Edward Jenner, physician, pioneered vaccinations

May 17, 1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress

May 17, 1936 - Dennis Hopper, actor

May 17, 1956 - Sugar Ray Leonard, champion boxer

May 17, 1972 - Mia Hamm, Hall of Fame soccer player

May 18, 1897 - Frank Capra, Academy Award winning director

May 18, 1904 - Jacob Javits, New York State senator

May 18, 1912 - Perry Como, singer

May 18, 1920 - Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), Catholic Pope

May 18, 1930 - Pernell Roberts, actor

May 18, 1931 - Robert Morse, actor

May 18, 1937 - Brooks Robinson, MLB player

May 18, 1946 - Reggie Jackson, MLB player, "Mr. October"

May 18, 1952 - George Strait, country singer

May 18, 1970 - Tina Fey, Actress, writer, SNL

May 19, 1890  - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader

May 19, 1925 - Malcolm X (Little), civil rights activist

May 19, 1934 - Jim Lehrer, TV journalist, author

May 19, 1935 - David Hartman, actor

May 19, 1939 - Francis Scobee, astronaut, died in Challenger Space Shuttle explosion

May 19, 1945 - Pete Townshend, musician, member of the "Who"

May 19, 1945 - Andre the Giant, French

May 19, 1968 - Kyle Eastwood, actor, son of Clint Eastwood

May 20, 1768 - Dolly Madison, First Lady of the U.S.

May 20, 1844 - Henri Rousseau, painter

May 20, 1908 - James Stewart, actor

May 20, 1944 - Joe Cocker, singer

May 20, 1946 - Cher, ageless singer, actress, producer

May 20, 1971 - Tony Stewart, race car driver

May 21, 1898 - Armand Hammer, industrialist, philanthropist

May 21, 1904 - Fats Waller, jazz pianist, songwriter

May 21, 1909 - Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, teacher, artist, created of Hummel figurines

May 21, 1916 - Harold Robbins, novelist

May 21, 1917 - Raymond Burr, actor, TV series of the same name, and "Ironsides"

May 21, 1921 - Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist

May 21, 1924 - Peggy Cass, Broadway actress, celebrity panelist on "What's My Line?" and "To Tell the Truth",

May 21, 1948 - Leo Sayer, singer, songwriter

May 21, 1951 - Al Franken, comedian, actor, writer

May 21, 1952 - Mr. T (Lawrence Tero), actor

May 21, 1956 - Judge Reinhold, actor

May 22, 1813 - Richard Wagner, composer

May 22, 1844 - Mary Cassatt, artist

May 22, 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer, detective stories

May 22, 1907 - Lord Laurence Olivier, actor, director

May 22, 1941 - Paul Winfield, actor

May 22, 1943 - Tommy John, baseball pitcher

May 22, 1959 - Morrissey, British pop star

May 23, 1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, actor

May 23, 1910 - Artie Shaw, musician, bandleader

May 23, 1920 - Helen O'Connell, singer

May 23, 1928 - Rosemary Clooney, singer

May 23, 1933 - Joan Collins, actress

May 23, 1936 - Charles Kimbrough, actor

May 23, 1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian Chess player

May 23, 1954 - Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxing champion boxer

May 23, 1958 - Drew Carey, actor, comedian

May 23, 1974 - Ken Jennings, Game show "Jeopardy" record winner 

May 24, 1819 - Queen Victoria, of Great Britain

May 24, 1941 - Bob Dylan, singer, songwriter

May 24, 1943 -  Gary Burghoff,  actor, won and Emmy for playing "Radar" on television series M*A*S*H

May 24, 1946 - Priscilla Presley, actress , ex-wife of Elvis Presley

May 24, 1965 - John C. Reilly, actor

May 25, 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet

May 25, 1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer

May 25, 1889  - Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer, developed helicopters

May 25, 1898 - Gene Tunney, champion boxer

May 25, 1943 - Leslie Uggams, singer

May 25, 1955 - Connie Sellecca, actress

May 25, 1969 - Anne Heche, actress

May 26, 1886 - Al Jolson, singer, actor

May 26, 1907 - John Wayne, actor, best known for westerns

May 26, 1912 - Jay Silverheels, actor, played "Tonto" on the television series "The Lone Ranger".

May 26, 1920 - Peggy Lee, singer

May 26, 1923 - James Arness, actor

May 26, 1928 - Jack Kevorkian, physician, and assisted suicides

May 26, 1939 - Brent Musberger, sportscaster, commentator

May 26, 1948 - Stevie Nicks, singer, songwriter, "Fleetwood Mac"

May 26, 1949 - Philip Michael Thomas, actor

May 26, 1949 - Hank Williams Jr., country singer

May 26, 1951 - Sally Ride, astronaut, 1st woman in space

May 27, 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, financier, railroad tycoon

May 27, 1837 - Wild Bill Hickock, frontiersman, lawman

May 27, 1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota senator, presidential nominee

May 27, 1911 - Vincent Price, actor

May 27, 1912 - Sam Snead, golfer

May 27, 1915 - Herman Wouk, novelist

May 27, 1923 - Henry Kissinger, U. S. Secretary of State

May 27, 1936 - Louis Gossett Jr., actor

May 28, 1888 - Jim Thorpe, Olympic champion pentathlete/decathlete

May 28, 1908 - Ian Fleming, novelist, creator of James Bond movies.

May 28, 1916 - Walker Percy, novelist

May 28, 1931 - Carroll Baker, actress

May 28, 1944 - Rudolph Giuliani, New York City mayor

May 28, 1944 - Gladys Knight, singer, "Gladys Knight and the Pips"

May 28, 1945 - John Fogerty, rock singer

May 29, 1736 - Patrick Henry, American politician

May 29, 1736 - Patrick Henry, Revolutionary War leader, orator

May 29, 1903 - Bob Hope, comedian, actor

May 29, 1917 - John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, assassinated in office(1960-1963)

May 29, 1939 - Al Unser Sr., auto racer

May 29, 1956 - La Toya Jackson, pop singer, sister of Michael Jackson

May 29, 1958 - Annette Bening, actress

May 29, 1961 - Melissa Etheridge, rock singer

May 29, 1975 - Melanie Janine Brown, singer, "Scary Spice" of the "Spice Girls"

May 30, 1672 - Peter I (Peter the Great), Emperor of Russia

May 30, 1846 - Peter Carl Faberge, jeweler

May 30, 1909 - Benny Goodman, bandleader, musician

May 30, 1943 - Gale Sayers, football player

May 30, 1944 - Meredith MacRae, actress

May 30, 1963 - Lisa Kudrow, actress

May 30, 1964 - Wynonna Judd, country singer

May 31, 1819 - Walt Whitman, poet

May 31, 1894 - Fred Allen, comedian

May 31, 1898 - Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, religious leader

May 31, 1908 - Don Ameche, actor

May 31, 1930 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director

May 31, 1938 - Peter Yarrow, singer/songwriter, "Peter, Paul, and Mary"

May 31, 1943 - Joe Namath, NFL quarterback

May 31, 1950 - Tom Berenger, actor

May 31, 1961 - Lea Thompson, actress

May 31, 1965 - Brooke Shields, actress, model

May 31, 1976 - Colin Ferrell, actor.

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