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Katharine Houghton Hepburn
(May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003)

was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned over six decades.
She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness,
cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed,
sophisticated women. Her work was in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary
drama, and earned her various accolades, including four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a
record for any performer. In 1999, Hepburn was named the greatest female star of classic
Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on
May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut, the second of six children. Her parents were
Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879–1962), a urologist at Hartford Hospital, and
Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951), a feminist campaigner.










Howard Kingsbury Smith
(May 12, 1914 – February 15, 2002)

was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator,
and film actor. He was one of the original members of the team of war correspondents
known as the Murrow Boys. Smith was born in Ferriday in Concordia Parish in eastern
Louisiana near Natchez, Mississippi.










Thomas James Snyder
(May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007)

was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his
late night talk shows Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on
CBS in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the prime time NBC News Update,
in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates in prime time.
Snyder was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Frank and Marie Snyder, who were of German,
Cornish, and Irish descent. He received a Catholic upbringing, attending St. Agnes Elementary
School and graduating from Jesuit-run Marquette University High School.









George Denis Patrick Carlin was born at New York Hospital in Manhattan on May 12, 1937, the
second of two sons born to Mary (née Bearey, 1896–1984) and Patrick John Carlin (1888–1945).
Carlin had an older brother, Patrick Jr. (1931–2022), who later had a major influence on his comedy.
His mother was born in New York City to Irish immigrants and his father was himself an Irish
immigrant from Cloghan, a village in County Donegal in Ulster, leading Carlin to later describe
himself as "fully Irish".









Bruce William Boxleitner
(born May 12, 1950)

is an American actor and science fiction and suspense writer. He is known for his leading roles in
the television series How the West Was Won, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Scarecrow and Mrs. King
(with Kate Jackson), and Babylon 5 (as John Sheridan in seasons 2–5, 1994–98). He is also known
for his dual role as the characters Alan Bradley and Tron in the 1982 Walt Disney Pictures film Tron,
a role which he reprised in the 2003 video game Tron 2.0, the 2006 Square-Enix/Disney crossover
game Kingdom Hearts II, the 2010 film sequel, Tron: Legacy and the animated series Tron: Uprising.
He co-starred in most of the Gambler films with Kenny Rogers, where his character provided comic relief.
Boxleitner was born on May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois.









Emilio Estevez (born May 12, 1962)

is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the son of actor Martin Sheen and the older brother of
Charlie Sheen. Estevez started his acting career in the 1980s and was a member of the acting troupe
the Brat Pack. He is notable for starring in The Outsiders (1983), The Breakfast Club (1985), and
Wisdom (1986). He is also known for appearing in Men at Work (1990), Freejack (1992),
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), Mission: Impossible (1996), Rated X (2000), and Bobby (2006)
(which he also wrote and directed). Estevez also starred in two film franchises: Young Guns (1988)
and its 1990 sequel, and The Mighty Ducks (1992–1996; 2021). Estevez was born in the Bronx,
the oldest child of artist Janet Sheen and actor Martin Sheen (legally Ramón Estévez). His siblings
are Ramon Estevez, Charlie Sheen (born Carlos Estévez), and Renée Estevez. Estevez's paternal
grandparents were Irish and Spanish immigrants. His father is a "devout Catholic"
and his mother is a "strict Southern Baptist."










Florence Nightingale OM RRC DStJ
(12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910)

was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to
prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which
she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates
by improving hygiene and living standards. Nightingale gave nursing a favourable reputation and
became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making
rounds of wounded soldiers at night.










Burt Freeman Bacharach
(May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023)

was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one
of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. Starting in the 1950s,
he composed hundreds of pop songs, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. Bacharach's music
is characterized by unusual chord progressions and time signature changes, influenced by his
background in jazz, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. He arranged,
conducted, and produced much of his recorded output. Over 1,000 different artists have recorded
Bacharach's songs. Bacharach was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in
Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, graduating from Forest Hills High School in 1946.

Norman Jesse Whitfield
(May 12, 1940 – September 16, 2008)

was an American songwriter and producer, who worked with Berry Gordy's Motown labels during
the 1960s. He has been credited as one of the creators of the Motown Sound and of the late-1960s
subgenre of psychedelic soul. During his 25-year career, Whitfield co-wrote and produced many
enduring hits for Motown artists, including "Ain't Too Proud to Beg", "(I Know) I'm Losing You",
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Cloud Nine", "I Can't Get Next to You", "War",
"Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)",
"Smiling Faces Sometimes", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone". Whitfield worked extensively with the
Temptations as a producer and songwriter, producing eight of their albums between 1969 and 1973.
He then started his own label, Whitfield Records, in 1975, which yielded the Rose Royce hit
"Car Wash". Alongside his Motown lyrical collaborator Barrett Strong, he was inducted into the
Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2004. He wrote or co-wrote 61 hits on the UK charts and 92 on the
US charts. Whitfield was born and raised in Harlem, New York, and spent much of his teen years
in local pool halls.










William Lance Swan
(born May 12, 1942)

is an American country singer-songwriter, best known for his 1974 single "I Can Help".
Swan was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. It was rumored that Swan worked
as a security guard at Graceland. While he was friends with one of the security guards he
never worked at Graceland. He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, which enabled him to
write hit country songs for numerous artists, including Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings,
and Mel Tillis. In 1969, Swan first took on the role of record producer, producing
Tony Joe White's Top Ten hit "Polk Salad Annie". Swan also played bass guitar for
Kris Kristofferson and then signed a solo recording deal with Monument Records.










Stephen Lawrence Winwood
(born 12 May 1948)

is an English musician, singer and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues,
blues rock and pop rock. Though primarily a guitarist, keyboard player and vocalist prominent for
his distinctive, soulful high tenor voice, Winwood plays other instruments proficiently, including drums,
mandolin, bass and saxophone. Winwood was an integral member of three groups of the 1960s and
1970s: the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith. Winwood was born on 12 May 1948 in
Handsworth, Birmingham.











William Haislip Squier
(born May 12, 1950)

is an American rock musician and singer who had a string of arena rock and crossover hits in the
early 1980s. His best-known songs include "The Stroke", "Lonely Is the Night", "My Kinda Lover",
"In the Dark", "Rock Me Tonite", "Everybody Wants You", "Emotions in Motion", "Love Is the Hero",
"Don't Say You Love Me" and "The Big Beat". Squier's best-selling album, 1981's Don't Say No, is
considered a landmark release within the arena rock genre, bridging the gap between power pop
and hard rock. Squier was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts.










Anthony Frank Hawk
(born May 12, 1968),

nicknamed Birdman, is an American professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and the owner of the
skateboard company Birdhouse. A pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding, Hawk completed the
first documented "900" skateboarding trick in 1999. He also licensed a skateboarding video game
series named after him published by Activision that same year. He retired from competing
professionally in 2003 and is regarded as one of the most influential skateboarders of all time.
Tony Hawk was born on May 12, 1968, in San Diego, California, to Nancy (1924–2019) and
Frank Peter Rupert Hawk, and was raised in San Diego.

Beatrice Arthur
(born Bernice Frankel; May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009)

was an American actress and comedian. Arthur began her career on stage in 1947,
attracting critical acclaim before achieving worldwide recognition for her work on television
beginning in the 1970s as Maude Findlay in the popular sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1972)
and Maude (1972–1978) and later in the 1980s and 1990s as Dorothy Zbornak on
The Golden Girls (1985–1992). Bernice Frankel was born on May 13, 1922, in the Brooklyn
borough of New York City, to Rebecca (née Pressner, born in Austria) and Philip Frankel
(born in Poland). Arthur was raised in a Jewish home with her older sister Gertrude and
younger sister Marian (1926–2014).










Buck Taylor
(born May 13, 1938)

is an American actor and artist, best known for his role as gunsmith-turned-deputy Newly O'Brian
in the CBS television series Gunsmoke. He is the son of Florence Gertrude Heffernan and character
actor Dub Taylor. Taylor graduated from North Hollywood High School, where he became a talented
gymnast. Actor Guinn "Big Boy" Williams sponsored him to go to the U.S. Olympic Trials as a gymnast,
but he failed to qualify for the 1960 Summer Olympics. He served two years in the United States Navy.









Stephen Tyrone Colbert
(born May 13, 1964)

is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is
best known for hosting the satirical Comedy Central program The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014
and the CBS talk program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert beginning in September 2015.
Colbert was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of eleven children in a Catholic family.








Robert Rennick Dalton
(May 13, 1869 – October 5, 1892)

was an American outlaw in the American Old West. Beginning in 1891, he led the Dalton Gang,
whose varying members included three of his brothers. They were known for robbing banks,
stagecoaches and trains, primarily in Kansas and Oklahoma Territory, quickly attracting
pursuit by lawmen. Born in 1869 in Cass County, Missouri, Bob was one of nine sons of
Lewis Dalton, from Kentucky and Jackson County, Missouri, and his wife Adeline Lee (née Younger).









James Warren Jones
(May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978)

was an American preacher, political activist, and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple,
a doomsday cult, between 1955 and 1978. In what he called "revolutionary suicide", Jones
and the members of his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle
commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Jones and the events that occurred
at Jonestown have had a defining influence on society's perception of cults. James Warren Jones
was born on May 13, 1931, in the rural community of Crete, Indiana, to James Thurman Jones
(October 21, 1887 – May 29, 1951) and Lynetta Jones née Putnam
(April 16, 1902 – December 10, 1977). Jones was of Irish and Welsh descent; he and his
mother both claimed to also have some Cherokee ancestry, but there is no evidence of this.









Stevland Hardaway Morris
(né Judkins; May 13, 1950),

known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter. He is credited as a
pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues,
pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, Wonder's use of synthesizers and
other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of R&B. He
also helped drive such genres into the album era, crafting his LPs as cohesive and consistent,
in addition to socially conscious statements with complex compositions. Blind since shortly
after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age
of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder was born
Stevland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, Michigan, on May 13, 1950, the third of five children
born to Lula Mae Hardaway, and the second of Hardaway's two children with Calvin Judkins.









Dennis Keith Rodman
(born May 13, 1961)

is an American former professional basketball player. Known for his fierce defensive and
rebounding abilities, his biography on the official NBA website states that he is "arguably
the best rebounding forward in NBA history". Nicknamed "the Worm", he played for the
Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks
of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Rodman played at the small forward position
in his early years before becoming a power forward. Rodman was born in Trenton, New Jersey,
the son of Shirley and Philander Rodman, Jr., an Air Force enlisted member, who later fought
in the Vietnam War. When he was young, his father left his family, eventually settling in the
Philippines. Rodman has many brothers and sisters: according to his father, he has either
26 or 28 siblings on his father's side. However, Rodman has stated that he is the oldest
of a total of 47 children.

Richard Lewis Deacon
(May 14, 1922 – August 8, 1984)

was an American television and motion picture actor, best known for playing
supporting roles in television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show,
Leave It To Beaver, and The Jack Benny Program along with minor roles in
films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). Although he was born in Philadelphia,
he and his family later moved to Binghamton, New York, living on the west
side of that city. He attended West Junior High and Binghamton Central High School,
where he met fellow Binghamton resident Rod Serling.








George Walton Lucas Jr.
(born May 14, 1944)

is an American filmmaker. Lucas is best known for creating the Star Wars and
Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic
and THX. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The
Walt Disney Company in 2012. Lucas is one of history's most financially successful
filmmakers and has been nominated for four Academy Awards. His films are
among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office,
adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is considered to be one of the most
significant figures of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement, and a pioneer
of the modern blockbuster. Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, California,
the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas (née Bomberger) and George Walton Lucas Sr.,
and is of German, Swiss-German, English, Scottish, and distant Dutch and
French descent.








Catherine Elise Blanchett AC
(born 14 May 1969)

is an Australian actor. Regarded as one of the best performers of her generation, she
is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and stage.
She has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four
British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, in addition to
nominations for a Tony Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Catherine Elise Blanchett was born on 14 May 1969 in the Ivanhoe suburb of
Melbourne. Her Australian mother, June (née Gamble), was a property developer
and teacher; and her American father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett Jr., a Texas native,
was a United States Navy Chief Petty Officer who became an advertising executive.










Michael Allen Inez
(born May 14, 1966)

is an American rock musician best known for his role as the bassist of Alice in Chains
since 1993. He is also recognized for his work with Ozzy Osbourne from 1989–1993.
Inez has also been associated with Slash's Snakepit, Black Label Society, Spys4Darwin,
and Heart. He is of Filipino descent. Inez has earned seven Grammy Award nominations
as a member of Alice in Chains.









Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
(born May 14, 1984)

is an American business magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known
for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms
(formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is the executive chairman, chief executive officer,
and controlling shareholder. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on on May 14, 1984, in
White Plains, New York to psychiatrist Karen (née Kempner) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg.

Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr.
(May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994)

was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on
Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair.
He then gained worldwide fame in three Orson Welles films: Citizen Kane (1941),
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten
was also credited with the screenplay.










Richard Joseph Daley
(May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976)

was an American politician who served as the mayor of Chicago from 1955, and the chairman
of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953, until his death. He has
been called "the last of the big city bosses" who controlled and mobilized American cities.
Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working-class, heavily Irish-American
South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport, where he lived his entire life. He was the patriarch
of the Daley family, whose members include Richard M. Daley, another former mayor of Chicago;
William M. Daley, a former United States Secretary of Commerce; John P. Daley, a member of
the Cook County Board of Commissioners; and Patrick Daley Thompson, a former alderman
of the Chicago City Council. Richard J. Daley was born in Bridgeport, a working-class neighborhood
of Chicago. He was the only child of Michael and Lillian (Dunne) Daley, whose families had both
arrived from the Old Parish area, near Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, during the Great Famine.









Richard Edward Arnold
(May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008)

was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound
(country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country
music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of
the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966),
Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."
Arnold was born on May 15, 1918, on a farm near Henderson, Tennessee. His father, a sharecropper,
played the fiddle, while his mother played guitar. Arnold's father died when he was just 11, forcing
him to leave school and begin helping on the family farm.









Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
(born Marie Jana Körbelová, later Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022)

was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of
state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Albright was the first woman to hold that post.
Albright was born Marie Jana Körbelová in 1937 in the Smíchov district of Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Her parents were Josef Körbel, a Czech diplomat, and Anna Körbel (née Spieglová). At the time of
Albright's birth, Czechoslovakia had been independent for less than 20 years, having gained
independence from Austria-Hungary after World War I.









Gunilla Hutton
(born May 15, 1944)

is a Swedish-born American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her roles as the
second Billie Jo Bradley (1965–1966) on Petticoat Junction and as a regular cast member
in the television series Hee Haw until 1992. She was raised in Fort Worth, Texas. Born
Gunilla Wiklund, she attended Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, Texas. She
appeared on such game shows as Match Game, Password, and Family Feud. She had an
extramarital relationship with Nat King Cole. Hutton telephoned Cole's wife Maria Cole
to tell her to divorce him.








Emmitt James Smith III
(born May 15, 1969)

is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the
National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys.
Among other accolades, he is the league's all-time leading rusher. Smith was born
in Pensacola, Florida, the son of Mary J. Smith and Emmitt James Smith, Jr. At the
age of eight, he played his first organized football game on a team that was
sponsored by the Salvation Army.

Henry Jaynes Fonda
(May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982)

was an American actor. He had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood.
He cultivated an everyman screen image in several films considered to be classics. Born in
Grand Island, Nebraska, on May 16, 1905, Henry Jaynes Fonda was the son of printer
William Brace Fonda, and his wife, Herberta (Jaynes). The family moved to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1906.








Władziu Valentino Liberace
(May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987)

was an American pianist, singer, and actor. A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian
and Polish origin, he enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television,
motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to 1970s, he was
the highest-paid entertainer in the world with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and
an international touring schedule. He embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage.
Władziu Valentino Liberace (known as "Lee" to his friends and "Walter" to family) was born in
West Allis, Wisconsin, on May 16, 1919. Liberace had an identical twin who died at birth.








Henry George Carey Jr.
(May 16, 1921 – December 27, 2012)

was an American actor. He appeared in more than 90 films, including several John Ford Westerns,
as well as numerous television series. Carey was born on a ranch near the Saugus neighborhood
of Santa Clarita, California, the son of actor Harry Carey (1878–1947) and actress Olive Carey
(1896–1988). As a child, he learned to speak Navajo.[citation needed] His maternal grandfather
was vaudeville entertainer George Fuller Golden. As a boy, he was nicknamed "Dobe", short for
adobe, because of the color of his hair. He grew up on his parents' ranch in Santa Clarita; they
had horses and cattle. His family ranch was later turned into a historic park by the
Los Angeles County and was named Tesoro Adobe Park.








Daniel Trejo
(born May 16, 1944)

is an American actor. He has appeared in films including Desperado, Heat, and the
From Dusk Till Dawn film series. With frequent collaborator and his second cousin Robert Rodriguez,
he portrayed the character of Isador "Machete" Cortez, which was originally developed for the
Spy Kids series and was later expanded into its own franchise of the same name. Trejo was born on
May 16, 1944, on Temple Street in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, to
Mexican-American parents. He is the son of Delores Rivera King and Dionisio "Dan" Trejo (1922–1981),
a construction worker. Trejo was the result of an extramarital affair;







Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE
(born 16 May 1953)

is an Irish actor and film producer. He is best known as the fifth actor to play secret agent James Bond
in the Bond film series, starring in four films from 1995 to 2002 (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies,
The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day) and in multiple video games. He also played alias
Remington Steele. Brosnan was born on 16 May 1953 in Drogheda, County Louth, the only child of
May (née Smith) and carpenter Thomas Brosnan.










Debra Lynn Winger
(born May 16, 1955)

is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982),
Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination
for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award
for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for
Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman (1993). Winger was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into
an Orthodox Jewish family, to Robert Winger, a meat packer, and Ruth (née Felder), an office manager.








Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson
(born May 16, 1969)

is an American political commentator, writer, and television personality, who hosted the nightly
political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023. Carlson was born
Tucker McNear Carlson at the Children's Hospital in San Francisco, California, on May 16, 1969.

Jason Shannon Acuña
(born May 16, 1973),

better known by his stage name Wee Man, is an American stunt performer, television personality,
professional skateboarder, and actor. He is one of the stars of the reality comedy series Jackass and
the host of Fox Sports Net's skateboarding show 54321. Acuña has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism.
Born in Pisa, Italy, Acuña grew up in Torrance, California, and attended North High School.
He is of Mexican and German descent.











Megan Denise Fox
(born May 16, 1986)

is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the family film Holiday in the Sun (2001),
which was followed by numerous supporting roles in film and television, such as the teen musical
comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), as well as a starring role in the ABC
sitcom Hope & Faith (2004–2006). Her breakout role was as Mikaela Banes in the blockbuster
action film Transformers (2007), which she reprised in its sequel
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). She also portrayed the titular character in the
horror comedy Jennifer's Body (2009), starred as April O'Neil in the superhero action film
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and its sequel
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), and starred as Reagan Lucas in
the fifth and sixth seasons of the Fox sitcom New Girl (2016–2017).










Herman Webster Mudgett
(May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896),

better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer,
the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Until his execution in 1896, he chose a career of
crime including insurance fraud, swindling, check forging, three to four bigamous illegal marriages,
horse theft and murder. Despite his confession of 27 murders
(including some people who were verifiably still alive) while awaiting execution, Holmes was convicted
and sentenced to death for only one murder, that of accomplice and business partner Benjamin Pitezel.
It is believed he killed three of the Pitezel children, as well as three mistresses, the child of one of his
mistresses and the sister of another. Holmes was executed on May 7, 1896. Holmes was born as
Herman Webster Mudgett in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, on May 16, 1861, to Levi Horton Mudgett
(November 11, 1827 – March 9, 1911) and Theodate Page Price (October 1, 1827 – December 23, 1903),
both of whom were descended from the first English immigrants in the area.









Olga Valentinovna Korbut
(born 16 May 1955)

is a former gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk", she won
four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972
and 1976 for the Soviet team, and was the inaugural inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
in 1988. Korbut was born in Grodno to Valentin and Valentina Korbut. After World War II, the family moved
to Grodno from Dubniaki (small town near Kalinkavichy). She started training at age 8, and entered a
Belarusian sports school headed by coach Renald Knysh at age 9.









Janet Damita Jo Jackson
(born May 16, 1966)

is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. She is noted for her innovative, socially conscious
and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows. Her sound and choreography became
a catalyst in the growth of MTV, enabling her to rise to prominence while breaking gender and racial barriers
in the process. Lyrical content which focused on social issues and lived experiences set her reputation as
a role model for youth. Janet Damita Jo Jackson was born on May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana. She was the
youngest of ten children in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in a
two-bedroom house on Jackson Street. Her mother, Katherine Esther Jackson, played clarinet
and piano, had aspired to be a country-and-western performer, and worked part-time at Sears.

Dennis Lee Hopper
(May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010)

was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first
television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in two of the films that made James Dean
famous, Rebel Without A Cause (1955) and Giant (1956) as well as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957).
In the next ten years he made a name for himself in television, and by the end of the 1960s had
appeared in several films, notably The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967),
Hang 'Em High (1968) and True Grit (1969). Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography
career in the 1960s. Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas, to Marjorie Mae
(July 12, 1917 – January 12, 2007) and James Millard Hopper (June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982).
He had Scottish ancestors. Hopper had two younger brothers, Marvin and David.








Robert Lane Saget
(May 17, 1956 – January 9, 2022)

was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host. Saget portrayed Danny Tanner on the sitcom
Full House (1987–1995) and its sequel Fuller House (2016–2020). He was the original host of America's
Funniest Home Videos (1989–1997), and the voice of narrator Ted Mosby on the sitcom
How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014). He was also known for his adult-oriented stand-up comedy,
and his 2014 album That's What I'm Talkin' About was nominated for the Grammy Award for
Best Comedy Album. Robert Lane Saget was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on
May 17, 1956, the son of hospital administrator Rosalyn[4] and supermarket chain executive Benjamin Saget.










Craig Ferguson
(born 17 May 1962)

is a Scottish-American comedian, actor, writer, and television host. He is best known for hosting the CBS late-night
talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014), for which he won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his
interview with South African archbishop Desmond Tutu that year. He also hosted the syndicated game show
Celebrity Name Game (2014–2017), for which he won two Daytime Emmy Awards, and Join or Die with
Craig Ferguson (2016) on History. In 2017 he released a six-episode web show with his wife,
Megan Wallace Cunningham, titled Couple Thinkers. Ferguson was born in Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn
community district of Glasgow, to Robert, a post office worker and Scottish Nationalist and Janet Ferguson,
a primary school teacher on 17 May 1962.









Michael Trent Reznor
(born May 17, 1965)

is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer. He serves as the lead vocalist,
multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, which he founded
in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until 2016. The first Nine Inch Nails album,
Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a commercial and critical success. Reznor has since released 11 more
Nine Inch Nails studio albums. Reznor was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, on May 17, 1965, the son
of Nancy Lou  and Michael Reznor. He grew up in Mercer, Pennsylvania, and is of German and Irish descent.










Maureen O'Sullivan
(May 17, 1911 – June 23, 1998)

was an Irish actress, who played Jane in the Tarzan series of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller.
She starred in dozens of feature films across a span of more than half a century and performed with
such actors as Laurence Olivier, Greta Garbo, Fredric March, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Marie Dressler,
Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, the Marx Bros. (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) and Woody Allen. In 2020,
she was listed at number eight on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
O'Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1911, the daughter of Mary Eva Lovatt 
and Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in the Connaught Rangers who served in World War I.










Ray Charles Leonard
(born May 17, 1956),

best known as "Sugar" Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and
occasional actor. Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed professionally
between 1977 and 1997, winning world titles in five weight classes; the lineal championship in three weight
classes; as well as the undisputed welterweight championship. Leonard was part of the "Four Kings", a
group of boxers who all fought each other throughout the 1980s, consisting of Leonard, Roberto Durán,
Thomas Hearns, and Marvin Hagler. Leonard also won a light welterweight gold medal at the
1976 Summer Olympics. Leonard, the fifth of seven children of Cicero and Getha Leonard, was born in
Wilmington, North Carolina. He was named after Ray Charles, his mother's favorite singer.

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como
(May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001)

was an American singer, actor, and television personality. During a career spanning more than
half a century, he recorded exclusively for RCA Victor for 44 years, after signing with the label
in 1943. He recorded primarily vocal pop and was renowned for recordings in the intimate,
easy-listening genre pioneered by multimedia star Bing Crosby. Como was born in
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Pittsburgh. He was the
seventh of 13 children and the first American-born child of Pietro Como (1877-1945) and
Lucia Travaglini (1883-1961), who both emigrated to the US in 1910 from the Abruzzese
town of Palena, Italy.








Pernell Elven Roberts Jr.
(May 18, 1928 – January 24, 2010)

was an American stage, film, and television actor, activist, and singer. In addition to
guest-starring in over 60 television series, he was best known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's
eldest son Adam Cartwright on the Western television series Bonanza (1959–1965), and
as chief surgeon Dr. John McIntyre, the title character on Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1986).
Roberts was born in 1928 in Waycross, Georgia, the only child of Pernell Elven Roberts Sr.,
a Dr Pepper salesman, and Minnie (Betty) Myrtle Morgan Roberts.









Dwayne Bernard Hickman
(May 18, 1934 – January 9, 2022)

was an American actor and television executive, producer and director, who worked as an
executive at CBS and had also briefly recorded as a vocalist. Hickman portrayed Chuck MacDonald,
Bob Collins' girl-crazy teenaged nephew, in the 1950s The Bob Cummings Show and the
title character in the 1960s sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. He was the younger brother
of actor Darryl Hickman, with whom he appeared on screen. After retirement, he devoted
his time to painting personalized paintings. Born in Los Angeles, on May 18, 1934, Hickman
was the younger brother of child actor Darryl Hickman and the older brother of Deidre Hickman.
His father, Milton, sold insurance and his mother, Katherine Louise, was a housewife.









Andrew Katsulas
(May 18, 1946 – February 13, 2006),

known professionally as Andreas Katsulas, was an American film and television actor, most
recognized for portrayals of Narn Ambassador G'Kar on the American science fiction television
series Babylon 5. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a working-class Greek American family,
Katsulas earned a master's degree in theatre from Indiana University











Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey
(born May 18, 1970)

is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright. Fey was a cast member
and head writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1997 to 2006.
After her departure from SNL, she created the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2006–2013, 2020) and
the Netflix sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020), the former of which she also
starred in. Fey is also known for her work in film, including Mean Girls (2004),
Baby Mama (2008), Date Night (2010), Megamind (2010), Muppets Most Wanted (2014),
Sisters (2015), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016), Wine Country (2019), and Soul (2020).
Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born on May 18, 1970 in Upper Darby Township,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

David Downs Hartman
(born May 19, 1935)

is an American journalist and media host who began his media career as an actor.
He currently anchors and hosts documentary programs on History and PBS. Hartman
is best known as the first host of ABC's Good Morning America, from 1975 to 1987.
As an actor, he starred in the 1970s as a young resident, Dr. Paul Hunter, on
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors and as a teacher in the series Lucas Tanner. He
acted in the 1973 TV movie remake of Miracle on 34th Street. Hartman was born in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the son of Fannie Rodman (Downs) and Cyril Baldwin Hartman.









André René Roussimoff
(19 May 1946 – 28 January 1993),

better known by his ring name André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and
actor. Known as "The Eighth Wonder of the World," Roussimoff was known for his great
size, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess growth hormones.
Billed height 7 ft 4 in (224 cm)
Billed weight 520 lb (236 kg)
André René Roussimoff was born on 19 May 1946 in Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne,
the son of immigrants Boris Roussimoff (1907–1993) and
Mariann Roussimoff Stoeff (1910–1997); his father was Bulgarian and his mother was Polish.
At birth, André weighed 13 pounds (6 kg)









Grace Beverly Jones OJ
(born 19 May 1948)

is an American model, singer and actress. Born in Jamaica, she and her family moved to
Syracuse, New York, when she was a teenager. Jones began her modelling career in
New York state, then in Paris, working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and
Kenzo, and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue. She notably worked with photographers
such as Jean-Paul Goude, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer, and became known
for her distinctive androgynous appearance and bold features. Grace Jones was born in 1948
(though most sources say 1952) in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the daughter of Marjorie ( Williams)
(1927–2017) and Robert W. Jones (1925–2008), who was a local politician and Apostolic clergyman.










Florence May Chadwick
(November 9, 1918 – March 15, 1995)

was an American swimmer known for long-distance open water swimming. She was the
first woman to swim across the English Channel in both directions, setting a time record
each time. She was also the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar,
the Bosporus (one way), and the Dardanelles (round trip). She was born in San Diego on
November 8, 1918. Her parents were Richard Chadwick, a police officer, and Mary Lacko,
a homemaker who later operated a San Diego restaurant.










Malcolm X
(born Malcolm Little,  May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)

was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during
the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal
advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community.
A posthumous autobiography, on which he collaborated with Alex Haley, was published in 1965.
Malcolm X was born May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of seven children of
Grenada-born Louise Helen Little (Langdon) and Georgia-born Earl Little.










Pol Pot
(born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998)

was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister
of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and a
Khmer ethnonationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the
Khmer Rouge, from 1963 until 1997 and he served as the General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981. His administration converted Cambodia
into a one-party communist state and perpetrated the Cambodian genocide.









Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
(born 19 May 1945)

is an English musician. He is co-founder, leader, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal
songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Due
to his aggressive playing style and innovative songwriting techniques, Townshend's works with
the Who and in other projects have earned him critical acclaim. Townshend was born in
Chiswick, West London, at the Chiswick Hospital, Netheravon Road, in the UK. He came from
a musical family: his father, Cliff Townshend, was a professional alto saxophonist in the
Royal Air Force's dance band the Squadronaires and his mother, Betty (Dennis),
was a singer with the Sydney Torch and Les Douglass Orchestras.