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James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart
(May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997)

was an American actor. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona,
Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality he
portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in the mid-twentieth
century. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest
American male actors. He received numerous honors including the Screen Actors Guild Life
Achievement Award in 1968, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980, the Kennedy Center
Honor in 1983, as well as the Academy Honorary Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom,
both in 1985. Stewart became the first major American movie star to enlist in the
United States Army to fight in World War II. On July 23, 1959, Stewart was promoted to
brigadier general, becoming the highest-ranking actor in American military history.
He served for 27 years, officially retiring from the Air Force on May 31, 1968,
when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 60.









George Leslie Goebel
(May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991)

was an American humorist, actor, and comedian. He was best known as the star of his own
weekly comedy variety television series, The George Gobel Show, on NBC from 1954 to 1959
and on CBS from 1959 to 1960 (alternating in its last season with The Jack Benny Program).
He was also a familiar panelist on the NBC game show Hollywood Squares. He was born
George Leslie Goebel in Chicago on May 20, 1919. His father, Hermann Goebel, who was then
working as a butcher and grocer, had emigrated to the United States in the 1890s with his
parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, Lillian (MacDonald) Goebel, was a
native of Illinois, as was her mother, while Lillian's father, a tugboat captain,
had immigrated from Scotland.









Cher
(born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946)

is an American singer, actress and television personality. Often referred to by the media as
the "Goddess of Pop", she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a
male-dominated industry. Cher is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for
having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles
and appearances throughout her six-decade-long career. Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian
in El Centro, California, on May 20, 1946. Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American
truck driver with drug and gambling problems; her mother, Georgia Holt
(born Jackie Jean Crouch), was a former model and retired actress who claimed Irish, English,
German, and Cherokee ancestry. Cher's father was rarely home when she was an infant, and
her parents divorced when Cher was ten months old. Her mother later married actor
John Southall, with whom she had another daughter, Georganne, Cher's half-sister.









John Billingsley
(born May 20, 1960)

is an American actor best known for his role as Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.
Billingsley was born in Media, Pennsylvania, and subsequently lived in Huntsville, Alabama and
Slidell, Louisiana before his family settled in Weston, Connecticut.
He graduated from Bennington College in 1982.









John Robert "Joe" Cocker OBE
(20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014)

was a British singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances that
featured expressive body movements. Most of his best known singles, such as "Feelin' Alright?"
and "Unchain My Heart", were recordings of songs written by other song writers, though he
composed a number of songs for most of his albums as well, often in conjunction with
songwriting partner Chris Stainton. Cocker was born on 20 May 1944 at 38 Tasker Road,
Crookes, Sheffield. He was the youngest son of a civil servant, Harold Norman Cocker (1907–2001),
at the time of his son's birth serving as an aircraftman in the Royal Air Force, and Madge (Lee).
According to differing family stories, Cocker received his nickname of Joe either from playing a
childhood game called "Cowboy Joe", or from a local window cleaner named Joe.

Raymond William Stacy Burr
(May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993)

was a Canadian actor known for his lengthy Hollywood film career and his title roles in television dramas
Perry Mason and Ironside. Burr's early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television, and film,
usually as the villain. His portrayal of the suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window
(1954) is his best-known film role, although he is also remembered for his role in the 1956 film Godzilla,
King of the Monsters!, which he reprised in the 1985 film Godzilla 1985. He won Emmy Awards for acting
in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised
in a series of 26 Perry Mason TV movies (1985–1993). His second TV series, Ironside, earned him six Emmy
and two Golden Globe nominations. Raymond William Stacy Burr: 1  was born May 21, 1917,
in New Westminster, British Columbia.[4] His father William Johnston Burr (1889–1985) was a hardware
salesman; his mother Minerva Annette (née Smith, 1892–1974) was a pianist and music teacher.










Rick Jason
(born Richard Jacobson; May 21, 1923 – October 16, 2000)

was an American actor, born in New York City, and most remembered for starring in the ABC television
drama Combat! (1962–1967). An only child of Jewish parents, Jason was expelled from several prep
schools before graduating from Rhodes Preparatory School in Manhattan. Rick Jason served from
1943 to 1945 in the U.S. Army Air Corps, during World War II. In the late 1960s and early 1970s,
he visited American troops serving in Vietnam on several USO tours.









Alan Stuart Franken
(born May 21, 1951)

is an American politician, comedian, writer, actor, and media personality who served as a United States
senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. Franken first gained fame as a writer and performer on the
NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he worked for three stints. He first served as a
writer for the show from 1975 to 1980, and returned in his final stint from 1985 to 1995, Franken served
as a writer and, briefly, a cast member. After decades as an entertainer, he became a prominent liberal
political activist, hosting The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio. Franken was born in New York City
to Joseph P. Franken (1908–1993), a printing salesman, and Phoebe Franken (née Kunst) (1918–2003),
a real estate agent.










Mr. T
(born Laurence Tureaud, May 21, 1952),

is an American actor. He is known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team
and as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III. He is also known for his distinctive hairstyle inspired
by Mandinka warriors in West Africa, his copious gold jewelry, his tough-guy persona and his catchphrase
"I pity the fool!", first uttered as Clubber Lang in Rocky III, then turned into a trademark used in slogans
or titles, like the reality show I Pity the Fool in 2006. Mr. T was born Laurence Tureaud in Chicago, Illinois,
the youngest son in a family with twelve children. Tureaud, with his four sisters and seven brothers,
grew up in a three-room apartment in the Robert Taylor Homes. His father, Nathaniel Tureaud, was a minister.










Bruce Anthony Buffer
(born May 21, 1957)

is an American professional mixed martial arts ring announcer and the official octagon announcer for
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events, introduced on broadcasts as the "Veteran Voice of the Octagon".
Buffer's catchphrase is "It's time!", which he announces before the main event of the UFC. He is the
half brother of boxing and professional wrestling ring announcer Michael Buffer, and is the President
and CEO of their company, The Buffer Partnership. Buffer holds a black belt in Tang Soo Do and has
fought as a kickboxer. Buffer first ventured into martial arts when he was thirteen years old and living
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, studying judo and achieving the rank of green belt. He moved to
Malibu, California with his family at the age of fifteen and befriended two of the students of Chuck Norris,
who introduced him to Tang Soo Do, in which he holds a second degree black belt. He began kickboxing
in his twenties but was forced to give the sport up at 32 after suffering his second concussion.










Edward Ernest "Judge" Reinhold Jr.
(born May 21, 1957)

is an American actor. He has starred in several films such as Stripes (1981),
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Gremlins (1984) and Ruthless People (1986).
He has co-starred in all of the films in the Beverly Hills Cop (1984, 1987, and 1994) and
The Santa Clause franchises (1994, 2002 and 2006). Reinhold was born in Wilmington, Delaware,
the son of Regina Celeste (née Fleming; born 1923) and Edward Ernest Reinhold (1907–1977),
a trial lawyer. He was raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia and attended Alexis I. duPont High School
until his family moved to Martin County, Florida prior to his junior year in high school. He attended
Mary Washington College and Palm Beach Community College.[4] His maternal grandfather was
from County Meath, Ireland.









Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
(May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994),

also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and
sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later
murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically
all or part of the skeleton. On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver,
a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin. Jeffrey Dahmer was born
May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the first of two sons to Lionel Herbert Dahmer, a
Marquette University chemistry student and later a research chemist, and Joyce Annette Dahmer (Flint),
a teletype machine instructor. Lionel is of German and Welsh ancestry, and Joyce was of
Norwegian and Irish ancestry.










Christopher George Latore Wallace
(May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997),

better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper.
Rooted in East Coast hip hop and particularly gangsta rap, he is cited in various media lists as one of the greatest
rappers of all time. Wallace became known for his distinctive laid-back lyrical delivery, offsetting the lyrics' often
grim content. His music was often semi-autobiographical, telling of hardship and criminality, but also of debauchery
and celebration. Christopher George Latore Wallace was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the New York City borough
of Brooklyn on May 21, 1972, the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents. His mother, Voletta Wallace, was
a preschool teacher, while his father, Selwyn George Latore, was a welder and politician. He was nicknamed "Big"
because he was overweight by the age of 10. Wallace claimed to have begun dealing drugs at about age 12.
His mother, often at work, first learned of this during his adulthood.

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier OM
( 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989)

was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud,
was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked
in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career he had considerable
success in television roles. Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, the youngest of the three children of
Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Reverend Gerard Kerr Olivier. He had two older siblings:
Sybille and Gerard Dacres "Dickie".








Naomi Elaine Campbell
(born 22 May 1970)

is an English model. She began her career at the age of 15, and established herself amongst the most
recognizable and in-demand models of the past four decades. Campbell was one of six models of her
generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press. Naomi Elaine Campbell
was born in Lambeth, South London to Jamaican-born dancer Valerie Morris on 22 May 1970. In
accordance with her mother's wishes, Campbell has never met her father, who abandoned her mother
when she was four months pregnant and went unnamed on her birth certificate.








Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL
(22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930)

was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet,
the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories
are milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place,
Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England, of Irish Catholic descent,
and his mother, Mary (Foley), was Irish Catholic. His parents married in 1855.









Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.
(May 22, 1928 – September 11, 2019)

was an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chaired the hedge fund BP Capital Management.
He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016,
Pickens had a net worth of $500 million. Pickens was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, the son of
Grace Marcaline (Molonson), and Thomas Boone Sibley Pickens. His father worked as an oil and mineral
landman (rights leaser). During World War II, his mother ran the local Office of Price Administration,
rationing gasoline and other goods in three counties.








Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American
domestic terrorist and former mathematics professor. He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned
his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive life. Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski
killed three people and injured 23 others in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he
believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the environment. He authored
Industrial Society and Its Future, a 35,000-word manifesto and social critique opposing industrialization,
rejecting leftism, and advocating for a nature-centered form of anarchism. In 1971, Kaczynski moved
to a remote cabin without electricity or running water near Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a
recluse while learning survival skills to become self-sufficient. Theodore John Kaczynski was born in
Chicago on May 22, 1942, to working-class parents Wanda Theresa (Dombek) and
Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker. The two were Polish Americans who were raised as
Catholics but later became atheists.










Bernard John Taupin CBE
(born 22 May 1950)

is an English-American songwriter, singer and visual artist. He is best known for his long-term collaboration
with musician Elton John, a songwriting partnership that is one of the most successful in history. Taupin
has written the lyrics for most of John's songs. Taupin was born at Flatters House, a farmhouse located
between the village of Anwick and the town of Sleaford, in the southern part of Lincolnshire, England,
the son of Robert Taupin and Daphne, daughter of John Leonard Palchett "Poppy" Cort, a University of
Cambridge-educated classics teacher and former rector at Sale, Cheshire.

Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr.
(born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939)

was an American actor and filmmaker. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in
silent films, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro, but spent the
early part of his career making comedies. Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman
(spelled "Ulman" by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in his memoirs) in Denver, Colorado. His parents
were Hezekiah Charles Ullman and Ella Adelaide (née Marsh). He had two half-brothers,
John Fairbanks Jr. and Norris Wilcox, and a full brother, Robert Payne Ullman.









Sidney Meltzer
(May 22, 1917 – November 2, 2011),

known professionally as Sid Melton, was an American actor. He played the roles of incompetent
carpenter Alf Monroe in the CBS sitcom Green Acres and Uncle Charlie Halper, proprietor of the
Copa Club, in The Danny Thomas Show and its spin-offs. He appeared in about 140 film and
television projects in a career that spanned nearly 60 years. Among his most famous films were
Lost Continent with Cesar Romero, The Steel Helmet with Gene Evans and Robert Hutton,
The Lemon Drop Kid with Bob Hope, and Lady Sings The Blues with Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams.
He was a regular on The Danny Thomas Show and Green Acres, and appeared in flashback on
several episodes of The Golden Girls as Salvadore Petrillo, the long-dead husband of Sophia
(played by Estelle Getty) and father of Dorothy (played by Beatrice Arthur). Sidney Meltzer
was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. His father was Isidor Meltzer, a Yiddish theater comedian.










Rosemary Clooney
(May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002)

was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song
"Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me",
"Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There", "This Ole House", and "Sway". She
also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly because
of problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas
co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in
show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002. Rosemary Clooney was born
in Maysville, Kentucky, the daughter of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney.
She was one of five children. Her father was of Irish and German descent, and her mother was
of English and Irish ancestry.










Drew Allison Carey
(born May 23, 1958)

is an American comedian, actor, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps
and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey gained stardom in his own sitcom,
The Drew Carey Show, and as host of the U.S. version of the improv comedy show
Whose Line Is It Anyway?, both of which aired on ABC. He then appeared in several films,
television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game. Carey has
hosted the game show The Price Is Right since October 15, 2007, on CBS. Carey was born
on May 23, 1958 to Lewis and Beulah Carey. He is the youngest of three brothers
(Neil, 1946–2010 and Roger, born 1952) and was raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood
of Cleveland, Ohio.










William Pelham Barr
(born May 23, 1950)

is an American attorney who served as the 77th and 85th United States attorney general in the
administrations of Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump. Born and raised in New York City,
Barr was educated at the Horace Mann School, Columbia University, and George Washington
University Law School. From 1971 to 1977, Barr was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency.
He then served as a law clerk to judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit. In the 1980s, Barr worked for the law firm
Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, with one year's work in the White House of the Ronald Reagan
administration dealing with legal policies. Before becoming attorney general in 1991, Barr held
numerous other posts within the Department of Justice, including leading the Office of Legal Counsel
(OLC) and serving as deputy attorney general. From 1994 to 2008, Barr did corporate legal work
for GTE and its successor company Verizon Communications, which made him a multimillionaire.
From 2009 to 2018, Barr served on the board of directors for Time Warner.









Marvelous Marvin Hagler
(born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler; May 23, 1954 – March 13, 2021)

was an American professional boxer and film actor. He competed in boxing from 1973 to 1987 and
reigned as the undisputed champion of the middleweight division from 1980 to 1987, making twelve
successful title defenses, all but one by knockout. Hagler also holds the highest knockout percentage
of all undisputed middleweight champions at 78 percent. His undisputed middleweight championship
reign of six years and seven months is the second-longest active reign of the last century. He holds
the record for the sixth longest reign as champion in middleweight history. Nicknamed "Marvelous"
and annoyed that network announcers often did not refer to him as such, Hagler legally changed
his name to "Marvelous Marvin Hagler" in 1982.

Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
(May 24, 1925 – February 6, 2006)

was an American character actor best known for his appearances in a number of John Wayne movies.
His father was a trumpet player, and his mother was a dancer. His brother was actor
Jose Gonzales-Gonzales (1922-2000). He left school at the age of seven to join a family act called
"Las Perlitas" that toured southwest Texas. As a result, he was functionally illiterate for all of his life.
As a result of his illiteracy, he memorized scripts by having his wife read them to him. Gonzalez Gonzalez
married at the age of seventeen and served in the Army during World War II as a driver in the United States.
After the war he performed stand-up comedy for Spanish-speaking audiences.









Thomas B. Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938)

is a Canadian comedian, actor, musician and activist. He is known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong
comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox's That '70s Show.
He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s. Thomas B. Kin Chong was born on May 24, 1938,
in Edmonton, Alberta. His mother was a Canadian of Scottish and Irish ancestry,[5] and his father was Chinese
who immigrated in the 1930s. He had an older brother, Stan (1936–2018). After arriving in Canada, the
senior Chong had first lived with an aunt in Vancouver. As a youth, Tommy Chong moved with his family to
Calgary, settling in a conservative neighbourhood Chong has referred to as "Dog Patch". He has said that his
father had "been wounded in World War II and there was a veterans' hospital in Calgary. He bought a
$500 house in Dog Patch and raised his family on $50 a week." In an interview, Chong later described
how he dropped out of Crescent Heights High School "when I was 16 but probably just before they were
going to throw me out anyway." He played guitar to make money. "I discovered that music could get you
laid, even if you were a scrawny, long-haired, geeky-looking guy like me.









Gary Rich Burghoff
(born May 24, 1943)

is an American actor who is known for originating the role of Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway
musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly
in the film M*A*S*H, as well as the TV series. He was a regular on television game show Match Game
from 1974 to 1975 for 140 episodes, standing in for Charles Nelson Reilly, who was in New York doing
a Broadway play, and continued to make recurring appearances afterwards. Burghoff was born in
Bristol, Connecticut, moved to Clinton, Connecticut, and then later moved to Delavan, Wisconsin.








John Christopher Reilly
(born May 24, 1965)

is an American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and writer. After his film debut in Casualties of
War (1989), he gained exposure through his supporting roles in Days of Thunder (1990),
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and The River Wild (1994). He also starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's
films Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), as well as Terrence Malick's
The Thin Red Line (1998). For his performance in Chicago (2002), Reilly was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He worked
with director Martin Scorsese on both Gangs of New York (2002) and The Aviator (2004).
Reilly was born in Chicago, Illinois, the fifth of six children. His father was of Irish and Scottish descent,
and his mother was of Lithuanian ancestry.









Bob Dylan
(legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941)

is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time,
Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years.
Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963)
and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar
movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical,
and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.
Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew: Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham) in St. Mary's Hospital
on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Range west of
Lake Superior. Dylan's paternal grandparents, Anna Kirghiz and Zigman Zimmerman, emigrated from
Odesa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to the United States, following the pogroms against Jews of 1905.









Patricia Louise Holt
(born May 24, 1944),

known professionally as Patti LaBelle, is an American R&B singer and actress. She has been referred
to as the "Godmother of Soul". LaBelle was born Patricia Louise Holte in the Eastwick section of
Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born the second youngest child of Henry (1919–1989)
and Bertha (Robinson; 1916–1978) Holte's three children, and the next-to-youngest of five children
overall. Her siblings were Thomas Hogan Jr. (1930-2013), Vivian Hogan (1932–1975),
Barbara (1942–1982) and Jacqueline "Jackie" (1945–1989). Her father was a railroad worker and
club performer and her mother was a domestic. Despite enjoying her childhood, LaBelle would later
write in her memoirs, Don't Block the Blessings, that her parents' marriage was abusive. Shortly
after her parents' divorce, when LaBelle was twelve, she was sexually molested by a family friend.
She joined a local church choir at the Beulah Baptist Church at ten and performed her first solo
two years later. While she was growing up, she listened to secular music styles such as
R&B and jazz music as well.











Priscilla Ann Presley
(née Wagner, changed by adoption to Beaulieu; born May 24, 1945)

is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the former wife of American singer Elvis Presley,
as well as co-founder and former chairwoman of Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), the company that
turned Graceland into one of the top tourist attractions in the United States. In her acting career,
Presley co-starred with Leslie Nielsen in the three Naked Gun films and played the role of
Jenna Wade on the long-running television series Dallas. Priscilla Ann Wagner was born at
Brooklyn Naval Hospital in Brooklyn on May 24, 1945. Her maternal grandfather,
Albert Henry Iversen (1899–1971), was born in Egersund, Norway. He immigrated to the
United States, where he married Lorraine Davis (1903–1984), who was of Scots-Irish and
English descent. Their only daughter was Anna Lillian Iversen (1926–2021), who later was called,
or her name was changed to, Ann. She gave birth to Priscilla when she was 19 years old.












Rosanne Cash
(born May 24, 1955)

is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash
and Vivian Liberto Cash Distin, Johnny Cash's first wife. Although she is often classified as a country artist,
her music draws on many genres, including folk, pop, rock, blues, and most notably Americana. In the
1980s, she had a string of genre-crossing singles that entered both the country and pop charts, the most
commercially successful being her 1981 breakthrough hit "Seven Year Ache", which topped the U.S. country
singles chart and reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop chart. Cash was born in 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee,
to Vivian and Johnny Cash, when Johnny was recording his first tracks at Sun Records. Cash's mother was
Vivian Cash (née Liberto), a half Irish, African American and German, and half Sicilian whose Italian
grandparents were from Cefalù, Palermo










Héctor Luís Camacho Matías
(May 24, 1962 – November 24, 2012),

commonly known by his nickname "Macho" Camacho, was a Puerto Rican professional boxer and entertainer.
Known for his quickness in the ring and flamboyant style, Camacho competed professionally from 1980 to 2010,
and was a world champion in three weight classes. He held the WBC super featherweight title from 1983 to 1984,
the WBC lightweight title from 1985 to 1987, and the WBO junior welterweight title twice between 1989 and 1992.
Camacho was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, to Héctor Luis Camacho Sr. and his wife María Matías. He was the
second youngest of five children, which included a younger brother, Felix and sisters Raquel, Estrella, and Esperanza.

Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE
(born 25 May 1939)

is an English actor. With a career spanning over six decades, he is noted for his roles on the
screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular
fantasy and science fiction. He is regarded as a British cultural icon and was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II in 1991. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award,
six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards,
five BAFTA Awards and five Emmy Awards. McKellen was born on 25 May 1939 in
Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Margery Lois (née Sutcliffe) and Denis Murray McKellen.
He was their second child, with a sister, Jean, five years his senior. Shortly before the outbreak
of the Second World War in September 1939, his family moved to Wigan.








Karen Valentine
(born 25 May 1947)

Karen Valentine is an American actress. She is best known for her role as young idealistic
schoolteacher Alice Johnson in the ABC comedy drama series Room 222 from 1969 to 1974,
for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Comedy Series in 1970, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1971. She later
went to star in her own short-lived sitcom Karen (1975), and played leading roles in the Disney
films Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978) and The North Avenue Irregulars (1979). Valentine was
born in Sebastopol, California, in 1947. She is of Portuguese heritage, and her grandfather
changed the family name from Valentin before her birth.








Michael John Myers OC
(born May 25, 1963)

is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and director. His accolades include seven
MTV Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2002, he was awarded
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2017, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada
for "his extensive and acclaimed body of comedic work as an actor, writer, and producer."
Michael John Myers was born in the Scarborough district of Toronto on May 25, 1963, to data
processor Alice "Bunny" E. (née Hind) and insurance agent Eric Myers. His parents were English
immigrants from the Old Swan area of Liverpool.










Anne Celeste Heche
(May 25, 1969 – August 11, 2022)

was an American actress, known for her roles in a variety of genres in film, television, and theater.
She received numerous accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award and a National Board of Review Award.
Anne Celeste Heche was born on May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio, the youngest of five children of
Donald "Don" Joe Heche and Nancy Heche (née Prickett). During her early childhood, the Heche family
lived in various towns around Ohio, including suburbs of Cleveland and Akron.








Claude Aubrey Akins
(May 25, 1926 – January 27, 1994)

was an American character actor with a long career on stage, screen, and television. He was best
known as Sheriff Lobo on the 1979–1981 television series B. J. and the Bear, and later
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, a spin-off series. Akins was born in Nelson, Georgia, and
grew up in Bedford, Indiana, the son of Maude and Ernest Akins. Film reference works said
he was born in 1918, making his age at death 75; however, Akins' son said his father was 67
at the time of his death, and he is listed as Aubrey Akins in the 1940 Census, age 13.








Thomas Hall
(May 25, 1936 – August 20, 2021),

known professionally as Tom T. Hall and informally nicknamed "the Storyteller," was an
American country music singer-songwriter and short-story author. He wrote 12 No. 1 hit songs,
with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the No. 1 international pop crossover hit
"Harper Valley PTA" and "I Love", which reached No. 12 on the Hall was born in Tick Ridge,
seven miles from Olive Hill, Kentucky, on May 25, 1936.Billboard Hot 100. He is included in
Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Songwriters.

Marion Robert Morrison
(May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979),

professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke or Duke Wayne, was an American actor who
became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age,
especially through his starring roles in Western and war movies. His career flourished from the silent era of
the 1920s through the American New Wave, as he appeared in a total of 179 film and television productions.
He was among the top box-office draws for three decades, and he appeared with many other important
Hollywood stars of his era. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Wayne as one of the greatest male
stars of classic American cinema. Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, at 224 South
Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The local paper, Winterset Madisonian, reported on page 4 of the edition
of May 30, 1907, that Wayne weighed 13 lb (around 6 kg) at birth.








Peter Wilton Cushing OBE
(26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994)

was an English actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than
100 films, as well as many television, stage and radio roles. He achieved recognition in Britain for his leading
performances in the Hammer Productions horror films from the 1950s to 1970s, while earning international
prominence as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977). Peter Wilton Cushing was born in Kenley, then a district
in the English county of Surrey, on 26 May 1913 to George Edward Cushing (1881–1956) and
Nellie Marie (née King) Cushing (1882–1961). His father, a quantity surveyor, was a reserved and
uncommunicative man whom Peter said he never got to know very well. His mother was the daughter
of a carpet merchant and considered of a lower class than her husband.









Norma Deloris Egstrom
(May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002),

known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer,
and actress, over a career spanning seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing
with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and
recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music. Called the "Queen of American pop music,"
Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs. Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in
Jamestown, North Dakota, United States, on May 26, 1920, the seventh of the eight children of Selma Emele
(née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad.
Her family were Lutherans.








James Arness
(born James King Aurness; May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011)

was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the CBS television
series Gunsmoke. Arness has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five decades:
1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987) and four more
made-for-television Gunsmoke films in the 1990s. In Europe, Arness reached cult status for his role
as Zeb Macahan in the Western series How the West Was Won.
He was the older brother of actor Peter Graves.

James Arness was born in Minneapolis. His parents were businessman Rolf Cirkler Aurness and
journalist Ruth Duesler. His father's ancestry was Norwegian; his mother's was German.









Philip Michael Thomas
(born May 26, 1949)

is an American actor and musician, best known for his role as detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s
TV series Miami Vice. His first notable roles were in Coonskin (1975) and opposite Irene Cara in the 1976
film Sparkle. After his success in Miami Vice, he appeared in numerous made-for-TV movies and
advertisements for telephone psychic services. He served as a spokesperson for cell phone entertainment
company Nextones, and also voiced the character Lance Vance in the video games Grand Theft Auto:
Vice City (2002) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006).










Robert Francis "Bobcat" Goldthwait
(born May 26, 1962)

is an American actor, stand-up comedian, director and screenwriter. He is known for his black comedy
stand-up act, delivered through an energetic stage persona with an unusual raspy and high-pitched voice.
He came to prominence with his stand-up specials An Evening with Bobcat Goldthwait—Share the Warmth
and Bob Goldthwait—Is He Like That All the Time? and his acting roles, including Zed in the Police Academy
franchise and Eliot Loudermilk in Scrooged. Since 2012, he has been a regular panelist on the radio-quiz
show, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Robert Francis Goldthwait was born on May 26, 1964, in Syracuse, New York,
the son of Kathleen Ann (Welch), a department store employee, and Thomas Lincoln Goldthwait,
a sheet metal worker. He was raised in a working-class Catholic family.









Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian
(May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011)

was an Armenian-American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's
right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". Kevorkian said that
he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was convicted of murder in 1999 and was often portrayed
in the media with the name of "Dr. Death". In 1998, Kevorkian was arrested and tried for his role in the
voluntary euthanasia of a man named Thomas Youk who had Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS. He was convicted
of second-degree murder and served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence. He was released on
parole on June 1, 2007, on condition he would not offer advice about, participate in, or be present at the
act of any type of euthanasia to any other person, as well as neither promote nor talk about the procedure
of assisted suicide. Kevorkian was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on May 26, 1928, to Armenian immigrants from
the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey). His father, Levon (1887–1960), was born in the village of Passen,
near Erzurum, and his mother, Satenig (1900–1968), was born in the village of Govdun, near Sivas.









Stephanie Lynn Nicks
(born May 26, 1948)

is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and
as a solo artist. After starting her career as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, releasing
the album Buckingham Nicks to little success, Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, helping the band
to become one of the best-selling music acts of all time with over 120 million records sold worldwide.
Rumours, the band's second album with Nicks, became one of the best-selling albums worldwide,
being certified 20× platinum in the US. Stephanie "Stevie" Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital
in Phoenix, Arizona to Jess and Barbara Nicks. Nicks is of German, English, Welsh and Irish ancestry.










Randall Hank Williams
(born May 26, 1949),

known professionally as Hank Williams Jr. or Bocephus, is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
His musical style has been described as a blend of southern rock, blues, and country. He is the son of
country musician Hank Williams and the father of musicians Holly Williams and Hank Williams III.
Williams was born Randall Hank Williams on May 26, 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father nicknamed
him Bocephus (after Grand Ole Opry comedian Rod Brasfield's ventriloquist dummy). After his father's
death in 1953, he was raised by his mother, Audrey Williams.









Sally Kristen Ride
(May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012)

was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became
the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963
and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having
done so at the age of 32. Sally Kristen Ride was born on May 26, 1951, in the Encino neighborhood of
Los Angeles, California,  the elder child of Dale Burdell Ride and Carol Joyce Ride 
She had one sibling, Karen, known as "Bear".  Both parents were elders in the Presbyterian Church.








Leonard Albert Kravitz
(born May 26, 1964)

is an American singer-songwriter and actor. His style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk,
jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop and folk. Leonard Albert Kravitz was born in New York City, the
only child of NBC television news producer Sy Kravitz (1924–2005) and actress Roxie Roker
( actress who portrayed Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons - 1929–1995). His mother came
from a Christian family which was of African-American and Bahamian descent. Kravitz's father was of
Russian-Jewish ancestry. Through his mother, Kravitz is a second cousin of television weather presenter
Al Roker as their grandfathers were brothers.

Vincent Leonard Price Jr.
(May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993)

was an American actor, art historian, art collector, and gourmet cook. He appeared on stage, television,
and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for
motion pictures and one for television. Price's first film role was as leading man in the 1938 comedy
Service de Luxe. He became a character actor, appearing in The Song of Bernadette (1943), Laura (1944),
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Dragonwyck (1946), and
The Ten Commandments (1956). He established himself in the horror genre with roles in House of Wax (1953),
The Fly (1958), House on Haunted Hill (1959), Return of the Fly (1959), The Tingler (1959),
The Last Man on Earth (1964), Witchfinder General (1968), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and
Theatre of Blood (1973). He collaborated with Roger Corman on Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of
House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Haunted Palace (1963), and
The Masque of the Red Death (1964). Price appeared in the television series Batman as Egghead.
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was born on May 27, 1911, in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of the four children
of Vincent Leonard Price, president of the National Candy Company, and his wife Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price.








Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ
(27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015)

was an English actor and singer. In a long career which spanned over 60 years, Lee often portrayed villains,
and appeared as Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films, ultimately playing the role nine times. His
other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974),
Count Dooku in several Star Wars films (2002–2008), and Saruman in both the Lord of the Rings film trilogy
(2001–2003) and the Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014). Lee was born on 27 May 1922 in Belgravia, London,
the son of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee (1879–1941) of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, and his
wife, Countess Estelle Marie (née Carandini di Sarzano; 1889–1981). Lee's father fought in the Boer War and
First World War, and his mother was an Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley,
and Olive Snell, and sculpted by Clare Sheridan.









Lee Ann Meriwether
(born May 27, 1935)

is an American actress, former model, and the winner of the Miss America 1955 pageant. She has appeared
in many films and television shows, notably as Betty Jones, the title character's secretary and daughter-in-law
in the 1970s crime drama Barnaby Jones starring Buddy Ebsen. The role earned her two Golden Globe Award
nominations in 1975 and 1976, and an Emmy Award nomination in 1977. She is also known for her
portrayal of Catwoman, replacing Julie Newmar in the film version of Batman (1966), and for a co-starring
role on the science fiction series The Time Tunnel. Meriwether had a recurring role as Ruth Martin on the
daytime soap opera All My Children until the end of the series in September 2011. Meriwether was born in
Los Angeles, California, to Claudius Gregg Meriwether and Ethel Eve Mulligan.









Bruce Peter Weitz
(born May 27, 1943)

is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Sgt. Michael "Mick" Belker in the TV series
Hill Street Blues, which ran from 1981 until 1987. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor
in a Drama Series in 1984 for his role in the series. Weitz was born on May 27, 1943, in Norwalk, Connecticut,
the son of Sybil (née Rubel), a homemaker, and Joseph Weitz, who owned a liquor store.










Todd Anthony Bridges
(born May 27, 1965)

is an American actor. He portrayed Willis Jackson on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and had a recurring role as
Monk on the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. Bridges worked as a commentator on the television series
TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest... from 2008 to 2013. Bridges was born on May 27, 1965, in San Francisco,
California, the son of Betty Alice Pryor, an actress, director and manager, and James Bridges Sr., a talent agent.
His brother Jimmy Bridges, sister Verda Bridges, and niece Brooke Bridges are also actors.









James Butler Hickok
(May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876),

better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the
frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his
involvement in many famous gunfights. He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of
it bolstered by the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself. Some
contemporaneous reports of his exploits are known to be fictitious, but they remain the basis of
much of his fame and reputation. James Butler Hickok was born May 27, 1837, in Homer, Illinois,
(present-day Troy Grove, Illinois) to William Alonzo Hickok, a farmer and abolitionist,
and his wife, Polly Butler.









Louis Cameron Gossett Jr.
(born May 27, 1936)

is an American actor. Born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, He had his stage debut at the age
of 17, in a school production of You Can't Take It with You. Shortly after he successfully auditioned for
the Broadway play Take a Giant Step. Gossett would go on acting on stage. One of these plays was
A Raisin in the Sun in 1959, and in 1961 he made his debut on screen in its film adaptation. From
thereon, Gossett added to his resume many roles in films and television, as well as releasing music.
In 1977, Gossett gained wide recognition for his role of Fiddler in the popular miniseries Roots for
which he won "Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series"
at the Emmy Awards. Gossett was born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, to Hellen Rebecca
(née Wray), a nurse, and Louis Gossett Sr., a porter. He is an alumnus of Mark Twain Intermediate
School 239 and Abraham Lincoln High School. His stage debut came at the age of 17, in a school
production of You Can't Take It with You when a sports injury resulted in the decision to take an
acting class. Polio had already delayed his graduation.










Susan Janet Ballion
(born 27 May 1957),

known professionally as Siouxsie Sioux, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
She was the lead singer of the rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996). They released
11 studio albums, and had several UK Top 20 singles including "Hong Kong Garden", "Happy House"
and "Peek-a-Boo", plus a US Top 25 single in the Billboard Hot 100, with "Kiss Them for Me".
Siouxsie was born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957 at Guy's Hospital in Southwark, England. She
is ten years younger than her two siblings.









Marjorie Taylor Greene
(born May 27, 1974),

also known by her initials MTG, is an American politician, businesswoman, who has been the U.S.
representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district since 2021. A member of the Republican Party,
she was elected to Congress in 2020 following the retirement of Republican incumbent Tom Graves,
and reelected in 2022. Greene was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, on May 27, 1974, the daughter of
Robert Taylor. She graduated from South Forsyth High School in Cumming, Georgia in 1992, and the
University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1996.

Sandra Louise Anderson
(née Smith; May 28, 1944 – November 3, 2018),

professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director. She achieved recognition
for her relationship with Clint Eastwood and the six hit films they made together. Sandra Louise Smith
was born on May 28, 1944, the daughter of New York City native Raymond Smith, then a soldier
stationed at Camp Forrest, and Pauline Bayne, a pencil factory worker from Huntsville, Alabama, who
was of mostly Scottish descent, with matrilineages in South Carolina extending back to the late 18th
century. Locke's parents separated before her birth. In her autobiography, Locke noted that "although
Momma would not admit it, I knew Mr. Smith never married my mother."








Rudolph William Louis Giuliani
(born May 28, 1944)

is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. Giuliani led the 1980s
federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Giuliani was born in 1944 in the East Flatbush section during the time it was an Italian-American enclave
in New York City's borough of Brooklyn, the only child of working-class parents Helen (1909–2002) and
Harold Angelo Giuliani (1908–1981), both children of Italian immigrants.









John Cameron Fogerty
(born May 28, 1945)

is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother
Tom Fogerty, he founded the band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he was the lead singer,
lead guitarist, and principal songwriter. CCR had nine top-10 singles and eight gold albums between
1968 and 1972, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Fogerty was born in
Berkeley, California, and grew up in El Cerrito, California, the third of five boys born to Galen Robert
and Edith Lucile (Lytle) Fogerty. His father was born in Iowa, and worked as a Linotype operator for
the Berkeley Gazette in California.









Wendy Orlean Williams
(May 28, 1949 – April 6, 1998)

was an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics. She was
noted for her onstage theatrics, which included partial nudity, exploding equipment, firing a shotgun,
and chainsawing guitars. Performing her own stunts in videos, she often sported a mohawk hairstyle.
In 1985, during the height of her popularity as a solo artist, she was nominated for a Grammy Award
for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Williams was born to Robert F. Williams, a chemist at
Eastman Kodak, and Audrey Stauber Williams (1921–2008) on May 28, 1949, in Webster, New York.
She studied clarinet at the Community Music School program of the University of Rochester's Eastman
School of Music, and later was a clarinetist in her high school's concert band. At the age of six,
she appeared tap-dancing on the Howdy Doody show as a member of the "Peanut Gallery".

Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope KBE, KC*SG, KSS
(May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003)

was an American comedian, actor, and entertainer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years,
Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films—54 in which he starred. These included
a series of seven Road to ... musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as Hope's top-billed partner.
Leslie Townes Hope was born on May 29, 1903, in Eltham, County of London
(now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich),
in a terraced house on Craigton Road in Well Hall, where there is now a blue plaque in his memory.
He was the fifth of seven sons of an English father, William Henry Hope, a stonemason from
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and a Welsh mother, Avis (née Townes), a light opera singer from
Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, who later worked as a cleaner.









Walter Stacy Keach Sr.
(May 29, 1914 – February 13, 2003),

known professionally as Stacy Keach Sr. was an American actor whose screen career spanned more
than five decades. Keach was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was of English descent. His career ranged
from 1942 to 1997, with more than seventy movie and television appearances. He and his wife, the
former Mary Cain Peckham, were members of the Peninsula Players summer theater program
during the 1930s.









John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963),

often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the
United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person to assume the
presidency by election and the youngest president at the end of his tenure. Kennedy served at the
height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union
and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress
prior to his presidency. John Fitzgerald (Jack) Kennedy was born outside Boston in Brookline,
Massachusetts on May 29, 1917, at 83 Beals Street, to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a businessman and
politician, and Rose Kennedy (née Fitzgerald), a philanthropist and socialite. His paternal grandfather,
P. J. Kennedy, served as a Massachusetts state legislator. Kennedy's maternal grandfather and namesake
John F. Fitzgerald served as a U.S. Congressman and was elected to two terms as Mayor of Boston.











John Warnock Hinckley Jr.
(born May 29, 1955)

is an American man who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C.
on March 30, 1981, two months after Reagan's first inauguration. Using a .22 caliber revolver, Hinckley
wounded Reagan; police officer Thomas Delahanty; Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy; and White House
Press Secretary James Brady, who was left permanently disabled. Hinckley was reportedly seeking fame
to impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had a fixation. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity
and remained under institutional psychiatric care for over three decades. Public outcry over the verdict
led state legislatures and Congress to narrow their respective insanity defenses.










La Toya Yvonne Jackson
(born May 29, 1956)

is an American singer and television personality. The fifth child and middle daughter of the Jackson family,
Jackson first gained recognition on the family's variety television series, The Jacksons, on CBS between
1976 and 1977. Thereafter, she saw success as a solo recording artist under multiple record labels in the
1980s and 1990s, including Polydor, Sony Music and RCA, where she released nine studio albums over
the course of 15 years. Her most successful releases in the United States were her self-titled debut album
(1980) and the 1984 single "Heart Don't Lie". Jackson's other songs include "If You Feel the Funk",
"Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'", "Hot Potato", "You're Gonna Get Rocked!", and "Sexbox". Another one
of Jackson's songs, "Just Say No" from her fifth album was composed for US first lady Nancy Reagan and
Reagan administration's anti-drug campaign.









Melissa Lou Etheridge
(born May 29, 1961)

is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and guitarist. Her eponymous debut album was released in 1988
and became an underground success. It peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200 and its lead single,
"Bring Me Some Water", garnered Etheridge her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Female in 1989. Her second album, Brave and Crazy, appeared that same year and earned Etheridge two
more Grammy nominations. In 1992, Etheridge released her third album, Never Enough, and its lead single,
"Ain't It Heavy", won Etheridge her first Grammy Award. Etheridge was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, the younger
of two daughters of Elizabeth (Williamson), a computer consultant, and John Etheridge, an American Constitution
teacher at her alma mater, Leavenworth High School. John Etheridge died in August 1991.