Today's Famous Birthdays

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Elijah J. McCoy
(May 2, 1844  – October 10, 1929)

was a Canadian-American engineer of African-American descent who invented lubrication systems
for steam engines. Born free on the Ontario shore of Lake Erie to parents who fled enslavement
in Kentucky, he traveled to the United States as a young child when his family returned in 1847,
becoming a U.S. resident and citizen. His inventions and accomplishments were honored in 2012
when the United States Patent and Trademark Office named its first regional office, in Detroit, Michigan,
the "Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional Patent Office." Elijah McCoy was born in 1844 in
Colchester, Ontario, to George and Mildred Goins McCoy. At the time, they were fugitive slaves
who had escaped from Kentucky to Ontario via helpers through the Underground Railroad.








Hedda Hopper
(born Elda Furry; May 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966)

was an American gossip columnist and actress. At the height of her influence in the 1940s, her
readership was 35 million. A strong supporter of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
hearings, Hopper named suspected communists and was a major proponent of the Hollywood
blacklist. Hopper continued to write gossip until the end of her life, her work appearing in many
magazines and later on radio. She had an extended feud with another gossip columnist,
arch-rival Louella Parsons. Hopper was born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, the daughter
of Margaret (1856–1941) and David Furry, a butcher, both members of the German Baptist Brethren.
Her family was of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. The family moved to Altoona when Elda was three.










Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen
(2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918),

known in English as Baron von Richthofen or the Red Baron, was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force
during World War I. He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air
combat victories. Originally a cavalryman, Richthofen transferred to the Air Service in 1915, becoming
one of the first members of fighter squadron Jagdstaffel 2 in 1916. He quickly distinguished himself as
a fighter pilot, and during 1917 became the leader of Jasta 11. Later he led the larger fighter wing
Jagdgeschwader I, better known as "The Flying Circus" or "Richthofen's Circus" because of the bright
colours of its aircraft, and perhaps also because of the way the unit was transferred from one area of
Allied air activity to another – moving like a travelling circus, and frequently setting up in tents on
improvised airfields. By 1918, Richthofen was regarded as a national hero in Germany, and respected
by his enemies.









Benjamin McLane Spock
(May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998)

was an American pediatrician and left-wing political activist whose book Baby and Child Care (1946)
is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after
its initial publication in 1946 and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. The book's premise
to mothers was that they "know more than you think you do." Spock's parenting advice and recommendations
revolutionized parental upbringing in the United States, and he is considered to be amongst the most
famous and influential Americans of the 20th century. Benjamin McLane Spock was born May 2, 1903,
in New Haven, Connecticut; his parents were Benjamin Ives Spock, a Yale graduate and long-time general
counsel of the New Haven Railroad, and Mildred Louise (Stoughton) Spock.










Arnold George Dorsey MBE
(born 2 May 1936),

known professionally as Engelbert Humperdinck, is a British pop singer who has been described as
"one of the finest middle-of-the-road balladeers around". He achieved international prominence in
1967 with his recording of "Release Me". Starting as a performer under the name of Gerry Dorsey
in the late 1950s, he later adopted the name of the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck as a
stage name and found success after he partnered with manager Gordon Mills in 1965. His recordings
of the ballads "Release Me" and "The Last Waltz" both topped the UK Singles Chart in 1967, selling
more than a million copies each. Humperdinck scored further major hits in rapid succession,
including "There Goes My Everything" (1967), "Am I That Easy to Forget" (1968) and
"A Man Without Love" (1968). In the process, he attained a large following, with some of his most
devoted fans calling themselves "Humperdinckers". Three of his singles were among the best-selling
of the 1960s in the United Kingdom. Arnold George Dorsey was born in Madras, British India
(now Chennai, India) in 1936, one of ten children to British Army NCO Mervyn Dorsey, who was
of Welsh descent, and his wife Olive, who, according to the singer, was of German descent.










Alexander Minto Hughes
(2 May 1945 – 13 March 1998),

better known as Judge Dread, was an English reggae and ska musician. He was the first white
recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica, and the BBC has banned more of his songs than
those of any other recording artist, because of his frequent use of sexual innuendo and double
entendres. Following his death, Rolling Stone reported, "He sold several million albums throughout
his 25-plus year career and was second only to Bob Marley in U.K. reggae sales during the 1970s".
Hughes was born on 2 May 1945. He was introduced to Jamaican music when he lodged as a
teenager in a West Indian household in Brixton, South West London. Hughes, a heavily-built man,
met Jamaican artists Derrick Morgan and Prince Buster through his job as a bouncer at London
nightclubs such as the Ram Jam in Brixton, and through another job as a bodyguard.









Lesley Sue Goldstein
(May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015),

known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist.
At the age of 16, she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party", a US number one in 1963. She
followed it up with ten further Billboard top 40 hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry" and
"You Don't Own Me". Gore was born Lesley Sue Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York City, into a
middle-class Jewish family. The daughter of Leo Goldstein and Ronny Gore, her father was the
owner of Peter Pan, a children's swimwear and underwear manufacturer, and later became a
leading brand licensing agent in the apparel industry.










David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE
(born 2 May 1975)

is an English former professional footballer, the current president and co-owner of Inter Miami CF and
co-owner of Salford City. Known for his range of passing, crossing ability and bending free-kicks as
a right winger, Beckham has frequently been hailed as one of the greatest and most recognisable
midfielders of his generation, as well as one of the best set-piece specialists of all time. He is the first
English player to win league titles in four countries: England, Spain, the United States and France. Due
to his talent and achievements for both club and country, Beckham is additionally lauded as one of the
greatest Manchester United footballers of all time as well as one of the best English players in the
history of the sport. Beckham was born at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, London,
England. He is the son of Sandra Georgina (née West; b. 1949), a hairdresser, and David Edward Alan
"Ted" Beckham (b. Edmonton, London, 1948), a kitchen fitter; the couple married in 1969 in the
London Borough of Hackney.










Kyle Thomas Busch (born May 2, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver and
racing team owner. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 8 Chevrolet
Camaro ZL1 for Richard Childress Racing, part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the
No. 10 Chevrolet Camaro for Kaulig Racing, and part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series,
driving the No. 51 Chevrolet Silverado for Kyle Busch Motorsports. Busch is the 2009 NASCAR
Nationwide Series champion and the 2015 and 2019 Cup Series champion. Busch is currently 9th
on the all-time NASCAR Cup Series wins list and his dominance of NASCAR's three major series
has him ranked as one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. Busch is also a one-time
WWE 24/7 Champion. He is the younger brother of 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series champion
Kurt Busch. Busch was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. His exposure to racing came at
the age of six when he drove around the cul-de-sac of his family's Las Vegas neighborhood
in a makeshift go-kart.









Princess Charlotte of Wales
(Charlotte Elizabeth Diana; born 2 May 2015)

is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of William,
Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales. A granddaughter of King Charles III, she is
third in the line of succession to the British throne. Princess Charlotte was born on 2 May 2015
in the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, London, at 08:34 BST, during the reign of her
great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II as the second child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

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Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr.
(May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)

was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular
and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. He was a leader in record sales,
radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. He was one of the first global
cultural icons. He made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs. Crosby
was born on May 3, 1903, in Tacoma, Washington, in a house his father built at
1112 North J Street. In 1906, his family moved to Spokane in Eastern Washington state,
where he was raised. In 1913, his father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue.










Mary Astor
(born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987)
was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best
remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).
Astor was born in Quincy, Illinois, the only child of Otto Ludwig Langhanke and
Helen Marie de Vasconcellos. Her parents were teachers. Her German father
emigrated to the United States from Berlin in 1891 and became a naturalized
U.S. citizen; her American mother was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and had
Portuguese roots. They married on August 3, 1904, in Lyons, Kansas.









Golda Meir
(born Golda Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978)

was an Israeli politician, teacher, and kibbutznikit who served as the fourth Prime Minister
of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government,
the first female head of government in the Middle East, and the fourth elected female
head of government or state in the world. Meir also served as labor minister and
foreign minister. Golda Mabovitch was born to a Jewish family in downtown Kyiv,
Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) on May 3, 1898 to Blume Neiditch (died 1951)
and Moshe Mabovitch (died 1944), a carpenter. Meir wrote in her autobiography that
her earliest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to
rumours of an imminent pogrom. She had two sisters, Sheyna (born 1889) and Tzipke
(born 1902), as well as five other siblings who died in childhood.










James Joseph Brown
(May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)

was an American musician. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of
20th century music, he is referred to by various honorific nicknames, some of which
include "the Hardest Working Man in Show Business", "Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite",
and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced
the development of several music genres. Brown was one of the first 10 inductees
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural induction in New York on
January 23, 1986. Brown was born on May 3, 1933, in Barnwell, South Carolina, to
16-year-old Susie (née Behling; 1916–2004) and 21-year-old Joseph Gardner Brown
(1912–1993) in a small wooden shack.









Francesco Stephen Castelluccio
(born May 3, 1934),

better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer, known as the
frontman of the Four Seasons beginning in 1960. He is known for his unusually
powerful lead falsetto voice. Valli was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, on
May 3, 1934, to an Italian family in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey; he was
the eldest of three sons. His father, Anthony Castelluccio, was a barber and display
designer for Lionel model trains; his mother, Mary Rinaldi, was a homemaker
and beer company employee.

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Audrey Hepburn
(born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993)

was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognized as a film and fashion icon, she was
ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from
the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International
Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. Audrey Kathleen Ruston (later, Hepburn-Ruston) was born
on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. She was
known to her family as Adriaantje. Black and White photo of Hepburn's grandfather when
he was governor of Dutch Guiana. Hepburn's grandfather, Aarnoud van Heemstra, was
the governor of the Dutch colony of Dutch Guiana. Hepburn's mother,
Baroness Ella van Heemstra (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984), was a Dutch noblewoman.
Ella was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who served as mayor of Arnhem
from 1910 to 1920 and as governor of Dutch Guiana from 1921 to 1928, and
Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck (1873–1939), a granddaughter of
Count Dirk van Hogendorp.
At age 19, she married Jonkheer Hendrik Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford,
an oil executive based in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, where they subsequently lived.









Paul Xavier Gleason
(May 4, 1939 – May 27, 2006)

was an American film and television actor. He was known for his roles on television series such as
All My Children and films such as The Breakfast Club, Trading Places, and Die Hard. Gleason was
born on May 4, 1939, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Eleanor (née Doyle), a registered nurse,
and George L. Gleason, a restaurateur, professional boxer, iron worker, and roofing manufacturer.
Gleason was raised in Miami Beach, Florida. At age 16, he ran away from home and hitchhiked
across the east coast, sleeping on beaches and playing baseball.










Randy Bruce Traywick
(born May 4, 1959),
known professionally as Randy Travis, is an American country music and gospel music singer,
songwriter, guitarist, and actor. Randy Bruce Traywick was born on May 4, 1959, in
Marshville, North Carolina, as the second of six children of Bobbie (née Tucker)
(May 16, 1937 – May 21, 1998), a textile factory worker, and Harold Traywick
(March 31, 1933 – October 8, 2016), a horse breeder, turkey farmer, substitute school teacher,
and construction business owner.








Mary Elizabeth McDonough
(born May 4, 1961),

sometimes credited as Mary Beth McDonough, is an American actress and writer, best known for
her role as Erin Walton on The Waltons from 1972 to 1981. McDonough was born May 4, 1961 in
the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles, California, the third of four children to Lawrence and Elizabeth
(née Murray) McDonough. Her father was an Irish American ex-marine from Nebraska, while her
mother was from La Junta, Colorado. McDonough was raised Catholic, in what she described as
a working-class family.









William Emerson Arnett
(born May 4, 1970)

is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his roles as Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix series
Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and as the titular character in the Netflix series
BoJack Horseman (2014–2020). He has appeared in films such as Let's Go to Prison (2006),
Blades of Glory (2007), Semi-Pro (2008), G-Force (2009), Jonah Hex (2010),
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
Out of the Shadows (2016), and Show Dogs (2018). Arnett was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of
Edith Alexandra "Alix" (Palk) and Emerson James "Jim" Arnett, who was a corporate lawyer and brewer,
among other occupations.











Michael Ryan Pritchard
(born May 4, 1972),

better known by his stage name Mike Dirnt, is an American rock musician who is the co-founder,
bassist, backing vocalist, and occasional lead vocalist of the band Green Day. He has also played
in several other bands, including the Frustrators. His stage name Dirnt was originally a nickname
that his friends from grade school gave him, as he constantly played "air bass/guitar" and made
a "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt" noise while pretending to pluck the strings.









Laci Denise Peterson
(May 4, 1975 — c. December 24, 2002)

was an American woman killed while eight-months pregnant with her first child. Laci's husband,
Scott Lee Peterson (born October 24, 1972), was convicted of first-degree murder for her death
and second-degree murder for the death of their unborn son. Originally sentenced to death, Scott's
sentence was overturned in 2020, and, in 2021, he was re-sentenced to life in prison without the
possibility of parole. Scott has maintained his innocence.

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Patricia Ann Carroll
(May 5, 1927 – July 30, 2022)

was an American actress and comedian. She was known for voicing Ursula in The Little Mermaid
and for appearances in CBS's The Danny Thomas Show, ABC's Laverne & Shirley, and NBC's ER.
Carroll was an Emmy, Drama Desk, and Grammy Award winner, as well as a Tony Award nominee.
Carroll was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 5, 1927, to Maurice Clifton Carroll (d. 1963)
and Kathryn Angela (née Meagher). Her family moved to Los Angeles when Pat was five years old,
and she soon began acting in local productions. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High School
and attended Catholic University of America after enlisting in the United States Army as a
civilian actress technician.









Sir Michael Edward Palin KCMG CBE FRGS FRSGS FRSL
(born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He was a member
of the Monty Python comedy group. Since 1980, he has made numerous television travel documentaries,
and is a widely recognized writer and presenter. Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python
sketches, including "Argument Clinic", "Dead Parrot sketch", "The Lumberjack Song",
"The Spanish Inquisition", "Bicycle Repair Man" and "The Fish-Slapping Dance". Palin was born in
Ranmoor, Sheffield, the second child and only son of Edward Moreton Palin (1900–1977) and
Mary Rachel Lockhart (née Ovey; 1903–1990). His father was a Shrewsbury and Cambridge-educated
engineer working for a steel firm. His maternal grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lockhart Ovey,
DSO, was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1927.










Karl Heinrich Marx FRSA
(German; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)

was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of
political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The
Communist Manifesto and the four-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical
thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history.
His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.










Elizabeth Cochran Seaman
(born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922),

better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, who was widely known for her
record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character
Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from
within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.
Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born May 5, 1864, in "Cochran's Mills", now part of Burrell Township,
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.









Tyrone Edmund Power III
(May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958)

was an American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films, often in
swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His better-known films include Jesse James, The Mark of Zorro,
Marie Antoinette, Blood and Sand, The Black Swan, Prince of Foxes, Witness for the Prosecution,
The Black Rose, and Captain from Castile. Power's own favorite film among those that he starred
in was Nightmare Alley. Power was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1914, the son of Helen Emma "Patia"
and the English-born American stage and screen actor Tyrone Power Sr., often known by his first name
"Fred". Power was descended from a long Irish theatrical line going back to his great-grandfather,
the Irish actor and comedian Tyrone Power (1797–1841).









Tammy Wynette
(born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998)

was an American country music artist, as well as an actress and author. She is considered among
the genre's most influential and successful artists. Along with Loretta Lynn, Wynette helped bring
a woman's perspective to the male-dominated country music field that helped other women find
representation in the genre. Her characteristic vocal delivery has been acclaimed by critics,
journalists and writers for conveying unique emotion. Twenty of her singles topped the Billboard
country chart during her career. Her signature song "Stand by Your Man" received both acclaim
and criticism for its portrayal of women's loyalty towards their husbands. Virginia Wynette Pugh
was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi in 1942. With only 800 people, Itawamba County
did not have any official towns at the time of her birth. The farm where she was born bordered
the Alabama state line. Wynette later credited both Alabama and Mississippi as her home states.
She was the only child born to Mildred Faye Russell and William Hollis Pugh.









William Thomas Ward
(born 5 May 1948)

is an English drummer. He was a co-founder and the original drummer for the heavy metal band
Black Sabbath. Ward helped found Black Sabbath in 1969 alongside bandmates Ozzy Osbourne
(lead singer), Tony Iommi (guitarist) and Geezer Butler (bass). According to his Black Sabbath
bandmates Tony Iommi and Ozzy Osbourne, Ward has dramatically changed his lifestyle since
Black Sabbath's 1970s and early 80s heyday. Iommi says he stopped smoking, gave up alcohol,
became a vegan, and does not use drugs of any kind.[4] Osbourne says that Ward has been sober
for approximately 30 years.










Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE
(born 5 May 1988)

is an English singer-songwriter. After graduating in arts from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed
a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 and spawned the UK
top-five singles "Chasing Pavements" and "Make You Feel My Love". 19 has sold over 2.5 million
copies in the UK and was named in the top 20 best-selling debut albums of all time in the UK.
Adele was honored with the Brit Award for Rising Star as well as the Grammy Award for
Best New Artist. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 5 May 1988 in the Tottenham district of London,
to an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Marc Evans.

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Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926),

known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor
based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and
The Son of the Sheik. Valentino was a sex symbol of the 1920s, known in Hollywood as the
"Latin Lover" (a title invented for him by Hollywood moguls), the "Great Lover", or simply Valentino.
His early death at the age of 31 caused mass hysteria among his fans, further cementing his
place in early cinematic history as a cultural film icon. Valentino was born in Castellaneta, Apulia,
and named Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella. His father,
Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fedele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, was an Italian from
Martina Franca, Apulia; he was a captain of cavalry in the Italian Army, later a veterinarian,
who died of malaria when Rodolfo was 11.









Raymond Thomas Bailey
(May 6, 1904 – April 15, 1980)

was an American actor, and comedian on the Broadway stage, films, and television. He is best known
for his role as greedy banker Milburn Drysdale in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies. Bailey was
born in San Francisco, California, the son of William and Alice (née O'Brien) Bailey. When he was a
teenager he went to Hollywood to become a movie star. He found it was harder than he had thought,
however, and took a variety of short-term jobs. He worked for a time as a day laborer at a movie studio
in the days of silent pictures, but was fired for sneaking into a mob scene while it was being filmed.
He also worked for a while as a stockbroker and a banker.









George Orson Welles
(May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)

was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter who is remembered for his innovative
work in film, radio, and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential
filmmakers of all time. George Orson Welles was born May 6, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a son
of Richard Head Welles (1872–1930)  and Beatrice Ives Welles (née Beatrice Lucy Ives; 1883–1924). 
He was named after one of his great-grandfathers, influential Kenosha attorney Orson S. Head, and
his brother George Head.  An alternative story of the source of his first and middle names was told
by George Ade, who met Welles's parents on a West Indies cruise toward the end of 1914. Ade was
traveling with a friend, Orson Wells (no relation), and the two of them sat at the same table as Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Welles. Mrs. Welles was pregnant at the time, and when they said goodbye, she
told them that she had enjoyed their company so much that if the child were a boy, she intended
to name him after them: George Orson.











George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961)

is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a British
Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards; one for his acting and
the other as a producer. He has been honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2015, the Honorary
César in 2017, AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2022.
Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce , was a beauty
queen and city councilwoman. His father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman and television host,
including five years on the AMC network. Clooney is of Irish, German, and English ancestry.









Robert Edwin Peary Sr.
(May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920)

was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the
Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for, in April 1909, leading an
expedition that claimed to be the first to have reached the geographic North Pole. Robert Edwin Peary
was born on May 6, 1856, in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania to Charles N. and Mary P. Peary. After his father
died in 1859, Peary and his mother moved to Portland, Maine. After growing up there, Peary attended
Portland High School (Maine) where he graduated in 1873.








Sigmund Freud
(German: born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939)

was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating
and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between
patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
Sigmund Freud was born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the
Austrian Empire (now Příbor, Czech Republic), the first of eight children. Both of his parents were
from Galicia, a historic province straddling modern-day West Ukraine and southeast Poland.








Willie Howard Mays Jr.
(born May 6, 1931),

nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid" and "Buck", is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Regarded as one of the greatest players ever, Mays ranks second behind only Babe Ruth on most
all-time lists, including those of The Sporting News and ESPN. Mays played in the National League (NL)
between 1951 and 1973 for the New York / San Francisco Giants and New York Mets. Mays is the
oldest living member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Willie Howard Mays Jr. was born on
May 6, 1931, in Westfield, Alabama, a primarily black company town near Fairfield. His father,
Cat Mays, was a talented baseball player with the black team at the local iron plant.
Annie Satterwhite, his mother, was a gifted high school basketball and track star.









Robert Clark Seger
(born May 6, 1945)

is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he
performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and The Bob Seger System throughout
the 1960s, breaking through with his first album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (which contained his
first national hit of the same name) in 1969. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the 'System'
from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973,
he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he
became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet (1976), recorded live
with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. In 1976, he achieved a
national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. On his studio albums, he also worked
extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several
of Seger's best-selling singles and albums. Seger was born at Henry Ford Hospital in
Detroit, Michigan, the son of Charlotte and Stewart Seger. At age five, he moved with his
family to Ann Arbor. He had an older brother, George.










Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG
(born 6 May 1953)

is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He served as Leader of the Opposition from
1994 to 1997, and had various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was the Member
of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007. He is the second longest serving prime minister
in modern history after Margaret Thatcher, and is the longest serving Labour politician to have
held the office.

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George Francis "Gabby" Hayes
(7 May 1885 – 9 February 1969)

was an American actor. He began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he
was best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western film series as the bewhiskered,
cantankerous, but ever-loyal and brave comic sidekick of the cowboy stars Hopalong Cassidy,
Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Hayes was born the third of seven children in his father's hotel,
the Hayes Hotel, in Stannards, New York, a hamlet just outside Wellsville, New York.
(Hayes always gave Wellsville as his birthplace, but legally he was born in Stannards.)










Gary Cooper
(born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961)

was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style. He
won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as an
Academy Honorary Award in 1961 for his career achievements. He was one of the top-10 film
personalities for 23 consecutive years and one of the top money-making stars for 18 years. The
American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper at number 11 on its list of the 25 greatest male stars
of classic Hollywood cinema. Frank James Cooper was born in Helena, Montana, on May 7, 1901,
the younger of two sons of English parents Alice (née Brazier; 1873–1967) and
Charles Henry Cooper (1865–1946).










María Eva Duarte de Perón
( née María Eva Duarte; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952),

better known as just Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita, was an Argentine politician, activist, actress,
and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952,
as the wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974). She was born in poverty in the
rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. In 1934, at the age of 15,
she moved to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress.

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Eric Hilliard Nelson
(May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985)

was an American musician and actor. From age eight he starred alongside his family in
the radio and television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. In 1957, he began
a long and successful career as a popular recording artist. The expression "teen idol"
was first coined to describe Nelson, and his fame as both a recording artist and television
star also led to a motion picture role co-starring alongside John Wayne, Dean Martin,
Walter Brennan, and Angie Dickinson in Howard Hawks's western feature film Rio Bravo (1959).
He placed 54 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and its predecessors between 1957 and 1973,
including "Poor Little Fool" in 1958, which was the first number one song on Billboard
magazine's then-newly created Hot 100 chart. He recorded 19 additional top ten hits and
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987. In 1996 Nelson
was ranked No. 49 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. Nelson was born on
May 8, 1940, in Teaneck, New Jersey. He was the second son of entertainment
couple Harriet Hilliard Nelson (born Peggy Lou Snyder; July 18, 1909 – October 2, 1994)
and Ozzie Nelson (March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975). His father Ozzie was of half Swedish
descent. The Nelsons' older son was actor David Nelson
(October 24, 1936 – January 11, 2011).











Harry S. Truman
(May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States,
serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as
the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a
United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945. Assuming the presidency
after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy
of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the
expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms,
but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the Congress.
Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, on May 8, 1884, the oldest child of
John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman.











Stephen Furst
(born Stephen Nelson Feuerstein; May 8, 1954 – June 16, 2017)

was an American actor. After gaining attention with his featured role as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman
in the comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House and its spin-off television series
Delta House, he went on to be a regular as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in the medical drama series
St. Elsewhere from 1983 to 1988, and as Centauri diplomatic attaché Vir Cotto in the
science fiction series Babylon 5 from 1994 to 1998. Other notable film roles included the
college comedy Midnight Madness (1980), as a team leader in an all-night mystery game,
the action thriller Silent Rage (1982), as deputy to a sheriff played by Chuck Norris, and
the comedy The Dream Team (1989), as a good-natured psychiatric patient.

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Myron Leon Wallace
(May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012)

was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. Known for his
investigative journalism, he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his
seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news
program 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time
correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008.
He was the father of Chris Wallace. Wallace, whose family's surname was originally Wallik,
was born on May 9, 1918, in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents.










Candice Patricia Bergen
(born May 9, 1946)

is an American actress. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards
for her portrayal of the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018).
She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008).
In films, Bergen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for
Starting Over (1979), and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi (1982).
Candice Patricia Bergen was born May 9, 1946, at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in
Los Angeles, California.










Sonny Curtis
(born May 9, 1937)

is an American singer and songwriter. Known for his collaborations with Buddy Holly,
he was a member of the Crickets and continued with the band after Holly's death.
Curtis's best known compositions include "Walk Right Back", a major hit in 1961 for
the Everly Brothers; "I Fought the Law", notably covered by the Bobby Fuller Four
and the Clash; and "Love is All Around," the theme song for The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Curtis was born in Meadow, Texas, United States.








Steven Katz
(born May 9, 1945)

is a guitarist, singer, and record producer who is best known as a member of the rock-pop-jazz
group Blood, Sweat & Tears. Katz was an original member of the rock bands The Blues Project
and American Flyer. As a producer, his credits include the 1979 album Short Stories Tall Tales
for the Irish band Horslips, and the Lou Reed albums Rock 'n' Roll Animal and Sally Can't Dance
and the Elliott Murphy album Night Lights. Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York City. His
professional career started in the late fifties on a local Schenectady, New York television
program called Teenage Barn.








William Martin Joel
(born May 9, 1949)

is an American singer, pianist, and songwriter. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man" after
his signature 1973 song of the same name, he has had a successful career as a solo artist
since the 1970s. From 1971 to 1993, he released twelve studio albums that spanned pop
and rock, as well as one album of classical music in 2001. He is one of the best-selling music
artists, as well as the seventh-best-selling recording artist and the fourth-best-selling solo
artist in the United States, with over 160 million records sold worldwide. His 1985 compilation
album, Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II, is one of the best-selling albums in the United States.
William Martin Joel was born on May 9, 1949, in the Bronx, New York. When he was one year old,
his family moved to the Long Island suburb of Hicksville, in the town of Oyster Bay, where he and
his cousin Judy, whom his parents adopted, were raised in a section of Levitt homes.

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John Wilkes Booth
(May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865)

was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at
Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent 19th-century
Booth theatrical family from Maryland, he was a noted actor who was also a Confederate
sympathizer; denouncing President Lincoln, he lamented the then-recent abolition of slavery
in the United States.









Fred Astaire
(born Frederick Austerlitz May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987)

was an American dancer, actor, singer, choreographer and presenter. He is widely regarded
as the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time". He received numerous accolades including
an Honorary Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two
Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was honored with the Film Society of
Lincoln Center tribute in 1973, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, and AFI Life
Achievement Award in 1980. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960,
American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1972, and the Television Hall of Fame in 1989.
Fred Astaire was born Frederick Austerlitz on May 10, 1899, in Omaha, Nebraska,
the son of Johanna "Ann" (née Geilus; 1878–1975) and Friedrich "Fritz" Emanuel Austerlitz
(1868–1923), known in the US as Frederic Austerlitz.









George Allen "Pat" Summerall
(May 10, 1930 – April 16, 2013)

was an American football player and television sportscaster who worked for CBS, Fox, and ESPN.
In addition to football, he announced major golf and tennis events. Summerall announced 16
Super Bowls on network television (more than anyone else), 26 Masters Tournaments, and
21 US Opens. He contributed to 10 Super Bowl broadcasts on CBS Radio as a pregame
host or analyst. Summerall was married to Cheri Summerall. As of 2013, they had 3 children,
including political consultant Susie Wiles, and 10 grandchildren. Summerall was a Christian.
In his book, Summerall: On and Off the Air, he wrote about his faith and his recovery from
alcoholism saying "My thirst for alcohol was replaced by a thirst for knowledge about
faith and God. I began reading the Bible regularly at the Betty Ford treatment center,
and it became a part of my daily life."









Gary Owens
(born Gary Bernard Altman; May 10, 1934 – February 12, 2015)

was an American voice actor, radio personality and disc jockey. His polished baritone speaking
voice generally offered deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated
as the announcer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Owens was equally proficient in straight or silly
assignments and was frequently heard on television and radio as well as in commercials.
Owens was born in Mitchell, South Dakota, the son of Venetta (née Clark), an educator and
county auditor, and Bernard Joseph Altman, a county treasurer and sheriff.








"Mother" Maybelle Carter
(born Maybelle Addington; May 10, 1909 – October 23, 1978)

was an American country musician and "among the first" to use the Carter scratch, with which
she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument." It was named after her. She was a member
of the original Carter Family act from the late 1920s until the early 1940s and a member of the
Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle group. She was born Maybelle Addington on May 10, 1909,
in Nickelsville, Virginia, the daughter of Margaret Elizabeth (née Kilgore; 1879–1960) and
Hugh Jackson Addington (1877–1929). On March 13, 1926, Maybelle married Ezra Carter.
They had three daughters, Helen, June, and Anita.








Donovan Phillips Leitch
(born 10 May 1946),

known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer.
He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelic rock
and world music (notably calypso). He has lived in Scotland, Hertfordshire (England),
London, California, and—since at least 2008—in County Cork, Ireland, with his family.
Emerging from the British folk scene, Donovan reached fame in the United Kingdom in
early 1965 with live performances on the pop TV series Ready Steady Go!. Donovan was
born on 10 May 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow, to Donald and Winifred (née Phillips) Leitch.
His grandmothers were Irish. He contracted polio as a child.









John Simon Ritchie
(10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979),

better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the
bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Despite dying in 1979 at age 21, he remains an
icon of the punk subculture; one of his friends noted that he embodied "everything in punk
that was dark, decadent and nihilistic." John Simon Ritchie was born on 10 May 1957 in
Lewisham to John and Anne Ritchie nee McDonald (1933–1996). Anne had dropped out
of school and joined the British Army, where she met Ritchie's father, a guardsman at
Buckingham Palace and a semi-professional trombone player on the London jazz scene.










Paul David Hewson
(born 10 May 1960),

known by the nickname Bono (/ˈbɒnoʊ/ BON-oh), is an Irish singer-songwriter, activist, and
philanthropist. He is the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band U2. Born and raised
in Dublin, he attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where in 1976 he began dating
his future wife, Alison Stewart, as well as forming, with schoolmates, the band that became U2.
Paul David Hewson was born in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin on 10 May 1960, the second
child of Iris (née Rankin) and Brendan Robert "Bob" Hewson. His brother, Norman, is eight
years older than him. Bono was raised in the Northside suburb of Finglas.

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Phil Silvers
(born Phillip Silver; May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985)

was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". His career as
a professional entertainer spanned nearly sixty years. He achieved major popularity when he starred
in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played
Master Sergeant Ernest (Ernie) Bilko. He also starred in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). He was a winner of two Primetime
Emmy Awards for his work on The Phil Silvers Show and two Tony Awards for his performances in
Top Banana and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He also wrote the original lyrics
to the jazz standard "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)". Born Philip Silver in Brooklyn, New York, in
the working-class Brownsville neighborhood, he was the eighth and youngest child of Russian Jewish
immigrants, Saul and Sarah (née Handler) Silver. His siblings were
Lillian, Harry, Jack, Saul, Pearl, Michael, and Reuben Silver. His father, a sheet metal worker,
helped build the early New York skyscrapers.









Denver Dell Pyle
(May 11, 1920 – December 25, 1997)

was an American film and television actor and director. He was well known for a number of TV roles
from the 1960s through the 1980s, including his portrayal of Briscoe Darling in several episodes
of The Andy Griffith Show, as Jesse Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard from 1979 to 1985, as Mad Jack
in the NBC television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, and as the titular character's father,
Buck Webb, in CBS's The Doris Day Show. In many of his roles, he portrayed either authority figures,
or gruff, demanding father figures, often as comic relief. Perhaps his most memorable film role was
that of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer in the movie Bonnie and Clyde (1967), as the lawman who
relentlessly chased down and finally killed the notorious duo in an ambush. Pyle was born in
Bethune, Colorado on May 11, 1920, to farmer Ben H. Pyle and his wife Maude; His brother, Willis,
was an animator known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios and UPA.









Douglas Osborne McClure
(May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995)

was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s.
He is best known for his role as the cowboy Trampas during the entire run from 1962 to 1971 of
the series The Virginian and mayor turned police chief Kyle Applegate on Out of this World.









Irving Berlin
(born Israel Beilin; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989)

was an American composer and lyricist. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook.
Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song,
"Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights, and became known for
international hits, such as 1911's "Alexander's Ragtime Band". Composer George Gershwin called him
"the greatest songwriter that has ever lived",: 117  and composer Jerome Kern concluded that
"Irving Berlin has no place in American music—he is American music."









Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol gcYC
(11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989),

known as Salvador Dalí was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise
draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work. Salvador Dalí was born on
11 May 1904, at 8:45 am, on the first floor of Carrer Monturiol, 20 in the town of Figueres, in
the Empordà region, close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain. Dalí's older brother, who
had also been named Salvador (born 12 October 1901), had died of gastroenteritis nine months
earlier, on 1 August 1903. His father, Salvador Luca Rafael Aniceto Dalí Cusí (1872–1950) was
a middle-class lawyer and notary,[12] an anti-clerical atheist and Catalan federalist, whose
strict disciplinary approach was tempered by his wife, Felipa Domènech Ferrés (1874–1921),
who encouraged her son's artistic endeavors.








Foster Brooks
(May 11, 1912 – December 20, 2001)

was an American actor and comedian best known for his portrayal of a lovable drunk in nightclub
performances and television programs. Brooks was born in Louisville, Kentucky on May 11, 1912,
to Edna and Pleasant M. Brooks. He had seven brothers. His career started in radio, notably with
station WHAS (AM) in Louisville. He was a staff announcer, and his deep baritone voice was also
well-suited for singing. Brooks gained fame for his reporting of the Ohio River flood of 1937, where
he was featured on emergency broadcasts by WHAS and also WSM (AM) from Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1952, Brooks appeared on local TV in a short-lived spoof of Gene Autry and his "Singing Cowboys".









Martha Conrad Quinn
(born May 11, 1959)

is an American actress and radio and television personality, best known as one of the original
video jockeys on MTV (along with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and J. J. Jackson).
Quinn had spent much of her time at New York University doing two things: performing in
TV commercials (McDonald's, Country Time Lemonade, Clearasil, Campbell's Soup) and working
at WNYU-FM, the college radio station. Quinn was born in Albany, New York, the daughter of
Nina Pattison, a retirement counselor, and David Quinn, an attorney. She is the stepdaughter of
personal finance columnist Jane Bryant Quinn, and has two older brothers and a younger
half-brother. Prior to joining MTV, Quinn graduated from Ossining High School in 1977,
and NYU in 1981.