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May 16th
1905 Henry Fonda (d 8/12/82, age 77)
1912 Louis 'Studs' Terkel (author) (d 10/31/08, age 96)
1913 Woody Herman (jazz clarinetist, bandleader) (d 10/29/87, age 74)
1917 George Gaynes (actor: Commandant Eric Lassard in all seven "Police Academy" movies) (d 2/15/16, age 98)
1918 Barry Atwater (actor) (d 5/24/78, age 60)
1919 Liberace (d 2/4/87, age 67)
1921 Harry Carey, Jr. (actor) (d 12/27/12, age 91)
1925 Robert Pierpoint (CBS newsman, covered six presidents, Korean War, JFK assassination, Iran hostages, had a 40 year career) (d 10/22/11, age 86)
1928 Billy Martin (former manager/second baseman: New York Yankees) (d 12/25/89, age 61)
1929 Adrienne Rich (writer) (d 3/27/12, age 82)
1930 Betty Carter (jazz singer) (d 9/26/98, age 68)
1931 Jack Dodson (actor: Howard on "The Andy Griffith Show") (d 9/16/94, age 63)
1932 'Big' George Brock (blues musician, claims to have 42 children) (d 4/10/20, age 87)
1936 Roy Hudd (comedian) (d 3/15/20, age 83)
1936 Paul Zindel (playwright/author) (d 3/27/03, age 66)
1937 Yvonne Craig (actress: Batgirl on "Batman") (d 8/17/15, age 78)
1943 Barbara Lee (singer: The Chiffons - "He's So Fine") (d 5/15/92, age 48)
1943 Donny Anderson (punter/running back: Green Bay Packers 1966-1971, Super Bowls I and II)
1945 Nicky Chinn (songwriter/producer: Chinn & Chapman - Ballroom Blitz, My Sharona, Mickey, Kiss You All Over)
1946 Roger Earl (drummer: Foghat, only founding member to perform in all of the band's incarnations)
1947 Bob Edwards (NPR commentator) (d 2/10/24, age 76)
1947 Bill Smitrovich (actor)
1948 Alto Reed (saxophonist: Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band) (d 12/30/20, age 72)
1949 Karlheinz Hackl (actor) (d 6/1/14, age 65)
1950 Jock Bartley (guitarist/singer: Firefall)
1952 Pierce Brosnan
1953 Richard Page (bassist/singer: Mr. Mister)
1955 Olga Korbut (gymnast)
1955 Debra Winger
1957 Bob Suter (Wisconsin hockey legend, member of the Miracle on Ice 1980 Olympic team) (d 9/9/14, age 57)
1958 James Stovall (actor) (d 9/26/10, age 52)
1959 Mare Winningham (actress: The Breakfast Club)
1960 Anne Parillaud (actress)
1961 Terry Keenan (Fox news and CNN reporter) (d 10/23/14, age 53)
1961 Dr. Richard Carlson (psychologist/author: "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" book series, died of a heart attack) (d 12/13/06, age 45)
1961 Nina Arvesen (actress)
1964 Boyd Tinsley (violinist: The Dave Matthews Band)
1965 Brent Jasmer (actor)
1965 Krist Novoselic (bassist: Nirvana)
1966 Janet Jackson
1966 Scott Reeves (actor)
1966 Thurman Thomas (running back: Buffalo Bills)
1968 Ralph Tresvant (singer: New Edition)
1969 David Boreanaz (actor: Angel on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel")
1969 Tracey Gold (actress: Carol on "Growing Pains")
1973 Tori Spelling (daughter of Aaron; actress: Donna Martin on "Beverly Hills 90210")
1977 Melanie Lynskey (actress: Rose on "Two and a Half Men")
1978 Vincent Larusso (actor: Adam in "Mighty Ducks")
1979 Evan Ferrante (actor)
1986 Megan Fox (actress)
May 17th
1900 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Iranian dictator) (d 6/4/89, age 89)
1908 Joe Grant (Disney writer who created the queen-witch character in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and co-wrote Dumbo) (d 5/6/05, age 96)
1911 Maureen O'Sullivan (actress: Tarzan's Jane in 6 movies) (d 6/23/98, age 87)
1912 Archibald Cox (first Watergate special prosecutor, fired by Nixon) (d 5/29/04, age 92)
1918 Birjit Nilsson (soprano) (d 12/25/05, age 87)
1934 Earl Morrall (quarterback: San Francisco 49ers 1956, Pittsburgh Steelers 1957-1958, Detroit Lions 1958-1964, New York Giants 1965-1967, Baltimore Colts 1968-1971, Miami Dolphins 1972-1976, 21 years overall) (d 4/25/14, age 79)
1936 Dennis Hopper (actor: Hoosiers, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider; also director of Easy Rider) (d 5/29/10, age 74)
1938 Pervis Jackson (singer: The Spinners) (d 8/18/08, age 70)
1942 Henry St. Claure 'Taj Mahal' Fredericks (blues singer)
1948 Bill Bruford (drummer: Yes)
1953 George Johnson (singer: The Brothers Johnson)
1953 Kathleen Sullivan (newscaster: ABC, CBS, E!)
1955 Bill Paxton (actor: The Terminator, Weird Science, Aliens, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, Titanic) (d 2/25/17, age 61)
1956 Bob Saget (actor: Full House, Older Ted Mosby on "How I Met Your Mother") (d 1/9/22, age 65)
1956 Charles 'Sugar Ray' Leonard (boxer)
1958 Paul Di'Anno (singer: Iron Maiden 1978-1981) (d 10/21/24, age 66)
1960 Fiona Hutchison (actress)
1961 Enya (composer/musician)
1962 Craig Ferguson (TV host/comedian)
1963 Page McConnell (keyboardist/singer: Phish)
1965 Trent Reznor (singer: Nine Inch Nails)
1965 Paige Turco (actress)
1966 Hill Harper (actor)
1967 Cameron Bancroft (actor: Joe on "Beverly Hills 90210")
1970 Jordan Knight (singer: New Kids on the Block)
1973 Matthew McGrory (seven foot tall actor from the movie "Big Fish") (d 8/9/05, age 32)
1975 Sasha Alexander
1983 Chris Henry (wide receiver: Cincinnati Bengals 2005-2009) (d 12/17/09, age 26)
1985 Derek Hough
1988 Nikki Reed (actress: Twilight)
1990 Kree Harrison (singer, second place finisher on 2013 American Idol)
May 18th
1897 Frank Capra (director: It's a Wonderful Life) (d 9/3/91, age 94)
1902 Meredith 'The Music Man' Willson (d 6/15/84, age 82)
1911 Larry Lansburgh (producer/director, won two Oscars for his animal-themed films) (d 3/25/01, age 89)
1911 Big Joe Turner (singer) (d 11/24/85, age 74)
1912 Richard Brooks (director: Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood) (d 3/11/92, age 79)
1912 Perry Como (d 5/12/01, age 88)
1920 Karol Wojtyla (aka Pope John Paul II, 264th Catholic Pope 1978-2005) (d 4/2/05, age 84)
1922 Bill Macy (actor: Walter Findlay on "Maude") (d 10/17/19, age 97)
1924 Priscilla Pointer (actress) (d 4/28/25, age 100)
1924 John Whitaker (sportscaster) (d 8/18/19, age 95)
1928 Pernell Roberts (actor: Adam Cartwright on "Bonanza," Trapper John M.D.) (d 1/24/10, age 81)
1931 Robert Morse (d 4/20/22, age 90)
1934 Dwayne Hickman (actor: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Cat Ballou) (d 1/9/22, age 87)
1937 Brooks Robinson (third baseman: Baltimore Orioles 1955-1977, his entire career, MLB hall of famer) (d 9/26/23, age 86)
1941 Diane McBain (actress) (d 12/21/22, age 81)
1946 Reggie Jackson
1947 Candice Azzara (actress)
1947 Feliviano Vierra 'Butch' Tavares (singer/harmonica/piano: Tavares)
1948 Joe Bonsall (tenor singer: Oak Ridge Boys) (d 7/9/24, age 76)
1949 Rick Wakeman (keyboardist: Yes)
1949 Bill Wallace (bassist: The Guess Who, co-wrote the hits "Hand Me Down World" and "Bus Rider")
1951 Denny Dillon (actress: Doreen in "Saturday Night Fever")
1952 George Strait
1955 Yun-Fat Chow (actor)
1964 Mitchell Guist (reality TV star: Swamp People) (d 5/14/12, age 47)
1966 Mike Inez (bassist: Alice in Chains)
1967 Rodney 'DJ E-Z Rock' Bryce (one half of duo with the hit "It Takes Two") (d 4/27/14, age 46)
1969 Martika (singer: Toy Soldiers)
1970 Tina Fey (actress: Saturday Night Live)
1971 Craig Hentrich (punter: Green Bay Packers 1994-1997)
1984 Simon Pagenaud (Indy 500 winner: 2019)
1992 Spencer Breslin
May 19th
1890 Ho Chi Minh (d 9/2/69, age 79)
1909 Sir Nicholas George Winton (led the Czech Kindertransport operation that saved 669 children, mostly Jewish, from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII, never talked about it later, his wife learned of it when she found his scrapbook in 1988) (d 7/1/15, age 106)
1915 Pol Pot (dictator) (d 4/15/98, age 82)
1922 David McLean (actor) (d 10/12/96, age 74)
1925 Malcolm X (d 2/21/65, age 39)
1926 David Jacobs (actor) (d 9/2/13, age 87)
1930 Lorraine Hansberry (playwright: A Raisin in the Sun) (d 1/12/65, age 34)
1934 Jim Lehrer (anchorman: MacNeil Lehrer Hour) (d 1/23/20, age 85)
1935 David Hartman (first host of "Good Morning, America" in 1975)
1937 Bob Jeter (cornerback: Green Bay Packers 1963-1970, Chicago Bears 1971-1973, Super Bowls I and II) (d 11/20/08, age 71)
1939 Francis Scobee (astronaut on ill-fated Challenger) (d 1/28/86, age 46)
1939 James Fox (actor)
1939 Nancy Kwan (actress)
1939 Stephen Young (actor)
1940 Mickey Newbury (songwriter: wrote Kenny Rogers' first hit and arranged "American Trilogy" as performed by Elvis Presley; Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Don Gibson and B.B. King also recorded his songs) (d 9/29/02, age 62)
1941 Nora Ephron (novelist/screenwriter/director/producer: When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Silkwood) (d 6/26/12, age 71)
1942 Frederick 'Curly' Neal (Harlem Globetrotter) (d 3/26/20, age 77)
1944 Peter Mayhew (actor: Chewbacca in several Star Wars movies) (d 4/30/19, age 74)
1945 Pete Townshend (guitarist: The Who)
1946 Phillip Rudd (drummer: AC/DC)
1947 Jerry Hyman (singer/trombonist: Blood Sweat and Tears)
1948 Paul Williams (music journalist, founder of Crawdaddy magazine) (d 3/27/13, age 64)
1948 Tom Scott (TV theme composer: Baretta, Starsky & Hutch, Cannon, Family Ties, etc)
1949 Joseph 'Dusty' Hill (bassist/singer: ZZ Top) (d 7/28/21, age 72)
1949 Archie Manning (quarterback: New Orleans Saints, Minnesota Vikings, Houston Oilers)
1951 Joey Ramone (singer: The Ramones) (d 4/15/01, age 49)
1951 David Lee Watson (bassist: Professor Longhair's band, Tab Benoit's band) (d 4/24/01, age 49)
1952 Grace Jones
1953 Jimmy Thackery (guitarist/singer: The Nighthawks, The Drivers)
1956 Steve Ford (actor: When Harry Met Sally, Body Count; son of Gerald and Betty)
1963 Yasmin 'Yazz' Evans (singer)
1965 Joshua Rifkind (actor)
1966 Sophia Crawford (actress)
1970 Stuart Cable (drummer: The Stereophonics) (d 6/7/10, age 40)
1972 Jenny Berggren (singer: Ace of Base)
1973 Dario Franchitti (Indy 500 winner: 2007 (rain shortened), 2010, 2012)
1982 Rebecca Hall
1986 Eric Lloyd (actor)
May 20th
1908 Jimmy Stewart (actor: It's a Wonderful Life) (d 7/2/97, age 89)
1911 Milton Gabler (founder of Commodore Music Shop in New York City) (d 7/20/01, age 90)
1913 William Hewlett (co-founder, with David Packard, of Hewlitt-Packard) (d 1/12/01, age 87)
1913 Julius Dixon (songwriter: Lollipop) (d 1/30/04, age 90)
1916 Patricia Ellis (actress) (d 3/26/70, age 53)
1919 'Lonesome' George Gobel (comedian - "Well I'll be a dirty bird") (d 2/24/91, age 71)
1920 Betty Driver (actress) (d 10/15/11, age 91)
1923 Edith Fellows (actress) (d 6/26/11, age 88)
1925 Vic Ames (singer: The Ames Brothers) (d 1/23/78, age 52)
1926 Bob Sweikert (Indy 500 winner: 1955, National Champion 1955) (d 6/17/56, age 30)
1927 Harold 'Bud' Grant (former Philadelphia Eagle player, former Minnesota Vikings coach) (d 3/11/23, age 95)
1927 David Hedison (actor: License to Kill, Live and Let Die) (d 7/18/19, age 92)
1929 Bud Wiser (producer/screenwriter: Diff'rent Strokes, One Day at a Time, All in the Family, Who's the Boss) (d 4/16/17, age 87)
1930 James McEachin (actor: Double Exposure) (d 1/12/25, age 94)
1931 Bill Belew (costume designer for Elvis Presley) (d 1/7/08, age 76)
1933 Constance Towers
1936 Anthony Zerbe (actor)
1937 Dave Hill (golfer) (d 9/27/11, age 74)
1940 Stan Mikita (hockey player: Chicago Blackhawks 1958-1980) (d 8/7/18, age 78)
1942 Jill 'Paula' Jackson (singer: Paul & Paula)
1944 Joe Cocker (singer: With a Little Help from My Friends, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, The Letter, You are So Beautiful, When the Night Comes, Cry Me a River) (d 12/22/14, age 70)
1946 Cher
1948 Dave Thomas (actor: SCTV (Doug McKenzie), Grace Under Fire)
1955 Steve George (keyboardist: Mr. Mister)
1958 Jane Wiedlin (rhythm guitarist: The Gogos)
1959 Susan Cowsill (singer: The Cowsills)
1959 Peter Greene (producer)
1959 Bronson Pinchot (actor: Balki on "Perfect Strangers")
1960 Tony Goldwyn
1961 Nick Heyward (guitarist/singer: Haircut 100)
1963 Brian Nash (actor)
1965 Fia Porter (actress)
1966 Mindy Cohn (actress: Natalie on "The Facts of Life")
1968 Timothy Olyphant (actor)
1972 Trevor 'Busta Rhymes' Smith (rapper)
1977 Angela Goethals (actress: VI Warshawski)
1984 Naturi Naughton
May 21st
1904 Robert Montgomery (actor, father of Elizabeth Montgomery) (d 9/27/81, age 77)
1904 Thomas 'Fats' Waller (jazz/blues pianist) (d 12/15/43, age 39)
1916 Harold Robbins (d 10/14/97, age 81)
1917 Dennis Day (singer: Jack Benny Program, Danny Boy) (d 5/22/88, age 71)
1917 Raymond Burr (actor: Perry Mason, Ironside) (d 9/12/93, age 76)
1921 Andrei Sakharov (Soviet dissident, created first Soviet atomic bomb, 1975 Nobel Peace Prize) (d 12/14/89, age 68)
1923 Evelyn Ward (actress, mother of David Cassidy) (d 12/23/12, age 89)
1924 Peggy Cass (actress: To Tell the Truth, Elinore on "The Hathaways") (d 3/8/99, age 74)
1926 Rick Jason (actor: Combat) (d 10/16/00, age 74)
1930 Tommy Bryant (jazz bassist) (d 1/3/82, age 51)
1933 Richard Libertini (actor: Soap) (d 1/7/16, age 82)
1939 David Groh (actor: Joe (Rhoda's husband) on "Rhoda") (d 2/12/08, age 68)
1940 Tony Sheridan (guitarist/singer/songwriter, early collaborator of the Beatles) (d 2/16/13, age 72)
1941 Ronald Isley (singer: The Isley Brothers)
1943 Hilton Valentine (guitarist: The Animals) (d 1/29/21, age 77)
1945 Richard Hatch (actor: Battlestar Galactica) (d 2/7/17, age 71)
1947 Bill Champlin (pianist: Chicago)
1948 Carol Potter (actress: Cindy Walsh on "Beverly Hills 90210")
1948 Gerald 'Leo' Sayer (singer: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, More Than I Can Say)
1951 Al Franken (actor: Lateline, Saturday Night Live)
1952 Lawrence 'Mr. T' Tureaud (actor: The A-Team)
1953 Carl Carlton (singer/songwriter: She's a Bad Mama Jama, Everlasting Love) (d 12/14/25, age 72)
1955 John Glavin (keyboardist: Molly Hatchet)
1955 Stan Lynch (drummer: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
1957 Judge Reinhold
1958 Mike Barson (keyboardist: Madness)
1959 Nick Cassavetes (actor)
1960 Jeffrey Dahmer (serial killer) (d 11/29/94, age 34)
1963 Dave Specter (blues guitarist: The Bluebirds)
1964 Annabel Schofield (actress: Laurel Ellis on "Dallas")
1968 Lisa Edelstein
1970 Dorsey Levens (running back: Green Bay Packers 1994-2001, Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Tony Stewart (NASCAR driver)
1972 Christopher 'Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace (d 3/9/97, age 24)
1974 Fairuza Balk
1984 Marnue Schulenburg (actress: Alison Stewart on "As the World Turns") (d 5/17/22, age 37)
1991 Sarah Ramos (actress: Patty Pryor on "American Dreams")
May 22nd
1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author: Sherlock Holmes series) (d 7/7/30, age 71)
1907 Lawrence Olivier (d 7/11/89, age 82)
1910 Johnny Olson (game show announcer: The Price is Right, among others) (d 10/12/85, age 75)
1914 Herman 'Sun Ra' Blount (d 5/30/93, age 79)
1917 Sid Melton (actor: Alf on "Green Acres") (d 11/2/11, age 94)
1922 Judith Crist (film critic, appeared regularly on NBC Today Show 1964-1973) (d 8/7/12, age 90)
1922 Quinn Martin (TV producer: The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, Banaby Jones, etc., had at least one show in prime time every year from 1959 to 1980) (d 9/5/87, age 65)
1924 Charles Aznavour (singer/actor) (d 10/1/18, age 94)
1927 Peter Matthiessen (novelist: The Snow Leopard) (d 4/5/14, age 86)
1927 Michael Constantine (actor: Principal Seymour Kaufman on "Room 222") (d 8/31/21, age 94)
1930 Kenny Ball (jazz trumpeter/singer/bandleader) (d 3/7/13, age 82)
1934 Peter Nero (pianist) (d 7/6/23, age 89)
1936 M. Scott Peck (author: The Road Less Traveled) (d 9/25/05, age 69)
1938 Susan Strasberg (actress/writer, daughter of Lee Strasberg) (d 1/21/99, age 60)
1938 Richard Benjamin (director: The Money Pit, Milk Money, Mermaids, Made in America)
1938 Frank Converse (actor: Will on "Movin' On")
1940 Michael Sarrazin (actor) (d 4/17/11, age 70)
1940 Bernard Shaw (correspondent: CNN 1980-2001) (d 9/7/22, age 82)
1941 Paul Winfield (actor) (d 3/7/04, age 62)
1942 Calvin Simon (singer: Funkadelic) (d 1/6/22, age 79)
1942 Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber) (d 6/10/23, age 81)
1942 Barbara Parkins (actress: Betty on "Peyton Place")
1945 Victoria Wyndham (actress)
1950 Bernie Taupin (Elton John's songwriting partner and lyricist)
1955 Iva Davies (guitarist/singer: Icehouse)
1959 Ed Fry (actor)
1959 (Steven) Morrissey (singer: The Smiths, and solo)
1961 Ann Cusack
1961 Dana Williams (singer: Diamond Rio)
1962 Mark Farmer (actor) (d 4/26/16, age 53)
1963 David Bloom (NBC journalist) (d 4/6/03, age 39)
1966 Johnny Gill (singer: New Edition)
1967 Dan Roberts (bassist: Crash Test Dummies)
1969 Dave Thompson (blues guitarist) (d 2/14/10, age 40)
1970 Brody Stevens (actor/comedian) (d 2/22/19, age 48)
1970 Naomi Campbell
1972 Alison Eastwood (actress, daughter of Clint)
1974 A.J. Langer (actress: Annie on "Three Sisters," Lauren on "It's Like, You Know," Rayanne on "My So Called Life," Mary Jo on "The Wonder Years")
1975 Cole Hauser (actor)
1978 Ginnfer Goodwin
1979 Maggie Q. (Quigley) (actress/model)
1982 Apolo Anton Ohno
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