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May 9th
1911 Harry Simeone (arranger: Bing Crosby, also it was his children's chorale who helped popularize the Christmas classics "Do You Hear What I Hear" and "Little Drummer Boy") (d 2/22/05, age 93)
1912 George T. Simon (drummer: Glenn Miller Band, also wrote acclaimed books and liner notes on the swing era) (d 2/13/01, age 88)
1914 Clarence 'Hank' Snow (singer: I'm Movin' On, Miller's Cave) (d 12/21/99, age 85)
1917 Fay Kanin (author) (d 3/27/13, age 95)
1918 Mike Wallace (correspondent: 60 Minutes) (d 4/7/12, age 93)
1921 Mona Van Duyn (nation's first female poet laureate, Pulitzer prize winner) (d 12/2/04, age 83)
1923 Johnny Grant (honorary, though unofficial, mayor of Hollywood) (d 1/9/08, age 84)
1923 Connie Russell (singer) (d 12/18/90, age 67)
1926 A.C. Reed (blues saxophonist: played with artists like Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Son Seals, as well as his own band, The Spark Plugs) (d 2/25/04, age 77)
1928 Pancho Gonzales (tennis champion in the 1940s) (d 7/3/95, age 67)
1930 Joan Sims (actress) (d 6/27/01, age 71)
1932 Geraldine McEwan (actress: Miss Marple in late 2000s) (d 1/30/15, age 82)
1935 Nokie Edwards (guitarist: The Ventures) (d 3/12/18, age 82)
1936 Albert Finney (actor: Erin Brockovich, Ocean's Twelve) (d 2/7/19, age 82)
1936 Terry Drinkwater (CBS newsman) (d 5/31/89, age 53)
1936 Glenda Jackson (actress: Hopscotch, Touch of Class) (d 6/15/23, age 87)
1936 Floyd Robinson (outfielder: White Sox, Red Sox, Reds, A's)
1937 Dave Prater (singer: Sam & Dave) (d 4/9/88, age 50)
1937 Sonny Curtis (guitarist: The Crickets) (d 9/19/25, age 88)
1940 James L. Brooks
1941 Danny Rapp (singer: Danny and the Juniors - "At the Hop") (d 4/3/83, age 41)
1941 Pete Birrell (bassist: Freddie & the Dreamers - "I'm Telling You Now")
1942 Tommy Roe (singer: Hooray for Hazel)
1944 Richard Furay (guitarist/singer: Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
1945 Steve Katz (singer: Blood Sweat and Tears)
1946 Candice Bergen (actress: Murphy Brown)
1947 Anthony Higgins (actor)
1949 Billy Joel
1949 Bob Margolin (blues guitarist/harmonica)
1950 Tom Petersson (bassist: Cheap Trick)
1951 Alley Mills (actress: Norma Arnold (Mom) on "The Wonder Years")
1953 Gregory Beecroft
1960 Tony Gwynn (right fielder: San Diego Padres 1982-2001, "Mr. Padre") (d 6/16/14, age 54)
1962 John Corbett (singer, actor: Chris on "Northern Exposure")
1962 Dave Gahan (singer: Depeche Mode)
1965 Steve Yzerman (NHL forward: Detroit)
1968 Vince Workman (running back: Green Bay Packers 1989-1992, Carolina Panthers, Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Paul 'Guigs' McGuigan (bassist: Oasis)
1972 Dana Perino (former George W. Bush press secretary; Fox News commentator)
1979 Rosario Dawson
1985 Audrina Patridge (actress: The Hills)
Mother's Day
1899 Fred Astaire (d 6/22/87, age 88)
1902 David O. Selznick (producer) (d 6/22/65, age 63)
1909 Maybelle Carter (guitarist/singer: The Carter Family) (d 10/23/78, age 69)
1911 Bel Kaufman (author: Up the Down Staircase) (d 7/25/14, age 103)
1914 Charles McGraw (actor) (d 7/30/80, age 66)
1919 Daniel Bell (sociologist and author: "The End of Ideology," "The Coming of Post Industrial Society") (d 1/25/11, age 91)
1921 Nancy Walker (actress: Ida Morgenstern (Rhoda's mom) on "Rhoda," Mildred on "McMillan and Wife") (d 3/25/92, age 70)
1921 Cleveland Chenier (washboard player) (d 5/7/91, age 69)
1929 George Coe (actor) (d 7/18/15, age 86)
1930 George 'Pat' Summerall (kicker: New York Giants, Fox announcer) (d 4/16/13, age 82)
1935 Larry Williams (blues pianist) (d 1/7/80, age 44)
1936 Gary Owens (actor/comedian: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) (d 2/12/15, age 78)
1938 Henry Lee Fambrough (singer: The Spinners) (d 2/7/24, age 85)
1940 Taurean Blacque (actor: Hill Street Blues) (d 7/21/22, age 82)
1944 Jackie Lomax (singer/songwriter, protege of The Beatles) (d 9/15/13, age 69)
1944 Jim Abrahams (director: Hot Shots, Top Secret, Airplane) (d 11/26/24, age 80)
1945 Nauman Scott (Black Top Records cofounder) (d 1/8/02, age 56)
1946 Jimmy Ponder (jazz guitarist) (d 9/16/13, age 67)
1946 Graham Gouldman (keyboardist/guitarist/singer: 10CC)
1946 Donovan (Leitch) (singer: Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, Atlantis)
1946 Maureen Lipman (actress)
1946 Dave Mason (guitarist/singer: We Just Disagree; also founding member of Traffic) (d 4/19/26, age 79)
1947 Marion Ramsey (actress: Officer Hicks in "Police Academy") (d 1/7/21, age 73)
1947 Jay Ferguson (keyboardist/singer: Spirit - "I Got a Line on You Babe," and solo: "Thunder Island")
1948 Meg Foster
1949 Maurice John Vaughn (guitarist)
1951 Ron Banks (singer: The Dramatics) (d 3/4/10, age 58)
1951 Greg Piccolo (tenor saxophonist: Roomful of Blues, Duke Robillard's band)
1955 Larry 'Flash' Jenkins (actor, producer, director, screenwriter) (d 4/25/19, age 63)
1955 Chris Berman (sportscaster: ESPN - "He could...go...all...the...way")
1955 Mark David Chapman (assassin of John Lennon)
1955 Laurence Lau (actor)
1955 Homer Simpson (cartoon character)
1957 John Simon Ritchie (aka Sid Vicious, bassist: The Sex Pistols) (d 2/2/79, age 21)
1960 Paul 'Bono' Hewson (singer: U2)
1960 Victoria Rowell (actress)
1961 Teri Copley (actress: Mickey on "We Got it Made")
1962 Gary Clarke (guitarist/singer)
1965 Linda Evangelista
1968 Erik Palladino (former MTV VJ, actor: Hill Street Blues)
1969 Judson Mills (actor)
1972 Emma Ridley (actress)
1975 Andrea Anders (actress: Nicole Allen on "The Class," Alex Garrett on "Joey")
1975 Helio Castroneves (Indy 500 winner: 2001, 2002, 2009, 2021)
1977 Amanda Borden (gymnast)
1978 Kenan Thompson (actor/comedian: Saturday Night Live, first cast member to be born after the show premiered)
1990 Lauren Potter (actress: Glee)
May 11th
1888 Irving Berlin (composer) (d 9/22/89, age 101)
1904 Salvador Dali (d 1/23/89, age 84)
1912 Phil Silvers (actor: The Phil Silvers Show, aka Bilko) (d 11/1/85, age 73)
1912 Foster Brooks (actor/comedian) (d 12/20/01, age 89)
1920 Denver Pyle (actor: Uncle Jesse on "The Dukes of Hazzard") (d 12/26/97, age 77)
1927 Mort Sahl (comedian/actor) (d 10/26/21, age 94)
1927 Bernard Fox (actor: Dr. Bombay on "Bewitched") (d 12/14/16, age 89)
1931 Marilyn King (singer, youngest and last surviving of the King Sisters) (d 8/7/13, age 82)
1932 Valentino (Garavani) (fashion designer) (d 1/19/26, age 93)
1933 Louis Farrakan
1935 Doug McClure (actor: Trampas on "The Virginian") (d 2/5/95, age 59)
1938 Judy Farrell (actress: Nurse Able on "M*A*S*H") (d 4/2/23, age 84)
1941 Eric Burdon (singer: The Animals - When I was Young, San Franciscan Nights, Sky Pilot, House of the Rising Sun)
1942 Terry McGovern (actor)
1943 Les Chadwick (bassist: Gerry & the Pacemakers - "Ferry Cross the Mercy") (d 12/26/19, age 76)
1947 Claude Hudson (aka Butch Trucks, drummer: Allman Brothers Band, uncle to Derek Trucks) (d 1/24/17, age 69)
1948 Darrow Igus (comedian: Fridays)
1953 Boyd Gaines (actor)
1955 Mark Herndon (drummer: Alabama)
1958 Christian Brando (eldest son of Marlon) (d 1/26/08, age 49)
1959 Martha Quinn (one of the five original MTV VJ's in 1981)
1962 Steve Bono (quarterback: Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers, San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Vikings, Carolina Panthers, St. Louis Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1963 Natasha Richardson (actress) (d 3/18/09, age 45)
1964 Katie Wagner
1975 Coby Bell
1981 Austin O'Brien (actor: Joshua on "Promised Land")
1982 Cory Monteith (actor: Finn Hudson on "Glee") (d 7/13/13, age 31)
1982 Jonathan Jackson (actor)
1985 Matt Giraud (singer, fifth place finisher on 2009 American Idol)
May 12th
1907 Katherine Hepburn (screen and stage legend, film career spanned seven decades, during which she won four Academy Awards for lead roles - more than anyone else in the business) (d 6/29/03, age 96)
1914 Howard K. Smith (one of the legendary CBS World War II correspondents known as "Murrow's Boys" and later a news anchor for ABC) (d 2/15/02, age 87)
1921 Farley Mowat (writer/environmentalist: Never Cry Wolf) (d 5/6/14, age 92)
1925 Frank Pierson (producer/writer: Dog Day Afternoon, Mad Men, A Star is Born, Cool Hand Luke) (d 7/23/12, age 87)
1925 Lawrence 'Yogi' Berra (Yankee catcher 1946-1965) (d 9/22/15, age 90)
1929 Burt Bacharach (composer: Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head) (d 2/8/23, age 94)
1936 Tom Snyder (talk show host) (d 7/29/07, age 71)
1937 George Carlin (comedian: Baseball and Football, The Hippy Dippy Weatherman) (d 6/22/08, age 71)
1937 Susan Hampshire (actress)
1938 Millie Perkins (actress)
1939 Ron Ziegler (press secretary to President Nixon who famously called the Watergate break-in a "third-rate burglary") (d 2/10/03, age 63)
1940 Norman Whitfield (Motown songwriter: I Heard it Through the Grapevine, War, Just My Imagination) (d 9/16/08, age 68)
1942 Billy Swan (guitarist/singer: I Can Help)
1943 Linda Dano (actress)
1943 David Walker (keyboardist: Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
1944 James Purify (singer with Bobby Purify, "I'm Your Puppet")
1945 Keith Alan Olsen (record producer/sound engineer, over 100 albums worked with Rick Springfield, Fleetwood Mac, Ozzy Osbourne, The Grateful Dead, Whitesnake, Pat Benatar, Heart, Santana, Foreigner, The Scorpions, Journey, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Joe Walsh, Eric Burdon & the Animals) (d 3/9/20, age 74)
1945 Linda Carlson (actress) (d 10/26/21, age 76)
1945 Ian McLagan (keyboardist: Faces, Small Faces) (d 12/3/14, age 69)
1945 Willie Parnell (singer: Archie Bell & the Drells)
1948 Steve Winwood (singer: Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith, Traffic)
1950 Bruce Boxleitner
1950 Gabriel Byrne (actor)
1950 John 'Jocko' Marcellino (drummer/singer: Sha Na Na)
1950 Billy Squier
1951 George Karl (former coach of the Milwaukee Bucks)
1953 Donald Kinsey (guitarist: The Kinsey Report)
1955 Scott Brazil (producer/director: The Shield, Hill Street Blues) (d 4/17/06, age 50)
1955 Kix Brooks (singer: Brooks and Dunn)
1958 Kim Greist (actress)
1958 Beth Maitland (actress)
1961 Billy Duffy (guitarist: The Cult)
1961 Ving Rhames (actor: Con Air)
1962 Emilio Estevez (actor: Breakfast Club, Repo Man, Young Guns, Stakeout, The Mighty Ducks, Men at Work, Freejack)
1963 Vanessa Williams (actress)
1966 Stephen Baldwin
1969 Kim Fields-Freeman (actress: Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey on "The Facts of Life")
1970 Samantha Mathis
1971 Jamie Luner (actress: Melrose Place)
1972 Rhea Seehorn (actress: Cheri on "I'm With Her")
1972 Paul Stout (actor: Phillip on "Scarecrow and Mrs. King")
1973 MacKenzie Astin (actor: Andy on "The Facts of Life")
1975 Lawrence Phillips (NFL running back: St Louis Rams, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers) (d 1/13/16, age 40)
1976 Matthew P. Newmark (actor)
1978 Malin Ackerman
1978 Jason Biggs (actor: American Pie)
1978 Amy Wheaton (actress)
1986 Emily Van Camp
1992 Malcolm David Kellt (actor: Walt on "Lost")
1995 Sawyer Sweeten (actor: Geoffrey Barone on "Everybody Loves Raymond") (d 4/24/15, age 19)
May 13th
1911 Maxine Sullivan (jazz singer) (d 4/7/87, age 75)
1912 Helen Craig (actress: Martha in "Rich Man, Poor Man") (d 7/20/86, age 74)
1914 Joe Louis (heavyweight champ 1937-1949) (d 4/12/81, age 66)
1922 Bea Arthur (actress: Maude, Dorothy on "The Golden Girls") (d 4/25/09, age 86)
1927 Herbert Ross (director: Steel Magnolias, The Turning Point) (d 10/10/01, age 74)
1927 Clive Barnes (drama critic: New York Times / New York Post) (d 11/19/08, age 81)
1931 Jim Jones (reverend/cult leader-Jonestown Massacre) (d 11/18/78, age 47)
1937 Beverley Owen (actress: Marilyn Munster on the first season of "The Munsters") (d 2/21/19, age 81)
1937 Trini Lopez (singer: If I Had a Hammer; actor: The Dirty Dozen) (d 8/11/20, age 83)
1938 Buck Taylor (actor)
1939 Harvey Keitel
1940 Richard Brooks (singer: The Impressions) (d 11/12/23, age 83)
1941 Ritchie Valens (singer: La Bamba, Donna) (d 2/3/59, age 17)
1941 Senta Berger (actress)
1941 Joe Brown (singer)
1943 Mary Wells (Motown singer: My Guy) (d 7/26/92, age 49)
1945 Richard 'Magic Dick' Secondalwitz (harmonica: J. Geils Band)
1946 Tim Pigott-Smith (actor) (d 4/7/17, age 70)
1947 Pete Overend Watts (bassist: Mott the Hoople) (d 1/22/17, age 69)
1949 Franklin Ajaye
1950 Daniel Kirwan (guitarist/singer: Fleetwood Mac 1968-1972) (d 6/8/18, age 68)
1950 Stevie Wonder
1951 Paul Thompson (drummer: Roxy Music)
1958 Frances Barber (actress)
1958 Darrell Sheets (reality TV star: Storage Wars) (d 4/22/26, age 67)
1961 Dennis Rodman (forward: Chicago Bulls)
1964 Stephen Colbert
1964 Tom Verica (actor: Tom, the dad, on "American Dreams")
1965 Lari White (country singer) (d 1/23/18, age 52)
1966 Darius Rucker (singer: Hootie & the Blowfish)
1967 Melanie Thornton (singer, picked to be the voice of Coca-Cola, died in the Swiss air crash while on tour promoting her new album) (d 11/24/01, age 34)
1970 Doug Evans (defensive back: Green Bay Packers 1993-1997, including Super Bowl XXXI, Carolina Panthers 1998-2001, Seattle Seahawks 2002-2003, Detroit Lions 2003)
1977 Samantha Morton
1986 Robert Pattinson (actor: Twilight)
May 14th
1897 Sidney Bechet (saxophonist/clarinetist) (d 5/14/59, on his 62nd birthday)
1919 John Hope (meteorologist: The Weather Channel's severe storm specialist) (d 6/13/02, age 83)
1922 Richard Deacon (actor: Fred Rutherford on "Leave it to Beaver," Dr. Baker on "Mr Ed," Mel Cooley on "The Dick Van Dyke Show") (d 8/8/84, age 62)
1925 Patrice Munsel (opera soprano) (d 8/4/16, age 91)
1933 Laszlo Kovacs (director of photography: Ghostbusters, Paper Moon, My Best Friend's Wedding, Miss Congeniality) (d 7/21/07, age 74)
1934 Grady Gaines (blues saxophonist) (d 1/29/21, age 86)
1936 Bobby Darin (singer: Splish Splash) (d 12/20/73, age 37)
1943 Derek Leckenby (guitarist: Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter, I'm Henry VIII I Am) (d 6/4/94, age 51)
1943 Jack Bruce (bassist/singer: Cream) (d 10/25/14, age 71)
1944 George Lucas (director: Star Wars)
1947 Tamara Dobson (model/actress) (d 10/2/06, age 59)
1950 Mark Blum (actor) (d 3/25/20, age 69)
1951 Season Hubley (actress: Pretty Kill, Vice Squad, Hardcore)
1952 David Byrne (singer/guitarist: The Talking Heads)
1952 Robert Zemeckis (director: Forrest Gump)
1961 Tim Roth
1962 Ian Astbury (singer: The Cult)
1962 Bruce Johanssen (aka C.C. Deville, guitarist: Poison)
1964 Nancy Sorel (actress: Generations)
1966 Fabrice Marvan (singer, sort of: Milli Vanilli)
1967 Tony Siragusa (defensive tackle: Indianapolis Colts 1990-1996, Baltimore Ravens 1997-2001; sportscaster 2003-2015) (d 6/22/22, age 55)
1969 Cate Blanchett
1969 Danny Wood (singer: New Kids on the Block)
1970 Natasha Ryan
1971 Sofia Coppola
1973 Shanice (Wilson)
1977 Roy Halladay (pitcher: Toronto Blue Jays 1998-2009, Philadelphia Phillies 2010-2013) (d 11/7/17, age 40)
1983 Miranda Cosgrove (actress)
1983 Amber Tamblyn (actress: Joan on "Joan of Arcadia")
May 15th
1902 Richard Daley (Chicago mayor 1956-1976, during, among other things, the 1968 Democratic convention) (d 12/20/76, age 74)
1905 Joseph Cotten (actor) (d 2/6/94, age 88)
1909 James Mason (d 7/27/84, age 75)
1910 Constance Cummings (actress) (d 11/23/05, age 95)
1915 William Witney (director of dozens of Westerns, movie serials and TV shows) (d 3/17/02, age 86)
1918 Eddy Arnold (singer: Anytime, Make the World Go Away) (d 5/8/08, age 89)
1918 Joseph Wiseman (actor) (d 10/19/09, age 91)
1921 Jack Watson (actor) (d 7/4/99, age 78)
1926 Peter Shaffer (playwright: Amadeus) (d 6/6/16, age 90)
1926 Anthony Shaffer (playwright) (d 11/6/01, age 75)
1929 Peggy Pope (actress: Mrs. David on "Soap") (d 5/27/20, age 91)
1935 W.P. Kinsella (writer: Shoeless Joe, which was adapted into the movie "Field of Dreams") (d 9/17/16, age 81)
1936 Hugh 'Wavy Gravy' Romney (Woodstock personality - "What we have here is breakfast in bed for 400,000")
1937 Madeleine Albright (Secretary of State, 1997-2001) (d 3/23/22, age 84)
1940 Jackie Shane (singer) (d 2/20/19, age 78)
1940 Paul Rudd (actor) (d 8/12/10, age 70)
1941 Lainie Kazan (singer/actress)
1942 K.T. Oslin (singer) (d 12/21/20, age 78)
1943 Freddie Perren (record producer: Gloria Gaynor, Jackson Five, Saturday Night Fever soundtrack) (d 12/16/04, age 61)
1945 Jerry Quarry (boxer who fought Muhammad Ali and Floyd Patterson) (d 1/3/99, age 53)
1947 Graham Goble (guitarist: Little River Band)
1948 Brian Eno (keyboardist: Roxy Music)
1951 Dennis 'Fergie' Frederiksen (singer: Angel, LeRoux, Survivor, Toto) (d 1/18/14, age 62)
1952 Chazz Palminteri (actor)
1953 George Brett (baseball: Kansas City Royals)
1953 Mike Oldfield (composer: Tubular Bells)
1955 Lee Horsley (actor: Matt Houston)
1961 Katrin Cartlidge (actress) (d 9/7/02, age 41)
1963 Grant Herslov (actor)
1968 Todd Porter (actor)
1969 Emmitt Smith (running back: Dallas Cowboys, Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Attrell 'Prince B' Cordes (rapper: PM Dawn) (d 6/17/16, age 46)
1970 Desmond Howard (wide receiver/kick returner: Green Bay Packers)
1970 Brad Rowe
1972 David Charvet
1974 Ahmet Rodan Zappa (Frank's son, judge on Star Search)
1978 David Krumholtz (actor)
1978 Krissy Taylor (model)
1981 Jamie-Lynn Sigler (actress)
1992 Clark Beckham (singer, second place finisher on 2015 American Idol)
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