Famous Births on 1 Jun

Famous Births on 1 Jun

1076 - Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
1300 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
1480 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
1503 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567)
1563 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
1633 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
1637 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
1653 - Georg Muffat, French composer (d. 1704)
1675 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
1762 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844)
1771 - Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
1780 - Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general and military theorist (d. 1831)
1790 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1800 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
1801 - Brigham Young, Mormon church leader (d. 1877)
1804 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
1815 - Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
1815 - Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
1831 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
1833 - John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911)
1843 - Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
1844 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
1878 - John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
1881 - Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
1890 - Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949)
1898 - Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992)
1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
1901 - John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
1901 - Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990)
1903 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (d. 1973)
1907 - Frank Whittle, English inventor of the jet engine. (d. 1996)
1909 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986)
1913 - Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
1915 - John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
1917 - William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and arranger (d. 1985)
1922 - Joan Copeland, American actress
1922 - Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
1922 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
1924 - William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
1925 - Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher
1926 - Andy Griffith, American actor
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
1928 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (d. 2003)
1930 - Edward Woodward, English actor
1930 - John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
1933 - Charles Wilson, American politician
1934 - Pat Boone, American singer
1935 - Reverend Ike, American televangelist
1936 - Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
1937 - Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (The Thorn Birds)
1937 - Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
1939 - Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992)
1940 - René Auberjonois, American actor
1940 - Kip Thorne, American physicist
1944 - Robert Powell, English actor
1945 - Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
1945 - Linda Scott, American singer
1946 - Brian Cox, Scottish actor
1947 - Jonathan Pryce, British actor
1947 - Ron Dennis, CBE, F1 team principal (McLaren)
1947 - Ronnie Wood, English guitarist (Rolling Stones)
1948 - Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
1948 - Michel Plasse, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1948 - Tom Sneva, American race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner
1950 - Wayne Nelson, American musician (Little River Band)
1953 - David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
1953 - Ronnie Dunn, American musician (Brooks & Dunn)
1955 - Ralph Morse, British actor, singer and writer of historical dramas
1955 - Tony Snow, News Anchor, Former White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush (d. 2008)
1956 - Lisa Hartman, American actress
1957 - Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
1958 - Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
1959 - Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
1959 - Martin Brundle, British race car driver and F1 television commentator
1960 - Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure)
1961 - Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
1963 - Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths)
1964 - Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
1965 - Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
1965 - Nigel Short, English chess player
1966 - Greg Schiano, American football coach
1967 - Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
1968 - Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
1968 - Jeff Hackett, Canadian hockey player
1969 - Teri Polo, American actress
1970 - Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
1970 - Karen Mulder, Dutch supermodel
1970 - R. Madhavan, Indian actor
1971 - Roldán González, Cuban singer
1971 - Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor
1972 - Daniel Casey, English actor
1973 - Frederik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
1973 - Adam Garcia, Australian actor
1973 - Derek Lowe, American baseball player
1973 - Heidi Klum, German supermodel
1974 - Akis Zikos, Greek footballer
1974 - Melissa Sagemiller, American actress
1974 - Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist
1974 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter
1975 - James Storm, American professional wrestler
1975 - Michal Grosek, Czech hockey player
1977 - Richard Williams, British racing driver
1977 - Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
1977 - Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
1977 - Danielle Harris, American actress
1977 - Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
1979 - Santana Moss, American football player
1980 - Oliver James, British actor
1981 - Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
1981 - Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
1982 - Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
1983 - Jake Silbermann, American actor
1984 - Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
1985 - Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
1985 - Nick Young, American basketball player
1986 - Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
1987 - Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
1988 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
1992 - Felix Drake, English child actor

Famous Births on 31 May

Famous Births on 31 May

1443 - Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1469 - Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
1535 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
1557 - Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)
1613 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
1640 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
1656 - Marin Marais, French composer (d. 1728)
1753 - Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1754 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
1773 - Ludwig Tieck, German writer (d. 1853)
1801 - Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
1818 - John Albion Andrew, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
1819 - Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
1835 - Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese military leader (d. 1869)
1838 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900)
1852 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
1857 - Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
1860 - Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942)
1863 - Francis Younghusband, British explorer (d. 1942)
1872 - Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (d. 1944)
1882 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)
1883 - Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
1885 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963)
1887 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1892 - Michel Kikoine, Belarus painter (d. 1968)
1892 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968)
1892 - Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician (d. 1934)
1894 - Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956)
1898 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
1901 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1905 - Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian (d. 1993)
1908 - Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
1908 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (d. 2000)
1909 - Aurore Gagnon, French Canadian victim of child abuse (d. 1920)
1911 - Maurice Allais, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1912 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
1914 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (d. 2006)
1916 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1997)
1921 - Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer
1921 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (d. 2006)
1922 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)
1923 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)
1930 - Clint Eastwood, American film director and actor
1931 - John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Shirley Verrett, American soprano
1932 - Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994)
1935 - Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1938 - Johnny Paycheck, American singer (d. 2003)
1938 - John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1938 - Peter Yarrow, American folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1939 - Terry Waite, British humanitarian
1940 - Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator
1941 - Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Joe Namath, American football player
1943 - Sharon Gless, American actress
1945 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (d. 1982)
1945 - Bernard Goldberg‎, American journalist
1946 - Ted Baehr, American media critic
1946 - Steve Bucknor, West Indian Cricket Umpire
1947 - Junior Campbell, British musician and songwriter (The Marmalade)
1948 - Duncan Hunter, American politician, 2008 presidential candidate
1948 - John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
1949 - Tom Berenger, American actor
1949 - Nancy Shade, American soprano
1950 - Gregory Harrison, American actor
1952 - Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk, Electronic)
1953 - Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Finnish actor
1954 - Thomas Mavros, Greek footballer
1954 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (d. 2000)
1955 - Tommy Emmanuel, Australian Guitarist CGP
1956 - Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
1957 - Jim Craig, American hockey player
1959 - Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver
1960 - Greg C. Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 - Chris Elliott, American comedian
1961 - Lea Thompson, American actress
1961 - Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Corey Hart, Canadian musician
1962 - Sebastian Koch, German actor
1963 - Hugh Dillon, Canadian musician and actor
1963 - Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician
1963 - Wesley Willis, American musician (d. 2003)
1964 - Darryl McDaniels, American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
1964 - Scotti Hill, American rock guitarist
1964 - Leonard Asper, Canadian businessman
1965 - Brooke Shields, American actress and supermodel
1966 - Jeremy Hotz, Canadian stand-up comedian
1966 - Nick Scotti, American actor and singer
1967 - Vampiro, Canadian professional wrestler
1967 - Kenny Lofton, American baseball player
1967 - Phil Keoghan, New Zealand television personality
1967 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
1972 - Frode Estil, Norwegian cross-country skier
1972 - Sarah Murdoch, English model
1972 - Karl Geary, Irish actor
1972 - Dave Roberts, American baseball player
1973 - Dominique Van Roost, Belgian tennis player
1974 - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist
1974 - Zsolt Erdei, Hungarian light heavyweight boxer
1974 - Chad Campbell, American golfer
1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 - Colin Farrell, Irish actor
1976 - Matt Harpring, American basketball player
1977 - Scott Klopfenstein, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1977 - Debbie King, English TV presenter
1977 - Theodoros Baev, Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player
1977 - Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
1980 - Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1981 - Jake Peavy, American baseball player
1982 - Jonathan Tucker, American actor
1983 - Reggie Yates, English television presenter
1983 - Dustin Wells, New Zealand footballer
1983 - David Hernandez, American singer
1984 - Nate Robinson, American basketball player
1984 - Jason Smith, Australian actor
1985 - Ian Vouyoukas, Greek basketball player
1986 - Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
1986 - Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musical artist
1986 - Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress
1988 - Hope Partlow, American Singer

Famous Births on 30 May

Famous Births on 30 May

1010 - Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
1423 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
1623 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
1653 - Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
1713 - Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
1719 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
1757 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)
1814 - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
1819 - William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
1820 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
1845 - King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
1846 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
1871 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946)
1875 - Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
1878 - Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933)
1879 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
1881 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
1886 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
1892 - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
1895 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)
1896 - Howard Hawks, American film director (d. 1977)
1899 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)
1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)
1902 - Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985)
1903 - Countee Cullen, American writer (d. 1946)
1906 - Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
1907 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
1907 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
1908 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
1909 - Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)
1910 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
1912 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
1912 - Erich Bagge, German physicist
1912 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
1918 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
1919 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
1920 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
1926 - Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989)
1927 - Clint Walker, American actor
1928 - Agnès Varda, French director
1928 - Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
1930 - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1930 - Robert Ryman, American painter
1932 - Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist
1934 - Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut
1934 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach
1936 - Ruta Lee, Canadian actress
1936 - Keir Dullea, American actor
1937 - Harry Statham, American basketball coach
1939 - Michael J. Pollard, American actor
1939 - Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver
1940 - Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 - Gale Sayers, American football player
1943 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
1944 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
1945 - Norman Eshley, English actor
1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa, French Canadian LPGA golfer
1948 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1949 - P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach
1950 - Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
1950 - Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
1951 - Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician
1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer
1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
1953 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor
1955 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts, American wrestler
1955 - Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)
1958 - Ted McGinley, American actor
1958 - Steve Israel, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-New York)
1958 - Ted McGinley, American actor
1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)
1959 - Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
1961 - Harry Enfield, British comedian
1962 - Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator
1962 - Tonya Pinkins, American actress
1964 - Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver
1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1964 - Wynonna Judd, American Country/Bluegrass Singer
1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
1967 - Tim Burgess, English singer (The Charlatans)
1968 - Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks
1968 - Kelley Armstrong, Novelist
1970 - Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
1970 - Flora Chan, Hong Kong television actress
1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
1972 - Manny Ramírez, Major League Baseball player
1972 - Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
1973 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
1974 - David Wilkie, American ice hockey player
1974 - Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
1974 - Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer
1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician
1975 - Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
1976 - Radoslav Nesterovič, Slovenian basketball player
1976 - Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
1977 - Rachael Stirling, British actress
1977 - Akwá, Angolan footballer
1978 - Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1979 - Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer
1981 - Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
1981 - Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver
1981 - Blake Bashoff, American actor
1981 - Andrey Arshavin, Russian Footballer
1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
1982 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
1984 - Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
1984 - Jordan Palmer, American football player
1989 - Kevin Covais, American singer
1990 - Dean Collins, American actor

Famous Births on 29 May

Famous Births on 29 May

1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
1627 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer and Princess(d. 1693)
1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685)
1675 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
1716 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1800)
1722 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot, statesman, and orator (d. 1799)
1773 - Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
1794 - Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
1823 - John H. Balsley, American carpenter (d. 1895)
1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
1863 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
1874 - G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)
1880 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
1892 - Alfonsina Storni, Argentine writer (d. 1938)
1893 - Max Brand, American author and war correspondent (d. 1944)
1894 - Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
1894 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born writer and film director (d. 1969)
1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d. 1957)
1903 - Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)
1905 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
1906 - T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
1907 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002)
1911 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film star (d. 1989)
1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
1915 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1920 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1922 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect, major contributor to musical modernism (d. 2001)
1926 - Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
1927 - Jean Coutu, Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group)
1932 - Richie Guerin, former basketball player
1932 - Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth
1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1937 - Charles W. Pickering, American judge
1937 - Irmin Schmidt, German musician (Can)
1938 - Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner
1939 - Al Unser, Sr., American race car driver
1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
1942 - Kevin Conway, American actor
1942 - Pierre Bourque, Former mayor of Montreal
1943 - Robert W. Edgar, Theologian
1945 - Gary Brooker, musician (Procol Harum)
1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
1947 - Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
1947 - Anthony Geary, American actor
1948 - Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor
1949 - Brian Kidd, English footballer
1950 - Rebbie Jackson, American musician
1951 - Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation
1953 - Danny Elfman, American musician (Oingo Boingo)
1953 - Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
1955 - Ken Schrader, American race car driver
1955 - Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator
1955 - John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin
1956 - LaToya Jackson, American musician
1957 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician
1957 - Ted Levine, American actor
1958 - Annette Bening, American actress
1958 - Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
1959 - Adrian Paul, English actor
1959 - Rupert Everett, English actor
1961 - Melissa Etheridge, American musician
1962 - Eric Davis, American baseball player
1962 - John D. LeMay, American actor
1963 - Lisa Whelchel, American actress
1963 - Ukyo Katayama, Japanese racing driver
1963 - Tracey E. Bregman, American actress
1963 - Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
1967 - Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
1967 - Mike Keane, Canadian hockey player
1969 - Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
1970 - Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
1971 - Eric Lucas, Quebec professional boxer
1972 - Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
1973 - Anthony Azizi, American actor
1973 - Mark Lee, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1973 - Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
1974 - Myf Warhurst, Australian radio presenter on Triple J and TV personality on Spicks and Specks
1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish Formula One driver
1975 - Anthony Wall, English golfer
1975 - Melanie Brown, English musician and actress
1976 - David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
1976 - Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player
1976 - YÅ«suke Iseya, Japanese model and actor
1977 - Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
1977 - Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer
1978 - Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
1978 - Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
1978 - Adam Rickitt,British/New Zealand actor
1979 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)
1979 - John Rheinecker, Major League Baseball player
1979 - Arne Friedrich, German football player
1979 - Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
1981 - Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
1982 - Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
1982 - Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
1982 - Matt Macri, American baseball player
1983 - Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist
1984 - Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
1986 - Dylan Postl, American professional wrestler
1986 - Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican/American fashion model
1987 - Alessandra Toreson, American actress
1989 - Danielle Riley Keough, American actress
1990 - Dave Morton, American guitarist
1991 - Kristen Alderson, American actress

Famous Births on 28 May

Famous Births on 28 May

1140 - Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
1371 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
1524 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
1582 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
1588 - Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
1641 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1676 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
1692 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d.1814)
1759 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
1779 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
1807 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
1818 - Pierre Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)
1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
1837 - George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
1837 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
1853 - Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
1872 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
1878 - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian activist (d. 1966)
1883 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)
1884 - Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)
1886 - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954)
1888 - Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1942)
1888 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
1889 - Richard Réti, Austrian-Czech chess grandmaster (d. 1929)
1892 - Sepp Dietrich, German SS officer (d. 1966)
1900 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
1908 - Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
1909 - Red Horner, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005)
1910 - T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
1911 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
1911 - Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
1912 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1990)
1912 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist and politician (d. 1992)
1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
1915 - Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
1916 - Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
1917 - Papa John Creech, American musician (d. 1994)
1918 - Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 1990)
1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
1922 - Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
1923 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (d. 1998)
1925 - Bülent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
1931 - Carroll Baker, American actress
1934 - Dionne quintuplets (Emilie d. 1954, Marie d. 1970, Yvonne d. 2001)
1936 - Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician
1936 - Betty Shabazz, American civil rights activist (d. 1997)
1938 - Jerry West, American basketball player
1938 - Prince Buster, Jamaican musician
1941 - Beth Howland, American actress
1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 - Terry Crisp, Canadian hockey coach
1943 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
1944 - Faith Brown, British actress
1944 - Billy Vera, American actor and musician
1944 - Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress
1944 - Gladys Knight, American singer and actress
1944 - Rudy Giuliani, American politician
1945 - John Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1945 - Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003)
1945 - Hunter "Patch" Adams, American doctor
1945 - John N. Bambacus, American politician
1946 - Skip Jutze, American baseball player
1946 - Satchidanandan, Indian poet
1947 - Sondra Locke, American actress
1947 - Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Egyptologist
1947 - Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist
1949 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
1950 - Ian Bradley, British writer and academic
1950 - Jim Harris, American professional wrestler
1952 - Russell J. Wintner, American film executive
1953 - Arto Lindsay, American guitarist and singer
1954 - John Tory, Canadian politician
1954 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d.1988)
1955 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
1955 - Mark Howe, American ice hockey player
1956 - Julie Peasgood, British actress
1956 - Jerry Douglas, American dobro player
1956 - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980)
1957 - Ben Howland, American college basketball coach
1957 - Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
1959 - John Morgan, British etiquette expert (d. 2000)
1961 - Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
1962 - Brandon Cruz, American actor
1962 - James Michael Tyler, American actor
1963 - Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist
1963 - Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree)
1964 - Phil Vassar, American country music singer
1964 - David Baddiel, British comedian and television presenter
1964 - Christa Miller, American actress
1964 - Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
1965 - Chris Ballew, American musician
1967 - Glen Rice, American basketball player
1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
1969 - Mike DiFelice, American baseball player
1969 - Justin Kirk, American actor
1970 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1970 - Ian Cashmore, English actor and paranormal investigator
1970 - Morgan Fox, Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate
1971 - Isabelle Carré, French actress
1971 - Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian figure skater
1972 - Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
1972 - Guidoni Junior Doriva, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Alicia Minshew, American actress
1975 - Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
1976 - Glenn Morrison, Rugby League Player
1976 - Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
1976 - Liam O'Brien, American voice actor
1977 - Jeremy Borash, American professional wrestling announcer
1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
1979 - Jesse Bradford, American actor
1979 - Ronald Curry, American football player
1979 - Joeri Jansen, Belgian athlete
1979 - Monica Keena, American actress
1980 - Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
1980 - Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)
1981 - Adam Green, American singer and songwriter
1981 - Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Alexa Davalos, American actress
1982 - Jhonny Peralta, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Steve Cronin, American soccer goalkeeper
1983 - Humberto Sanchez, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Beth Allen, New Zealand actress
1985 - Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter
1986 - Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
1986 - Joseph Cross, American actor
1986 - Jaslene Gonzalez, American model and reality show contestant
1986 - Michael Oher, American football player at Ole Miss
1986 - Berrick Barnes, Australian Rugby player
1988 - David Perron, Canadian ice hockey player

Famous Births on 27 May

Famous Births on 27 May

1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (d. 1406)
1519 - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
1576 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
1601 - Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)
1623 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1626 - William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
1651 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
1652 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1722)
1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
1756 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1825)
1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
1818 - Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)
1819 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer (d. 1910)
1820 - Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
1827 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)
1836 - Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1837 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
1860 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
1864 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (d. 1938)
1867 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
1871 - Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)
1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1879 - Karl Bühler, German linguist and psychologist (d. 1963)
1879 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
1884 - Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)
1888 - Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
1891 - Claude Champagne, French-Canadian composer (d. 1965)
1893 - Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian (d. 2005)
1894 - Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
1897 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1900 - UÅ‚adzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
1904 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
1907 - Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964)
1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey, American politician (d. 1978)
1911 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
1911 - Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
1912 - Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1912 - Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
1912 - John Cheever, American author (d. 1982)
1913 - Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
1915 - Herman Wouk, American writer
1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician
1921 - Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 - Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1925 - Tony Hillerman, American writer
1930 - John Barth, American novelist
1930 - William S. Sessions, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1933 - Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur
1934 - Harlan Ellison, American author
1935 - Mal Evans, British Beatles assistant (d. 1976)
1935 - Ramsey Lewis, American pianist
1935 - Lee Meriwether, Miss America and actress
1936 - Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
1936 - Marcel Masse, Canadian politician
1937 - Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (d. 1999)
1939 - Socratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
1942 - Lee Baca, American law enforcement official
1943 - Bruce Weitz, American actor
1943 - Cilla Black, English singer and presenter
1944 - Christopher Dodd, American politician
1944 - Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter
1945 - Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
1946 - Lewis Collins, English actor
1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish musician (d. 2005)
1947 - Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
1948 - Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
1951 - Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
1954 - Pauline Hanson, Australian politician
1954 - Jackie Slater, American football player
1955 - Richard Schiff, American actor
1955 - Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
1956 - Cynthia McFadden, American television anchor
1957 - Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic Games gold medalist swimmer
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1958 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
1958 - Linnea Quigley, American actress
1961 - Peri Gilpin, American actress
1962 - Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
1962 - Steven Brill, American film writer and director
1964 - Adam Carolla, American comedian and television personality
1965 - Todd Bridges, American actor
1967 - Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
1968 - Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
1968 - Frank Thomas, American baseball player
1969 - Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver
1969 - Dondre Whitfield, American actor
1970 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1970 - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
1970 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
1970 - Tim Farron, British politician
1971 - Monika Schnarre, Canadian model
1971 - Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
1971 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
1971 - Kaur Kender, Estonian author
1971 - Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer
1971 - Paul Bettany, English actor
1972 - Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
1972 - Todd Demsey, American golfer
1973 - Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
1974 - Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon's Call)
1974 - Danny Wuerffel, American football player
1975 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
1975 - Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)
1975 - Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
1975 - André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
1976 - RJD2, American hip-hop producer
1976 - Anita Blonde, Hungarian porn star
1977 - Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch footballer
1977 - Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
1977 - Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
1978 - Adin Brown, American soccer player
1979 - Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
1981 - Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot distance runner
1981 - Miloy, Angolan footballer
1981 - Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
1981 - Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
1983 - Bobby Convey, American soccer player
1984 - Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
1984 - Blake Ahearn, NBA basketball player
1985 - Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
1990 - Ekaterina Zaikina, Russian figure-skater

Famous Births on 26 May

Famous Births on 26 May

1264 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 - Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
1566 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
1602 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
1650 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)
1667 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
1669 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
1689 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)
1700 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
1764 - Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837)
1822 - Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
1863 - Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (d. 1917)
1865 - Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d. 1933)
1867 - Mary of Teck, wife of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
1873 - Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
1883 - Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
1886 - Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)
1893 - Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957)
1893 - Eugène Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)
1895 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965)
1895 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)
1899 - Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968)
1904 - Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002)
1904 - George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961)
1907 - Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006)
1907 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
1908 - Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)
1908 - Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
1909 - Adolfo López Mateos, President of Mexico (d. 1969)
1909 - Nikolay Guryanov, Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (d. 2002)
1909 - Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994)
1911 - Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
1912 - János Kádár, Prime minister of Hungary (d. 1989)
1912 - Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980)
1913 - Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
1914 - Frankie Manning, American Lindy Hop dancer
1915 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003)
1915 - Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)
1916 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999)
1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
1917 - Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary
1918 - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)
1920 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
1923 - James Arness, American actor
1923 - Roy Dotrice, British actor
1926 - Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author
1932 - Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 1980)
1935 - Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress
1938 - William Bolcom, American composer
1938 - Pauline Parker, New-Zealandic murderess
1938 - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist
1938 - Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano
1939 - Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster
1939 - Merab Kostava, Georgian anti-Soviet leader
1940 - Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician
1940 - Levon Helm, American musician (The Band)
1941 - Reg Bundy, British performer (d. 2003)
1941 - Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player
1941 - John Kaufman, sculptor
1943 - Erica Terpstra, President of the Dutch Olympic Committee
1944 - Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author
1945 - Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who)
1946 - Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian Rhythmic gymnas and coach.
1946 - Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993)
1948 - Stevie Nicks, American songwriter
1949 - Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor
1949 - Pam Grier, American actress
1949 - Philip Michael Thomas, American actor
1949 - Hank Williams Jr., American singer
1951 - Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
1951 - Sally Ride, American astronaut
1952 - David Meece, Christian musician
1953 - Michael Portillo, British politician
1954 - Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist
1954 - Danny Rolling, American murderer (d. 2006)
1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
1955 - Wesley Walker, American football player
1956 - Frédéric Dutoit, French politician
1957 - Margaret Colin, American actress
1957 - François Legault, French Canadian politician
1957 - Kristina Olsen, American musician
1957 - Roberto Ravaglia, Italian racing driver
1957 - Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
1959 - Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1959 - Ole Bornedal, Danish film director, actor and producer
1960 - Rob Murphy, American baseball player
1960 - Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese racing driver
1961 - Tarsem Singh, Indian film director
1962 - Genie Francis, American actress
1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor
1962 - Colin Vearncombe, English singer,(Black)
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, American musician
1964 - Caitlín R. Kiernan, Irish-American writer
1965 - Hazel Irvine, British television presenter
1966 - Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
1966 - Zola Budd, South African athlete
1967 - Phil Doyle, Australian writer
1968 - Steve Sedgley, English footballer
1968 - Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish film director
1968 - Pat Kenney, American professional wrestler
1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
1969 - John Baird, Canadian politician
1969 - Musetta Vander, South African actress
1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
1971 - Matt Stone, American television producer
1972 - Patsy Palmer, British actress
1974 - Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
1975 - Travis Lee, American baseball player
1975 - Nicki Aycox, American actress
1976 - Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1977 - Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira)
1977 - Misaki Ito, Japanese actress
1977 - Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist
1977 - Luca Toni, Italian footballer
1978 - Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter
1979 - Ashley Massaro, American model and professional wrestler
1979 - Mehmet Okur (Memo), Turkish basketball player
1979 - Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
1981 - Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1981 - Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
1982 - Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
1988 - Joel Selwood, Australian footballer
1991 - Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress

Famous Births on 25 May

Famous Births on 25 May

1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 - Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)
1458 - Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
1606 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1661 - Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
1713 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
1725 - Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
1783 - Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
1803 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
1818 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897)
1845 - Lip Pike, baseball player (d. 1883)
1846 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
1846 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900)
1852 - William Muldoon, wrestler (d. 1933)
1856 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
1860 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
1865 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1865 - John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
1877 - Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African American entertainer (d. 1949)
1879 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born publisher (d. 1964)
1880 - Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
1882 - Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
1886 - Philip Murray, U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader (d. 1952)
1886 - Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
1887 - Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
1888 - Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
1889 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
1892 - Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav resistance leader and later president (d. 1980)
1897 - Gene Tunney, American heavyweight champion (d. 1978)
1898 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher, TV personality (d. 1971)
1899 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
1900 - Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
1903 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
1907 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
1908 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
1909 - Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
1909 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970)
1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1913 - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
1917 - Theodore Hesburgh, American educator and theologian
1917 - Steve Cochran, American actor (d. 1965)
1918 - Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
1921 - Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
1921 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
1922 - Kitty Kallen, American big band singer
1924 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1925 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
1925 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
1925 - Don Liddle, baseball player (d. 2000)
1926 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
1927 - Robert Ludlum, American writer (d. 2001)
1929 - Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
1929 - Warren Frost, American actor
1931 - Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut
1931 - Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter
1931 - Irwin Winkler, American film producer and director
1932 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
1933 - Ray Spencer, English footballer
1935 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988)
1935 - Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
1936 - Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
1938 - Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
1939 - Dixie Carter, American actress
1939 - Ian McKellen, English actor
1943 - Jessi Colter, American singer
1943 - John "Poli" Palmer, British rock musician (Family)
1944 - Robert MacPherson, American mathematician
1944 - John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality
1944 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1944 - Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
1946 - David A. Hargrave, RPG designer
1948 - Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1949 - Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
1951 - Bob Gale, American screenwriter
1952 - Jeffrey Bewkes, American media executive
1952 - Gordon Smith, American politician
1952 - Al Sarrantonio, American writer
1953 - Eve Ensler, American playwright
1953 - Daniel Passarella, Argentine football player
1953 - Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo)
1955 - Alistair Burt, British politician
1956 - Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
1956 - David P. Sartor, American music composer
1956 - Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1957 - Robert Picard, French Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Edward Lee, American writer
1958 - Paul Weller, British musician
1959 - Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
1959 - Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player
1959 - Julian Clary, British television personality
1960 - Amy Klobuchar, American politician, junior senator from Minnesota
1962 - Rick Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
1964 - David Shaw, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut
1965 - George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker
1966 - Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
1967 - Poppy Z. Brite, American author
1968 - Kendall Gill, American basketball player
1969 - Glen Drover, Canadian guitar player (Megadeth)
1969 - Stacy London, American fashion consultant
1969 - Anne Heche, American actress
1970 - Satsuki Yukino, Seiyuu
1970 - Jamie Kennedy, American actor
1970 - Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actresses
1970 - Joey Eischen, baseball player
1971 - Marco Cappato, Italian politician
1971 - Justin Henry, American actor
1972 - Octavia Spencer, American actress
1973 - Demetri Martin, American comedian
1973 - Molly Sims, American supermodel and actress
1973 - Daz Dillinger, American hip-hop performer
1974 - Miguel Tejada, Dominican baseball player
1974 - Frank Klepacki, American musician
1975 - Lauryn Hill, American singer
1976 - Tarik Glenn, National Football League offensive lineman
1976 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
1976 - Ethan Suplee, American actor
1977 - Giel Beelen, Dutch radio DJ
1978 - Brian Urlacher, American football player
1979 - Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
1979 - Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Jonny Wilkinson, English international and Newcastle Falcons rugby player
1979 - Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
1980 - Jae Hee, South Korean actor
1980 - David Navarro, Spanish footballer
1982 - Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
1982 - Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
1982 - Adam Boyd, English footballer
1983 - Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
1984 - Kostas Martakis, Greek singer
1984 - Shawne Merriman, American football Player for the San Diego Chargers
1984 - Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, 2005 Miss World
1984 - Marion Raven, Norwegian Singer-Songwritter (M2M)
1985 - Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
1986 - Yoan Gouffran, French football player
1986 - Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
1987 - Timothy Derijck, Belgian football player
1993 - Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets
1999 - Maisy McLeod-Riera, New Zealand actress

Famous Births on 24 May

Famous Births on 24 May

1494 - Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
1522 - John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
1544 - William Gilbert, English natural philosopher (d. 1603)
1616 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
1671 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor and thermometer maker (d. 1736)
1689 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769)
1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1794 - William Whewell, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1866)
1803 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (d. 1866)
1810 - Charles Clark, Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
1810 - Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
1816 - Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868)
1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
1830 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)
1836 - Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925)
1854 - John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
1855 - Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright (d. 1934)
1863 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
1868 - Charles E. Taylor, First aircraft maintenance professional (d. 1956)
1870 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938)
1870 - Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
1878 - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American engineer (d. 1972)
1879 - H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese's and founder (d. 1956)
1885 - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist (d. 1948).
1886 - Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
1887 - Edward "Mick" Mannock, Irish WWI flying ace (d. 1918)
1891 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. 1971)
1895 - Samuel Irving Newhouse, American publisher (d. 1979)
1899 - Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984)
1899 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
1900 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (d. 1954)
1900 - Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1901 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1968)
1905 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1909 - Wilbur Mills, American politician (d. 1992)
1911 - Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)
1914 - Giuseppe Valdengo, Italian baritone (d. 2007)
1914 - Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (d. 1986)
1916 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat (d. 2002)
1923 - Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986)
1925 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish-born entertainer (d. 1994)
1926 - Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor
1928 - William Trevor, Irish writer
1930 - Hans-Martin Linde, German conductor
1931 - Michael Lonsdale, French actor
1932 - Arnold Wesker, English dramatist
1934 - Jane Byrne, American politician
1934 - Barry Rose, English choir-trainer and organist
1935 - Joan Micklin Silver, American director
1936 - Harold Budd, American musician
1938 - Tommy Chong, Canadian-born actor and comedian
1938 - David Viscott, American psychiatrist (d. 1996)
1940 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1941 - George Lakoff, American linguist and political activist
1941 - Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter
1943 - Gary Burghoff, American actor
1944 - Patti LaBelle, American singer
1945 - Priscilla Presley, American actress
1946 - Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska, Russian-born Polish athlete
1947 - Martin Winterkorn, German automotive executive
1949 - Jim Broadbent, English actor
1950 - Larry Seidlin, American judge
1953 - Alfred Molina, London-born Spanish-Italian actor
1955 - Rosanne Cash, American singer
1956 - Michael Jackson, Northern Irish clergyman
1959 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish hockey player (d. 1985)
1960 - Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
1960 - Guy Fletcher, British keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1962 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (d. 2003)
1963 - Rich Rodriguez, American football coach
1963 - Kathy Leander, Swiss singer
1963 - Joe Dumars, American basketball player
1963 - Michael Chabon, American author
1963 - Ivan Capelli, Italian racing driver
1964 - Adrian Moorhouse, British swimmer
1964 - Pat Verbeek, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Shinichiro Watanabe, Japanese anime director
1965 - John C. Reilly, American actor
1966 - Eric Cantona, French footballer
1966 - Ricky Craven, American NASCAR driver
1967 - Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1967 - Steve McDonald, American bassist (Redd Kross)
1968 - Mo Willems, American author and screenwriter
1969 - Rich Robinson, American musician (Black Crowes)
1970 - Tommy Page, American singer
1971 - Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings)
1972 - Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer
1973 - Bartolo Colón, Dominican baseball player
1973 - Dermot O'Leary, English television presenter
1973 - Ruslana, Ukrainian singer
1974 - Will Sasso, Canadian actor and comedian
1974 - Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
1975 - Yannis Goumas, Greek footballer
1975 - Maria Lawson, British Singer
1975 - Marc Gagnon, Canadian short track speed skater
1976 - Alessandro Cortini, Italian musician
1976 - Catherine Cox, Australian netballer
1976 - Bob Maesen, Belgian flatwater canoer
1977 - Kym Valentine. Australian actress
1978 - Johan Holmqvist, Swedish hockey player
1978 - Brad Penny, American baseball player
1978 - Bryan Greenberg, American actor
1978 - Brian Ching, American soccer player
1979 - Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
1979 - Frank Mir, American UFC fighter
1980 - Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1981 - Marketa Janska, Czech model and Playboy Playmate
1982 - Issah Ahmed, Ghana football player
1982 - DaMarcus Beasley, American soccer player
1983 - Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, Anglo-Australian videogame creator and critic
1984 - Sarah Hagan, American actress
1984 - Brodney Pool, American football player
1985 - Tim Bridgman, British racing driver
1986 - Jordan Metcalfe, English actor
1986 - Mark Ballas, profession dancer
1987 - Dominika Kasprzycka, Polish singer
1987 - Guillaume Latendresse, French-Canadian hockey player
1988 - Billy Gilman, American singer
1989 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (d. 2005)
1990 - Joey Logano, American racecar driver
1990 - Luke Temple, American Concert pianist
1991 - Erika Umeda, Japanese singer
1992 - Travis T. Flory, American actor
1995 - Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein

Famous Births on 23 May

Famous Births on 23 May

1052 - King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1100 - Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
1606 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
1617 - Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)
1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
1718 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d. 1799)
1734 - Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d.1815)
1741 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1801)
1790 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
1795 - Charles Barry , English architect (d. 1860)
1810 - Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
1820 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887)
1820 - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891)
1824 - Ambrose Burnside, American Union Civil War general (d. 1881)
1834 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
1844 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)
1848 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d. 1896)
1865 - Epitácio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942)
1875 - Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
1879 - DezsÅ' Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
1884 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
1887 - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
1888 - Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1889 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
1890 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966)
1891 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974)
1893 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
1896 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
1898 - Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
1900 - Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
1908 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1908 - Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (d. 1934)
1910 - Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)
1910 - Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
1910 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and painter (d. 1999)
1910 - Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
1912 - Jean Françaix, French composer (d. 1997)
1912 - Betty Astell, English actress (d. 2005)
1912 - John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)
1913 - Ruth Fernandez legendary singer from Puerto Rico
1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
1918 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
1919 - Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer
1920 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
1921 - James Blish, American author (d. 1975)
1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton, English musician (d. 2008)
1923 - Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist
1923 - Walter Wolfrum, German fighter pilot
1925 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1925 - Mac Wiseman, American musician
1928 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
1928 - Nigel Davenport, English actor
1928 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1928 - Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian
1929 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1930 - Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
1931 - Barbara Barrie, American actress
1933 - Joan Collins, English actress
1934 - Robert Moog, American inventor (d. 2005)
1936 - Charles Kimbrough, American actor
1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
1938 - Peter Preston, English journalist and author
1939 - Reinhard Hauff, German film director
1939 - Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1942 - K. Raghavendra Rao, Indian film director
1942 - Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
1943 - General Norman Johnson, American singer (Chairmen of the Board)
1944 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
1945 - Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991)
1946 - Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
1946 - H. Paul Shuch, American SETI scientist
1947 - Bernard Comrie, English linguist
1947 - Ann Hui, Hong Kong film director
1947 - Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995)
1948 - Reggie Cleveland, Canadian baseball player
1951 - Antonis Samaras, Greek politician
1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer
1952 - "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, American boxer
1955 - Luka Bloom, Irish singer/songwriter
1956 - Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
1956 - Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby footballer
1956 - Buck Showalter, American baseball player and manager
1957 - Jimmy McShane Northern Irish singer and front man of Baltimora, (d. 1995)
1957 - Mark Arnold, American actor
1958 - Mitch Albom, American writer
1958 - Drew Carey, American actor, comedian, and game show host
1958 - François Feldman, French singer
1961 - Karen Duffy, American actress
1962 - Imran Anwar, Pakistani Internet pioneer and American TV personality
1963 - Wally Dallenbach Jr., American race car driver and announcer
1963 - Gregg "Opie" Hughes, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1964 - Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1965 - Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Real Madrid footballer
1965 - Tom Tykwer, German film director
1966 - Graeme Hick, English cricketer
1966 - Gary Roberts, professional ice hockey player
1967 - Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician
1967 - Phil Selway, English drummer (Radiohead)
1968 - Guinevere Turner, American actress
1970 - Blake Schwendiman, American author
1970 - Bryan Herta, American race car driver
1970 - Nanette Burstein, American director/producer
1970 - Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
1971 - Laurel Holloman, American actress
1972 - Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian formula one driver
1974 - Charlie Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1974 - Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
1974 - Jewel, American singer
1974 - Matt Hindle, Canadian bobsledder
1974 - Ken Jennings, American game show contestant
1975 - Kim Sung-soo, South Korean actor
1976 - Kelly Monaco, American actress
1976 - Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
1978 - Mike González, American baseball player
1978 - Carolyn Moos, American model and professional basketball player
1978 - Scott Raynor, American drummer (formerly of blink-182)
1979 - Rasual Butler, American basketball player
1979 - Kirk Saarloos, American baseball player
1979 - Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Lane Garrison, American actor
1980 - Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer
1981 - Gwenno Saunders, Former Welsh dancer, now singer with The Pipettes
1982 - Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer
1982 - Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
1982 - Tristan Prettyman, American musician
1983 - Alex Shelley, American professional wrestler
1983 - Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes)
1983 - Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and film-maker
1984 - Adam Wylie, American actor
1985 - Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
1986 - Ruben Zadkovich, Australian soccer player
1988 - Morgan Pressel, American golfer

Famous Births on 22 May

Famous Births on 22 May

1381 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian Saint (d. 1457)
1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
1715 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
1724 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
1770 - Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1772 - Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
1808 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
1813 - Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
1823 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, British Shakepearean actress (d. 1889)
1823 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
1841 - Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
1844 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
1849 - Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930)
1874 - Daniel François Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
1879 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
1879 - Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
1885 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
1885 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
1891 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
1900 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979)
1901 - Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
1902 - Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
1903 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
1904 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
1907 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (d. 1983)
1907 - Sir Laurence Olivier, acclaimed English stage and screen actor (d. 1989)
1908 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (d. 1970)
1908 - Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
1910 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d. 1985)
1911 - Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born mathematical psychologist and pianist (d. 2007)
1912 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1914 - Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
1914 - Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996)
1917 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
1917 - Nathan Davis, American actor
1917 - Daniel Nagrin, American modern dancer and choreographer
1920 - Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
1922 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
1924 - Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer, actor, and composer
1925 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
1925 - James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
1927 - George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel laureate
1927 - Michael Constantine, American actor
1927 - Phil Tucker, American director
1928 - T. Boone Pickens, Jr., American businessman, chair of hedge fund BP Capital Management
1930 - Kenny Ball, British musician
1930 - Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978)
1930 - John Barth, American writer
1934 - Peter Nero, American musician
1934 - Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001)
1935 - Ron Piché, Quebec baseball player
1936 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
1938 - Richard Benjamin, American actor
1938 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
1940 - Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor
1940 - Bernard Shaw, American television journalist
1941 - Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
1941 - Sir Menzies Campbell, British politician
1941 - Martha Langbein, German athlete
1942 - Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist
1942 - Calvin Simon, American musician (P Funk)
1942 - Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
1943 - Gesine Schwan, German politician and science professor
1943 - Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1943 - Tommy John, American baseball player
1946 - Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager
1946 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
1948 - Richard Baker, American politician
1950 - Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician
1950 - Bernie Taupin, English songwriter
1952 - Bernhard Brinkmann, German politician
1953 - Cha Bum-Kun, Korean footballer
1953 - Doris Barnett, German politician
1955 - Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (Eddie Money)
1955 - Dale Winton, British radio DJ and television presenter
1955 - Jerry Dammers, English musician (The Specials)
1955 - Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, American jazz guitarist (d. 2008)
1956 - Al Corley, American actor and producer
1956 - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician
1957 - Gary Sweet, Australian actor
1957 - Lisa Murkowski, American politician
1959 - Steven Morrissey, English singer
1960 - Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
1961 - Ann Cusack, American actress
1962 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1964 - Ashley Renee, American fetish model
1966 - Jose Mesa, Dominican baseball player
1966 - Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
1967 - Brooke Smith, American actress
1967 - John Vanderslice, American musician
1968 - Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian
1970 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
1970 - Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
1971 - Manuel Ortiz, Mexican professional wrestler
1972 - Alison Eastwood, American actress and model
1972 - Annabel Chong, Singapore actress
1972 - Anna Belknap, American actress
1973 - Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
1973 - Julián Tavárez, Dominican baseball player
1973 - Danny Tiatto, Australian soccer player
1974 - John Bale, American baseball player
1974 - Sean Gunn, American actor
1974 - A. J. Langer, American actress
1975 - Salvador Ballesta, Spanish Footballer.
1975 - Tracy Brookshaw, American professional wrestler and valet
1975 - Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice hockey player
1977 - Alastair Ralphs, Canadian professional wrestler
1977 - Seán Ã"g Ã" hAilpín, Irish hurler
1977 - Dre Bly, American Football Player
1977 - Vinnie Potestivo, American TV Producer
1978 - Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
1978 - Katie Price, British model
1979 - Maggie Q, American actress
1979 - Nadia Khan, TV Presenter
1980 - Rhett Fisher, actor/musician
1980 - Steven Baker, Australian rules footballer
1980 - Chad Tracy, American baseball player
1981 - Bryan Danielson, American professional wrestler
1981 - Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
1982 - John Bobek, American actor
1982 - Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
1983 - John Hopkins, Anglo-American motorcycling racer
1984 - Joe Lauzon, American martial artist
1984 - Dustin Moskovitz, American businessman
1985 - Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
1985 - Caridee English, American Model
1987 - Novak Đoković, Serbian tennis player

Famous Births on 21 May

Famous Births on 21 May

1471 - Albrecht Dürer, German painter (d. 1528)
1527 - King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
1653 - Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
1664 - Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (d. 1754)
1688 - Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
1755 - Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
1763 - Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
1775 - Lucien Bonaparte, French politician, soldier and academic (d. 1840)
1780 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer (d. 1845)
1792 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1827 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
1832 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
1835 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
1843 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
1844 - Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
1850 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 - Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel laureate (d. 1925)
1853 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
1860 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1863 - Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1954)
1864 - Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
1873 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
1878 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (d. 1930)
1880 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
1884 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
1885 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d.1936)
1898 - Armand Hammer, American physician (d. 1990)
1898 - Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (d. 1967)
1901 - Horace Heidt, American band leader (d. 1986)
1901 - Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
1901 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (d. 1992)
1902 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
1902 - Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
1903 - Manly Wade Wellman, American author (d. 1986)
1904 - Robert Montgomery, American actor (d. 1981)
1904 - Fats Waller, American pianist (d. 1943)
1909 - François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
1912 - John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
1912 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
1913 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
1916 - Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
1916 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
1917 - Raymond Burr, American actor (d. 1993)
1918 - Dennis Day, American singer and comedian (d. 1988)
1920 - Anthony Steel, British actor (d. 2001)
1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989)
1923 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
1923 - Ara Parseghian, American football coach
1924 - Peggy Cass, American actress (d. 1999)
1926 - Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
1928 - Tom Donahue, American disc jockey (freeform radio) (d. 1975)
1930 - Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician
1933 - Maurice André, French trumpeter
1934 - Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate
1936 - Günter Blobel, German biologist, Nobel laureate
1939 - Heinz Holliger, Swiss musician
1941 - Bobby Cox, Manager of the Atlanta Braves (MLB)
1941 - Ronald Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
1941 - Martin Carthy, English musician
1942 - Danny Ongais, American race car driver
1943 - Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals)
1944 - Mary Robinson, President of Ireland
1944 - Marcie Blane, American singer
1945 - Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
1947 - Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
1947 - Bill Champlin, American singer
1948 - Leo Sayer, English musician
1951 - Al Franken, American comedian
1952 - Mr. T, American actor
1954 - Marc Ribot, American musician
1955 - Paul Barber, British field hockey player
1955 - Stan Lynch, American drummer
1957 - Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
1957 - Judge Reinhold, American actor
1957 - Nadine Dorries, British politician
1957 - Bruce Buffer, American Mixed Martial Arts Announcer
1958 - Jefery Levy, American television director
1959 - Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director
1960 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
1960 - Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
1960 - Mohanlal, Indian actor
1963 - Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
1963 - Richard Appel, American writer
1964 - Danny Bailey, English footballer
1964 - Danny Lee Clark, American football player and American Gladiator "Nitro"
1964 - Nancy Daus, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1964 - Carolyn Lawrence, American actress
1966 - Lisa Edelstein, American actress
1967 - Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1968 - Matthias Ungemach, German rower
1968 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
1969 - Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
1969 - Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
1970 - Dorsey Levens, former American football player
1970 - Carl Veart, Australian former footballer
1972 - Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1972 - The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (d. 1997)
1972 - Alesha Oreskovich, American model
1973 - Noel Fielding, British comedian
1974 - Fairuza Balk, American actress
1974 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
1976 - Deron Miller, American rock musician
1976 - Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
1977 - Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
1977 - Ricky Williams, American football player
1978 - Adam Gontier, Canadian singer Three Days Grace
1978 - Jamaal Magloire, Canadian professional basketballer
1978 - Briana Banks, German-American pornographic actress
1979 - Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
1979 - Gaspard Augé, French musician
1979 - Jesse Capelli, Canadian pornographic actress
1979 - James Clancy Phelan, Australian novelist
1979 - Jamie Hepburn, Member of the Scottish Parliament
1979 - Scott Smith, mixed martial arts fighter
1980 - Chris Raab, American actor
1981 - Belladonna, American pornographic actress
1981 - Max, German singer
1981 - Josh Hamilton, Major League Baseball player
1984 - Brandon Fields, National Football League punter
1984 - Lorena Ayala, Spanish-Dutch model and beauty queen
1985 - Marco Carta, Italian singer
1985 - Mutya Buena, English singer (ex-Sugababes)
1985 - Kano, British rapper
1985 - Andrew Miller, Major League Baseball player
1986 - Myra, Mexican-American singer
1987 - Ashlie Brillault, American actress
1988 - Jonathan Howson, English footballer
1991 - Sarah Ramos, American actress
1992 - Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
1994 - Tom Daley, English diver

Famous Births on 20 May

Famous Births on 20 May

1315 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (d. 1349)
1470 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
1554 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (d. 1594)
1593 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
1660 - Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
1663 - William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752)
1706 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
1726 - Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
1737 - William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (d. 1805)
1759 - William Thornton, West Indian-born architect (d. 1828)
1768 - Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
1769 - Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
1772 - Sir William Congreve, English inventor (d. 1828)
1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1806 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873)
1818 - William Fargo, co-founder of Wells, Fargo & Company (d. 1881)
1822 - Frédéric Passy, French economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1912)
1830 - Hector Malot, French writer (d. 1907)
1838 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
1851 - Emil Berliner, German-born recording pioneer (d. 1929)
1860 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1882 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
1883 - King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
1894 - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
1895 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (d. 1937)
1897 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (d. 1983)
1899 - John Marshall Harlan II, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1971)
1899 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
1901 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
1906 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
1908 - James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
1911 - Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
1913 - William Hewlett, American engineer (d. 2001)
1914 - Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
1914 - Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995)
1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (d. 1981)
1916 - Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
1916 - Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian flying ace (d. 2001)
1917 - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1967)
1917 - Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
1918 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1919 - George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
1919 - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (d. 1983)
1920 - John Cruickshank, Scottish airman, won Victoria Cross
1920 - Betty Driver, English singer and actress
1921 - Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
1921 - Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1925 - Chester Ludgin, American baritone (d. 2003)
1926 - Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
1926 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (d. 1994)
1927 - David Hedison, American actor
1927 - Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal
1927 - Bud Grant, American football coach
1928 - Jack Kevorkian, controversial American medical doctor
1930 - Sam Etcheverry, American football player and coach
1931 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1931 - Paul Evans, American furniture designer and sculptor (d.1987)
1932 - Bob Florence, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d. 2008)
1936 - Anthony Zerbe, American actor
1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae and dub artist
1938 - Marinella, Greek singer and actress
1940 - Stan Mikita, Slovak-born ice hockey player
1940 - Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
1940 - Shorty Long, American musician (d. 1969)
1941 - Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean Senior Minister
1941 - John Strasberg, American actor
1941 - Manuel Isaias Lopez, Mexican child psychiatrist
1942 - Carlos Hathcock, American Marine sniper (d. 1999)
1942 - Jill Jackson, American singer
1943 - Al Bano, Italian singer
1944 - Joe Cocker, British singer
1944 - Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
1944 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
1945 - Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian politician
1946 - Cher, American singer
1947 - Greg Dyke, British broadcast executive
1949 - Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian & actor
1950 - Yvon Lambert, French Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
1951 - Mike Crapo, American politician
1952 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
1953 - Robert Doyle, Australian politician
1954 - Guy Hoffman, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1954 - David Paterson, American politician
1954 - Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of John McCain
1954 - Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka
1955 - Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
1956 - William Michaelian, American novelist and poet
1956 - Dean Butler, American actor
1956 - Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author
1958 - Ron Reagan, American talk show host
1958 - Jane Wiedlin, American singer (The Go-Go's)
1959 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
1959 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor
1960 - John Billingsley, American actor
1960 - Chuck Brodsky, American musician
1960 - Tony Goldwyn, American actor
1961 - Clive Allen, English footballer
1962 - Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach
1963 - David Wells, American baseball player
1965 - Ted Allen, American television host
1966 - Mindy Cohn, American actress
1966 - Dan Abrams, American TV reporter
1966 - Gina Ravera, American actress
1967 - Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
1967 - Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist
1967 - Gabriele Muccino, Italian film director
1968 - Timothy Olyphant, American actor
1968 - Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby union and rugby sevens footballer
1969 - Brian Gerard James, American professional wrestler
1970 - Louis Theroux, British television presenter
1970 - Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
1971 - Šárka Kašpárková, Czech athlete
1971 - Tony Stewart, American race car driver
1972 - Busta Rhymes, American singer and rapper
1972 - Tina Hobley, British television actress
1973 - Elsa Lunghini, French singer and actress
1975 - Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
1975 - Mark Zupan, American quadriplegic rugby player
1976 - Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 - Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
1977 - Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
1977 - Angela Goethals, American actress
1977 - Miriam Parrish, American television actress
1977 - Leonardo Noeren Franco, Argentine footballer
1977 - Chad Muska, American Skateboarder for Element Skateboards
1977 - Matt Czuchry, American actor
1980 - Austin Kearns, American Baseball player
1981 - Mark Winterbottom, Australian racing driver
1981 - Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
1981 - Calico Cooper, American actress and dancer
1981 - Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
1982 - Petr ÄŒech, Czech footballer
1982 - Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
1983 - Jr. NTR, Indian film actor
1986 - Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
1986 - LaLa Brown, American singer (d. 2007)
1988 - Carla Humphries, Filipina actress
1993 - Caroline Zhang, American figure skater

Famous Births on 19 May

Famous Births on 19 May

1593 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
1700 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
1724 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
1744 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
1762 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
1773 - Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
1795 - Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
1797 - Maria Isabel of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1818)
1827 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
1861 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
1862 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
1870 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
1874 - Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
1879 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician (d. 1964)
1880 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (d. 1964)
1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1882 - Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)
1891 - Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
1897 - Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1898 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
1906 - Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
1908 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
1909 - Nicholas Winton, British Humanitarian
1914 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
1914 - Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1918 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
1921 - Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist
1921 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
1921 - Daniel Gélin, French actor (d. 2002)
1924 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
1925 - Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004)
1926 - Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
1928 - Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
1928 - Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach
1929 - John Stroger Chicago politician
1930 - Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
1931 - Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
1931 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)
1932 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
1932 - Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
1932 - Claude Blanchard, Quebec comedian and actor (d. 2006)
1934 - Jim Lehrer, American television journalist
1934 - Ruskin Bond, Indian author
1935 - David Hartman, American actor and television personality
1937 - Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004)
1938 - Madge Hindle, English actress
1938 - Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader (d. 1989)
1939 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
1939 - James Fox, English actor
1939 - Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong actress
1939 - Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1940 - Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
1940 - Mickey Newbury, American musician
1941 - Nora Ephron, American screenwriter
1942 - Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (d. 1994)
1942 - Robert Kilroy-Silk, British politician and television presenter
1944 - Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
1945 - Pete Townshend, English musician (The Who)
1946 - Claude Lelièvre, Belgian commissioner for children's rights
1946 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1947 - Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
1947 - Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
1947 - David Helfgott, Australian pianist
1948 - Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
1949 - Archie Manning, American football player
1949 - Dusty Hill, American blues rock singer/bassist (ZZ Top)
1951 - Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
1952 - Bert van Marwijk, Dutch football manager
1953 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress
1953 - Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997)
1953 - Shavarsh Karapetyan, Soviet Armenian finswimmer
1954 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)
1955 - James Gosling, Canadian computer programmer
1956 - Steven Ford, American actor
1957 - Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach
1959 - Nicole Brown Simpson, Ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and murder victim. (d. 1994)
1961 - Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director
1963 - Filippo Galli, Italian footballer
1963 - Yazz, British singer
1964 - Miloslav Mečíř, Slovakian former tennis player
1964 - Sean Whalen, American actor
1965 - Maile Flanagan, American actress
1966 - Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist
1966 - Marc Bureau, French Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Polly Walker, British actress
1967 - Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
1968 - Kyle Eastwood, American jazz musician; son of Clint Eastwood
1970 - Mario Dumont, Quebec politician (Action démocratique du Québec)
1970 - Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean professional golfer
1970 - Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
1971 - Psicosis, Mexican professional wrestler
1972 - Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1974 - Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 - London Fletcher, American football player
1975 - Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
1975 - Josh Paul, American baseball player
1975 - Pretinha, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
1976 - Ed Cota, American basketball player
1977 - Manuel Almúnia, Spanish footballer
1977 - Brandon Inge, American baseball player
1978 - Marcus Bent, English footballer
1979 - Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress
1979 - Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
1980 - Tony Hackworth, English footballer
1980 - Drew Fuller, American actor/model
1981 - Georges St. Pierre, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1981 - Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer
1981 - Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
1981 - Nate Cole, American singer
1982 - Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
1982 - PÃ¥l Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
1983 - Jessica Fox, British actress
1983 - Eve Angel, Hungarian porn star
1984 - Marcedes Lewis, American football player
1986 - Eric Lloyd, American actor
1986 - Mario Chalmers, NCAA basketball player
1987 - David Edgar, Canadian football (soccer) player
1987 - Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer
1988 - Lily Cole, English model/actress
1991 - Jordan Pruitt, American singer

Famous Births on 18 May

Famous Births on 18 May

1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131)
1186 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)
1474 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)
1610 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
1616 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
1711 - RuÄ'er Josip BoÅ¡ković, Croatian atomic theorist (d. 1787)
1778 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854)
1785 - John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
1797 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854)
1850 - Oliver Heaviside, English physicist (d. 1925)
1851 - James Budd, Governor of California (d. 1908)
1868 - Nicholas II of Russia, Tsar of Russia (d. 1918)
1872 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1876 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
1882 - Babe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1883 - Walter Gropius, German architect (d. 1969)
1883 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (d. 1974)
1887 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946)
1889 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
1891 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
1892 - Ezio Pinza, Italian-born bass (d. 1957)
1897 - Frank Capra, American film producer, director, and writer (d. 1991)
1901 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
1902 - Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984)
1904 - Jacob K. Javits, American politician (d. 1986)
1905 - Hedley Verity, English cricketer (d. 1943)
1907 - Carl Mydans, American photographer (d. 2004)
1909 - Fred Perry, British former tennis player (d. 1995)
1911 - Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (d. 1985)
1912 - Richard Brooks, American film director, writer and producer (d. 1992)
1912 - Perry Como, American singer (d. 2001)
1912 - Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
1913 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (d. 1996)
1913 - Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1913 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (d. 2000)
1914 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982)
1918 - George Welch, American pilot and war hero (d. 1954)
1918 - Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (d. 2003)
1919 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
1920 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
1920 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1922 - Kai Winding, Danish-born musician (d. 1983)
1922 - Bill Macy, American actor
1922 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005)
1923 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
1923 - Jean-Louis Roux, French Canadian actor and artistic director
1924 - Priscilla Pointer, American actress
1924 - Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster
1926 - Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
1928 - Pernell Roberts, American actor
1929 - Jack Sanford, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1930 - Warren Rudman, American politician
1931 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1931 - Robert Morse, American actor
1933 - Bernadette Chirac, French politician
1934 - Dwayne Hickman, American actor and television executive
1937 - Jacques Santer, Luxembourg statesman
1937 - Brooks Robinson, American baseball player
1939 - Giovanni Falcone, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
1939 - Gordon O'Connor, Canadian politician
1941 - Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (d. 2007)
1941 - Miriam Margolyes, British actress
1942 - Albert Hammond, British musician and composer
1942 - Nobby Stiles, English footballer
1943 - James Reiher, American professional wrestler
1944 - W. G. Sebald, German-born writer (d. 2001)
1946 - Bruce Gilbert, English musician (Wire)
1946 - Frank Hsieh, former Premier of Taiwan
1946 - Reggie Jackson, American baseball player
1946 - Andreas Katsulas, American actor (d. 2006)
1947 - John Bruton, ninth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
1949 - Rick Wakeman, English composer and musician (Yes)
1949 - Bill Wallace, Canadian musician (The Guess Who)
1950 - Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, musician, and singer (Devo)
1950 - Thomas Gottschalk, German television show host
1951 - Jim Sundberg, American baseball player
1952 - Diane Duane, American writer
1952 - George Strait, American musician
1952 - Jeana Yeager, American aviator
1954 - Reinhold Heil, German composer
1955 - Chow Yun-Fat, Hong Kong actor
1957 - Michael Cretu, German musician (Enigma)
1958 - Toyah Willcox, English actor and singer
1959 - Jay Wells, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 - Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player
1960 - Yannick Noah, French tennis player
1962 - Mike Whitmarsh, American Volleyball Player
1962 - Nanne Grönvall, Swedish singer
1962 - Sandra Cretu, German singer
1962 - Mike Darnell, American television executive
1965 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (d. 1995)
1966 - Michael Tait, American musician (dc Talk, Tait)
1967 - Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German F1 driver
1969 - Martika, Cuban-American singer
1970 - Tina Fey, American writer/actress
1971 - Brad Friedel, American soccer player
1971 - Desiree Horton, American helicopter pilot/television reporter
1971 - Nobuteru Taniguchi, Japanese racing driver
1972 - Turner Stevenson, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Dario Franchitti, Scottish racecar driver
1974 - Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player
1975 - John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
1975 - Jack Johnson, American musician
1975 - Peter Iwers, Swedish bass player (In Flames)
1976 - Oleg Tverdovsky, Ukrainian ice hockey player
1977 - Danny Mills, English footballer
1977 - Lee Hendrie, English footballer
1978 - Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
1978 - Marcus Giles, American baseball player
1979 - Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
1979 - Michal Martikán, Slovak slalom canoiest
1979 - Julián Speroni, Argentine footballer
1979 - Milivoje Novakovič, Slovenian footballer
1980 - Aileen Campbell, Scottish Politician
1980 - Ali Zafar, Pakistani singer and model
1980 - Jeff Roehl, American football player
1981 - Mahamadou Diarra, Malian footballer
1982 - Jason Brown, English-born footballer
1982 - Eric West, American singer and actor
1983 - Gary O'Neil, English footballer
1983 - Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Vince Young, American football player
1984 - Niki Terpstra, Dutch cyclist
1984 - Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player
1984 - Scarlett Keegan, Playboy Playmate
1986 - Ryan Lamb, English rugby union player
1987 - Luisana Lopilato, Argentine actress and model
1988 - Ryan Cooley, Canadian television actor
1992 - Josh Phelps, Soccer Player
1992 - Spencer Breslin, American actor
1997 - Alana Etheridge, American actress