| Date | Person |
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| 1st May 1904 |
Composer Antonin Dvorak dies
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| 1st May 1909 |
Kate Smith born
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| 1st May 1916 |
Glenn Ford born
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| 1st May 1918 |
Jack Paar born
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| 1st May 1924 |
Terry Southern born
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| 1st May 1939 |
Judy Collins born
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| 1st May 1945 |
Rita Coolidge born
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| 1st May 1945 |
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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| 1st May 1967 |
Tim McGraw born
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| 1st May 1994 |
World Formula 1 Champion Ayton Senna killed during the San Marino Grand Prix
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| 2nd May 1892 |
Baron Von Richthofen born
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| 2nd May 1903 |
Dr. Benjamin Spock born
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| 2nd May 1924 |
Theodore Bikel born
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| 2nd May 1925 |
Roscoe Lee Browne born
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| 2nd May 1936 |
Engelbert Humperdinck born
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| 2nd May 1945 |
Bianca Jagger born
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| 2nd May 1946 |
Lesley Gore born
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| 2nd May 1972 |
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson born
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| 2nd May 1975 |
David Beckham born
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| 3rd May 1469 |
Niccolo Machiavelli born
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| 3rd May 1898 |
Golda Meir born
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| 3rd May 1903 |
Bing Crosby born
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| 3rd May 1919 |
Pete Seeger born
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| 3rd May 1921 |
Sugar Ray Robinson born
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| 3rd May 1933 |
James Brown born
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| 3rd May 1937 |
Frankie Valli born
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| 3rd May 1947 |
Doug Henning born
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| 3rd May 1951 |
Christopher Cross born
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| 3rd May 1985 |
Greg Raposo born
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| 4th May 1919 |
Heloise born
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| 4th May 1929 |
Audrey Hepburn born
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| 4th May 1941 |
George F. Will born
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| 4th May 1956 |
Pia Zadora born
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| 4th May 1972 |
Mike Dirnt born
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| 4th May 1979 |
Lance Bass born
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| 5th May 1818 |
Karl Marx born
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| 5th May 1821 |
Napoleon Bonaparte dies
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| 5th May 1913 |
Tyrone Power born
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| 5th May 1915 |
Alice Faye born
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| 5th May 1926 |
Ann B. Davis born
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| 5th May 1927 |
Pat Carroll born
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| 5th May 1942 |
Tammy Wynette born
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| 5th May 1973 |
Tina Yothers born
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| 5th May 1981 |
Danielle Fishel born
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| 5th May 1981 |
IRA Hunger striker Bobby Sands dies
|
| 5th May 1981 |
Craig David born
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| 6th May 1856 |
Sigmund Freud born
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| 6th May 1856 |
Robert E. Peary born
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| 6th May 1868 |
Gaston Leroux born
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| 6th May 1895 |
Rudolph Valentino born
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| 6th May 1915 |
Orson Welles born
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| 6th May 1931 |
Willie Mays born
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| 6th May 1945 |
Bob Seger born
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| 6th May 1953 |
Tony Blair born
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| 6th May 1955 |
Tom Bergeron born
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| 6th May 1961 |
George Clooney born
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| 7th May 1812 |
Robert Browning born
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| 7th May 1833 |
Johannes Brahms born
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| 7th May 1840 |
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky born
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| 7th May 1885 |
Gabby Hayes born
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| 7th May 1901 |
Gary Cooper born
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| 7th May 1919 |
Eva Peron born
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| 7th May 1922 |
Darren McGavin born
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| 7th May 1931 |
Teresa Brewer born
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| 7th May 1933 |
Johnny Unitas born
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| 7th May 1950 |
Tim Russert born
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| 8th May 1884 |
Harry S. Truman born
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| 8th May 1895 |
Bishop Fulton Sheen born
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| 8th May 1903 |
Artist Paul Gauguin dies
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| 8th May 1926 |
Don Rickles born
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| 8th May 1940 |
Peter Benchley born
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| 8th May 1940 |
Rick Nelson born
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| 8th May 1943 |
Toni Tennille born
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| 8th May 1964 |
Melissa Gilbert born
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| 8th May 1969 |
Robert M. Hensel born
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| 8th May 1972 |
Darren Hayes born
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| 8th May 1975 |
Enrique Iglesias born
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| 9th May 1800 |
John Brown born
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| 9th May 1873 |
Howard Carter born
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| 9th May 1904 |
Explorer Sir Henry Stanley dies
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| 9th May 1918 |
Mike Wallace born
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| 9th May 1936 |
Albert Finney born
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| 9th May 1936 |
Glenda Jackson born
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| 9th May 1940 |
James L. Brooks born
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| 9th May 1946 |
Candice Bergen born
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| 9th May 1949 |
Billy Joel born
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| 9th May 1960 |
Tony Gwynn born
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| 9th May 1965 |
Steve Yzerman born
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| 9th May 1979 |
Pierre Bouvier born
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| 10th May 1888 |
Max Steiner born
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| 10th May 1899 |
Fred Astaire born
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| 10th May 1902 |
David O. Selznick born
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| 10th May 1922 |
Nancy Walker born
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| 10th May 1930 |
Pat Summerall born
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| 10th May 1936 |
Gary Owens born
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| 10th May 1946 |
Donovan born
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| 10th May 1957 |
Phil and Steve Mahre born
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| 10th May 1957 |
Sid Vicious born
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| 10th May 1960 |
Paul "Bono" Hewson born
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| 10th May 1977 |
Amanda Borden born
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| 10th May 1978 |
Kenan Thompson born
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| 11th May 1888 |
Irving Berlin born
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| 11th May 1894 |
Martha Graham born
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| 11th May 1904 |
Salvador Dali born
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| 11th May 1911 |
Phil Silvers born
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| 11th May 1912 |
Foster Brooks born
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| 11th May 1927 |
Mort Sahl born
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| 11th May 1933 |
Louis Farrakhan born
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| 11th May 1963 |
Natasha Richardson born
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| 11th May 1983 |
Holly Valance born
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| 12th May 1820 |
Florence Nightingale born
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| 12th May 1907 |
Katharine Hepburn born
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| 12th May 1925 |
Yogi Berra born
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| 12th May 1929 |
Burt Bacharach born
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| 12th May 1936 |
Tom Snyder born
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| 12th May 1937 |
George Carlin born
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| 12th May 1948 |
Steve Winwood born
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| 12th May 1961 |
Ving Rhames born
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| 12th May 1962 |
Emilio Estevez born
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| 12th May 1966 |
Stephen Baldwin born
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| 12th May 1968 |
Tony Hawk born
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| 12th May 1969 |
Kim Fields born
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| 12th May 1978 |
Jason Biggs born
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| 12th May 1981 |
IRA hunger striker Francis Hughes dies
|
| 12th May 1994 |
Labour party leader John Smith Dies
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| 13th May 1842 |
Arthur Sullivan born
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| 13th May 1914 |
Joe Louis born
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| 13th May 1923 |
Beatrice Arthur born
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| 13th May 1939 |
Harvey Keitel born
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| 13th May 1941 |
Ritchie Valens born
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| 13th May 1950 |
Stevie Wonder born
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| 13th May 1961 |
Dennis Rodman born
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| 13th May 1966 |
Darius Rucker born
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| 13th May 1977 |
Samantha Morton born
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| 14th May 1727 |
Thomas Gainsborough born
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| 14th May 1885 |
Otto Klemperer born
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| 14th May 1933 |
Laszlo Kovacs born
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| 14th May 1936 |
Bobby Darin born
|
| 14th May 1944 |
George Lucas born
|
| 14th May 1951 |
Robert Zemeckis born
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| 14th May 1952 |
David Byrne born
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| 14th May 1961 |
Tim Roth born
|
| 14th May 1965 |
Jose Da Silveira born
|
| 14th May 1969 |
Cate Blanchett born
|
| 14th May 1969 |
Danny Wood born
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| 15th May 1905 |
Joseph Cotten born
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| 15th May 1909 |
James Mason born
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| 15th May 1918 |
Eddy Arnold born
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| 15th May 1930 |
Jasper Johns born
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| 15th May 1936 |
Anna Maria Alberghetti born
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| 15th May 1937 |
Madeleine Albright born
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| 15th May 1937 |
Trini Lopez born
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| 15th May 1953 |
George Brett born
|
| 15th May 1969 |
Emmitt Smith born
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| 15th May 1972 |
David Charvet born
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| 15th May 1981 |
Jamie-Lynn Sigler born
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| 16th May 1801 |
William Seward born
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| 16th May 1905 |
Henry Fonda born
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| 16th May 1919 |
Liberace born
|
| 16th May 1947 |
Bob Edwards born
|
| 16th May 1953 |
Pierce Brosnan born
|
| 16th May 1955 |
Olga Korbut born
|
| 16th May 1955 |
Debra Winger born
|
| 16th May 1966 |
Janet Jackson born
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| 16th May 1969 |
Tracey Gold born
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| 16th May 1971 |
David Boreanaz born
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| 16th May 1973 |
Tori Spelling born
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| 17th May 1902 |
Ayatollah Khomeini born
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| 17th May 1911 |
Maureen O'Sullivan born
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| 17th May 1936 |
Dennis Hopper born
|
| 17th May 1955 |
Bill Paxton born
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| 17th May 1956 |
Bob Saget born
|
| 17th May 1956 |
Sugar Ray Leonard born
|
| 17th May 1961 |
Enya born
|
| 17th May 1965 |
Trent Reznor born
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| 17th May 1970 |
Jordan Knight born
|
| 17th May 1974 |
Andrea Corr born
|
| 18th May 1897 |
Frank Capra born
|
| 18th May 1911 |
Composer Gustav Mahler dies
|
| 18th May 1912 |
Perry Como born
|
| 18th May 1919 |
Margot Fonteyn born
|
| 18th May 1920 |
Pope John Paul II born
|
| 18th May 1930 |
Pernell Roberts born
|
| 18th May 1931 |
Robert Morse born
|
| 18th May 1934 |
Dwayne Hickman born
|
| 18th May 1937 |
Brooks Robinson born
|
| 18th May 1946 |
Reggie Jackson born
|
| 18th May 1952 |
George Strait born
|
| 18th May 1955 |
Chow Yun-Fat born
|
| 18th May 1970 |
Tina Fey born
|
| 19th May 1890 |
Ho Chi Minh born
|
| 19th May 1898 |
Former Prime Minister William Gladstone dies
|
| 19th May 1925 |
Malcolm X born
|
| 19th May 1935 |
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) dies
|
| 19th May 1939 |
James Fox born
|
| 19th May 1941 |
Nora Ephron born
|
| 19th May 1945 |
Pete Townshend born
|
| 19th May 1946 |
Andre the Giant born
|
| 19th May 1951 |
Joey Ramone born
|
| 19th May 1952 |
Grace Jones born
|
| 19th May 1968 |
Kyle Eastwood born
|
| 19th May 1976 |
Kevin Garnett born
|
| 20th May 1908 |
Jimmy Stewart born
|
| 20th May 1919 |
George Gobel born
|
| 20th May 1936 |
Anthony Zerbe born
|
| 20th May 1940 |
Stan Mikita born
|
| 20th May 1944 |
Joe Cocker born
|
| 20th May 1946 |
Cher born
|
| 20th May 1959 |
Bronson Pinchot born
|
| 20th May 1972 |
Busta Rhymes born
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| 21st May 1904 |
Fats Waller born
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| 21st May 1916 |
Harold Robbins born
|
| 21st May 1917 |
Raymond Burr born
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| 21st May 1917 |
Dennis Day born
|
| 21st May 1924 |
Peggy Cass born
|
| 21st May 1972 |
Notorious B.I.G. born
|
| 21st May 1974 |
Fairuza Balk born
|
| 21st May 1991 |
Rajiv Gandhi assassinated
|
| 22nd May 1813 |
Richard Wagner born
|
| 22nd May 1844 |
Mary Cassat born
|
| 22nd May 1859 |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born
|
| 22nd May 1907 |
Sir Laurence Olivier born
|
| 22nd May 1934 |
Peter Nero born
|
| 22nd May 1938 |
Richard Benjamin born
|
| 22nd May 1938 |
Susan Strasberg born
|
| 22nd May 1941 |
Paul Winfield born
|
| 22nd May 1959 |
Morrissey born
|
| 22nd May 1970 |
Naomi Campbell born
|
| 23rd May 1883 |
Douglas Fairbanks born
|
| 23rd May 1910 |
Artie Shaw born
|
| 23rd May 1910 |
Scatman Crothers born
|
| 23rd May 1920 |
Helen O'Connell born
|
| 23rd May 1928 |
Rosemary Clooney born
|
| 23rd May 1933 |
Joan Collins born
|
| 23rd May 1934 |
Gangsters Bonnie and Clyde killed by police
|
| 23rd May 1952 |
Marvin Hagler born
|
| 23rd May 1958 |
Mitch Albom born
|
| 23rd May 1958 |
Drew Carey born
|
| 23rd May 1974 |
Ken Jennings born
|
| 23rd May 1974 |
Jewel born
|
| 23rd May 1976 |
Kelly Monaco born
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| 24th May 1938 |
Tommy Chong born
|
| 24th May 1941 |
Bob Dylan born
|
| 24th May 1943 |
Gary Burghoff born
|
| 24th May 1944 |
Patti LaBelle born
|
| 24th May 1945 |
Priscilla Presley born
|
| 24th May 1955 |
Rosanne Cash born
|
| 24th May 1963 |
Joe Dumars born
|
| 25th May 1803 |
Ralph W. Emerson born
|
| 25th May 1918 |
Claude Akins born
|
| 25th May 1925 |
Jeanne Crain born
|
| 25th May 1926 |
Miles Davis born
|
| 25th May 1927 |
Robert Ludlum born
|
| 25th May 1929 |
Beverly Sills born
|
| 25th May 1934 |
Composer Gustav Holst dies
|
| 25th May 1936 |
Tom T. Hall born
|
| 25th May 1939 |
Ian McKellen born
|
| 25th May 1943 |
Leslie Uggams born
|
| 25th May 1944 |
Frank Oz born
|
| 25th May 1955 |
Connie Sellecca born
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| 25th May 1963 |
Mike Myers born
|
| 25th May 1969 |
Anne Heche born
|
| 25th May 1975 |
Lauryn Hill born
|
| 26th May 1886 |
Al Jolson born
|
| 26th May 1907 |
John Wayne born
|
| 26th May 1908 |
Robert Morley born
|
| 26th May 1913 |
Peter Cushing born
|
| 26th May 1914 |
Frankie Manning born
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| 26th May 1919 |
Jay Silverheels born
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| 26th May 1920 |
Peggy Lee born
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| 26th May 1923 |
James Arness born
|
| 26th May 1939 |
Brent Musburger born
|
| 26th May 1948 |
Stevie Nicks born
|
| 26th May 1949 |
Pam Grier born
|
| 26th May 1949 |
Philip Michael Thomas born
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| 26th May 1949 |
Hank Williams born
|
| 26th May 1951 |
Sally Ride born
|
| 26th May 1964 |
Lenny Kravitz born
|
| 27th May 1837 |
Wild Bill Hickok born
|
| 27th May 1840 |
Violinst Niccolo Paganini dies
|
| 27th May 1878 |
Isadora Duncan born
|
| 27th May 1894 |
Dashiell Hammett born
|
| 27th May 1911 |
Hubert H. Humphrey born
|
| 27th May 1911 |
Vincent Price born
|
| 27th May 1912 |
Sam Snead born
|
| 27th May 1922 |
Christopher Lee born
|
| 27th May 1923 |
Henry Kissinger born
|
| 27th May 1936 |
Louis Gossett born
|
| 27th May 1964 |
Indias first and current prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies
|
| 27th May 1964 |
Adam Carolla born
|
| 27th May 1965 |
Todd Bridges born
|
| 27th May 1969 |
Jeremy Mayfield born
|
| 27th May 1970 |
Joseph Fiennes born
|
| 27th May 1971 |
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes born
|
| 27th May 1975 |
Andre 3000 born
|
| 28th May 1888 |
Jim Thorpe born
|
| 28th May 1906 |
Playright Henrik Ibsen dies
|
| 28th May 1908 |
Ian Fleming born
|
| 28th May 1931 |
Carroll Baker born
|
| 28th May 1944 |
Gladys Knight born
|
| 28th May 1944 |
Rudolph Giuliani born
|
| 28th May 1945 |
John Fogerty born
|
| 28th May 1967 |
Glen Rice born
|
| 28th May 1968 |
Kylie Minogue born
|
| 28th May 1979 |
Jesse Bradford born
|
| 29th May 1736 |
Patrick Henry born
|
| 29th May 1874 |
G.K. Chesterton born
|
| 29th May 1903 |
Bob Hope born
|
| 29th May 1917 |
John F. Kennedy born
|
| 29th May 1932 |
Paul Erlich born
|
| 29th May 1939 |
Al Unser born
|
| 29th May 1947 |
Anthony Geary born
|
| 29th May 1953 |
Danny Elfman born
|
| 29th May 1956 |
LaToya Jackson born
|
| 29th May 1958 |
Annette Bening born
|
| 29th May 1959 |
Adrian Paul born
|
| 29th May 1961 |
Melissa Etheridge born
|
| 29th May 1967 |
Noel Gallagher born
|
| 29th May 1975 |
Melanie Janine Brown born
|
| 30th May 1908 |
Mel Blanc born
|
| 30th May 1909 |
Benny Goodman born
|
| 30th May 1936 |
Keir Dullea born
|
| 30th May 1939 |
Michael J. Pollard born
|
| 30th May 1945 |
Meredith MacRae born
|
| 30th May 1964 |
Wynonna Judd born
|
| 31st May 1819 |
Walt Whitman born
|
| 31st May 1894 |
Fred Allen born
|
| 31st May 1898 |
Norman Vincent Peale born
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| 31st May 1908 |
Don Ameche born
|
| 31st May 1922 |
Denholm Elliott born
|
| 31st May 1930 |
Clint Eastwood born
|
| 31st May 1938 |
Peter Yarrow born
|
| 31st May 1941 |
Johnny Paycheck born
|
| 31st May 1943 |
Sharon Gless born
|
| 31st May 1943 |
Joe Namath born
|
| 31st May 1948 |
John Bonham born
|
| 31st May 1950 |
Gregory Harrison born
|
| 31st May 1961 |
Lea Thompson born
|
| 31st May 1965 |
Brooke Shields born
|
| 31st May 1976 |
Colin Farrell born
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