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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Adele
Singer
5-May-1988   Rolling In The Deep
Will Arnett
Actor
5-May-1970   George Bluth on Arrested Development
Terry Baker
Football
5-May-1941   Winner, 1962 Heisman Trophy
Hubert Howe Bancroft
Historian
5-May-1832 2-Mar-1918 Bancroft Library
James Beard
Chef
5-May-1903 23-Jan-1985 First prominent TV chef
Henry S. Bienen
Educator
5-May-1939   President, Northwestern University, 1995-2009
Susan S. Bies
Business
5-May-1947   Former EVP, First Tennessee National Corp
Nellie Bly
Journalist
5-May-1864 27-Jan-1922 Ten Days in a Mad-House
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Novelist
5-May-1933   Emma Harte saga
Chris Brown
Singer
5-May-1989   R&B singer, Run It!
Kenneth Burke
Critic
5-May-1897 19-Nov-1993 Language as Symbolic Action
Santiago Cabrera
Actor
5-May-1978   Isaac Mendez on Heroes
Julie Cafritz
Guitarist
5-May-1965   Guitarist for Pussy Galore
Tony Canadeo
Football
5-May-1919 29-Nov-2003 The Gray Ghost of Gonzaga
Walter Capps
Politician
5-May-1934 28-Oct-1997 Congressman from California, 1997
Pat Carroll
Actor
5-May-1927   Make Room for Daddy
Henry Cavill
Actor
5-May-1983   The Tudors
John D. Cherry
Politician
5-May-1951   Lt. Governor of Michigan, 2003-11
Charles Chree
Astronomer
5-May-1860 12-Aug-1928 Geomagnetic phenomena
Craig David
Singer
5-May-1981   Slicker Than Your Average
Ann B. Davis
Actor
5-May-1926   Alice from The Brady Bunch
Delia Derbyshire
Electronic Musician
5-May-1937 3-Jul-2001 Constructed the Doctor Who theme
Kyan Douglas
TV Personality
5-May-1970   Grooming Queer Eye guy
John William Draper
Chemist
5-May-1811 4-Jan-1882 Radiant energy and portrait photography
Rajiv Dutta
Business
5-May-1960 31-Jan-2011 President of PayPal, 2006-08
August Dvorak
Inventor
5-May-1894 10-Oct-1975 Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
John Porter East
Politician
5-May-1931 29-Jun-1986 US Senator, committed suicide
Lisa Eilbacher
Actor
5-May-1957   Beverly Hills Cop
Stuart Elliott
Drummer
5-May-1953   Drummer for Alan Parsons and Kate Bush
Alice Faye
Actor
5-May-1915 9-May-1998 Fallen Angel
Danielle Fishel
Actor
5-May-1981   Topanga on Boy Meets World
Kaye Gibbons
Novelist
5-May-1960   Ellen Foster
Charlie Gonzalez
Politician
5-May-1945   Congressman, Texas 20th
Freeman F. Gosden
Actor
5-May-1899 10-Dec-1982 Amos of Amos & Andy
Richard E. Grant
Actor
5-May-1957   Dr. Who, Henry & June
Louis-Christophe-François Hachette
Publisher
5-May-1800 31-Jul-1864 French textbook publisher
Joseph E. Harlan
Business
5-May-1959   Divisional EVP at 3M
Jerry A. Hausman
Economist
5-May-1946   Hausman Specification Test
Willis C. Hawley
Politician
5-May-1864 24-Jul-1941 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Lance Henriksen
Actor
5-May-1940   Aliens, Dead Man
Darrin Dewitt Henson
Actor
5-May-1972   Lem Van Adams on Soul Food
Brooke Hogan
Relative
5-May-1988   Daughter of Hulk Hogan
Mary Hopkin
Singer
5-May-1950   Those Were the Days
Will Hutchins
Actor
5-May-1932   Sugarfoot
Ursula Jeans
Actor
5-May-1906 21-Apr-1973 The Dam Busters
James R. Jones
Diplomat
5-May-1939   US Ambassador to Mexico, 1993-97
Isaac M. Jordan
Politician
5-May-1835 3-Dec-1890 Congressman from Ohio, 1883-85
Vincent Kartheiser
Actor
5-May-1979   Pete Campbell on Mad Men
Søren Kierkegaard
Philosopher
5-May-1813 11-Nov-1855 Father of existentialism
Charles Lamont
Film Director
5-May-1895 12-Sep-1993 Director, Abbott & Costello
June Lang
Actor
5-May-1917 16-May-2005 Bonnie Scotland
Edwin M. Lee
Government
5-May-1952   Mayor of San Francisco
Kurt Loder
Journalist
5-May-1945   MTV News reporter
Herschel C. Loveless
Politician
5-May-1911 4-May-1989 Governor of Iowa, 1957-61
Karl Marx
Economist
5-May-1818 14-Mar-1883 Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
Robert P. May
Business
5-May-1949 2-Apr-2011 CEO of Calpine, 2005-08
Ian McCulloch
Singer/Songwriter
5-May-1959   Echo and the Bunnymen
Christopher Morley
Novelist
5-May-1890 28-Mar-1957 The Haunted Bookshop
Michael Murphy
Actor
05-May-1938   An Unmarried Woman
Paul Martin Newby
Judge
5-May-1955   Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
James A. O'Gorman
Politician
5-May-1860 17-May-1943 US Senator from New York, 1911-17
Richard A. Paez
Judge
5-May-1947   9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Michael Palin
Comic
5-May-1943   Monty Python
Georgios Papadopoulos
Head of State
5-May-1919 27-Jun-1999 Dictator of Greece, 1967-73
Jeffry M. Picower
Business
5-May-1942 25-Oct-2009 Became billionaire via Madoff's Ponzi
Tyrone Power
Actor
5-May-1913 15-Nov-1958 Witness for the Prosecution
Graham Purcell
Politician
5-May-1919 11-Jun-2011 Congressman from Texas, 1962-73
Roger Rees
Actor
5-May-1944   Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
John Rhys-Davies
Actor
5-May-1944   Gimli the dwarf in Lord of the Rings
Bing Russell
Actor
5-May-1926 8-Apr-2003 Dep. Clem Foster on Bonanza
Leo Ryan
Politician
5-May-1925 18-Nov-1978 Congressman assassinated in Guyana
Richard Schaal
Actor
5-May-1928   Leo Heatherton on Phyllis
Arthur L. Schawlow
Physicist
5-May-1921 28-Apr-1999 Laser spectroscopy
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Film Director
5-May-1928 14-Mar-2012 The Anderson Platoon
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Author
5-May-1846 15-Nov-1916 Quo Vadis?
Sage Stallone
Actor
5-May-1976 13-Jul-2012 Son of Sylvester Stallone
Sergey Stanishev
Head of State
5-May-1966   Prime Minister of Bulgaria
James R. Stengel
Business
5-May-1955   Procter & Gamble executive
John Sweeney
Labor Leader
5-May-1934   President of the AFL-CIO, 1995-2009
Donna A. Tanoue
Government
5-May-1954   FDIC Chairman, 1998-2001
John Terry
Actor
5-May-1944   Dr. Christian Shephard on Lost
Thomas C. Theobald
Business
5-May-1937   CEO of Continental Bank, 1987-94
Bill Ward
Drummer
5-May-1948   Drummer for Black Sabbath
Archibald Wavell
Military
5-May-1883 24-May-1950 British Field Marshal in WWII
Brian Williams
Journalist
5-May-1959   Tom Brokaw's successor at NBC News
Harry Woods
Actor
5-May-1889 28-Dec-1968 Perpetual Hollywood villain
Tammy Wynette
Country Musician
5-May-1942 6-Apr-1998 Stand By Your Man
Tina Yothers
Actor
5-May-1973   Jennifer Keaton on Family Ties


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