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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Oleta Adams
Singer
4-May-1962   Get Here (If You Can)
Luther Adler
Actor
4-May-1903 8-Dec-1984 Broadway actor
Nickolas Ashford
Songwriter
4-May-1942 22-Aug-2011 Half of Ashford and Simpson
Julian Barratt
Comic
4-May-1968   Daaan Aaaashcroooft
Lance Bass
Singer
4-May-1979   *NSYNC, the Quiet One
Gary Bauer
Government
4-May-1946   Family Research Council
Gustav Bergmann
Philosopher
4-May-1906 21-Apr-1987 Ontologist
Daniel A. Carp
Business
4-May-1948   CEO of Kodak, 2001-05
Frederic Edwin Church
Painter
4-May-1826 7-Apr-1900 American landscape painter
Robin Cook
Novelist
4-May-1940   Coma
Harry K. Daghlian
Physicist
4-May-1921 15-Sep-1945 Casualty of the Manhattan Project
Dick Dale
Guitarist
4-May-1937   Surf music guitarist, Deltones
Helene von Damm
Government
4-May-1938   Reagan's personal secretary
Rolf de Heer
Film Director
4-May-1951   Bad Boy Bubby
Mike Dirnt
Bassist
4-May-1972   Bassist for Green Day
Maynard Ferguson
Jazz Musician
4-May-1928 23-Aug-2006 Jazz bandleader and trumpeter
John Force
Auto Racing
4-May-1949   Funny car drag racer
Kate Garraway
TV Personality
4-May-1967   GMTV
Ana Gasteyer
Actor
4-May-1967   Saturday Night Live
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.
Military
4-May-1948   Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2005-07
Paul Gleason
Actor
4-May-1939 27-May-2006 The Breakfast Club
Alexander Gould
Actor
4-May-1994   Shane Botwin on Weeds
Maurice R. Greenberg
Business
4-May-1925   CEO of American International Group, 1967-2005
James Greenwood
Politician
4-May-1951   Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1993-2005
Bruce Haack
Musician
4-May-1932 26-Sep-1988 The Electric Lucifer
John Paul Hammerschmidt
Politician
4-May-1922   Congressman from Arkansas, 1967-93
Colleen Hanabusa
Politician
4-May-1951   Congresswoman, Hawaii 1st
Keith Haring
Painter
4-May-1958 16-Feb-1990 Abstract graffiti and mural artist
Henri I
Royalty
4-May-1008 4-Aug-1060 King of France, 1031-60
Audrey Hepburn
Actor
4-May-1929 20-Jan-1993 My Fair Lady
Hilly Hicks
Actor
4-May-1950   Character actor
Karla Homolka
Criminal
4-May-1970   Husband/wife serial killer team
Jackie Jackson
Musician
4-May-1951   Tallest of the Jackson Five
Katherine Jackson
Relative
4-May-1930   Matriarch of the Jackson family
Mannie L. Jackson
Business
4-May-1939   Owner of the Harlem Globetrotters
Jane Jacobs
Author
4-May-1916 25-Apr-2006 The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Lincoln Kirstein
Author
4-May-1907 5-Jan-1996 Co-Founder, New York City Ballet
Esmond Knight
Actor
4-May-1906 23-Feb-1987 The River
James A. Lash
Business
4-May-1944   Manchester Principal LLC
Horace Mann
Educator
4-May-1796 2-Aug-1859 Massachusetts education reformer
Lawrence Maxwell, Jr.
Attorney
4-May-1853 18-Feb-1927 US Solicitor General, 1893-95
Mary Beth McDonough
Actor
4-May-1961   Erin Walton on The Waltons
Rory McIlroy
Golf
4-May-1989   Winner of 2 Majors
Hosni Mubarak
Head of State
4-May-1928   President of Egypt, 1981-2011
Amos Oz
Novelist
4-May-1939   Elsewhere, Perhaps
A. Mitchell Palmer
Government
4-May-1872 11-May-1936 US Attorney General, Palmer Raids
Emily Perkins
Actor
4-May-1977   Sue Lewis on Da Vinci's Inquest
Roberta Peters
Singer
4-May-1930   Coloratura soprano, NY Metropolitan Opera
Laci Peterson
Victim
4-May-1975 23-Dec-2002 Pregnant mother's body found in bay
William H. Prescott
Historian
4-May-1796 28-Jan-1859 The Conquest of Mexico
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Conductor
4-May-1931   Bolshoi, Vienna Symphony, Stockholm
Terry Scott
Actor
4-May-1927 26-Jul-1994 Terry and June
Rocco Siffredi
Pornstar
4-May-1964   Rocco's True Anal Stories
Howard Da Silva
Actor
4-May-1909 16-Feb-1986 Bartender in The Lost Weekend
Kimora Lee Simmons
Fashion Designer
4-May-1975   Fabulosity
Theda Skocpol
Educator
4-May-1947   Harvard sociologist, political scientist
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Religion
4-May-1889 2-Dec-1967 Archbishop of New York, 1939-67
Graham Swift
Novelist
4-May-1949   Last Orders
Eric Sykes
Actor
4-May-1923 4-Jul-2012 The Plank
Russi Taylor
Actor
4-May-1944   Voice of Minnie Mouse
Louis-Jacques Thénard
Chemist
4-May-1777 21-Jun-1857 Traité de Chimie élémentaire
Randy Travis
Country Musician
4-May-1959   Country music artist, has 25 top ten hits
Bob Tway
Golf
4-May-1959   Winner, 1986 PGA Championship
Joseph D. Tydings
Politician
4-May-1928   US Senator from Maryland, 1965-71
George Will
Columnist
4-May-1941   Conservative pundit, baseball lover
Harold Bell Wright
Novelist
4-May-1872 24-May-1944 The Winning of Barbara Worth
Stephen M. Young
Politician
4-May-1889 1-Dec-1984 US Senator from Ohio, 1959-71
Pia Zadora
Singer
4-May-1953   The Clapping Song




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