| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |
