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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ferrán Adrià
Chef
14-May-1962   El Bulli
Paul H. Anderson
Judge
14-May-1943   Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Francesca Annis
Actor
14-May-1944   Wives and Daughters
Natalie Appleton
Musician
14-May-1973   All Saints
Pierre Auger
Physicist
14-May-1899 25-Dec-1993 Auger effect
Sidney Bechet
Jazz Musician
14-May-1897 14-May-1959 Jazz saxophonist
Cate Blanchett
Actor
14-May-1969   Galadriel in LOTR
Hazel Blears
Politician
14-May-1956   British MP, Salford
Paul Broun
Politician
14-May-1946   Congressman, Georgia 10th District
Jack Bruce
Musician
14-May-1943   Bassist/Vocalist for Cream
Patrick Bruel
Singer
14-May-1959   Force Majeure
David Byrne
Musician
14-May-1952   Frontman for Talking Heads
J. Donald Cameron
Politician
14-May-1833 30-Aug-1918 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1877-97
Edward P. Carville
Politician
14-May-1885 27-Jun-1956 Governor of Nevada, 1939-45
Erwin Chemerinsky
Scholar
14-May-1953   Legal Scholar
James B. Clark
Film Director
14-May-1908 19-Jul-2000 Flipper
Tom Cochrane
Musician
14-May-1953   Life Is a Highway
Earle Combs
Baseball
14-May-1899 21-Jul-1976 The Kentucky Colonel, MLB Hall of Famer
Sofia Coppola
Film Director
14-May-1971   Lost in Translation
Miranda Cosgrove
Actor
14-May-1993   Megan Parker on Drake & Josh
Bobby Darin
Singer
14-May-1936 20-Dec-1973 Mack the Knife
Julian C. Day
Business
14-May-1952   CEO of Radio Shack
Richard Deacon
Actor
14-May-1921 8-Aug-1984 The Dick Van Dyke Show
Marianne Denicourt
Actor
14-May-1966   La Belle noiseuse
C.C. DeVille
Guitarist
14-May-1962   Guitarist for Poison
Samuel Dexter
Politician
14-May-1761 4-May-1816 US Secretary of War, Treasury
Byron Dorgan
Politician
14-May-1942   US Senator from North Dakota
Billie Dove
Actor
14-May-1903 31-Dec-1997 The Black Pirate
June Duprez
Actor
14-May-1918 30-Oct-1984 The Thief of Bagdad
Timothy Dwight
Educator
14-May-1752 11-Jan-1817 President of Yale, 1795-1817
Jim Folsom, Jr.
Politician
14-May-1949   Governor of Alabama, 1993-95
Bertie Forbes
Business
14-May-1880 6-May-1954 Forbes Magazine founder
Robert Fuller
Wrestling
14-May-1951   Former WCW wrestler, manager
Thomas Gainsborough
Painter
14-May-1727 2-Aug-1788 Portrait and landscape painter
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Head of State
14-May-1943   President of Iceland
Lou Harrison
Composer
14-May-1917 2-Feb-2003 Musical wayfarer
Danny Huston
Actor
14-May-1962   Silver City
Suzanne Nora Johnson
Business
14-May-1957   Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 2004-07
Ayub Khan
Head of State
14-May-1907 19-Apr-1974 President of Pakistan, 1958-69
Otto Klemperer
Conductor
14-May-1885 6-Jul-1973 Prominent German conductor
Richard Kostelanetz
Artist
14-May-1940   Prodigious avant-garde artist and author
Nicholas Kurti
Physicist
14-May-1908 24-Nov-1998 Molecular gastronomy
Brett Leonard
Film Director
14-May-1959   Lawnmower Man
Daniel Lewin
Mathematician
14-May-1970 11-Sep-2001 Co-founder of Akamai, died in 9/11
George Lucas
Film Director
14-May-1944   Creator of Star Wars
Alvin Lucier
Composer
14-May-1931   I Am Sitting In A Room
Gabriel Mann
Actor
14-May-1972   Dying to Live
Margaret of Valois
Royalty
14-May-1553 27-Mar-1615 Consort of Henry of Navarre
Alan Mollohan
Politician
14-May-1943   Congressman from West Virginia, 1983-2011
Eric Morecambe
Comic
14-May-1926 28-May-1984 Morecambe and Wise
Richard John Neuhaus
Religion
14-May-1936 8-Jan-2009 Catholic priest
Robert Owen
Activist
14-May-1771 17-Nov-1858 Founder of the Cooperative Movement
Adnan Pachachi
Politician
14-May-1923   Former Iraqi diplomat
Alton B. Parker
Judge
14-May-1852 10-May-1926 Chief Judge, NY Court of Appeals, 1898-1904
Paolo Paruta
Historian
14-May-1540 6-Dec-1598 Official historian of Venice
Erik Paulsen
Politician
14-May-1965   Congressman, Minnesota 3rd
Tony Pérez
Baseball
14-May-1942   Big Dog, MLB Hall-of-Famer
Siân Phillips
Actor
14-May-1934   I, Claudius
Margaret Milner Richardson
Government
14-May-1943   IRS Commissioner, 1993-97
Richard Rober
Actor
14-May-1910 26-May-1952 Jet Pilot
Tim Roth
Actor
14-May-1961   Pulp Fiction
Raphael Saadiq
Musician
14-May-1966   Tony! Toni! Tone!
Zutty Singleton
Jazz Musician
14-May-1898 14-Jul-1975 New Orleans jazz drummer
Jackie Speier
Politician
14-May-1950   Congresswoman, California 12th
Amber Tamblyn
Actor
14-May-1983   Joan of Arcadia
Nikolai Tikhonov
Politician
14-May-1905 1-Jun-1997 Premier of the Soviet Union, 1980-85
Franjo Tudjman
Head of State
14-May-1922 11-Dec-1999 First President of Croatia
Harold R. Tyler, Jr.
Attorney
14-May-1922 25-May-2005 Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler
Indira Varma
Actor
14-May-1973   Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Jack Watson
Actor
14-May-1915 4-Jul-1999 The Wild Geese
Harvey L. Wollman
Politician
14-May-1935   Governor of South Dakota, 1978-79
Danny Wood
Singer
14-May-1969   New Kids on the Block
Robert Zemeckis
Film Director
14-May-1952   Back To The Future
Joseph Zito
Film Director
14-May-1946   Missing In Action
Mark Zuckerberg
Business
14-May-1984   Founder of Facebook




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