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Famous Birthdays by Month: || January || February || March || April || May || June || || July || August | September || October || November || December || May 1, 1909 - Kate Smith, singer May 1, 1916 - Glenn Ford, actor May 1, 1918 - Jack Paar, TV personality May 1, 1925 - Scott Carpenter, astronaut May 1, 1945 - Rita Coolidge, singer May 1, 1960 - Steve Cauthen, jockey May 1, 1967 - Tim McGraw, country western singer May 2, 1729 - Catherine II Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great) May2, 1837 - Henry Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order", the standard for parliamentary procedures. May 2, 1860 - Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism May 2, 1892 - Baron Von Richtofen, Germany's' WWI "Red Baron" May 2, 1903 - Benjamin Spock, physician, author, child-rearing expert May 2, 1904 - Bing Crosby, singer, actor May 2, 1945 - Bianca Jagger, actress, ex-wife of singer Mick Jagger May 2, 1946 - Lesley Gore, singer May 2, 1972 - Dwayne Johnson, wrestler, actor May 3, 1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Renaissance writer May 3, 1919 - Pete Seeger, singer, songwriter May 3, 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, champion boxer May 3, 1933 - James Brown, singer songwriter, producer, actor May 3, 1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, singer May 3, 1937 - Frankie Valli, singer, the "Four Seasons" May 3, 1946 - Greg Gumbel, sportscaster May 3, 1951 - Christopher Cross, Grammy winning singer May 3, 1964 - Wynona Judd, country singer May 3, 1974 - Jewel Kilcher, singer May 12, 1820 - Florence Nightengale, English nurse and public health activist May 4, 1889 - Francis Joseph Spellman, archbishop of New York May 4, 1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Dutch actress May 4, 1930 - Roberta Peters, opera singer May 4, 1959 - Randy Travis, country singer May 4, 1979 - Lance Bass, singer, member of "NSYNC" May 4, 1989 - Rory McIlroy, Irish Golfer May 5, 1818 - Karl Marx, socialist, political theorist May 5, 1913 - Tyrone Power, actor May 5, 1926 - Ann B. Davis, actress May 5, 1934 - John J. Sweeney, labor leader May 5, 1938 - Michael Murphy, actor May 5, 1942 - Tammy wynette, country singer May 5, 1943 - Michael Palin, actor, comedian, member of Monty Python May 5, 1959 - Brian Williams, journalist, TV news anchor. May 5, 1981 - Danielle Fishel, Actress, "Topanga" on TV series "Boy Meets World" May 5, 1988 - Adele, British singer-songwriter May 6, 1856 - Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founded psychoanalysis May 6, 1856 - Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, first to reach the North Pole May 6, 1895 - Rudolph Valentino, actor May 6, 1915 - Orson Welles, actor, director, "War of the Worlds" radio hoax on October 30, 1938 May 6, 1931 - Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball player May 6, 1945 - Bob Seger, singer, songwriter May 6, 1953 - Tony Blair, British Prime Minister May 6, 1960 - Roma Downey, actress May 6, 1961 - George Clooney, actor, director, producer May 7, 1812 - Robert Browning, poet May 7, 1833 - Johannes Brahms, German music composer May 7, 1840 - Peter Tchaikovsky, composer May 7, 1901 - Gary Cooper, actor May 7, 1922 - Darren McGavin, actor May 7, 1933 - Johnny Unitas, NFL quarterback May 7, 1945 - Robin Strasser, actress May 7, 1950 - Tim Russert, TV journalist May 8, 1828 - Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross May 8, 1829 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist, composer May 8, 1884 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd U.S. President (1845-1853) May 8, 1895 - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, religious leader , radio/TV May 8, 1926 - Don Rickles, comedian/actor May 8, 1932 - Sonny Liston, boxing champion May 8, 1940 - Ricky Nelson, singer, actor May 8, 1943 - Toni Tennille, singer May 8, 1964 - Melissa Gilbert, actress May 8, 1975 - Enrique Iglesias, singer May 9, 1800 - John Brown, abolitionist, led attack on Harpers Ferry May 9, 1860 - Sir James M. Barrie, novelist, children's author May 9, 1914 - Hank Snow, country singer May 9, 1918 - Mike Wallace, TV journalist May 9, 1936 - Albert Finney, actor May 9, 1946 - Candice Bergen, actress (Beverly Hills, CA) May 9, 1949 - Billy Joel, singer, songwriter May 10, 1838 - John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln May 10, 1899 - Fred Astaire, dancer/actor, born Frederick Austerlitz May 10, 1902 - David O. Selznick, producer May 10, 1944 - Judith Jamison, dancer/choreographer May 10, 1960 - Bono (Vox), singer, member of U2 May 10, 1966 - Jason Brooks, actor May 11, 1888 - Irving Berlin, songwriter May 11, 1891 - Henry Morgenthau Jr., conservationist May 11, 1911 - Phil Silvers, comic actor May 11, 1912 - Foster Brooks, comedian May 11, 1918 - Richard Feynman, physicist May 11, 1933 - Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader May 11, 1946 - Robert Jarvik, physician, invented the artificial heart May 11, 1982 - Jonathan Jackson, actor May 12, 1812 - Edward Lear, artist, author of light verse May 12, 1820 - Florence Nightingale, British pioneer in the field of nursing May 12, 1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, politician/historian May 12, 1907 - Katharine Hepburn, actress May 12, 1925 - Yogi Berra, baseball player, manager May 12, 1928 - Burt Bacharach, songwriter May 12, 1936 - Tom Snyder, broadcaster, journalist May 12, 1937 - George Carlin, comedian May 12, 1948 - Steve Winwood, musician, singer May 12, 1950 - Bruce Boxleitner, actor May 12, 1962 - Emilio Estevez, actor May 12, 1966 - Stephen Baldwin, actor May 12, 1973 - MacKenzie Astin, actor May 12, 1978 - Jason Biggs, actor May 13, 1914 - Joe Louis, boxing champion May 13, 1923 - Beatrice Arthur, actress May 13, 1927 - Herbert Ross, actor, choreographer, director May 13, 1950 - Stevie Wonder, singer, musician May 13, 1961 - Dennis Rodman, NBA basketball player May 13, 1964 - Stephen Colbert, television talk show host on The Late Show. May 13, 1977 - Samantha Morton, actress May 14, 1686 - Gabriel D. Fahrenheit, physicist, mercury thermometers, created Fahrenheit scale May 14, 1914 - Joe Louis, American boxer May 14, 1925 - Patrice Munsel, opera singer May 14, 1944 - George Lucas, filmmaker, Star Wars creator May 14, 1948 - Meg Foster, actress May 14, 1955 - Dennis Martinez, baseball pitcher May 14, 1969 - Cate Blanchett, actress "Lord of the Rings" May 14, 1984 - Mark Zuckerberg, Cofounder and CEO of Facebook. May 15, 1856 - L. Frank Baum, children's author May 15, 1859 - Pierre Curie, chemist, research on radioactivity May 15, 1915 - Paul A. Samuelson, economist May 15, 1923 - Richard Avedon, photographer May 15, 1937 - Madeleine Albright, secretary of state May 15, 1951 - Chazz Palminteri, actor, playwright, screenwriter May 15, 1953 - George Brett, baseball player May 15, 1955 - Lee Horsley, actor May 15, 1969 - Emmitt Smith, Hall of Fame NFL Running Back May 16, 1905 - Henry Fonda, actor May 16, 1913 - Woody Herman, musician, bandleader May 16, 1919 - Liberace, pianist May 16, 1928 - Billy Martin, fiery baseball player, manager May 16, 1929 - Adrienne Rich, writer May 16, 1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor, "James Bond", Mama Mia May 16, 1955 - Olga Korbut, Olympic gymnast champion May 16, 1955 - Debra Winger, actress May 16, 1966 - Janet Jackson, pop rock singer, Michael Jackson's sister May 16, 1971 - David Boreanaz, actor, Television series Bones and Seal Team. May 16, 1973 - Tori Spelling, actress May 17, 1749 - Edward Jenner, physician, pioneered vaccinations May 17, 1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress May 17, 1936 - Dennis Hopper, actor May 17, 1956 - Sugar Ray Leonard, champion boxer May 17, 1972 - Mia Hamm, Hall of Fame soccer player May 18, 1897 - Frank Capra, Academy Award winning director May 18, 1904 - Jacob Javits, New York State senator May 18, 1912 - Perry Como, singer May 18, 1920 - Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), Catholic Pope May 18, 1930 - Pernell Roberts, actor May 18, 1931 - Robert Morse, actor May 18, 1937 - Brooks Robinson, MLB player May 18, 1946 - Reggie Jackson, MLB player, "Mr. October" May 18, 1952 - George Strait, country singer May 18, 1970 - Tina Fey, Actress, writer, SNL May 19, 1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader May 19, 1925 - Malcolm X (Little), civil rights activist May 19, 1934 - Jim Lehrer, TV journalist, author May 19, 1935 - David Hartman, actor May 19, 1939 - Francis Scobee, astronaut, died in Challenger Space Shuttle explosion May 19, 1945 - Pete Townshend, musician, member of the "Who" May 19, 1945 - Andre the Giant, French May 19, 1968 - Kyle Eastwood, actor, son of Clint Eastwood May 20, 1768 - Dolly Madison, First Lady of the U.S. May 20, 1844 - Henri Rousseau, painter May 20, 1908 - James Stewart, actor May 20, 1944 - Joe Cocker, singer May 20, 1946 - Cher, ageless singer, actress, producer May 20, 1971 - Tony Stewart, race car driver May 21, 1898 - Armand Hammer, industrialist, philanthropist May 21, 1904 - Fats Waller, jazz pianist, songwriter May 21, 1909 - Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, teacher, artist, created of Hummel figurines May 21, 1916 - Harold Robbins, novelist May 21, 1917 - Raymond Burr, actor, TV series of the same name, and "Ironsides" May 21, 1921 - Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist May 21, 1924 - Peggy Cass, Broadway actress, celebrity panelist on "What's My Line?" and "To Tell the Truth", May 21, 1948 - Leo Sayer, singer, songwriter May 21, 1951 - Al Franken, comedian, actor, writer May 21, 1952 - Mr. T (Lawrence Tero), actor May 21, 1956 - Judge Reinhold, actor May 22, 1813 - Richard Wagner, composer May 22, 1844 - Mary Cassatt, artist May 22, 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer, detective stories May 22, 1907 - Lord Laurence Olivier, actor, director May 22, 1941 - Paul Winfield, actor May 22, 1943 - Tommy John, baseball pitcher May 22, 1959 - Morrissey, British pop star May 23, 1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, actor May 23, 1910 - Artie Shaw, musician, bandleader May 23, 1920 - Helen O'Connell, singer May 23, 1928 - Rosemary Clooney, singer May 23, 1933 - Joan Collins, actress May 23, 1936 - Charles Kimbrough, actor May 23, 1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian Chess player May 23, 1954 - Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxing champion boxer May 23, 1958 - Drew Carey, actor, comedian May 23, 1974 - Ken Jennings, Game show "Jeopardy" record winner May 24, 1819 - Queen Victoria, of Great Britain May 24, 1941 - Bob Dylan, singer, songwriter May 24, 1943 - Gary Burghoff, actor, won and Emmy for playing "Radar" on television series M*A*S*H May 24, 1946 - Priscilla Presley, actress , ex-wife of Elvis Presley May 24, 1965 - John C. Reilly, actor May 25, 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet May 25, 1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer May 25, 1889 - Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer, developed helicopters May 25, 1898 - Gene Tunney, champion boxer May 25, 1943 - Leslie Uggams, singer May 25, 1955 - Connie Sellecca, actress May 25, 1969 - Anne Heche, actress May 26, 1886 - Al Jolson, singer, actor May 26, 1907 - John Wayne, actor, best known for westerns May 26, 1912 - Jay Silverheels, actor, played "Tonto" on the television series "The Lone Ranger". May 26, 1920 - Peggy Lee, singer May 26, 1923 - James Arness, actor May 26, 1928 - Jack Kevorkian, physician, and assisted suicides May 26, 1939 - Brent Musberger, sportscaster, commentator May 26, 1948 - Stevie Nicks, singer, songwriter, "Fleetwood Mac" May 26, 1949 - Philip Michael Thomas, actor May 26, 1949 - Hank Williams Jr., country singer May 26, 1951 - Sally Ride, astronaut, 1st woman in space May 27, 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, financier, railroad tycoon May 27, 1837 - Wild Bill Hickock, frontiersman, lawman May 27, 1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota senator, presidential nominee May 27, 1911 - Vincent Price, actor May 27, 1912 - Sam Snead, golfer May 27, 1915 - Herman Wouk, novelist May 27, 1923 - Henry Kissinger, U. S. Secretary of State May 27, 1936 - Louis Gossett Jr., actor May 28, 1888 - Jim Thorpe, Olympic champion pentathlete/decathlete May 28, 1908 - Ian Fleming, novelist, creator of James Bond movies. May 28, 1916 - Walker Percy, novelist May 28, 1931 - Carroll Baker, actress May 28, 1944 - Rudolph Giuliani, New York City mayor May 28, 1944 - Gladys Knight, singer, "Gladys Knight and the Pips" May 28, 1945 - John Fogerty, rock singer May 29, 1736 - Patrick Henry, American politician May 29, 1736 - Patrick Henry, Revolutionary War leader, orator May 29, 1903 - Bob Hope, comedian, actor May 29, 1917 - John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, assassinated in office(1960-1963) May 29, 1939 - Al Unser Sr., auto racer May 29, 1956 - La Toya Jackson, pop singer, sister of Michael Jackson May 29, 1958 - Annette Bening, actress May 29, 1961 - Melissa Etheridge, rock singer May 29, 1975 - Melanie Janine Brown, singer, "Scary Spice" of the "Spice Girls" May 30, 1672 - Peter I (Peter the Great), Emperor of Russia May 30, 1846 - Peter Carl Faberge, jeweler May 30, 1909 - Benny Goodman, bandleader, musician May 30, 1943 - Gale Sayers, football player May 30, 1944 - Meredith MacRae, actress May 30, 1963 - Lisa Kudrow, actress May 30, 1964 - Wynonna Judd, country singer May 31, 1819 - Walt Whitman, poet May 31, 1894 - Fred Allen, comedian May 31, 1898 - Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, religious leader May 31, 1908 - Don Ameche, actor May 31, 1930 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director May 31, 1938 - Peter Yarrow, singer/songwriter, "Peter, Paul, and Mary" May 31, 1943 - Joe Namath, NFL quarterback May 31, 1950 - Tom Berenger, actor May 31, 1961 - Lea Thompson, actress May 31, 1965 - Brooke Shields, actress, model May 31, 1976 - Colin Ferrell, actor. Ecards We've got you covered with free Ecards for Birthdays and just about any other holiday, occasion, event, or no event at all! Holiday Insights, where every day is a holiday, a bizarre or wacky day, an observance, or a special event. Join us in the daily calendar fun each and every day of the year. Did You Know? There are literally thousands of daily holidays, special events and observances, more than one for every day of the year. Many of these holidays are new. More holidays are being created on a regular basis. At Holiday Insights, we take great efforts to thoroughly research and document the details of each one, as completely and accurately as possible. What is famous in May?Special days of May
May is host to Nurse Appreciation Week. The Kentucky Derby is the first Saturday in May. Star Wars Day is celebrated on May 4, as in May the Fourth be with You! Cinco de Mayo is celebrated every May 5th.
What is the star born in May?May babies' horoscope sign is Taurus or Gemini.
May babies born between May 1st and 21st fall under Taurus' sign (aka the bull). May babies born after the 21st will be Geminis (symbolized by the twins).
Who was born on the 27 of May?Singer Bruce Cockburn is 77. Jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater is 72. Singer Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees is 65. Singer-guitarist Neil Finn of Crowded House and Split Enz is 64.
Who is born on 31st May?Singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary is 84. Keyboardist Augie Meyers of the Texas Tornadoes and the Sir Douglas Quintet is 82. Actor Sharon Gless (“Cagney and Lacey”) is 79. Actor Tom Berenger is 72.
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