1801 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1877)
1919 – Robie Macauley, American editor (Houghton Mifflin), and novelist (A Secret History of Time to Come), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 1995)
1922 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (Alfie, Raiders of the Lost Ark), born in London, England (d. 1992)
1940 – August “Augie” Meyers, American singer-songwriter, producer, and record label owner (Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornados), born in San Antonio, Texas
1955 – Ben de Lisi, American-British fashion designer, born in New York City
1956 – Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk, 1987-), born in Amberg, West Germany
1962 – Henry ‘Gizmo’ Williams, American-Canadian CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1965 – Brooke Shields, American model and actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan), born in NYC, New York
1967 – Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress (Vagabond, Police), born in Clermont, France
1976 – Matt Harpring, American basketball player (Utah Jazz) and analyst, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
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Famous Birthdays for 30th May 2022
1010 – Emperor Renzong of China, Emperor of the Song dynasty (d. 1063)
1800 – Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach), born in Jena, Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1834)
1916 – Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
1932 – Pauline Oliveros, composer (Sound Patterns), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)
1965 – Billy Donovan Jr., American basketball head coach (Oklahoma City Thunder 2015-19; University of Florida, NCAA Cship 2006-07), born in Rockville Centre, New York
1966 – Gary Martin, cricket pace bowler (Zimbabwe ODI)
1970 – Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
1972 – Jeff Jones, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 – Anthony Cook, NFL defensive end/defensive tackle (Tenn Oilers)
1981 – Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
Famous Birthdays for 29th May 2022
1914 – Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber who was the 1st to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary (exact date of birth unknown, but he celebrated on the 29th), born in either northeastern Nepal or Tibet (d. 1986)
1926 – Charles Denner, French actor (The Bride Wore Black, The Man Who Loved Women), born in Tarnów, Poland (d. 1995)
1933 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor (founder of the Gächinger Kantorei), born in Stuttgart, Germany
1947 – Anthony Geary, American actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital), born in Coalville, Utah
1953 – Rick Henderson, American singer (Mason Dixon – “Karen Comes Around”), born in Beaumont, Texas
1955 – Ken Schrader, American auto racer, promoter (Daytona 500 1988, 89, 90), born in Fenton, Missouri
1955 – Jerry Dengler, American singer (Mason Dixon – “Karen Comes Around”), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1958 – Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal and murderer, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1976 – David Buckner, American drummer (Papa Roach, 1993-2007 – “Last Resort”), born in Vacaville, California
1998 – Markelle Fultz, American basketball guard (2017 NBA Draft: #1 pick Philadelphia 76ers), born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Famous Birthdays for 28th May 2022
1853 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (Midwinter Sacrifice – Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1919)
1914 – W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British WWII flying ace, born in Madras, British India (d. 1996)
1921 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
1921 – Tom Uren, Australian politician, Australian heritage and conservation campaigner, born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2015)
1932 – Henning Christiansen, Danish experimental composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2008)
1946 – Skip Jutze, American baseball player
1974 – Alicia Minshew, American actress (Kendall Hart-All My Children), born in Plantation, Florida
1980 – Mark Feehily, Irish pop singer (Westlife – “Flying Without Wings”), born in Sligo, Ireland
1984 – Beth Allen, New Zealand actress
1991 – Alexandre Lacazette, French soccer player, born in Lyon, France
Famous Birthdays for 27th May 2022
1902 – Celius Dougherty, American pianist and composer, born in Glenwood, Minnesota (d. 1986)
1923 – Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State (1973-77) and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany
1923 – Sumner Redstone, American media mogul (ViacomCBS), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2020)
1932 – Jeffrey Bernard, British writer (Spectator Magazine – Low Life), born in Hampstead, london (d. 1997)
1935 – Ramsey Lewis, American Grammy Award-winning jazz-pop pianist (“The In Crowd”, “Wade in the Water”), born in Chicago, Illinois
1939 – Leo LeBlanc, American country musician and pianist who was legally blind, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1942 – Priscilla Anne McLean, composer
1968 – Rebekah Brooks, English journalist (implicated in News International phone hacking scandal), born in Warrington, England
1968 – Frank Thomas, “Big Hurt”, 1st baseman (Chicago White Sox, 1993 MVP)
1971 – Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
Famous Birthdays for 26th May 2022
1623 – William Petty, English political economist and statistician (Treatise of Taxes and Contributions), born in Romsey, England (d. 1687)
1650 – John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist, born in Ashe, England (d. 1722)
1899 – Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1987)
1907 – John Wayne [Marion Robert Morrison], American actor (Green Berets, True Grit), born in Winterset, Iowa (d. 1979)
1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who), born in Kenley, Surrey, England (d. 1994)
1923 – Roy Dotrice, British actor (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Amadeus) and narrator (A Song of Ice and Fire), born in Guernsey, Channel Islands (d. 2017)
1938 – William Bolcom, American composer (Oracles), born in Seattle, Washington
1941 – John Kaufman, sculptor
1944 – (Terence) Verden Allen, Welsh rock keyboardist (Mott the Hoople – “All Young Dudes”), born in Crynant, Neath, Wales
1971 – Steven Rice, Canadian NHL right wing (World Junior C’ship gold 1991, captain), born in Kitchener, Ontario
Famous Birthdays for 25th May 2022
1713 – John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1760-63), born in Parliament Square, Edinburgh, Midlothian (d. 1792)
1915 – Daniel Wolf, American journalist (d. 1996)
1925 – Don Liddle, American baseball player, born in Mount Carmel, Illinois (d. 2000)
1938 – Lyudmila Buldakova, Russian volleyball player (Olympic gold 1972), born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (d. 2006)
1946 – Timothy “Tim” Hinkley, British singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Jody Grind), born in London
1955 – Alistair Burt, British Conservative Party politician, born in Bury, Lancashire, England
1964 – Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut (first Slovak citizen to fly in space), born in Brezno, Czechoslovakia
1973 – Earl Mackey, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1980 – Jae Hee, South Korean actor (Sassy Girl Chun-hyang), born in Seoul, South Korea
1999 – Brec Bassinger, American actress (Stargirl), born in Saginaw, Texas
Famous Birthdays for 24th May 2022
1616 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, born in Lethington Castle, East Lothian, Scotland (d. 1682)
1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1897)
1841 – Charles Napier Hemy, British painter, born in Newcastle, England (d. 1917)
1858 – Johan Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1940)
1898 – Kathleen Hale, British children book writer and illustrator (Orlando), born in Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 2000)
1903 – Hilding Hallnäs, Swedish composer (Kärlekens ringdans), born in Halmstad, Sweden (d. 1984)
1925 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director (Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm), born in Västerås, Västmanland (d. 1994)
1932 – Elaine Malbin, American opera singer, born in NYC, New York
1941 – Andrés García, Mexican-Dominican actor (Tiger Shark), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1985 – Tim Bridgman, British racing driver, born in Harlow, England
Famous Birthdays for 23rd May 2022
1100 – Qinzong, last Emperor of Song Dynasty in China, born in China (d. 1161)
1879 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
1900 – Ralph Dunn, American actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), born in Titusville, Pennsylvania (d. 1968)
1924 – Michael McCrum, master (Corpus Christi College Cambridge)
1929 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu, One Summer of Happiness), born in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1982)
1930 – Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
1971 – Marshall Boze, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers), born in San Manual, Arizona
1980 – Sarah Louise Catherwood, 4x200m swimmer (Olympics 1996), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
1983 – Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and filmmaker
1986 – Ruben Zadkovich, Australian soccer player
Famous Birthdays for 22nd May 2022
1780 – Jan Emmanuel Doležálek, Bohemian organist and composer, born in Chotěboř, Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy (d. 1858)
1897 – Marcelle Meyer, French contemporary classical (Les Six) and Baroque revivalist (Bach; Rameau) concert pianist, born in Lille, France (d. 1958)
1897 – Robert Neumann, Austrian-British author (Waters of Babylon), born in Vienna (d. 1975)
1907 – Harry Ritz [Joachim], American actor and comedian (Ritz Brothers-Silent Movie), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1986)
1930 – Harvey Milk, American politician and gay activist, born in Woodmere, New York (d. 1978)
1940 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don’t They), born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada (d. 2011)
1970 – Clyde Johnson, cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1973 – Julian Tavarez, Santiago Dom Rep, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1977 – Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Irish hurler
1980 – Steven Baker, Australian rules footballer