1768 – Caroline of Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV (1820-21), born in Brunswick, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1821)
1911 – Maureen O’Sullivan, Irish actress (Tarzan, Pride and Prejudice, Hannah and Her Sisters), born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland (d. 1998)
1912 – Sándor Végh, Hungarian-French violinist teacher and conductor, born in Kolozsvár, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (d. 1997)
1931 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (Heaven’s Gate), born in Spur, Texas (d. 1997)
1935 – Dennis Potter, British TV dramatist (The Singing Detective, Karaoke, Midnight Movie), born in Gloucestershire, England (d. 1994)
1937 – Hazel R. O’Leary, United States Secretary of Energy
1955 – Bill Paxton, American actor (True Lies; Twister; Big Love), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2017)
1963 – Jon Koncak, NBA center (Orlando Magic)
1965 – Richard Baumhammers, American spree killer
1976 – Rochelle Aytes, American actress (Mistresses), born in Harlem, New York City
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 16th May 2022
1641 – Dudley North, English financier and economist
1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
1857 – Juan Morel Campos, composer
1905 – Henry Fonda, American stage and screen actor (Mr. Roberts; 12 Angry Men; On Golden Pond), born in Grand Island, Nebraska (d. 1982)
1912 – Studs Terkel, American author/host (Stud’s Place, Working), born in NYC, New York
1931 – Hana Brady, Jewish Czech Holocaust victim (Hanna’s Suitcase), born in Prague (d. 1944)
1962 – Gary Crocker, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
1978 – David Ford, English singer-songwriter (Songs for the Road), born in Dartford, Kent, England
1978 – Jim Sturgess, British actor (“Across the Universe”; “The Way Back”), and singer-songwriter, born in Wandsworth, London, England
1985 – Anja Mittag, German footballer
Famous Birthdays for 15th May 2022
1901 – Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1922 – Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
1923 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (1957 ASMP award)
1925 – Jos Jacobs, Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster)
1935 – (Bruce) “Utah” Phillips, American folk singer-songwriter (“Green Rolling Hills”; “The Goodnight-Loving Trail”) storyteller, poet, and labor organizer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2008)
1954 – Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
1970 – Desmond Howard, College Football Hall of Fame wide receiver (Heisman Trophy 1991, U of Michigan; Super Bowl MVP 1996, Green Bay Packers), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1970 – Tony Brown, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 – Patrick Pothuizen, soccer player (Vitesse)
1974 – Ahmet Zappa, American musician, actor (2 Hip 4 TV), novelist, and film maker (The Odd Life Of Timothy Green), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Birthdays for 14th May 2022
1679 – Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer
1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
1892 – Arthur Vincent Lourie, Russian composer, born in Propoysk, Russia (d. 1966)
1917 – Herta Ryder, literary agent
1929 – Henry McGee, British actor and comedian (No, That’s Me Over Here!, The Benny Hill Show), born in South Kensington, London (d. 2006)
1947 – Jon Landau, American music writer, artist manager, and record producer (Bruce Springsteen; Train; Shania Twain), born in New York City
1948 – Dave LaRoche, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1952 – Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler (d. 1987)
1973 – Julian White, English rugby union footballer
1983 – Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
Famous Birthdays for 13th May 2022
1592 – John Cloppenburg, Dutch vicar and theologist
1840 – Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon), born in Nîmes, France (d. 1897)
1856 – Peter Henry Emerson, British writer and photographer (1st to promote photography as an independent art), born on La Palma Estate planation, Cuba (d. 1936)
1917 – Wilhelmus Wijen [Broeder Pius], social worker (Curacao)
1918 – T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d. 1984)
1922 – Bea Arthur, American comedian, singer and actress (Maude, The Golden Girls), born in NYC, New York (d. 2009)
1927 – Herbert Ross, American director, producer and choreographer (Footloose, Steel Magnolias), born in New York City (d. 2001)
1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist (The Hockey Sweater), born in Sainte-Justine, Quebec
1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian stage and screen actress (Cast a Giant Shadow), born in Vienna, Austria
1952 – John Kasich, US politician (Governor of Ohio (R), 2011-19), born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania
Famous Birthdays for 12th May 2022
1401 – Emperor Shōkō, 101st Japanese Emperor (412-428) (d. 1428)
1662 – Jan F van Bloom [Orizonte], Flemish painter, baptized
1700 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (Palace of Caserta), born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1773)
1937 – Gerry Studds, American politician (Rep-D-MA, 1973-97), first openly gay member of US Congress, born in Mineola, New York (d. 2006)
1942 – Barry Longyear, American sci-fi author (City of Baraboo), born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1945 – Ian McLagan, English rock keyboardist (Small Face; Faces), born in Hounslow, Middlesex, (d. 2014)
1946 – L. Neil Smith, American sci-fi author (Lando Calrissian novels), born in Denver, Colorado
1956 – Greg Phillinganes, American session and touring keyboardist, and musical director (Stevie Wonder, Toto, Micheal Jackson, David Gilmour), born in Detroit, Michigan
1978 – Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter and politician, born in Ardabil, Iran
2003 – Madeleine McCann, English child who mysteriously disappeared on holiday in Spain in 2007, born in Leicester, England
Famous Birthdays for 11th May 2022
1817 – Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
1835 – Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905)
1912 – Foster Brooks, American comedian and actor (The Villain, Oddballs, Mork and Mindy), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2001)
1928 – Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
1928 – Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary
1930 – Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Caribbean poet (Born to Slow Horses) and academic, born in Bridgetown, Barbados (d. 2020)
1930 – M J Hamlin, Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Dundee University)
1961 – Diana Lee[-Hsu], American actress (Licence to Kill), and model (Playboy playmate May, 1988), born in Seattle, Washington
1962 – Emmanuelle Haïm, French harpsichordist, and conductor (Le Concert d’Astrée, 2000-present), born in Paris, France
1964 – Bobby Witt, American MLB pitcher, 1986-2001 (Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, and 5 other teams), born in Arlington, Virginia
Famous Birthdays for 10th May 2022
1830 – Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult)
1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, born in Bel Air, Maryland (d. 1865)
1843 – Kaufmann Kohler, German-born American reform rabbi and theologian, born in Fürth (d. 1926)
1872 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
1886 – Felix Manalo, Founder and 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963)
1937 – Tamara Press, Soviet athlete (Olympic gold shot put 1960, 64; discus 1960, 64), born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (d.2021)
1941 – Ken Berry [Allen Kent Berry], American baseball player (White Sox, Angels, Brewers, Indians), born in Kansas City, Missouri
1958 – Yu Suzuki, Japanese creator of Virtua Fighter series
1963 – Lisa M Nowak, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, born in Washington, D.C.
1982 – Daniel Harris, Australian rules footballer
Famous Birthdays for 9th May 2022
1921 – Sophie Scholl, German anti-Nazi political activist, active in the non-violent resistance group, the White Rose (Die Weisse Rose), born in Forchtenberg, Germany (d. 1943)
1929 – Anthony Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal
1934 – John Robertson, deputy chairman (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
1937 – Dave Prater, American soul singer (Sam and Dave – “Soul Man”), born in Ocilla, Georgia (d. 1988)
1939 – Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph)
1951 – Joy Harjo, American poet and musician (first Native American US Poet Laureate, 2019-), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1952 – Patrick Ryecart, actor (Silas Mariner)
1962 – John Corbett, American actor (Northern Exposure – “Chris Stevens”; Sex and the City – Aidan; My Big Fat Greek Wedding), and country music singer, born in Wheeling, West Virginia
1965 – Marc Logan, NFL running back (Washington Redskins), born in Lexington, Kentucky
1991 – Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar-Albanian judoka (Olympic gold 2016), born in Peć, SFR Yugoslavia
Famous Birthdays for 8th May 2022
1703 – Gottlob Harrer, German composer, born in Görlitz (d. 1755)
1786 – Jean Vianney, French Catholic priest, born in Dardilly, Lyonnais, Kingdom of France (d. 1859)
1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary anarchist, born in Pryamukhino, Tver Governorate of the Russian Empire (d. 1876)
1814 – Thomas Green, American soldier and lawyer (Confederate Army), born in Buckingham County, Virginia (d. 1864)
1943 – Paul Samwell-Smith, British blues-rock bassist, and record producer (The Yardbirds, 1963-66 “For Your Love”), born in Richmond, Surrey, England
1948 – Don “Red” Young, American session, touring keyboard and piano player, band leader, and jazz Hammond B3 organist, born in Fort Worth, Texas
1956 – Jeff Madrigali, American soling sailor (Olympic-bronze-96), born in Walnut Creek, California
1977 – Joe Bonnamassa, American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (“Dust Bowl”; “Redemption”), born in New Hartford, New York
1983 – Matt Willis, British pop singer, bassist (Busted), and television personality. born in Tooting, London, England
1987 – Aneurin Barnard, Welsh actor (The White Queen), born in Bridgend, Wales