1688 – Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d. 1744), born in London, England
1822 – Mosby Monroe Parsons, United States officer in the Mexican–American War and brigadier general of the Confederate States Army, born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1865)
1825 – George Lafayette Beal, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Norway, Maine (d. 1896)
1903 – Manly Wade Wellman, Angolan born American sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil’s Planet), born in Kamundongo, Portuguese West Africa (d. 1986)
1927 – Kay Kendall [Justine McCarthy], British actress (Genevieve, The Constant Husband, Les Girls), born in Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire (d. 1959)
1942 – David Hunt, British Conservative politician, born in Glyn Ceiriog, Wales
1955 – Paul Barber, British field hockey player
1957 – Judge Reinhold, American actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), born in Wilmington, Delaware
1977 – Quinton Fortune, South African footballer, born in Cape Town, South Africa
1984 – Brandon Fields, National Football League punter, born in Southfield, Michigan
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 20th May 2021
1841 – Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate
1856 – Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter
1900 – Lydia Cabrera, Cuban Anthropologist, born in Havana, Cuba
1927 – [Harold] Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player and coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota)
1942 – Lynn Davies, long jumper
1961 – Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts)
1965 – Bruno Marie-Rose, French runner (world record 200 m indoor)
1965 – Ted Allen, American television host
1981 – Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
1982 – Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
Famous Birthdays for 19th May 2021
1914 – Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1939 – Sonny Fortune [Cornelius Fortune], American jazz saxophonist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2018)
1940 – Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
1946 – André the Giant, French pro wrestler (WWF World Heavyweight C’ship 1988; WWF World Tag Team C’ship [with Haku] 1989), born in Grenoble, France (d. 1993)
1946 – Claude Lelièvre, Belgian commissioner for children’s rights
1956 – Martyn Ware, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1963 – Filippo Galli, Italian footballer
1975 – Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
1979 – Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress
1984 – Marcedes Lewis, American NFL tight end (Pro Bowl 2010; Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers), born in Los Alamitos, California
Famous Birthdays for 18th May 2021
1778 – Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854)
1850 – Oliver Heaviside, English physicist (predicted ionosphere), born in London, England (d. 1925)
1851 – James Budd, American politician, Governor of California (1895-99), born in Janesville, Wisconsin (d. 1908)
1887 – Ernst Wiechert, German writer (The Simple Life), born in Kleinort, East Prussia (d. 1950)
1897 – Jack Raine, British actor (Quartet), born in London, England (d. 1979)
1928 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD), born in Waycross, Georgia (d. 2010)
1962 – Mike Darnell, American television executive ‘the King of Reality TV’ (Fox, Warner Bros), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1963 – Marty McSorley, Canadian NHL defenseman (LA Kings, NY Rangers), born in Hamilton, Ontario
1972 – Turner Stevenson, Canadian NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens), born in Prince George, British Columbia
1977 – Lee Hendrie, English footballer, born in Solihull, England
Famous Birthdays for 17th May 2021
1490 – Albert of Prussia, 1st Duke of Prussia, born in Ansbach (d. 1568)
1749 – Edward Jenner, English physician, father of (western) immunology, pioneered smallpox vaccinations, born in Berkeley (d. 1823)
1794 – Anna Brownell Jameson, Anglo-Irish historian and writer (Loves of the Poets), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1860)
1926 – Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor (U of South Pacific)
1929 – John Davies, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold 200m breaststroke 1952; WR 200m breaststroke 2:34.4 1952), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2020)
1939 – Gary Paulsen, American author of young adult literature, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
1949 – Andrew Latimer, English musician (Camel), born in Guildford, England
1951 – I R Evans, CEO (Hyder, Welsh Water)
1973 – Matthew McGrory, American actor (d. 2005)
1990 – Leven Rambin, American actress
Famous Birthdays for 16th May 2021
1816 – Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1886)
1878 – Taylor Holmes, American actor (Sleeping Beauty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1959)
1893 – Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)
1906 – Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988)
1918 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro Paramo)
1941 – Maurice Henry Weddington, composer
1946 – Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor (Remington Steele, Golden Eye), born in Drogheda, Ireland
1968 – Patrick Waite, British reggae-rock bassist (Musical Youth – “Pass the Dutchie”), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1993)
1972 – Keith Burns, American NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32), born in Greeleyville, South Carolina
Famous Birthdays for 15th May 2021
1892 – Jimmy Wilde, boxer (d. 1969)
1902 – Richard J Daley, American politician (38th Mayor-Chicago-D:1955-76), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1976)
1915 – Paul A Samuelson, economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal)
1936 – Jean Balissat, Swiss composer pedagogue and conductor (Kaleidoscope for trumpet and percussion), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 2007)
1938 – Mireille Darc, French actress (Week End, Hurried Man), born in Toulon
1940 – Roger Ailes, American TV executive and CEO of Fox News (1996-2016), born in Warren, Ohio (d. 2017)
1949 – Eric J Beekes, actor/singer (Hunk)
1952 – Chazz Palminteri, American actor (The Usual Suspects, Bronx Tale), born in The Bronx, New York
1965 – Dan Stryzinski, NFL punter (Atlanta Falcons)
1978 – Krissy Taylor, American model, born in Miami, Florida (d. 1995)
Famous Birthdays for 14th May 2021
1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1870 – Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
1893 – Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer
1897 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and band leader, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1959)
1922 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician and President of Croatia (1990-1999), born in Veliko Trgovišće, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (d. 1999)
1943 – Tania León, Cuban-born American composer (Drummin’), conductor, and educator, born in Havana, Cuba
1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
1966 – Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!), born in Oakland California
1969 – Danny Wood, American musician (New Kids), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook, born in White Plains, New York
Famous Birthdays for 13th May 2021
1756 – Wojciech Żywny, Polish pianist, composer, and Chopin’s first piano teacher, born in Mšeno, Bohemia (d. 1842)
1856 – Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
1857 – Ronald Ross, British pathologist (Nobel Prize 1902), born in Almora, North-Western Provinces, British India (d. 1932)
1859 – August Enna, Danish composer (The Witch), (d. 1939)
1912 – Gil Evans, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (Miles Davis; Absolute Beginners, Out of the Cool), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1988)
1933 – Stig Gustav Schonberg, composer
1940 – Richard Brooks, singer (Impressions)
1966 – Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie and the Blowfish), born in Charleston, South Carolina
1974 – Brian Geraghty, American actor
1978 – Barry Zito, American baseball player
Famous Birthdays for 12th May 2021
1725 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, French Prince of the Bourbon House, born at the Palace of Versailles, France (d. 1785)
1876 – Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria
1934 – Elechi Amadi, Nigerian novelist (The Concubine), born in Aluu (d. 2016)
1945 – Ian McLagan, English rock keyboardist (Small Face; Faces), born in Hounslow, Middlesex, (d. 2014)
1961 – Thomas Dooley, German-American Soccer Player
1961 – Lar Park Lincoln, American actress, born in Dallas, Texas
1972 – Paul Stout, American actor (Phillip-Scarecrow and Mrs King), born in Saugus, California
1973 – Kendra Kassebaum, American stage actress (Wicked), born in St Louis, Missouri
1975 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union winger (youngest ever All Black, 63 internationals), born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 2015)
1977 – Rebecca Herbst, American actress (General Hospital), born in Encino, California