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
Category: Famous Birthdays
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
Famous Birthdays for 11th May 2021
1890 – Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)
1912 – Phil Silvers, American comedian and actor (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1985)
1934 – James M Jeffords, (Rep-R-VT, 1975- )
1941 – Eric Burdon, Walker-on-Tyne England, rock vocalist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1964 – Bobby Witt, pitcher (Texas Rangers), born in Arlington, Virginia
1973 – James Haven, American actor
1976 – Lloyd Pierce, American basketball head coach (Atlanta Hawks 2019), born in San Jose, California
1978 – Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica), born in Helsinki, Finland
1988 – Ace Hood [Antoine McColister], American rapper, born in Port St. Lucie, Florida
1995 – Shira Haas, Israeli actress (Unorthodox), born in Tel Aviv, Israel
Famous Birthdays for 10th May 2021
1886 – Karl Barth, Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting)
1903 – Kay Petre, early racing driver
1919 – Ella Grasso, (Gov-D-Ct)
1934 – Cliff Wilson, snooker player
1953 – Lawrence Lau, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
1954 – Michael Hagerty, American actor (Overboard, Inspector Gadget), born in Chicago, Illinois
1961 – Teri Copley, Arcadia California, actress (Mickey-We’ve Got it Made)
1965 – Todd Kalis, NFL guard (Cin Bengals)
1976 – Udo Mechels, Belgian singer
1977 – Amanda Borden, gymnast (World silver 94, Olympic gold 1996), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Famous Birthdays for 9th May 2021
1540 – Maharana Pratap, Rajput king of Mewar (1572-1597), born in Kumbhargal Fort, Mewar (d. 1597)
1801 – Samuel Cousins, English mezzotint engraver, born in Exeter, Devon, England (d. 1887)
1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
1913 – John Hayes, British Naval Officer and Naval Secretary, born in Southcote, Bermuda (d. 1998)
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 – Kay Dotrice [Katherine Newman], British actress (Cheech and Chong’s The Corsican Brothers), born in Liverpool, England (d. 2007)
1941 – Jan Dibbets, sculptor/artist (Dutch Mountains)
1943 – John Hugen Tobler, British rock music journalist and record company executive (ZigZag Magazine co-founder), born in England
1969 – Renn Crichlow, canoeist (Olympics-8-92, 96), born in Ottawa, Ontario
1980 – Tony Schmidt, German racing driver
Famous Birthdays for 8th May 2021
1919 – Leon Festinger, American psychologist, born in New York (d. 1989)
1926 – Ronald Waterhouse, British high court judge (d.2011)
1928 – William Jay Sydeman, American avant-garde composer, born in New York City
1929 – Claude Castonguay, Quebec politician
1937 – Thomas Pynchon, American novelist (V, Gravity’s Rainbow), born in Glen Cove, New York
1957 – Deana Deardruff, American 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic gold 1972)
1963 – Terry Christian, British radio presenter
1976 – Ian “H” Watkins, Welsh pop singer (Steps – “Heartbeat”; “Stomp”), actor, and television personality, born in Llwynypia, Wales
1978 – Sandra Kleinova, tennis star (1995 Futures-Turku-FIN), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
1983 – Matt Willis, British singer
Famous Birthdays for 7th May 2021
1553 – Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1568–1618), born in Konigsberg, Duchy of Prussia (d. 1618)
1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (Austrian Empress Maria Theresa’s personal physician), born in Leiden, Netherlaands (d. 1772)
1928 – John Ingle, American actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2012)
1932 – Derek Taylor, English publicist for the Beatles, born in Liverpool, Merseyside (d. 1997)
1946 – Bill Kreutzmann, American rock drummer (Grateful Dead), born in Palo Alto, California
1959 – Barbara Yung Mei-ling, Hong Kong actress, born in Hong Kong (d. 1985)
1963 – Johnny Lee Middleton, American musician (Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra), born in St. Petersburg, Florida
1984 – James Loney, American baseball player
1984 – Alex Smith, American football player
1988 – Natalie Mejia, member of the American RandB/Pop group Girlicious, born in West Covina, California
Famous Birthdays for 6th May 2021
1800 – Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general, born in Volhynia (d. 1881)
1882 – Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian composer (Gergana), born in Plovdiv (d. 1931)
1895 – Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary), born in Szentgyörgy, Austria-Hungary (d. 1946)
1909 – Loyd Sigmon, American amateur (“ham”) radio broadcastor, born in Stigler, Oklahoma (d. 2004)
1918 – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st President of the United Arab Emirates, born in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, birth date disputed (d. 2004)
1922 – Vladimir Etush, Soviet actor and People’s Artist of the USSR, born in Moscow, RSFSR
1926 – Gilles Grégoire, Quebec politician (co-founder of the Parti Québécois), born in Quebec City, Quebec (d. 2006)
1969 – Mark Thomas, NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers, Packers, Bears)
1981 – Nathan Leone, lead singer of Madina Lake
1989 – Dominika Cibulková, Slovakian tennis player (WTA Finals champion 2016), born in Bratislava, Slovakia
Famous Birthdays for 5th May 2021
1815 – Eugène Marin Labiche, French playwright (The Italian Straw Hat), born in Paris (d. 1888)
1823 – James Allen Hardie, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in NYC, New York (d. 1876)
1907 – Kenneth Muir, English scholar, born in London (d. 1996)
1956 – Dick Kemper, Dutch rock vocalist and bassist (Vandenberg), born in Eindhoven, Netherlands
1968 – Tim Neilsen, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (South Australian 1991), born in Forest Gate, London, England
1970 – Naomi Klein, Canadian author (This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate) and activist, born in Montreal, Quebec
1973 – Tina Yothers, American actress (Jennifer-Family Ties), born in Whittier, California
1976 – Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer, born in Korydallos, Greece
1985 – P. J. Tucker, American basketball player (Houston Rockets), born in Raleigh, North Carolina
1987 – Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer (Rijeka bez imena), born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia