1371 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (1404-19), born in Ducal palace, Dijon, Burgundy (d. 1419)
1660 – George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1714-27), born in Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1727)
1878 – Paul Pelliot, French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and his discovery of many important Chinese texts among the Dunhuang manuscripts, born in Paris (d. 1945)
1921 – Tom Uren, Australian politician, Australian heritage and conservation campaigner, born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2015)
1925 – Martha Vickers [MacVicker], American actress (Alimony; The Man I Love; Ruthless), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 1971)
1927 – Bernhard Lewkovitch, Danish organist and composer, born in Copenhagen
1963 – Gavin Harrison, British progressive rock drummer (Porcupine Tree; King Crimson; Pineapple Thief), born in Harrow, Middlesex, England
1969 – Frank McCormack, Leicester Mass, cyclist (Olympics 1996)
1978 – Jake Johnson [Weinberger], American actor (New Girl – “Nick”), film producer, and screenwriter, born in Evanston, Illinois
1981 – Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 27th May 2023
1595 – Benedictus Carpzovius [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer (d. 1666)
1806 – Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1835)
1850 – Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (Lambeth poisoner), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1892)
1911 – Teddy Kollek, Israeli politician (Mayor of Jerusalem), born in Nagyvázsony, Hungary (d. 2007)
1912 – Terry Moore, American baseball outfielder (World Series 1942, 46; 4 x MLB All Star; St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (Philadelphia Phillies 1954), born in Vernon, Alabama (d. 1995)
1925 – Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate (The Mail on Sunday), born in London, England (d. 1998)
1931 – Věroslav Neumann, Czech composer and music educator, born in Citoliby, Czechoslovakia (d. 2006)
1941 – Davina Phillips, actress
1957 – Duncan Goodhew, English 100m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1980), born in London, England
1975 – ZP Theart, British heavy metal rock singer and musician (DragonForce; Skid Row), born in Clanwilliam, South Africa
Famous Birthdays for 26th May 2023
1856 – George Templeton Strong, American composer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1948)
1908 – Robert Morley, British actor (Marie Antoinette, The Young Ones, How the Other Half Loves), born in Semley, Wiltshire, England (d. 1992)
1932 – Alvin Ing, American stage and screen singer and actor (Flower Drum Song), born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaiʻi (d. 2021)
1938 – Jaki Liebesit, German rocker (Can), born in Dresden, Germany (d. 2017)
1941 – Imants Kalniņš, Latvian classical, choral and rock composer (“Hey, You There!”), born in Riga, Latvian SSR
1947 – Darrell Evans, American baseball infielder (MLB All-Star 1973, 83; World Series 1984; AL HR leader 1985; Atlanta Braves, SF Giants, Detroit Tigers), born in Pasadena, California
1966 – Zola Budd Pieterse, Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Olympics 1988)
1971 – Matt Stone, American actor, animator and producer (South Park, The Book of Mormon), born in Houston, Texas
1972 – Alan Victor White, British rock drummer (Oasis, 1995-2004 – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?), born in Lewisham, London, England
1990 – Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra
Famous Birthdays for 25th May 2023
1849 – “Blind” Tom Wiggins, African-American pianist and composer, born in Harris County, Georgia (d. 1908)
1877 – Billy Murray, Irish-American vaudeville and early recording popular music tenor, known as the ‘Denver Nightengale’ (“Shine On, Harvest Moon”), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1954)
1898 – Gustav Regler, German writer, born in Merzig (d. 1963)
1929 – Warren Frost, American actor (Twin Peaks, Matlock, Seinfeld), born in Newburyport, Massachusetts (d. 2017)
1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football fullback (AFL All Star 1962-65; AFL MVP 1962; CFL All Star 1956-60), born in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania (d. 2011)
1948 – Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions), born in Hanover, Germany
1972 – Tony Ronaldson, Australian basketball forward (Olympics 1996), born in Adelaide, South Australia
1972 – Antonio Lang, American NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers), born in Columbia, South Carolina
1973 – Duncan Free, Australian rower (Olympics gold 2006), born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1973 – Jeff Smith, American football cornerback (Scotland Claymores, KC Chiefs), born in Decatur, Tennessee
Famous Birthdays for 24th May 2023
1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, who invented the thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale, born in Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1736)
1751 – Charles Emanuel IV, King of Sardinia (1796-1802), born in Turin (d. 1819)
1816 – Emanuel Leutze, American painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware), born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg, German Confederation (d. 1868)
1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1897)
1841 – Tito Mattei, Italian pianist and composer, born in Campobasso, Italy (d. 1914)
1852 – Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Scottish politician, born in London (d. 1936)
1923 – Seijun Suzuki, Japanese cult film director, born in Tokyo (d. 2017)
1932 – Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant
1949 – Roger Deakins, English cinematographer (Blade Runner 2049), born in Torquay, Devon, England
1995 – Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, eldest child of Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, the Regent and Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, and his wife Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria, born in Portland Hospital, London
Famous Birthdays for 23rd May 2023
1718 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist and physician, born in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1783)
1813 – Mason Brayman, American attorney, newspaperman and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1895)
1881 – Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral, Portuguese aviator (1st flight across the south Atlantic), born in Celorico da Beira, Portugal (d. 1924)
1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist, electrical engineer and co-inventor of the transistor (Nobel 1956, 1972), born in Madison, Wisconsin (d. 1991)
1919 – Gayatri Devi, 3rd Maharani consort of Jaipur, India (1940-49), born in London, England (d. 2009)
1925 – Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1928 – Pauline Julien, Canadian singer-songwriter, social and political activist, born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec (d. 1998)
1962 – Karen Duffy [Duff], American MTV VJ/actress (Meet Wally Sparks), born in NYC, New York
1971 – Issac Booth, NFL cornerback/safety (Cleveland Browns)
1980 – Lane Garrison, American actor
Famous Birthdays for 22nd May 2023
1780 – Jan Emmanuel Doležálek, Bohemian organist and composer, born in Chotěboř, Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy (d. 1858)
1849 – Louis Perrier, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (d. 1913)
1891 – Robert Gordon Sproul, American educator and college president (University of California), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1975)
1907 – Hergé [Georges Prosper Remi], Belgian comic book creator (The Adventures of Tintin), born in Etterbeek, Belgium (d. 1983)
1917 – Nathan Davis, American actor (Dunston Checks In, Holes, Code of Silence), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2008)
1923 – Aline Griffith, American-born Spanish aristocrat, Countess of Romanones, spy and author, born in New York, United States (d. 2017)
1941 – Paul Winfield, American actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
1941 – Martha Langbein, German athlete (Olympic silver 1960), born in Heidelberg, Germany
1952 – Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat, born in Pennsylvania
1982 – Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
Famous Birthdays for 21st May 2023
1671 – Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, Italian organist and composer, born in Siena (d. 1755)
1796 – Reverdy Johnson, American politician and jurist (Dred Scott v. Sandford), born in Annapolis, Maryland (d. 1876)
1926 – Rick Jason [Richard Jacobson], American stage and screen actor (Combat! – “Lt. Hanley”; The Fountain of Youth; Day of the Wolves), born in NYC, New York (d. 2000)
1934 – Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, (1982 Nobel laureate for Medicine or Physiology for prostaglandins), born in Halmstad, Sweden
1945 – Richard Hatch, American actor (Battlestar Galactica), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2017)
1947 – Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor (Titanic), born in Brisbane, Australia
1957 – Nadine Dorries, British politician (C), born in Liverpool, England
1963 – Greg Smith, American session and touring rock bassist (Rainbow; Alice Cooper; Wendy O. Williams, Ted Nugent), born
1967 – Rogel Nachum, Israeli Men’s triple jumper (Olympics 1996)
1979 – Fayçal Salhi, French-Algerian jazz guitarist and oud player, born in Khenchela, Algeria
Famous Birthdays for 20th May 2023
1799 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (La Comédie Humaine), born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France (d. 1850)
1911 – Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip and Janneke), born in Kapelle, Netherlands (d. 1995)
1920 – Elizabeth “Betty” Driver, British singer and actress (Coronation Street, Pardon the Expression), born in Leicester, England (d. 2011)
1930 – James McEachin, American actor and author (Perry Mason, Harry-Tenafly), born in Rennert, North Carolina
1931 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1938 – Astrid Kirchherr, German photographer, helped establish The Beatles image, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 2020)
1959 – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Native Hawaiian singer, songwriter (“Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World”), and Hawaiian sovereignty advocate, born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 1997)
1980 – Austin Kearns, American Baseball player
1992 – Jack Gleeson, Irish actor (Game of Thrones), born in Cork
2010 – Lady Cosima Windsor, daughter of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster
Famous Birthdays for 19th May 2023
1616 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer, organist, and composer,baptized in Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg (now Germany) (d. 1667)
1896 – Michael Balcon, English film producer (head of Ealing Studios), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1977)
1898 – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
1921 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator, and Russian literature historian (Comrade’s Religion), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1999)
1929 – Curt Simmons, American baseball pitcher (3 x MLB All-Star; World Series 1964 St. Louis Cardinals; Philadelphia Phillies), born in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania (d. 2022)
1939 – James Fox, English actor (The Servant), born in London, England
1940 – Frank Lorenzo, airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)
1946 – Michele Placido, Foggia Italy, actor (La Lupa, Poliziotti)
1947 – Jerry Hyman, American rock trombonist (Blood Sweat and Tears, 1968-70), and chiropractor, born in Brooklyn, New York
2003 – JoJo Siwa, American dancer, singer and YouTube personality, born in Omaha, Nebraska