Mothers Day
May 9
Yearly Date: Second Sunday in May
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Quote for the Day
“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”
Famous People Born in May
May 1, 1909- Kate Smith, singer
May 1, 1916- Glenn Ford, actor
May 1, 1918- Jack Paar, TV personality
May 1, 1925- Scott Carpenter, astronaut
May 1, 1945 –Rita Coolidge, singer
May 1, 1960- Steve Cauthen, jockey
May 1, 1967- Tim McGraw, country western singer
May 2, 1729- Catherine II Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great)
May2, 1837 – Henry Robert, author of “Robert’s Rules of Order”, the standard for parliamentary procedures.
May 2, 1860- Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism
May 2, 1892- Baron Von Richtofen, Germany’s’ WWI “Red Baron”
May 2, 1903- Benjamin Spock, physician, author, child-rearing expert
May 2, 1904- Bing Crosby, singer, actor
May 2, 1945- Bianca Jagger, actress, ex-wife of singer Mick Jagger
May 2, 1946- Lesley Gore, singer
May 2, 1972 – Dwayne Johnson, wrestler, actor
May 3, 1469- Niccolò Machiavelli, Renaissance writer
May 3, 1919- Pete Seeger, singer, songwriter
May 3, 1921- Sugar Ray Robinson, champion boxer
May 3, 1933 – James Brown, singer songwriter, producer, actor
May 3, 1936- Engelbert Humperdinck, singer
May 3, 1937- Frankie Valli, singer, the “Four Seasons“
May 3, 1946- Greg Gumbel, sportscaster
May 3, 1951– Christopher Cross, Grammy winning singer
May 3, 1964- Wynona Judd, country singer
May 3, 1974- Jewel Kilcher, singer
May 12, 1820- Florence Nightengale, English nurse and public health activist
May 4, 1889- Francis Joseph Spellman, archbishop of New York
May 4, 1929- Audrey Hepburn, Dutch actress
May 4, 1930- Roberta Peters, opera singer
May 4, 1959- Randy Travis, country singer
May 4, 1979- Lance Bass, singer, member of “NSYNC”
May 4, 1989 – Rory McIlroy, Irish Golfer
May 5, 1818- Karl Marx, socialist, political theorist
May 5, 1913- Tyrone Power, actor
May 5, 1926- Ann B. Davis, actress
May 5, 1934- John J. Sweeney, labor leader
May 5, 1938- Michael Murphy, actor
May 5, 1942- Tammy Wynette, country singer
May 5, 1943- Michael Palin, actor, comedian, member of Monty Python
May 5, 1981- Danielle Fishel, Actress, “Topanga” on TV series “Boy Meets World”
May 5, 1988 – Adele, British singer-songwriter
May 6, 1856- Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founded psychoanalysis
May 6, 1856- Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, first to reach the North Pole
May 6, 1895- Rudolph Valentino, actor
May 6, 1915- Orson Welles, actor, director, “War of the Worlds” radio hoax on October 30, 1938
May 6, 1931- Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball player
May 6, 1945- Bob Seger, singer, songwriter
May 6, 1953- Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
May 6, 1960- Roma Downey, actress
May 6, 1961- George Clooney, actor, director, producer
May 7, 1812- Robert Browning, poet
May 7, 1833- Johannes Brahms, German music composer
May 7, 1840- Peter Tchaikovsky, composer
May 7, 1901- Gary Cooper, actor
May 7, 1922- Darren McGavin, actor
May 7, 1933- Johnny Unitas, NFL quarterback
May 7, 1945- Robin Strasser, actress
May 7, 1950- Tim Russert, TV journalist
May 8, 1828- Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross
May 8, 1829- Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist, composer
May 8, 1884- Harry S. Truman, 33rd U.S. President (1845-1853)
May 8, 1895- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, religious leader , radio/TV
May 8, 1926- Don Rickles, comedian/actor
May 8, 1932- Sonny Liston, boxing champion
May 8, 1940 – Ricky Nelson, singer, actor
May 8, 1943- Toni Tennille, singer
May 8, 1964- Melissa Gilbert, actress
May 8, 1975- Enrique Iglesias, singer
May 9, 1800- John Brown, abolitionist, led attack on Harpers Ferry
May 9, 1860- Sir James M. Barrie, novelist, children’s author
May 9, 1914- Hank Snow, country singer
May 9, 1918- Mike Wallace, TV journalist
May 9, 1936- Albert Finney, actor
May 9, 1946- Candice Bergen, actress
May 9, 1949- Billy Joel, singer, songwriter
May 10, 1838- John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
May 10, 1899- Fred Astaire, dancer/actor, born Frederick Austerlitz
May 10, 1902- David O. Selznick, producer
May 10, 1944- Judith Jamison, dancer/choreographer
May 10, 1960- Bono (Vox), singer, member of U2
May 10, 1966- Jason Brooks, actor
May 11, 1888- Irving Berlin, songwriter
May 11, 1891- Henry Morgenthau Jr., conservationist
May 11, 1911- Phil Silvers, comic actor
May 11, 1912- Foster Brooks, comedian
May 11, 1918- Richard Feynman, physicist
May 11, 1933- Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader
May 11, 1946- Robert Jarvik, physician, invented the artificial heart
May 11, 1982 –Jonathan Jackson, actor
May 12, 1812- Edward Lear, artist, author of light verse
May 12, 1820- Florence Nightingale, British pioneer in the field of nursing
May 12, 1850- Henry Cabot Lodge, politician/historian
May 12, 1907- Katharine Hepburn, actress
May 12, 1925- Yogi Berra, baseball player, manager
May 12, 1928- Burt Bacharach, songwriter
May 12, 1936- Tom Snyder, broadcaster, journalist
May 12, 1937- George Carlin, comedian
May 12, 1948- Steve Winwood, musician, singer
May 12, 1950- Bruce Boxleitner, actor
May 12, 1962- Emilio Estevez, actor
May 12, 1966- Stephen Baldwin, actor
May 12, 1973- MacKenzie Astin, actor
May 12, 1978- Jason Biggs, actor
May 13, 1914- Joe Louis, boxing champion
May 13, 1923- Beatrice Arthur, actress
May 13, 1927- Herbert Ross, actor, choreographer, director
May 13, 1950- Stevie Wonder, singer, musician
May 13, 1961- Dennis Rodman, NBA basketball player
May 13, 1977- Samantha Morton, actress
May 14, 1686- Gabriel D. Fahrenheit, physicist, mercury thermometers, created Fahrenheit scale
May 14, 1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer
May 14, 1925- Patrice Munsel, opera singer
May 14, 1944- George Lucas, filmmaker, Star Wars creator
May 14, 1948- Meg Foster, actress
May 14, 1955- Dennis Martinez, baseball pitcher
May 14, 1969- Cate Blanchett, actress “Lord of the Rings”
May 14, 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, Cofounder and CEO of Facebook.
May 15, 1856- L. Frank Baum, children’s author
May 15, 1859- Pierre Curie, chemist, research on radioactivity
May 15, 1915- Paul A. Samuelson, economist
May 15, 1923- Richard Avedon, photographer
May 15, 1937- Madeleine Albright, secretary of state
May 15, 1951- Chazz Palminteri, actor, playwright, screenwriter
May 15, 1953- George Brett, baseball player
May 15, 1955- Lee Horsley, actor
May 15, 1969- Emmitt Smith, Hall of Fame NFL Running Back
May 16, 1905- Henry Fonda, actor
May 16, 1913- Woody Herman, musician, bandleader
May 16, 1919- Liberace, pianist
May 16, 1928- Billy Martin, fiery baseball player, manager
May 16, 1929- Adrienne Rich, writer
May 16, 1953- Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor, “James Bond”, Mama Mia
May 16, 1955- Olga Korbut, Olympic gymnast champion
May 16, 1955- Debra Winger, actress
May 16, 1966- Janet Jackson, pop rock singer, Michael Jackson’s sister
May 16, 1973- Tori Spelling, actress
May 17, 1749- Edward Jenner, physician, pioneered vaccinations
May 17, 1911- Maureen O’Sullivan, actress
May 17, 1936- Dennis Hopper, actor
May 17, 1956- Sugar Ray Leonard, champion boxer
May 17, 1972 – Mia Hamm, Hall of Fame soccer player
May 18, 1897- Frank Capra, director
May 18, 1904- Jacob Javits, New York State senator
May 18, 1912- Perry Como, singer
May 18, 1920- Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), Catholic Pope
May 18, 1930- Pernell Roberts, actor
May 18, 1931- Robert Morse, actor
May 18, 1937- Brooks Robinson, MLB player
May 18, 1946- Reggie Jackson, MLB player, “Mr. October”
May 18, 1952- George Strait, country singer
May 18, 1970- Tina Fey, Actress, writer, SNL
May 19, 1890 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader
May 19, 1925- Malcolm X (Little), civil rights activist
May 19, 1934- Jim Lehrer, TV journalist, author
May 19, 1935- David Hartman, actor
May 19, 1939- Francis Scobee, astronaut, died in Challenger Space Shuttle explosion
May 19, 1945- Pete Townshend, musician, member of the “Who”
May 19, 1945 – Andre the Giant, French wrestler, actor
May 19, 1968- Kyle Eastwood, actor, son of Clint Eastwood
May 20, 1768- Dolly Madison, First Lady of the U.S.
May 20, 1844- Henri Rousseau, painter
May 20, 1908- James Stewart, actor
May 20, 1944- Joe Cocker, singer
May 20, 1946- Cher, ageless singer, actress, producer
May 20, 1971 – Tony Stewart, race car driver
May 21, 1898- Armand Hammer, industrialist, philanthropist
May 21, 1904- Fats Waller, jazz pianist, songwriter
May 21, 1909- Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, teacher, artist, created of Hummel figurines
May 21, 1916- Harold Robbins, novelist
May 21, 1917– Raymond Burr, actor, TV series of the same name, and “Ironsides”
May 21, 1921- Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist
May 21, 1924- Peggy Cass, Broadway actress, celebrity panelist on “What’s My Line?” and “To Tell the Truth”,
May 21, 1948- Leo Sayer, singer, songwriter
May 21, 1951- Al Franken, comedian, actor, writer
May 21, 1952- Mr. T (Lawrence Tero), actor
May 21, 1956- Judge Reinhold, actor
May 22, 1813- Richard Wagner, composer
May 22, 1844- Mary Cassatt, artist
May 22, 1859- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer, detective stories
May 22, 1907- Lord Laurence Olivier, actor, director
May 22, 1941- Paul Winfield, actor
May 22, 1943- Tommy John, baseball pitcher
May 22, 1959- Morrissey, British pop star
May 23, 1883- Douglas Fairbanks, actor
May 23, 1910- Artie Shaw, musician, bandleader
May 23, 1920- Helen O’Connell, singer
May 23, 1928- Rosemary Clooney, singer
May 23, 1933- Joan Collins, actress
May 23, 1936- Charles Kimbrough, actor
May 23, 1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian Chess player
May 23, 1954- Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxing champion boxer
May 23, 1958- Drew Carey, actor, comedian
May 23, 1974- Ken Jennings, Game show “Jeopardy” record winner
May 24, 1819- Queen Victoria, Queen of Great Britain
May 24, 1940- Gary Burghoff, actor, “Radar” in TV series “MASH”
May 24, 1941- Bob Dylan, singer, songwriter
May 24, 1946- Priscilla Presley, actress , ex-wife of Elvis Presley
May 24, 1965- John C. Reilly, actor
May 25, 1803- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
May 25, 1878- Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, tap dancer
May 25, 1889- Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer, developed helicopters
May 25, 1898- Gene Tunney, champion boxer
May 25, 1943- Leslie Uggams, singer
May 25, 1955- Connie Sellecca, actress
May 25, 1969- Anne Heche, actress
May 26, 1886- Al Jolson, singer, actor
May 26, 1907- John Wayne, actor, best known for westerns
May 26, 1920- Peggy Lee, singer
May 26, 1923- James Arness, actor
May 26, 1928- Jack Kevorkian, physician, and assisted suicides
May 26, 1939- Brent Musberger, sportscaster, commentator
May 26, 1948- Stevie Nicks, singer, songwriter, “Fleetwood Mac”
May 26, 1949- Philip Michael Thomas, actor
May 26, 1949- Hank Williams Jr., country singer
May 26, 1951- Sally Ride, astronaut, 1st woman in space
May 27, 1794- Cornelius Vanderbilt, financier, railroad tycoon
May 27, 1837- Wild Bill Hickock, frontiersman, lawman
May 27, 1911- Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota senator, presidential nominee
May 27, 1911- Vincent Price, actor
May 27, 1912- Sam Snead, golfer
May 27, 1915- Herman Wouk, novelist
May 27, 1923- Henry Kissinger, U. S. Secretary of State
May 27, 1936- Louis Gossett Jr., actor
May 28, 1888 –Jim Thorpe, Olympic champion pentathlete/decathlete
May 28, 1908- Ian Fleming, novelist, creator of James Bond movies.
May 28, 1916 –Walker Percy, novelist
May 28, 1931- Carroll Baker, actress
May 28, 1944- Rudolph Giuliani, New York City mayor
May 28, 1944- Gladys Knight, singer, “Gladys Knight and the Pips”
May 28, 1945- John Fogerty, rock singer
May 29, 1736- Patrick Henry, Revolutionary War leader, orator
May 29, 1903- Bob Hope, comedian, actor
May 29, 1917 – John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, assassinated in office(1960-1963)
May 29, 1939- Al Unser Sr., auto racer
May 29, 1956- La Toya Jackson, pop singer, sister of Michael Jackson
May 29, 1958- Annette Bening, actress
May 29, 1961- Melissa Etheridge, rock singer
May 29, 1975- Melanie Janine Brown, singer, “Scary Spice” of the “Spice Girls”
May 30, 1672- Peter I (Peter the Great), Emperor of Russia
May 30, 1846- Peter Carl Faberge, jeweler
May 30, 1909- Benny Goodman, bandleader, musician
May 30, 1943- Gale Sayers, football player
May 30, 1944- Meredith MacRae, actress
May 30, 1963- Lisa Kudrow, actress
May 30, 1964- Wynonna Judd, country singer
May 31, 1819- Walt Whitman, poet
May 31, 1894- Fred Allen, comedian
May 31, 1898- Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, religious leader
May 31, 1908- Don Ameche, actor
May 31, 1930- Clint Eastwood, actor, director
May 31, 1938- Peter Yarrow, singer/songwriter, “Peter, Paul, and Mary”
May 31, 1943- Joe Namath, NFL quarterback
May 31, 1950- Tom Berenger, actor
May 31, 1961- Lea Thompson, actress
May 31, 1965- Brooke Shields, actress, model