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- 5/1/1909 :Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith, singer.
- 5/2/1892 :Manfred von Richthofen, WWI flying ace.
- 5/3/1947 :Doug Henning, magician.
- 5/4/1929 :Audrey Hepburn, actress.
- 5/5/1900 :Spencer Tracy.
- 5/6/1895 :Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglieimi Di Valentina
- :D'Antonguolla (a.k.a. Rudolph Valentino), actor.
- 5/7/1934 :Willard Herman Scott, weatherman.
- 5/8/1884 :Harry S. Truman, 33rd president.
- 5/9/1949 :Billy Joel, singer-songwriter.
- 5/10/1899:Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz), actor-dancer.
- 5/11/1912:Foster Brooks, actor & singer.
- 5/12/1820:Florence Nightingale, nurse & hospital reformer.
- 5/13/1914:Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion.
- 5/14/1686:Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Prussian physicist (introduced the
- :mercury thermometer).
- 5/15/1856:Lyman Frank Baum, writer ("Wizard of Oz").
- 5/16/1919:Liberace, entertainer.
- 5/17/1900:Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader.
- 5/18/1946:Reggie Jackson, baseball player.
- 5/19/1925:Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), Black Muslim leader.
- 5/20/1908:James (Jimmy) Stewart, actor.
- 5/21/-427:Plato (Aristocles).
- 5/22/1859:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.
- 5/23/1934:Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog Synthesizer.
- 5/24/1883:Elsa Maxwell, introducer of the "scavenger hunt."
- 5/25/1889:Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer.
- 5/26/1907:John Wayne (born Marion Michael Morrison), actor.
- 5/27/1907:Rachel (Louise) Carson, US author ("Silent Spring").
- 5/28/1908:Ian Fleming, novelist (creator of James Bond).
- 5/29/1903:Bob Hope (Leslie Townes), comedian.
- 5/30/1908:Melvin Jerome Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, et al.
- 5/31/1930:Clint Eastwood, actor.
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