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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Claude Akins
Actor
25-May-1926 27-Jan-1994 Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Corbin Allred
Actor
25-May-1979   Saints and Soldiers
Nobuyoshi Araki
Photographer
25-May-1940   Tokyo Lucky Hole
Philip Pendleton Barbour
Judge
25-May-1783 25-Feb-1841 US Supreme Court Justice, 1836-41
Binnie Barnes
Actor
25-May-1903 27-Jul-1998 The Private Life of Henry VIII
Charles Barton
Film Director
25-May-1902 5-Dec-1981 Africa Screams
Lord Beaverbrook
Business
25-May-1879 9-Jun-1964 Media mogul, UK cabinet minister
Roland Betts
Business
25-May-1946   Longtime friend of George W. Bush
Jeffrey L. Bewkes
Business
25-May-1952   CEO of Time Warner
Roger Bowen
Actor
25-May-1932 16-Feb-1996 Hamilton Majors, Jr. on Arnie
John G. Brady
Politician
25-May-1848 17-Dec-1918 Territorial Governor of Alaska 1897-1906
Poppy Z. Brite
Author
25-May-1967   Are You Loathsome Tonight?
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Novelist
25-May-1803 18-Jan-1873 The Last Days of Pompeii
John Bunnell
TV Personality
25-May-1944   World's Wildest Police Videos
David Burke
Actor
25-May-1934   The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
Head of State
25-May-1713 10-Mar-1792 UK Prime Minister, 1762-63
Frank V. Cahouet
Business
25-May-1932   CEO of Mellon Financial, 1987-98
Bill Campbell
Politician
25-May-1953   Mayor of Atlanta, 1994-2002
Dixie Carter
Actor
25-May-1939 10-Apr-2010 Designing Women
Raymond Carver
Author
25-May-1938 2-Aug-1988 Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Bennett Cerf
Publisher
25-May-1898 27-Aug-1971 Founder of Random House
Steve Cochran
Actor
25-May-1917 15-Jun-1965 The Damned Don't Cry
Jessi Colter
Singer
25-May-1943   I'm Not Lisa
Jeanne Crain
Actor
25-May-1925 14-Dec-2003 20th Century Fox studio actress
Patti D'Arbanville
Actor
25-May-1951   Rose Boscorelli on Third Watch
Hal David
Songwriter
25-May-1921   Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
John Gregory Dunne
Novelist
25-May-1932 30-Dec-2003 True Confessions
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
25-May-1803 27-Apr-1882 Essayist, wrote Nature
Eve Ensler
Playwright
25-May-1953   The Vagina Monologues
Alice P. Gast
Educator
25-May-1958   President, Lehigh University
Cookie Gilchrist
Football
25-May-1935 10-Jan-2011 AFL Hall-of-Famer
Douglas H. Ginsburg
Judge
25-May-1946   US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit
J. Peter Grace
Business
25-May-1913 19-Apr-1995 W.R. Grace scion
Tom T. Hall
Country Musician
25-May-1936   Harper Valley PTA
Jerome Hanus
Religion
25-May-1940   Catholic Archbishop of Dubuque
Roger Gran Harrison
Diplomat
25-May-1943   US Ambassador to Jordan, 1990-93
Anne Heche
Actor
25-May-1969   Ex-lover of Ellen DeGeneres
Justin Henry
Actor
25-May-1971   Kramer vs. Kramer
Theodore Hesburgh
Educator
25-May-1917   President, University of Notre Dame, 1952-87
George Hickenlooper
Film Director
25-May-1963 29-Oct-2010 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Yahya Jammeh
Head of State
25-May-1965   President of The Gambia
Bruce Johnson
Politician
25-May-1960   Lt. Governor of Ohio, 2005-06
K. C. Jones
Basketball
25-May-1932   Boston Celtics
Monica Keena
Actor
25-May-1979   Abby Morgan on Dawson's Creek
Jamie Kennedy
Actor
25-May-1970   Scream, Malibu's Most Wanted
Jamaica Kincaid
Novelist
25-May-1949   Annie John
Amy Klobuchar
Politician
25-May-1960   US Senator from Minnesota
Stacy London
TV Personality
25-May-1969   What Not to Wear
Robert Ludlum
Novelist
25-May-1927 12-Mar-2001 Holcroft Covenant
Donald Maclean
Spy
25-May-1913 6-Mar-1983 Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five
Demetri Martin
Comic
25-May-1973   Daily Show trend spotter
H. W. Massingham
Journalist
25-May-1860 27-Aug-1924 Radical English journalist
Karl May
Author
25-May-1842 30-Mar-1912 Bestselling German novelist
Ian McKellen
Actor
25-May-1939   Gandalf the Grey
Klaus Meine
Singer
25-May-1948   Lead vocalist, The Scorpions
John R. Mott
Activist
25-May-1865 31-Jan-1955 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Cillian Murphy
Actor
25-May-1976   Disco Pigs
Billy Murray
Singer
25-May-1877 17-Aug-1954 Top recording star of the early 1900's
Mike Myers
Comic
25-May-1963   Austin Powers
Ron Nessen
Government
25-May-1934   Gerald Ford's press secretary
Frank Oz
Actor
25-May-1944   Yoda, Miss Piggy, and The Stepford Wives
Joseph D. Reitman
Actor
25-May-1968   Actor/Husband of Shannon Elizabeth
Oscar Rennebohm
Politician
25-May-1889 15-Oct-1968 Governor of Wisconsin, 1947-51
Bill Robinson
Dancer
25-May-1878 25-Nov-1949 Bojangles
Theodore Roethke
Poet
25-May-1908 1-Aug-1963 The Waking
David S. Ruder
Government
25-May-1929   SEC Chairman, 1987-89
Connie Sellecca
Actor
25-May-1955   The Greatest American Hero
Yang Shangkun
Head of State
25-May-1907 14-Sep-1998 President of the PRC, 1988-93
Bill Sharman
Basketball
25-May-1926   Boston Celtics shooter
Mark Shields
Columnist
25-May-1937   Shields and Brooks
Igor Sikorsky
Business
25-May-1889 26-Oct-1972 Helicopter magnate
Beverly Sills
Singer
25-May-1929 2-Jul-2007 Soprano at the New York City Opera
Molly Sims
Model
25-May-1973   Delinda Deline on Las Vegas
Gordon Smith
Politician
25-May-1952   US Senator from Oregon, 1997-2009
Rick Smith
Electronic Musician
25-May-1959   Underworld
Octavia Spencer
Actor
25-May-1972   The Help
Jack Steinberger
Physicist
25-May-1921   Researcher of neutrinos
Ray Stevenson
Actor
25-May-1964   Titus Pullo on Rome
Ethan Suplee
Actor
25-May-1976   Frankie on Boy Meets World
John P. Surma, Jr.
Business
25-May-1954   CEO of US Steel
James R. Trueman
Business
25-May-1935 11-Jun-1986 Founder of Red Roof Inns
Gene Tunney
Boxing
25-May-1897 7-Nov-1978 Heavyweight Boxing Champion, 1926-28
Anthea Turner
TV Personality
25-May-1960   UK TV host with flammable hair
Leslie Uggams
Actor
25-May-1943   Roots
Brian Urlacher
Football
25-May-1978   Chicago Bears linebacker
Karen Valentine
Actor
25-May-1947   Alice Johnson on Room 222
Paul Weller
Musician
25-May-1958   Frontman for The Jam and The Style Council
Ed Whitfield
Politician
25-May-1943   Congressman, Kentucky 1st
Jonny Wilkinson
Sports Figure
25-May-1979   Rugby player, Newcastle Falcons
Irwin Winkler
Film/TV Producer
25-May-1931   Rocky
Pieter Zeeman
Physicist
25-May-1865 9-Oct-1943 Discovered Zeeman Effect




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