music minder The Premier Online Music & Entertainment Directory Search For:    In Table: Albums Birthdates Businesses Entertainers Hits Lyrics Memorials On This Day   Home Entertainers Businesses About Contact Albums Birthdates Hits Instruments Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home > Birthdates Menu > List Birthdates BIRTHDATES Search Results for Interval: THIS MONTH Click on an Entertainer's name in the list below to view more information about that Entertainer. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other Entertainers with the same birthdate.   Number of Records Matching Query: 620   Carlos Ward   Date Born: Wednesday 1 May 1940   Description: Saxophonist, Panama   Summary: His duet association with pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has also been significant to his career. Charlie Allen   Date Born: Friday 1 May 1942   Description: Musician, singer, songwriter   Summary: Allen was originally the drummer for the Pacific Gas And Electric Blues Band. Christian Mcbride   Date Born: Monday 1 May 1972   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: McBride primarily plays upright bass, but is equally adept on the electric bass. During his tenure with Sting (2001-2003), he also played bass for the collaborative project, "The Philadelphia Experiment." Glenn Ford   Date Born: Monday 1 May 1916   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He was born to Hannah and Newton Ford, who was a railroad executive. He was a great nephew of Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Helen Darling   Date Born: Saturday 1 May 1965   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Helen's career began in Chicago singing jingles for television and radio. Jack Paar   Date Born: Wednesday 1 May 1918   Description: Comedian, actor, director, producer, musician and writer.   Summary: Paar showed film clips of the Beatles performing, one month before their famous live appearance on the The Ed Sullivan Show. Jay Reatard   Date Born: Thursday 1 May 1980   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Lindsey's recording career began at the age of 15, when a home-made demo tape he had sent in to Goner Records caught the ear of former-Oblivian and Goner Records’ owner, Eric Friedl. Jim Clench   Date Born: Sunday 1 May 1949   Description: Bassist, CA   Summary: In 1978, Clench was asked to join Bachman Turner Overdrive to replace Randy Bachman. John Meillon   Date Born: Tuesday 1 May 1934   Description: Actor, Australia Judy Collins   Date Born: Monday 1 May 1939   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Daughter of Chuck Collins, a Band leader and Radio Personality who inspired her.She had the fortune of meeting many musicians through her father, a remarkable man who, despite being blind, was a Seattle radio disc jockey. Kate Smith   Date Born: Wednesday 1 May 1907   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Her musical career began in earnest when she was discovered in 1930 by Columbia Records vice president Ted Collins, who became her longtime partner and manager and who put her on the radio in 1931. Little Walter   Date Born: Thursday 1 May 1930   Description: Vocalist, Harmonacist, USA   Summary: Jacobs is generally included among blues music greats: his revolutionary harmonica technique has earned comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix. Marva Whitney   Date Born: Monday 1 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Whitney was considered by many funk enthusiasts to be one of the "rawest" and "brassiest" music divas. Natasha Richardson   Date Born: Wednesday 1 May 1963   Description: Actress, UK   Summary: Richardson was born and raised in London, a member of the Redgrave family, known as a theatrical and film acting dynasty. She was the daughter of director and producer Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave. Nick Traina   Date Born: Monday 1 May 1978   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: An American singer who for a time was a member of the punk rock band Link 80. Rita Coolidge   Date Born: Tuesday 1 May 1945   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Rita, singer songwriter, Daughter of a Baptist Minister and Cherokee Indian. Sonny James   Date Born: Wednesday 1 May 1929   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: As the first-ever teenage country "crossover" single, it topped both the country and pop music charts. He gained more exposure with a television appearances on the very important Ed Sullivan Show. Tim Mcgraw   Date Born: Monday 1 May 1967   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: The son of a waitress, Elizabeth D'Agostino Trimble, and a relief pitcher for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies, Frank Edwin McGraw Jr. also known as Tug McGraw. Titus Turner   Date Born: Monday 1 May 1922   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Known as a composer, authoring such perennials as "Leave My Kitten Alone," Willie Ackerman   Date Born: Monday 1 May 1939   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: He performed with Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong, Angela Bofill   Date Born: Sunday 2 May 1954   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Bofill was born to a Cuban father and Puerto Rican mother. Angela Bofill   Date Born: Sunday 2 May 1954   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Bofill was born to a Cuban father and Puerto Rican mother. Bing Crosby   Date Born: Thursday 2 May 1901   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: His parents were English-American Harry Lincoln Crosby (1870–1950), a bookkeeper, and Irish-American Catherine Helen (affectionately known as Kate) Harrigan (1873–1964), a daughter of a builder from County Mayo in Ireland. In 1962 Crosby was the first person to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Don Williams   Date Born: Tuesday 2 May 1939   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: He began playing guitar as a teenager, which he learned from his mother. While a teenager, he played with country, rock n' roll and folk bands. Engelbert Humperdinck   Date Born: Saturday 2 May 1936   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: A well-known British-American pop singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s, He was born as one of ten children of the British Army officer Mervyn Dorsey and his wife Olive. Arnold George Dorsey's family migrated to Leicester, England when he was ten Goldy Mcjohn   Date Born: Wednesday 2 May 1945   Description: Keyboardist, Canadian   Summary: A Canadian keyboard player best known as the original keyboardist for rock group Steppenwolf. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the early use of the electronic organ. Judge Dread   Date Born: Wednesday 2 May 1945   Description: Singer - U.K.   Summary: Hughes was introduced to Jamaican music when he lodged as a teenager in a West Indian household in Brixton, South West London. Katie Noonan   Date Born: Monday 2 May 1977   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Australia   Summary: Katie Noonan grew up with a strong background in classical music with her mother, Maggie Noonan, being a well-known opera singer. Kim Brown   Date Born: Wednesday 2 May 1945   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Brown was born in Birmingham, England, but lived much of his life in Finland, where he made a career in rock music. Larry Gatlin   Date Born: Sunday 2 May 1948   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, USA Lily Allen   Date Born: Thursday 2 May 1985   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: In December 2006, her debut album Alright, Still was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag. Link Wray   Date Born: Thursday 2 May 1929   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Wray was born to Lillie M. Norris and Frederick ("Fred") Lincoln Wray. Lorenz Hart   Date Born: Thursday 2 May 1895   Description: Lyricist,Composer, USA   Summary: Hart was born in Harlem to Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Columbia University, where a friend introduced him to Richard Rodgers, and the two joined forces to write songs for a series of amateur and student productions. Lou Gramm   Date Born: Tuesday 2 May 1950   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: An original member of the group formed in 1976, New York City. Also member of group ’Black Sheep’. Matt Hunter   Date Born: Wednesday 2 May 1984   Description: Drummer, Pianist, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Hunter is a member of Australian hard rock band. "Koritni" formed in Australia. Phil Bruns   Date Born: Saturday 2 May 1931   Description: Actor. USA   Summary: Jerry's father. Has strong convictions. Fittingly, he spent some time as politician in his Florida retirement community. During his working years he sold raincoats with Harry Fleming and was the inventor of the "belt-less trench-coat." Prescott Niles   Date Born: Wednesday 2 May 1951   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: The Knack was an American New Wave rock quartet Randy Cain   Date Born: Wednesday 2 May 1945   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Brothers William and Wilbert Hart formed the group with Randy Cain in high school in the early 1960s. Ray Barrett   Date Born: Monday 2 May 1927   Description: Actor, Australia   Summary: Australian star Ray Barrett was quite a heart-throb on British TV in the 60s, as star of the long-running series The Troubleshooters. To telefantasy fans, however, his primary importance is as a voice artiste on several of Gerry Anderson's puppet sagas, most notably the immortal Thunderbirds. Regina Carrol   Date Born: Sunday 2 May 1943   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Dancer, USA   Summary: Remembered for appearing in her husband, film director Al Adamson's films. Richard Holmes   Date Born: Saturday 2 May 1931   Description: Organist, USA   Summary: An African-American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. Serge Reggiani   Date Born: Tuesday 2 May 1922   Description: Actress, Singer, Italian   Summary: His first feature film came in 1946 with his role in Les portes de la nuit ("The Doors of the Night"). Ty Herndon   Date Born: Wednesday 2 May 1962   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Ty Herndon was raised in Butler, Alabama. He became involved in music as a teenager, playing the piano and singing Gospel music. Walter Chiari   Date Born: Friday 2 May 1924   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He appeared in They're a Weird Mob (1966), the last of the Powell and Pressburger films, based on a popular Australian novel by John O'Grady. He also appeared in the Australian film Squeeze a Flower in 1970. Betty Comden   Date Born: Thursday 3 May 1917   Description: Lyricist, Screenwriter, Actress, USA   Summary: Along with her longtime collaborator Adolph Green, she wrote the lyrics and often the librettos for some of the most celebrated musicals of stage and screen. Christopher Cross   Date Born: Thursday 3 May 1951   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Cross contributed backing vocals, along with The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson, to David Lee Roth's 1985 hit "California Girls." Frankie Valli   Date Born: Monday 3 May 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Valli sang the theme song from the 1978 film version of Grease, which was a number one hit.Valli made several appearances on the HBO series, The Sopranos portraying New York mob captain Rusty Millio. James Brown   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1933   Description: Vocalist, guitar, harmonica, bass, keyboards, drums, USA   Summary: James Brown was born to Susie and Joseph Gardner Brown in the small town of Barnwell, South Carolina in the Jim Crow South during the Depression era. Joe Ames   Date Born: Tuesday 3 May 1921   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Born into a non-professional but musically talented family, the boys were brought up on classical and operatic music. Their parents, David and Sarah Urick, were Russian Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine who had nine children. John Richardson   Date Born: Monday 3 May 1948   Description: Drummer, Vocalist, UK   Summary: A member of English pop band of the 1970s assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton. Kevin Lindblom   Date Born: Friday 3 May 1946   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Comedian, Australia   Summary: Kevin was an South Australian performer mainy known for his comedy. Marcel Dupre   Date Born: Monday 3 May 1886   Description: Organist, Pianist, Composer, France   Summary: Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen. Mark Morrison   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1972   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: He is one of the most successful British urban R&B singers of all time. His multi-platinum single, Return of the Mack became a #1 top ten hit across Europe in 1996. Mary Hopkin   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1950   Description: Vocalist, Wales   Summary: Mary was born in Wales to a Welsh speaking family and began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group called the Selby Set and Mary. Napoleon Xiv   Date Born: Tuesday 3 May 1938   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Among Samuels' compositions was "The Shelter Of Your Arms," which became a hit for Sammy Davis, Jr. Pete Seeger   Date Born: Saturday 3 May 1919   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Seeger was born to Charles Louis Seeger, a musicologist and an early investigator of non-Western music, and his mother, Constance de Clyver Edson, a prominent classical violinist. Peter Staples   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1944   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: An original member of English group "The Troggs" during the sixties. Steve Jones   Date Born: Tuesday 3 May 1955   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Up to the age of twelve, he grew up in Hammersmith with his young mother, who worked as a hairdresser, and his grandparents Tone Loc   Date Born: Tuesday 3 May 1966   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: His dance mix of "Wild Thing Y2K" charted well on the Australian Dance Charts in the lead up to the year 2000 celebrations. Wesley Willis   Date Born: Friday 3 May 1963   Description: Vocals, keyboards,   Summary: The Wesley Willis Fiasco songs were essentially punk rock songs with Willis howling his obscene, absurd rants as lyrics. Zach Sobiech   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1995   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: At age 14, Sobiech was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. In May 2012 his doctors informed him that he had up to a year to live. Al Dexter   Date Born: Thursday 4 May 1905   Description: Vocalist, Composer , USA   Summary: He was the first country singer to perform on Broadway. Andrew Denton   Date Born: Wednesday 4 May 1960   Description: Talk Show Host, Writer, Australian   Summary: Denton is the son of Kit Denton, author of The Breaker, a novel about Australian soldier and folk hero Breaker Morant. Audrey Hepburn   Date Born: Saturday 4 May 1929   Description: Actress. USA   Summary: Hepburn also noted the similarities between herself and Anne Frank: "I was exactly the same age as Anne Frank. Bill Eyden   Date Born: Sunday 4 May 1930   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Eyden joined Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames in September 1964 and remained until December 1965. Bob Money   Date Born: Saturday 4 May 1929   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Jordanaires are an American vocal quartet, which formed as a gospel group in 1948. Cash Backman   Date Born: Sunday 4 May 1947   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Cash Backman is a national recording artist who over the years has been a successful recording artist and performer. Chris Tomlin   Date Born: Thursday 4 May 1972   Description: Singer, songwriter, worship leader, USA   Summary: Tomlin wrote his first worship song at age fourteen. He entered college planning to study physical therapy, but says he felt God's calling to something else. Colin Bass   Date Born: Friday 4 May 1951   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Pianist, Bassist, Keyboardist, UK   Summary: First started playing professionally in 1968 as guitarist with a band called "The Krisis". Dick Dale   Date Born: Tuesday 4 May 1937   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Dale is a 2011 inductee into the Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach, California in the Surf Culture category. Ed Casidy   Date Born: Friday 4 May 1923   Description: Drummer, Actor, USA   Summary: From the mid 1970s, Cassidy also worked as an actor, including live improvisation and appearances on the TV series General Hospital and in movies. Frederick Van Pallant   Date Born: Friday 4 May 1934   Description: Vocalist,   Summary: Van Pallandt was born in Copenhagen, the son of a former Ambassador for the Netherlands to Denmark and Danish Else Dagmar Hanina Blücher, Countess of Altona. Gary Holt   Date Born: Thursday 4 May 1950   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: After guitarist Tim Agnello left Exodus in 1981, Gary Holt joined the band and has been the main songwriter and the most senior member of the group ever since. Jacob Miller   Date Born: Sunday 4 May 1952   Description: Vocalist, Jamaican   Summary: Jacob was featured in the film Rockers, alongside many other musicians including Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth and Burning Spear. Jay Aston   Date Born: Thursday 4 May 1961   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Aston trained as a dancer, singer and actress at the Italia Conti School of Speech and Drama and performed on stage many times in her teens mainly as a dancer. Maynard Ferguson   Date Born: Friday 4 May 1928   Description: Trumpet, flugelhorn,Band leader, USA   Summary: He has been linked to the best musicians that include, Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie, Duke Ellingon, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Barnett etc. Nick Ashford   Date Born: Sunday 4 May 1941   Description: Composer of music, USA, Duo   Summary: As performers, Ashford and Simpson's best-known song is "Solid" (1984 US and 1985 UK). The duo was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. Peggy Santiglia   Date Born: Thursday 4 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Member of the all girl group ’THE ANGELS’. Santiglia replaced Linda Jansen in 1972. Pete Hayes   Date Born: Saturday 4 May 1946   Description: Guitarist, Mandolinist, Vocal   Summary: Elder brother of Mike Hayes and member of "The Hayes Brothers Band". Randy Travis   Date Born: Monday 4 May 1959   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: A Grammy winner for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for his album "Always And Forever" in 1988. Rick Wakeman   Date Born: Wednesday 4 May 1955   Description: Keyboardist, Composer, UK   Summary: English keyboard player, composer, and songwriter. He is known for being the keyboardist for progressive rock band Yes, as the keyboardist for Ozzy Osbourne, his solo career, and later as a contributor to the BBC Television comedy show Grumpy Old Men. Robert Ellis Orrall   Date Born: Wednesday 4 May 1955   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Associated acts, Love and Theft, Lindsay Lohan, Taylor Swift, be your own PET Ron Carter   Date Born: Tuesday 4 May 1937   Description: Bassist - U.S.A.   Summary: He founded a quartet in 1977 incorporating the cello/bass etc. Ronnie Bond   Date Born: Monday 4 May 1942   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Their most famous songs include, "Wild Thing", "Love Is All Around" and "With a Girl Like You". Sharon Jones   Date Born: Friday 4 May 1956   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Influences are James Brown, Otis Redding, Ike & Tina Turner and Marvan Whitney. Sidney Bechet   Date Born: Tuesday 4 May 1897   Description: Saxophonist, Composer, USA   Summary: From a young age, Bechet quickly mastered any musical instrument he encountered. Some New Orleanians remembered him as a cornet hot-shot in his youth. Tyrone Davis   Date Born: Wednesday 4 May 1938   Description: Singer, USA   Summary: Davis in the late sixties became one of the top black ballad singers of the time. Vic Flick   Date Born: Tuesday 4 May 1937   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Flick was a member of the George Martin Orchestra, playing on the soundtrack of the film A Hard Day's Night Adele   Date Born: Thursday 5 May 1988   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: On 10 December 2007, Adele was awarded with the first Brit Awards Critics' Choice Award.Adele lives with her mother in South London. Agustin Barris   Date Born: Tuesday 5 May 1885   Description: Guitarist, Compser, Paraguayan   Summary: An eminent Paraguayan guitarist and composer, was born in the department of Misiones, Paraguay. Alice Faye   Date Born: Sunday 5 May 1912   Description: Actress, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Born in New York City, she was the daughter of a New York police officer of German descent and his Irish-American wife, Charley and Alice Leppert. Angelo Petraglia   Date Born: Wednesday 5 May 1954   Description: Record producer and songwriter. USA   Summary: He received a Grammy nomination as the songwriter for Trisha Yearwood’s hit “Believe Me Baby (I Lied).” Bill Ward   Date Born: Wednesday 5 May 1948   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: An English drummer and the memver of pioneering British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Blind Willie Mctell   Date Born: Sunday 5 May 1901   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: A blues festival in McTell's honor is held annually in his birthplace, Thomson, Georgia. He was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1981. Chris Brown - Us   Date Born: Friday 5 May 1989   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Brown, born the son of Joyce Hawkins and Clinton Brown. Brown was influenced by the artists his parents played on the home radio, such as Michael Jackson and Sam Cooke. Dave Specter   Date Born: Wednesday 5 May 1954   Description: Guitarist , USA   Summary: Dave endorses Epiphone Guitars, Victoria Amplifiers and GHS Strings. Elaine Moore   Date Born: Monday 5 May 1941   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: One of Adelaides first entertainers of early popular T.V. shows in Adeliade. Irving Kahal   Date Born: Tuesday 5 May 1903   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: "I'll Be Seeing You", which was written in 1938, but became a hit in 1943 especially among the families of servicemen sent overseas. J D Miller   Date Born: Friday 5 May 1922   Description: Composer, Producer, USA   Summary: Born (Jay D. Miller) Mainly known for writing many hits such as ’It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels’. Also owned own recording studio, publisher etc. Jim King   Date Born: Tuesday 5 May 1942   Description: Saxophonist, Harmonica, Vocalist   Summary: King formed the Farinas, a blues based rock and roll group, with guitarist Charlie Whitney in Leicester in 1962. Johnnie Taylor   Date Born: Wednesday 5 May 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: R&B, Gospel singer. He took Sam Cooke's place with the 'Soul Stirrers.' Hits include "Who's Making Love" for Stax Records. His biggest hit was "Disco Lady" (1975) Joyce Collins   Date Born: Monday 5 May 1930   Description: Pianist, US   Summary: Collins wrote and arranged extensively, including a program, performed live and on radio, tracing the involvement of women in jazz as composers and lyricists. Marshall Grant   Date Born: Saturday 5 May 1928   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Grant made a final appearance onstage with Cash in 1999 as an original member of The Tennessee Two. Mike Walsh   Date Born: Thursday 5 May 1938   Description: Television Host, Australia   Summary: Mike spent his secondary school years at Xavier College in Melbourne, graduating to study Pharmacy and Arts at Melbourne University. Paul Barbarin   Date Born: Friday 5 May 1899   Description: Drummer,Composer, USA   Summary: Paul Barbarin simply refused to answer the year of his birth in an interview at Tulane's Jazz Archives. Ray Parker Jr   Date Born: Wednesday 5 May 1954   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Producer, USA   Summary: Ray Parker Jr. was born in Detroit and a graduate of Northwestern High School. Parker gained international fame as a guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known primarily for writing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters. Ronald Coleman   Date Born: Tuesday 5 May 1891   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: He was educated at a boarding-school in Littlehampton, Sussex, but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia. Roy Wooding   Date Born: Thursday 5 May 1932   Description: Vocalist.Dancer, Actor, Stage, Radio, Guitarist, Australia   Summary: The very likable and friendly Roy Wooding has covered so much one wonders how he did it all and in one life time and still gets a kick out of working and does it with just as much enthusiasm. Shawn Drover   Date Born: Thursday 5 May 1966   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: A Canadian drummer, best-known for his work with the heavy metal bands Megadeth & Eidolon Tammy Wynette   Date Born: Tuesday 5 May 1942   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Her father was a farmer and local musician. He died of a brain tumor when Wynette was nine months of age. Her mother worked in an office, as a substitute school teacher, as well as on the family farm. Tina Yothers   Date Born: Saturday 5 May 1973   Description: Actress , Vocalist, USA   Summary: Her father, Robert Yothers, was a television producer. Her most famous role was as Jennifer Keaton, the youngest daughter in the television comedy Family Ties from 1982 Tyrone Power   Date Born: Monday 5 May 1913   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Born in Ohio, the only son of the English born American stage and screen actor Tyrone Power, Sr. and Helen Emma Reaume, Power was descended from a long theatrical line going back to his great grand father, the Irish born actor and comedian Tyrone Power. Alison Jiear   Date Born: Thursday 6 May 1965   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Australia   Summary: Jiear was nominated for the 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Jerry Springer: The Opera. Bob Seger   Date Born: Sunday 6 May 1945   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Bob Seger was born at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and lived in the area until age 6 when his family moved to the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Seger attended Tappan Middle School and Ann Arbor High School (now Pioneer High School) in Ann Arbor and graduated in 1963. Carmen Cavallaro   Date Born: Tuesday 6 May 1913   Description: Pianist, Arranger, USA   Summary: His parents were encouraged by a friend to develop the child’s musical talents and he studied classical piano in the United States. As a young pianist, he toured Europe performing in many capitals. Chris Shiflett   Date Born: Thursday 6 May 1971   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Prior to joining the Foo Fighters, Shiflett was resident lead guitarist for the Bay Area punk rock band No Use for a Name. YOUTUBE:Chris Shiflet performs "Helsinki" live at The Largo Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. May 4th 2010 Cliff Carlisle   Date Born: Wednesday 6 May 1903   Description: Steel guitarist, USA   Summary: Carlisle was a yodeler and was a pioneer in the use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in country music. David Gilmour   Date Born: Tuesday 6 May 1947   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, UK   Summary: David Gilmour CBE, Born, Cambridge, is an English musician best known as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Pink Floyd. George Clooney   Date Born: Saturday 6 May 1961   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: An Irish American,was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce, is a former pageant queen, while his father, Nick, is a journalist, anchorman, game show and American Movie Classics host, and – in later years – an aspiring politician from the state of Kentucky. Herbie Cox   Date Born: Saturday 6 May 1939   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Cleftones were a doo-wop group from Queens, New York. They were formed in 1955 at Jamaica High School. Consisted of Herbie Cox (lead), Charlie James (first tenor), Berman Patterson. YOUTUBE: Herbie Cox on the far right. He is the original lead singer from the beginning (1955). Jimmie Dale Gilmore   Date Born: Sunday 6 May 1945   Description: Vocalsit, Composer, Actor, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle, having been born in Tulia, Texas and raised in Lubbock, Texas. Kal Mann   Date Born: Sunday 6 May 1917   Description: Composer of songs, USA   Summary: Mann co-wrote songs with Lowe and Dave Appell, yielding a number of major rock and roll hits such as Charlie Gracie's "Butterfly," which sold more than two million copies and also become a million seller for the crooner, Andy Williams. Lesley Gore   Date Born: Monday 6 May 1946   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Gore was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey in a Jewish family. She was a junior at the Dwight School for Girls in nearby Englewood when "It's My Party" became a #1 hit. Leslie Hope   Date Born: Thursday 6 May 1965   Description: Actress, Canada   Summary: Her first movie role was in the Canadian movie Ups and Downs, in 1981, which was filmed in Victoria. Mary Macgregor   Date Born: Thursday 6 May 1948   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: MacGregor was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She began studying piano at age six, and was singing with bands by the time she was a teenager. After attending the University of Minnesota. Orson Welles   Date Born: Thursday 6 May 1915   Description: Actor, Magician, USA   Summary: Orson Welles was born in Wisconsin, the second son of Richard Head Welles, then a manufacturer of vehicle lamps, and Beatrice Ives, a concert pianist and suffragette. Rudolph Valentino   Date Born: Monday 6 May 1895   Description: Actor, Italy/ USA   Summary: Born in Italy, to a French mother, Marie Berthe Gabrielle Barbin 1856 -1919, and Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fidele Guglielmi, a veterinarian who died of malaria when Valentino was 11. Stewart Granger   Date Born: Tuesday 6 May 1913   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: An Anglo American film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the 1960s. Sydney Carter   Date Born: Thursday 6 May 1915   Description: Composer of song, UK   Summary: He studied at Christ's Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex and Balliol College, Oxford. Vic Berton   Date Born: Wednesday 6 May 1896   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Early in the 1920s Berton played in various Chicago bands, including those of Art Kahn, Paul Beise, and Arnold Johnson. He led his own ensemble as well, which played at the Merry Gardens club. In 1924 he became the manager of The Wolverines, and occasionally played alongside Bix Beiderbecke in the ensemble. Alan Spenner   Date Born: Friday 7 May 1948   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: Spenner was the original bassist for the album 'Jesus Christ Superstar' in the seventies. Darren Mcgavin   Date Born: Sunday 7 May 1922   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He appeared as the tough-talking, funny detective in the 1950s television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Derek Taylor   Date Born: Saturday 7 May 1932   Description: Publicity agent   Summary: Derek Taylor worked as The Beatles publicist and advisor to The Beatles. Eva Peron   Date Born: Wednesday 7 May 1919   Description: The First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.   Summary: Eva Perón has become a part of international popular culture, most famously as the subject of the musical Evita. Gabby Hayes   Date Born: Thursday 7 May 1885   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Known for mainly western films and later Hayes would admit he had never been a big fan of westerns. Gary Cooper   Date Born: Tuesday 7 May 1901   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Cooper was born one of two sons of a farmer turned American lawyer and judge, Charles Henry Cooper, and Alice Cooper. Hans Poulsen   Date Born: Monday 7 May 1945   Description: Vocalist, Composer   Summary: One of Australia's most successful singers and songwriters during the sixties and the seventies. Janis Ian   Date Born: Monday 7 May 1951   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Folk singer Janis has made an impact with her own songs and style. Two time Grammy winner. Jerry Nolan   Date Born: Monday 7 May 1945   Description: Drummer , USA   Summary: An American rock drummer, best known for his work with The New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers Jim Lowe   Date Born: Saturday 7 May 1927   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: He retired in 2004 at the age of 77, and lives in New Jersey. Johannes Brahms   Date Born: Tuesday 7 May 1833   Description: Composer, German   Summary: Brahms's father, Johann Jakob Brahms, came to Hamburg from Schleswig-Holstein, seeking a career as a town musician. He was proficient on several instruments, but found employment mostly playing the horn and double bass. He married Johanna Henrika Christiane Nissen, a seamstress, who was seventeen years older. Johnny Maestro   Date Born: Sunday 7 May 1939   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge is an American musical group, best known for their rendition of Jimmy Webb’s "The Worst That Could Happen" (1968). Kellie Crawford   Date Born: Tuesday 7 May 1974   Description: Vocal, Dancers, Actor, Australia   Summary: Kellie was educated at the Meriden School in Strathfield, a suburb of Sydney. Kellie is the younger of two girls. Her older sister's name is Kylie. Lorrie Collins   Date Born: Thursday 7 May 1942   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: She made her debut on January 22, 1958 in an episode entitled "The Picture in Rick's Notebook" Marty Rhone   Date Born: Sunday 7 May 1950   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Marty is well known to Australian audiences as a popular singer and entertainer. Mitchell Jayne   Date Born: Wednesday 7 May 1930   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: The Dillards are notable for being among the first bluegrass groups to have electrified their instruments in the mid-1960s. Pete Wingfield   Date Born: Friday 7 May 1948   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Beginning with their 1983 reunion shows, Wingfield spent eighteen years handling keyboard duties for The Everly Brothers. Peter Iiyich Tchaikovsky   Date Born: Thursday 7 May 1840   Description: Pianist, Composer, Russian   Summary: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, a small town in present-day Udmurtia at the time the Vyatka Guberniya of Imperial Russia. Riley Puckett   Date Born: Monday 7 May 1894   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: A country music pioneer, born in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA. An accident during infancy left him blind. Robert Hegyes   Date Born: Monday 7 May 1951   Description: Actor. USA Teresa Brewer   Date Born: Thursday 7 May 1931   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Brewer's father was an inspector of glass for the Libbey Owens Company now Pilkington Glass, her mother was a housewife. P/E Thelma Houston   Date Born: Tuesday 7 May 1946   Description: Vocalist, US   Summary: She appeared in the Australian stage show of ’Fame’ for nearly twelve months from Sydney to Perth. Art Baxter   Date Born: Saturday 8 May 1926   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UK   Summary: An English rock singer during the fifties. Arthur Q. Bryan   Date Born: Monday 8 May 1899   Description: Comedian and voice actor   Summary: Bryan's Fudd was so popular that the character's shorts were used to create and develop the character of Bugs Bunny, with the first official Bugs Bunny appearance coming in the Fudd cartoon, A Wild Hare. Bekka Bramlett   Date Born: Thursday 8 May 1958   Description: Singer-songwriter, USA   Summary: She is the daughter of popular music duo Delaney and Bonnie. Billy Burnette   Date Born: Friday 8 May 1953   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Billy met Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac fame during the shooting of a Dick Clark Anniversary Special. A few months later, Fleetwood invited Billy to join his new band, The Zoo, which released an album on RCA in 1983, I'm Not Me. Chris Frantz   Date Born: Tuesday 8 May 1951   Description: Drums, percussion, USA   Summary: He is ranked number 12 in Stylus Magazine`s list of the 50 greatest rock drummers. Darren Hayes   Date Born: Monday 8 May 1972   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: He is the youngest of three children. He started performing for his mother in his lounge room from an early age. At Mabel Park High School, Hayes appeared in the school musicals David Rowntree   Date Born: Friday 8 May 1964   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Rowntree is a computer animator, and owns an animation company called Nanomation. He directed two series of the South Park. Don Rickles   Date Born: Saturday 8 May 1926   Description: Comedian, Actor, USA   Summary: It has been said that being insulted by Rickles is like "wearing a badge of honor". Enrique Iglesias   Date Born: Thursday 8 May 1975   Description: Vocalist, Actor, Spain   Summary: Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain, the third and final child of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina socialite and Hola! magazine journalist Isabel Preysler. Gary Glitter   Date Born: Wednesday 8 May 1940   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Glam rock singer during the seventies and one of Brits favorites in the seventies. Jack Blanchard And Misty Morgan   Date Born: Friday 8 May 1942   Description: Vocal Duo, USA   Summary: Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan is an American country music duo from Florida. Jack Bland   Date Born: Monday 8 May 1899   Description: Banjoist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Played with Gene Krupa, Eddie Condon and many more top names of the time in the twenties and the forties. YOUTUBE: Red McKenzie playing paper & comb and singing I Ain't Got Nobody, also an interesting banjo solo from Jack Bland. Jackie Orszaczky   Date Born: Saturday 8 May 1948   Description: Singer, band leader, bassist, composer, arranger, producer   Summary: Orszaczky toured Australia in 1970-71 with the jazz-fusion group Syrius. During the tour the group recorded an album in Melbourne, that was released both in Australia and Hungary. James Motorhead Sherwood   Date Born: Friday 8 May 1942   Description: Vocalist, soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone,   Summary: Sherwood and Zappa met in high school in 1956. Sherwood was in a class with Zappa's brother Bobby, who introduced the two after learning that Sherwood was a collector of blues records. Jim Sherwood   Date Born: Friday 8 May 1942   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Saxophonist,USA   Summary: An American rock musician notable for playing soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone. John Fred   Date Born: Thursday 8 May 1941   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: His group, John Fred and the Playboys, was formed in 1956; their first hit single was 1958's "Shirley". Keith Jarrett   Date Born: Tuesday 8 May 1945   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Jazz pianist started playing in the sixties unit `THE CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET`and also playing with Miles Davis in the seventies. Keith Jarrett   Date Born: Tuesday 8 May 1945   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first (and to this day only) recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient,and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll. Marc Bolan   Date Born: Thursday 8 May 1947   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: With band ’John’s Children’ then formed ’TYRANNOSAURUS REX’ later ’T REX’ Martha Wainwright   Date Born: Saturday 8 May 1976   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, Canada   Summary: She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle. Mary Lou Williams   Date Born: Sunday 8 May 1910   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, Arranger, USA   Summary: Noted as the leading female of jazz instrumentalist. Melissa Gilbert   Date Born: Friday 8 May 1964   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Mainly known for her role in TV’s ’Little House On The Prairie’ with Michael Landon during the seventies. Paul Samwell Smith   Date Born: Saturday 8 May 1943   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: While in The Yardbirds, he worked with record producers such as Mickie Most, Simon Napier-Bell and Giorgio Gomelsky and co-produced and engineered much of their music. Philip Bailey   Date Born: Tuesday 8 May 1951   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Co founder and member of 'Earth Wind And Fire' He Joined the group in 1971. Red Nichols   Date Born: Monday 8 May 1905   Description: Trumpeter, Band Leader, USA   Summary: Nichols became one of the busiest phonograph session musicians of his era, making hundreds of recording sessions of jazz and hot dance band music. He also played in several Broadway shows. Rick Nelson   Date Born: Wednesday 8 May 1940   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: In 1972, Nelson reached the top 40 one last time with "Garden Party", a song he wrote in disgust after a Madison Square Garden audience booed him when he tried playing new songs instead of just his old hits from the 1950s and 1960s. "Garden Party" reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and was certified as a gold single. "Garden Party" was a hit at the same time Elvis Presley was having his last top 10 single, "Burning Love" Robert Johnson   Date Born: Monday 8 May 1911   Description: Guitarist   Summary: Recording in the thirties, a sessions guitarist recorded well known blues songs such as ’Travelling Riverside Blues’ - ’Sweet Home Chicago’ etc. Todd Storz   Date Born: Thursday 8 May 1924   Description: Radio Announcer   Summary: Stortz was the first to bring to air a Top Forty play list in the United States. Toni Tennille   Date Born: Wednesday 8 May 1940   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Charting with the Neil Sedaka song ’Love will keep us together’ - They also charted with ’Do that to me one more time’ and many more. Albert Finney   Date Born: Saturday 9 May 1936   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: The son of Alice and Albert Finney, Sr., a bookmaker. He attended Salford Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Ash Grunwald   Date Born: Sunday 9 May 1976   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Ash Grunwald is a young Australian radio announcer and blues musician from Melbourne, Australia. Billy Joel   Date Born: Monday 9 May 1949   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Joel was raised in Hicksville, New York. His father Howard born Helmut was originally from Germany, where his father Billy Joel's grandfather Karl Amson Joel had owned a department store which he was forced to sell under value to avoid being dispossessed by the Nazis. The new owners turned this into a large mail order business in the 1950s Neckermann. His mother, Rosalind Nyman, was born in England, to a Jewish family Philip and Rebecca Nyman. His parents divorced in 1960, and his father moved back to Vienna, Austria. Candice Bergen   Date Born: Thursday 9 May 1946   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Bergen was born in California. Her mother, Frances Bergen was a Powers model and professionally as Frances Westcott. Her father, Edgar Bergen, was a ventriloquist, comedian, and actor. Carlo Maria Giulini   Date Born: Saturday 9 May 1914   Description: Violinist and conductor. Italy   Summary: Giulini was given a violin for Christmas in 1919, when he was five, and progressed rapidly with local instructors, notably a Bohemian violinist. Dave Prater   Date Born: Sunday 9 May 1937   Description: Singer, USA   Summary: Dave Prater is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1992), the Grammy Hall of Fame (1999, for the song "Soul Man"). Dick Morrissey   Date Born: Thursday 9 May 1940   Description: Saxophonist, UK   Summary: By the mid-60s, he had over two consecutive years come in second place behind Hayes in the Melody Maker Jazz Poll (1966 & 1967). Frank Chacksfield   Date Born: Saturday 9 May 1914   Description: Band Leader, UK   Summary: His next 78 single, "Ebb Tide", became the first British instrumental recording to reach #1 in some American charts. Glenda Jackson   Date Born: Saturday 9 May 1936   Description: Actress, Politician, UK   Summary: Her first work came on the stage, where she won a role in an adaptation of "Separate Tables". Hank Snow   Date Born: Saturday 9 May 1914   Description: Vocalist,Composer, CA   Summary: In 1958, Snow became a naturalized citizen of the United States. James L Brooks   Date Born: Thursday 9 May 1940   Description: Director, Producer, USA   Summary: The Simpsons Movie. In total, Brooks has received 47 Emmy nominations, winning 20 of them. John Hawken   Date Born: Thursday 9 May 1940   Description: Piano, Keyboards   Summary: John Hawken appeared briefly in the David Essex movie That'll Be The Day (1973) as the keyboard player in the band led by Stormy Tempest (Billy Fury), which also featured Keith Moon on drums. Kim Hart   Date Born: Monday 9 May 1960   Description: Vocalist, NZ   Summary: Started her career with band ’CHALKDUST’ in 1976. Mike Millward   Date Born: Saturday 9 May 1942   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Rhythm guitarist/singer Mike Millward ex-The Undertakers Pete Birrell   Date Born: Friday 9 May 1941   Description: Bassist, UK Phillip Manning   Date Born: Monday 9 May 1949   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , South Australia   Summary: Phil became the lead singer of Adelaide's "Exiles" with his brother Derek during the sixties. Rebecca Hall   Date Born: Sunday 9 May 1982   Description: Actress, UK   Summary: Hall's first role came in 1992, when she appeared as young Sophy in her father's television adaptation of Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn. Richie Furay   Date Born: Tuesday 9 May 1944   Description: Vocalist,Composer, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Orinal member of ’BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD’ formed 1966 with Stephen Stills. Later he joined ’POCO’ formed in 1968. Sonny Curtis   Date Born: Sunday 9 May 1937   Description: Guitarist, Composer, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Member of Buddy Holly and The Crickets. Arthur Alexander   Date Born: Friday 10 May 1940   Description: Vocalist, Composer of song, USA   Summary: Working with Spar Music in Florence, Alabama, Alexander recorded his first single; "Sally Sue Brown" which was released in 1960. Bert Weedon   Date Born: Tuesday 10 May 1921   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: An English guitarist and composer whose style of guitar playing was popular & influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Burgess Road, East Ham, Essex, now Greater London. Bert Weedon   Date Born: Tuesday 10 May 1921   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: An English guitarist and composer whose style of guitar playing was popular & influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Burgess Road, East Ham, Essex, now Greater London. Bono   Date Born: Tuesday 10 May 1960   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Bono is almost never seen in public without sunglasses. Carl Douglas   Date Born: Sunday 10 May 1942   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In 1998, a re-recording of his most famous song, billed as Bus Stop featuring Carl Douglas, reached number 8 in the UK. Carl T Sprague   Date Born: Friday 10 May 1895   Description: Sincer, USA   Summary: An American country musician. He was often dubbed "The Original nging Cowboy." Sprague was one of the first country musicians on record, recording in the early 1920s. Danny Rapp   Date Born: Saturday 10 May 1941   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Formed The Juvenairs in his High School years. Dave Mason   Date Born: Wednesday 10 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, UK   Summary: His long career has included working with top musicians and singers such as Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix etc. Fred Astaire   Date Born: Wednesday 10 May 1899   Description: Actor, Dancer, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Rudolph Nureyev rated him the greatest dancer of the twentieth century, and he is generally acknowledged to have been the most influential dancer in the history of film and television musicals. George Golla   Date Born: Friday 10 May 1935   Description: Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Golla emigrated to Australian in the fifties and started working in 1957. Graham Gouldman   Date Born: Friday 10 May 1946   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: In March 1968 he stepped in as a temporary replacement for bassist Bob Lang in The Mindbenders. Original member and bass, keyboards, Guitarist for English group "10CC". The band formed in 1967 in Manchester. Gregory Slay   Date Born: Saturday 10 May 1969   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Slay co-founded Remy Zero in Birmingham, Alabama with high school friend, Jeffrey Cain, who was also from Mobile Jackie Lomax   Date Born: Wednesday 10 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: Lomax started his career at the age of 16 singing blues and played with a group ’The Undertakers’ in Liverpool Jay Ferguson   Date Born: Saturday 10 May 1947   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: He is the composer of Terminator's (1984) soundtrack Pictures of You and of the main theme from A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: Joe Poovey   Date Born: Saturday 10 May 1941   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Born in Dallas, Texas, he was encouraged to be an entertainer as a child. He initially learned the steel guitar, and made his first recordings at the age of 10. Two years later, in 1953, he formed a group, the Hillbilly Boys, and started weekly broadcasts on radio station KRLD. Julius Wechter   Date Born: Friday 10 May 1935   Description: Vibraphonist, Composer, USA   Summary: He began his long and successful association with Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass when he played percussion in the Tijuana Brass. Larry Williams   Date Born: Friday 10 May 1935   Description: Vocalist, songwriter, pianist., USA   Summary: Williams first record was the wellknown, JUST BECAUSE - 1957 Margaret Field   Date Born: Wednesday 10 May 1922   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Actress Margaret Field, mother of Sally Field. Max Steiner   Date Born: Thursday 10 May 1888   Description: Composer for theatre, composer, arranger, conductor   Summary: Steiner was one of the best-known composers in Hollywood, and is widely regarded today as one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema. Mel Lewis   Date Born: Friday 10 May 1929   Description: Drummer - U.S.A.   Summary: He started playing professionally as a teen, eventually joining Stan Kenton in 1954. Nancy Walker   Date Born: Wednesday 10 May 1922   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She and her sister, Betty Lou Barto, grew up in large cities where their father, who was a performer, entertained in vaudeville. Peter Bennet   Date Born: Friday 10 May 1935   Description: Musical promoter.   Summary: Following the death of Brian Epstein in 1967, he was hired as promotional manager for The Beatles and Apple Corps. Sid Vicious   Date Born: Friday 10 May 1957   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: Born in London to John and Anne Ritchie. Shortly after his birth, John Ritchie left the family. Young Mc   Date Born: Wednesday 10 May 1967   Description: Vocalist, Producer   Summary: Winner of a Grammy award in 1989 for 'Best Rap Song', 'Bust A Move'. Bob Atcher   Date Born: Monday 11 May 1914   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: His popularity was during 1930 to 1958 with his association with Columbia Records. Butch Trucks   Date Born: Sunday 11 May 1947   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: One of Trucks' first bands was local Jacksonville band The Vikings, who made one 7-inch record in 1964. Another early band was The 31st of February which formed and broke up in 1968. This group's lineup eventually included both Duane Allman and Gregg Allman. Carla Bley   Date Born: Wednesday 11 May 1938   Description: Vocalist, Composer of song, USA   Summary: Composer of jazz,Punk rock plus big bands. Started composing at he age of nine. Cheryl Lynn   Date Born: Saturday 11 May 1957   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Discovered on the GONG SHOW in the seventies. Cory Monteith   Date Born: Tuesday 11 May 1982   Description: Actor, Singer, USA   Summary: Monteith began his acting career in Vancouver, British Columbia. He played minor roles in Final Destination 3, Whisper, and Deck the Halls. Foster Brooks   Date Born: Saturday 11 May 1912   Description: Comedian, USA   Summary: Singer Perry Como discovered Brooks in 1969, giving the comedian his major break. Holly Valance   Date Born: Wednesday 11 May 1983   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Australia   Summary: An Australian model, actress and singer. Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. Irving Berlin   Date Born: Friday 11 May 1888   Description: Composer, Pianist, USA   Summary: Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline on May 11, 1888, one of eight children of Moses and Lena Lipkin Baline. His birthplace is Tyumen[4], in Eastern Russia. His father, a cantor in a Jewish synagogue, uprooted the family to America, as did many other Jewish families in late 19th century. In 1893 they settled in New York City. Johnny Devlin   Date Born: Wednesday 11 May 1938   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Johnny Devlin was born in New Zealand and became one of the first rock stars to come out of New Zealand. Kit Lambert   Date Born: Saturday 11 May 1935   Description: Composer, Producer, Manager, Entrepreneur and promoter.   Summary: He left the ’WHO’in the early seventies and would concentrate on producing other artists. Les Chadwick   Date Born: Friday 11 May 1934   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: When the Pacemakers split up in 1966, he bought a garage with fellow former Pacemaker, Les Maguire. In the 1980s, Chadwick relocated to Sydney, Australia, where he set up an employment agency. Phil Silvers   Date Born: Thursday 11 May 1911   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Silvers wrote the lyrics for Frank Sinatra's "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)". Billy Squire   Date Born: Friday 12 May 1950   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: An American vocalist and songwriter and rock musician. Bob Montgomery   Date Born: Wednesday 12 May 1937   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Montgomery was a songwriting partner and best friend of Buddy Holly, performing together as the duo "Buddy and Bob" while teenagers in high school. Burt Bacharach   Date Born: Saturday 12 May 1928   Description: Composer, Arranger Composer Conductor, USA   Summary: Bacharach was born the son of Irma and Bert Bacharach, a syndicated newspaper columnist. He is of German Jewish descent. Claudio Pompili   Date Born: Thursday 12 May 1949   Description: Guitarist, Composer, Sound Designer, Music Consultan, Australia   Summary: He is a composer and music consultant currently enrolled as a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. Emilio Estevez   Date Born: Saturday 12 May 1962   Description: Actor, Director, USA   Summary: The eldest child of actor Martin Sheen and artist Janet. His siblings are Ramón Luis Estévez,Charlie Sheen, and Renée Estévez. Unlike his brother, Emilio did not adopt his father's stage name. He attended Santa Monica High School with fellow Brat Packer Rob Lowe. Gilberto Gracio Guitars   Date Born: Sunday 12 May 1946   Description: Manufactures classical guitars, Portuguese   Summary: The Grácio family is considered to be one of the most important traditional guitar makers in Europe, and their contribution has helped develop the Portuguese guitar over the years. Gordon Jenkins   Date Born: Thursday 12 May 1910   Description: Band Leader, Arranger, Composer   Summary: He started his career doing arrangements for a St Louis radio station. Gregory Phillinganes   Date Born: Saturday 12 May 1956   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: In 1981, he released his first solo album, Significant Gains. While the album itself was not very successful, he did manage to score a minor R&B hit with "Baby, I Do Love You." Ian Dury   Date Born: Tuesday 12 May 1942   Description: Vocalist   Summary: Ian Dury was born at his parents home at 43 Weald Rise, Harrow Weald, Harrow. He lived with the effects of polio, which he contracted at the age of seven — very likely, he believed, from a swimming pool at Southend on Sea during the 1949 polio epidemic. Ian Mclagan   Date Born: Saturday 12 May 1945   Description: Keyboardist, UK   Summary: English keyboards instrumentallist, best known as a member of Small Faces, and Faces. James Purify   Date Born: Friday 12 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, Duo, USA   Summary: James & Bobby Purify were an R&B singing duo, whose biggest hit was "I'm Your Puppet" in 1966. Jayotis Washington   Date Born: Monday 12 May 1941   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: A member of "The Persuasions" who have enjoyed recognition from musicians outside the doo-wop or gospel community. Joe Maphis   Date Born: Thursday 12 May 1921   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: An American country guitarist and one of the greats of his time. Katharine Hepburn   Date Born: Sunday 12 May 1907   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Hepburn was born the daughter of Katharine Martha and Dr. Thomas Horval Hepburn, who was a successful urologist from Virginia with Maryland roots. She is of English ancestry from both sides of her family. Kix Brooks   Date Born: Thursday 12 May 1955   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: He has one sister, one half-sister, one half-brother and his father adopted one son of his third wife. Leon Hardy   Date Born: Thursday 12 May 1932   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Cardinals were a successful American R&B group of the 1950s. Ray Davis   Date Born: Wednesday 12 May 1948   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: The original bass singer and one of the founding members of The Parliaments, Parliament and Funkadelic. Ray Gillen   Date Born: Tuesday 12 May 1959   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Singer best known for his work with the bands Black Sabbath, Badlands and Phenomena. Steve Winwood   Date Born: Wednesday 12 May 1948   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: Steve co-wrote and recorded "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm A Man" before leaving to form Traffic with Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason. The Duke Of Paduch   Date Born: Sunday 12 May 1901   Description: Vocalist, Comedian, Banjoist, USA   Summary: Benjamin Francis “Whitey” Ford was a leading country comedian from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. Tom Snyder   Date Born: Tuesday 12 May 1936   Description: Talk show host, USA   Summary: Snyder on Tomorrow included John Lennon's final televised interview, in April 1975, replayed in December 1980 as a tribute to Lennon, and later released on home video, and Irish rock band U2's first American television appearance in June 1981. Tony Hancock   Date Born: Monday 12 May 1924   Description: Actor, Comeidian, UK   Summary: Hancock's Half Hour lasted for seven years (including television) and over a hundred episodes in its radio form, and from 1956 ran concurrently with an equally successful BBC television series with the same name. Bea Arthur   Date Born: Saturday 13 May 1922   Description: Actress, Singer, USA   Summary: Arthur achieved fame as the character Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family and Maude, and as Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, winning Emmy Awards for both roles. Beveridge Webster   Date Born: Wednesday 13 May 1908   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: He also studied in Berlin with Artur Schnabel. He made his New York debut in November 1934 with the New York Philharmonic Danny Kirwan   Date Born: Saturday 13 May 1950   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Kirwan's first recorded work with the band was on the huge instrumental hit single "Albatross". Dewey Phillips   Date Born: Thursday 13 May 1926   Description: Disc Jockey   Summary: He played R &B, Blues, country, or anything that later people were calling rock and roll. Don Ameche   Date Born: Wednesday 13 May 1908   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Ameche was a major radio star, heard on such shows as Empire Builders, The First Nighter Program, Family Theater and the Betty and Bob soap opera. Gil Evans   Date Born: Monday 13 May 1912   Description: Band Leader, Arranger, Composer, Pianist, USA   Summary: His name was changed early on to Evans, the name of his stepfather. His family moved to Stockton, California, where he spent most of his youth. After 1946, he lived and worked primarily in New York City. Harvey Keitel   Date Born: Saturday 13 May 1939   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Has appeared in many films such as ’Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ ’Taxi’. Joe Brown   Date Born: Tuesday 13 May 1941   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: One of the first rock singers apart from Cliff Richard to have real success before the Beatles. Johnny Wright   Date Born: Wednesday 13 May 1914   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: In 1952, Johnnie & Jack’s "Poison Love" took them to the Grand Ole Opry, where the duo, along with Wells, were invited to join and where they remained for 15 years. Melanie Thornton   Date Born: Saturday 13 May 1967   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: On May 7, 2001, Thornton released her first (and only) solo album entitled Ready To Fly under the label X-Cell (distributed by Sony/Epic Records). Paul Thompson   Date Born: Sunday 13 May 1951   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: He was also the drummer for 'Angelic Upstarts' and also 'Concrete Blonde' Pete Watts   Date Born: Tuesday 13 May 1947   Description: Bassist, Composer, UK   Summary: Overend's bass of choice was a white Gibson Thunderbird, one of which was later sold to Wishbone Ash bassist Martin Turner. Peter Gabriel   Date Born: Saturday 13 May 1950   Description: Vocalists, UK   Summary: Formed ’GENESIS’ singing lead from 1966 to 1975. Ritchie Valens   Date Born: Tuesday 13 May 1941   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Brought up hearing traditional Mexican mariachi music, as well as flamenco guitar, R&B. Stevie Wonder   Date Born: Saturday 13 May 1950   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Keyboardist, USA   Summary: Originally named "Little Stevie Wonder"in the sixties is very much larger than life. Teddy Randazzo   Date Born: Monday 13 May 1935   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: Randazzo also had some starring roles and often performed in such rock films as Hey, Let's Twist, The Girl Can't Help It, Rock, Rock, Rock and Mr. Rock and Roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Al Ciner   Date Born: Wednesday 14 May 1947   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: The group are mainly known for their hit ’Bend Me Shape Me’ during the sixties. Alec Dankworth   Date Born: Saturday 14 May 1960   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: Dankworth was born the son of John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. Art Grant   Date Born: Sunday 14 May 1950   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, is an English progressive rock group. Bobby Darin   Date Born: Thursday 14 May 1936   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: On Monday, May 14, 2007, Bobby Darin was awarded a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. This tribute honors Darin for his contribution to making Las Vegas the "Entertainment Capital of the World" David Byrne   Date Born: Wednesday 14 May 1952   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, Scotland   Summary: Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, on May 14, 1952. Two years later, his parents moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and then to Arbutus, Maryland, when he was 8 or 9 years old. David Reyne   Date Born: Thursday 14 May 1959   Description: Actor, Musician, Television Presenter, Australia   Summary: David Reyne became a member of the band Australian Crawl with Reyne's younger brother,lead singer James, continued as drummer. Derek Leckenby   Date Born: Friday 14 May 1943   Description: Guitarist Dick Bentley   Date Born: Tuesday 14 May 1907   Description: Actor, Comedian, UK   Summary: In 1972 and 1974 Bentley featured in the films from Barry McKenzie comic strip in "Private Eye". Eddie Low   Date Born: Friday 14 May 1943   Description: Vocalist, NZ   Summary: Eddie is a multi intrumentalist playing, guitar, violin, flute, trumpet, etc. George Lucas   Date Born: Sunday 14 May 1944   Description: Director, Producer, USA   Summary: His first full-length feature film produced by the studio, THX 1138, was not a success. Lucas then created his own company, Lucasfilm, Ltd., and directed American Graffiti (1973). Grady Gaines   Date Born: Monday 14 May 1934   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: An American electric and Texas blues and jazz blues tenor saxophonist, who recorded with Little Richard in the 1950s. Irving Thalberg   Date Born: Sunday 14 May 1899   Description: Film producer, USA   Summary: Thalberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, to German Jewish immigrant parents. Jack Bruce   Date Born: Friday 14 May 1943   Description: Bassist, Scotland   Summary: Cream were to break up in 1968,the group were probably the first super group. Bruce co wrote most of Cream’s songs with composer Peter Brown. June Duprez   Date Born: Tuesday 14 May 1918   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Duprez retired. Her final credited film performance was in One Plus One (1961). Lek Leckenby   Date Born: Friday 14 May 1943   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Leckenby is credited with arranging the band's first big hit, "I'm into Something Good". Lucciano Pizzichini   Date Born: Sunday 14 May 2000   Description: Guitarist, Argentina   Summary: A child prodigy guitarist and the youngest artist sponsored by Gibson Guitars. Margreta Elkins   Date Born: Tuesday 14 May 1907   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: In 1958 she became a resident principal mezzo-soprano at the Royal Opera House, making her debut there as Amneris in Aida. Mike Inez   Date Born: Saturday 14 May 1966   Description: Guitarist , USA   Summary: Inez played with Slash on the former Guns N' Roses guitarist's side group, Slash's Snakepit. Mike Preston   Date Born: Saturday 14 May 1938   Description: Vocalist, Actor, UK   Summary: Preston appeared on Oh Boy! and his first gramophone record, "Dirty Old Town" was produced by Joe Meek. Otto Klemperer   Date Born: Thursday 14 May 1885   Description: Conductor, Germany   Summary: He is widely regarded as one of the leading conductors of the 20th century. His son, Werner Klemperer, was an actor and became known for his portrayal of Colonel Klink on the US television show Hogan's Heroes. Sofia Coppola   Date Born: Friday 14 May 1971   Description: Director, producer, screenwriter, actress   Summary: Influenced by Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Bogdanovich, François Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Bob Fosse, John Hughes, Wong Kar-wai, William Eggleston Troy Shondell   Date Born: Tuesday 14 May 1940   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Shondell was born and raised in Indiana and was educated at Valparaiso University and Indiana University. He wrote his first song at age 14. Andrew Eldritch   Date Born: Friday 15 May 1959   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: Andrew Eldritch is often called the "Godfather of Goth" Bill Peach   Date Born: Wednesday 15 May 1935   Description: Australian television journalist   Summary: Peach was born in 1935 in the Riverina town of Lockhart, New South Wales. He was educated at the boarding school St Stanislaus College in Bathurst. Brian Eno   Date Born: Saturday 15 May 1948   Description: Producer, Composer, UK   Summary: Brian Eno's professional music career began in London, as a member (1971–1973) of the glam/art rock band Roxy Music, playing the mixing desk, altering the band's sound with a VCS3 synthesizer, tape recorders, etc., and singing back-up. Ed Hall   Date Born: Wednesday 15 May 1901   Description: Clarinetist, USA   Summary: Clarinetist Ed Hall played with such greats as Eddy Condon, Louis Armstrong. Eddy Arnold   Date Born: Wednesday 15 May 1918   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Born in Henderson, Tennessee, he made his first radio appearance in 1936. Nick named The Tennesse Plough Boy. Gordon Mills   Date Born: Wednesday 15 May 1935   Description: Manager,Composer - UK   Summary: Mills also produced Gilbert O'Sullivan, particularly on the song "Clair," which is named for Mills' daughter Graeham Goble   Date Born: Thursday 15 May 1947   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Graeham Goble will forever be associated with his most popular song "Reminiscing". YOUTUBE: An insight of The Little River band with Graeham Goble giving an honest story in regards to life of the band. This is a must to listen to. James Mason   Date Born: Saturday 15 May 1909   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: Mason was once considered to play James Bond in a 1958 TV adaptation of From Russia with Love, which was ultimately never produced. Joseph Cotten   Date Born: Monday 15 May 1905   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Cotten worked as an advertising agent after graduating from the Washington, D.C., Hickman School, where he studied acting. Karin Krog   Date Born: Saturday 15 May 1937   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: One of her finest recordings came in the mid seventies when she recorded with Archie Shepp. Mike Oldfield   Date Born: Friday 15 May 1953   Description: Multi Instrumentalist, Composer, Producer - UK   Summary: Multi Instrumentalist.Tubular Bells was the first albumto be released by Virgin records giving the company and Oldfield a very good start Phil Seymour   Date Born: Thursday 15 May 1952   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: His solo work is also highly revered among fans of the power pop musical genre. Rhonda Burchmore   Date Born: Sunday 15 May 1960   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Dancer   Summary: While in the U.K. Rhonda also appeared with Anthony Newley in the revival of Stop the World I Want to Get Off. Trini Lopez   Date Born: Saturday 15 May 1937   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, USA   Summary: His popularity led the Gibson Guitar Corporation to ask him in 1964 to design a guitar for them. He ended up designing two: The Trini Lopez Standard, a rock and roll model based on the Gibson ES-335 semi-hollow body, and the Lopez Deluxe, a variation of a Gibson jazz guitar designed by Barney Kessel. Barbara Lee   Date Born: Friday 16 May 1947   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Their major hit was HE’S SO FINE. The song would later emerge in a court case that involved George Harrison and his song My Sweet Lord. Betty Carter   Date Born: Thursday 16 May 1929   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: When she was 16, she sang with Charlie Parker, and she later performed with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Billy Cobham   Date Born: Tuesday 16 May 1944   Description: Drummer, composer and bandleader. USA   Summary: Cobham is, in the words of critic Steve Huey, "generally acclaimed as fusion's greatest drummer" Boyd Tinsley   Date Born: Saturday 16 May 1964   Description: Violinist, USA   Summary: In 2003, Tinsley released a solo album, True Reflections. Danielle Spencer   Date Born: Friday 16 May 1969   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Until the age of twelve she spent her childhood and youth alternately in Australia and in Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, England, as her father worked in both countries for the BBC Play School. Darrell Sweet   Date Born: Friday 16 May 1947   Description: Drummer, Scotland   Summary: He was the drummer and a founding member of rock band "Nazareth". Debra Winger   Date Born: Monday 16 May 1955   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Winger was cast in the lead role in A League of their Own but dropped out and was replaced by Geena Davis. Eddie Bert   Date Born: Tuesday 16 May 1922   Description: Trombonist, USA   Summary: Eddie was old school—like Jack Teagarden, Miff Mole, "Tricky Sam" Nanton and Benny Morten. Harry Carey Jr   Date Born: Monday 16 May 1921   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: A respected character actor like his father, Carey appeared in several Westerns. He made four films with director Howard Hawks. Hazel Oconnor   Date Born: Monday 16 May 1955   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Composer, UK   Summary: O'Connor originally became prominent as an actress in 1980. Henry Fonda   Date Born: Tuesday 16 May 1905   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: In the late 1920s, Fonda journeyed East to join the Provinceton Players and then the University Players Guild. There, he met fellow actor Jimmy Stewart, with whom he became lifelong friends. Janet Jackson   Date Born: Monday 16 May 1966   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Dancer, USA   Summary: In 1991, she signed the first of two record-breaking, multi-million dollar recording contracts with Virgin Records, which established her as one of the highest paid artists in the recording industry. Kripp Johnson   Date Born: Saturday 16 May 1936   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Del-Vikings were formed in 1955 by members of the United States Air Force stationed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Liberace   Date Born: Friday 16 May 1919   Description: Pianist, US   Summary: He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his contributions to the television industry.Liberace's popularization of the phrase inspired the title of Crying All the Way to the Bank. Megan Fox   Date Born: Friday 16 May 1986   Description: Actress, model   Summary: Fox is of Irish, French, and Native American ancestry, and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Darlene Tonachio and Franklin Fox. Melanie Lynskey   Date Born: Monday 16 May 1977   Description: Actress, NZ   Summary: She is maninly known for stalking Charlie Sheen on the Emmy Award-winning Two and a Half Men. Nicky Chinn   Date Born: Tuesday 16 May 1944   Description: Composer, Record Producer,UK   Summary: He and Australian Mike Chapman have had a string of hits maunly in the seventies. Pierce Brosnan   Date Born: Saturday 16 May 1953   Description: Actor, Ireland   Summary: After leaving school at 16, he decided to be a painter and began training in commercial illustration at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Robert Fripp   Date Born: Thursday 16 May 1946   Description: Musician, songwriter, producer   Summary: Fripp was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (published August 2003). Stella Nova   Date Born: Monday 16 May 1960   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UK   Summary: He started playing with the London Jazz Orchestra at the age of 14. Tori Spelling   Date Born: Wednesday 16 May 1973   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Actress mainly known for being the daughter of producer Arron Spelling. Woody Herman   Date Born: Friday 16 May 1913   Description: Clarinetist, Band leader,USA   Summary: In 1946 the band won Downbeat, Metronome, Billboard and Esquire polls for best band, nominated by their peers in the big band business Woody Herman   Date Born: Friday 16 May 1913   Description: Clarinetist, Band leader,USA   Summary: In 1946 the band won Downbeat, Metronome, Billboard and Esquire polls for best band, nominated by their peers in the big band business Andrea Corr   Date Born: Friday 17 May 1974   Description: Vocalist, Ireland   Summary: In 1990 she and her siblings formed a quartet called the Corrs. Bill Bruford   Date Born: Monday 17 May 1948   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Member of "Yes" The group formed in 1968 and later with "Genisis" in 1976. Bob Merrill   Date Born: Tuesday 17 May 1921   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: He moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a dialogue director for Columbia Pictures. Country Dick Montana   Date Born: Tuesday 17 May 1955   Description: Drummer, US   Summary: Country Dick Montana, Jerry Raney, Joey Harris, and Rolle Love were this traveling musical pleasure experience that will never be duplicated ever again. Craig Ferguson   Date Born: Thursday 17 May 1962   Description: Talk Show Host, Actor. America,   Summary: Craig Ferguson dropped out of high school "mainly to drink," and started in show business as a drummer in Bastards From Hell, a punk band that went nowhere. Dallas Taylor   Date Born: Saturday 17 May 1980   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: An American session drummer who has played on several rock records of the 1960s and 1970s. Dennis Hopper   Date Born: Sunday 17 May 1936   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Hopper made his debut on film in two roles with James Dean (whom he admired immensely) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Dewey Redman   Date Born: Sunday 17 May 1931   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: He performed on 'The Survivor's Suite' album which was voted top jazz album of the year, 1978. Enya   Date Born: Wednesday 17 May 1961   Description: Vocalist, Ireland   Summary: Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, which featured the hit song "Orinoco Flow" (sometimes incorrectly known as "Sail Away"). Keith   Date Born: Tuesday 17 May 1949   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Keefer earned his first recording contract with Columbia Records Kree Harrison   Date Born: Thursday 17 May 1990   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Harrison was chosen to perform on The Rosie O'Donnell Show's “Most Talent Kids” episode. She appeared as a guest on the show four times by the time she was twelve. Maureen Osullivan   Date Born: Wednesday 17 May 1911   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Married Australian born writer and later award winning director John Farrow. Penny De Haven   Date Born: Monday 17 May 1948   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: The first female country artist to perform for the troupes in Vietnam. Taj Mahal   Date Born: Sunday 17 May 1942   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Taj Mahal has received two Grammy Awards (nine nominations) over his career. Albert Hammond   Date Born: Thursday 18 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: Hammond is one of the more successful pop/rock songwriters to come out of England during the 1960s and 1970s, and has also enjoyed a long career as a recording artist Big Joe Turner   Date Born: Thursday 18 May 1911   Description: Vocalist, Composer, US A   Summary: His Jazz era was in Kansas City but he made his name composing the well known, always played,’ Shake Rattle And Roll’ David Nail   Date Born: Friday 18 May 1979   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Nail's first recording contract was with Mercury Nashville Records in 2002. Dwayne Hickman   Date Born: Friday 18 May 1934   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: One of his earliest roles was an appearance in the 1942 Our Gang comedy Melodies Old and New. Frank Capra   Date Born: Tuesday 18 May 1897   Description: Director, USA   Summary: One of the great film directors of the 20th century. George Strait   Date Born: Sunday 18 May 1952   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Actor, USA   Summary: Strait has sold more than 68.5 million albums in the United States.In the spring of 1981, Strait released his first single for MCA Records, entitled "Unwound". Jack Johnson   Date Born: Sunday 18 May 1975   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: Jack Hody Johnson, born May 18, 1975 is a Hawaiian born singer songwriter, musician, filmmaker. Jim Moginie   Date Born: Friday 18 May 1956   Description: Keyboardist, Australia   Summary: He is best known for his work with "Midnight Oil" Kai Winding   Date Born: Thursday 18 May 1922   Description: Trombonist, Band Leader, USA   Summary: In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kai recorded for a number of independent record labels. Les Kaczmarek   Date Born: Wednesday 18 May 1955   Description: Bassist, Australia   Summary: He formed Cold Chisel in 1973 with Ian Moss, Don Walker and Steve Prestwich. Les left in 1975 and was replaced by Phil Small. Lobby Lloyd   Date Born: Sunday 18 May 1941   Description: Guitarist, Australia   Summary: Loyde was regarded as one of Australia's finest rock guitarists during the sixties. Lucia Mannucci   Date Born: Tuesday 18 May 1920   Description: Vocalist, Italy   Summary: Born at Bologna, Mannucci relocated to Milan at a young age. Margot Fonteyn   Date Born: Sunday 18 May 1919   Description: Ballerina, UK   Summary: Born to an English father and an Irish mother, with Brazilian ancestry, who was the daughter of Brazilian businessman Antonio Fontes. Martika   Date Born: Sunday 18 May 1969   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Martika started as "Gloria" on the Disney Channel childrens show "Kids Incorporated". Meredith Wilson   Date Born: Sunday 18 May 1902   Description: Composer, Conductor and playwright   Summary: Willson attended Frank Damrosch's Institute of Musical Art (later The Juilliard School) in New York City. Perry Como   Date Born: Saturday 18 May 1912   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: From his own barber shop to the top entertainer.In 2007 Perry Como was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. Rodney Dillard   Date Born: Monday 18 May 1942   Description: Guitarist, Vocals, USA   Summary: The Dillards are notable for being among the first bluegrass groups to have electrified their instruments in the mid-1960s. Alma Cogan   Date Born: Thursday 19 May 1932   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: She was born of East European Jewish parentage, in Golders Green, London, her first name to be as her mother liked the motion picture actress Alma Taylor. Dave Pincombe   Date Born: Tuesday 19 May 1942   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: He achieved prominence in the late '70s and early '80s as a country music singer and composer winning a Golden Guitar in 1980. David Helfgott   Date Born: Monday 19 May 1947   Description: Pianist, Composer, Australia   Summary: David Helfgott now lives in "The Promised Land", a valley near Bellingen in New South Wales with his second wife, Gillian. David Jacobs   Date Born: Wednesday 19 May 1926   Description: British broadcaster - A BBC staff announcer in the early 1950s   Summary: A BBC staff announcer in the early 1950s, his voice intoned the title for many of the 53 episodes of the space adventure series Journey Into Space. Dusty Hill   Date Born: Thursday 19 May 1949   Description: Bassist, America   Summary: Associated acts ZZ Top, Willy & the Wolves, Freddie King, The Warlocks, The Cellar Dwellers, American Blues Geogie Auld   Date Born: Monday 19 May 1919   Description: Saxophonist, Clarinetist, Canadian   Summary: Primarily a swing saxophonist, he did many big band stints in his career, and led several big bands. Gregory Herbert   Date Born: Monday 19 May 1947   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: Herbert started on alto sax at age 12. In 1964 he did a short stint in the Duke Ellington Orchestra. James Reyne   Date Born: Sunday 19 May 1957   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Actor, Australian   Summary: Australian Crawl made one of the most memorable debuts on the popular music television program of the day Countdown. Jenny Berggren   Date Born: Friday 19 May 1972   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Sweden   Summary: Jenny composed several songs for the band's The Bridge album, including "Ravine", a song about the April 27 attack, as well as "Wave Wet Sand" Jerry Hyman   Date Born: Monday 19 May 1947   Description: Trombonist, USA   Summary: Hyman joined the group in 1968 leaving in 1970. Jim Thackery   Date Born: Tuesday 19 May 1953   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist. USA   Summary: He went solo in 1987 and now works as 'Jimmy Thackery and The Drivers'. Joe Ramone   Date Born: Saturday 19 May 1951   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Drummer, USA   Summary: The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Johnny Alf   Date Born: Sunday 19 May 1929   Description: Pianist, Brazil   Summary: He recorded nine albums and appeared on nearly fifty others. Jonas Renske   Date Born: Monday 19 May 1975   Description: Vocalist,songwriter, lead vocalist, Sweden   Summary: He was also the founding member, drummer, vocalist, guitarist & songwriter of the band October Tide. Nellie Melba   Date Born: Sunday 19 May 1861   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: The Peach Melba is a classic dessert, invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London to honour the Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba. Melba was the first Australian to appear on the cover of Time magazine, in April 1927. Nora Ephron   Date Born: Monday 19 May 1941   Description: American filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, playwright, journalist, author   Summary: She is best known for her romantic comedies and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay): for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle. Paul Williams   Date Born: Wednesday 19 May 1948   Description: American music journalist and writer   Summary: He was also the author of more than 25 books, of which the best-known are Outlaw Blues, Das Energi, and Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, the acclaimed three-part series. Pete Townshend   Date Born: Saturday 19 May 1945   Description: Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the rock era. Phil Rudd   Date Born: Wednesday 19 May 1954   Description: Drummer, Australia   Summary: Mainly known as the drummer of AC/DC from 1975 to 1983. He rejoined the band in 1994 to the present. Pops Foster   Date Born: Thursday 19 May 1892   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Pops Foster was playing professionally by 1907. Steve Currie   Date Born: Monday 19 May 1947   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: After leaving T.Rex he went into session work, working for the likes of Chris Spedding. Stuart Cable   Date Born: Tuesday 19 May 1970   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Cable had been drumming in his new Welsh band, Killing for Company. Tom Scott   Date Born: Wednesday 19 May 1948   Description: Saxophonist, Composer, USA   Summary: Scott is a member of the The Blues Brothers musical ensemble. Yazz   Date Born: Thursday 19 May 1960   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: A British pop singer, who remains best known for her successful 1988 dance track, "The Only Way Is Up". Astrid Kirshherr   Date Born: Friday 20 May 1938   Description: Photographer, Germany   Summary: Her association with The Beatles and her photographs of The Beatles during their Hamburg days. Cher   Date Born: Monday 20 May 1946   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Cher is the only female solo artist to reach the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in each of the previous four decades. Daniel Darc   Date Born: Wednesday 20 May 1959   Description: Vocalist, France   Summary: A French singer, who achieved success with his band Taxi Girl (together with Mirwais Ahmadzaď) between 1978 and 1986, and also as a solo artist. Felix Arndt   Date Born: Monday 20 May 1889   Description: Pianiist, Composer of music, USA   Summary: Arndt is best remembered for his 1915 composition, "Nola", written as an engagement gift to his fiancee and later wife, Nola Locke. James Stewart   Date Born: Wednesday 20 May 1908   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: The son of Elizabeth Ruth and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. Stewart's parents were Presbyterian and of Scottish origin. Jimmie Henderson   Date Born: Thursday 20 May 1954   Description: Guitarist,USA   Summary: James Henderson on guitar entered the band in 1975 and left the band in 1979. Jimmy Blythe   Date Born: Monday 20 May 1901   Description: Pianist, Composer , USA   Summary: An influential American jazz and boogie woogie pianist. Joe Cocker   Date Born: Saturday 20 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Joe Cocker is a white soul singer has had a number of hit singles plus top selling albums through his career. Milt Gabler   Date Born: Saturday 20 May 1911   Description: Record Producer, USA   Summary: At fifteen, he began working in his father's business, the Commodore Radio Corporation, a radio shop located on East 42nd Street in New York City. Nick Heyward   Date Born: Saturday 20 May 1961   Description: Vocalist,Composer, UK   Summary: Heyward formed Haircut 100 in 1980. During Nick Heyward's time with the band, they had four UK Top 10 singles and their debut album, Pelican West (1982). Phillis Thaxter   Date Born: Tuesday 20 May 1919   Description: Actress, USA Shorty Long   Date Born: Monday 20 May 1940   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Long's biggest hit was "Here Comes The Judge" in 1968, which reached number-four on the R&B charts. Susan Cowsill   Date Born: Wednesday 20 May 1959   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: Susan began her musical career with The Cowsills in 1967; she made her debut on We Can Fly, the Cowsills' second MGM Records album released in early 1968. Terry Smith - (british Jazz Guitarist)   Date Born: Thursday 20 May 1943   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Twice winner of the Melody Maker Music Polls, Smith spent the early 1960s playing with the Tony Lee Trio. Vic Ames   Date Born: Thursday 20 May 1926   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Their parents, David and Sarah Urick, were Russian Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine. Carl Carlton   Date Born: Thursday 21 May 1953   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: Started singing in the sixties and named 'Little Carl Carlton'. Carole Sturtzel   Date Born: Sunday 21 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: In 1961 Adelaide saw Carole Sturtzel begin her career as an entertainer when she joined a band called ’Tremors’. Dennis Day   Date Born: Monday 21 May 1917   Description: Vocalist, Actor, Comedian, USA   Summary: One of America’s great singers of his time and comics appearing on the Jack Benny show through to 1974. Fats Waller   Date Born: Saturday 21 May 1904   Description: Vocalist, Pianist, Composer   Summary: He was also a prolific songwriter, and many songs he wrote or co-wrote are still popular, such as "Honeysuckle Rose", "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Squeeze Me". Forrest White   Date Born: Friday 21 May 1920   Description: American musical instruments industry executive, USA   Summary: White began working at Fender on 20 May 1954 Gotye   Date Born: Wednesday 21 May 1980   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: He is also one-third of Melbourne indie-pop band The Basics. Joe Camilleri   Date Born: Friday 21 May 1948   Description: Vocalist, Saxophonist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Joe achieved his greatest success with another long-running group The Black Sorrows John Leon Gardner   Date Born: Sunday 21 May 1933   Description: Saxophonist, Composer, USA   Summary: The group formed 1975 in America with Gardner joining in 1967. Sessions musician, Saxophonist and Drummer mainly recorded for the group Judge Reinhold   Date Born: Tuesday 21 May 1957   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Reinhold has appeared in more than 60 films. His first appearance on screen was in the Wonder Woman episode "Amazon Hot Wax" (1979), Kay Kendall   Date Born: Saturday 21 May 1927   Description: Actress, UK   Summary: England. Kendall's father was Terrence "Terry" McCarthy (aka Terry Kendall), vaudevillian son of Marie Kendall, a music hall star known for her vivacious personality and perfect diction while singing. Lawrence Tureaud - Mr T   Date Born: Wednesday 21 May 1952   Description: Actor, motivational speaker, USA   Summary: In 1984 Mr. T released an album titled Mr. T's Commandments (Columbia/CBS Records), much in the same tone as his 1984 educational video, which instructed children to stay in school and to stay away from drugs. Leo Sayer   Date Born: Friday 21 May 1948   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: A "Leo Sayer" is cockney rhyming slang for an all day drinking session "all-dayer". Lydia Mendoza   Date Born: Sunday 21 May 1916   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Mendoza was born into a musical family in Houston, Texas. She learned to sing and play stringed instruments from her mother and grandmother. Marcie Blane   Date Born: Sunday 21 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Her first song they came up with was "Bobby's Girl". June 1962. Written by Hank Hoffman and Gary Klein Martin Carthy   Date Born: Wednesday 21 May 1941   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Guitarist, UK   Summary: Martin Carthy is widely regarded as one of the finest singers and interpreters of traditional music from the British Isles, as well as a highly influential guitarist. Notorious B.i.g.   Date Born: Sunday 21 May 1972   Description: Vocalist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, USA   Summary: Wallace began rapping when he was a teenager. He would entertain people on the streets with his rapping as well as perform with local groups, the Old Gold Brothers and the Techniques. Peggy Cass   Date Born: Wednesday 21 May 1924   Description: Actor, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Cass made her Broadway debut in 1949 with the play Touch and Go. Raymond Burr   Date Born: Monday 21 May 1917   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: His best-known film role of the period was the suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window (1954), starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Ronald Isley   Date Born: Wednesday 21 May 1941   Description: Vocalist   Summary: In 1954, when Ronald was only 13, he and his brothers, Rudolph, O'Kelly and Vernon Isley, formed the original lineup of what would become the Isley Brothers. Sally Boyden   Date Born: Friday 21 May 1965   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Australia   Summary: Sally Boyden is also the co-creator of the comedy series "Punktuition". Stan Lynch   Date Born: Saturday 21 May 1955   Description: American songwriter and record producer. drummer   Summary: As a songwriter, he also has a penchant for collaborating with a variety of personalities. He’s co-written with or written for numerous acts, including Matraca Berg, Meredith Brooks, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Terry Lightfoot   Date Born: Tuesday 21 May 1935   Description: Clarinettist and bandleader   Summary: England. He started his musical career as a vocalist during school-life, singing popular songs with a small amateur variety group Tony Sheridan   Date Born: Tuesday 21 May 1940   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UJ   Summary: In the early 1970s, Sheridan managed a West German radio programme of blues music, which was well-received. In 1978, the Star Club was reopened, and Sheridan performed there along with Elvis Presley's TCB Band. Al Brown   Date Born: Tuesday 22 May 1934   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Also recorded under AL B. SURE! Charting with the success of a major album and single. Bernie Taupin   Date Born: Monday 22 May 1950   Description: Composer, Lyricist, UK   Summary: In 1967, he answered an advertisement for talent placed in the New Musical Express by Liberty records A&R man Ray Williams. Thus began the famous and well-loved songwriting team of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The pair have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date. Bob Dyer   Date Born: Saturday 22 May 1909   Description: Entertainer, radio personality, banjoist, Australia/USA   Summary: Dyer is best known for the long-running radio and then television quiz show, Pick a Box Charles Aznavour   Date Born: Thursday 22 May 1924   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Actor, French   Summary: He is mainly known for his hits 'She' and 'Dance in The Old Fashioned Way' charting in the seventies. A writer of musicals and said to be the French Frank Sinatra. Iva Davies   Date Born: Saturday 22 May 1954   Description: Vocalist, Composer   Summary: Davies has worked with such notable musicians as David Bowie , Brian Eno , Peter Gabriel , Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music , Yukihiro Takahashi , John Oates , Elvis Costello , Simple Minds , Peter Tosh. Jacky Landry Jackson   Date Born: Thursday 22 May 1941   Description: Vocalist   Summary: The group was formed in the Bronx, New York, in 1956 Jerry Dammers   Date Born: Sunday 22 May 1955   Description: Keyboardist, UK   Summary: The founder and keyboard player of the Coventry, England-based ska band The Specials. Jerry Ricks   Date Born: Wednesday 22 May 1940   Description: Guitarist , USA   Summary: He began playing trumpet as a child, he started playing guitar in local coffee shops Jimmy Keyes   Date Born: Thursday 22 May 1930   Description: Vocalist   Summary: The Chords were "discovered" singing in a subway station and landed a contract with Atlantic records in 1954. Johnny Gill   Date Born: Sunday 22 May 1966   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Member of ’The New Edition’1988 replacing Bobby Brown. Karl Malden   Date Born: Wednesday 22 May 1912   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Malden famously delivered the line "Don't leave home without them!" in a series of U.S. television commercials for American Express Travelers Cheques in the 1970s and 1980s. Kenny Ball   Date Born: Thursday 22 May 1930   Description: Trumpeter, UK   Summary: An English jazz musician, best known as the bandleader, lead trumpet player and vocalist in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. Lucy Gordon   Date Born: Thursday 22 May 1980   Description: Actress, Model, UK   Summary: She appeared alongside Heath Ledger in the 2002 film The Four Feathers. She starred as the reporter Jennifer Dugan in the 2007 film Spider-Man 3. Marty Kristian   Date Born: Thursday 22 May 1947   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: In 1969 he became a member of the original line up of the New Seekers Paul Winfield   Date Born: Thursday 22 May 1941   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Born in California, the son of Lois Beatrice, a union organizer in the garment industry. His stepfather from the age of eight was Clarence Winfield, a construction worker. Peter Nero   Date Born: Tuesday 22 May 1934   Description: Pianist, Conductor, USA   Summary: Nero recorded his first album in 1961, and won a Grammy Award that year for "Best New Artist." Since then, he has received another Grammy, garnered ten additional nominations and released 67 albums. Richard Wagner   Date Born: Saturday 22 May 1813   Description: Composer, conductor, music theorist, Germany   Summary: He was the ninth child of Carl Friedrich Wagner, who was a clerk in the Leipzig police service. Sir Laurence Olivier   Date Born: Wednesday 22 May 1907   Description: Actor, Director, and Producer, UK   Summary: Born to Gerard Kerr Olivier 1869–1939, a High Anglican priest. His mother, Agnes Louise 1871–1920. Sun Ra   Date Born: Friday 22 May 1914   Description: Pianist. USA   Summary: He was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher Susan Strasberg   Date Born: Sunday 22 May 1938   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Strasberg, a Jewish American, was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of theatre director and drama coach Lee Strasberg and former actress Paula Strasberg. Anne-marie David   Date Born: Friday 23 May 1952   Description: Vocalist, France   Summary: In 1972, she was cast in the role of Mary Magdalene in the French production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Artie Shaw   Date Born: Monday 23 May 1910   Description: Clarinetist, USA   Summary: Shaw made several musical shorts in 1939 for Vitaphone and Paramount Pictures, and he portrayed himself in the Fred Astaire film Second Chorus (1940), Artie Shaw   Date Born: Monday 23 May 1910   Description: Clarinetist, USA   Summary: Shaw made several musical shorts in 1939 for Vitaphone and Paramount Pictures, and he portrayed himself in the Fred Astaire film Second Chorus (1940), Billy Wright   Date Born: Thursday 23 May 1918   Description: Vocalist,USA   Summary: He charted with songs such as ’Hey Little Girl’ etc in the early fifties. Charlie Hunter   Date Born: Tuesday 23 May 1967   Description: Guitarist, composer and bandleader, USA   Summary: First coming to prominence in the early 1990s, Hunter has recorded 17 albums. Hunter plays custom-made seven and eight-string guitars, on which he simultaneously plays basslines, rhythm guitar, and solos. Critic Sean Westergaard describes Hunter's guitar technique as "mind-boggling ... he's an agile improviser with an ear for great tone, and always has excellent players alongside him in order to make great music, not to show off." Douglas Fairbanks Sr   Date Born: Wednesday 23 May 1883   Description: Actor USA   Summary: Fairbanks signed a contract with Triangle Pictures in 1915 and began working under the supervision of D.W. Griffith. Fred Wedlock   Date Born: Saturday 23 May 1942   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: In early 1981 "The Oldest Swinger in Town", reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart. General Norman Johnson   Date Born: Friday 23 May 1941   Description: Singer songwriter, record producer, USA   Summary: An American the frontman of Chairmen of the Board and an American rhythm and blues songwriter and record producer. Humphrey Lyttleton   Date Born: Monday 23 May 1921   Description: Trumpeter, Composer, UK   Summary: He is reported to have turned down a knighthood in 1995. Jewel   Date Born: Thursday 23 May 1974   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: She has received three Grammy Award nominations and has sold 27 million albums worldwide. Joan Collins   Date Born: Tuesday 23 May 1933   Description: Actress UK   Summary: Collins was popular as a magazine pin-up in the UK throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, with cover appearances on titles such as Span and 66. Michel Colombier   Date Born: Tuesday 23 May 1939   Description: Pianist, Composer, songwriter, arranger, and conductor.   Summary: He collaborated with some of the artists in his native France including Charles Aznavour, Brigitte Fontaine,and Stephane Grappelli. Mindi Abair   Date Born: Friday 23 May 1969   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: In 1999 she independently released a pop album, Always and Never the Same. Pat Alexander   Date Born: Sunday 23 May 1937   Description: Song Writer, Australia   Summary: Mainly known for the wiritng the hit song "DUNKEN", recorded by Slim Dusty. Rick Fenn   Date Born: Saturday 23 May 1953   Description: Guitarist, Composer, UK   Summary: He went on to form a writing partnership with Pete Howarth, now the lead singer with the Hollies. Robert Blackwell   Date Born: Tuesday 23 May 1922   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: Known for his work overseeing the early hits of Little Richard, as well as grooming Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke Robert Moog   Date Born: Wednesday 23 May 1934   Description: American pioneer of electronic music,   Summary: ELECTRONIC SYNTHESISER - It was created in 1963. His contribution to music gave it a new soundscape. Rosemary Clooney   Date Born: Wednesday 23 May 1928   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She was most popular singing traditional pop music in the 1940s and 1950s with songs like "Come On-a My House". Andy Lee   Date Born: Sunday 24 May 1981   Description: Comedian, Australia   Summary: An Australian comedian and musician. He usually works alongside Hamish Blake as part of the comedy duo Hamish & Andy. Archie Shepp   Date Born: Monday 24 May 1937   Description: Saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader - U.S.A.   Summary: Shepp a Tenor Sax player worked with John Colrtane,Cecil Taylor. Beginning in 1971, Shepp began a 30-year career as a professor of music at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Bob Dylan   Date Born: Saturday 24 May 1941   Description: Vocalist. Composer, USA   Summary: Born in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised there and in Minnesota, on the Mesabi Iron Range west of Lake Superior. Dylan’s biography has shown that his paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in Russian Empire to the United States in 1905. Derek Quinn   Date Born: Sunday 24 May 1942   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Born in Manchester, England and Member of "Freddie and The Dreamers" Dezo Hoffmann   Date Born: Friday 24 May 1912   Description: Photographer, Hungry   Summary: He earned international acclaim in the 1960s, shooting photographs of well known pop and showbiz personalities, such as The Beatles Edo Castro   Date Born: Friday 24 May 1957   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: Edo was first exposed to and smitten by the sounds of Vince Giraldi, Hugh Masekela, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Ramsey Lewis and Paul Desmond. Heavy D   Date Born: Wednesday 24 May 1967   Description: Rapper, singer, songwriter, USA   Summary: Heavy D & the Boyz were the first group signed to Uptown Records; their debut, Living Large, was released in 1987. Heavy D And The Boyz   Date Born: Wednesday 24 May 1967   Description: Vocal Group, USA   Summary: An American Hip Hop group formed in the nineties. Priscilla Presley   Date Born: Thursday 24 May 1945   Description: Actress, Singer, Dancer, USA   Summary: Born in Brooklyn, NY, the daughter of Anna Lillian and James Frederick Wagner. Her biological father, a U.S. Air Force pilot, was killed in a plane crash when Priscilla was an infant. Her mother then married Paul Beaulieu, also a United States Air Force officer. Beaulieu took over the raising of Priscilla and is known as her father. Rosanne Cash   Date Born: Tuesday 24 May 1955   Description: Singer - USA   Summary: Cash was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1955, just as father Johnny was recording his first tracks at Sun Records. Sarah Dash   Date Born: Sunday 24 May 1942   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Dash's most experimental musical endeavor was the recording she made on the Rap record, Satisfaction, for High Fidelity Three in 1985. Steve Upton   Date Born: Friday 24 May 1946   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Upton, who is left-handed, is one of the first drummers to sport the open handed drumming. Terry Callier   Date Born: Thursday 24 May 1945   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: He learned piano, was a childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, Major Lance and Jerry Butler, and began singing in doo-wop groups in his teens. Tommy Page   Date Born: Sunday 24 May 1970   Description: Vocalist, Songwriter, USA   Summary: Known for his 1990 hit single, "I'll Be Your Everything." Waddy Wachtel   Date Born: Saturday 24 May 1947   Description: Guitarist, songwriter, producer, USA   Summary: American multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer, most notable for his guitar work. Anne Heche   Date Born: Sunday 25 May 1969   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Heche was born the daughter of Nancy and Donald Heche. Her father was an organist, church founder, Baptist minister, and choir director. Berni Flint   Date Born: Sunday 25 May 1952   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: A singer and songwriter who holds the record for the longest continuous run of wins on the ITV talent show, Opportunity Knocks. Bill Robinson   Date Born: Saturday 25 May 1878   Description: Dancer, actor   Summary: Better known today for his dancing with Shirley Temple in a series of films during the 1930s. Billy Murray   Date Born: Friday 25 May 1877   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of immigrants from Ireland. He became fascinated with the theater and joined a traveling vaudeville troupe in 1893. Brian Davison   Date Born: Monday 25 May 1942   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: The band "Nice" was formed in 1967 lasting two and a half years. Brian Davison   Date Born: Monday 25 May 1942   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: The band "Nice" was formed in 1967 lasting two and a half years. Christine Evans   Date Born: Friday 25 May 1990   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Canada   Summary: An edited version of the hit "Take Me Home" video was used in a national commercial for Kids Help Phone for which she is an "artist ambassador". Claude Akins   Date Born: Saturday 25 May 1918   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: One of many actors one knew on the screen but could not put a name to it. Akins was popular in many films as supprt and later TV roles came his way. Frank Oz   Date Born: Thursday 25 May 1944   Description: Actor, Director, UK   Summary: Oz is mainly known for the creation of "THE MUPPETS" with Jim Henson and "SESAME STREET". Hal David   Date Born: Wednesday 25 May 1921   Description: Composer, Lyricist, USA   Summary: Hal David would be to most musicians the perfect writer of words in the 20th Century, Collaboration with Burt Bacharach. Humphrey Bate   Date Born: Tuesday 25 May 1875   Description: Band, USA   Summary: Bate and his band, which had been given the name "Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters" by Opry founder George D. Hay, remained regulars on the Grand Ole Opry until Bate's death in 1936. Ian Mckellen   Date Born: Thursday 25 May 1939   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: He has won multiple Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. Jacki Weaver   Date Born: Sunday 25 May 1947   Description: Actress, Australia   Summary: Jacki Weaver has probably got one of the the best known female faces on Australian tv. Jeanne Crain   Date Born: Monday 25 May 1925   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Crain first attracted attention when she was crowned Miss Pan Pacific at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles. Jessi Colter   Date Born: Tuesday 25 May 1943   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Her mother was a Pentecostal preacher and her father was a racecar driver. John Grimaldi   Date Born: Wednesday 25 May 1955   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, GB Kitty Kallen   Date Born: Monday 25 May 1925   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Kitty Kallen was singing on radio at the age of 12 and by 15 was on tour with Jack Teagarden and his band. Larry Rosen   Date Born: Saturday 25 May 1940   Description: American entrepreneur, producer, musician, and recording engineer   Summary: Rosen began his musical career as a drummer with the Newport Youth Band and met future partner Dave Grusin while working with singer Andy Williams Lauryn Hill   Date Born: Sunday 25 May 1975   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: At thirteen Hill sang at the Apollo Theater. Leslie Uggams   Date Born: Tuesday 25 May 1943   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: Early in 2009, Uggams made an appearance as the jazz singer Lena Horne in a production of the stage musical Stormy Weather at the Pasadena Playhouse in California Mike Myers   Date Born: Saturday 25 May 1963   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Both of his parents are from Liverpool, England. He has two older brothers, Peter and Paul Myers, the latter of whom is an indie rock singer-songwriter, broadcaster and author. Miles Davis   Date Born: Tuesday 25 May 1926   Description: Trumpeter   Summary: Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: Norman Petty   Date Born: Wednesday 25 May 1927   Description: Musician, Songwriter, Record Producer   Summary: Petty served as Buddy Holly's recording engineer and also as his first manager and producer until late 1958. Their split came over differences in Petty's wanting co-writer credit in Holly's songs. Paul Weller   Date Born: Sunday 25 May 1958   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, GB   Summary: Weller first burst onto the national music scene in 1977 with his first band, The Jam.In 1983, The Jam broke The Beatles' record of seven singles in the Top 100 simultaneously. Poli Palmer   Date Born: Tuesday 25 May 1943   Description: Vocalist, Keyboardist   Summary: Mainly known as member of 'Family' formed in the midlands in England with friend Jim King. Tom T Hall   Date Born: Monday 25 May 1936   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: One of his earliest successful songwriting ventures, "Harper Valley PTA," was recorded in 1968 by Jeannie C. Riley, sold over six million copies, and won both a Grammy Award and CMA award. Wallace Roney   Date Born: Wednesday 25 May 1960   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: He took lessons from jazz giants such as Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie Waxie Maxie Silverman   Date Born: Wednesday 25 May 1910   Description: Promoter, Manager, USA   Summary: Max Silverman was a DJ in Washington and also the manager of ’The Clovers’ Wee Willie Harris   Date Born: Thursday 25 May 1933   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: He began performing at The 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho, London, where he was the resident piano player. Al Jolson   Date Born: Wednesday 26 May 1886   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Yoelson was born in Lithuania, as the fourth child to Jewish Cantor Moses Reuben Yoelson and his wife Naomi. Among Asa's siblings were sister, and oldest child, Rose, sister Etta, older brother Hirsch, a sister who died in infancy. With the oppression against Jews that occurred in the Czarist Russian Empire, Cantor Yoelson like many other of his fellow countrymen set his sights on America. Alan White - Oasis   Date Born: Sunday 26 May 1935   Description: Drummer, UK (Oasis)   Summary: Not to be confused with "Yes" drummer of the same name. Bernard Vitet   Date Born: Saturday 26 May 1934   Description: Trumpeter, France   Summary: Vitet invented instruments such as a reed trumpet, a multiphonic French horn, a variable tension double-bass. Chris Eccleshall - Guitars   Date Born: Wednesday 26 May 1948   Description: Manufactures classical guitars,and Guitarist, Gary Peterson   Date Born: Saturday 26 May 1945   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Drummer for the Canadian rock band, The Guess Who, ever since its inception in the mid-1960s. George Formby Jr   Date Born: Thursday 26 May 1904   Description: Vocalist, Composer , Ukulele, UK   Summary: George was born at 3 Westminster Street,Lancashire, the eldest of seven surviving children, four girls and three boys. His father James Booth was George Formby, Sr. 1875-1921 one of the great music hall comedians of his day. Fully the equal of his son's later success. Hank Williams Jr.   Date Born: Thursday 26 May 1949   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: The son of country music pioneer Hank Williams, he is the father of Hank Williams III, Holly Williams, Hillary Williams, Samuel, and Katie Williams. James Arness   Date Born: Saturday 26 May 1923   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Arness is the older brother of actor Peter Graves. He was the tallest actor ever to play a lead role, standing 6'7". John Wayne   Date Born: Sunday 26 May 1907   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Wayne was born in Iowa. His family was Presbyterian. His father, Clyde Leonard Morrison, was of Irish and Scots-Irish and English descent and Wayne's mother, Mary Alberta Brown, was also of Irish descent. Kristen Maria Pfaff   Date Born: Friday 26 May 1967   Description: Bassist, Vocalist. USA   Summary: Pfaff was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, attending Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart. She studied classical piano and cello. Lenny Kravitz   Date Born: Tuesday 26 May 1964   Description: Guitarist,Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger   Summary: Kravitz was born the son of Roxie Roker, an actress known for her character Helen Willis in the 1970s hit television sitcom The Jeffersons, and Sy Kravitz, an NBC television news producer. Levon Helm   Date Born: Tuesday 26 May 1942   Description: Drums, USA   Summary: Helm was born in Arkansas and grew up in Turkey Scratch, a hamlet west of Helena, Arkansas where he began playing the guitar at the age of eight. Lloyd Parks   Date Born: Wednesday 26 May 1948   Description: Vocalist, Bassist, Jamaica Lucky Grills   Date Born: Saturday 26 May 1928   Description: Actress, Comedian, Australian   Summary: Leo Grills, known professionally as Lucky Grills was an Australian actor and comedian. Born in Hobart, Tasmania. Mamie Smith   Date Born: Saturday 26 May 1883   Description: Vocalist, Dancer, Actress, USA   Summary: She entered blues history by being the first African American to make vocal blues recordings in 1920.She was billed as "The Queen of the Blues". Margaret Colin   Date Born: Saturday 26 May 1956   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Since 2007, Colin has played Eleanor Waldorf, mother of Blair Waldorf, on the television show Gossip Girl. In the pilot episode, Eleanor was played by OLTL actress Florencia Lozano. Mick Ronson   Date Born: Thursday 26 May 1949   Description: Guitarist, Composer, Producer, UK   Summary: Ronson is probably known for his Glam Rock days with David Bowie during the seventies. Throughout his career with Bowie, Ronson used a 1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom "Black Beauty". Peggy Lee   Date Born: Wednesday 26 May 1920   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: The youngest child of seven, Lee found music to provide an escape from the abusive rampages of her cruel stepmother, Min, who tormented and beat young Norma. Peter Cushing   Date Born: Monday 26 May 1913   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: Cushing was born the son of Nellie Marie King and George Edward Cushing. He was raised there and in Dulwich, South London. Peter Miller   Date Born: Tuesday 26 May 1942   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, UK   Summary: He has toured with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and most of the rest of the British Invasion. Ray Ennis   Date Born: Friday 26 May 1944   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist   Summary: Liverpool's "The Swinging Blue Jeans" have been described as having stayed the most faithful to their original sound. Robert Morley   Date Born: Tuesday 26 May 1908   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: Morley attended Elizabeth College, Guernsey, RADA and made his West End stage debut in 1929 in Treasure Island at the Strand Theatre and his Broadway debut in 1938 in the title role of Oscar Wilde at the Fulton Theatre. Ruben Gonzales (pianist)   Date Born: Monday 26 May 1919   Description: Pianist, Cuba   Summary: Between 1957 and 1961, he worked in Venezuela. Soon he became known in Cuba and other parts of Latin America. Stevie Nicks   Date Born: Wednesday 26 May 1948   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Nicks was born to Jess and Barbara Nicks in Phoenix, Arizona. Her mother fostered in her a love for fairy tales, while her grandfather, a struggling country singer, began teaching her to sing at the age of four. Verden Allen   Date Born: Friday 26 May 1944   Description: Keyboardist, UK   Summary: Founding member of 1970s rock band, Mott the Hoople. He left Mott after their breakthrough 1972 album, All the Young Dudes. Wayne Hussey   Date Born: Monday 26 May 1958   Description: Vocals, Guitarist,UK   Summary: In the studio he uses both a Fender Telecaster and Starcaster. Albert Nicholas   Date Born: Sunday 27 May 1900   Description: Clarinetist, USA   Summary: Albert Nicholas was the most technically accomplished Clarinetist. Allan Carr   Date Born: Thursday 27 May 1937   Description: Producer, screenwriter, USA   Summary: American producer and manager of stage and screen. Carr was nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year Christopher Lee   Date Born: Saturday 27 May 1922   Description: Actor, UK   Summary: He was knighted in 2009 and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011. Diz Dizley   Date Born: Wednesday 27 May 1931   Description: Guitarist, Canada   Summary: He is best known for his jazz guitar playing, strongly influenced by Django Reinhardt. Isadora Duncan   Date Born: Sunday 27 May 1877   Description: Dancer, USA   Summary: John Lennon sings "Isadora Duncan works at telefuncanin" on the album "Let It Be" inserted on the record. Lisa Lopes   Date Born: Thursday 27 May 1971   Description: Rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, USA   Summary: TLC started off as a female trio called Second Nature. The group was renamed TLC — derived from the first initials of its then three members — Tionne, Lisa and Crystal. Mal Evans   Date Born: Monday 27 May 1935   Description: Manager, Personal assistant, Record producer   Summary: Evans appeared in three (out of five) Beatles' films. In Help!, Evans played a confused channel swimmer who pops up through an ice-hole in Austria, and on a beach in the Bahamas. Neil Finn   Date Born: Tuesday 27 May 1958   Description: Voalist,Composer, guitar, ukulele, mandolin, keyboards   Summary: Finn has contributed solo music to various film and TV soundtracks including Rain, Boston Legal, Boston Public, The Waiting Game, Antz, and Sports Night. Peri Gilpen   Date Born: Saturday 27 May 1961   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Born in Waco, Texas, Peri Gilpin grew up in Dallas, where her family encouraged her acting abilities. After studying at the Dallas Theater Center, she pursued acting at the University of Texas at Austin and then at London's British-American Academy. Peri Gilpin   Date Born: Saturday 27 May 1961   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: She has received a Gracie Award in the category of "Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama Series" for her performance in the ABC Family drama Make It or Break It. Ramsey Lewis   Date Born: Monday 27 May 1935   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received five gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career. Stan Coster   Date Born: Tuesday 27 May 1930   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Stan Coster copositions produced 161 titles, from age 25 in 1956 to the end of his life. Stan introduced his writing to Slim Dusty. Billy Vera   Date Born: Sunday 28 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Vera began his singing career in 1962 as a member of the Resolutions. He went on to write several songs throughout the early 1960s, writing for the likes of Barbara Lewis and Ricky Nelson. Carroll Baker   Date Born: Thursday 28 May 1931   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Virginia and William Watson Baker, who was a traveling salesman. Colbie Caillat   Date Born: Tuesday 28 May 1985   Description: Singer Songwriter, Guitarist, Pianist   Summary: Caillat is noted for her good looks, freshness and good music for all.Her father, Ken Caillat, co-produced Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Tusk albums. Elisabeth Hasselbeck   Date Born: Saturday 28 May 1977   Description: Television host Gary Stewart   Date Born: Sunday 28 May 1944   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: "Out of Hand," the title cut from the album, became a #4 country hit and was followed by number one hit "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)." Gladys Knight   Date Born: Sunday 28 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   Summary: Gladys Knight was born to Merald Woodlow Knight and Sarah Elizabeth Woods. She first achieved minor fame by winning Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour TV show contest at the age of 7 in 1951. John Fogerty   Date Born: Monday 28 May 1945   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, USA   Summary: Mainly known for his time with the swamp rock or roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. Kylie Minogue   Date Born: Tuesday 28 May 1968   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Australia   Summary: Kylie Minogue was born in Melbourne, Australia, the first child of Ron Minogue, an accountant of Irish ancestry, and Carol Jones, a former dancer from Maesteg, Wales. Leland Sklar   Date Born: Wednesday 28 May 1947   Description: Singer-songwriter, Bassist, Film score composer, Session musician   Summary: An American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. Myrna Smith   Date Born: Wednesday 28 May 1941   Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   Summary: A member of the Sweet Inspirations, which previously served as Elvis Presley's backing group. Papa John Creach   Date Born: Monday 28 May 1917   Description: Fiddle player, USA   Summary: In 1992, he became one of the original members of Jefferson Starship. Prince Buster   Date Born: Sunday 28 May 1939   Description: Vocalist, Producer, Composer, Kingston, Jamaica   Summary: Campbell was born into a working-class family in Kingston as a son of a train driver. He grew up in one of the city's toughest neighborhoods. Ray Laidlaw   Date Born: Friday 28 May 1948   Description: Drummer, UK   Summary: Member of sixties band from UK "LINDISFARNE" The group formed in 1969 in the UK. Rita Macneil   Date Born: Sunday 28 May 1944   Description: Vocalist, Canada Russ Freeman   Date Born: Friday 28 May 1926   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Freeman was classically trained. His reputation as a jazz pianist grew in the 1940s after working with Art Pepper & Shorty Rogers, and led to collaborations in the 1950s with Chet Baker Stacy Sutherland   Date Born: Tuesday 28 May 1946   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: An American Guitarist and member of "THE 13TH FLOOR" Thad Jones   Date Born: Monday 28 May 1923   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: Grew up in Detroit, formed own Orchestra, also played with the ’Count Basie Orchestra’ Tommy Ladnier   Date Born: Monday 28 May 1900   Description: Trumpeter, Writer, USA   Summary: He was influenced by early New Orleans trumpet/cornet players Bunk Johnson and Joe "King" Oliver. Tommy Landier   Date Born: Monday 28 May 1900   Description: Trumpeter. Clarinetist/writer, USA   Summary: In the 1930s Ladnier co-led a band with Sidney Bechet called The New Orleans Feetwarmers. Wendy O Williams   Date Born: Saturday 28 May 1949   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Williams was born in Webster, New York. She attended R.L. Thomas High School in Webster at least partway through the tenth grade, but apparently left school before graduating. Annette Bening   Date Born: Thursday 29 May 1958   Description: Actress, USA   Summary: Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley, a church singer and soloist, and Grant Bening, a sales training consultant and insurance salesman. Her parents, natives of Iowa. Bob Hope   Date Born: Friday 29 May 1903   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Bob Hope was born in England, the fifth of seven sons. His English father, William Henry Hope, was a stonemason and his Welsh mother, Avis Townes, was a light opera singer who later had to find work as a cleaning woman. Danny Davis   Date Born: Friday 29 May 1925   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: In his career as a record producer Davis worked with a wide variety of artists, from Nina Simone etc. A Grammy winner in 1970. Danny Elfman   Date Born: Friday 29 May 1953   Description: Composer, Singer, Record producer, Actor, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Elfman was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2002 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Dick Hafer   Date Born: Sunday 29 May 1927   Description: Clarinetist, Saxophone, USA   Summary: Hafer began playing clarinet at age seven and switched to tenor sax in high school. Dick Stable   Date Born: Saturday 29 May 1909   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: After the war he moved to Los Angeles, where he began working with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis from 1949 up to his death. Enrich Wolfgang Korngold   Date Born: Sunday 29 May 1887   Description: Composer of music, USA   Summary: Korngold wrote his first orchestral score, the Schauspiel Ouverture when he was 14. YOUTUBE: Music composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold .