May 23rd
Holidays and Festivals
Labour Day (Jamaica)
Statehood Day (South Carolina)
Lucky Penny Day a.k.a. Penny Day
La Ceiba in Honduras
Declaration of the Bab Day (Bahai Faith)
Birthday of Guru Amar Das (Sikhism)
National Taffy Day
Tiara Day
World Turtle Day
Feast of Aaron the Illustrious in the Syriac (Orthodox Church)
Feast of Desiderius of Vienne
Feast of Saint Guibert of Gemblours
Feast of Sts. Quintian, Lucius and Julian
Toast of The Day
"A man takes a drink;
the drink takes a drink;
the drink takes the man."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Ruby Tuesday
209 Gin
Rhubarb Syrup
Lemon Juice
Shake and fine-strain into a Flute. Top with sparkling wine and garnish with a Rhubarb Spear.
Wine of The Day
Heritage Station (2007) Chambourcin
Style - Chambourcin
Outer Coastal Plain
$25
Beer of The Day
Zonker Stout
Brewer - Snake River Brewing Jackson, WY
Style - Stout
Joke of The Day
A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, “This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.” The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, “Which do you want, son?” The boy takes the quarters and leaves. “What did I tell you?” said the barber. “That kid never learns!” Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. “Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?” The boy licked his cone and replied, “Because the day I take the dollar, he'll stop giving me money!”
Quote of The Day
"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."
- M. Scott Peck (May 23rd, 1936 – September 25th, 2005), an American psychiatrist and author.
May Observances
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease) Awareness Month
APS (Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome) Awareness Month
American Wetlands Month
Arthritis Awareness Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Awareness of Medical Orphans Month
Bicycle Safety Month
Borderline Personality Disorder Month
Brain Tumor Awareness Month
Carrots and Cauliflower Month
Celiac Awareness Month
Clean Air Month
Community Living Month (Ontario, Canada)
Creative Beginnings Month
Date Your Mate Month
EcoDriving Month
Family Wellness Month
Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
Freedom Shrine Month
Gardening for Wildlife Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Gifts From The Garden Month
Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month
Good Car-Keeping Month, Natl
Grapefruit and Kiwi Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Heal the Children Month
Healthy Vision Month
High Blood Pressure Education Mont
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
Internal Audit Awareness Month, Intl
International Audit Month
International Business Image Improvement Month
International Civility Awareness Month
International Multiple Sclerosis Month
International Victorious Woman Month
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Latino Books Month
(World) Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
National Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month
National Arthritis Month
National Barbecue Month
National Better Hearing and Speach Month
National Bike Month
National Blood Pressure Month
National Cancer Research Month
National Correct Posture Month
National Egg Month
National Electric Safety Month
National Family Month (5/12 to 6/16)
National Foster Care Month
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Hamburger Month
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
National Lupus Awareness Month
National Meditation Month
National Mediterranean Diet Month
National Mental Health Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Motorcycle Safety Month
National Moving Month
National Neurofibromatosis (NF) Awareness Month
National Older Americans Month
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Photograph Month
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
National Physiotherapy Month
National Prepare To Buy a Home Month
National Preservation Month
National Recommitment Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa (Food) Month
National Smile Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Sweet Vidalia Onions Month
National Teen Self-Esteem Month
National Tuberous Sclerosis Month
National Vinegar Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
National Youth Traffic Safety Month
Personal History Month
Potatoes and Limes Month
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month (5/12-6/16)
REACT Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sweet Vidalia Month, Natl
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Awareness Month
Teen CEO Month
Teen Self Esteem Month
Tennis Month
Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month (5/15 - 6/15)
Toxic Encephalopathy and Chemical Injury Awareness Month
Ultra-violet Awareness Month
Women's Health Care Month
Young Achiever Month
Young Achievers of Tomorrow Month
Observances this Week
National Dog Bite Prevention Week, Third Full Week in MayNational Educational Bosses' Week, Third Full Week of May
National New Friends, Old Friends Week, Third Full Week in May
National Bike to Work Week, Third Full Week in May
National Bike Week (USA), Third Full Week in May
National Medical Transcription Week, Third Full Week in May
National Backyard Games Week, Third Full Week in May
International Coaching Week, Third Full Week in May (Moved from February in 2013) World Trade Week, 12 Days Starting Second Monday in May
Recreational Water Illness and Injury Prevention Week, Week before Memorial Day
National Safe Boating Week, 7 Days ending the last Friday before Memorial Day
Old-Time Player Piano Weekend, Thursday to Sunday before Memorial Day
Mudbug Madness Week, Thursday to Last Sunday in May
Historical Events on May 23rd
1059 Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France
1275 King Edward I of Engld orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 Jews of Syria & Austria imprisoned & expelled
1430 Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians at the Siege of Compiègne while leading an army to relieve Compiègne, later sold to the British.
1493 King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis
1498 Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
1533 The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1536 Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition
1544 German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark
1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
1568 Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat ,
1568 Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg (Spanish) and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, 100s killed opening the Eighty Years' War.
1568 The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
1609 Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1611 Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia
1618 The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War, Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle.
1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
1660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
1667 King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
1701 After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
1706 Battle of Ramillies - John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi, 17,000 killed.
1750 Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo," premieres in Mantua
1774 Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
1805 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.
1813 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
1829 Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna.
1844 Declaration of the Báb, a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day ('Azamat 7, 1).
1846 Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1861 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia
1861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
1862 Battle at Front Royal, Virginia
1862 Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia
1863 Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in the American Civil War.
1863 Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1863 The Siege of Port Hudson takes place.
1864 Battle of Dallas, GA
1864 Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting
1865 Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review)
1865 Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
1865 Grand Review begins in Washington DC
1867 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1873 1st Preakness, G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43
1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms
1873 Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time
1873 The Canadian Parliament establishes the North West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1876 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
1878 Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
1882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
1883 9th Kentucky Derby, William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43
1883 Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players
1884 12th Preakness, S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39.5
1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
1894 William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
1898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
1900 Associated Press News Service forms in NY
1901 35th Belmont, H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21
1901 Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1901 US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
1903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
1907 The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
1908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash
1911 The New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue is dedicated by Pres Taft.
1915 Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary, World War I.
1916 Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
1922 Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1923 1st flight of Sabena, Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1923 Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline.
1926 Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard
1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
1929 The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
1932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
1934 American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
1934 The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)
1939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939 Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1939 Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
1941 Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5)
1943 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy
1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
1944 Operation-Buffalo, Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead
1944 Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941
1945 British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz
1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
1945 Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM
1945 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison while in Allied custody.
1945 The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
1948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
1949 The Federal Republic of (West) Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed (Republic Day).
1951 Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London
1951 Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China.
1953 79th Preakness, Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
1953 WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers
1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF
1958 Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1958 Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
1958 Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1959 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 perfs
1959 Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
1960 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
1960 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
1960 Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann had been captured in Argentina.
1960 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
1960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
1962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
1962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life
1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria
1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
1966 Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
1967 Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War.
1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa
1968 AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam
1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
1969 Who release rock opera "Tommy"
1970 A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
1970 Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England)
1970 SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale
1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
1976 Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic
1977 Benin adopts its constitution
1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1977 Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
1978 AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M
1978 General strike in Peru
1979 "Kids Are All Right" premieres
1979 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
1979 Borussia Minchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf
1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
1980 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501
1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
1982 Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
1982 Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine
1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1984 Anderlecht wins 13th UEFA Cup at London
1984 Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game
1986 US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
1989 3rd American Comedy Award, Paula Poundstone
1989 Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
1989 Cleve loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East)
1989 Lincoln Square in Bronx named
1990 A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna
1990 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
1990 NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0
1991 Last Cubans troops leave Angola
1991 Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0
1991 San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
1991 US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
1992 NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
1992 Pres Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1993 Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1994 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia
1994 Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
1994 Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
1995 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
1995 In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded following the Oklahoma City bombing.
1995 The first version of the Java programming language is released.
1996 Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric
1997 "King David," closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
1997 Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
2002 The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2003 The euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits $1.18 for the first time since its introduction in 1999.
2004 Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
2005 The fastest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure.
2006 Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts
2007 Milan beats Liverpool 2-1 at Athens in the 15th UEFA Champions League Final
2008 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries
2010 Chicago Black Hawks beat San Jose Sharks, 4 games to 0 in the NHL Western Conference Finals
2010 "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins the Palme d'Or at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival
2013 Patrick Roy is named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche, his former team where he won two Stanley Cups
2014 Russia and China veto the U.N. Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria
2015 60th Eurovision Song Contest: Mans Zelmerlow for Sweden wins singing "Heroes" in Vienna
2016 Chinese archaeologists announce findings of earliest use of barley in China to make beer, Shaanxi province 3400-2900 BC
Born on May 23rd
1052 King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1100 Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
1598 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized
1606 Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
1617 Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)
1620 Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized
1644 Thomas Eisenhut, composer
1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
1707 Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, biological classifier (d. 1778)
1710 Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures)
1718 William Hunter, Scottish anatomist, obstetrician (d. 1783)
1729 Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest, poet (Il Giorno) (d. 1799)
1734 Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician, hypnotist (Mesmerism) (d. 1815)
1735 Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author
1737 Louis Francois Chambray, composer
1741 Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1801)
1753 Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer
1754 Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon)
1756 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer
1759 Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
1790 Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
1794 Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso
1794 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer
1795 Charles Barry , English architect (d. 1860)
1799 Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)
1810 Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
1812 Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles)
1813 Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1820 James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (Eads Bridge-St Louis) and inventor (d. 1887)
1820 Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891)
1824 Ambrose (Everett) Burnside, American Union Civil War general (Union volunteers) (d. 1881)
1828 Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)
1832 Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer
1834 Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
1837 James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) (d. 1892)
1843 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
1844 Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)
1848 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WW I)
1848 Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d. 1896)
1851 Antoni Stolpe, composer
1855 Isabella Ford, English socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (d. 1924)
1862 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99
1864 Louis Glass, composer
1865 Epitácio Pessoa, 11th President of Brazil (d. 1942)
1866 Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist
1871 Sigurd Lie, composer
1873 Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)
1875 Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
1879 Dezso Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
1882 James Gleason, NYC, writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool)
1883 Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood) (d. 1939)
1884 Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
1887 Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
1888 Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired)
1888 Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1889 Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
1890 Herbert Marshall, English actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes) (d. 1966)
1890 Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer
1891 Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974)
1893 Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
1895 Billy Smith English Footballer. (d. 1956)
1896 Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
1898 Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young)
1898 Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway (d. 1945)
1898 Joseph Hazen, lawyer
1898 Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
1900 Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
1901 Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23]
1902 Mark Lothar, composer
1903 Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
1906 General P.N. Thapar, 5th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army (d. 1975)
1906 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer
1907 Kenneth Allen, engineer
1907 Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant
1908 Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (d. 1934)
1908 John Bardeen, American physicist(transistor) (Nobel laureate 1956, 1972) (d. 1991)
1908 Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building)
1909 Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat
1910 Artie Shaw (Arthur Arshawsky), American clarinetist and bandleader (Come'on my House) (d. 2004)
1910 Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
1910 Hugh Casson CH, architect
1910 Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
1910 Scatman Crothers (Benjamin), American actor (Zapped, Shining) and musician (d. 1986)
1910 Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and painter (d. 1999)
1911 Boris Kremenliev, composer
1911 Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society)
1912 Betty Astell, English actress (d. 2005)
1912 David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England)
1912 Jean Françaix, French composer (d. 1997)
1912 John Payne, American actor (Restless Gun) (d. 1989)
1912 Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust)
1912 Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University)
1913 Ian Graeme, major-general
1913 Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican singer
1914 Alec Dickson, founder (VSO)
1914 Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth)
1914 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine)
1914 Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher
1915 Clyde Wiegand, physicist
1916 M Jean Francaix, composer
1916 Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright (living legacy award 1995)
1917 Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
1918 Bulent Arel, composer
1918 Bumps Blackwell, rocker
1918 Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
1919 Betty Garrett, American actress (Irene-All in the Family) and dancer
1919 Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary
1919 Ruth Fernandez, Ponce, Puerto Rico, singer (When you Return), politician, (d. 2012)
1920 Helen O'Connell, American singer (Green Eyes, Anapola) (d. 1993)
1920 Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)
1921 Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician and actor (It's Great to Be Young) (d. 2008)
1921 James [Benjamin] Blish, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader) (d. 1975)
1921 Loren Tindall, OK, actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost)
1921 Montague Modlyn, broadcaster
1921 Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
1922 Dennis Compton, author/crickleter
1923 Alicia de Larrocha, Dannish pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
1923 Nirode Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52)
1923 Walter Wolfrum, German fighter pilot
1924 Desmond Carrington, British radio host (Jim-Calamity the Cow)
1924 Karlheinz Deschner, German researcher and writer
1924 Michael McCrum, master (Corpus Christi College Cambridge)
1924 V N Swamy, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1955, DNB, 0-45)
1925 Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1925 Mac Wiseman, American musician
1928 Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian
1928 Nigel Davenport, English actor (Without a Clue, Masada)
1928 Nina Otkalenko, USSR, 800m runner (9 world records)
1928 Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
1928 Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1929 Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965)
1929 Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness) (d. 1982)
1930 Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
1930 Richard Anuszkiewicz, Erie, Pa, painter
1931 Barbara Barrie, American actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller)
1932 James Lester, MP
1932 John Lyons, Cambridge England, Master (Trinity Hall)
1933 Bruce A Peterson, US test pilot (M2, HL-10)
1933 Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture & land & fishing (CDA)
1933 Joan Collins, English actress
1933 Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress (Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch)
1934 Malcolm Gill, deputy head (Bank for Intl Settlements)
1934 Robert A Moog, American inventor (Moog Synthesizer) (d. 2005)
1935 Juliet Campbell, British ambassador (to Luxembourg)
1935 Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (d. 2009)
1935 Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank
1936 Charles Kimbrough, American actor (Murphy Brown)
1936 Douglas John Gorman, businessman
1936 Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
1936 Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer
1937 John Mazza, horse trainer
1938 John R Miller, (Rep-R-WA, 1985)
1938 Peter Preston, English journalist, author, editor (Guardian)
1939 Jack McCarthy, American poet
1939 Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1939 Reinhard Hauff, German film director
1939 Ron Stevens, horse trainer
1940 Giles Gordon, Scottish literary agent (d. 2003)
1941 Jackson Hill, composer
1942 Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
1942 K. Raghavendra Rao, Indian film director
1942 Zalman King, Trenton, New Jersey, actor and director (Wild Orchid), (d. 2012)
1943 Alan Walden, American manager, publisher, promoter, and booking agent (Outlaws and September Hase)
1943 Norman Johnson, American singer (Chairmen of the Board, Down at the Beach Club)
1943 John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71)
1943 Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat
1943 Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands
1943 Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
1944 Giles Smith, TV journalist
1944 John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
1944 Olga Maitland, MP
1944 Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep)
1945 Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire
1945 Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best)
1945 Misty Morgan, country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard)
1945 Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991)
1946 Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
1946 H. Paul Shuch, American SETI scientist
1946 Tom Dorris, horse trainer
1947 Ann Hui, Hong Kong film director (Boat People)
1947 Bernard Comrie, English linguist
1947 Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995)
1947 Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor (Miss Saigon)
1948 Reggie Cleveland, Canadian baseball player
1949 Alan Garcia, President of Peru (1985-90)
1949 Daniel DiNardo, American Roman Catholic cardinal
1950 Linda Thompson, Memphis Tn, actress (Hee Haw)
1951 Anatoli Karpov, Russian world chess champion (1975-85)
1951 Antonis Samaras, Greek politician
1951 Judy Rodman, Riverside California, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too)
1952 "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, American boxer, middleweight champ (1982-83)
1952 Anne-Marie David, French singer
1952 Deborah Adair, actress (Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life)
1952 James Mankey, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1953 Dick Stellingwerf, Dutch politician
1954 Hans Kruize, Dutch field hokcey player
1955 John Stevens, MEP
1955 Luka Bloom, Irish singer/songwriter
1956 Albert Voorn, Dutch equestrian
1956 Buck Showalter, American baseball player and manager
1956 Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby footballer
1956 Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
1957 Jimmy McShane Northern Irish singer (Baltimora) (d. 1995)
1957 Mark Arnold, American actor
1958 Drew Carey, American actor, comedian, and game show host (The Price is Right)
1958 François Feldman, French singer
1958 Mitch Albom, American writer
1958 Paul Street, American author and historian
1958 Shelly West, Cleve OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West)
1958 Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22)
1959 Linden Ashby, actor (Mortal Kombat)
1959 Marcella Mesker, Dutch tennis player
1959 Ryuta Kawashima, Japanese neuroscientist
1961 Dave Babych, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1961 Drew Carey, Cleve Oh, actor/comedian (Drew-Drew Carey Show)
1961 Kevin Romine, baseball player
1962 Imran Anwar, Pakistani Internet pioneer and American TV personality
1962 Karen Duffy (Duff), American actress (Meet Wally Sparks), MTV VJ
1962 Keith Brantley, Scott AFB Ill, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1963 Gregg "Opie" Hughes, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1963 Wally Dallenbach Jr., American race car driver and announcer
1964 Kenny Gattison, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)
1964 Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1964 Staci Greason, Denver, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives)
1965 James Hasty, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1965 Lilian Drescher, Venezuela, tennis star
1965 Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Real Madrid footballer
1965 Tom Tykwer, German film director
1965 Woorkeri Venkat Raman, cricketer (Indian slow left-arm all-rounder)
1966 Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, Dutch TV host and producer
1966 Gary Roberts, professional ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1966 Graeme Hick, English cricketer
1967 Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician
1967 Craig John Monk, Auckland NZ, finn class yachter (Olympics-96)
1967 Phil Selway, English drummer (Radiohead)
1968 Daryl Hobbs, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1968 Guinevere Turner, American actress
1968 Tiffany Rochelle-Anderson, Laguna Beach Ca, WPVA (Nationals-13th-1995)
1969 Pat Hurst, San Leandro CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Rolex Rookie of the Year)
1969 Ramon Caraballo, baseball player
1970 Blake Schwendiman, American author
1970 Bryan Herta, American race car driver
1970 Grahae Hick, cricketer
1970 Matt Flynn, American Musician
1970 Nanette Burstein, American director/producer
1970 Ricky Gutierrez, Miami FL, infielder (Houston Astros)
1970 Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
1971 Issac Booth, NFL cornerback/safety (Cleveland Browns)
1971 Joseph Rogers, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 Laurel Holloman, American actress
1971 Marshall Boze, San Manual AZ, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1972 Isabelle Fijalkowski, WNBA center/forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1972 Marco van Hoogdalem, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1972 Rene Ingoglia, running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian formula one driver
1972 Shannon Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Jacopo Gianninoto, Italian Musician
1973 Maxwell, American singer
1973 Mirjam Sterk, Dutch politician
1973 Verna Vasquez, Miss Universe-best swimsuit (Curacao, 1997)
1974 Charlie Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1974 Duane Clemons, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1974 Jewel (Kilcher), American singer-songwriter (Pieces of You)
1974 Ken Jennings, American game show contestant (Jeopardy)
1974 Kimber West, Atlanta GA, playmate (Feb 1997)
1974 Matt Hindle, Canadian bobsledder
1974 Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
1975 Kim Sung-soo, South Korean actor
1975 Vincent Goossens, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1976 Kelly (Marie) Monaco, American actress, playmate (April, 1997)
1976 Melanie Joyce Bell, Vernon New Jersey, Miss America-New Jersey (1997)
1976 Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer
1977 Annabel Kosten, Dutch freestyle swimmer
1977 Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
1978 Carolyn Moos, American model and professional basketball player
1978 Mike González, American baseball player
1978 Scott Raynor, American drummer (blink-182)
1979 Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 Kirk Saarloos, American baseball player
1979 Rasual Butler, American basketball player
1980 Gary Brackett, American football player
1980 Lane Garrison, American actor
1980 Sarah Louise Catherwood, Christchurch NZ, 4x200m swimmer (Oly-96)
1980 Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer
1981 Gwenno Saunders, Welsh dancer and singer (The Pipettes)
1982 Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer
1982 Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
1982 Tristan Prettyman, American musician
1983 Alex Shelley, American professional wrestler
1983 Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and film-maker
1983 Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes)
1984 Adam Wylie, American actor (Picket Fences)
1984 Sam Milby, Filipino-American actor and commercial model
1985 Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
1985 Wim Stroetinga, Dutch racing cyclist
1986 Ruben Zadkovich, Australian footballer (soccer)
1988 Morgan Pressel, American golfer
1991 Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer
Died on May 23rd
1125 Henry V, German king, Holy Roman Emperor (1098/1111-25) (b. 1081)
1304 Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
1423 Benedict XIII (Pedro the Luna), Spanish Pope (1394-1423)
1498 Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (1494-98), hanged (b. 1452)
1523 Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
1524 Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
1568 Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle
1627 Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet/writer
1648 Luis de Nain, painter
1662 John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605)
1668 Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried
1670 Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
1684 Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter
1691 Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
1701 William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock (b. 1645)
1752 William Bradford, English-born printer (b. 1663)
1754 John Wood, the Elder, English architect, town planner (b. 1704)
1783 James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
1785 William Woollett, engraver
1786 Móric Beňovszký, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (b. 1746)
1813 Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772)
1825 Ras Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia
1834 Charles Wesley, composer
1838 John W Janssens, gov-gen (Cape Colony)
1841 Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
1842 Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet
1846 Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (b. 1778)
1851 Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect
1855 Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (b. 1797)
1857 Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
1860 Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer
1867 Archibald Alison, Scottish historian
1868 Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809)
1875 Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer
1881 Kit Carson, frontiersman
1881 Leopold von Ranke, historian
1883 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda)
1886 Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
1887 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer
1891 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1893 Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
1895 Franz E(rnst) Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (b. 1798)
1897 Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back)
1905 Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time)
1906 Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House) (b. 1828)
1908 François Coppée, French poet and novelist (b. 1842)
1920 Svetozar Boroevic, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
1926 Hans Koessler, composer
1934 Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush (b. 1910)
1934 Clyde Barrow American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush (b. 1909)
1937 John D(avison) Rockfeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
1938 Philip Kleintjes, republic leader
1940 Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai
1940 Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia)
1941 Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer
1941 Slavko Osterc, composer
1945 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b. 1900)
1947 C F Ramuz, writer
1949 Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (b. 1872)
1952 Georg Alfred Schumann, composer
1954 H R Bromley-Davenport, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England)
1960 Georges Claude, engineer/invento
1961 Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan)
1965 David Smith, sculptor
1965 Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1966 Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
1966 Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama)
1967 Lionel Groulx, French Canadian priest and historian (b. 1878)
1967 Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler)
1967 Sanne Sannes, photographer
1968 James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon)
1968 Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World)
1969 Diane Aubrey, actress (Haunted Strangler)
1969 Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love)
1969 Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist
1970 Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins)
1973 Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek)
1974 Kathleen Cannell, writer
1975 Jackie "Moms" Mabley, American comedian (Amazing Grace) (b. 1894)
1979 Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF)
1981 David Lewis, Canadian labour lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
1981 Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
1981 George Jessel, American actor, toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic) (b. 1898)
1981 Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist (d. 1911)
1983 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974)
1986 Sterling Hayden, American actor (Blue & Gray) (b. 1916)
1987 Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen)
1988 Aya Kito, Japanese girl who inspired millions of people through her diary, titled '1 Litre of Tears' (b. 1962)
1988 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)
1989 Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (b. 1915)
1991 Jean van Houte, Belgian premier
1991 Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money)
1991 Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
1991 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen)
1992 Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist
1992 Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge, anti-mafia (Palermo), murdered (b. 1939)
1993 James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl)
1994 Carl Althoff, German circus director
1994 Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (The Trio) (b. 1929)
1994 Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (b. 1951)
1996 Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go)
1996 Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist
1996 Patrick Cargill, English actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian) (b. 1918)
1996 Rob Hall, New Zealand high altitude climber (b. 1941)
1996 Scott Fischer, American high altitude climber (b. 1955)
1999 Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2002 Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
2003 Jean Yanne, French actor and director (b. 1933)
2004 Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (b. 1919)
2006 Clifford Antone, American businessman (b. 1949)
2006 Frits Bernard, American activist (b. 1920)
2006 Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
2006 Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
2008 David Mitton, British television director (b. 1939)
2008 Utah Phillips, American folksinger and activist (b. 1935)
2009 Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of the Republic of Korea (b. 1946)
2010 Gane Todorovoski, Macedonian literary critic, poet, & publicist (b. 1929)
2010 Jose Lima, Dominican baseball player (b. 1972)
2010 Leonida Georgievna, Grand Duchess Of Russia (b. 1914)
2010 Simon Monjack, English actor, producer, & writer (b. 1970)
2012 Joseph Lesniewski, soldier (Easy Company, 101st Airborne)
2012 Paul Fussell, American historian
2014 Mona Freeman, American actress
2015 Anne Meara, American Comedian and actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place)
2015 John Nash, American mathematician (subject of movie "A Beautiful Mind") and Nobel laureate
2012 Joseph Lesniewski, soldier (Easy Company, 101st Airborne)
2013 Georges Moustaki, French singer and songwriter (b. 1934)