16. maj

1822 - Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor
1850 - Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
1857 - Juan Morel Campos, composer
1858 - Frank Lynes, composer
1858 - Hanus Trnecek, composer
1892 - Richard Tauber, [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor
1893 - Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer
1897 - Walther Geiser, composer
1902 - Jan Kiepura, Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor (Her Wonderful Lie)
1913 - Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
1917 - Geraint Jones, conductor/organist
1919 - [Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, West Allis Wisconsin, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman)
1926 - Jan Zimmer, composer
1929 - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer
1930 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman’s Songs)
1931 - Donald James Martino, Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
1932 - Isaac "Redd" Holt, US drummer (Young-Holt Unlimited-In Crowd)
1941 - Maurice Henry Weddington, composer
1944 - Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz artist (Same Ole Love)
1945 - Nicky Chinn, English songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1946 - Robert Fripp, guitarist (King Crimson)
1946 - Roger Earl, rocker (Foghat)
1947 - Barbara Lee, US singer (Chiffons, He’s So Fine)
1949 - William Sputnik Spooner, rock guitarist (Grateful Dead, Tubes)
1950 - Jock Bartley, rocker (Firefall)
1950 - Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician
1951 - Jonathan Richman, rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
1953 - Richard Page, rocker (Mr Mister), born in Los Angeles, California
1955 - Hazel O’Connor, Coventry England, singer/actress (Breaking Glass)
1958 - Glenn Gregory, rock vocalist (Heeaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1964 - Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)
1965 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana)
1966 - Janet Jackson, singer, Michael’s sister (Control), born in Gary, Indiana
1968 - Ralph Tresvant, singer (New Editon), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1971 - Rachel Goswell, English singer and songwriter (Slowdive, Mojave 3)
1974 - Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer
1974 - Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)
1975 - Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)
1975 - Tonéx, American singer
1977 - Dolcenera, Italian singer
1978 - David Ford, English singer/songwriter
1983 - Mince Fratelli, Scottish Drummer (The Fratellis)
1983 - Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer

17. maj

1568 - Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer
1732 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer
1800 - Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer
1808 - Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer
1819 - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer
1823 - Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, contralto/composer
1850 - Antonio Scontrino, composer
1890 - Philip James, composer
1896 - Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer
1900 - Nicolai Berezowsky, composer
1901 - Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige)
1902 - John Vincent, composer
1906 - Zinka Milanov, Croatian soprano (d. 1989)
1908 - Sigismund Toduta, composer
1908 - Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927)
1912 - Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher conductor
1914 - Guido Masanetz, composer
1918 - Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome)
1919 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007)
1921 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (d. 1998)
1923 - Peter Mennin[i], Erie Pennsylvania, composer (Moby Dick)
1924 - Frantisek Kovaricek, composer
1931 - Dewey Redman, jazz musician
1936 - Philippe Boesmans, composer
1938 - Pervis Jackson, rocker (Spinners)
1941 - David Howell Cope, composer
1941 - Malcom Hale, rocker
1942 - Taj Mahal, singer/songwriter (Real Thing), born in NYC, New York
1943 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
1944 - Jesse Winchester, Shreveport La, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it), (d. 2014)
1944 - Paul Crossley, concert pianist
1946 - Udo Lindenberg, German musician
1949 - Bill Bruford, English drummer (Yes, King Crimson-Red, Genesis)
1950 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist (d. 1991)
1952 - Jody Pijper, Dutch (background) singer
1953 - George Johnson, rocker (Brothers Johnson), born in Los Angeles, California
1958 - Vincent Henar, Surinam, bassist (Fra Fra Sound)
1959 - Paul Di’anno, rocker (Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist
1961 - Enya [Eithne Ní Bhraonáin], Gweedore, County Donegal, Irish singer and songwriter (A Day Without Rain)
1962 - Tracey Bryn, rocker (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee)
1965 - Trent Reznor, musician (9 Inch Nails)
1969 - Alan Doyle, Canadian musician (Great Big Sea)
1970 - Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin’ Tough)
1973 - Josh Homme, American musician and songwriter
1973 - Steve Barakatt, Canadian composer
1975 - Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer
1976 - Lee-Hom Wang, American-born Taiwanese musician and composer
1980 - Dallas Taylor, American singer (Underoath)
1981 - Shiri Maimon, Israeli singer
1985 - Derek Hough, American dancer and singer

18. maj

1744 - Joseph Beer, Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap)
1759 - Charles Duquesnoy, composer
1819 - Julius Hopp, composer
1830 - Karl Goldmark, Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala)
1836 - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer
1854 - Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland)
1875 - Guido Alberto Fano, composer
1881 - Georgi Atanasov, composer
1882 - Eduardo Fabini, composer
1886 - Ole Windingstad, composer
1901 - Harry Robert Wilson, composer
1901 - Henri-Pierre Sauguet, Bordeaux France, composer (La Chotte)
1902 - [Robert] Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer (Music Man)
1905 - Eric Zeisl, composer
1907 - Clifford Curzon, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal), born in London, England
1911 - Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll)
1912 - Perry Como, [Pierino], Canonsburg Pa, singer/TV (Perry Como Show)
1913 - Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1920 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1922 - Kai Winding, Danish-born Jazz musician (d. 1983)
1929 - Kai Winding, Denmark, American Jazz composer, (d. 1983)
1929 - Roger Matton, composer
1939 - Glen Hardin, Texas, rocker (Crickets)
1942 - Albert Hammond, rocker
1942 - Rodney Dillard, rocker (Glittergrass)
1946 - George Alexander, rocker
1948 - Joe Bonsall, Phila, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1949 - Bill Wallace, rocker/actor (Fear, Avenging Force, Desperate)
1949 - Rick Wakeman, rock keyboardist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
1949 - William Wallace, rocker (Guess Who)
1952 - George Strait, Pearsall Tx, country singer (All My Exes Live in Texas)
1953 - [Feliciano] Butch Tavares, rocker (Tavares)
1954 - Wreckless Eric, rocker (Waxworks, Be Stiff)
1954 - Reinhold Heil, German composer
1957 - Michael Cretu, rocker (Enigma)
1958 - Toyah Wilcox, rocker (I Want to Be Free), born in Birmingham, England
1962 - Nanne Grönvall, Swedish singer
1962 - Sandra Cretu, German singer
1965 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (d. 1995)
1966 - Michael Tait, American musician (dc Talk, Tait)
1967 - Rob Base, American rapper
1969 - Martika, [Marta Marrero], Cuba, singer (Toy Soldiers)
1975 - Jack Johnson, American musician
1980 - Ali Zafar, Pakistani singer and model
1982 - Eric West, American singer and actor

19. maj

1616 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer
1746 - Johann Friedrich Peter, composer
1755 - Gabriele Prota, composer
1770 - Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer
1839 - Alice Mary Smith, composer
1861 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
1873 - Federico Gerdes, composer
1878 - Adam von Ahn Carse, composer
1884 - Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer) (or 5/10)
1895 - Albert Hay Malotte, composer
1895 - Cecil Gray, composer
1901 - Ivo Cruz, composer
1909 - Schlomo Joffe, composer
1924 - Sandy Galbraith Wilson, composer
1926 - Paul Cooper, composer
1929 - Michael Adamis, composer
1930 - Hans Kox, composer
1931 - Ruben Radica, composer
1932 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
1934 - Jan Wijn, Dutch pianist
1939 - Richard Lowe Teitelbaum, composer
1939 - Tomasz Sikorski, composer
1940 - Mickey Newbury, rocker
1941 - Marc-Antonio Consoli, composer
1945 - Peter Townshend, England, rock guitarist/vocalist/composer (The Who-Tommy)
1947 - Jerry Hyman, Bkln, rock singer/trombonist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1948 - Grace Jones, [Mendoza], Spanishtown Jamacia, singer/actress (Vamp, A View to a Kill)
1948 - Tom Scott, LA, saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show)
1949 - Dusty Hill, rocker (ZZ Top)
1951 - Joey Ramone, [Jeffrey Hyman], lead singer of the punk rock band The Ramones (Baby I Love You)
1952 - Barbara Loomis, rocker (BT Express)
1954 - Phil Rudd, Australian rock drummer (AC/DC-Rock ’n Roll Damnation), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1956 - Martyn Ware, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1960 - Yazz, [Yasmin Evans], singer (Fine Time), born in London, England
1962 - Iain Harvie, Scottish rock guitarist (Nothing Ever Happens)
1972 - Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1981 - Nate Cole, American singer
1991 - Jordan Pruitt, American singer

20. maj

1547 - Melchior Bischoff, composer
1554 - Paulo Bellasio, composer
1754 - Hans Gram, composer
1812 - Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer
1850 - Eaton Faning, composer
1876 - John Owen Jones, composer
1889 - Felix Arndt, composer
1903 - Jerzy Fitelberg, composer
1913 - Ion Dumitrescu, composer
1917 - Enyss Djemil, composer
1926 - Vic Ames, rocker (Ames Brothers)
1927 - David Frederick Barlow, composer
1927 - Walter Aschaffenburg, composer
1937 - Teddy Randazzo, song writer (I’m on the Outside Looking In)
1938 - Marinella, Greek singer and actress
1940 - Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge)
1942 - Paula, [Jill Jackson], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
1943 - Tison Street, composer
1943 - Al Bano, Italian singer
1944 - Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer (Good night mister president)
1944 - Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter
1944 - Joe Cocker, English rock vocalist (With a Little Help from My Friends), born in Sheffield England, (d. 2014)
1946 - Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], El Centro, California, American singer and actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask)
1952 - Warren Cann, Victoria Canada, rock drummer (Ultravox)
1954 - James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1954 - Guy Hoffman, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1955 - Steve George, rock keyboardist (Mr Mister)
1955 - Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
1958 - Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour)
1959 - Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, American singer (d. 1997)
1960 - Susan Cowsill, Newport RI, rock vocalist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1961 - Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary’s Prayer)
1973 - Elsa Lunghini, French singer and actress
1981 - Calico Cooper, American actress and dancer
1984 - Kenny Vasoli, American singer
1986 - LaLa Brown, American singer (d. 2007)

21. maj

1633 - Joseph de La Barre, composer
1671 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 - Frederich Karl Erbach, composer
1720 - Antonio Corbisiero, composer
1722 - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
1841 - Joseph Parry, composer
1867 - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
1880 - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer
1888 - May Aufderheide, composer
1890 - Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
1898 - Karel Haba, composer
1901 - Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon)
1904 - Fats Waller, [Thomas Wright], jazz singer/composer (Ain’t Misbehavin’)
1905 - Edward Lockspeiser, composer
1913 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
1921 - Leona Wood, painter and dancer, born in Seattle, Washington
1923 - Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter
1924 - Robert Parris, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1926 - Joseph Horovitz, composer
1929 - Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
1932 - Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer
1933 - Maurice André, French trumpeter, (d. 2012)
1935 - Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)
1939 - Heinz Holliger, composer, oboist, & conductor
1940 - Tony Sheridan, Norwich, Norfolk, singer-songwriter and guitarist, (d. 2013)
1941 - Ronald Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
1941 - Martin Carthy, English musician
1943 - Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1944 - Marcie Blane, rocker
1947 - Bill Champlin, rocker, born in Oakland, California
1948 - Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
1949 - Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
1949 - Rosalind Plowright, British soprano (Aida, Senta)
1954 - Marc Ribot, American musician
1955 - John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet
1955 - Stan Lynch, Gainesville Fl, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
1963 - Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
1968 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
1972 - The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], American rapper (Life After Death), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
1972 - Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1974 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
1976 - Deron Miller, American rock musician
1976 - Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
1978 - Adam Gontier, Canadian singer Three Days Grace
1979 - Gaspard Augé, French musician
1981 - Max, German singer
1985 - Kano, British rapper
1985 - Mutya Buena, English singer (ex-Sugababes)
1985 - Marco Carta, Italian singer
1986 - Myra, Mexican-American singer
1992 - Olivia Olson, American singer and actress

22. maj

1722 - Johannes Schmidlin, composer
1759 - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer
1780 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
1783 - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer
1813 - Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman)
1820 - Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer
1850 - Johann Schrammel, composer
1852 - Emile Sauret, composer
1865 - Enrique Morera, composer
1874 - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer
1879 - Eastwood Lane, composer
1879 - Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer
1884 - Alceo Toni, composer
1885 - Julio Fonseca, composer
1891 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
1898 - René de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven)
1907 - Laurence Olivier, England, actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer)
1914 - Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
1916 - Gordon Binkerd, composer
1917 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
1917 - Daniel Nagrin, American modern dancer and choreographer
1924 - Charles Aznavour, Armenia, French singer (Monsieur Carnavel, Tin Drum)
1924 - Claude Andre Francois Ballif, composer
1928 - Roscoe Robinson, US gospel singer
1929 - Asher Ben-Yohanan, composer
1930 - Kenny Ball, rocker, (d. 2013)
1933 - John Browning, pianist (Leventritt Award-1956), born in Denver, Colorado
1934 - Peter Nero, conductor/pianist (A Sunday in NY), born in NYC, New York
1941 - Sebastian Forbes, composer
1942 - Calvin Simon, US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-1 Nation Under a Groove)
1942 - Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer
1950 - Bernie Taupin, lyricist (writes with Elton John)
1954 - Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (Specials-Special)
1955 - Iva Davies, rock guitarist/vocalist (Icehouse)
1955 - Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (Eddie Money, The Greg Kihn Band)
1956 - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician
1959 - Morrissey, British rock vocalist (Everyday is Like Sunday)
1959 - [Patrick] Morrissey, rocker (Depeche Mode-Somebody)
1959 - Steven Morrissey, English singer
1961 - Dana Williams, Dayton Ohio, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1966 - Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
1967 - John Vanderslice, American musician
1980 - Rhett Fisher, actor/musician

23. maj

1644 - Thomas Eisenhut, composer
1696 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
1737 - Louis Francois Chambray, composer
1741 - Andrea Lucchesi, composer
1753 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer
1756 - Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer
1759 - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
1794 - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer
1799 - Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)
1843 - Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
1851 - Antoni Stolpe, composer
1864 - Louis Glass, composer
1871 - Sigurd Lie, composer
1889 - José Padilla, Almería, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera - City Lights, Ça c’est Paris - Moulin Rouge)
1901 - Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23]
1902 - Mark Lothar, composer
1906 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer
1910 - Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], bandleader (Come’on my House), born in NYC, New York
1911 - Boris Kremenliev, composer
1914 - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine)
1914 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher
1916 - M Jean Francaix, composer
1918 - Bulent Arel, composer
1918 - Bumps Blackwell, rocker
1919 - Ruth Fernandez, Ponce, Puerto Rico, singer (When you Return), politician, (d. 2012)
1920 - Helen O’Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician/actor (It’s Great to Be Young)
1923 - Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
1925 - Mac Wiseman, American musician
1928 - Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)
1928 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
1939 - Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1941 - Jackson Hill, composer
1941 - General George Norman Johnson, US singer (Down at the Beach Club)
1944 - Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep)
1945 - Misty Morgan, country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard)
1951 - Judy Rodman, Riverside California, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too)
1952 - James Mankey, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer
1957 - Jimmy McShane, Pop singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy)
1958 - Shelly West, Cleve OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West)
1958 - François Feldman, French singer
1974 - Jewel Kilcher, Payson, Utah, American singer-songwriter (Pieces of You)
1974 - Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
1978 - Scott Raynor, American drummer (formerly of blink-182)
1981 - Gwenno Saunders, Former Welsh dancer, now singer with The Pipettes
1982 - Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
1982 - Tristan Prettyman, American musician
1983 - Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and film-maker
1983 - Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes)

24. maj

1610 - Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer
1677 - Alexandre de Villenueve, composer
1736 - Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer
1754 - Giacomo Conti, composer
1767 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer
1781 - Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer/horn player
1831 - Richard Hoffman, composer
1841 - Tito Mattei, pianist/composer
1881 - Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer
1886 - Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
1903 - Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth)
1903 - Hilding Hallnas, composer
1905 - Zdenek Blazek, composer
1908 - Kresimir Fribec, composer
1910 - Margers Zarins, composer
1910 - Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer
1912 - Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano
1922 - Sadao Bekku, composer
1930 - Hans-Martin Linde, composer
1932 - Elaine Malbin, opera singer
1934 - Barry Rose, English choir-trainer and organist
1936 - Harold Budd, composer
1941 - Bob Dylan, [Robert Zimmerman], Duluth Minn, singer/songwriter (Blowin’ in Wind)
1941 - Brian Dennis, composer
1941 - Konrad Boehmer, composer
1941 - Tony Valentino, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)
1942 - Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie & Dreamers-I’m Telling You Now)
1943 - James Levine, British conductor
1944 - Patti LaBelle, [Holt], Phila Pa, singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1946 - Steve Upton, rock drummer (Wishbone Ash-There’s the Rub, Locked In)
1947 - Mike Reid, Altoona Penn, country singer (Walk on Faith)
1949 - John Illsley, rocker (Dire Straits)
1951 - Rob Baker, rock drummer (Red Rider)
1955 - Rosanne Cash, country singer (Seven Year Ache, I Wonder), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1956 - Helen Terry, rocker (Now You’re Mine)
1963 - Gene Anthony Ray, Harlem NY, dancer/actor (Leroy-Fame)
1963 - Kathy Leander, Swiss singer
1967 - Heavy D, rapper
1967 - Steve McDonald, rocker (Redd Kross)
1969 - Rich Robinson, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1970 - Tommy Page, Glenridge, New Jersey, American singer (I’ll Be Your Everything)
1973 - Ruslana, Ukrainian singer
1975 - Maria Lawson, British Singer
1976 - Alessandro Cortini, Italian musician
1980 - Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1986 - Mark Ballas, professional dancer
1987 - Dominika Kasprzycka, Polish singer
1988 - Billy Gilman, American singer
1991 - Erika Umeda, Japanese singer

25. maj

1688 - Christian August Jacobi, composer
1726 - Giuseppi Paolucci, composer
1767 - Ferdinand Franzl, composer
1767 - Friedrich Johann Eck, composer
1821 - Diederich Krug, composer
1847 - Alphonse Goovaerts, composer
1877 - Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale)
1888 - Miles Malleson, writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman’s Knock)
1889 - Gilardo Gilardi, composer
1889 - Sverre Jordan, composer
1898 - Mischa Levitzki, composer
1899 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
1901 - Milenko Zivkovic, composer
1902 - Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer
1904 - Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer
1912 - Eddie Maxwell, singer (Yes We Have No Bananas)
1916 - Virginia Ginny Simms, actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band)
1917 - Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist
1919 - Gino Negri, composer
1921 - Hal David, New York, lyricist (Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head), (d. 2012)
1925 - Aldo Clementi, composer
1926 - Kitty Kallen, rocker
1928 - Frigyes Hidas, composer
1929 - Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], Brooklyn New York, American soprano
1936 - Tom T Hall, Olive Hill Ky, country singer/writer (Harper Valley PTA)
1942 - Bill Young, rocker
1942 - Brian "Blinky" Davison, rocker
1943 - John "Poli" Palmer, rocker (Family K)
1943 - Leslie Uggams, singer/actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots), born in NYC, New York
1943 - Poli Palmer, rocker (Family)
1943 - Jessi Colter, American singer
1947 - Jessi Colter, [Miriam Johnson], Phoenix, country singer (I’m Not Lisa)
1947 - Mitch Margo, Bkln, rocker (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1951 - Clifford Archer, bassist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1953 - Rich Alves, Pleasanton California, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1956 - Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
1956 - David P. Sartor, American music composer
1965 - Mark Knight, California, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin’ on Coals)
1965 - Remco Prins, Dutch rock guitarist/vocalist (Burma Shave-Stash)
1974 - Frank Klepacki, American musician
1976 - Sandra Nasic, German singer (Guano Apes)
1984 - Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M)
1984 - Kostas Martakis, Greek singer
1985 - Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress

26. maj

1591 - Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer
1773 - Hans Georg Nageli, composer
1782 - Joseph Drechsler, composer
1825 - Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer
1846 - Arthur Coquard, composer
1853 - Monroe A Althouse, composer
1856 - George Templeton Strong, composer
1877 - Isadora Duncan, San Franciso, American free form/interpretative dancer
1883 - Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
1886 - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee)
1893 - Eugene Goossens, conductor/composer (Perseus), born in London, England
1898 - Ernst Bacon, composer
1898 - Gerard Bertouille, composer
1904 - George Formby, [William Booth], British singer/comic (Let George Do It)
1904 - Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002)
1905 - Hans Holewa, composer
1916 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999)
1920 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
1926 - Maria de Lourdes Martins, composer
1926 - Miles Davis, Alton, Illinois, American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer (d. 1991)
1937 - Yehuda Yannay, composer
1938 - Jackie Liebesit, rocker (Can)
1938 - Teresa Stratas, [Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto, soprano (Salome)
1938 - William Elden Bolcom, composer (Oracles), born in Seattle, Washington
1940 - Levon Helm, Elaine Arkansas, American musician (The Band), (d. 2012)
1941 - Imants Kalnins, composer
1944 - Verden "Phally" Allen, keyboardist (Mott the Hoople)
1945 - Garry Peterson, rocker (Guess Who)
1946 - Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993)
1948 - Stevie Nicks, American rocker and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac, Bella Donna)
1949 - Hank Williams Jr, Shreveport La, country singer (Honky Tonk)
1952 - David Meece, Christian musician
1957 - Kristina Olsen, American musician
1959 - Beverly Lee, rocker
1959 - Wayne Hussey, rocker (Mission-Lover for Life)
1959 - Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1962 - Colin Vearncombe, rocker (Black-Wonderful Like)
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, American musician
1975 - Lauryn Hill, South Orange New Jersey, American singer-songwriter (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill)
1976 - Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1977 - Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira)
1978 - Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter
1981 - Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1981 - Irini Merkouri, Greek singer

27. maj

1738 - Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer
1799 - Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, [Elie Levy], composer
1806 - Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer
1822 - Henry Wylde, composer
1822 - Josef Joachim Raff, composer
1849 - "Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
1879 - Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let’s Dance)
1884 - Bax Brod, composer
1888 - Louis Durey, composer
1891 - Claude Adonai Champagne, composer
1895 - Marij Kogoj, composer
1902 - Celius Dougherty, composer
1907 - Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader
1908 - Harold Rome, composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles)
1909 - Isador Goodman, composer
1914 - Hugh Le Caine, composer
1915 - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
1921 - Redd Stewart, Ashland City Tn, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show)
1928 - Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1929 - Donald Howard Keats, composer
1930 - Eino Tamberg, composer
1931 - Kenny Price, Florence Ky, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw)
1931 - Veroslav Neumann, composer
1932 - [Herman] Junior Parker, Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter (Mystery Train)
1932 - Jeffrey Bernard, singer
1935 - Elias Gistelinck, Flemish composer
1935 - Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist (Hang on Sloopy)
1939 - Don Williams, Floydada Texas, country singer (I Believe in You)
1939 - Jerry Mercer, rock drummer (April Wine Montreal Montreal)
1940 - Rene Koering, composer
1942 - Priscilla Anne McLean, composer
1943 - Cilla Black, rock vocalist (You’re My World), born in Liverpool, England
1945 - Bruce Cockburn, Ottawa Canada, folk rock vocalist (Waterwalker)
1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish musician (d. 2005)
1947 - Liana Alexandra, composer
1948 - Pete Sears, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
1958 - Neil Finn, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House)
1966 - Sean Kinney, US rock drummer (Alice in Chains-We Die Young)
1971 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
1972 - Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
1975 - André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
1975 - Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)
1981 - Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor

28. maj

1765 - Jean Baptiste Cartier, composer
1777 - Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
1778 - Friedrich Westenholz, composer
1780 - Joseph Frohlich, composer
1798 - Josef Dessauer, composer
1830 - Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian Saxon composer and pianist
1831 - Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor
1841 - Giovanni Sgambati, composer
1844 - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer
1883 - George Dyson, composer
1883 - Luigi Perrachio, composer
1886 - Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph)
1896 - Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer
1898 - Andy Kirk, jazz musician
1900 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
1904 - Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer
1906 - Phil Regan, singer (My Wild Irish Rose)
1907 - Henry Ritz, comedian/dancer (Ritz Brothers)
1910 - T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
1915 - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist
1917 - Papa John Creach, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, American blues violinist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
1927 - Bernhard Lewkovitch, composer
1927 - Gyorgy Ligeti, Transylvania, Romania, composer of contemporary classical music
1928 - Jacob R Druckman, composer
1930 - Julian Penkivil Slade, composer
1931 - Ervin Junger, composer
1931 - Peter Talbot Westergaard, composer
1932 - Henning Christiansen, composer
1934 - Julian Slade, composer
1934 - Rob du Bois, composer
1936 - Maki Ishii, composer
1938 - Prince Buster, Jamaican reggae musician/producer (Madness)
1940 - Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director (Paradiso)
1943 - Dennis Riley, composer
1943 - Tony Mansfield, [Anthony Bookbinder], rock drummer (Billy J Kramer)
1943 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
1944 - Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night)
1944 - Gladys Knight, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1945 - Gary Stewart, Latcher County Ky, country singer (She’s Actin’ Single)
1945 - John Fogerty, Berkeley California, American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1947 - Leland Sklar, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, musician and bass guitarist
1948 - Ray Laidlaw, British rock drummer (Jack the Lad)
1949 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
1953 - Arto Lindsay, rocker/actor (Cookie, Desperately Seeking Susan)
1954 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d. 1988)
1959 - Leon "The Bop" Klaasse, rock drummer/singer (The Pilgrims-Red)
1961 - Roland Gift, UK, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
1963 - Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree)
1964 - Phil Vassar, American country music singer
1965 - Chris Ballew, American musician
1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian pop star and singer (Locomotion), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1977 - Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, singer (Menudo-Cannonball), born in Miami, Florida
1980 - Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)
1981 - Adam Green, American singer and songwriter
1985 - Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter

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1730 - William Jackson, composer
1731 - Orazio Mei, composer
1741 - Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer
1791 - Pietro Romani, composer
1837 - Luca Fumagalli, composer
1843 - Emile Pessard, composer
1852 - Jindrich z Albestu Kaan, composer
1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
1881 - Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer
1883 - William Beatton Moonie, composer
1890 - Francis de Bourguignon, composer
1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta)
1897 - Ignace Lilien, composer
1905 - Fela Sowande, composer
1906 - Hans Joachim Schaeuble, composer
1915 - Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65)
1915 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
1922 - Iannis Xenakis, Braila, Romania, Greek composer/architect/mathematician
1930 - Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer (Lassiter, Ruling Class)
1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1937 - Irmin Schmidt, rocker (Can)
1937 - Peter Kolman, composer
1941 - Roy Crewsdon, Manchester, rocker (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1945 - Gary Brooker, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1948 - Linda Esther Gray, opera singer
1948 - Michael Berkley, composer/broadcaster
1949 - Francis Rossi, guitarist (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man), born in London, England
1950 - Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, singer (R U Tuff Enuff), born in Gary, Indiana
1953 - Danny Elfman, composer (Simspon Show Theme), born in Los Angeles, California
1953 - Rick Henderson, Beaumont Tx, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 - Jerry Dengler, Colo Springs, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 - Mike Porcaro, rock bassist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1956 - LaToya Jackson, American singer/model (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy, born in Gary, Indiana
1956 - Greg R, rocker (Bad)
1956 - Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
1959 - Mel Gaynor, Glasgow Scotland, rock drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front)
1960 - Adrian Paul, actor (Dance to Win, Highlander), born in London, England
1961 - David Palmer, heavy metal drummer (ABC, AC/DC)
1961 - Melissa Etheridge, US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough)
1963 - Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
1967 - Noel Gallagher, Manchester, English pop musician (Oasis)
1969 - Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
1972 - Stanislas Renoult, French singer
1973 - Mark Lee, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1975 - Melanie Janine Brown, "Scary Spice", Leeds, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1976 - David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
1978 - Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
1982 - Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
1983 - Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist
1986 - Valy Hedjasi, Afghan singer
1990 - Dave Morton, American guitarist

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1578 - Valentin Dretzel, composer
1797 - Johann Christian Lobe, composer
1808 - Joaquim Casimiro Jr, composer
1844 - Louis Varney, composer
1853 - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
1883 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer
1887 - Gino Tagliapietra, composer
1909 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing), born in Chicago, Illinois
1913 - Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
1914 - Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1920 - John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
1925 - Claude Prey, composer
1926 - Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph)
1928 - Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
1932 - Pauline Oliveros, composer (Sound Patterns), born in Houston, Texas
1932 - Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer
1936 - Galina Shostakovitch, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
1944 - Lenny Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), born in London, England
1945 - Steve Smith, American singer (Lawrence Welk Show), born in San Francisco, California
1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer
1952 - Zoltan Kocsis, composer
1955 - Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
1957 - Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
1960 - Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
1961 - Trey Parker, rapper/actor (Newsies, Hull High)
1964 - Wynonna, [Christina Judd], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
1968 - Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know)
1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician
1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
1989 - Kevin Covais, American singer

31. maj

1656 - Marin Marais, composer
1674 - Friedrich Erhard Niedt, composer
1701 - Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible
1802 - Cesare Pugni, composer
1804 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer
1817 - Edouard Deldevez, composer
1866 - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer
1875 - Italo Montemezzi, composer
1879 - Mark Hambourg, composer
1892 - Louis Fourestier, composer
1892 - Willem Ravelli, baritone singer
1898 - Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter
1901 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1902 - Billy Mayerl, composer
1902 - Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor/conductor
1902 - Ralph Walter Wood, composer
1914 - Akira Ifukube, composer
1919 - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer
1919 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician
1923 - Wolfgang Lesser, composer
1927 - Red Holloway [James], Helena, Arkansas, jazz tenor saxophonist, (d. 2012)
1928 - Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
1929 - Aladar Zoltan, composer
1931 - Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1934 - Karl-Erik Welin, composer
1939 - Charles Drain, singer
1940 - Augie Mayer, rocker (Sir Douglas Quintet)
1941 - Johnny Paycheck, Greenfield OH, singer (Take This Job & Shove It)
1941 - Kenneth Cooper, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Bkln), born in NYC, New York
1946 - Debbie Moore, founder/CEO (Pineapple Dance Studios)
1947 - William H Campbell Jr, rocker
1948 - John Bonham, Redditch England, drummer (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1949 - Nancy Shade, American soprano
1952 - Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk, Electronic)
1954 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (d. 2000)
1955 - Tommy Emmanuel, Australian Guitarist CGP
1956 - Bart van Poppel, Dutch bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
1956 - Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
1962 - Corey Hart, Montreal Canada, vocalist (I Wear My Sunglasses at Night)
1963 - Wendy Smith, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
1963 - Wesley Willis, American musician (d. 2003)
1964 - DMC, rocker
1964 - Scotti Hill, Manhasset NY, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1964 - Darryl McDaniels, American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
1977 - Scott Klopfenstein, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1980 - Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1983 - David Hernandez, American singer
1986 - Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musical artist
1988 - Hope Partlow, American Singer