Born on Tuesday, 6th May – Famous Birthdays

06/05/2019

Prince Archie of Sussex

Prince Archie of Sussex is a member of the British royal family. He is the son of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. A grandson of King Charles III, he is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne.

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06/05/2002

Cole Palmer, English footballer

Cole Jermaine Palmer is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Premier League club Chelsea and the England national team. Known for his dribbling and passing ability, he is widely regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in the world.

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Angel Reese, American basketball player

Angel Reese is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and for Rose of the Unrivaled basketball league. Nicknamed "Bayou Barbie" and "Chi Barbie", she played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins and LSU Tigers.

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06/05/1999

Pato O'Ward, Mexican racing driver

Patricio "Pato" O'Ward Junco is a Mexican auto racing driver who competes full-time in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet for Arrow McLaren. He is signed to the McLaren Driver Development Programme and is currently the reserve driver for their Formula One team. He is the 2018 Indy Lights champion.

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06/05/1998

Luigi Mangione, suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Luigi Nicholas Mangione is an American man accused of killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

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06/05/1997

Maymay Entrata, Filipino model, entertainer and singer-songwriter

Marydale "Maymay" Entrata is a Filipino actress and singer. Having achieved mainstream success across television, music and fashion, she came to prominence after winning the reality show Pinoy Big Brother: Lucky 7. She is the first Filipina to walk at the Arab Fashion Week. Her accolades include a FAMAS Award, an Awit Award, two PMPC Star Awards for Music and a Box Office Entertainment Awards, in addition to a nomination for an MTV Europe Music Award.

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Ranz Kyle, Filipino social media personality and entertainer

Ranz Kyle Viniel Evidente Ongsee, better known as Ranz Kyle, is a Filipino actor, dancer, singer, and social media personality. He is known for his dance covers with his half-sister Niana Guerrero.

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Duncan Scott, Scottish swimmer

Duncan William MacNaughton Scott is a Scottish swimmer representing Great Britain at the FINA World Aquatics Championships, LEN European Aquatics Championships, European Games and the Olympic Games, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. Scott made history after winning four medals - more than any other British athlete at a single Olympic Games - in Tokyo 2020, simultaneously becoming Great Britain's most decorated swimmer in Olympic history. With an additional gold and silver medal in Paris 2024 bringing his total to eight, Scott became Scotland's most-decorated Olympian, and is currently tied with Bradley Wiggins as the second most-decorated Olympian in British history. Scott is the only athlete in the top three to still be actively competing, and the only member of the top four who is not a track cyclist.

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06/05/1994

Mateo Kovačić, Croatian international footballer

Mateo Kovačić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Croatia national team.

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06/05/1993

Gustavo Gómez, Paraguayan footballer

Gustavo Raúl Gómez Portillo is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains both Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Palmeiras and the Paraguay national team.

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Naomi Scott, English actress and singer

Naomi Grace Scott is a British actress and singer. She received recognition for starring in the musical television film Lemonade Mouth (2011) and performing on its eponymous soundtrack. She also starred in the science fiction series Terra Nova (2011) and the superhero film Power Rangers (2017).

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06/05/1992

Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player

Brendan Gallagher is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a right winger and alternate captain for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the fifth round, 147th overall, by the Canadiens in the 2010 NHL entry draft.

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Baekhyun, South Korean musician and actor

Byun Baek-hyun, known mononymously as Baekhyun, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo, its subgroup Exo-K and its subunit Exo-CBX. In 2019, Baekhyun became a leader of the supergroup SuperM.

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Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian basketball player

Jonas Valančiūnas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Toronto Raptors with the fifth overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. He has also played for the Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Pelicans, Washington Wizards, and the Sacramento Kings.

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06/05/1990

Jose Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player

Jose Carlos Altuve is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). Having played for the Astros since 2011, he is the longest-tenured current member of the team, and the only one to have been with the Astros since they were in the National League. Altuve is widely regarded as one of the greatest Astros in franchise history, and one of the best second basemen of all time. On the international stage, he has represented the Venezuelan national team in the 2017 and 2023 World Baseball Classics (WBC).

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Péter Gulácsi, Hungarian footballer

Péter Gulácsi is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.

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06/05/1989

Dominika Cibulková, Slovak tennis player

Dominika Cibulková is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She is the 2016 WTA Finals champion, becoming the fourth player to win the tournament on her debut. She won eight WTA Tour singles titles and two on the ITF Circuit.

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Cameron Heyward, American football player

Cameron Phillip Heyward is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft. He is the son of former NFL player Craig Heyward and the older brother of NFL player Connor Heyward.

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06/05/1988

Ryan Anderson, American basketball player

Ryan James Anderson is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the California Golden Bears.

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Dakota Kai, New Zealand professional wrestler

Cheree Georgina "Charlie" Crowley is a New Zealand professional wrestler. She is performing on the independent circuit under the ring name Charlie. She is best known for her time in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Dakota Kai.

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06/05/1987

Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer

Dries Mertens is a Belgian former professional footballer who played either as a attacking-midfielder or winger. He is nicknamed "Ciro".

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Gerardo Parra, Venezuelan baseball player and coach

Gerardo Enrique Parra is a Venezuelan former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals, as in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants. Parra is a two-time Gold Glove Award winner and won the 2019 World Series as a member of the Nationals.

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Adrienne Warren, American actress

Adrienne Warren is an American actress, singer and dancer. She made her Broadway debut in the 2012 musical Bring It On, and in 2016 received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination for her performance in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. She was also praised for her role as Tina Turner in the West End production of Tina in 2018, and for the same role in the Broadway production, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2020.

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06/05/1986

Goran Dragic, Slovenian basketball player

Goran Dragić is a Slovenian former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Dragon", he played professional basketball in Slovenia and Spain before entering the NBA in 2008. Dragić also played for the Phoenix Suns, Miami Heat, Houston Rockets, Toronto Raptors, Brooklyn Nets, Chicago Bulls and the Milwaukee Bucks. He was an All-NBA Third Team selection and the NBA Most Improved Player with the Suns in 2014. He was named an NBA All-Star for the first time in 2018 with Miami.

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06/05/1983

Dani Alves, Brazilian footballer

Daniel Alves da Silva is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Widely regarded as one of the best full-backs of all time, he is also one of the most decorated players with 43 trophies.

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Gabourey Sidibe, American actress

Gabourey Sidibe is an American actress. She is known for starring in the drama film Precious (2009), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the eighth black actress to be nominated in that category. She was also nominated for the BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

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Trinley Thaye Dorje, Tibetan religious leader, the 17th Karmapa Lama

Trinley Thaye Dorje is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa.

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06/05/1982

Jason Witten, American football player

Christopher Jason Witten is an American football coach and former player who is currently the tight ends coach for the Oklahoma Sooners. He played as a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons, primarily for the Dallas Cowboys. Witten played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers and was selected by the Cowboys in the third round of the 2003 NFL draft. He ranks second in all-time career receptions and receiving yards by an NFL tight end, trailing only Tony Gonzalez. Known for his toughness and reliability, Witten is widely regarded as one of the greatest tight ends of all time.

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06/05/1980

Brooke Bennett, American swimmer

Brooke Marie Bennett is an American former competition swimmer and three-time Olympic champion.

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Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek professional basketball player

Dimitrios 'Dimitris' Diamantidis is a retired Greek professional basketball player, who spent most of his EuroLeague career with Panathinaikos. Widely considered one of the greatest players in the history of European basketball, he marked his era by being the most versatile player in the EuroLeague, serving as an inspiration to the following generation of young European superstars. Diamantidis is the only Greek player who is a member of both the EuroLeague 2000–2010 All-Decade Team and the EuroLeague 2010–2020 All-Decade Team. In 2016, Diamantidis was honored with the highest European award, being named as a EuroLeague Legend for his career accomplishments. In 2025, he was voted by the fans as the Greatest Basketball Player in EuroLeague’s 25th Anniversary.

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Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

Ricardo José Dognella Lima de Oliveira is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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06/05/1979

Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower

Gerd Kanter is an Estonian retired discus thrower. He was the 2007 World Champion in the event and won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and bronze in London 2012. His personal best throw of 73.38 m is the Estonian record and the fourth best mark of all time.

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Jon Montgomery, Canadian skeleton racer and television host

Jonathan Riley "Jon" Montgomery is a Canadian skeleton racer and television host. He won the gold medal in the men's skeleton event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Despite hosting The Amazing Race Canada since 2013, he is best known in Canada for his spontaneous celebration after winning the gold medal in 2010, when he was caught on camera being handed a pitcher of beer by a fan while a crowd surrounding him cheered and sang O Canada. Writing for CBC in 2020, Montgomery stated "If the beer is all I’m ever remembered for, I consider myself the luckiest fella on Earth."

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06/05/1978

John Abraham, American football player

John Antonio Nettles-Abraham is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end and linebacker for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, and was selected by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2000 NFL draft. Abraham also played for the Atlanta Falcons and Arizona Cardinals. A three-time first-team All-Pro and five-time selection for the Pro Bowl, Abraham is often regarded as one of the greatest defensive ends of the 2000s, and universally cited as one of the greatest defensive linemen in the history of the New York Jets.

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Tony Estanguet, French slalom canoeist

Tony Estanguet is a French slalom canoeist and a three-time Olympic champion in C1. He competed at the international level from 1994 to 2012.

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Fredrick Federley, Swedish journalist and politician

Fredrick Erik Federley is a Swedish former politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden. He was a member of the Centre Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. He was a member of the Parliament of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and MEP since 1 July 2014. On 24 September 2015 he was elected Second Vice Chairman of the Centre Party.

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06/05/1977

Mark Eaton, American ice hockey player and coach

Mark Andrew Eaton is an American professional ice hockey coach and former defenseman who was previously the interim head coach for the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League (AHL). He played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predators, Pittsburgh Penguins, and New York Islanders. He is the only NHL player to ever come from Delaware. He attended John Dickinson High School in the Wilmington suburbs but played his minor hockey across the state line in Pennsylvania.

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Chantelle Newbery, Australian diver

Chantelle Lee Newbery is an Australian former diver.

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06/05/1976

Iván de la Peña, Spanish footballer

Iván de la Peña López is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.

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06/05/1972

Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player

Martin Pierre Brodeur is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey executive and former player. He played 22 seasons as a goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL), 21 of them for the New Jersey Devils, with whom he won three Stanley Cup championships and five Eastern Conference championships in 17 postseason campaigns. He also won two Olympic gold medals with Canada, his first as the starting goaltender for the team in 2002, and his second as the backup goaltender in 2010, as well as several other medals with Canada in other international competitions. Brodeur is widely regarded as one of the greatest goaltenders of all time. In 2017, he was named by the league as one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players", and the following year, he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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06/05/1971

Chris Shiflett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Christopher Aubrey Shiflett is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist for the rock band Foo Fighters, which he joined in 1999 following the release of the band's third album There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999). Shiflett was also previously a member of the punk rock bands No Use for a Name (1995–1999) and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (1995–2019).

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06/05/1969

Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer and coach

James Magilton is a Northern Irish former professional football player and current manager of NIFL Premiership side Cliftonville.

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06/05/1968

Lætitia Sadier, French singer and keyboard player

Lætitia Sadier, also known as Seaya Sadier, is a French musician best known as a founding member of the London-based avant-pop band Stereolab. She was born in the east of Paris and spent time in the US as a child. In 1996, while Stereolab was still active, she formed the side project Monade. In 2009 – the same year Stereolab became inactive – she ended the Monade project and began to perform solo work under her own name; her current band is known as the Lætitia Sadier Source Ensemble. She has frequently performed guest vocals and collaborations with other artists.

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06/05/1965

Leslie Hope, Canadian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

Leslie Hope is a Canadian actress and director, best known for her role as Teri Bauer on the Fox television series 24 and prosecutor Anita Gibbs on Suits. Other credits include Shadow Builder (1998), Murdoch Mysteries, The Strain (2015), Lost in Space (2019–2021), Snowpiercer (2021–22), Devil in Ohio (2022).

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06/05/1963

Alessandra Ferri, Italian ballerina

Alessandra Ferri OMRI is an Italian prima ballerina. She danced with the Royal Ballet (1980–1984), American Ballet Theatre (1985–2007) and La Scala Theatre Ballet (1992–2007) and as an international guest artist, before temporarily retiring on 10 August 2007, aged 44, then returning in 2013. She has been referred to by some publications as a prima ballerina assoluta.

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06/05/1961

George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

George Timothy Clooney is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his leading man roles on screen in both blockbuster and independent films, Clooney has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and four Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. His honors include the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2015, the Honorary César in 2017, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2022.

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Tom Hunter, Scottish businessman and philanthropist

Sir Thomas Blane Hunter is a Scottish businessman and philanthropist.

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Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and diplomat, First Vice President of the European Commission

Franciscus Cornelis Gerardus Maria Timmermans is a Dutch politician who was the leader of GroenLinks–PvdA in the House of Representatives from 2023 to 2025.

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06/05/1960

Keith Dowding, English political scientist, philosopher, and academic

Keith Martin Dowding is a British political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Political Philosophy at the Australian National University (ANU). In 2006 he held a position in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics.

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Roma Downey, Irish-American actress and producer

Roma Downey is an Irish actress, producer, and author. She gained recognition for her role as Monica the angel, in the CBS television series Touched by an Angel, which ran for nine seasons. Downey portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Emmy Award-winning miniseries A Woman Named Jackie. Downey stars in and produces the television series The Baxters. She has a stage career, performing with the Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland, and appearing on and off Broadway.

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John Flansburgh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Conant Flansburgh is an American musician and a co-founder of the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants with John Linnell, which was formed in 1982. He is the lead writer and singer, playing rhythm guitar for the band.

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Anne Parillaud, French actress

Anne Parillaud is a French actress who has been active since 1977, who is best known internationally for playing the title character in Luc Besson's film La Femme Nikita.

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06/05/1959

Charles Hendry, English politician

Charles Hendry, is a British Conservative Party politician. Formerly the Member of Parliament (MP) for High Peak between the 1992 and 1997 general elections, he was elected as the MP for Wealden in 2001. In May 2010 he was appointed Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change and served until 2012. He stood down at the 2015 general election.

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06/05/1955

Tom Bergeron, American television host

Thomas Raymond Bergeron is an American television personality, comedian, and game show host. He hosted Breakfast Time from 1994 to 1997, Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2004, America's Funniest Home Videos from 2001 to 2015, and Dancing with the Stars from 2005 to 2019 and was an anchor on Good Morning America from 1997 to 1998 and a co-host on the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2008.

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John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Defence

John Matthew Patrick Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, is a British politician who served in several offices in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. He was Work and Pensions Secretary from 2005 to 2007, Business Secretary from 2007 to 2008, and Defence Secretary from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Labour Party, Hutton served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow and Furness from 1992 to 2010.

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06/05/1954

Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician, 120th Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs

Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the time; she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2009. Previously she was the Mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006, the first female mayor in the city's history, and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games. She also served as Minister for Culture of Greece from 1992 to 1993.

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06/05/1953

Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (died 1986)

Aleksandr Fyodorovich Akimov was a Soviet engineer who was the supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986.

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Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007. He is the second-longest-serving prime minister in post-war British history after Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving Labour politician to have held the office and the only person to lead Labour to three consecutive general election victories. Blair founded the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in 2016 and serves as its Executive Chairman.

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Graeme Souness, Scottish international footballer and manager

Graeme James Souness is a Scottish former professional football player, manager and television pundit.

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06/05/1952

Chiaki Mukai, Japanese physician and astronaut

Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. In total she has spent 23 days in space.

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Gerrit Zalm, Dutch economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Gerrit Zalm is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman.

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06/05/1951

Samuel Doe, Liberian sergeant and politician, 21st President of Liberia (died 1990)

Samuel Kanyon Doe was a Liberian politician and military officer who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 until his execution in 1990. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council (PRC) from 1980 to 1986 and then as the first native president from 1986 to 1990.

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06/05/1950

Jeffery Deaver, American journalist and author

Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University. He began his career as a journalist and later practiced law before embarking on a career as a novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Award from The Wolfe Pack. He is also a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including The New York Times, The Times, Italy's Corriere della Sera, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Los Angeles Times.

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06/05/1947

Alan Dale, New Zealand actor

Alan Hugh Dale is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale enjoyed theatre and rugby. After retiring from the sport, he took on a number of occupations, before deciding to become a professional actor at age 27. Dale subsequently moved to Australia, where he played Dr. John Forrest in The Young Doctors from 1979 to 1982. He later appeared as Jim Robinson in Neighbours, a part he played from 1985 until 1993. He left the series when he fell out with the producers over the pay he and the rest of the cast received.

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Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and author

Martha C. Nussbaum is an American philosopher and the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosophy department.

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06/05/1945

Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer

Jimmie Dale Gilmore is an American country singer-songwriter currently living in Austin, Texas.

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Bob Seger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Robert Seger is an American retired singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded with the groups Bob Seger and the Last Heard and the Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, breaking through with his first album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man in 1969. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the 'System' from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together The Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet (1976), recorded live in 1975 at Cobo Hall. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger's best-selling singles and albums.

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06/05/1944

Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player

Masanori Murakami, nicknamed "Mashi", is a Japanese former baseball pitcher. He is notable for being the first Japanese player to play for a Major League Baseball (MLB) team. Sent over to the United States by the Nankai Hawks, Murakami saw success as a reliever for the San Francisco Giants, debuting at the age of 20 in 1964. In 1965, he struck out over one batter per inning pitched, posted an ERA under 4 and earned eight saves. Following this season, however, Murakami headed back to the Nankai Hawks due to contractual obligations, where his success continued for another 17 years.

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06/05/1943

Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction (died 1977)

Berndt Andreas Baader was a West German communist and leader of the far-left terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF), also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof Group.

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Milton William Cooper, American conspiracy theorist and author (died 2001)

Milton William "Bill" Cooper was an American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, and author known for his 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse, in which he warned of multiple global conspiracies, some involving extraterrestrial life. Cooper also described HIV/AIDS as a man-made disease used to target blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals, and that a cure was made before it was implemented. He has been described as a "militia theoretician". Cooper was killed in 2001 by sheriff's deputies after he shot at them during an attempted arrest.

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James Turrell, American sculptor and illustrator

James Turrell is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. He is considered the "master of light" often creating art installations that mix natural light with artificial color through openings in ceilings thereby transforming internal spaces by ever shifting and changing color.

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06/05/1942

Ariel Dorfman, Argentinian author, playwright, and academic

Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, since 1985.

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06/05/1937

Rubin Carter, American-Canadian boxer (died 2014)

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a black American middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, until released following a petition of habeas corpus after spending 18 years and 4 months in prison.

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06/05/1934

Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician

Richard Craig "Dick" Shelby is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 1987 to 2023. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat, Shelby switched to the Republican Party in 1994. Shelby is the longest-serving U.S. senator from Alabama, holding office for exactly 36 years.

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06/05/1932

Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, English lieutenant and politician (died 2020)

Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, was an English peer and landowner, owner of the Longleat estate, who sat in the House of Lords from 1992 until 1999, and an artist and author.

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06/05/1931

Willie Mays, American baseball player and coach (died 2024)

Willie Howard Mays Jr., nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Mays was a five-tool player who began his career in the Negro leagues, playing for the Birmingham Black Barons, and spent the rest of his career in the National League (NL), playing for the New York / San Francisco Giants and New York Mets.

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06/05/1930

David Carpenter, American serial killer

David Joseph Carpenter, also called the Trailside Killer, is an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered various victims in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1979 and 1981. He was sentenced to death for seven murders and is believed to be responsible for several more.

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06/05/1929

Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist and academic (died 2023)

Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp was a British archaeologist and academic specialising in the Anglo-Saxons. She was the first female professor appointed at Durham University and was Professor of Archaeology from 1971 to 1990. She served as president of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001 to 2004.

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Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)

Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.

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06/05/1924

Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 2014)

Nestor Basterretxea Arzadun was a Basque artist, born in Bermeo, Biscay, Basque Country. In the 1950s and 1960s, he spearheaded along with other artists such as Jorge Oteiza, Remigio Mendiburu, or Eduardo Chillida, an avant-garde artistic movement concerned with the crisis of Basque identity, and formally a special focus on large volumes and the concept of emptiness.

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Patricia Helen Kennedy, American socialite, activist, and author (died 2006)

Patricia Helen Lawford was an American socialite. She was a sister of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy, as well as a sister-in-law of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Patricia wanted to be a film producer, a profession not readily open to young women in her time. She married English actor Peter Lawford in 1954, but they divorced in 1966.

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06/05/1923

Harry Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2002)

Harold Percival "Whipper" Watson was a Canadian professional ice hockey left wing who played for the Brooklyn Americans, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Chicago Black Hawks, winning five Stanley Cups over a 14-year career in the National Hockey League.

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06/05/1920

Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Fiji (died 2004)

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, was a Fijian politician who served as Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, as the first Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992. He subsequently served as president from 1993 to 2000.

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06/05/1918

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, emir of Abu Dhabi and first president of the United Arab Emirates (died 2004)

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was an Emirati politician, philanthropist, and the founding father of the United Arab Emirates. Zayed served as the governor of Eastern Region from 1946 until he became the ruler of Abu Dhabi in 1966, and served as the first president of the United Arab Emirates from its independence on 2 December 1971 until his death in 2004. He is referred in the United Arab Emirates as the Father of the Nation for being the principal driving force behind the unification of the United Arab Emirates.

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06/05/1916

Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer (died 1997)

Robert Henry Dicke was an American astronomer and physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. He was the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University (1975–1984).

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06/05/1915

Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1985)

George Orson Welles was an American actor and filmmaker. Remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre, he is considered among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.

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Theodore H. White, American historian, journalist, and author (died 1986)

Theodore Harold White was an American political journalist and historian, first known for his 1946 best-seller Thunder Out of China, reporting from China during World War II and then the Making of the President series.

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06/05/1913

Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (died 1989)

Carmen Cavallaro Calderone was an American pianist. He established himself as one of the most accomplished and admired light music pianists of his generation.

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Stewart Granger, English-American actor (died 1993)

Stewart Granger was a British film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s, rising to fame through his appearances in the Gainsborough melodramas.

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06/05/1911

Guy des Cars, French journalist and author (died 1993)

Guy Augustin Marie Jean de la Pérusse des Cars was a best-selling French author of popular novels.

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06/05/1907

Peter Barnes, Executed Irish Republican (died 1940)

Peter Barnes was an Irish republican. He was born in Banagher, King's County (Offaly). As a young man Barnes joined Fianna Éireann and in 1924 became a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

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Weeb Ewbank, American football player and coach (died 1998)

Wilbur Charles "Weeb" Ewbank was an American professional football coach. He led the Baltimore Colts to consecutive NFL championships in 1958 and 1959 and the New York Jets to victory in Super Bowl III in January 1969. He is the only coach to win a championship in both the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL).

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06/05/1906

André Weil, French mathematician and academic (died 1998)

André Weil was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. His influence is due both to his original contributions to a remarkably broad spectrum of mathematical theories, and to the mark he left on mathematical practice and style, through some of his own works as well as through the Bourbaki group, of which he was one of the principal founders.

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06/05/1904

Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (died 1984)

Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais was a Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais Method.

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Catherine Lacey, English actress (died 1979)

Catherine Lacey was an English actress of stage and screen.

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Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978)

Harry Martinson was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members of the academy.

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06/05/1903

Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (died 1977)

Bernard "Toots" Shor was an American bar owner, and was the proprietor of the saloon and restaurant Toots Shor's Restaurant, in Manhattan. He ran three establishments under that name, but his first was located at 51 West 51st Street. He was a saloonkeeper, friend, and confidant to some of New York's biggest celebrities during that era.

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06/05/1902

Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter (died 1957)

Maximillian Oppenheimer, known as Max Ophüls, was a German and French film director, screenwriter and art director. He was known for his opulent and lyrical visual style, with heavy use of tracking shots, and his melancholic, romantic themes. The Harvard Film Archive has called Ophüls "a supreme stylist of the cinema and a master storyteller".

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06/05/1898

Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (died 1945)

Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein was a Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia, before World War II. After Nazi Germany invaded and occupated Czechoslovakia he became the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Sudetenland.

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06/05/1897

Paul Alverdes, German author and poet (died 1979)

Paul Alverdes was a German novelist and poet.

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06/05/1896

Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (died 1966)

Rolf Maximilian Sievert was a Swedish medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation.

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06/05/1895

Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and author (died 1974)

Júlio César de Mello e Souza, was a Brazilian writer and mathematics teacher. He was well known in Brazil and abroad for his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

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Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian soldier and politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (died 1946)

Count Fidél Pálffy ab Erdőd was a Hungarian nobleman who emerged as a leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary.

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Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (died 1926)

Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or mononymously as Valentino was an Italian-born actor and dancer. Dubbed the Latin Lover, he became one of the most iconic stars of American silent cinema and an enduring symbol of old Hollywood glamour. Rising to international fame in the early 1920s, Valentino was celebrated for his exotic screen persona, romantic intensity, and expressive performances, which helped redefine male stardom during the silent era.

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06/05/1883

Alberto Collo, Italian actor (died 1955)

Alberto Collo was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred and thirty films during his career, mostly during the silent era. During the 1910s he starred in several films directed by Baldassarre Negroni.

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06/05/1880

Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter and illustrator (died 1959)

Winifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry was a South African painter, illustrator and Egyptologist.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German-Swiss painter (died 1938)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. He was one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. Kirchner volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. His work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis in 1933, and in 1937 more than 600 of his works were sold or destroyed.

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06/05/1879

Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (died 1952)

Bedřich Hrozný, also known as Friedrich Hrozny, was a Czech orientalist and linguist. He contributed to the decipherment of the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language, and laid the groundwork for the development of Hittitology.

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Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (died 1929)

Hendrik van Heuckelum, nicknamed Henk, was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward for HBS-Craeyenhout and Royal Léopold Club, and who represented Belgium at the 1900 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal in the football tournament.

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06/05/1872

Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1934)

Willem de Sitter was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He is known for the de Sitter universe, which is a cosmological model that was named after him.

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Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general (died 1922)

Ahmed Djemal Pasha was an Ottoman general and statesman. Along with Talaat and Enver, he was one of the Three Pashas that ruled the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

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06/05/1871

Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)

Francois Auguste Victor Grignard was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds. He also wrote some of his experiments in his laboratory notebooks.

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Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet (died 1914)

Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern was a German writer and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin, but spent much of his life traveling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, primarily in a vain attempt to recover his health. His travels, though they failed to restore him to health, allowed him to meet many of the foremost literary and philosophical figures of his time in central Europe.

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06/05/1870

Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer (died 1936)

Walter Mathers Rutherford was a Scottish golfer who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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06/05/1869

Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (died 1932)

Junnosuke Inoue was a Japanese financier and statesman of the Taisho and Showa eras. He was the 9th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), and Minister of Finance in 1923-1924 and 1929-1931. He was assassinated during the League of Blood Incident in 1932.

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06/05/1868

Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (died 1927)

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

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06/05/1861

Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (died 1931)

Motilal Nehru was an Indian lawyer, activist, and politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress. He served as the Congress President twice, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1929. He was a patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family and the father of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister.

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06/05/1856

Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst (died 1939)

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

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Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (died 1920)

Robert Edwin Peary was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being the discoverer of the geographic North Pole in April 1909, having led the first expedition to have claimed this achievement, although it is now considered unlikely that he actually reached the Pole.

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06/05/1851

Aristide Bruant, French singer and actor (died 1925)

Aristide Bruant was a French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner. He is best known as the man in the red scarf and black cape featured on certain famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He has also been credited as the creator of the chanson réaliste musical genre.

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06/05/1848

Henry Edward Armstrong, English chemist and academic (died 1937)

Henry Edward Armstrong FRS FRSE (Hon) was a British chemist. Although Armstrong was active in many areas of scientific research, such as the chemistry of naphthalene derivatives, he is remembered today largely for his ideas and work on the teaching of science. Armstrong acid is named for him.

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06/05/1843

Grove Karl Gilbert, American geologist and academic (died 1918)

Grove Karl Gilbert, known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist.

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06/05/1836

Max Eyth, German engineer and author (died 1906)

Max Eyth was a German engineer and writer.

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06/05/1827

Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (died 1891)

Hermann Raster was an American editor, abolitionist, writer, and anti-temperance political boss who served as chief editor and part-owner of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a widely circulated newspaper in the German language in the United States, between 1867 and 1891. Together with publisher A.C. Hesing, Raster exerted considerable control over the German vote in the Midwest and forced the Republican Party to formally adopt an anti-prohibition platform in 1872, known as the Raster Resolution. He was appointed as Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of Illinois by President Ulysses S. Grant but resigned from this post shortly thereafter. Raster returned to Europe in 1890 when his health began to fail him and died filling a minor diplomatic role in Berlin. Today he is best remembered for his extensive correspondence with Western intellectual and political figures of the time, such as Joseph Pulitzer, Elihu Washburne, and Francis Wayland Parker, much of which is preserved at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

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06/05/1800

Roman Sanguszko, Polish general (died 1881)

Prince Roman Adam Stanisław Sanguszko (1800–1881) was a Polish aristocrat, patriot, political and social activist.

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06/05/1797

Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (died 1882)

Joseph Brackett Jr. was an American songwriter, author, and elder of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers. The most famous song attributed to Brackett, "Simple Gifts", is still widely performed and adapted.

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06/05/1781

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author (died 1832)

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause was a German philosopher whose doctrines became known as Krausism. Krausism, when considered in its totality as a complete, stand-alone philosophical system, had only a small following in Germany, France, and Belgium, in contradistinction to certain other philosophical systems that had a much larger following in Europe at that time. However, Krausism became very popular and influential in Restoration Spain not as a complete, comprehensive philosophical system per se, but as a broad cultural movement. In Spain, Krausism was known as "Krausismo", and Krausists were known as "Krausistas". Outside of Spain, the Spanish Krausist cultural movement was referred to as Spanish Krausism.

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06/05/1769

Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1824)

Ferdinand III was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1790 to 1801 and, after a period of disenfranchisement, again from 1814 to 1824. He was also the Prince-elector and Grand Duke of Salzburg (1803–1805) and Duke and Elector of Würzburg (1805–1814).

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Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (died 1834)

Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician, was born at Mézières, where his father was a bookseller.

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06/05/1758

André Masséna, French general (died 1817)

André Masséna, prince d'Essling, duc de Rivoli, was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon I, who nicknamed him "the dear child of victory". He is considered to be one of the greatest generals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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Maximilien Robespierre, French politician (died 1794)

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned for the voting rights of all men and their unimpeded admission to the National Guard. Additionally, he advocated the right to petition, the right to bear arms in self-defence, and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.

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06/05/1742

Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor and physiologist (died 1809)

Jean Senebier was a Genevan Calvinist pastor and naturalist. He was chief librarian of the Republic of Geneva. A pioneer in the field of photosynthesis research, he provided extensive evidence that plants consume carbon dioxide and produced oxygen. He also showed a link between the amount of carbon dioxide available and the amount of oxygen produced and determined that photosynthesis took place at the parenchyma, the green fleshy part of the leaf.

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06/05/1714

Anton Raaff, German tenor (died 1797)

Anton Raaff was a German tenor from Gelsdorf near Bonn.

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06/05/1713

Charles Batteux, French philosopher and academic (died 1780)

Charles Batteux was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics.

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06/05/1680

Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French cellist and composer (died 1755)

Jean-Baptiste Stuck was an Italian-French composer and cellist of the Baroque era.

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06/05/1668

Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (died 1747)

Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735).

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06/05/1635

Johann Joachim Becher, German physician and alchemist (died 1682)

Johann Joachim Becher was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar, polymath and adventurer, best known for his terra pinguis theory which became the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism.

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06/05/1580

Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, French noble (died 1637)

Charles I Gonzaga was Duke of Mantua and Duke of Montferrat from 1627 until his death. He was also Charles III as Duke of Nevers and Rethel, as well as Prince of Arche and Charleville.

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06/05/1574

Innocent X, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1655)

Pope Innocent X, born Giovanni Battista Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655.

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06/05/1501

Marcellus II, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1555)

Pope Marcellus II, born Marcello Cervini degli Spannocchi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 10 April 1555 to his death, 22 days later.

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06/05/1493

Girolamo Seripando, Italian theologian and cardinal (died 1563)

Girolamo Seripando was an Augustinian friar, Italian theologian and cardinal.

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06/05/1464

Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Polish princess (died 1512)

Sophia Jagiellon was a princess of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, great-granddaughter of Emperor Sigismund and by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

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06/05/0973

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1024)

Henry II, also known as Saint Henry, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor from 1014. He died without an heir in 1024 and was the last ruler of the Ottonian line. As Duke of Bavaria, appointed in 995, Henry became King of the Romans following the sudden death of his second cousin, Emperor Otto III in 1002, was made King of Italy in 1004, and crowned emperor by Pope Benedict VIII in 1014.

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