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May 21, 1985 Frustaci Septuplets, California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7 May 21, 1981 Beth Botsford, 100m/200m backstroke, 1996 Olympics gold May 21, 1978 Kandy Marshall, Miss Virginia Teen USA 1996 May 21, 1977 Ricky Williams, American Athlete May 21, 1974 Fairuza Balk, The Craft, Gas Food Lodging May 21, 1972 Alesha Oreskovich, born in Tampa, Florida, playmate, Jun, 1993 May 21, 1972 Liliko Ogasawara, Englewood, New Jersey, middleweight judoka 1996 Olympics May 21, 1971 Eric Nies, actor, MTV Real World, Grind May 21, 1971 Jeff Stavroff, Columbus, Ohio, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 Space Coast-4 May 21, 1970 Dorsey Levens, NFL running back, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31 May 21, 1970 Roman Turek, Strakonice CZE, hockey goalie, Team Czech Rep, 1998 Olympics May 21, 1970 Scott "Munnster" Munn, Larkspur California, rower 1996 Olympics May 21, 1970 Veronica Sanchez, Michoan Mexico, WPVA volleyballer, Hermosa-17-1994 May 21, 1969 Reid Simpson, Flin Flon, NHL left wing for the New Jersey Devils May 21, 1967 Cindy Haley, Tyler, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1987 Texas Amateur-2nd May 21, 1967 Rogel Nachum, Israel, Men's triple jump, Oly-1996 May 21, 1967 Todd Doohan, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer, Western Ont Amateur-92 May 21, 1967 Tracy Simien, NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs May 21, 1966 Manon Kelley, Quebec City Canada, actress, Red Lips 2 May 21, 1964 Annabel Schofield, Llanelli, Wales, actress, Laurel Ellis-Dallas May 21, 1964 Tom Harding, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Canadian Tour golfer, 1991 Transamerica May 21, 1964 Tommy Albelin, Stockholm, Sweden, NHL defenseman for the Calgary Flames May 21, 1963 Yelena Vodorezova, U.S.S.R., figure skater, Olympic-1976 May 21, 1963 Kevin Shields, Irish Musician May 21, 1961 Tim Lever, keyboard/sax, Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round May 21, 1960 Mark Kevin Carnevale, Annapolis, Maryland, PGA golfer, 1992 Chattanooga May 21, 1959 Nick Cassavetes, actor, Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool May 21, 1958 Mike Barson, rock keyboardist, Madness May 21, 1958 Monte Lynch, cricketer, Surrey batsman, WI Rebel, England ODI player May 21, 1958 Tom Feeney, American Athlete May 21, 1957 Judge Reinhold, Wilmington, Delaware, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High May 21, 1957 Sue Woodstra, Colton California, volleyball player 1984 Olympics silver May 21, 1956 Joanna M C "Annemarie" Henselmans, singer/cabaretiere, School Desk May 21, 1955 John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet May 21, 1955 Liaqat Ali, cricket pace bowler, Pakistani in six Tests 1975-79 May 21, 1955 Stan Lynch, Gainesville, Florida, rock drummer, Tommy Petty and Heartbreakers May 21, 1954 Bill Abbott, Sarnia Ontario, yachter 1996 Olympics May 21, 1954 Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up, 1975 May 21, 1952 Mr T, [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor, A-Team, Rocky III, T and T May 21, 1951 Al Franken, comedian/writer/actor, SNL, Stuart Saves His Family May 21, 1950 Roger Hodgson, London, rocker, Supertramp May 21, 1949 Andrew Nell, editor, Sunday Times May 21, 1949 Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer, T C Matic May 21, 1949 Rosalind Plowright, British soprano, Aida, Senta May 21, 1948 Carol Potter, actress, Beverly Hills 90210 May 21, 1948 Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer, When I Need Love May 21, 1947 Bill Champlin, born in Oakland California, rocker May 21, 1947 Dorothy Germain, LPGA golfer May 21, 1947 Richard Hatch, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Battlestar Galactica May 21, 1946 David Hill, Australian TV-reporter/owner, Fox Sports May 21, 1946 Ronald Bear, actor and director, Havana, Make-up May 21, 1945 Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut, STS 22 May 21, 1944 Janet Dailey, U.S., author May 21, 1944 Manual Pina, fashion designer May 21, 1944 Marcie Blane, rocker May 21, 1944 Mary Robinson, President of Republic of Ireland, Labour, 1990- May 21, 1944 Mike Degett, horse trainer May 21, 1943 Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist, Animals-House of the Rising Sun May 21, 1942 David Hunt, Wales sec of state May 21, 1942 Robert C Springer, St. Louis, Col USMC/astronaut, STS-29, STS-38 May 21, 1941 Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, TM-4 May 21, 1941 Ronald Isley, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, singer, Isley Brothers-Twist and Shout May 21, 1939 Heinz Holliger, composer May 21, 1938 David Groh, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day May 21, 1938 Urs Widmer, writer May 21, 1936 Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun May 21, 1936 Dipak Nandy, founder, Runnymead Trust May 21, 1935 Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader, New Orleans Jazzmen May 21, 1934 Phillip King, British sculptor May 21, 1933 Barry Norman, Britain, film critic, Film Greats May 21, 1932 G Wohmann, writer May 21, 1932 John Armitage, principal, College of St. Hilda and St. Bede Durham May 21, 1932 Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer May 21, 1931 Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster May 21, 1931 George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus, 1988-93 May 21, 1930 David Smith, principal/vice chancellor, Edinburgh University May 21, 1930 Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia, Liberal, 1975-83 May 21, 1930 Stanley Wells, director, Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham May 21, 1929 Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist, Lincoln Center May 21, 1929 Paul Winslow, cricketer, big-hitter for South Africa, 108 vs. England 1955 May 21, 1929 Robert Welch, designer/silversmith, Robert Welch flatware May 21, 1927 George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner May 21, 1927 Kay Kendall, born in Yorkshire, England, actress, Genevieve, Les Girls May 21, 1926 Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer May 21, 1926 Joseph Horovitz, composer May 21, 1926 Rick Jason, New York City, actor, Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn May 21, 1926 Robert Creeley, Massachusetts, poet and novelist, Island May 21, 1924 Peggy Cass, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress/TV panelist, To Tell the Truth, Mame May 21, 1924 Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer, Book of Imaginery Beings May 21, 1923 Bettye Danoff, LPGA golfer May 21, 1923 Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer and songwriter May 21, 1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75 May 21, 1920 Anthony Steel, London, actor, Malta Story, Wooden Horse May 21, 1919 Lord Maxwell, senator/prof, college of Justice Scotland May 21, 1919 Mark Wood, bishop, Ludlow May 21, 1918 Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist May 21, 1917 Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian, Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy May 21, 1917 Heather Swift, local councillor May 21, 1917 Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer, Just Causes May 21, 1917 Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor, Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla May 21, 1917 Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman May 21, 1916 Harold Robbins, New York City, author, Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy May 21, 1916 Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player, U.S. Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31 May 21, 1916 Joseph Janni, producer May 21, 1916 Leonard Manasseh, architect May 21, 1909 Guy de Rothschild, French banker May 21, 1909 Laura Hillenbrand, American Author May 21, 1906 Keith Rigg, cricketer, Australian Test batsman in the thirties May 21, 1905 Edward Lockspeiser, composer May 21, 1904 Fats Waller, [Thomas Wright], jazz singer/composer, Ain't Misbehavin' May 21, 1904 Robert Montgomery, Beacon, New York, actor/dir, Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack May 21, 1903 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, 1953..7 May 21, 1903 Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author, After Dark, Devil's Planet May 21, 1903 Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina May 21, 1901 Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orch leader, Swift Show Wagon May 21, 1901 Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer, Le burlador May 21, 1899 Ilse Lagner, writer May 21, 1899 Ralph Sanford, Springfield Massachusetts, actor, Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp May 21, 1898 Armand Hammer, New York City, millionaire industrialist, Occidental Petroleum May 21, 1898 Charles Haba, Czech violinist and composer May 21, 1898 Karel Haba, composer May 21, 1893 Arthur Carr, cricket capt, England vs. Australia 1926 May 21, 1893 Simon Delmonte, actor and director, Boemeladvocaat May 21, 1892 John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet, This Side of Paradise May 21, 1890 Albert van Raalte, conductor, AVRO-orchestra May 21, 1888 May Aufderheide, composer May 21, 1887 Mabel Taliaferro, New York City, actress, Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back May 21, 1882 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress, Hostage Rights of Aemstel May 21, 1880 Pablo Luna y Carne, composer May 21, 1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, U.S., inventor, hydroplane May 21, 1878 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP, CPN May 21, 1873 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian May 21, 1873 Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator, I speak beschaafd Dutch May 21, 1873 Hans Berger, German Scientist May 21, 1872 Henry Warren, born in Boston, Massachusetts, inventor, Telechon electric clock May 21, 1870 William Cameron Forbes, American Diplomat May 21, 1867 John James Ferris, cricketer, mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's May 21, 1867 Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer May 21, 1865 C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages May 21, 1860 Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor, electrocardiograph May 21, 1858 Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician May 21, 1855 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet and writer, Les Flammes Hautes May 21, 1851 Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist, Nobel 1920 May 21, 1844 Henri Rousseau, French Artist May 21, 1843 Louis Renault, French lawyer May 21, 1841 Joseph Parry, composer May 21, 1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General Union volunteers May 21, 1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author, Nobel 1902 May 21, 1826 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro May 21, 1825 George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General Union volunteers May 21, 1822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1900 May 21, 1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General Confederate Army died in 1865 May 21, 1821 John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director. May 21, 1808 Gerard de Nerval, [Labrunie], French poet and writer, Sylvia May 21, 1796 Reverdy Johnson, rep, Union, died in 1876 May 21, 1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse May 21, 1775 Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano May 21, 1722 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer May 21, 1720 Antonio Corbisiero, composer May 21, 1680 Frederich Karl Erbach, composer May 21, 1671 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer May 21, 1633 Joseph de La Barre, composer May 21, 1527 Philip II, King of Spain, 1556-98, and Portugal, 1580-98 May 21, 1471 Albrecht Durer, Nurnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker |