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May 6, 1980 Brooke Bennett, 800m freestyle, 1996 Olympics gold May 6, 1980 Kasumi Takahashi, Tokyo, Japan, Australian rhythmic gymnast 1996 Olympics May 6, 1977 Gabriela Aguilar, Miss Costa Rica Universe 1997 May 6, 1977 Shannon Shakespeare, Mission BC, 100m swimmer 1996 Olympics May 6, 1977 Trent Steed, Sydney, Australia, swimmer 1996 Olympics May 6, 1976 Lindsay Page, Madison, Wisconsin, figure skater, 1997 E Great Lakes Sr-3rd May 6, 1973 Clay Williams, OL for the Indianapolis Colts May 6, 1973 Joe Spiteri, Australian soccer striker, Olyroos, Olympics-96 May 6, 1973 Wendy Ward, born in San Antonio, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1995 GHP Classic-15th May 6, 1972 Dean Larsson, BC Canada, Nike golfer, 1994 Monterrey Open-46th May 6, 1972 Martin Brodeur, Montreal, NHL goalie, New Jersey Devils, Team Canada May 6, 1971 Rob Holmberg, NFL linebacker for the Oakland Raiders May 6, 1970 Emerson Martin, NFL guard, Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers, Packers May 6, 1969 Mark Thomas, NFL defensive end, Carolina Panthers, Packers, Bears May 6, 1969 Pascall Davis, WLAF linebacker for the Amsterdam Admirals May 6, 1968 Andy Kelly, WLAF quarterback for the Rhein Fire May 6, 1968 Linnea Marie Fayard, Shrevept, Louisiana, Miss Louisiana-America, 1991-5th May 6, 1967 Patrick F. Manning, Jr., Poughkeepsie, New York, rower 1992 Olympics May 6, 1965 Bob Bassen, Calgary, NHL center for the Dallas Stars May 6, 1965 Ken Harvey, NFL linebacker for the Washington Redskins May 6, 1965 Norman Whiteside, British soccer player May 6, 1965 Paul Frase, NFL defensive end, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31 May 6, 1965 Tim Simpson, born in Atlanta, Georgia, Nike golfer, 1985 Southern Open May 6, 1965 Zahid Sadiq, cricketer May 6, 1964 Dana Hill [Goetz], Van Nuys California, actress, 2 of Us, Shoot the Moon May 6, 1964 Kim Oden, U.S. Olympic volleyball player, NCAA Play of Decade-80s May 6, 1964 Mike Grob, Billings Montana, Canadian Tour golfer, 1988 Manitoba-3rd May 6, 1964 Mike McGruder, NFL cornerback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers May 6, 1963 Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina, American Ballet Theater May 6, 1962 Lori Singer, born in Corpus Christi, Texas, actress, Jurasic Park May 6, 1962 Neil Foster, cricketer, England right-fast medium May 6, 1961 Clay O'Brien, Ray, Arizona, actor, Weedy-Cowboys May 6, 1961 George Clooney, Lexington, Kentucky, actor, Dr. Douglas Ross-ER, Batman May 6, 1961 Roma Downey, Derry Ire, actress, 1 Life to Live, Touched by an Angel May 6, 1960 Bart de Boer, Dutch guitarist, Ivy Green May 6, 1960 Julianne Phillips, Lake Oswego, Oregon, actress, Frankie Reed-Sisters May 6, 1960 Larry Steinbachek, rock synthesizer, Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy May 6, 1959 Aidan Quinn, actor, Avalon, Crusoe, Desperately Seeking Susan May 6, 1959 Charles Hendry, MP May 6, 1959 Eric D Fingerhut, Rep-D-Ohio May 6, 1959 Kate Collins, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Natalie Hunter-All My Children May 6, 1959 Scott Hood, born in Seattle, Washington Canadian Tour golfer, 1989 Montana Open-2nd May 6, 1955 Donald A Thomas, born in Cleveland, Ohio, PhD/Astronaut, STS 65, 70, 83, 94 May 6, 1955 John Hutton, MP May 6, 1955 Tom Bergeron, American Celebrity May 6, 1954 Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky, Russia, cosmonaut May 6, 1953 Lynn Whitfield, Baton Rouge, actress, Josephine Baker, Equal Justice May 6, 1953 Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, Labour, 1997- May 6, 1952 Chiaki Naito-Mukai, Tatebayashi Japan, astronaut, STS 65, sk:95 May 6, 1950 Robbie McIntosh, drummer, Avg White Band-Show your Hand May 6, 1949 David Cornell Leestma, Muskegon, Michigan, USN/astronaut, STS 41-G, 28, 45 May 6, 1948 Lolita, [Abrazame], spanish singer, Esperame May 6, 1948 Richard Cox, New York City, actor, Mark-Executive Suite May 6, 1947 Andy Roberts, cricketer, NZ batsman 1976 May 6, 1947 Ben Masters, Corvalis OR, actor, Vic-Another World, Making Mr. Right May 6, 1947 Dennis Cowan, London, rocker, Bonzo Dog Band May 6, 1947 Richard "Dick" Fosbury, Portland, Oregon, high jumper, Oly-gold-68 May 6, 1947 Sandra Fisher, painter May 6, 1946 Jim Ramstad, Rep-R-Minnesota May 6, 1946 Susan Brown, actress, Gail Baldwin-General Hospital May 6, 1946 Sydne Rome, born in Akron, Ohio, actress, What?, Candy May 6, 1945 Bob Seger, Dearborn, Michigan, folk singer, Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down May 6, 1945 Richard Eyers, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West May 6, 1945 Victoria Bond, composer May 6, 1942 Colin Earl, rocker May 6, 1941 Fred J. Eckert, Rep-D-NY, 1985-87 May 6, 1941 Ghena Dimitrova, actress, Nabucco May 6, 1940 Henry Habibe, Arubian poet, Kerensentenchi May 6, 1940 Murray Sidlin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, conductor, Natl Symph 1973-77 May 6, 1939 Anthony Blacker, master-general of Ordnance May 6, 1939 Herbie Cox, rocker, Cleftones May 6, 1939 Zhanna Dmitriyevna Yerkina, Russian cosmonaut May 6, 1938 Eleanor Platt, QC May 6, 1936 Joanna Dunham, actress, Possession, House the Dripped Blood May 6, 1936 Sylvia Robinson, rocker, Mickey and Sylvia-Love is Strange May 6, 1934 Richard C Shelby, Rep-D-AL, 1979-86, /Sen-D-AL, 1987- May 6, 1934 Richard Shelby, American Politician May 6, 1933 Lord Pender May 6, 1932 Gunther Hauk, composer May 6, 1932 John Bond, cricket umpire May 6, 1932 Viscount Coke, English large landowner/art collector May 6, 1931 Marvin Leath, Rep-D-TX, 1979- May 6, 1931 Willie Mays, baseball centerfielder, "Say Hey Kid", 660 HRs, MVP 1954 May 6, 1929 John Polk Allen, Carnegie, Oklahoma, CEO, Biosphere 2 May 6, 1929 John Taylor, bishop, St. Albans, /Lord High Almoner to Queen May 6, 1929 Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology May 6, 1929 Dave Anderson, American Writer May 6, 1927 Ettore Manni, Rome, Italy, actor, Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell May 6, 1927 Michael Frederick, cricketer, one Test WI vs. England 1954, scored 0 and 30 May 6, 1926 John Hamilton-Jones, CEO, Richmond Enterprises, /British Maj-Gen May 6, 1926 Marguerite Piazza, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, operatic soprano, Young Broadway May 6, 1926 [Martin] Ross Hunter, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Ever Since Paris May 6, 1925 Patrick Meany, CEO, Rank Organization May 6, 1924 Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport, Connecticut, operatic soprano, Gilda-Rigoletto May 6, 1923 Elizabeth Sellars, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actress, Chalk Garden May 6, 1923 Guiseppe Martelli, physicist May 6, 1922 Alan Ross, editor, London Magazine May 6, 1922 Carlos J Moorhead, Rep-R-CA, 1973-. May 6, 1922 John Ernest, constructionist artist May 6, 1922 Pat Harder, Milwaukee, NFL fullback, Cardinals, Lions May 6, 1921 Erich Freid, writer May 6, 1921 Freddy Randall, jazz trumpeteer May 6, 1921 Robert Fell, CEO, British Stock Exchange May 6, 1920 John Henderson, Lord-Lieutenant, Berkshire England May 6, 1920 Kamisese Mara, Fijian Statesman May 6, 1919 Frank Ereaut, Balliff of Jersey May 6, 1918 Godfrey Ridout, composer May 6, 1918 Sydney Chatton, England May 6, 1916 Adriana Caselotti, animation voice, Show White May 6, 1915 George Perle, Bayonne, New Jersey, composer, 12 Tone Tonality May 6, 1915 John Arnold, British high court judge May 6, 1915 May Henriquez-Alvarez, Curacao, sculptor May 6, 1915 Orson Welles, Kenosha, Wisconsin, actor, Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds May 6, 1915 Theodore H White, historian and writer, Making of President May 6, 1915 Theodore H. White, Journalist May 6, 1915 Theodore White, American Journalist May 6, 1915 Marvin J. Ashton, American Clergyman May 6, 1914 Randall Jarrell, American Poet May 6, 1913 Carmen Cavallaro, New York City, actor, Hollywood Canteen, Diamond Horseshoe May 6, 1913 Gyula David, composer May 6, 1913 Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist May 6, 1913 Kenneth Horne, English paper manufacturer/multi-millionaire May 6, 1913 Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner May 6, 1913 Stewart Granger, [James Stewart], London, actor, Prisoner of Zenda May 6, 1912 Barend Roest Crollius, painter/writer, Chronicle Sins of Youth May 6, 1912 Bill Quinn, New York City, actor, Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in the Family May 6, 1912 Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral May 6, 1910 Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist May 6, 1909 Howard Schultz, American Businessman May 6, 1909 Roger Stone, American Politician May 6, 1908 Necil Kazim Akses, composer May 6, 1907 Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach, Baltimore Colts, New York Jets May 6, 1906 Andre Weil, [Bourbaki], French/US mathematician May 6, 1905 Norman De Tar, composer May 6, 1905 [Bernard] Toots Shor, raconteur/restauranteur, Toots Shor May 6, 1904 Catherine Lacey, born in London, England, actress, Sorcerors May 6, 1904 Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet, Trade Wind-Nobel 1974 May 6, 1902 Harry Golden, Jewish humorist and writer, 2 cents Plain, Only in America May 6, 1902 Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman May 6, 1902 Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall May 6, 1898 Daniel Gerber, Freemont, Michigan, beloved by babies at mealtime May 6, 1897 Paul Alverdes, German writer, Pfeiferstube May 6, 1895 Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta, Italy, sheik/actor, Eagle May 6, 1894 Filip Lazar, composer May 6, 1890 Claire Whitney, New York, silent film actress, Blind Fools, Haunted Mine May 6, 1889 Arthur Morison, typographer May 6, 1888 Emmanuel Celler, Rep-D-NY, 1923-73 May 6, 1880 Baron W. Edmund, Archangel and Ironside, British fieldmarshal May 6, 1880 Ernst L. Kirchner, German painter, Die Brucke May 6, 1879 Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist May 6, 1875 William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star admiral/chief of staff, 1949 May 6, 1875 William D. Leahy, American Soldier May 6, 1871 August Reusner, composer May 6, 1871 Ch Morgenstern, writer May 6, 1871 Christian Morgenstern, German Poet May 6, 1870 Amedos Peter Giannine, born in San Jose, California, founded Bank of America May 6, 1870 John McClutcheon, cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-1931 May 6, 1869 Jan R Slotemaker de Bruine, Dutch clergyman/politician, CHU May 6, 1869 Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/archivist May 6, 1868 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist, Chiopi, Nobel-1924 May 6, 1861 Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer, Nobel 1913 May 6, 1861 Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet May 6, 1859 Luis Maria Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist May 6, 1859 Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet, Act of Simple Justice May 6, 1858 Georges Adolphe Hue, composer May 6, 1856 Robert Edwin Peary, U.S., arctic explorer, North Pole-Apr 6 1909 May 6, 1856 Sigmund Freud, Austria, cigar smoker, father of psychology May 6, 1849 Wyatt Eaton, artist May 6, 1843 Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah May 6, 1838 Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer May 6, 1830 Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet May 6, 1829 Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England May 6, 1825 Joseph Bailey, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1867 May 6, 1814 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer May 6, 1814 Wilhelm Ernst, violinist and composer May 6, 1813 Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1893 May 6, 1812 Marin R Delany, Charlestown, Virginia, 1st black major in U.S. Medical Corp May 6, 1809 William Walker, composer May 6, 1806 Chapin Aaron Harris, U.S., found America Society of Dental Surgeons May 6, 1802 Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist May 6, 1801 George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1899 May 6, 1800 Ferdinand Marcucci, composer May 6, 1790 Vaclav Vilem Wurfel, composer May 6, 1786 Ludwig Borne, writer May 6, 1785 Arvir A. Afzelius, Swedish story teller May 6, 1769 Ferdinand III, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane May 6, 1769 William Jay, English Clergyman May 6, 1759 Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician May 6, 1758 Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat, 1781 May 6, 1606 Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter May 6, 1581 Frans Francken, the Younger, painter May 6, 1501 Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope, 1555, 22 days May 6, 973 Henry II, Roman Catholic German king/emperor, 1002/14-24 |