Dame Anna Neagle, DBE (20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), born Florence Marjorie Robertson, was a popular English stage and film actress and singer. She entertained war-torn London audiences with her lightweight musicals, comedies and historical dramas. Almost all of her...
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer. Among his best-known compositions are the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches. He also composed choral works, including The...
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol and actress during the 1950s and early 1960s. After spending much...
Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in...
Peter Carl Fabergé, also known as “Karl Gustavovich Fabergé” (May 30 1846 – September 24, 1920), was a Russian jeweller, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs. They were made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but produced using...
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice in a series of horror films made in the later part of his career....
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. Wayne was...
Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, film actor, and comedian. He was born in Lithuania which at the time was part of the Russian...
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American writer, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. One of his early notable works was his 1836 essay, Nature. Following this...
Paul Weller (born 25 May 1958) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Starting with the band The Jam (1976–1982), he went on to form The Style Council (1983–1989). In 1991 he established himself as a successful solo artist. He...
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director and conductor who is primarily known for his operas . Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music...
William George Fargo (May 20, 1818 – August 3, 1881), pioneer American expressman, was born in Pompey, New York. He became a freight agent for the Auburn & Syracuse railway company at Auburn in 1841, an express...
Dame Nellie Melba GBE (19 May 1861 – 23 February 1931), born Helen “Nellie” Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and was the first Australian to achieve international recognition...
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player, composer and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for his solo albums, contributing to the BBC...
Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), known as Liberace, was an American pianist and vocalist.
Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage and television actor. He first achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. On screen,...
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor of film and television. He started as a songwriter for Connie Francis, and recorded his own first million-seller “Splish Splash”...
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a renowned British social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War. She was dubbed “The Lady with the Lamp” after...
Anthony John “Tony” Hancock (12 May 1924 – 24 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor. Popular during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock’s Half...
Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin, May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish origin, born near Mogilev in the then Russian Empire, present-day Belarus. He published his first song, “Marie from Sunny Italy”, in 1907...
