Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor, known as “The King of Chutzpah.” He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950’s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post...
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí was a prominent
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor. His stage, film and television careers totalled 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films, award...
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who believed that an armed struggle was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. He was tried for treason against...
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a...
Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor who found success in a number of film genres, including westerns (High Noon), crime (City Streets), comedy (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town) and...
María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She...
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor, known simply as “Valentino” . He was known as the “Latin Lover” and starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheikh, Blood...
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theatre, radio and film. Some of his best known works are Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking...
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the amusing Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an...
Lionel Barrymore (April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931),...
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987), was a prominent politician in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, he served in this position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to...
William Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He was well known for his broadcasts on the...
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), also known by the nickname The Big O, was an American singer-songwriter. His greatest success came with Monument Records between 1960 and 1964, when 22 of his...
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates. Mansfield was 20th Century Fox’s alternative Marilyn Monroe and came to be...
Hayley Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress, daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister of actress Juliet Mills. Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising...
AboutScottish native seen in the science fiction sitcom Doctor Who. Before FameHe was discovered as a talent by the actress Edith MacArthur. Trivia FactHis stagename is derived from a band member of Pet...
William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the most popular and well known movie stars of all time. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1953...
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor, director, and producer. He is also a descendant of the renowned Terry acting family. Early in his career, Gielgud earned international acclaim...
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental...
