May 3
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Difference between revisions)
| Revision as of 10:25, 2 May 2009 Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) (.) ← Previous diff |
Revision as of 10:26, 2 May 2009 Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) (→Births) Next diff → |
||
| Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
| *[[1919]] – [[Pete Seeger]], American singer | *[[1919]] – [[Pete Seeger]], American singer | ||
| *[[1933]] – [[James Brown]], American singer and dancer (d. 2006) | *[[1933]] – [[James Brown]], American singer and dancer (d. 2006) | ||
| - | + | *[[1934]] – [[Georges Moustaki]], Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter | |
| - | * 1933 – [[Steven Weinberg]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]] | + | |
| - | * 1933 – [[Alex Cord]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] – [[Henry Cooper]], English boxer | + | |
| - | * 1934 – [[Georges Moustaki]], Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter | + | |
| * 1934 – [[Frankie Valli]], American singer ([[The Four Seasons (group)|The Four Seasons]]) | * 1934 – [[Frankie Valli]], American singer ([[The Four Seasons (group)|The Four Seasons]]) | ||
| - | *[[1935]] – [[Ron Popeil]], American inventor | ||
| - | *[[1937]] – [[Nélida Piñon]], Brazilian writer | ||
| - | *[[1938]] – [[Chris Cannizzaro]], American baseball player | ||
| *[[1940]] – [[Conny Plank|Konrad "Conny" Plank]], German record producer and musician | *[[1940]] – [[Conny Plank|Konrad "Conny" Plank]], German record producer and musician | ||
| - | * 1940 – [[Clemens Westerhof]], Dutch football manager | ||
| - | *[[1941]] – [[Edward "Monk" Malloy]], American university president | ||
| - | *[[1942]] – [[Věra Čáslavská]], Czech gymnast | ||
| - | * 1942 – [[Dave Marash]], American journalist | ||
| - | * 1942 – [[C.L. Otter]], American politician, [[governor]] of [[Idaho]] | ||
| - | *[[1943]] – [[Jim Risch]], American politician, [[junior senator]] of Idaho | ||
| - | *[[1945]] – [[Davey Lopes]], American baseball player and coach | ||
| - | *[[1946]] – [[Norm Chow]], American football coach | ||
| - | * 1946 – [[Greg Gumbel]], American broadcaster | ||
| - | * 1946 – [[Silvino Francisco]], South African snooker player | ||
| - | *[[1948]] – [[Chris Mulkey]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1947]] – [[Doug Henning]], Canadian magician (d. 2000) | ||
| - | *[[1949]] – [[Ron Wyden]], American politician | ||
| - | *[[1951]] – [[Christopher Cross]], American musician | ||
| - | * 1951 – [[Tatyana Tolstaya]], Russian writer | ||
| - | * 1951 – [[Tuula Palaste-Eerola]], Finnish architect and politician | ||
| - | *[[1952]] – [[Charles Baldwin]], American political figure | ||
| - | * 1952 – [[Caitlin Clarke]]. American actress (d. 2004) | ||
| - | * 1952 – [[Allan Wells]], British athlete | ||
| - | *[[1954]] – [[Gary Young]], American drummer ([[Pavement (band)|Pavement]]) | ||
| - | *[[1955]] – [[David Hookes]], Australian cricketer (d. 2004) | ||
| - | *[[1956]] – [[Marc Bellemare]], French Canadian lawyer and politician | ||
| - | *[[1957]] – [[Rod Langway]], American ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1958]] – [[Kevin Kilner]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1958 – [[Sandi Toksvig]], Danish born writer and broadcaster | ||
| - | *[[1958]] – [[Susanna Kwan]], Hong Kong singer | ||
| *[[1959]] – [[David Ball (musician)|David Ball]], English musician ([[Soft Cell]]) | *[[1959]] – [[David Ball (musician)|David Ball]], English musician ([[Soft Cell]]) | ||
| - | * 1959 – [[Uma Bharati]], Indian politician | ||
| - | * 1959 – [[Ben Elton]], British comedian and author | ||
| - | *[[1960]] – [[Amy Steel]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1961]] – [[Steve McClaren]], English football manager | ||
| - | * 1961 – [[Joe Murray]], American cartoonist | ||
| - | * 1961 – [[David Vitter]], American politician | ||
| - | *[[1962]] – [[Anders Graneheim]], Swedish bodybuilder | ||
| - | *[[1963]] – [[Jeff Hornacek]], American basketball player | ||
| - | * 1963 – [[Jamie Reeves]], British strongman | ||
| - | * 1963 – [[Sally Whittaker]], English actress | ||
| - | *[[1964]] – [[Ron Hextall]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| *[[1965]] – [[Rob Brydon]], Welsh comedian | *[[1965]] – [[Rob Brydon]], Welsh comedian | ||
| - | * 1965 – [[Nina Garcia]], Colombian-American fashion expert and television personality | ||
| - | * 1965 – [[John Jensen]], Danish footballer | ||
| - | *[[1966]] – [[Peter Abbay]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1966 – [[Firdous Bamji]], Indian-American actor | ||
| - | * 1966 – [[Darren Morgan]], Welsh snooker player | ||
| - | *[[1968]] – [[Shane Minor]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1969]] – [[Daryl F. Mallett]], American writer/editor | ||
| - | *[[1970]] – [[Jeffrey Sebelia]], American fashion designer | ||
| - | *[[1971]] – [[Damon Dash]], American label executive | ||
| - | * 1971 – [[Josey Scott]], American singer ([[Saliva (band)|Saliva]]) | ||
| - | *[[1972]] – [[Shonie Carter]], American MMA fighter | ||
| - | * 1972 – [[Suzi Suzuki]], former Japanese adult actress | ||
| - | *[[1973]] – [[Brad Martin]], American musician. | ||
| - | *[[1974]] – Princess [[Haya bint Hussein]] of Jordan | ||
| - | *[[1974]] – [[Peter Everitt]], [[Australian Football League]] football player | ||
| - | *[[1975]] – [[Willie Geist]], American television personality | ||
| - | * 1975 – [[Dulé Hill]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1975 – [[Maksim Mrvica]], Croatian pianist | ||
| - | * 1975 – [[Eva Santolaria]], Spanish actress | ||
| - | *[[1976]] – [[Jeff Halpern]], American ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1977]] – [[Mashima Hiro]], Japanese Mangaka of [[Rave Master]] and [[Fairy Tail]] | ||
| - | * 1977 – [[Ryan Dempster]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1978]] – [[Paul Banks]], American vocalist ([[Interpol (band)|Interpol]]) | ||
| - | * 1978 – [[Christina Hendricks]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1978 – [[Autumn Phillips]], member of the British royal family | ||
| - | * 1978 – [[Lawrence Tynes]], American football player | ||
| - | *[[1979]] – [[Steve Mack]], American professional wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1980]] – [[Zuzana Ondrášková]], Czech tennis player | ||
| - | * 1980 – [[Marcel Vigneron]], American chef (''[[Top Chef]]'') | ||
| - | *[[1981]] – [[Farrah Franklin]], American singer (former member of [[Destiny's Child]]) | ||
| - | *[[1982]] – [[Igor Olshansky]], Ukrainian-born American football player | ||
| - | *[[1983]] – [[Joseph Addai]], American football player | ||
| - | * 1983 – [[Romeo Castelen]], Dutch footballer | ||
| - | * 1983 – [[Márton Fülöp]], Hungarian footballer | ||
| - | * 1983 – [[Myriam Fares]], Lebanese singer | ||
| - | *[[1984]] – [[Nam Sang-mi]], South Korean actress and model | ||
| - | * 1984 – [[Cheryl Burke]], American professional dancer | ||
| - | *[[1985]] – [[Greg Raposo]], American pop/rock singer | ||
| - | <!-- | ||
| - | Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. | ||
| - | Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence. | ||
| - | If there are multiple people in the same birth year, put them in alphabetical order. | ||
| - | Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. --> | ||
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
Revision as of 10:26, 2 May 2009
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Contents |
Art and culture
- 1938 - Hitler arrives in Rome to sign an alliance with Mussolini, the chance meeting between two fictional characters in Un Giornata Particolare takes place on May 8.
- 1938 - American cinema, United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ruled in the United States.
- 1968 - The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art opens in Lund, Sweden.
Births
- 1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian statesman and political philosopher
- 1933 - James Brown, American popular music performer
Deaths
- 1987 - Dalida, Egyptian-born singer, on May 3, 1987 she died as a result of an overdose of sleeping pills leaving behind ...
- 1991 - Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-born writer
- 2006 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter
Events
- 1494 – Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
- 1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
- 1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
- 1916 – The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
- 1928 – Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
- 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 1960 – The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
- 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
- 2003 – New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
Births
- 1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
- 1877 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
- 1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
- 1906 – Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1987)
- 1919 – Pete Seeger, American singer
- 1933 – James Brown, American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
- 1934 – Georges Moustaki, Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter
- 1934 – Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
- 1940 – Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician
- 1959 – David Ball, English musician (Soft Cell)
- 1965 – Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian
Deaths
- 1152 – Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)
- 1160 – Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c. 1100)
- 1270 – King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
- 1294 – John I, Duke of Brabant
- 1481 – Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
- 1598 – Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
- 1606 – Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
- 1616 – William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (his death is commonly accepted to be on April 23, according to the Julian calendar)
- 1622 – Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
- 1679 – James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
- 1693 – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
- 1704 – Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (b. 1644)
- 1724 – John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
- 1750 – John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
- 1752 – Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c.1692)
- 1758 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
- 1763 – George Psalmanazar, British impostor (b. 1679)
- 1764 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712)
- 1779 – John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
- 1793 – Martin Gerbert, German theologian and historian (b. 1720)
- 1839 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
- 1856 – Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b. 1803)
- 1918 – Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary
- 1921 – Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
- 1942 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
- 1958 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
- 1969 – Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897)
- 1972 – Bruce Cabot, American film actor (b. 1904)
- 1987 – Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
- 1988 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
- 1989 – Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual (b. 1926)
- 1989 – Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
- 1991 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-born writer (b. 1933)
- 1991 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
- 1992 – George Murphy, American dancer, actor and politician (b. 1902)
- 1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
- 1996 – Alex Kellner, American baseball player (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1997 – Sébastien Enjolras, French racing driver (b. 1976)
- 1997 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1927)
- 1999 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player (b. 1927)
- 1999 – Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
- 2000 – John Joseph Cardinal O'Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Billy Higgins, American drummer (b. 1936)
- 2002 – Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
- 2002 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
- 2003 – Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
- 2004 – Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)
- 2004 – Ken Downing, British racing driver (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
- 2007 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
- 2007 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Primer Minister (b. 1926)
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "May 3" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
