Born May 25th:
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Farewell & RIP to Bill Hunter and to Bill Rechin.

Born May 24th:

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Farewell & RIP to Joseph Brooks.  I always feel especially sad for some reason when I hear of the suicide of a songwriter.

Born May 23rd:

my nephew Steve (who was recently on ESPN - he's a sports journalist),
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Born May 22nd:

Charles Aznavour, George Andrew Olah, Michael Constantine, T. Boone Pickens, Jr., Kenny Ball, Peter Nero, Richard Benjamin, Bernard Shaw, Ted Kaczynski. Calvin Simon, Betty Williams, Bernie Taupin, Jimmy Lyon, Sean Gunn, Apolo Anton Ohno,

and it's Harvey Milk Day, International Day for Biological Diversity, and National Maritime Day.

Farewell & RIP to Randy Savage.

Born May 21st:

Ara Parseghian, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Günter Blobel, Martin Carthy, Ronald Isley, Hilton Valentine, Marcie Blane, Ernst Messerschmid, Bill Champlin, Jonathan Hyde, Leo Sayer,  Sen. Al Franken, Mr. T, Marc Ribot, Stan Lynch, Judge Reinhold, Kevin Shields, Lisa Edelstein,

I'm fairly certain no deity I  ( Read more... )

Farewell & RIP to Barbara Stuart.

Born May 20th:

David Hedison,  Pres. José Mujica, Anthony Zerbe, Stan Mikita, John Strasberg, Jill "Paula" Jackson, Joe Cocker, Cher, Dave Thomas, Guy Hoffman, Cindy McCain, Ron Reagan, Jane Wiedlin, Bronson Pinchot, Susan Cowsill, John Billingsley, Mindy Cohn, Busta Rhymes, Matt Czuchry,

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Born May 19th:

Jim Lehrer, David Hartman, Nancy Kwan, Nora Ephron, Peter Mayhew, Pete Townshend, Grace Jones, Dusty Hill, Archie Manning, Victoria Wood, Phil Rudd, James Gosling, Steven Ford,

and it was this day in 1845 that Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition left from Greenhithe, England to seek the Northwest Passage.

Farewell & RIP to Harmon Killebrew, Bill Skiles, and Edward Hardwicke.

Born May 18th:

Bill Macy, Dwayne Hickman, Brooks Robinson, Miriam Margolyes, Albert Hammond, Reggie Jackson, Rick Wakeman, Bill Wallace, Mark Mothersbaugh, Diane Duane, George Strait, Wreckless Eric, Chow Yun-fat, Martika, Tina Fey,

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Born May 17th:

Sen. Ben Nelson, Taj Mahal, Udo Lindenberg, Andrew Latimer, Dick Gaughan, Bill Bruford, Bill Paxton, Sugar Ray Leonard, Bob Saget, Dave Sim, Paul Di'Anno, Enya, Craig Ferguson, Page McConnell, Trent Reznor, Alan Doyle, Jordan Knight, Josh Homme, Andrea Corr,

and it's World Information Society Day, as well as International Day ( Read more... )

Farewell & RIP to Bob Flanigan.

George Gaynes, Harry Carey, Jr., Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Yvonne Craig, Billy Cobham, Danny Trejo, Nicky Chinn, Robert Fripp, Roger Earl, Bob Edwards, Adrian Legg, J. Georg Bednorz, Jonathan Richman,Pierce Brosnan, Dafydd Williams, Olga Korbut, Hazel O'Connor, Debra Winger, Glenn Gregory, Mare Winningham, Boyd ( Read more... )