MAY FACTS
- Within any calendar year, no other
month begins on the same day of
the week as May.
- The bird of May is the nightingale
- May's flower is the lily of the valley or
hawthorn.
- May's birthstone is the emerald.
- May is the only month in which a
President of the United States has
not died.
- May in the Northern Hemisphere is
the seasonal equivalent to
November in the Southern
Hemisphere and vice versa.
- All Star Wars films were released
this month.
OBSERVANCES
& IDEA NUGGETS
American Bike Month
Asian/Pacific
Better Hearing and Speech Month
Better Sleep Month
Correct Posture Month
Date Your Mate Month
Family Support Month
Flower Month
Foot Health Month
Freedom Shrine Month
Fungal Infection Awareness
Month
Good Car Keeping Month
Mental Health Month
National Allergy/Asthma Month
National Arthritis Month
National Asparagus Month
National Barbecue Month
National Egg Month
National Hamburger Month
National High Blood Pressure
Month
National Melanoma and Skin
Cancer Prevention Month
National Osteoporosis
Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Physical Fitness &
Sports Month
National Radio Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
National Senior Travel Month
National Sight Month
National Strawberry Month
Older Americans Month
Personal History Awareness
Month
Project Safe Baby Month
React Month
Revise Your Work Schedule
Month
Senior Citizens Month
Steelmark Month
Stroke Awareness Month
Touring Theatre Month
Famous Weeks in May...
Week 1
Be Kind To Animals Week
Carpet Care Improvement Week
Cartoon Art Appreciation Week
Childcare Awareness Week
Heritage Week (Utah)
National Bathroom Reading Week
National Bread Pudding
Exchange Day
National Family Week
National Music Week
National Photo Week
National Self-Help Book Week
Pen Friends Week International
Public Service Recognition Week
Week 2
Astronomy Week
Be Kind to Animals Week
Conserve Water/Detect-A-Leak
Day
Deaf Awareness Week
Flexible Work Arrangements
Week
Golf Week
Goodwill Industries Week
International Online Romance
Week
National Herb Week
National Historic Preservation
Week
National Hospital Week
National Nurses Week
National Pet Week
National Postcard Week
National Tourism Week
National Transportation Week
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
Small Business Week
Universal Family Week
Week 3
Alcohol & Other Drug-Related
Birth Defects Week
Art Week
Emergency Medical Service Week
Girls Incorporated Week
Kiwanis Prayer Week
National Bike Week
National Educational Bosses
Week
National Historic Preservation
Week
National Nursing Home Week
National Police Week
National Salvation Army Week
Public Relations Week
Public Transportation Week
Raisin Week
World Trade Week
Week 4
American Beer Week
International Pickle Week
Memorial Day Observation
National Design Drafting Week
National Frozen Yogurt Week
National New Friends, Old
Friends Week
National Safe Boating Week
National Surgical Technologists
Week
Poetry Week
Poppy Week
Also see Remembrance Day
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
May 1st:
- Scott M. Carpenter, 1925 (Astronaut)
- Rita Coolidge, 1945
- Judy Collins, 1939
- Glenn Ford, 1916
- Tim McGraw, 1967
- Jack Parr, 1918
- Kate Smith, 1909
May 2nd:
- Christine Baranski, 1952 (Actress)
- Catherine the Great (Russia), 1729
- Bing Crosby, 1904
- Larry Gatlin, 1948 (Musician)
- Lesley Gore, 1946
- Engelbert Humperdinck, 1936
- Bianca Jagger, 1945
- Benjamin Spock, 1903 (Physician, Writer)
May 3rd:
- James Brown, 1933
- Bing Crosby, 1903. Bing was born Harry
Lillis Crosby in Tacoma, Washington, on
May 3, 1903. Reports may conflict on this
date as Bing claimed he was born on
May 2nd. Official records indicate May 3rd
is the correct date. Bing suffered a heart
attack and died while playing golf in
Spain on October 14, 1977.
- Christopher Cross, 1951
- Greg Gumbel, 1946
- Doug Henning, 1947
- Golda Meir, 1898
- Frankie Valli, 1937
May 4th:
- Heloise, 1919
- Audrey Hepburn, Actress. Born Audrey
Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston on May 4,
1929 in Brussels, Belgium. Died January
20, 1993 at the age of 63. www.
audreyhepburn.com
- Randy Travis, 1959
- Pia Zadora, 1956
May 5th:
- Karl Marx, 1818
- Tina Yothers, 1973 (Actress, best known
for her role on "Family Ties")
- Tammy Wynette, Musician (considered
The First Lady of Country Music) - Born
May 5, 1942. She died on April 6, 1998 in
Nashville.
May 6th:
- Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
- George Clooney, 1961
- Sigmund Freud, 1856
- Bob Seger, 1945
- Willie Mays, 1931 (Baseball Hall of
Famer)
- Rudolph Valentino, 1895
- Orson Welles, 1915
May 7th:
- Anne Baxter, 1923
- Johannes Brahms, 1833
- Gary Cooper, 1901
- Darren McGavin, 1922
- Eva Peron, 1919
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1840
- Johnny Unitas, 1933
May 8th:
- Bob Clampett - Cartoonist (Looney
Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Porky Pig, Time
For Beany) born May 8, 1913. Died May 4,
1984.
- Melissa Gilbert, 1964
- Rick Nelson, 1940
- Frank Perdue, 1920 (Perdue Chicken)
Born 5/9/1920. Died March 31, 2005 at
the age of 84
- Don Rickles, 1926
- Toni Tennille, 1943
- Harry S. Truman, 1884
May 9th - (no entries)
May 10th:
- Fred Astaire, 1899
- John Wilkes Booth, 1838 - born on May
10, 1838 at his family home near Bel Air,
Maryland. He died April 26, 1865.
- Donovan, 1946
- Pat Summerall, 1930
- Nancy Walker, 1922
May 11th:
- Doug McClure, 1935
- Phil Silvers, 1912
- Irving Berlin, 1888
May 12th:
- Burt Bacharach, 1929
- George Carlin, 1937
- Yogi Berra, 1925
- Emilio Estevez, 1962
- Katharine Hepburn, 1907 in Hartford,
Connecticut. Actress. Died June 29, 2003
at the age of 96.
- Florence Nightingale, born May 12, 1820,
died August 13, 1910. Founder of modern
nursing.
May 13th:
- Beatrice Arthur, 1926
- Rev. Jim Jones, 1931
- Harvey Keitel, 1939
- Dennis Rodman, 1961
- Ritchie Valens, 1941
- Stevie Wonder, 1950
May 14th:
- George Lucas, 1944 (Film Director)
- Bobby Darin, 1936
May 15th:
- Pierre Curie, 1859
- Eddy Arnold, 1918
May 16th:
- Pierce Brosnan, 1953 (Actor)
- Henry Fonda, 1905
- Janet Jackson, 1966 (Singer)
- Olga Korbut, 1955
- Liberace, 1919
- Billy Martin, 1928 (Baseball player and
manager)
- Rosie Perez, 1963 (Actress)
- Tori Spelling, 1973 (Actress)
- Debra Winger, 1955
May 17th:
- Archibald Cox, 1912 (Watergate
prosecutor.) died May 29, 2004.
- Dennis Hopper, 1936 (Actor)
- Sugar Ray Leonard, 1956
- Bob Saget, 1956
- Maureen O'Sullivan, 1911
- Ayatollah Khomeini, 1902
May 18th:
- Frank Capra, 1897 (Film Director)
- Reggie Jackson, 1946
- Pernell Roberts, 1930
- Pope John Paul II, 1920
- Perry Como, 1912
May 19th:
- Ho Chi Minh, 1890
- Malcolm X, 1925
- Peter Townsend, 1945 (Musician)
May 20th:
- Cher, 1946
- Joe Cocker, 1944
- George Gobel, 1919
- Socrates, 466BC (Philosopher)
- Jimmy Stewart, 1908
May 21st:
- Mr. T, 1952
- Peggy Cass, 1924
- Dennis Day, 1917
- Harold Robbins, 1916
- Christopher Wallace (Notorious B.I.G.),
rapper - born May 21, 1972 in Brooklyn
NY. Died in a driveby shooting on March
9, 1997 in Los Angeles at the age of 24.
May 22nd:
- Richard Benjamin, 1938
- Naomi Campbell, 1970
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859
- Sir Lawrence Olivier, 1907 (Actor)
- Bernard Shaw, 1940
- Richard Wagner, 1813 (Composer)
May 23rd:
- Rosemary Clooney, 1928 (Singer)
- Born May 23, 1928 in Maysville, Kentucky.
Died June 29, 2002. www.
rosemaryclooney.com
- Joan Collins, 1933 (Actress)
- Drew Carey, 1958
- Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., 1883
May 24th:
- Bob Dylan, 1941 (Singer, Songwriter)
Born in Duluth, Minnesota. Web site:
www.bobdylan.com
- Priscilla Presley, 1945
- Patti LaBelle, 1944
May 25th:
- Claude Akins, 1918
- Dixie Carter, 1939 (Actress) born in
McLemoresville, TN
- Miles Davis, 1926 (Musician)
- Ralph W. Emerson, 1803 (Writer)
- Mike Myers, 1963 (Actor - Austin Powers,
Wayne's World, and more.)
- Beverly Sills, 1929 (Singer)
- Leslie Uggams, 1943
May 26th:
- James Arness, 1923
- Al Jolson, 1886
- Peggy Lee, 1920
- Robert Morley, 1908
- Stevie Nicks, 1948 (Singer)
- Sally Ride, 1951 (Astronaut)
- Laurance Rockefeller, 1910
(philanthropist) Died July 11, 2004.
- John Wayne, 1907
- Hank Williams, Jr., 1949
May 27th:
- Todd Bridges, 1965
- Rachel Carson, Biologist, Writer,
Ecologist - born May 27, 1907 in
Springdale PA, died April 14, 1964 in
Silver Spring MD. www.rachelcarson.org
- Louis Gossett, Jr. 1936
- Wild Bill Hicock, 1837
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 1911 (Died
January 13, 1978 at the age of 66)
- Senator, 38th U.S. Vice President 1965-
1969
- Henry Kissinger, 1923 (former US
Secretary of State)
- Christopher Lee, 1922
- Vincent Price, 1911 (Actor)
May 28th:
- Ian Fleming, 1908
- Gladys Knight, 1944
- Jim Thorpe, 1888 (Athlete)
May 29th:
- Annette Bening, 1958
- Melissa Etheridge, 1961
- Patrick Henry, 1736
- Bob Hope, 1903 (Actor, Comedian - Died
July 27, 2003 at the age of 100.) Official
Web site: www.bobhope.com
- LaToya Jackson, 1956
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917 (35th US
President.) Born Brookline,
Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. Died
November 22, 1963.
May 30th:
- Wynonna Judd, 1964
- Benny Goodman, 1909
- Mel Blanc, 1908 (Voice of Bugs Bunny)
- Did You Know? Mel Blanc was allergic to