Today XXXIX

Birthdays:

• Jacobus Franciscus JIM Thorpe, athlete, May 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953


• Thomas J. TOMMY Ladnier, jazz trumpeter, May 28, 1900 – June 4, 1939


• Ian Lancaster Fleming, author and journalist, who wrote the James Bond novels, and the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964


• Aaron Thibeaux T-BONE Walker, blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975


• John Henry Creach, aka Papa John Creach, fiddler, May 28, 1917 - February 22, 1994


• Louis Weingarten, aka Johnny Wayne, comedian and comedy writer, part of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster, May 28, 1918 - July 18, 1990


• György Sándor Ligeti, composer, 1923


• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone, 1925


• Carroll Baker, actress, 1931


• The Dionne Quintuplets, the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy, 1934. The five identical sisters are:
  
  
• Annette


• Cécile


• Émilie, died August 6, 1954


• Marie, died February 27, 1970


• Yvonne, died June 23, 2001



• Gladys Maria Knight, R&B/soul singer and actress, 1944


• Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens, actress, best known for her role as Magenta in the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and as Belazs in the Doctor Who serial Dragonfire, 1944


• John Cameron Fogerty, singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1945


• Hunter PATCH Adams, MD., doctor, social activist, professional clown, performer and author, 1945


• Sondra Locke, actress, 1947


• Wendy Orlean Williams, aka Wendy O. Williams, lead singer for The Plasmatics, May 28, 1949 – April 6, 1998


• Brandon Edwin Cruz, former child actor, and musician, 1962


• Jhonny Antonio Peralta, starting shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, 1982

RIP:

• Johann Georg LEOPOLD Mozart, composer, music teacher and violinist, father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787


• Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini, composer and cellist, February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805


• Noah Webster, lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, and editor, October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843


• Anne Brontë, novelist and poet, the youngest of the Brontë literary family, January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849


• Alfred Adler, medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology, February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937


• Audie Leon Murphy, actor and war hero, June 20, 1924 - May 28, 1971


• Ezzard Mack Charles, former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, July 7, 1921 – May 28, 1975


• Frederick Arthur Baker, aka Arthur Brough, actor, played Mr. Ernest Grainger in Are You Being Served? , February, 26, 1905 - May 28, 1978


• John Eric Bartholomew, OBE, aka Eric Morecambe, comic actor, May 14, 1926 – May 28, 1984


• Melvin SY Oliver, jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, December 17, 1910 — May 28, 1988


• Phil Hartman, writer, actor, voice artist, comedian, and graphic artist, September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998