Lisa Edelstein (May 21, 1966) is an American actress and artist. She is known for playing Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2011). [Wikipedia]
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Rachel Platten (May 20, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter and author. After releasing two albums independently in 2003 and 2011, she signed with Columbia Records in 2015 and released her mainstream debut single, “Fight Song”, which peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA, topped charts in the UK and peaked within the top ten of multiple charts worldwide. [Wikipedia]
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Joey Ramone (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), was an American singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist and founding member of the punk rock band Ramones, with Johnny Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone. His image, voice, and tenure with the Ramones made him a countercultural icon. [Wikipedia]
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David Deutsch (May 18, 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the “father of quantum computing”. He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. [Wikipedia]
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Shiri Maimon (May 17, 1981) is an Israeli singer, television personality and actress, who rose to fame as the runner-up in the inaugural season of singing reality competition Kokhav Nolad. She represented her native Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, where she came fourth. [Wikipedia]
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Can Bonomo (May 16, 1987) is a Turkish singer who represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. [Wikipedia]
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Jamie-Lynn Sigler (May 15, 1981) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Meadow Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos from 1999 to 2007. [Wikipedia]
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Daniel Auerbach (May 14, 1979) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and vocalist of The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. As a member of the group, Auerbach has recorded and co-produced twelve studio albums with his bandmate Patrick Carney. [Wikipedia]
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Lena Dunham (May 13, 1986) is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. [Wikipedia]
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Bernard Marcus (May 12, 1929 – November 4, 2024) was an American billionaire businessman. He co-founded Home Depot in 1978. He was the company’s first CEO and first chairman until retiring in 2002. [Wikipedia]
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Frances Fisher (May 11, 1952) is an American actress. She began her career in theater and later starred as Detective Deborah Saxon in the CBS daytime soap opera The Edge of Night (1976–1981). In film, she is known for her roles in Unforgiven (1992), Titanic (1997), True Crime (1999), House of Sand and Fog (2003), Laws of Attraction (2004), The Kingdom (2007), In the Valley of Elah (2007), Jolene (2008), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), and The Host (2013). [Wikipedia]
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Aviv Geffen (May 10, 1973) is an Israeli rock musician, singer-songwriter, music producer and author. In addition to his solo career, Geffen is a founding member of the band Blackfield, he was also the global music director for WeWork. [Wikipedia]
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Charles Rothschild (May 9, 1877 – October 12, 1923) was an English banker and entomologist and a member of the Rothschild family. He is remembered for ‘the Rothschild List’, a list he made in 1915 of 284 sites across Britain that he considered suitable for nature reserves. [Wikipedia]
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Naomi Klein (May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism. In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia’s Department of Geography. [Wikipedia]
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