May 6th Birthdays
If you were born on May 6th you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Bob Seger (nee Robert Clark Seger)
American Rock & Roll Hall of Fame musician, songwriter, producer, and singer (Night Moves; Mainstreet; Old Time Rock and Roll; Still the Same; We’ve Got Tonight; Hollywood Nights; Like a Rock; Against the Wind; Shame on the Moon; Turn the Page) born May 6, 1945. (Bob Seger 1980 Photo: Cash Box)
Richard Cox (nee Richard Zukerman)
American actor of TV (Bobby Mackey on Love of Life; Guiding Light; Executive Suite; Loving; Tanner ’88; Ghostwriter; Loving; Search for Tomorrow; Baretta; The Bronx Zoo) and movies (Cruising; King of the Mountain; The Oasis; Missing Brendan), born May 6, 1948. (Richard Cox 1976 Executive Suite CBS Promo)
Gregg Henry
American actor of TV (Rich Man, Poor Man Book II; Gilmore Girls; The Riches; Hung; The Killing; Hell on Wheels; Scandal; Family Law; Reasonable Doubts) and films (Body Double; Payback; The Patriot; The Black Dahlia; Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), born May 6, 1952. (Gregg Henry 1976 Photo: ABC TV)
Lynn Whitfield (nee Lynn Butler-Smith; ex of Brian Gibson)
Emmy Award-winning American actress of stage, TV (The Josephine Baker Story; Greenleaf; Heartbeat; Equal Justice; Without a Trace), and movies (Eve’s Bayou; Madea’s Family Reunion; Gone Fishin’; A Thin Line Between Love and Hate), born May 6, 1953. (Lynn Whitfield 2014 Photo: Errol Sadler)
Tom Bergeron
American producer, actor & host of radio and TV (America’s Funniest Home Videos; Dancing With the Stars; Hollywood Squares; Good Morning America; People Are Talking; Fox After Breakfast; Star Trek: Enterprise) and films (Rock Slyde; Candy Jar), born May 6, 1955. (Tom Bergeron 2009 Photo: jfer 21)
Kate Collins
American actress of movies, TV soap operas (Natalie Marlowe & Janet Green on All My Children 1986-2011; One Life to Live; Guiding Light; Search for Tomorrow; Another World), and daughter of astronaut Michael Collins, born May 6, 1959. (Kate Collins 1988 All My Children ABC Promo)
Roma Downey (married Mark Burnett)
Northern Irish producer & actress of films & TV (Monica on Touched by an Angel; Lady Johanna Leighton on One Life to Live; The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage; A Woman Named Jackie; The Division), born May 6, 1960. Ex of Leland Orser, David Anspaugh. (Roma Downey 2015: Salvation Army USA West)
Julianne Phillips (ex of Bruce Springsteen)
American model (Elite Modeling Agency) and actress of TV (Frankie Reed Margolis on Sisters) and movies (Odd Jobs; Sweet Lies; Seven Hours to Judgment; Skin Deep; Fletch Lives; Big Bully; Allie & Me; Hollywood Boulevard; Colin Fitz Lives!), born May 6, 1960. (Julianne Phillips 1994 Photo: Alan Light)
Anne Parillaud (ex of Luc Besson, Jean Michel Jarre)
French movie actress (La Femme Nikita; Map of the Human Heart; Innocent Blood; The Man in the Iron Mask; Gangsters; Frankie Starlight; Dead Girl; Shattered Image; Deadlines; Promised Land; Six Days, Six Nights) born May 6, 1960. (Annie Parillaud 1998 Photo: Georges Biard)
George Clooney (married Amal Alamuddin; ex of Talia Balsam)
Oscar-winning American producer (Argo) & actor (ER; Sisters; Facts of Life; Syriana; Batman & Robin; Ocean’s Eleven; Out of Sight; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; One Fine Day; Hail, Caesar!), born May 6, 1961. Nephew of Rosemary Clooney; cousin Miguel Ferrer. (George Clooney 2009: Nicolas Genin)
Canadian-American Olympic hockey goalie (gold – Team Canada 2002 & 2010), professional NHL player (New Jersey Devils – 3 Stanley Cups; St. Louis Blues), 4-time Vezina Trophy, 10-time NHL All-Star, & New Jersey Devils Executive VP, born May 6, 1972. (Martin Brodeur 2012 Photo: Resolute)
(Bob Seger 1980s: Capitol Records | Orson Welles 1946)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on May 6th!
Remember These May 6th Famous Birthdays
Willie Mays (“The Say Hey Kid“; godfather of Barry Bonds)
Baseball Hall of Fame American MLB center fielder (New York Giants – 1954 World Series Champions; San Francisco Giants), 1951 National League Rookie of the Year, 24-time MLB All-Star with 12 Gold Glove Awards (1957-1968), 2-time National League MVP (1954, 1965) (born May 6, 1931 – died June 18, 2024; age 93). (Willie Mays 1962 What’s My Line?)
Leon Hughes Sr. (nee Leon Hughes)
Doo Wop Music Hall of Fame American singer and founding member of R&B Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vocal group The Coasters (Down in Mexico; Young Blood; Searchin’; Yakety Yak; Charlie Brown; Poison Ivy; Along Came Jones; Little Egypt; Blue Moon) (born May 6, 1932 – died Mar. 1, 2023; age 92) (Leon Hughes Sr. 1957 Photo: Topps Gum Cards ATCO Records)
Ben Masters (nee Benjamin Masters)
American actor of stage, TV (Julian Crane on Passions; Heartbeat; Noble House; Pensacola: Wings of Gold; Another World; Muggsy; Barnaby Jones; Murder, She Wrote), & movies (Heartbeat; Dream Lover; Mandingo; Key Exchange; All That Jazz; Making Mr. Right) (born May 6, 1947 – died Jan. 11, 2023; age 75). Ben Masters died of COVID-19 complications. (Ben Masters 1978: NBC)
Orson Welles (nee George Orson Welles; married Paola Mori)
Oscar-winning American filmmaker & actor of stage (Mercury Theatre), radio (The War of the Worlds), TV (Magnum, P.I.), & movies (Citizen Kane; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Lady from Shanghai; The Long, Hot Summer) (born May 6, 1915 – died Oct. 10, 1985; age 70). Ex of Rita Hayworth; ex-partner of Dolores Del Rio. (Orson Welles 1941: CBS Radio)
Sigmund Freud (nee Sigismund Schlomo Freud)
Austrian professor, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis, developer of associated therapeutic techniques & theories (dream analysis, free association, Oedipus complex, theory of the unconscious) (born May 6, 1856 – died Sept. 23, 1939; age 83). Sigmund Freud had cancer of the jaw and died of a morphine overdose. (Sigmund Freud 1885 Photo)
Rudolph Valentino (nee Rodolfo di Valentina d’Antonguolla)
Italian silent film actor (The Sheik; The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Cobra; The Son of the Sheik; The Eagle; Camille; The Hooded Falcon; Blood and Sand; Monsieur Beaucaire; A Sainted Devil; The Delicious Little Devil) (born May 6, 1895 – died Aug 23, 1926; age 31). Ex of Jean Acker, Natacha Rambova. Rudolph Valentino died of sepsis. (Rudolph Valentino 1920s)
Rubin Carter (“Hurricane” Carter)
American-Canadian middleweight professional boxer convicted of murder and released after almost 20 years (the conviction was overturned twice), author (The Sixteenth Round), and inspiration for The Hurricane (1999) starring Denzel Washington (born May 6, 1937 – died Apr. 20, 2014; age 76). Rubin Carter died of prostate cancer. (Rubin Carter 1958 Photo: Rubin Carter)
Stewart Granger (nee James Lablache Stewart; ex of Jean Simmons)
English-American actor of movies (The Wild Geese; Sodom and Gomorrah; North to Alaska; Moonfleet; Beau Brummell; Young Bess; Scaramouche; King Solomon’s Mines; Caesar and Cleopatra; The Whole Truth) and TV (The Virginian) (born May 6, 1913 – died Aug. 16, 1993; age 80). Stewart Granger died of bone and prostate cancer. (Stewart Granger 1952 Scaramouche Trailer)
Bill Quinn (nee William Tyrell Quinn; father-in-law of Bob Newhart)
American actor of movies & TV (Archie Bunker’s Place & All in the Family; The Rifleman; McMillan & Wife; The Bob Newhart Show; Arrest and Trial; McHale’s Navy; My Three Sons; Ironside; Mary Tyler Moore; The Odd Couple; Bonanza; Zane Grey Theater; The F.B.I.; Hawaiian Eye) (born May 6, 1912 – died Apr. 29, 1994; age 81). Bill Quinn died of natural causes. (Bill Quinn 1967 I Spy)
Claire Whitney (married Robert Emmett Keane)
American actress of classic & silent films (East Lynne; The Great Gatsby; The Chamber Mystery; Camille; Enlighten Thy Daughter; The Strange Mrs. Crane; Rocky; Frontier Investigator; An Old-Fashioned Girl; The Silver Bullet; The Haunted Mine; The Mummy’s Ghost; So’s Your Uncle) (born May 6, 1890 – died Aug. 27, 1969; age 79). (Claire Whitney 1920 Who’s Who on the Screen)
Raymond Bailey
American character actor of stage, TV (Milburn Drysdale on The Beverly Hillbillies; The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; My Sister Eileen; The Twilight Zone) and movies (Herbie Rides Again; The Strongest Man in the World; Vertigo) (born May 6, 1904 – died April 15, 1980; age 75). Raymond Bailey had Alzheimer’s Disease & died of a heart attack. (Raymond Bailey 1962 The Beverly Hillbillies)
Paul Scardon (married Betty Blythe)
Australian silent film director & actor (The Goddess; The Man From the Rio Grande; The Son of Davy Crockett; Today I Hang; The Fargo Kid; The Juggernaut; Waterloo Bridge; The Battle Cry of Peace; The Alibi; The Gamblers; The Green God; Rose of the South; The Enemy; Tangled Lives; Her Own Free Will; Canon City) (born May 6, 1874 – died Jan. 17, 1954; age 79). (Paul Scardon 1919)
Robert Peary (married Josephine Diebitsch)
American civil engineer, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, Greenland & Arctic explorer (tried crossing Greenland by dogsled; discovered Independence Fjord in Peary Land; reached “Farthest North”; claimed reaching the Geographic North Pole), National Geographic Society medalist (born May 6, 1856 – died Feb. 20, 1920; age 63). (Rear Admiral Robert Peary 1900: Nadar)
French court reporter & theater critic, Le Matin international correspondent (Russian Revolution), silent film producer (Société des Cinéromans), fiction publisher, and mystery novelist (The Phantom of the Opera), author of the Chéri Bibi and Joseph Rouletabille mysteries (The Mystery of the Yellow Room) (born May 6, 1868 – died Apr. 15, 1927; age 58). (Gaston Leroux: Unknown)
Dana Hill (nee Dana Lynne Goetz)
American voice-over artist of TV (Max Goof on Goof Troop; Duckman: Private Dick / Family Man; Problem Child; The Pink Panther; Rugrats), actress of TV (The Two of Us; Sugar and Spice) & films (National Lampoon’s European Vacation; Cross Creek; Shoot the Moon) (born May 6, 1964 – died July 15, 1996; age 32). Dana Hill died after a stroke while in a diabetic coma. (Dana Hill c. 1984)
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