Sidney Owen (81)
May 5th, 1942

English cricketer (born 1942) – Sidney Owen was born in Wellington (Town in Shropshire, England) on May 5th, 1942 and is 81 years old today.

Other personalities born on May 5

79

John Rhys-Davies

Welsh actor (born 1944)

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

35

Adele

British singer

*May 5th, 1988, Tottenham

70

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

80

Michael Palin

English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter

*May 5th, 1943, Broomhill & Sharrow Vale

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

65

Wolfgang Hellmich

German politician

*May 5th, 1958, Welver

64

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher (1818–1883)

*May 5th, 1818, Trier †March 14th, 1883, London

88

Eddi Arent

German actor and comedian

*May 5th, 1925, Wrzeszcz †May 28th, 2013, Munich

83

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

American television, film, music video, and theatre director

*May 5th, 1940, New York City

57

Chan Oi Ni

Hong Kong badminton player

*May 5th, 1966, Hong Kong

50

Andreas Bausewein

German politician

*May 5th, 1973, Erfurt

41

Vanessa Bryant

American philanthropist

*May 5th, 1982, Huntington Beach

52

Marlene Thomsen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1971, Vejle

78

Sylvia Pankhurst

English feminist and socialist (1882–1960)

*May 5th, 1882, Manchester †September 27th, 1960, Addis Ababa

52

Helene Kirkegaard

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1971, Præstevang Parish

88

Bernard Pivot

French writer and presenter

*May 5th, 1935, 4th arrondissement of Lyon

41

Kaveh Mehrabi

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1982, Tehran

83

Lance Henriksen

American actor

*May 5th, 1940, New York City

35

Sylvina Kurniawan

Australian badminton player

*May 5th, 1988, Surabaya

59

Jean-François Copé

French politician

*May 5th, 1964, Boulogne-Billancourt

70

Helga Lindner

East German swimmer

*May 5th, 1951, Chemnitz †November 3rd, 2021, Chemnitz

77

Leif Mortensen

Danish road bicycle racer, born 1946

*May 5th, 1946, Frederiksberg

47

Andrew Erickson

American biathlete

*May 5th, 1976, Minnetonka

85

Michael Murphy

American film and television actor

*May 5th, 1938, Los Angeles

23

Christopher Martínez

Badminton player

*May 5th, 2000, San Marcos

80

Ed Waterstreet

American artistic director

*May 5th, 1943, Kewaunee County

88

Richard Arlt

German Resistance member

*May 5th, 1911, Witoszyn Górny †August 25th, 1999

71

Stefan Semmler

East German rower

*May 5th, 1952, Zschopau

61

Rodica Arba

Romanian rower

*May 5th, 1962, Petricani

83

Pierre Schoendoerffer

French film director (1928–2012)

*May 5th, 1928, Chamalières †March 14th, 2012, Clamart

Also born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

27

Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist (1942–1970)

*November 27th, 1942, Seattle †September 18th, 1970, Kensington

75

Pierre Seron

Belgian comics artist (1942-2017)

*February 9th, 1942, Chênée †May 24th, 2017, Saint-Bénézet

81

Thomas Danneberg

German actor (1942–2023)

*June 2nd, 1942, Berlin †September 30th, 2023, Berlin

74

Sven-Erik Magnusson

Swedish singer and musician

*October 13th, 1942, Säffle †March 22nd, 2017, Karlstad

71

Bob Hoskins

British actor (1942–2014)

*October 26th, 1942, Bury St Edmunds †April 29th, 2014, Bury St Edmunds

82

Michael Bloomberg

American businessman and politician; 108th mayor of New York City

*February 14th, 1942, Boston

82

Mike Pender

British musician

*March 3rd, 1942, Kirkdale

70

Roger Ebert

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

*June 18th, 1942, Urbana †April 4th, 2013, Chicago

75

David Ogden Stiers

American actor (1942–2018)

*October 31st, 1942, Peoria †March 3rd, 2018, Newport

81

Fraser Stoddart

Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

*May 24th, 1942, Edinburgh

Sidney Owen