May 2nd Birthdays

American singer, Lesley Gore, was born on this day in 1946, as Lesley Sue Goldstein in Brooklyn, NY. Lesley blew up the charts in 1963 with her iconic “It’s My Party” smash hit. She went on to rack up a string of Top 20 hits. Lesley died at age 68 on February 16, 2015. Here is her No. 2 hit, “You Don’t Own Me” from 1964.

Also born on May 2nd

1936
Engelbert Humperdinck, Indian-born singer
1941
Clay Carroll, American baseball player
1924
Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-American model, actress
1946
David Suchet, English actor
1948
Larry Gatlin, American musician
1950
Lou Gramm, American vocalist
1952
Christine Baranski, American actress
1959
Tony Wakeford, English musician
1962
Elizabeth Berridge, American actress
Mitzi Kapture, American actress
1965
Félix José, Dominican baseball player
1972
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, American wrestler, actor
1975
Eva Santolaria, Spanish actress
1977
Luke Hudson, American baseball player
Jenna von Oy, American actress
1978
Steve Bays, Canadian musician
Melvin Ely, American basketball player
1980
Troy Murphy, American basketball player
1981
Robert Buckley, American actor
1984
Thabo Sefolosha, American basketball player
1985
Lily Allen, English singer, songwriter
Jarrod Saltalamacchia, American baseball player
1986
James Kirk, Canadian actor
Emily Hart, American actress
1988
Neftali Feliz, Dominican baseball player
1988
Lara Liang, Taiwanese-American singer
1990
Kay Panabaker, American actress
1991
Laurie Liang, English actor
1994
Josh Bolt, American actor
1997
Perla Haney-Jardine, Brazilian-American actress
2015
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, British royal,
4th in line to British throne