This Week’s Birthdays – Week of May 7

May 7, 1955 – Peter Reckell, American actor.

May 8, 1884 – Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States.

May 9, 1800 – John Brown, was a revolutionary abolitionist.

May 10, 1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)

May 11, 1783 – Peter Willemoes, a Danish naval officer.

May 12, 1978 – Malin Maria Åkerman, a Swedish–Canadian actress, model and singer.

May 13, 1907 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE, an English author and playwright.