Some famous birthdays today:

• Justinian I (politician, legislator, born May 11, 482)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (politician, writer, poet, translator, philosopher, diplomat, historian, political theorist, military theorist, born May 3, 1469)
• Theoderic the Great (sovereign, tribal chief, born May 11, 454)
• Augustus II the Strong (art collector, primate, born May 12, 1670)
• Katharine Hepburn (autobiographer, actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born May 12, 1907)
• Gabriel Fauré (pianist, composer, university teacher, music pedagogue, organist, musicologist, kapellmeister, born May 12, 1845)
• Jules Massenet (pianist, composer, university teacher, music pedagogue, musicologist, born May 12, 1842)
• Tokugawa Hidetada (politician, born May 2, 1579)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (painter, poet, translator, illustrator, born May 12, 1828)
• Burt Bacharach (songwriter, pianist, composer, film score composer, born May 12, 1928)
• Dorothy Hodgkin (physicist, biologist, chemist, biochemist, crystallographer, biophysicist, born May 12, 1910)
• Manuel de Godoy, Prince of the Peace (politician, military personnel, born May 12, 1767)
• Steve Winwood (singer, guitarist, songwriter, born May 12, 1948)
• Daniel Libeskind (architect, born May 12, 1946)
• Sam Nujoma (politician, autobiographer, born May 12, 1929)
• Gabriel Byrne (screenwriter, writer, author, film director, actor, film actor, stage actor, film producer, teacher, cook, born May 12, 1950)
• Jesús Franco (screenwriter, film director, actor, film actor, film editor, film producer, composer, director, cinematographer, camera operator, filmmaker, born May 12, 1930)
• Cosimo II de' Medici (politician, born May 12, 1590)
• Emilio Estevez (screenwriter, writer, film director, actor, film actor, television actor, film producer, born May 12, 1962)
• Don Juan Manuel (politician, writer, born May 5, 1282)
• Frank Stella (painter, engraver, sculptor, born May 12, 1936)
• Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (politician, born May 12, 1725)
• Abelardo L. Rodríguez (politician, born May 12, 1889)
• Helene Weigel (politician, film actor, stage actor, intendant (government official), born May 12, 1900)
• Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (nun, born May 3, 1415)
• Ayaz Mutallibov (politician, born May 12, 1938)
• Henry Cabot Lodge (politician, historian, born May 12, 1850)
• Farley Mowat (writer, born May 12, 1921)
• Joachim von Sandrart (painter, translator, art historian, printmaker, born May 12, 1606)
• Hermes da Fonseca (politician, born May 12, 1855)
• Guillermo Endara (politician, lawyer, born May 12, 1936)
• Margaret of York (politician, born May 3, 1446)
• Otto Frank (businessperson, banker, merchant, amateur photographer, born May 12, 1889)
• Fritz Kortner (screenwriter, film actor, born May 12, 1892)
• Lill Lindfors (singer, actor, born May 12, 1940)
• Stephen Baldwin (film director, actor, film actor, television actor, film producer, born May 12, 1966)