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Celebrity Birthdays for May 6: Singer Bob Seger is 80. Singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore is 80. Singer and comedian Lulu Roman ("Hee Haw") is 79. Actor Alan Dale ("Lost," ''Ugly Betty") is 78. Actor Richard Cox ("Alpha House," ''American Tragedy") is 77.

Celebrity Birthdays for May 5: Actor Michael Murphy is 87. World and Olympic champion pairs figure skater Barbara Wagner is 87. Actor Lance Henriksen ("Millennium," ''Aliens") is 85. Comedian-actor Michael Palin (Monty Python) is 82.

Celebrity Birthdays for May 8: Naturalist Sir David Attenborough is 99. Author Thomas Pynchon is 88. Singer Toni Tennille is 85. Actor James Mitchum is 84. Country singer Jack Blanchard is 83. Bassist Paul Samwell-Smith (The Yardbirds) is 82.

Today in Music History for May 12: In 1910, composer, arranger and conductor Gordon Jenkins was born in Webster Groves, Mo. He is the man responsible for bringing the ground-breaking folk group "The Weavers" to a mass audience. He died May 1, 1984.

Today in Music History for May 11: In 1888, American songwriter Irving Berlin was born in Russia. He wrote nearly 1,000 songs, and had his first hit in 1911 with "Alexander's Ragtime Band.

Today in History for May 11: In 1189, Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa and 100,000 crusaders left Regensburg in southern Germany for the Holy Land. In 1421, Jews were expelled from Styria in Austria.

Today in Music History for May 17: In 1893, the Arion Male Voice Choir gave its first concert at Institution Hall in Victoria.

Today in Music History for May 15: In 1918, country crooner Eddy Arnold was born at a farm near Henderson, Tenn.

Today in History for May 15: In 1248, Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden laid the cornerstone for a cathedral in Cologne, Germany.

Today in History for May 14: In 347, St. Pachomius, who was born in Egypt and founded the first monastery, died. In 1565, German Protestant reform theologian Nicolaus von Amsdorf died.