Today in History and Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity Birthdays for May 10: Actor David Clennon is 82. Singer Donovan is 79. Singer Graham Gouldman of 10cc is 79. Singer Dave Mason is 79. Rock vocalist Jay Ferguson (Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne) is 78. Actress Meg Foster is 77.

Celebrity Birthdays for May 7: Singer Thelma Houston is 82. Actress Robin Strasser ("One Life To Live," ''Passions") is 80. Singer-songwriter Bill Danoff (Starland Vocal Band) is 79. Drummer Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead is 79.

Celebrity Birthdays for May 4: Katherine Jackson, matriarch of the Jackson musical family, is 95. Jazz bassist Ron Carter is 88. Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator George Will is 84. Singer Peggy Santiglia Davison of The Angels is 81.

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.