Born on this day – Eva Schloss:

Eva Schloss

Writer

Holocaust survivor

May 11, 1929 – January 3, 2026

Credits:

Books:

After Auschwitz: My Memories of Otto and Anne Frank (2013); Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale, by the Stepsister of Anne Frank (1988); The Promise (2006).

Movies and television:

A Tale of Two Sisters (2015); And Then They Came for Me (2007); Anne Frank House VR (2018); Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary (2015); BBC World News (2008); Britain's Holocaust Survivors (2013); Call Me Papa: The Letters of Otto Frank (2026); Du sollst leben! - Holocaust-Überlebende im Gespräch mit Markus Lanz (2015); Hate Among Us (2019); History vs. Hollywood (2001); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Horrors of the Holocaust (2023); III nach neun (2016); Jinek (2017); Kaaskoppen & waterlanders (2008); Markus Lanz (2017); My Daughter, Anne Frank (2015); När livet vänder (2020); Nazis on the Run: The Series (2021); No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story (2015); Otto Frank, Father of Anne (2010); Pauw & Witteman (2010); Rendez-vous de l'histoire (2025); Sunday Life (2008); Surviving Hitler's Mad Doctors (2022); The Diary of Anne Frank: A Tale of Two Sisters (2015); The Final Days of the Nazis (2023); This Morning (2013); Times Series Video News: And Then They Came for Me - Remembering the World of Anne Frank (2008); WGN Morning News (2018).

Born on this day – Yvonne Furneaux:

Yvonne Furneaux

Actress

May 11, 1926 – July 5, 2024

Credits:

A noi piace freddo...! (1960); Adventure Theater (1956); Affair in Monte Carlo (1952); Caccia all'uomo (1961); Carta al cielo (1959); Charge of the Black Lancers (1962); Cross Channel (1955); Crossed Swords (1954); Enough Rope (1963); Fellini (1960); Film Fanfare (1956); Film Time (1955); Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie (1984); Grand écran (1964); Hereward the Wake (1965); I 4 tassisti / Segment: Caccia al Tesoro (1963); Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960); Il principe dalla maschera rossa (1955); In the Name of the Italian People (1971); ITV Play of the Week (1957); La Dolce Vita (1960); Lisbon (1956); Lui, lei e il nonno (1959); Night Train to Milan (1962); Noi che abbiamo fatto la dolce vita (2009); Nom-de-Plume (1956); Repulsion (1965); Rheingold Theatre (1953); Rommel and the Plot to Kill Hitler (2006); Secret Agent (1965); Slave Queen of Babylon (1963); The Baron (1966); The Beggar's Opera (1953); The Champagne Murders (1967); The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964); The Genie / Segment: The Genie (1953); The Girlfriends (1955); The House of the Arrow (1953); The Javanese Dagger (1954); The Last of the Powerseekers (1969); The Lion of Thebes (1964); The Man in a Looking Glass (1965); The Man Who Never Was (1966); The Master of Ballantrae (1953); The Mummy (1959); The Scarlet Pimpernel (1955); The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo (1961); The Three Princes (1954); The Warriors (1955); The World of Hammer (1994); Tonight at 8:30 / Segment: Ways and Means (1952); Versuchung im Sommerwind (1972); Via Margutta (1960); Zehn Minuten für den Kinogänger (1964).

Born on this day – Phil Silvers:

Phil Silvers

Actor

Comedian

May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985

Born on this day – Betty Boyd:

Betty Boyd

Actress

May 11, 1908 – September 16, 1971

Credits:

A Modern Hero (1934); A Royal Romance (1930); Along Came Youth (1930); An Old Gypsy Custom (1934); Battling Sisters (1929); Companionate Service (1928); Ex-Sweeties (1931); Fallen Angel (1945); French Kisses (1930); Gun Law (1933); Hard Work (1928); Honeymooniacs (1929); Hot Sports (1929); In a Persian Market (1929); Indiscreet Pete (1928); Light of India (1929); Lilies of the Field (1929); Maid to Order (1931); Off Again (1927); Papa's Boy (1927); Paradise Island (1930); Privates Beware (1928); Purely Circumstantial (1929); Samson and Delilah (1949); Social Prestige (1928); The Godless Girl (1928); The Green Goddess (1930); The Quiet Worker (1928); The Right Bed (1929); The Show (1927); Under a Texas Moon (1930); Vacation Loves (1930); Wedded Blisters (1928); Who's Lyin? (1928).

Born on this day – Kansas Joe McCoy:

Kansas Joe McCoy

Blues singer

Musician

Songwriter

May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950

Credits:

Songs:

Botherin' That Thing; Delta Bound; Evil devil woman blues; Hey Hey Loretta; Hoodoo Women; If You Take Me Back; If You're a Viper; I'm Going Back Home; Joliet Bound; Lake Providence Blues; Let's Get Drunk and Truck; Let'sTry It Again; Look Who's Coming Down The Road; Meat Cutter Blues; Motherless and Fatherless Blues; My Babe, My Babe; My Garbage Man; Oh! Red; Pile Driver Blues; Pile Drivin' Blues; Root Hog or Die; That will be alright; That'll Be Alright; The Candy Man; The World Is a Hard Place to Live In; Time A-Wastin'; Twenty Minutes To Hell; Well, Well; Wet It; When the Levee Breaks; Why Don’t You Do Right; You Done Tore Your Pants With me.

Ann Patchett, on writing:

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head.

It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

- Ann Patchett.

On this day in music history:

Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs by Susan Graham (2004)

Haunted Heart by Renée Fleming (2005)

lovestrong by Christina Perri (2011)

Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs

Album by Susan Graham,

released May 10, 2004.

Piano: Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Track list: The Things Our Fathers Loved; The Housatonic at Stockbridge; Swimmers; Memories; Ann Street; Serenity; 1, 2, 3; Songs My Mother Taught Me; The Circus Band; The Cage; The Indians; Like a Sick Eagle; Remembrance; September; Soliloquy; A Farewell to Land; Thoreau; Sonata No. 2: Concord, Mass; Emerson; Hawthorne; The Alcotts; Thoreau.

Haunted Heart

Album by Renée Fleming,

released May 10, 2005.

Track list: Haunted Heart; River; When Did You Leave Heaven?; You’ve Changed; Answer Me; My Cherie Amour; In My Life; The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress; Wozzeck/The Midnight Sun; Liebst du um Schönheit; My One And Only Love/This Is Always; Canção do Amor; Psyché; Hard Times Come Again No More.

lovestrong

Album by Christina Perri,

released May 10, 2011.

Track list: Bluebird; Arms; Bang Bang Bang; Distance; Jar of Hearts; Mine; Interlude; Penguin; Miles; The Lonely; Sad Song; Tragedy; [CD-ROM Track] [Multimedia Track].