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Famous May Birthdays
The following 7,600 famous people including celebrities were born in the month of May. A random sample was chosen for each day. Click the after the name to explore the birth date info. You might also want to browse the filtered celebrity birthdays in May.
Zodiac signs for May are Taurus ♉ and Gemini ♊. The modern birthstone for May is Emerald while the mystical gemstone (based on Tibetan origin) is Sapphire.
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May 1
1924
Big Maybelle, American singer and pianist (d. 1972)
1936
Jerry Mander, American author and activist
1942
Stephen Macht, American actor
1971
Ethan Albright, American football player
1989
Tim Urban, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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May 2
1924
Hugh Cortazzi, English soldier, historian, and diplomat, British Ambassador to Japan
1946
Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2015)
1961
Steve James, English snooker player
1962
Taťána Kocembová, Czech runner
1988
Stephen Henderson, Irish footballer
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May 3
612
Constantine III, Byzantine emperor (d. 641)
1926
Herbert Blau, American engineer and academic (d. 2013)
1940
Clemens Westerhof, Dutch footballer and manager
1965
Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian businessman
1981
Charlie Brooks, English-Welsh actress
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May 4
1851
Thomas Dewing, American painter (d. 1938)
1887
Andrew Dasburg, French-American painter (d. 1979)
1947
Richard Jenkins, American actor
1981
Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer
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May 5
1883
Agustín Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer (d. 1944)
1925
Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (d. 1978)
1927
Pat Carroll, American actress and singer
1940
Lance Henriksen, American actor
1959
Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen, Electrafixion, and Crucial Three)
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May 6
1843
Grove Karl Gilbert, American geologist and academic (d. 1918)
1870
Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer (d. 1936)
1930
Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer
1955
Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh
1991
Harriet Lee, English swimmer
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May 7
1913
John Spencer Hardy, American general (d. 2012)
1946
Michael Rosen, English author and poet
1949
Deborah Butterfield, American sculptor
1967
Joe Rice, American colonel and politician
1967
Martin Bryant, Australian spree killer
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May 8
1904
John Snagge, English journalist (d. 1996)
1915
Milton Meltzer, American historian and author (d. 2009)
1938
Corine Rottschäfer, Dutch model, Miss World 1959
1958
Simone Kleinsma, Dutch actress and singer
1981
John Maine, American baseball player
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May 9
1845
Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and businessman (d. 1913)
1866
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian economist and politician (d. 1915)
1975
Brian Deegan, American motocross rider
1985
Jake Long, American football player
1996
Saron Läänmäe, Estonian footballer
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May 10
1897
Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)
1931
Ichirō Nagai, Japanese voice actor (d. 2014)
1971
Monisha Kaltenborn, Indian-Swiss lawyer and businesswoman
1977
Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
1996
Kateřina Siniaková, Czech tennis player
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May 11
1888
Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945)
1952
Warren Littlefield, American businessman
1960
Jürgen Schult, German discus thrower and trainer
1987
Albulena Haxhiu, Kosovo jurist and politician
1989
Gianluigi Bianco, Italian footballer
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May 12
1859
William Alden Smith, American lawyer and politician (d. 1932)
1950
Bruce Boxleitner, American actor and author
1956
Sergio Marchi, Argentinean-Canadian urban planner and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of International Trade
1961
Jennifer Armstrong, American author
1974
Marc Capdevila, Spanish swimmer
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May 13
1936
Bill Rompkey, Canadian educator and politician
1942
Roger Young, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1969
Buckethead, American guitarist and songwriter (Guns N' Roses, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Praxis, and Deli Creeps)
1977
Robby Hammock, American baseball player and coach
1982
Yoko Kumada, Japanese model and singer
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May 14
1942
Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (d. 2003)
1947
Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
1973
Julian White, English rugby player
1974
Anu Välba, Estonian journalist
1982
Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
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May 15
1892
Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969)
1902
Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
1925
Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist and biologist (d. 2014)
1969
Holly McPeak, American beach volleyball player
1978
Dwayne De Rosario, Canadian soccer player
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May 16
1922
Eddie Bert, American trombonist (d. 2012)
1931
Hana Brady, Czech-Polish holocaust victim (d. 1944)
1943
Dan Coats, American politician and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Germany
1948
Emma Georgina Rothschild, English historian and academic
1996
Louisa Chirico, American tennis player
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May 17
1939
Hugh Dykes, Baron Dykes, English politician
1940
Reynato Puno, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 22nd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
1978
John Foster, American baseball player and coach
1979
Wayne Thomas, English footballer
1987
Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norwegian cyclist
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May 18
1934
Dwayne Hickman, American actor and director
1939
Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer-songwriter and actress
1972
Turner Stevenson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1977
Danny Mills, English footballer and sportscaster
1977
Lee Hendrie, English footballer
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May 19
1878
Alfred Laliberté, Canadian sculptor and painter (d. 1953)
1939
Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong-American actress and makeup artist
1971
Psicosis, Mexican wrestler
1975
London Fletcher, American football player
1977
Wouter Hamel, Dutch singer and guitarist
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May 20
1889
Karin Molander, Swedish actress (d. 1978)
1960
Tony Goldwyn, American actor and director
1969
Road Dogg, American wrestler, producer, and soldier
1983
Emma Williams, English actress and singer
1992
AJ Muhlach, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer (XLR8)
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May 21
1907
John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
1919
George P. Mitchell, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1930
Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
1933
Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (d. 1993)
1960
Vladimir Salnikov, Russian swimmer
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May 22
1715
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1794)
1917
Nathan Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
1943
Betty Williams, Northern Irish activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1944
Beaton Tulk, Canadian educator and politician, 7th Premier of Newfoundland
1981
Lee Bullock, English footballer
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May 23
1888
Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer (d. 1972)
1942
Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher, author, and academic
1946
Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
1967
Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician
1973
Klaus Ambrosch, Austrian decathlete
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May 24
1911
Barbara West, English survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 2007)
1933
Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author (d. 2015)
1942
Ali Bacher, South African cricketer and manager
1956
Richard B. Bernstein, American historian and academic
1989
Adel Taarabt, Moroccan footballer
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May 25
1883
Carl Johan Lind, Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1965)
1909
Marie Menken, American actress, director, and painter (d. 1970)
1939
Dixie Carter, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
1959
Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
1986
Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
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May 26
1942
Ganapathi Sachchidananda, Indian guru
1944
Sam Posey, American race car driver and journalist
1976
Justin Pierre, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1983
Demy de Zeeuw, Dutch footballer
1988
Damian Williams, American football player
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May 27
1819
Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (d. 1910)
1930
John Barth, American author and academic
1936
Benjamin Bathurst, English admiral
1970
Tim Farron, English educator and politician
1984
Blake Ahearn, American basketball player
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May 28
1970
Jimi Goodwin, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doves and Sub Sub)
1974
Alicia Minshew, American actress
1975
Maura Johnston, American journalist, critic, and academic
1977
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host and author
1995
Jacob Kogan, American actor
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May 29
1921
Clifton James, American actor
1922
Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist (d. 2001)
1963
Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter (Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane)
1982
Matt Macri, American baseball player
1992
Gregg Sulkin, English actor
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May 30
1906
Bruno Gröning, Polish-German mystic and author (d. 1959)
1945
Richard Hannon, Sr., English horse trainer
1959
Randy Ferbey, Canadian curler
1962
Tonya Pinkins, American actress and singer
1971
Jiří Šlégr, Czech ice hockey player and politician
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May 31
1922
Denholm Elliott, English-Spanish actor (d. 1992)
1938
John Prescott, Welsh sailor and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1940
Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Ukrainian hammer thrower and coach
1955
Nilüfer Yumlu, Turkish singer-songwriter
1972
John Godina, American shot putter and discus thrower
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