Month: May

Famous people born in January are Dante Alighieri, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dalí, Alexander Pushkin, Niccolò Machiavelli,

May 1

Madeline Brewer

American actress

Born: May 1, 1992

🎂 Turns 35 years

Nicholas Braun

American actor

Born: May 1, 1988

🎂 Turns 39 years

Yang Jiechi

Politburo member of the Chinese Communist Party

Born: May 1, 1950

🎂 Turns 77 years

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

May 2

James Dyson

British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947)

Born: May 2, 1947

🎂 Turns 80 years

Jacques Rogge

President of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013

Born: May 2, 1942

Died: August 29, 2021

Would be 85 years

Sarah Hughes

figure skater

Born: May 2, 1985

🎂 Turns 42 years

May 3

Alexander Gerst

German ESA astronaut and geophysicist

Born: May 3, 1976

🎂 Turns 51 years

Věra Čáslavská

Czechoslovak sports official, sport gymnast and coach

Born: May 3, 1942

Died: August 30, 2016

Would be 85 years

Mary Astor

American actress and author (1906–1987)

Born: May 3, 1906

Died: September 25, 1987

Would be 121 years

May 4

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Italian maker of musical instruments (1655–1731)

Born: May 4, 1655

Died: January 27, 1731

Would be 372 years

Keith Haring

American artist and social activist (1958–1990)

Born: May 4, 1958

Died: January 1, 1989

Would be 69 years

Kangxi Emperor

3rd Emperor of the Qing dynasty (r. 1661–1722)

Born: May 4, 1654

Died: December 20, 1722

Would be 373 years

May 5

Nathan Chen

American figure skater (born 1999)

Born: May 5, 1999

🎂 Turns 28 years

Michael Palin

English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter

Born: May 5, 1943

🎂 Turns 84 years

Lance Henriksen

American actor

Born: May 5, 1940

🎂 Turns 87 years

May 6

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker (1880–1938)

Born: May 6, 1880

Died: June 15, 1938

Would be 147 years

Nicholas II

the 14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917)

Born: May 6, 1868

Died: July 17, 1918

Would be 159 years

Pope Innocent X

pope from 1644 to 1655

Born: May 6, 1574

Died: January 7, 1655

Would be 453 years

May 7

Robert Browning

English poet and playwright (1812–1889)

Born: May 7, 1812

Died: December 12, 1889

Would be 215 years

Olympe de Gouges

French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)

Born: May 7, 1748

Died: November 3, 1793

Would be 279 years

May 8

Aleksandr Deyneka

Russian artist (1899-1969)

Born: May 8, 1899

Died: June 12, 1969

Would be 128 years

Rebeca Andrade

Brazilian artistic gymnast

Born: May 8, 1999

🎂 Turns 28 years

Nora Arnezeder

French actress and singer

Born: May 8, 1989

🎂 Turns 38 years

May 9

Noah Centineo

American actor

Born: May 9, 1996

🎂 Turns 31 years

Pedro Armendáriz

Mexican actor (1912-1963)

Born: May 9, 1912

Died: June 18, 1963

Would be 115 years

May 10

Katja Seizinger

German former alpine ski racer

Born: May 10, 1972

🎂 Turns 55 years

Odette Annable

American actress

Born: May 10, 1985

🎂 Turns 42 years

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

British-born American astronomer

Born: May 10, 1900

Died: December 7, 1979

Would be 127 years

May 11

Salvador Dalí

Spanish artist (1904–1989)

Born: May 11, 1904

Died: January 23, 1989

Would be 123 years

Natasha Richardson

British actress (1963–2009)

Born: May 11, 1963

Died: March 18, 2009

Would be 64 years

Lana Condor

Vietnamese-American actress

Born: May 11, 1997

🎂 Turns 30 years

May 12

Odeya Rush

Israeli actress and model

Born: May 12, 1997

🎂 Turns 30 years

Katharine Hepburn

American actress (1907–2003)

Born: May 12, 1907

Died: June 29, 2003

Would be 120 years

Domhnall Gleeson

Irish actor (1983-)

Born: May 12, 1983

🎂 Turns 44 years

May 13

Georges Braque

French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)

Born: May 13, 1882

Died: August 31, 1963

Would be 144 years

Pope Pius IX

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878

Born: May 13, 1792

Died: February 7, 1878

Would be 234 years

Robert Pattinson

British actor (born 1986)

Born: May 13, 1986

🎂 Turns 40 years

May 14

Mark Zuckerberg

American Internet entrepreneur

Born: May 14, 1984

🎂 Turns 42 years

Miranda Cosgrove

American actress and singer (born 1993)

Born: May 14, 1993

🎂 Turns 33 years

May 15

Frank de Boer

Dutch association football player and manager (born 1970)

Born: May 15, 1970

🎂 Turns 56 years

Andy Murray

British tennis player

Born: May 15, 1987

🎂 Turns 39 years

Arthur Schnitzler

Austrian writer (1862–1931)

Born: May 15, 1862

Died: October 21, 1931

Would be 164 years

May 16

Joan Benoit

American distance runner

Born: May 16, 1957

🎂 Turns 69 years

Johannes Thingnes Bø

Norwegian biathlete

Born: May 16, 1993

🎂 Turns 33 years

Megan Fox

American actress and model

Born: May 16, 1986

🎂 Turns 40 years

May 17

Tessa Virtue

Canadian ice dancer

Born: May 17, 1989

🎂 Turns 37 years

Nikki Reed

American actress

Born: May 17, 1988

🎂 Turns 38 years

Norman Lockyer

English scientist and astronomer (1836–1920)

Born: May 17, 1836

Died: August 16, 1920

Would be 190 years

May 18

Pope John Paul II

264th pope of the Catholic Church (1920–2005)

Born: May 18, 1920

Died: April 2, 2005

Would be 106 years

Miriam Margolyes

British-Australian actress

Born: May 18, 1941

🎂 Turns 85 years

Omar Khayyam

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

Born: May 18, 1048

Died: December 4, 1131

Would be 978 years

Chow Yun-fat

May 19

Pope Innocent XI

pope of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689

Born: May 19, 1611

Died: August 12, 1689

Would be 415 years

Nancy Kwan

Chinese-American actress

Born: May 19, 1939

🎂 Turns 87 years

Nora Ephron

American film director and writer (1941–2012)

Born: May 19, 1941

Died: June 26, 2012

Would be 85 years

May 20

Emile Berliner

German-born American inventor (1851–1929)

Born: May 20, 1851

Died: August 3, 1929

Would be 175 years

Matt Czuchry

American actor

Born: May 20, 1977

🎂 Turns 49 years

Honoré de Balzac

French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

Born: May 20, 1799

Died: August 18, 1850

Would be 227 years

May 21

Albrecht Dürer

German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471–1528)

Born: May 21, 1471

Died: April 6, 1528

Would be 555 years

Henri Rousseau

French painter (1844–1910)

Born: May 21, 1844

Died: September 2, 1910

Would be 182 years

Tom Daley

British diver

Born: May 21, 1994

🎂 Turns 32 years

May 22

Mary Cassatt

American painter and printmaker (1844—1926)

Born: May 22, 1844

Died: June 14, 1926

Would be 182 years

Apolo Ohno

American short track speed skater

Born: May 22, 1982

🎂 Turns 44 years

Maggie Q

American actress

Born: May 22, 1979

🎂 Turns 47 years

May 23

Thomas Reiter

European astronaut

Born: May 23, 1958

🎂 Turns 68 years

John Bardeen

American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)

Born: May 23, 1908

Died: January 30, 1991

Would be 118 years

Otto Lilienthal

German aviation pioneer (1848-1896)

Born: May 23, 1848

Died: August 10, 1896

Would be 178 years

Nadja Uhl

May 24

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)

Born: May 24, 1686

Died: September 16, 1736

Would be 340 years

Irena Szewińska

Polish sprinter and sports official

Born: May 24, 1946

Died: June 29, 2018

Would be 80 years

Jia Zhangke

Chinese film director and screenwriter (born 1970)

Born: May 24, 1970

🎂 Turns 56 years

Queen Victoria

May 25

Georgy Grechko

Soviet cosmonaut (1931–2017)

Born: May 25, 1931

Died: April 8, 2017

Would be 95 years

Igor Sikorsky

American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)

Born: May 25, 1889

Died: October 26, 1972

Would be 137 years

Kamil Stoch

Polish ski jumper

Born: May 25, 1987

🎂 Turns 39 years

May 26

Sally Ride

American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)

Born: May 26, 1951

Died: July 23, 2012

Would be 75 years

Pope Clement VII

pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534)

Born: May 26, 1478

Died: September 25, 1534

Would be 548 years

Pam Grier

American actress

Born: May 26, 1949

🎂 Turns 77 years

May 27

Francis Beaufort

Irish hydrographer and naval officer (1774-1857)

Born: May 27, 1774

Died: December 17, 1857

Would be 252 years

Martina Sáblíková

Czech speed skater and cyclist

Born: May 27, 1987

🎂 Turns 39 years

Paul Bettany

British actor

Born: May 27, 1971

🎂 Turns 55 years

May 28

Carl Larsson

Swedish painter (1853-1919)

Born: May 28, 1853

Died: January 22, 1919

Would be 173 years

Frank Drake

American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)

Born: May 28, 1930

Died: September 2, 2022

Would be 96 years

Ian Fleming

British author (1908–1964)

Born: May 28, 1908

Died: August 12, 1964

Would be 118 years

May 29

Maika Monroe

American actress

Born: May 29, 1993

🎂 Turns 33 years

Louise Michel

French author and anarchist (1830-1905)

Born: May 29, 1830

Died: January 9, 1905

Would be 196 years

John F. Kennedy

president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)

Born: May 29, 1917

Died: November 22, 1963

Would be 109 years

May 30

Helen Sharman

British chemist who became the first Briton in space

Born: May 30, 1963

🎂 Turns 63 years

Michael López-Alegría

American astronaut

Born: May 30, 1958

🎂 Turns 68 years

Paresh Rawal

Indian actor and politician

Born: May 30, 1950

🎂 Turns 76 years

May 31

Nicolas Poussin

French painter (1594-1665)

Born: May 31, 1594

Died: November 19, 1665

Would be 432 years

Eric Moussambani

Equatoguinean swimmer

Born: May 31, 1978

🎂 Turns 48 years

Pope Pius XI

pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

Born: May 31, 1857

Died: February 10, 1939

Would be 169 years