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Famous birthdays in May

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Pick a day of May to see well-known people born on it. Each date page lists names, what each person is known for and their birth year, built from Wikidata.

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The most widely known name for each day

  1. May 1: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834
  2. May 2: Catherine II of Russia 1729 Eighth Emperor of Russia, called the Great, r. 1762–1796 (lived 1729-1796)
  3. May 3: Golda Meir 1898 Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
  4. May 4: Audrey Hepburn 1929 British actress
  5. May 5: Karl Marx 1818 German-born philosopher
  6. May 6: Sigmund Freud 1856 Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis
  7. May 7: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 Russian composer
  8. May 8: Harry S. Truman 1884 President of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician
  9. May 9: J. M. Barrie 1860 Scottish writer and playwright
  10. May 10: Fred Astaire 1899 American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer
  11. May 11: Salvador Dalí 1904 Spanish artist
  12. May 12: Florence Nightingale 1820 English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing
  13. May 13: Pius IX 1792 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878
  14. May 14: Mark Zuckerberg 1984 American Internet entrepreneur
  15. May 15: Madeleine Albright 1937 United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001
  16. May 16: Megan Fox 1986 American actress and model
  17. May 17: Edward Jenner 1749 English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
  18. May 18: John Paul II 1920 264th pope of the Catholic Church
  19. May 19: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1881 Founding father of the Republic of Turkey
  20. May 20: Honoré de Balzac 1799 French novelist and playwright
  21. May 21: Andrei Sakharov 1921 Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
  22. May 22: Richard Wagner 1813 German composer
  23. May 23: John Bardeen 1908 American physicist and engineer
  24. May 24: Bob Dylan 1941 American singer-songwriter
  25. May 25: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 American philosopher
  26. May 26: John Wayne 1907 American actor
  27. May 27: Christopher Lee 1922 English actor and singer
  28. May 28: Kylie Minogue 1968 Australian singer and actress
  29. May 29: John F. Kennedy 1917 President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
  30. May 30: Mikhail Bakunin 1814 Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher
  31. May 31: Walt Whitman 1819 American poet, essayist and journalist

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