Editing 1752 (section)

===May===
* [[May 4]] 
** [[John Brooks (governor)]], Massachusetts doctor, military officer, governor (d. [[1825]])
** [[François Adriaan van der Kemp]], Dutch politician (d. [[1829]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Johann Tobias Mayer]], German physicist (d. [[1830]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Johann Anton Leisewitz]], German lawyer and dramatic poet (d. [[1806]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Antonio Scarpa]], Italian anatomist (d. [[1832]])
* [[May 10]] 
** [[Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld]], First Queen of Saxony/Duchess of Warsaw (d. [[1828]])
** [[Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville]], French general (d. [[1821]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach]], German anthropologist (d. [[1840]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Michael Hughes (industrialist)|Michael Hughes]], Welsh industrialist (d. [[1825]])
[[File:Albrecht Daniel Thear Lose@BomannMuseum20160715.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Albrecht Thaer]]]]
* [[May 14]] 
** [[Albrecht Thaer]], German agronomist (d. [[1828]])
** [[Timothy Dwight IV]], American academic, educator (d. [[1817]])
** [[Juliane Reichardt]], German-born Bohemian pianist, singer and composer (d. [[1783]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Thomas Boude]], American politician (d. [[1822]])
* [[May 20]] 
** [[Charles-Louis Antiboul]], French Girondist politician (d. [[1793]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Louis Legendre]], French politician of the Revolution period (d. [[1797]])
* [[May 24]] 
** [[Oliver Cromwell (American soldier)|Oliver Cromwell]], African-American soldier (d. [[1853]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Antoine Brice]], Belgian painter (d. [[1817]])
** [[William Badger (shipbuilder)|William Badger]], master shipbuilder operating in Kittery, Maine (d. [[1830]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Robert Carr Brackenbury]], English Methodist preacher (d. [[1818]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth]], British diplomat (d. [[1825]])
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[John Marsh (composer)|John Marsh]], English music composer (d. [[1828]])