Editing 1936 (section)

=== May ===
[[File:Albert Finney 1966.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Albert Finney]]]]
[[File:Bobby Darin 1959.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Bobby Darin]]]]
[[File:Dennis Hopper Cannes 2008 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dennis Hopper]]]]
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* [[May 1]] – [[Straub-Huillet|Danièle Huillet]], French filmmaker (d. [[2006]])
* [[May 2]]
** [[Norma Aleandro]], Argentinian actress
** [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]] (b. Arnold George Dorsey), British singer
* [[May 4]] – [[El Cordobés]], Spanish matador
* [[May 5]] – [[Trần Đức Lương]], 5th [[President of Vietnam]]
* [[May 7]] – [[Jimmy Ruffin]], African-American singer (d. [[2014]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Albert Finney]], English actor (d. [[2019]])
** [[Glenda Jackson]], English actress and politician (d. [[2023]])
** [[Ernest Shonekan]], 9th Head of State of [[Nigeria]] (d. [[2022]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[Klaus Doldinger]], German musician
** [[Guillermo Endara]], 32nd [[President of Panama]] (1989–1994) (d. [[2009]])
**[[Manuel Alegre]], Portuguese politician
* [[May 13]] – [[Rafael Campos]], Dominican actor (d. [[1985]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Bobby Darin]], American singer (d. [[1973]])
* [[May 16]]
** [[Philippe de Montebello]], American museum director
** [[Karl Lehmann]], German Catholic cardinal (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Dennis Hopper]], American actor and director (d. [[2010]])
* [[May 20]]
** [[Nickey Iyambo]], Namibian politician, 1st [[Vice-President of Namibia]] (d. [[2019]])
** [[Antanas Vaupšas]], Lithuanian athlete (d. [[2017]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Günter Blobel]], German-American biologist, academic and [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Charles Kimbrough]], American actor (d. [[2023]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Tom T. Hall]], American country singer-songwriter (d. [[2021]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Phyllis Italiano]], American politician and teacher (d. [[2024]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Louis Gossett Jr.]], African-American actor (d. [[2024]])
* [[May 28]] – [[James B. Goetz]], American radio broadcaster, politician and [[Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota]] from 1967 to 1971 (d. [[2019]])