Editing 1931 (section)

===May===
[[File:Willie Mays cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Willie Mays]]]]
[[File:Faten Hamama 1962.jpg| thumb|100px|[[Faten Hamama]]]]
[[File:Carroll Baker headshot for Station Six-Sahara 1962.png|thumb|100px|[[Carroll Baker]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool]], Pakistani educationist (d. [[1991]])
* [[May 3]] 
** [[Aldo Rossi]], Italian architect and designer (d. [[1997]])
** [[Hirokazu Kanazawa]], Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (d. [[2019]])
* [[May 6]]
** [[Magda el-Sabahi]], Egyptian actress (d. [[2020]])
** [[Willie Mays]], African-American baseball player (d. [[2024]])
* [[May 7]] 
** [[Teresa Brewer]], American pop, jazz singer (d. [[2007]])
** [[Marta Terry González]], Cuban librarian (d. [[2018]])
** [[Gene Wolfe]], American science fiction and fantasy writer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/gene-wolfe-obituary|title=Gene Wolfe Obituary |date=April 29, 2019|author=John Clute|website=The Guardian|access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] – [[M. Chidananda Murthy]], Indian historian (d. [[2020]])
* [[May 13]]
** [[András Hajnal]], Hungarian mathematician (d. [[2016]])
** [[Jim Jones]], American People's Temple cult leader (d. [[1978]])
** [[Jiří Petr]], Czech university president (d. [[2014]])
* [[May 15]] – [[James Fitz-Allen Mitchell]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Magda Guzmán]], Mexican actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Victoria Quirino-Gonzalez]], First Lady of the Philippines (d. [[2006]])
* [[May 20]] – [[George Vassiliou]], 3rd [[President of Cyprus]]
* [[May 21]] – [[Bombolo]], Italian character actor and comedian (d. [[1987]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Georgy Grechko]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2017]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Faten Hamama]], Egyptian actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Carroll Baker]], American actress
* [[May 31]]
** [[John Robert Schrieffer|John Schrieffer]], American physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2019]])
** [[Shirley Verrett]], American mezzo-soprano (d. [[2010]])