Editing 1939 (section)

=== May&ndash;June ===
[[File:Judycollins 20090205.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Judy Collins]]]]
[[File:Ruud Lubbers 1985.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ruud Lubbers]]]]
[[File:Harvey Keitel VF 2012 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Harvey Keitel]]]]
[[File:SDCC13 - Ian McKellen.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Ian McKellen]]]]
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[[File:Jackie Stewart at the 2014 WEC Silverstone round.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Jackie Stewart]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Judy Collins]], American singer-songwriter
* [[May 2]] 
** [[Sumio Iijima]], Japanese physicist and inventor<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|publisher=H.W. Wilson|year=2009|page=233}}</ref>
** [[Taomati Iuta]], [[Vice President of Kiribati]] (1991–94) (d. [[2016]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Amos Oz]], Israeli author and journalist (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Michael Sollars|author2=Arbolina Llamas Jennings|title=The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXkVKq86YIkC&pg=PA594|year=2008|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0836-0|pages=594|access-date=September 9, 2020|archive-date=September 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916233016/https://books.google.com/books?id=SXkVKq86YIkC&pg=PA594|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 7]]
** [[José Antonio Abreu]], Venezuelan orchestral conductor, music educator (d. [[2018]])
** [[Sidney Altman]], Canadian-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2022]])
** [[Ruud Lubbers]], Dutch politician, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (1982–94) (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA581|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-26490-2|pages=581|access-date=September 9, 2020|archive-date=September 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916233017/https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA581|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 9]] – [[Ralph Boston]], American athlete<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/ralph-boston|title=Ralph Boston|website=IOC|access-date=February 12, 2021|archive-date=March 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326172537/https://www.olympic.org/ralph-boston|url-status=live}}</ref> (d. 2023)
* [[May 13]] – [[Harvey Keitel]], American actor
* [[May 15]] – [[Barbara Hammer]], American filmmaker (d. [[2019]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Peter Grünberg]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica|title=Britannica Book of the Year 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QbCbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA67|date=1 May 2008|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|isbn=978-1-59339-494-3|pages=67}}</ref>
* [[May 19]]
** [[Livio Berruti]], Italian sprinter<ref>{{cite book|author=Roberto Quercetani|title=A World History of Track and Field Athletics, 1864-1964|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfeBAAAAMAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=39|access-date=September 9, 2020|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807074433/https://books.google.com/books?id=jfeBAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[James Fox]], English actor
** [[Nancy Kwan]], American actress
** [[Dick Scobee]], American astronaut (d. [[1986]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Roman Kartsev]], Russian actor (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Heinz Holliger]], Swiss oboist, composer
* [[May 22]] – [[Paul Winfield]], African-American actor (d. [[2004]])
* [[May 25]]
** [[Dixie Carter]], American actress (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Annual Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=220|access-date=September 9, 2020|archive-date=August 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200830185826/https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** Sir [[Ian McKellen]], English actor<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rPb1ElsVGl4C|date=30 September 2004|publisher=McGraw Hill Professional|isbn=978-0-07-146002-6|page=294}}</ref>
* [[May 27]] – [[Don Williams]], American musician (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Michael McCall|author2=John Rumble|author3=Paul Kingsbury|title=The Encyclopedia of Country Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=untabCgOVkgC&pg=PA589|date=16 December 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-977055-7|pages=589}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] – [[Maeve Binchy]], Irish author (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Piers Dudgeon|title=Maeve Binchy: The Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQ6uAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT203|date=1 August 2013|publisher=Biteback Publishing|isbn=978-1-84954-638-6|pages=203|access-date=September 9, 2020|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126074425/https://books.google.com/books?id=cQ6uAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT203|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] – [[Michael J. Pollard]], American actor (d. [[2019]])<ref>Bernstein, Adam for ''[[The Washington Post]]''. [https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/arts_and_entertainment/michael-j-pollard-scene-stealing-actor-in-bonnie-and-clyde/article_56b611a4-3a50-5977-a7b8-fe404b9dc45b.html "Michael J. Pollard, scene-stealing actor in 'Bonnie and Clyde,' dies at 80"], ''[[Frederick News-Post]]'', November 23, 2019. Accessed November 24, 2019</ref>
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Cleavon Little]], African-American actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Ottavio Cogliati]], Italian cyclist (d. [[2008]])
* [[June 5]]
** [[Joe Clark]], 16th [[Prime Minister of Canada]]<ref>{{cite book|author=John Robert Colombo|title=1000 Questions About Canada: Places, People, Things and Ideas, A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=atJFfMfg8PsC&pg=PA83|date=1 June 2001|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-4597-1820-3|pages=83|access-date=September 9, 2020|archive-date=April 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150351/https://books.google.com/books?id=atJFfMfg8PsC&pg=PA83|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Margaret Drabble]], English novelist<ref>{{cite book|author1=Vicki K. Janik|author2=Del Ivan Janik|author3=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Modern British Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RKkxuhw7kowC&pg=PA99|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31030-0|pages=99|access-date=September 9, 2020|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122141829/https://books.google.com/books?id=RKkxuhw7kowC&pg=PA99|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Louis Andriessen]], Dutch composer (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/arts/music/louis-andriessen-dead.html|title=Louis Andriessen, Lionized Composer With Radical Roots, Dies at 82|newspaper=New York Times|date=July 1, 2021|author=Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim|access-date=July 2, 2021|archive-date=July 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702190432/http://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/arts/music/louis-andriessen-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Ileana Cotrubaș]], Romanian soprano
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Jackie Stewart]], Scottish motor racing driver
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Billy "Crash" Craddock]], American country and rockabilly singer
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Charles Jencks]], American cultural theorist (d. [[2019]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Ada Yonath]], Israeli crystallographer
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Judy Olson Duhamel]], American politician and educator<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Taylor Rick |first=Lynn |title=Judy Olson Duhamel |url=https://sdexcellence.org/w/images/b/b9/Judy_Olson_Duhamel_Black_Hills_Faces.pdf |magazine=Black Hills Faces Magazine |access-date=April 4, 2024}}</ref>
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Osvaldo Hurtado]], 34th [[President of Ecuador]]
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Sante Gaiardoni]], Italian cyclist (d. [[2023]])
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Renzo Rovatti]], Italian footballer