Editing 1908 (section)

=== May ===
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[[File:Annex - Stewart, James (Call Northside 777) 01.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Stewart]]]]
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[[File:Mel Blanc - 1959.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mel Blanc]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Krystyna Skarbek]], Polish-born World War II heroine (died [[1952]])
* [[May 5]] – [[Kurt Böhme]], German bass (died [[1989]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Max Grundig]], German inventor, industrialist (died [[1989]])
* [[May 8]] 
**[[Arturo de Córdova]], Mexican actor (died [[1973]])
**[[Leo Sternbach]], Polish-American chemist (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67588-5/fulltext | doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67588-5 | title=Leo H Sternbach | date=2005 | last1=Oransky | first1=Ivan | journal=The Lancet | volume=366 | issue=9495 | page=1430 }}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[Joe Grant]], American caricaturist, character designer, concept artist, screenwriter and storyboard artist (died [[2005]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub]], Sudanese author, 6th [[Prime Minister of Sudan]] (died [[1976]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Percy Williams (sprinter)|Percy Williams]], Canadian athlete (died [[1982]])<ref name=autogenerated1>{{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=xxv|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807074433/https://books.google.com/books?id=jfeBAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] – [[James Stewart]], American actor (died [[1997]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Allan Hunter|title=James Stewart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4FZAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Spellmount|isbn=978-0-946771-81-3|page=13|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807202441/https://books.google.com/books?id=V4FZAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 23]]
** [[John Bardeen]], American physicist, twice awarded the Nobel Prize (died [[1991]])
** [[Hélène Boucher]], French aviator (died [[1934]])
** [[Tomiko Itooka]], Japanese supercentenarian (died [[2024]])<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2024-08-20 |title=World's oldest person dies in Spain at 117, says family |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2024/0820/1465828-maria-branyas-morera/ |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 25]] – [[Theodore Roethke]], American poet (died [[1963]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Robert Morley]], British actor (died [[1992]])
** [[Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ]], 1st Prime Minister of South Vietnam (died [[1976]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Ian Fleming]], English novelist (died [[1964]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Druce|title=This Day Our Daily Fictions: An Enquiry Into the Multi-million Bestseller Status of Enid Blyton and Ian Fleming|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlctAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-5183-401-7|page=46|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807135945/https://books.google.com/books?id=DlctAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 30]]
** [[Hannes Alfvén]], Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died [[1995]])
** [[Mel Blanc]], American voice actor (died [[1989]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Don Ameche]], American actor (died [[1993]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-don-ameche-1466097.html|title=Don Ameche|date=October 23, 2011|website=The Independent|author=David Shipman|access-date=7 August 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807204303/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-don-ameche-1466097.html|url-status=live}}</ref>