Editing 1921 (section)

===May===
[[File:Satyajit Ray with Ravi Sankar recording for Pather Panchali cropped Ray.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Satyajit Ray]]]]
[[File:Sugar Ray Robinson 1947.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Sugar Ray Robinson]]]]
[[File:RIAN archive 25981 Academician Sakharov.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Andrei Sakharov]]]]
* [[May 2]] 
** [[B. B. Lal (archaeologist)|B. B. Lal]], Indian archaeologist (d. [[2022]])
** [[Satyajit Ray]], Indian filmmaker (d. [[1992]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Sugar Ray Robinson]], American boxer (d. [[1989]])<ref>Robinson, Sugar Ray, and [[Dave Anderson (sportswriter)|Anderson, Dave]]. ''Sugar Ray'', London: Da Capo Press, 1994 {{ISBN|0-306-80574-X}} page 7</ref>
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Harry Daghlian]], American physicist (d. [[1945]])
* [[May 5]] 
** [[Jim Conacher]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2020]])
** [[Arthur Leonard Schawlow]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1999]])
** [[Eric Tweedale]], English-born Australian rugby union player (d. [[2023]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Erich Fried]], Austrian author (d. [[1988]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Robert Hugh Ferrell]], American historian (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Sophie Scholl]], German student, anti-Nazi resistance fighter (executed) (d. [[1943]])
* [[May 11]] 
** [[Hildegard Hamm-Brücher]], German politician (d. [[2016]])
** [[Alec Mathieson]], Australian rules footballer (d. [[2022]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[Joseph Beuys]], German artist (d. [[1986]])
** [[Farley Mowat]], Canadian writer, naturalist (d. [[2014]])
** [[Lily Renée]], Austrian-born American cartoonist (d. [[2022]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Baron Vaea]], Prime Minister of Tonga (d. [[2009]])
* [[May 16]] 
** [[Earl Ashby]], Cuban baseball player 
** [[Harry Carey Jr.]], American actor (d. [[2012]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Dennis Brain]], English musician (d. [[1957]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stephen Gamble|author2=William C. Lynch|title=Dennis Brain: A Life in Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5y2llfXEZJUC&pg=PA1|year=2011|publisher=University of North Texas Press|isbn=978-1-57441-307-6|pages=1}}</ref> 
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Michael A. Epstein]], English pathologist and academic (d. [[2024]])
* [[May 19]]
** [[Karel van het Reve]], Dutch writer (d. [[1999]])
** [[Yuri Kochiyama]], Japanese-American civil rights activist (d. [[2014]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Borchert]], German writer (d. [[1947]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gordon J. A. Burgess|author2=Gordon J. A.. Burgess|title=The Life and Works of Wolfgang Borchert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7IdnvHgwaLwC&pg=PA9|year=2003|publisher=Camden House|isbn=978-1-57113-270-3|pages=9}}</ref>
* [[May 21]]
** [[Andrei Sakharov]], Soviet physicist, human rights activist, and recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1975/sakharov/facts/|title=Andrei Sakharov - Facts|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=24 November 2020}}</ref>
** [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]], Indian philosopher, author of the socio-economic [[Progressive Utilization Theory]] (d. [[1990]])
* [[May 23]]
** [[Beate Albrecht]], German violinist and music educator (d. [[2017]])
** [[James Blish]], American science fiction author (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bloom|first=Harold|title=Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age|date=Jun 1995|publisher=Chelsea House|isbn=9780791021996|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictwrotg00haro/page/63 63]|chapter=James Blish|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictwrotg00haro/page/63}}</ref>
** [[Laurin L. Henry]], American researcher (d. [[2025]])
** [[Ray Lawler]], Australian actor and director (d. [[2024]]) 
** [[Humphrey Lyttelton]], British jazz musician, radio personality (d. [[2008]])
** [[Georgy Natanson]], Russian director, screenwriter and playwright (d. [[2017]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Yevgeniya Rudneva]], Soviet World War II heroine (d. [[1944]])
* [[May 25]]
** [[Hal David]], American songwriter and lyricist (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Hoerburger|first=Rob|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/arts/music/hal-david-oscar-and-grammy-winning-songwriter-is-dead-at-91.html|title=Hal David, Songwriter, Is Dead at 91|access-date=1 September 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 September 2012}}</ref>
** [[Kitty Kallen]], American singer (d. [[2016]])
** [[Sadhu Ram Sharma]], Indian politician 
** [[Jack Steinberger]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2020]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Inge Borkh]], German soprano (some sources say she was born 1917) (d. [[2018]])
** [[Stan Mortensen]], English footballer (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Deborah Andrews|title=Annual Obituary, 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-175-6|page=299}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Heinz G. Konsalik]], German author (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Sandford|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TuMsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA351|date=3 April 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-81603-1|pages=351}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] 
** [[Norman Hetherington]], Australian puppeteer and artist (d. [[2010]])** [[Elizabeth Kelly]], English actress 
** [[Elizabeth Kelly]], English actress 
* [[May 30]] 
** [[Branko Mamula]], Yugoslav politician (d. [[2021]])
** [[Jamie Uys]], South African actor, film director (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Great South Africans: The Great Debate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MMVtAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-302461-3|page=235}}</ref>