Editing 1937 (section)

===May===
[[File:George Carlin 1975 (Little David Records) Publicity.jpg|thumb|100px|[[George Carlin]]]]
[[File:Yvonne Craig Batgirl.JPG|100px|thumb|[[Yvonne Craig]]]]
[[File:Mengistu Haile Mariam 3.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Mengistu Haile Mariam]]]]
* [[May 2]] – [[Lorenzo Music]], American actor, voice actor, writer, producer and musician (d. [[2001]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Dick Dale]], American guitarist (d. [[2019]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Rubin Carter|Rubin "Hurricane" Carter]], African-American boxer (d. [[2014]])
* [[May 8]]
** [[Carlos Gaviria Díaz]], Colombian justice, politician
** [[Thomas Pynchon]], American writer
* [[May 9]] – [[Rafael Moneo]], Spanish architect
* [[May 11]] – [[Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő]], Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer
* [[May 12]] – [[George Carlin]], American stand-up comedian (d. [[2008]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Roger Zelazny]], American writer (d. [[1995]])
* [[May 15]]
** [[Madeleine Albright]], Czech-born American politician and diplomat (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Madeleine Albright obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/madeleine-albright-obituary |website=the Guardian |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=en |date=23 March 2022}}</ref>
** [[Trini Lopez]], American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. [[2020]])
* [[May 16]]
** [[Yvonne Craig]], American actress (''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'') (d. [[2015]])
** [[Robert B. Wilson]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[May 18]] – [[Jacques Santer]], Luxembourg politician, 20th [[Prime Minister of Luxembourg]]
* [[May 20]] – [[Peter von Matt]], Swiss [[philologist]] and author (d. [[2025]])<ref name="g892">{{cite web | title="Getrennt schreiben, gemeinsam besprechen" | website=St. Galler Tagblatt | date=13 April 2018 | url=https://www.tagblatt.ch/kultur/getrennt-schreiben-gemeinsam-besprechen-ld.162899 | language=de | access-date=22 April 2025}}</ref>
* [[May 21]]
** [[Ricardo Alarcón]], Cuban politician (d. [[2022]])<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/05/02/ricardoa-alarcon-cuba-dead-murio/ Ricardo Alarcón, powerful Cuban foreign minister, dies at 84]</ref>
** [[Sofiko Chiaureli]], Georgian actress (d. [[2008]])
** [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]], [[President of Ethiopia]]
* [[May 22]] – [[Facundo Cabral]], Argentine singer (d. [[2011]])
* [[May 26]]– [[Henry I. Smith]], American inventor and physicist