Editing 1951 (section)

===May===
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[[File:Anatoly Karpov 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anatoly Karpov]]]]
[[File:Antonis Samaras October 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Antonis Samaras]]]]
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* [[May 3]] – [[Christopher Cross]], American singer-songwriter 
* [[May 6]]
** [[Antonio Saldías]], Chilean historian
** [[Samuel Doe]], [[President of Liberia]] (d. [[1990]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Christopher Dewdney]], Canadian poet
** [[Joy Harjo]], Native American poet
* [[May 13]] – [[Jumbo Tsuruta]], Japanese professional wrestler (d. [[2000]])
* [[May 15]]
** [[Yoshifumi Hibako]], Japanese general
** [[Jonathan Richman]], American musician
** [[Frank Wilczek]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite book |title=The Time Almanac |publisher=Information Please LLC |year=2011 |page=75}}</ref>
* [[May 16]] – [[Unshō Ishizuka]], Japanese voice actor (d. [[2018]])
** [[Jonathan Richman]], American musician
* [[May 18]] – [[Ben Feringa]], Dutch organic chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[May 19]]
** [[Joey Ramone]], American rock musician ([[Ramones]]) (d. [[2001]])
** [[Dick Slater]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 20]]
** [[Christie Blatchford]], Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/rip-christie-blatchford |title=Dead at 68: Christie Blatchford was a tenacious voice for victims, a thorn to the smug |newspaper=National Post |date=February 12, 2020 |last1=Humphreys |first1=Adrian}}</ref>
** [[Mike Crapo]], US Senator- R-Idaho 
* [[May 22]] – [[Kenneth Bianchi]], American serial killer and rapist<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/kenneth-bianchi |title=Kenneth Bianchi - Hillside Strangler, Childhood & Crimes |date=October 3, 2023 |website=Biography.com }}</ref>
* [[May 23]]
** [[Jill E. Barad]], American businessperson
** [[Anatoly Karpov]], Russian chess player
** [[Antonis Samaras]], Greek economist, politician and 185th [[Prime Minister of Greece]]
* [[May 25]] – [[Jamaluddin Jarjis]], Malaysian politician (d. [[2015]])
* [[May 26]]
** [[Ramón Calderón]], Spanish lawyer and businessman
** [[Lou van den Dries]], Dutch mathematician
** [[Sally Ride]], American astronaut (d. [[2012]])
** [[Madeleine Taylor-Quinn]], Irish politician
* [[May 30]]
** [[Stephen Tobolowsky]], American actor
** [[Fernando Lugo]], [[President of Paraguay]]
* [[May 31]] – [[Jimmy Nalls]], American guitarist ([[Sea Level (band)|Sea Level]]) (d. [[2017]])