Editing 1954 (section)

===May===
[[File:Johnny Logan - NDR Hafengeburtstag 2017 20.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Johnny Logan (singer)|Johnny Logan]]]]
[[File:David Paterson 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Paterson]]]]
[[File:Townsend Coleman by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Townsend Coleman]]]]
* [[May 1]]
** [[Ray Parker Jr.]], American singer and songwriter
** [[Maatia Toafa]], 2-time prime minister of Tuvalu
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Elliot Goldenthal]], American composer
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[David Azulai]], Israeli politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Angela Hernández Nuñez]], Dominican writer
* [[May 7]]
** [[Philippe Geluck]], Belgian cartoonist
** [[Amy Heckerling]], American film director
** [[Diana Raab]], American author
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Pam Arciero]], Hawaiian-born puppeteer (''[[Sesame Street]]'')
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Amos Guttman]], Israeli film director (d. [[1993]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Johnny Logan (singer)|Johnny Logan]], Australian-born Irish singer, composer and [[Eurovision Song Contest]] winner (1980, 1987)
* [[May 14]]
** [[María Dolores Katarain]] ("Yoyes"), Spanish Basque separatist leader (d. [[1986]])
** [[Peter J. Ratcliffe]], English cellular biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[May 19]]
** [[Hōchū Ōtsuka]], Japanese voice actor
** [[Phil Rudd]], Australian rock drummer ([[AC/DC]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[David Paterson]], American politician, 55th [[Governor of New York]]
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Shuji Nakamura]], Japanese electronics engineer
* [[May 25]]
** [[Tantely Andrianarivo]], 11th prime minister of Madagascar (d. [[2023]])
** [[Sudirman (singer)|Sudirman]], Malaysian singer and songwriter (d. [[1992]])
* [[May 27]]
** [[Pauline Hanson]], Australian politician
** [[Lawrence M. Krauss]], American theoretical physicist, science writer
** [[Coney Reyes]], Philippine film and television actress
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[John Tory]], Canadian politician
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Pankaj Kapur]], Indian actor