Editing 1959 (section)

===May===
* [[May 1]] – [[Yasmina Reza]], French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120662778|title=Notice de personne|language=fr|website=BNF|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 3]]
** [[Uma Bharti]], Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh<ref>{{cite book|author=Rajamani, R. C|title=Portraits of India's Parliamentarians for the New Millennium: Lok Sabha|publisher=Gyan Publishing House|year=2000|isbn=9788121206921|page=307}}</ref>
** [[Ben Elton]], British comedian and writer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ben Elton|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/ben_elton/|access-date=2020-11-13|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>
* [[May 9]] 
** [[Christian Bach]], Argentine-Mexican actress and producer of [[telenovela]]s (d. [[2019]])
** [[János Áder]], [[President of Hungary]]<ref>{{cite book|editor=B. Turner|title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2014: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|year=2017|isbn=9781349596430|page=587}}</ref>
* [[May 10]]
** [[Victoria Rowell]], American actress
** [[Cindy Hyde-Smith]], US Senator
* [[May 12]] – [[Ving Rhames]], African-American actor
* [[May 14]] – [[Patrick Bruel]], French singer
* [[May 17]] – [[Marcelo Loffreda]], Argentine rugby player and coach
* [[May 20]] – [[Israel Kamakawiwoʻole]], Hawaiian singer (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kekoa Enomoto |first1=Catherine |first2=Gregg K. |last2=Kakesako |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/1997/06/26/news/story1.html |title= 'IZ' Will Always Be |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=June 26, 1997}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] – [[Loretta Lynch]], American politician, 83rd [[United States Attorney General]]
* [[May 22]] – [[Morrissey]], British singer<ref>{{cite book |last=Simpson |first=Mark |title=Saint Morrissey |location=London |publisher=SAF Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=0-946719-65-9|page=32}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – [[Pelle Lindbergh]], Swedish-born hockey player (d. [[1985]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Donna Strickland]], Canadian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics<ref>{{cite web |date=6 October 2018 |title=Donna Strickland – Facts – 2018 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/strickland/facts/ |publisher=[[Nobel Foundation]]|access-date=6 October 2018}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] 
** [[Rupert Everett]], British actor<ref>{{cite web | title= Everett, Rupert (1959-) Biography | website=BFI Screenonline | date=29 May 1959 | url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/865655/index.html | access-date=17 September 2022| author=Brian McFarlane }}</ref>
** [[Gretchen (singer)|Gretchen]], Brazilian singer and media personality<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ferreira |first=Caroline |title=Gretchen faz 65 anos e compartilha reflexão: "Cheia de energia" |url=https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/entretenimento/gretchen-faz-65-anos-e-compartilha-reflexao-cheia-de-energia/#:~:text=Gretchen,%20tamb%C3%A9m%20conhecida%20como%20a,quarta-feira%20(29). |access-date=2024-10-10 |publisher=CNN Brasil |language=pt-BR}}</ref>