Editing 1900 (section)

=== May ===
* [[May 1]] – [[Ignazio Silone]], Italian author (d. [[1978]])
* [[May 2]] – [[A. W. Lawrence]], British archaeologist (d. [[1991]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Zheng Ji (biochemist)|Zheng Ji]], Chinese nutritionist, biochemist (d. [[2010]])
* [[May 10]]
** [[Beryl May Dent]], English mathematical physicist (d. [[1977]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|year=2003|title=Beryl Dent at the University of Bristol Department of Physics|publisher=[[University of Bristol]] Physics Library|id=DM1961/2|type=Document|location=Bristol|language=en|url=https://archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM1961%2f2&pos=1|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=October 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020133627/https://archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM1961/2&pos=1|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]], British-American astronomer, astrophysicist (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=The biographical encyclopedia of astronomers |date=2007|publisher=Springer |editor1=Thomas Hockey |editor2=Virginia Trimble |editor3=Thomas R. Williams |editor4=Katherine Bracher |editor5=Richard A. Jarrell |editor6=Jordan D. Marché |editor7=JoAnn Palmeri |editor8=Daniel W. E. Green|isbn=9780387304007|location=New York, NY|pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00hock_878/page/n907 876]|oclc=184930573}}</ref>
* [[May 11]] – [[Thomas H. Robbins Jr.]], American admiral (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Karl Wolff]], German SS functionary and war criminal (d. [[1984]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Cai Chang]], Chinese politician, women's rights activist (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of women social reformers|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediawome00rapp|url-access=limited|first=Helen|last=Rappaport|date=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=1576075818|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediawome00rapp/page/n162 125]–126|oclc=52710512}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[Ida Rhodes]], American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary|date=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press |editor1=Morrow, Charlene |editor2=Perl, Teri|isbn=9780313291319|location=Westport, Conn.|oclc=36768082|url=https://archive.org/details/notablewomeninma00morr}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] – [[Hans Frank]], German Nazi official (executed [[1946]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Tommy Ladnier]], American jazz trumpeter (d. [[1939]])
* [[May 29]] – [[David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir]], British politician, lawyer and judge (d. [[1967]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Lucile Godbold]], American Olympic athlete (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/godbold-lucile-ellerbe/|title=Godbold, Lucile Ellerbe – South Carolina Encyclopedia|encyclopedia=South Carolina Encyclopedia|access-date=2017-10-19|language=en-US|archive-date=October 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020035121/http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/godbold-lucile-ellerbe/|url-status=live}}</ref>