Editing 1929 (section)

===May===
[[File:Audrey Hepburn 1956om (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Audrey Hepburn]]]]
[[File:Sam Nujoma.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sam Nujoma]]]]
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[[File:Nobel Prize 24 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Peter Higgs]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Ralf Dahrendorf]], Anglo-German sociologist (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite book|author=R. J. B. Bosworth|title=Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: History Writing and the Second World War 1945-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=svb-7sOpDtAC&pg=PA67|year=1994|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-10923-9|pages=67}}</ref>
* [[May 2]] 
** [[Eddie Garcia]], Filipino actor and director (d. [[2019]])
** [[Link Wray]], American rock and roll musician (d. [[2005]])
** [[Édouard Balladur]], 91st [[Prime Minister of France]]
* [[May 3]] – [[Per-Ingvar Brånemark]], Swedish physician, "father of modern dental implantology" (d. [[2014]]) 
* [[May 4]]
** [[Ronald Golias]], Brazilian comedian and actor (d. [[2005]])
** [[Audrey Hepburn]], Belgian-born British actress and activist (d. [[1993]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ian Woodward|title=Audrey Hepburn: Fair Lady of the Screen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwTUGmyF8-oC&pg=PA19|year=1993|publisher=Virgin|isbn=978-0-86369-741-8|pages=19}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] – [[Ilene Woods]], American singer, actress (d. [[2010]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Paul Lauterbur]], American chemist and Nobel laureate (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Adrian M.K. Thomas|author2=Arpan K. Banerjee|author3=Uwe Busch|title=Classic Papers in Modern Diagnostic Radiology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgezC3Osm8QC&pg=PA93|date=5 December 2005|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-26988-5|pages=93}}</ref>
* [[May 8]]
** [[Girija Devi]], Indian classical singer (d. [[2017]])
** [[Miyoshi Umeki]], Japanese singer, actress (d. [[2007]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[Ágnes Heller]], Hungarian philosopher (d. [[2019]])
** [[Sam Nujoma]], 1st [[President of Namibia]] (d. [[2025]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Ângela Maria]], Brazilian singer and actress (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Otar Patsatsia]], Georgian politician (d. [[2021]])
* [[May 16]] 
** [[Betty Carter]], African-American jazz singer (d. [[1998]])
** [[Adrienne Rich]], American poet and essayist (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jun/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|publisher=Guardian|title=Poet and pioneer|date=15 June 2002|access-date=August 14, 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 25]] – [[Beverly Sills]], American operatic soprano, director of the [[New York City Opera]] (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Anthony McCrossan|title=Books and Reading in the Lives of Notable Americans: A Biographical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9RevNyPg20C&pg=PA202|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30376-0|pages=202}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] – [[Peter Higgs]], British theoretical physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alan Russell|author2=Norris D. McWhirter|title=The Guinness Book of Records 1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6913u_Yy_wsC|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Book|isbn=978-0-85112-868-9|page=72}}</ref> (d. [[2024]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Doina Cornea]], Romanian human rights activist, professor (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 31]] 
**[[Joseph Bernardo]], French Olympic swimmer (d. [[2023]])
**[[Menahem Golan]], Israeli director and producer (d. [[2014]])