Births on 1 May
2000s
Linda Fruhvirtová
2005
Czech tennis player (born 2005)
Charli D'Amelio
2004
American social media personality (born 2004)
Lizzy Greene
2003
American actress (born 2003)
Chet Holmgren
2002
American basketball player (born 2002)
Rema (musician)
2000
Nigerian singer-songwriter and rapper (born 2000)
1900s
YNW Melly
1999
American rapper (born 1999)
Tiffany Stratton
1999
American professional wrestler (born 1999)
Miles Sanders
1997
American football player (born 1997)
William Nylander
1996
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Madeline Brewer
1992
American actress (born 1992)
Hani (singer)
1992
South Korean singer and actress (born 1992)
Bradley Roby
1992
American football player (born 1992)
Marcus Stroman
1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Scooter Gennett
1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Caitlin Stasey
1990
Australian actress and singer (born 1990)
Victoria Monét
1989
American singer-songwriter (born 1989)
Anushka Sharma
1988
Indian actress (born 1988)
Leonardo Bonucci
1987
Italian footballer (born 1987)
Amir Johnson
1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Shahar Pe'er
1987
Israeli tennis player
Christian Benítez
1986
Ecuadorian footballer (1986–2013)
Jesse Klaver
1986
Dutch politician (born 1986)
David Backes
1984
American ice hockey player (born 1984)
Alain Bernard
1983
French swimmer (born 1983)
Park Hae-jin
1983
South Korean actor and model (born 1983)
Human Tornado
1983
American professional wrestler
Beto (footballer, born 1982)
1982
Portuguese footballer
Jamie Dornan
1982
Actor, model and musician from Northern Ireland (born 1982)
Tommy Robredo
1982
Spanish tennis player (born 1982)
Darijo Srna
1982
Croatian footballer (born 1982)
Katya Zamolodchikova
1982
American drag queen (born 1982)
Alexander Hleb
1981
Belarusian footballer (born 1981)
Wes Welker
1981
American football player and coach (born 1981)
Jan Heylen
1980
Belgian racing driver (born 1980)
Jay Reatard
1980
American rock musician (1980–2010)
Mauro Bergamasco
1979
Italy international rugby union player
Roman Lyashenko
1979
Russian ice hockey player (1979–2003)
James Badge Dale
1978
American actor (born 1978)
Michael Russell (tennis)
1978
American tennis player (born 1978)
James Murray (comedian)
1976
American comedian (born 1976)
Marc-Vivien Foé
1975
Cameroonian footballer (1975–2003)
Nina Hossain
1975
English journalist and presenter
Alexey Smertin
1975
Russian footballer and official
Curtis Martin
1973
American football player (born 1973)
Oliver Neuville
1973
German footballer (born 1973)
Ramzi bin al-Shibh
1972
Yemeni terrorist (born 1972)
Julie Benz
1972
American actress (born 1972)
Ethan Albright
1971
American football player (born 1971)
Stuart Appleby
1971
Australian professional golfer
Ajith Kumar
1971
Indian actor and racing driver (born 1971)
Bernard Butler
1970
English musician (born 1970)
Wes Anderson
1969
American filmmaker (born 1969)
Mary Lou McDonald
1969
Irish politician (born 1969)
Billy Owens
1969
American basketball player (born 1969)
Oliver Bierhoff
1968
German footballer (born 1968)
D'arcy Wretzky
1968
American bassist (born 1968)
Tim McGraw
1967
American country singer and actor (born 1967)
Olaf Thon
1966
German footballer (born 1966)
Yvonne van Gennip
1964
Dutch speed skater (born 1964)
Maia Morgenstern
1962
Romanian actress (born 1962)
Clint Malarchuk
1961
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1961)
Marilyn Milian
1961
American judge and television personality
Yasmina Reza
1959
French actor and writer
Rick Darling
1957
Australian cricketer
Uberto Pasolini
1957
Italian film producer and director
Alex Cunningham
1955
British Labour politician
Martin O'Donnell
1955
American video game composer (born 1955)
Ray Parker Jr.
1954
American musician (born 1954)
Joel Rosenberg (science fiction author)
1954
Canadian American science fiction and fantasy writer (1954–2011)
Richard Blundell
1952
British economist (born 1952)
Gordon Greenidge
1951
West Indian cricketer
Sally Mann
1951
American photographer (born 1951)
Danny McGrain
1950
Scottish footballer and manager
Tim Hodgkinson
1949
English experimental music composer and performer
Patricia Hill Collins
1948
American scholar (born 1948)
Joanna Lumley
1946
Indian-born British actress and comedian (born 1946)
John Woo
1946
Hong Kong filmmaker (born 1947)
Rita Coolidge
1945
American singer (born 1945)
Judy Collins
1939
American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1939)
Una Stubbs
1937
British actress, television personality, and dancer (1937–2021)
Laura Betti
1934
Italian actress (1934–2004)
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
1934
Mexican politician (born 1934)
Shirley Horn
1934
American jazz singer and pianist (1934–2005)
S. M. Krishna
1932
Indian politician (1932–2024)
Sandy Woodward
1932
Royal Navy Admiral (1932–2013)
Ollie Matson
1930
American football player and sprinter (1930–2011)
Richard Riordan
1930
American businessman and politician (1930–2023)
Little Walter
1930
American blues harmonica player (1930–1968)
Ralf Dahrendorf
1929
German-British sociologist and politician (1929–2009)
Sonny Ramadhin
1929
West Indian cricketer (1929–2022)
Sonny James
1928
American country music singer-songwriter (1928–2016)
Greta Andersen
1927
Danish swimmer (1927–2023)
Bernard Vukas
1927
Croatian footballer
Albert Zafy
1927
President of Madagascar from 1993 to 1996
Peter Lax
1926
Hungarian-born American mathematician (1926–2025)
Chuck Bednarik
1925
Slovak-American football player (1925–2015)
Scott Carpenter
1925
American astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)
Evelyn Boyd Granville
1924
American academic (1924–2023)
Terry Southern
1924
American writer (1924–1995)
Joseph Heller
1923
American writer (1923–1999)
Marcel Rajman
1923
Vladimir Colin
1921
Romanian writer
Manna Dey
1919
Indian singer (1919–2013)
Mohammed Karim Lamrani
1919
Prime minister of Morocco (1971–1972, 1983–1986, 1992–1994)
Dan O'Herlihy
1919
Irish actor (1919–2005)
Jack Paar
1918
American writer and comedian (1918–2004)
John Beradino
1917
American baseball player and actor (1917–1996)
Ulric Cross
1917
Trinidadian lawyer and diplomat (1917–2013)
Danielle Darrieux
1917
French actress and singer (1917–2017)
Glenn Ford
1916
American actor (1916–2006)
Hanns Martin Schleyer
1915
German business magnate and SS officer (1915–1977)
Louis Nye
1913
American comedic actor (1913–2005)
Otto Kretschmer
1912
German naval officer (1912–1998)
Raya Dunayevskaya
1910
American Marxist philosopher and humanist activist
J. Allen Hynek
1910
American astronomer and ufologist (1910–1986)
Endel Puusepp
1909
Estonian pilot in Soviet service
Yiannis Ritsos
1909
Greek poet and communist (1909–1990)
Giovannino Guareschi
1908
Italian journalist, cartoonist, and humorist (1908–1968)
Morris Kline
1908
American mathematician and historian of mathematics (1908–1992)
Kate Smith
1907
American contralto (1907–1986)
Horst Schumann
1906
Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1906–1983)
Henry Koster
1905
American film director (1905–1988)
Sterling Allen Brown
1901
American poet and academic (1901–1989)
Antal Szerb
1901
Hungarian writer (1901–1945)
Ignazio Silone
1900
Italian politician and writer (1900–1978)
Aleksander Wat
1900
Polish poet, writer, art theoretician, memoirist
1800s
Alfred Schmidt (weightlifter)
1898
Estonian weightlifter
Herbert Backe
1896
German Nazi politician and SS functionary (1896–1947)
Mark W. Clark
1896
American general (1896–1984)
J. Lawton Collins
1896
United States Army general
May Hollinworth
1895
Australian theatrical producer and director
Nikolai Yezhov
1895
NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895–1940)
Lillian Estelle Fisher
1891
20th-century American historian and author
Clelia Lollini
1890
Italian physician
Alan Cunningham
1887
British Army general (1887–1983)
Clément Pansaers
1885
Belgian poet and proponent of the Dada movement
Ralph Stackpole
1885
American artist (1885–1973)
Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe
1884
British politician (1884–1964)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1881
French philosopher and Jesuit priest (1881–1955)
David Hall (runner)
1875
American middle-distance runner (1875–1972)
Romaine Brooks
1874
American portrait artist (1874–1970)
Paul Van Asbroeck
1874
Belgian sport shooter
Hugo Alfvén
1872
Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter (1872–1960)
Sidónio Pais
1872
President of Portugal in 1918
Seakle Greijdanus
1871
Dutch Calvinist theologian (1871–1948)
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas
1871
President of Nicaragua from 1917 to 1921 and briefly in 1926
Anna Jarvis
1864
Founder of Mother's Day (1864-1948)
Marcel Prévost
1862
French writer
Jacqueline Comerre-Paton
1859
French painter
Theo van Gogh (art dealer)
1857
Dutch art dealer (1857–1891)
Cecilia Beaux
1855
American painter (1855–1942)
Jacob Gordin
1853
American dramatist (1853–1909)
Calamity Jane
1852
American frontierswoman (1852–1903)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1852
Spanish neuroscientist (1852–1934)
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
1850
British prince, son of Queen Victoria (1850–1942)
Adelsteen Normann
1848
Norwegian painter (1848–1918)
Henry Demarest Lloyd
1847
American journalist (1847–1903)
James Corrigan (businessman)
1846
American mining, shipping, and steel executive
Emily Stowe
1831
Canadian physician
Guido Gezelle
1830
Belgian writer, poet and Roman Catholic priest
José de Alencar
1829
Brazilian writer (1829–1877)
Frederick Sandys
1829
English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829–1904)
Jules Breton
1827
French painter (1827–1906)
Johann Jakob Balmer
1825
Swiss mathematician (1825–1898)
George Inness
1825
19th-century American landscape painter
Alexander William Williamson
1824
English chemist (1824–1904)
Henry Ayers
1821
Australian politician
Andreas Laskaratos
1811
Greek satirical poet and writer
James Clarence Mangan
1803
Irish poet (1803–1849)
Before 1800
Phoebe Hinsdale Brown
1783
American hymnwriter (1783–1861)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1769
British Army officer and statesman (1769–1852)
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
1764
English architect (1764-1820)
Judith Sargent Murray
1751
American poet (1751–1820)
Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen
1735
Dutch naval officer (1735–1819)
Joshua Rowley
1730
British admiral
Joseph Addison
1672
British writer and politician (1672–1719)
William Lilly
1602
English astrologer
John Haynes (governor)
1594
English politician (1594–1653/4)
Johann Adam Schall von Bell
1591
German Jesuit astronomer active in China (1591–1666)
Zofia of Słuck
1585
Lithuanian Orthodox saint (1585–1612)
Marco da Gagliano
1582
Italian composer
Wolfert Gerritse van Couwenhoven
1579
Founder of the New Netherlands colony
Franciscus Junius (the elder)
1545
Huguenot theologian (1545–1602)
Johannes Stadius
1527
Flemish astronomer, astrologer and mathematician
Sidonie of Bavaria
1488
Rinchinbal Khan
1326
Emperor of Yuan - Mongol Empire in 1332
Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel
1285
English nobleman (1285–1326)
John I, Count of Hainaut
1218
Count of Hainaut from 1246 to 1257
Rudolf I of Germany
1218
King of Germany from 1273 to 1291