Births on 5 May
2000s
Jenna Davis
2004
American actress and singer (born 2004)
Kirsty Muir
2004
Scottish freestyle skier (born 2004)
Carlos Alcaraz
2003
Spanish tennis player (born 2003)
1900s
Nathan Chen
1999
American figure skater (born 1999)
Justin Kluivert
1999
Dutch footballer (born 1999)
Aryna Sabalenka
1998
Belarusian tennis player (born 1998)
Logan Gilbert
1997
American baseball player (born 1997)
Mitch Marner
1997
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1997)
Christopher Eubanks
1996
American professional tennis player (born 1996)
Mayar Sherif
1996
Egyptian tennis player (born 1996)
James Conner (American football)
1995
American football player (born 1995)
Celeste (singer)
1994
British singer (born 1994)
Raúl Jiménez
1991
Mexican footballer (born 1991)
Chris Brown
1989
American singer (born 1989)
Agnes Knochenhauer
1989
Swedish curler (born 1989)
Adele
1988
English singer-songwriter (born 1988)
Graham Dorrans
1987
Scottish footballer (born 1987)
Shoko Nakagawa
1985
Musical artist
Emanuele Giaccherini
1985
Italian footballer (born 1985)
P. J. Tucker
1985
American basketball player (born 1985)
Henry Cavill
1983
British actor (born 1983)
Vanessa Bryant
1982
Mexican-American businesswoman and philantropist (born 1982)
Corey Parker (rugby league)
1982
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1982)
Craig David
1981
British singer (born 1981)
Danielle Fishel
1981
American actress (born 1981)
Yossi Benayoun
1980
Israeli footballer (born 1980)
Hank Green
1980
American vlogger and entrepreneur (born 1980)
Vincent Kartheiser
1979
American actor (born 1979)
Tiffany Roberts
1977
American soccer coach and player (born 1977)
Dieter Brummer
1976
Australian actor (1976–2021)
Juan Pablo Sorín
1976
Argentine footballer (born 1976)
Meb Keflezighi
1975
Eritrean-born American long-distance runner (born 1975)
James Cracknell
1972
British rower
Žigmund Pálffy
1972
Slovak ice hockey player
Mikael Renberg
1972
Swedish ice hockey player
Harold Miner
1971
American basketball player (born 1971)
Adam Hughes
1967
American comics artist and illustrator (born 1967)
Charles Nagy
1967
American baseball player (born 1967)
Alexis Sinduhije
1967
Burundian journalist
Shawn Drover
1966
Canadian drummer (born 1966)
Sergey Stanishev
1966
Bulgarian politician (born 1966)
Josh Weinstein
1966
American television writer and producer
Jean-François Copé
1964
French politician (born 1964)
Heike Henkel
1964
German high jumper (born 1964)
Don Payne (writer)
1964
American writer and film producer
Minami Takayama
1964
Japanese voice actress and narrator
James LaBrie
1963
Canadian singer (born 1963)
Simon Rimmer
1963
English chef
Scott Westerfeld
1963
American writer of young adult fiction (born 1963)
Marg Downey
1961
Australian comedian (born 1961)
Hiroshi Hase
1961
Japanese politician and professional wrestler
Doug Hawkins
1960
Australian rules footballer, born 1960
Bobby Ellsworth
1959
American singer (born 1959)
Ian McCulloch (singer)
1959
English singer-songwriter and musician (born 1959)
Brian Williams
1959
American journalist and television news anchor (born 1959)
Robert DiPierdomenico
1958
Australian rules footballer, born 1958
Richard E. Grant
1957
English actor (born 1957)
Steve Scott (runner)
1956
American track athlete
Jon Butcher
1955
American rock musician
Ed Lee
1952
43rd Mayor of San Francisco
Maggie MacNeal
1950
Dutch singer (born 1950)
Bill Ward (musician)
1948
English drummer (born 1948)
Jim Kelly (martial artist)
1946
American athlete, actor, and martial artist (1946–2013)
Kurt Loder
1945
American film critic, author, columnist, and television personality (born 1945)
Bo Larsson
1944
Swedish footballer (1944–2023)
John Rhys-Davies
1944
Welsh actor (born 1944)
Roger Rees
1944
Welsh actor (1944–2015)
Michael Palin
1943
English actor (born 1943)
Ignacio Ramonet
1943
Spanish academic, journalist and writer (born 1943)
Jean Corston, Baroness Corston
1942
British politician (born 1942)
Tammy Wynette
1942
American country singer (1942–1998)
Lance Henriksen
1940
American actor (born 1940)
Ray Gosling
1939
British broadcaster, journalist and author
Michael Murphy (actor)
1938
American film and television actor
Beryl Burton
1937
English racing cyclist (1937–1996)
Delia Derbyshire
1937
English musician and composer of electronic music (1937–2001)
Sandy Baron
1936
American actor and comedian
Eddie Linden
1935
Scottish poet and editor (1935–2023)
Bernard Pivot
1935
French journalist (1935–2024)
Henri Konan Bédié
1934
President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1993 to 1999
Victor Garland
1934
Australian politician and diplomat (1934–2022)
Collie Smith
1933
Jamaican cricketer
Stan Goldberg
1932
American comics artist (1932–2014)
Ilene Woods
1929
American actress (1929–2010)
Pat Carroll
1927
American actress and comedian (1927–2022)
Leo Ryan
1925
American politician and teacher (1925–1978)
William C. Campbell (golfer)
1923
American amateur golfer (1923–2013)
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
1923
Canadian mathematician (1923–2017)
Irene Gut Opdyke
1922
Polish nurse who aided Jews during WWII (1918–2003)
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
1921
American physicist (1921–1999)
Georgios Papadopoulos
1919
Greek military dictator (1919–1999)
Zail Singh
1916
President of India from 1982 to 1987
Alice Faye
1915
American actress and singer (1915–1998)
Tyrone Power
1914
American actor (1914–1958)
Duane Carter
1913
American racing driver (1913–1993)
Andor Lilienthal
1911
Soviet-Hungarian chess grandmaster (1911–2010)
Pritilata Waddedar
1911
Bengali revolutionary (1911-1932)
Leo Lionni
1910
Dutch-Italian artist and children's writer
Iryna Vilde
1907
Ukrainian writer (1907–1982)
Floyd Gottfredson
1905
American cartoonist (1905–1986)
James Beard
1903
American chef (1903–1985)
Janne Mustonen
1901
Finnish politician (1901–1964)
Helen Redfield
1900
American geneticist
1800s
Freeman Gosden
1899
American radio comedian and actor (1899–1982)
Elsie Eaves
1898
American engineer
Blind Willie McTell
1898
Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist (1898–1959)
Dorothy Garrod
1892
English archaeologist (1892–1968)
Christopher Morley
1890
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Herbie Taylor
1889
South African cricketer (1889-1973)
Mervyn S. Bennion
1887
US Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1887–1941)
Kingsley Fairbridge
1885
Chief Bender
1884
Native American baseball player (1884–1954)
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
1883
British field marshal (1883–1950)
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler
1883
American mathematician
Sylvia Pankhurst
1882
English activist, writer and artist (1882–1960)
Thomas Bavin
1874
Australian politician
Leon Czolgosz
1873
Assassin of William McKinley (1873–1901)
Fabián de la Rosa
1869
Filipino painter (1869–1937)
Hans Pfitzner
1869
German composer and conductor (1869–1949)
Thomas B. Thrige
1866
Danish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessman
Helen Maud Merrill
1865
American poet
Nellie Bly
1864
American investigative journalist (1864–1922)
Charles B. Hanford
1859
American actor
John L. Leal
1858
American public health physician (1858–1914)
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1846
Polish epic writer (1846–1916)
William George Beers
1843
Canadian dentist and lacrosse player
Viktor Hartmann
1834
Russian architect and painter (1834–1873)
Ferdinand von Richthofen
1833
German explorer and scientist (1833–1905)
Hubert Howe Bancroft
1832
19th and 20th-century American historian and ethnologist
John B. Stetson
1830
American hat maker (1830–1906)
Eugénie de Montijo
1826
Empress of the French from 1853 to 1870
Karl Marx
1818
German philosopher and socialist (1818–1883)
Søren Kierkegaard
1813
Danish theologian and philosopher (1813–1855)
Louis Hachette
1800
French magazine publisher (1800–1864)
Before 1800
Robert Craufurd
1764
British Army officer (1764–1812)
Jean-Frédéric Edelmann
1749
French composer (1749–1794)
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
1747
Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné
1684
French aristocrat
John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg
1582
Duke of Württemberg from 1608 to 1628
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
1542
English politician and courtier (1542–1623)
Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery
1530
French nobleman and soldier (1530–1574)
Stanislaus Hosius
1504
Polish cardinal
Guru Amar Das
1479
Third Sikh guru from 1552 to 1574
Rupert, King of the Romans
1352
King of Germany from 1400 to 1410
Przecław of Pogorzela
1310
Polish cardinal (1310–1376)
Juan Manuel
1282
Duke of Peñafiel & Spanish writer
Afonso III of Portugal
1210
King of Portugal from 1248 to 1279