Famous people born in May include John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the U.S., American actress Megan Fox, American rapper YNW Melly, and Pierce Brosnan who is most famous as James Bond in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day.
Other famous celebrities and personalities with May birthdays are Facebook and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Blair the former Prime Minister of the UK from 1997 to 2007, and the 72nd U.S. Secretary of State since 2025, Marco Rubio. Other famous people born in May are Pope John Paul II and American singer Janet Jackson.
Celebrities and personalities with birthdays in May
Died aged 63
British actress famous in the thriller Wait Until Dark (1967), Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery, Always (1989)
65 years old
Nigerian singer who is famous for her waka music genre music and is known as Nigeria’s Queen of Waka
57 years old
Australian actress, producer famous in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Don't Look Up (2021)
86 years old
American actor whose famous films include The Terminator (1984), Alien vs. Predator (2004), and TV series Millennium
36 years old
Kenyan gospel singer, worship leader whose hit songs include Subiri with Mercy Masika & Emmy Kosgei, and Waweza, Utukufu
55 years old
British supermodel famous as the first black woman to appear as a model on covers of Time and French edition of Vogue
75 years old
American singer and brother of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, and founding member of the Jackson 5 pop band
33 years old
English actress who stars in Lemonade Mouth (2011), Power Rangers (2017), and 2019 action comedy Charlie's Angels
40 years old
Indian actress famous in Khichdi: The Movie (2010), Shaitan (2011), Jal (2013), Criminal Justice (2020), Human (2022)
33 years old
Belgian football player famous as a striker for Chelsea, Manchester United, Napoli, and the Belgium national team
May Historical Events
1st May 1707: The Act of Union was signed between England and Scotland. With the signing, the two countries become one kingdom, and the Scottish and English Parliaments became united, thereby forming the Parliament of Great Britain.This new joint house was based in the home of the English Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London. Scotland retained its independence in terms of their legal and religious systems. However, taxation, coinage, trade, parliament, sovereignty and flag became one with Britain.
2nd May 2011: The US Navy SEALS of SEAL Team Six killed 54-year old Osama bin Laden in his compound in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan. The leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda was a mastermind of many notable terrorist attacks against the United States, including the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.4th May 1494: Christopher Columbus, the famous European explorer, discovered Jamaica and met the Arawak and the Taino, the indigenous people of the Caribbean country. 10th May 1994: Nelson Mandela, the famous anti-apartheid activist and former political prisoner, became the first black president of South Africa. His inauguration on this date ended more than three centuries of minority white rule.His winning party, The African National Congress (ANC), won the country's 1st multi-racial elections by taking 62% of the vote. His presidency ended on 14 June, 1999.
21st May 1991: Former Indian Prime Minister and husband to Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, was assassinated at the age of 46. He had become the 6th and youngest Indian Prime minister at 40 years of age, and had succeeded his mother, the then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who was also assassinated. Rajiv Gandhi served as PM between 1984 and 1989.