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
81 years old
American filmmaker, creator of Star Wars & Indiana Jones franchises, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Temple of Doom (1984)
95 years old
American actor, film director famous in Western movies such as For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Died aged 83
Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis as an approach to understanding the human mind and behavior
Died aged 88
33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, and 34th vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt
56 years old
American political commentator famous as host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News, and Tucker on X & The Tucker Carlson Show
50 years old
Kenyan singer whose music is a combination of traditional and modern genres using traditional instruments such as the Nyotiti
44 years old
Canadian actor famous as Oliver Queen/ Arrow on the CW superhero series Arrow (2012–2020)
81 years old
American politician famous as the mayor of New York City on September 11, 2001 during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers
Died aged 96
American actress whose acting career began after she left college and lasted for over six decades, from the 1930s to Love Affair (1994)
Died aged 81
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 to her death on 22 January 1901
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.