| 52081 | May.06 | Event | 2014 – Six people are injured in a knife attack at a Chinese train station in Guangzhou. |
| 52082 | May.06 | Birth | 1501 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555) |
| 52083 | May.06 | Birth | 1574 – Pope Innocent X (d. 1655) |
| 52084 | May.06 | Birth | 1635 – Johann Joachim Becher (d. 1682) |
| 52085 | May.06 | Birth | 1668 – Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (d. 1747) |
| 52086 | May.06 | Birth | 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French cellist and composer (d. 1755) |
| 52087 | May.06 | Birth | 1713 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher and academic (d. 1780) |
| 52088 | May.06 | Birth | 1714 – Anton Raaff, German tenor (d. 1797) |
| 52089 | May.06 | Birth | 1742 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor and physiologist (d. 1809) |
| 52090 | May.06 | Birth | 1758 – André Masséna, French general (d. 1817) |
| 52091 | May.06 | Birth | 1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician (d. 1794) |
| 52092 | May.06 | Birth | 1769 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824) |
| 52093 | May.06 | Birth | 1769 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (d. 1834) |
| 52094 | May.06 | Birth | 1781 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author (d. 1832) |
| 52095 | May.06 | Birth | 1797 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882) |
| 52096 | May.06 | Birth | 1800 – Roman Sanguszko, Polish general (d. 1881) |
| 52097 | May.06 | Birth | 1827 – Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (d. 1891) |
| 52098 | May.06 | Birth | 1836 – Max Eyth, German engineer and author (d. 1906) |
| 52099 | May.06 | Birth | 1843 – Grove Karl Gilbert, American geologist and academic (d. 1918) |
| 52100 | May.06 | Birth | 1848 – Henry Edward Armstrong, English chemist and academic (d. 1937) |
| 52101 | May.06 | Birth | 1851 – Aristide Bruant, French singer and actor (d. 1925) |
| 52102 | May.06 | Birth | 1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian-English neurologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1939) |
| 52103 | May.06 | Birth | 1856 – Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (d. 1920) |
| 52104 | May.06 | Birth | 1861 – Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1931) |
| 52105 | May.06 | Birth | 1868 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (d. 1927) |
| 52106 | May.06 | Birth | 1869 – Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (d. 1932) |
| 52107 | May.06 | Birth | 1870 – Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer (d. 1936) |
| 52108 | May.06 | Birth | 1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) |
| 52109 | May.06 | Birth | 1871 – Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet (d. 1914) |
| 52110 | May.06 | Birth | 1872 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1934) |