| 52111 | May.06 | Birth | 1872 – Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general (d. 1922) |
| 52112 | May.06 | Birth | 1879 – Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952) |
| 52113 | May.06 | Birth | 1879 – Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (d. 1929) |
| 52114 | May.06 | Birth | 1880 – Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter and illustrator (d. 1959) |
| 52115 | May.06 | Birth | 1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German-Swiss painter (d. 1938) |
| 52116 | May.06 | Birth | 1880 – William Joseph Simmons, American Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 1945) |
| 52117 | May.06 | Birth | 1882 – Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (d. 1951) |
| 52118 | May.06 | Birth | 1895 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and author (d. 1974) |
| 52119 | May.06 | Birth | 1896 – Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1966) |
| 52120 | May.06 | Birth | 1895 – Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian soldier and politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (d. 1946) |
| 52121 | May.06 | Birth | 1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (d. 1926) |
| 52122 | May.06 | Birth | 1897 – Paul Alverdes, German author and poet (d. 1979) |
| 52123 | May.06 | Birth | 1898 – Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (d. 1945) |
| 52124 | May.06 | Birth | 1899 – Billy Cotton, English singer, drummer, and bandleader (d. 1969) |
| 52125 | May.06 | Birth | 1902 – Harry Golden, Ukrainian-American journalist and author (d. 1981) |
| 52126 | May.06 | Birth | 1902 – Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1957) |
| 52127 | May.06 | Birth | 1903 – Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (d. 1977) |
| 52128 | May.06 | Birth | 1904 – Raymond Bailey, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 52129 | May.06 | Birth | 1904 – Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (d. 1984) |
| 52130 | May.06 | Birth | 1904 – Catherine Lacey, English actress (d. 1979) |
| 52131 | May.06 | Birth | 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978) |
| 52132 | May.06 | Birth | 1905 – Philip N. Krasne, American lawyer and producer (d. 1999) |
| 52133 | May.06 | Birth | 1906 – André Weil, French mathematician and academic (d. 1998) |
| 52134 | May.06 | Birth | 1907 – Weeb Ewbank, American football player and coach (d. 1998) |
| 52135 | May.06 | Birth | 1909 – Loyd Sigmon, American radio host (d. 2004) |
| 52136 | May.06 | Birth | 1911 – Guy des Cars, French journalist and author (d. 1993) |
| 52137 | May.06 | Birth | 1911 – Frank Nelson, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 52138 | May.06 | Birth | 1913 – Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (d. 1989) |
| 52139 | May.06 | Birth | 1913 – Stewart Granger, English-American actor (d. 1993) |
| 52140 | May.06 | Birth | 1915 – Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1985) |