| 50071 | May.01 | Birth | 1918 – Raymond Mailloux, Canadian captain and politician (d. 1995) |
| 50072 | May.01 | Birth | 1918 – Jack Paar, American comedian, author and talk show host (d. 2004) |
| 50073 | May.01 | Birth | 1919 – Manna Dey, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2013) |
| 50074 | May.01 | Birth | 1919 – Lewis Hill, American broadcaster, co-founded Pacifica Radio (d. 1957) |
| 50075 | May.01 | Birth | 1919 – Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Moroccan businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Morocco |
| 50076 | May.01 | Birth | 1919 – Dan O'Herlihy, Irish-American actor (d. 2005) |
| 50077 | May.01 | Birth | 1921 – Vladimir Colin, Romanian journalist and author (d. 1991) |
| 50078 | May.01 | Birth | 1921 – Boo Morcom, American pole vaulter and jumper (d. 2012) |
| 50079 | May.01 | Birth | 1922 – Alastair Gillespie, Canadian scholar and politician |
| 50080 | May.01 | Birth | 1923 – Joseph Heller, American author and playwright (d. 1999) |
| 50081 | May.01 | Birth | 1923 – Milan Kangrga, Croatian philosopher and theorist (d. 2008) |
| 50082 | May.01 | Birth | 1923 – Antônio Maria Mucciolo, Italian-Brazilian archbishop (d. 2012) |
| 50083 | May.01 | Birth | 1923 – Marcel Rayman, Polish soldier (d. 1944) |
| 50084 | May.01 | Birth | 1924 – Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (d. 1995) |
| 50085 | May.01 | Birth | 1924 – Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic |
| 50086 | May.01 | Birth | 1924 – Big Maybelle, American singer and pianist (d. 1972) |
| 50087 | May.01 | Birth | 1924 – Karel Kachyňa, Czech director and screenwriter (d. 2004) |
| 50088 | May.01 | Birth | 1924 – Terry Southern, American author and screenwriter (d. 1995) |
| 50089 | May.01 | Birth | 1925 – Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (d. 2014) |
| 50090 | May.01 | Birth | 1925 – Chuck Bednarik, American lieutenant and football player (d. 2015) |
| 50091 | May.01 | Birth | 1925 – Scott Carpenter, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2013) |
| 50092 | May.01 | Birth | 1925 – Sardar Fazlul Karim, Bangladeshi philosopher, scholar, and academic (d. 2014) |
| 50093 | May.01 | Birth | 1926 – Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic |
| 50094 | May.01 | Birth | 1927 – Gary Bertini, Israeli conductor and composer (d. 2005) |
| 50095 | May.01 | Birth | 1927 – Laura Betti, Italian actress (d. 2004) |
| 50096 | May.01 | Birth | 1927 – Bernard Vukas, Yugoslav-Croatian footballer (d. 1983) |
| 50097 | May.01 | Birth | 1928 – Desmond Titterington, Irish-Scottish race car driver (d. 2002) |
| 50098 | May.01 | Birth | 1929 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist and politician (d. 2009) |
| 50099 | May.01 | Birth | 1929 – Sonny James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 50100 | May.01 | Birth | 1929 – Mikhail Krivonosov, Russian hammer thrower (d. 1995) |