| 50886 | May.03 | Birth | 1896 – V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (d. 1974) |
| 50887 | May.03 | Birth | 1896 – Dodie Smith, English author and playwright (d. 1990) |
| 50888 | May.03 | Birth | 1897 – William Joseph Browne, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Solicitor General of Canada (d. 1989) |
| 50889 | May.03 | Birth | 1898 – Septima Poinsette Clark, American educator and activist (d. 1987) |
| 50890 | May.03 | Birth | 1898 – Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978) |
| 50891 | May.03 | Birth | 1901 – Gino Cervi, Italian actor (d. 1974) |
| 50892 | May.03 | Birth | 1902 – Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) |
| 50893 | May.03 | Birth | 1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (The Rhythm Boys) (d. 1977) |
| 50894 | May.03 | Birth | 1905 – Edmund Black, American hammer thrower (d. 1996) |
| 50895 | May.03 | Birth | 1905 – Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1988) |
| 50896 | May.03 | Birth | 1905 – Red Ruffing, American baseball pitcher and coach (d. 1986) |
| 50897 | May.03 | Birth | 1906 – Mary Astor, American actress and singer (d. 1987) |
| 50898 | May.03 | Birth | 1906 – René Huyghe, French historian and author (d. 1997) |
| 50899 | May.03 | Birth | 1906 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist and author (d. 1975) |
| 50900 | May.03 | Birth | 1906 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2005) |
| 50901 | May.03 | Birth | 1907 – Dorothy Young, American actress and dancer (d. 2011) |
| 50902 | May.03 | Birth | 1910 – Norman Corwin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011) |
| 50903 | May.03 | Birth | 1912 – Virgil Fox, American organist and composer (d. 1980) |
| 50904 | May.03 | Birth | 1912 – May Sarton, Belgian-American author and poet (d. 1995) |
| 50905 | May.03 | Birth | 1913 – William Inge, American author and playwright (d. 1973) |
| 50906 | May.03 | Birth | 1914 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French journalist, author, and poet |
| 50907 | May.03 | Birth | 1915 – Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded Stampede Wrestling (d. 2003) |
| 50908 | May.03 | Birth | 1915 – Richard Lippold, American sculptor and academic (d. 2002) |
| 50909 | May.03 | Birth | 1916 – Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor and actor (d. 2006) |
| 50910 | May.03 | Birth | 1917 – Betty Comden, American actress and screenwriter (d. 2006) |
| 50881 | May.03 | Birth | 1892 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) |
| 50882 | May.03 | Birth | 1892 – Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic (d. 1970) |
| 50883 | May.03 | Birth | 1893 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (d. 1975) |
| 50884 | May.03 | Birth | 1895 – Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and apologist (d. 1987) |
| 50885 | May.03 | Birth | 1896 – Karl Allmenröder, German soldier and pilot (d. 1917) |