| 58981 | May.23 | Birth | 1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (d. 1896) |
| 58982 | May.23 | Birth | 1855 – Isabella Ford, English author and activist (d. 1924) |
| 58983 | May.23 | Birth | 1859 – Joseph-Alfred Archambeault, Canadian bishop (d. 1913) |
| 58984 | May.23 | Birth | 1864 – William O'Connor, American fencer (d. 1939) |
| 58985 | May.23 | Birth | 1865 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian jurist and politician, 11th President of Brazil (d. 1942) |
| 58986 | May.23 | Birth | 1867 – John Exley, American rower (d. 1938) |
| 58987 | May.23 | Birth | 1871 – Saint George Ashe, Maltese-English rower (d. 1922) |
| 58988 | May.23 | Birth | 1875 – Alfred P. Sloan, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1966) |
| 58989 | May.23 | Birth | 1879 – Elizabeth Gunn, New Zealand soldier and pediatrician (d. 1963) |
| 58990 | May.23 | Birth | 1879 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian tennis player and architect (d. 1966) |
| 58991 | May.23 | Birth | 1882 – William Halpenny, Canadian pole vaulter (d. 1960) |
| 58992 | May.23 | Birth | 1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1939) |
| 58993 | May.23 | Birth | 1883 – Ferenc Talányi, Slovenian journalist and painter (d. 1959) |
| 58994 | May.23 | Birth | 1884 – Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and demographer (d. 1965) |
| 58995 | May.23 | Birth | 1887 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1963) |
| 58996 | May.23 | Birth | 1887 – Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian-Russian sailor and captain (d. 1951) |
| 58997 | May.23 | Birth | 1888 – Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer (d. 1972) |
| 58998 | May.23 | Birth | 1889 – Ernst Niekisch, German educator and politician (d. 1967) |
| 58999 | May.23 | Birth | 1890 – Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer (d. 1966) |
| 59000 | May.23 | Birth | 1891 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) |
| 59001 | May.23 | Birth | 1893 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977) |
| 59002 | May.23 | Birth | 1895 – Billy Smith, English footballer and manager (d. 1956) |
| 59003 | May.23 | Birth | 1896 – Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (d. 1966) |
| 59004 | May.23 | Birth | 1898 – Scott O'Dell, American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1989) |
| 59005 | May.23 | Birth | 1898 – Josef Terboven, German soldier and politician (d. 1945) |
| 59006 | May.23 | Birth | 1899 – Jeralean Talley, American super-centenarian |
| 59007 | May.23 | Birth | 1900 – Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician (d. 1946) |
| 59008 | May.23 | Birth | 1900 – Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and theorist (d. 1954) |
| 59009 | May.23 | Birth | 1902 – Frank Buckland, Canadian businessman (d. 1991) |
| 59010 | May.23 | Birth | 1906 – Pran Nath Thapar, Indian general (d. 1975) |