| 59431 | May.24 | Birth | 1874 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878) |
| 59432 | May.24 | Birth | 1875 – Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1961) |
| 59433 | May.24 | Birth | 1878 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and engineer (d. 1972) |
| 59434 | May.24 | Birth | 1879 – H. B. Reese, American candy maker, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (d. 1956) |
| 59435 | May.24 | Birth | 1885 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and academic (d. 1948) |
| 59436 | May.24 | Birth | 1886 – Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979) |
| 59437 | May.24 | Birth | 1887 – Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918) |
| 59438 | May.24 | Birth | 1891 – William F. Albright, American archeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971) |
| 59439 | May.24 | Birth | 1895 – Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications (d. 1979) |
| 59440 | May.24 | Birth | 1898 – Kathleen Hale, English author and illustrator (d. 2000) |
| 59441 | May.24 | Birth | 1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938) |
| 59442 | May.24 | Birth | 1899 – Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter (d. 1984) |
| 59443 | May.24 | Birth | 1900 – Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
| 59444 | May.24 | Birth | 1901 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (d. 1968) |
| 59445 | May.24 | Birth | 1902 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1954) |
| 59446 | May.24 | Birth | 1902 – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (d. 2004) |
| 59447 | May.24 | Birth | 1903 – Milo Burcham, American pilot (d. 1944) |
| 59448 | May.24 | Birth | 1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) |
| 59449 | May.24 | Birth | 1909 – Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician (d. 1992) |
| 59450 | May.24 | Birth | 1911 – Barbara West, English survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 2007) |
| 59451 | May.24 | Birth | 1913 – Joe Abreu, American baseball player and soldier (d. 1993) |
| 59452 | May.24 | Birth | 1913 – Audrey Brown, English runner (d. 2005) |
| 59453 | May.24 | Birth | 1913 – Peter Ellenshaw, American special effects designer (d. 2007) |
| 59454 | May.24 | Birth | 1914 – Lilli Palmer, German-American actress and singer (d. 1986) |
| 59455 | May.24 | Birth | 1914 – Giuseppe Valdengo, Italian actor and singer (d. 2007) |
| 59456 | May.24 | Birth | 1916 – Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (d. 2002) |
| 59457 | May.24 | Birth | 1917 – Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (d. 2013) |
| 59458 | May.24 | Birth | 1921 – Maria Michi, Italian actress (d. 1980) |
| 59459 | May.24 | Birth | 1923 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986) |
| 59460 | May.24 | Birth | 1924 – Aleksander Arulaid, Estonian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) |