| 59461 | May.24 | Birth | 1924 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter |
| 59462 | May.24 | Birth | 1925 – Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator (d. 2013) |
| 59463 | May.24 | Birth | 1925 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (d. 1994) |
| 59464 | May.24 | Birth | 1926 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter |
| 59465 | May.24 | Birth | 1928 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (d. 2015) |
| 59466 | May.24 | Birth | 1928 – William Trevor, Irish author and playwright |
| 59467 | May.24 | Birth | 1930 – Hans-Martin Linde, German flute player and author |
| 59468 | May.24 | Birth | 1931 – Michael Lonsdale, French actor and singer |
| 59469 | May.24 | Birth | 1932 – James Anderton, English police officer |
| 59470 | May.24 | Birth | 1932 – Arnold Wesker, English playwright and producer |
| 59471 | May.24 | Birth | 1933 – Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2014) |
| 59472 | May.24 | Birth | 1933 – Réal Giguère, Canadian talk show host |
| 59473 | May.24 | Birth | 1933 – Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author (d. 2015) |
| 59474 | May.24 | Birth | 1933 – Christopher Staughton, English lawyer and judge (d. 2014) |
| 59475 | May.24 | Birth | 1934 – Barry Rose, English organist and conductor |
| 59476 | May.24 | Birth | 1935 – Joan Micklin Silver, American director and screenwriter |
| 59477 | May.24 | Birth | 1935 – Rusty York, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014) |
| 59478 | May.24 | Birth | 1936 – Harold Budd, American composer and poet |
| 59479 | May.24 | Birth | 1937 – Timothy Brown, American football player and actor |
| 59480 | May.24 | Birth | 1937 – Maryvonne Dupureur, French runner and educator (d. 2008) |
| 59481 | May.24 | Birth | 1937 – Roger Peterson, American pilot (d. 1959) |
| 59482 | May.24 | Birth | 1937 – Archie Shepp, American saxophonist and composer |
| 59483 | May.24 | Birth | 1938 – Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer |
| 59484 | May.24 | Birth | 1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 59485 | May.24 | Birth | 1938 – David Viscott, American psychiatrist and author (d. 1996) |
| 59486 | May.24 | Birth | 1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) |
| 59487 | May.24 | Birth | 1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Traveling Wilburys) |
| 59488 | May.24 | Birth | 1941 – Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, English academic and politician |
| 59489 | May.24 | Birth | 1941 – George Lakoff, American linguist and academic |
| 59490 | May.24 | Birth | 1942 – Ali Bacher, South African cricketer and manager |