| 62311 | May.31 | Event | 2013 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries. |
| 62312 | May.31 | Birth | 1443 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (d. 1509) |
| 62313 | May.31 | Birth | 1469 – Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521) |
| 62314 | May.31 | Birth | 1527 – Agnes of Hesse (d. 1555) |
| 62315 | May.31 | Birth | 1535 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607) |
| 62316 | May.31 | Birth | 1557 – Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598) |
| 62317 | May.31 | Birth | 1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680) |
| 62318 | May.31 | Birth | 1640 – Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, Polish husband of Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1673) |
| 62319 | May.31 | Birth | 1641 – Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem (d. 1707) |
| 62320 | May.31 | Birth | 1656 – Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (d. 1728) |
| 62321 | May.31 | Birth | 1683 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, invented the Celsius thermometer (d. 1755) |
| 62322 | May.31 | Birth | 1732 – Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop (d. 1812) |
| 62323 | May.31 | Birth | 1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French lawyer and politician (d. 1793) |
| 62324 | May.31 | Birth | 1754 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator (d. 1817) |
| 62325 | May.31 | Birth | 1773 – Ludwig Tieck, German poet, author, and critic (d. 1853) |
| 62326 | May.31 | Birth | 1801 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1887) |
| 62327 | May.31 | Birth | 1818 – John Albion Andrew, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867) |
| 62328 | May.31 | Birth | 1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist(d. 1892) |
| 62329 | May.31 | Birth | 1835 – Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (d. 1869) |
| 62330 | May.31 | Birth | 1838 – Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (d. 1900) |
| 62331 | May.31 | Birth | 1847 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Canadian-Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (d. 1924) |
| 62332 | May.31 | Birth | 1852 – Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (d. 1919) |
| 62333 | May.31 | Birth | 1852 – Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist, invented the Petri dish (d. 1921) |
| 62334 | May.31 | Birth | 1857 – Pope Pius XI (d. 1939) |
| 62335 | May.31 | Birth | 1860 – Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942) |
| 62336 | May.31 | Birth | 1863 – Francis Younghusband, Indian-English captain and explorer (d. 1942) |
| 62337 | May.31 | Birth | 1872 – W. Heath Robinson, English illustrator (d. 1944) |
| 62338 | May.31 | Birth | 1879 – Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano (d. 1952) |
| 62339 | May.31 | Birth | 1882 – Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (d. 1956) |
| 62340 | May.31 | Birth | 1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942) |