| 62351 | May.31 | Birth | 1905 – Florence Desmond, English actress and singer (d. 1993) |
| 62352 | May.31 | Birth | 1908 – Don Ameche, American actor and singer (d. 1993) |
| 62353 | May.31 | Birth | 1908 – Sigfred Johansen, Danish actor (d. 1953) |
| 62354 | May.31 | Birth | 1908 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000) |
| 62355 | May.31 | Birth | 1909 – Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2000) |
| 62356 | May.31 | Birth | 1909 – Aurore Gagnon, Canadian child abuse victim (d. 1920) |
| 62357 | May.31 | Birth | 1911 – Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) |
| 62358 | May.31 | Birth | 1912 – Alfred Deller, English singer (d. 1979) |
| 62359 | May.31 | Birth | 1914 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer and educator (d. 2006) |
| 62360 | May.31 | Birth | 1916 – Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997) |
| 62361 | May.31 | Birth | 1916 – Bernard Lewis, English-American historian and author |
| 62362 | May.31 | Birth | 1918 – Sadie Corré, English actress and dancer (d. 2009) |
| 62363 | May.31 | Birth | 1919 – Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (d. 1995) |
| 62364 | May.31 | Birth | 1921 – Edna Doré, English actress (d. 2014) |
| 62365 | May.31 | Birth | 1921 – Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer (d. 2008) |
| 62366 | May.31 | Birth | 1921 – Alida Valli, Austrian-Italian actress and singer (d. 2006) |
| 62367 | May.31 | Birth | 1922 – Denholm Elliott, English-Spanish actor (d. 1992) |
| 62368 | May.31 | Birth | 1923 – Ellsworth Kelly, American painter and sculptor |
| 62369 | May.31 | Birth | 1923 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005) |
| 62370 | May.31 | Birth | 1925 – Julian Beck, American actor and director (d. 1986) |
| 62341 | May.31 | Birth | 1885 – Alois Hudal, Austrian bishop (d. 1963) |
| 62342 | May.31 | Birth | 1887 – Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) |
| 62343 | May.31 | Birth | 1892 – Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter (d. 1968) |
| 62344 | May.31 | Birth | 1892 – Erich Neumann, German lieutenant and politician (d. 1951) |
| 62345 | May.31 | Birth | 1892 – Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian poet and author (d. 1968) |
| 62346 | May.31 | Birth | 1892 – Gregor Strasser, German lieutenant and politician (d. 1934) |
| 62347 | May.31 | Birth | 1894 – Fred Allen, American comedian, actor, and radio host (d. 1956) |
| 62348 | May.31 | Birth | 1898 – Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author (d. 1993) |
| 62349 | May.31 | Birth | 1901 – Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer (d. 1983) |
| 62350 | May.31 | Birth | 1902 – Billy Mayerl, English pianist and composer (d. 1959) |