May 7, 1955 – Peter Reckell, American actor.
May 8, 1884 – Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States.
May 9, 1800 – John Brown, was a revolutionary abolitionist.
May 10, 1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
May 11, 1783 – Peter Willemoes, a Danish naval officer.
May 12, 1978 – Malin Maria Åkerman, a Swedish–Canadian actress, model and singer.
May 13, 1907 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE, an English author and playwright.