May 1: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Wendy Toye, Rita Coolidge, Kate Smith, Terry Southern, Sterling Brown, Judy Collins, Bobbie Ann Mason, William Lilly, Valentina, Daniele Darrieux, Theo van Gogh, Steve Cauthen, Jack Paar, Joseph Addison

May 2: Michael C. Kaser, Lesley Gore, the Red Baron, Benjamin Spock, Bing Crosby, Alessandro Scarlatti, Hedda Hopper, Philippe Halsman, Bianca Jagger, Edmund Bacon, Donald S. Farmer, Novalis, Lorenz Hart, Theodore Bikel, Richard Holmes

May 3: Allessandro Allori, Niccolo Machiavelli, Golda Meir, Sugar Ray Robinson, Henry Fielding, John Lewis, Mary Astor, Betty Comden, Mary Sarton, Doug Henning, Mel Lazarus, Virgil Fox, Steven Weinberg, Manning Hope Clark, Pete Seeger

May 4: Alice Liddell, Randy Travis, Roberta Peters, Audrey Hepburn, Horace Mann, Ron Carter, Maynard Ferguson, Sonny Payne, Frederick Edwin Church, Howard Da Silva, Amos Oz, John Hanning Speke, Thomas Henry Huxley

May 5: Ian McCulloch, Alice Faye, Kevin Saunderson, Karl Marx, Soren Kierkegaard, James Beard, Tammy Wynette, Michael Palin, the Emperor Justinian, Queen Eugenie of France, Tyrone Power, Blind Willie McTell, Herschel Loveless

May 6: Barbara Aronstein Black, Ghena Dimitrova, Sigmund Freud, Maximilien Robespierre, Orson Welles, Rudolph Valentino, Wille Mays, Robert Peary, Stewart Granger, Victor Neuberg, Max Ophuls, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, T.H.White

May 7: Gabby Hayes, Eva Peron, Jimmy Ruffin, Susan Atkins, Marjorie Boulton, Carolyn Roehm, Anne Baxter, Johannes Brahms, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Robert Browning, Gary Cooper, Pete V. Domenici, Gerard van Swieten, Tony Gwynn

May 8: Sonny Liston, Peter Benchley, Jane Roberts, Philip Bailey, Harry S. Truman, Candace Bergen, Jean Henri Dunant, Gary Snyder, Oscar Hammerstein, Roberto Rosselini, Thomas Pynchon, Fulton J. Sheen, Mary Lou Williams, Ricky Nelson

May 9: Glenda Jackson, John Brown, Daniel Berrigan, James Barrie, Kathryn Kuhlman, Dave Prater, Albert Finney, Mike Wallace, Pancho Gonzalez, Billy Joel, Ralph Boston, Vance Devoe Brand, Jan Dibbets, Carlo Maria Giulini, James Hagerty

May 10: Bono, Fred Astaire, John Wilkes Booth, David O. Selznick, Karl E. Kreafft, Max Steiner, Donovan, Jean Houston, Ariel Durant, Sid Vicious, Barbara Woodhouse, Mel Lewis, Olaf Stapledon, Phil Mahre, Steve Mahre, Milton Babbitt

May 11: Salvador Dali, Phil Silvers, Mort Sahl, Walter de Voe, King Oliver, Baron von Munchausen, Irving Berlin, Andre Gregory, Margaret Rutherford, Carla Bley, Marco Ferreri, Eric Burdon, J.C. Higginbotham, Charlie Gehringer, Yakov Agam

May 12: George Carlin, Katherine Hepburn, Pat McCormick, Emilio Estevez, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Florence Nightingale, Edward Lear, Frank Stella, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gabriel Faure, Yogi Berra, Burt Bacharach, Steve Winwood

May 13: Jane Allison Glover, Josephine Butler, Harvey Keitl, Stevie Wonder, Daphne du Maurier, Georges Braque, Joe Lewis, Bea Arthur, Ravi Shankar, Roger Zelazny, Richie Valens, Bruce Chatwin, Alphonse Daudet, Sir Arthur Sullivan

May 14: David Byrne, Jack Bruce, George Lucas, Gabriel Daniel Farenheit, Sidney Bechet, Thomas Gainsborough, Marion Harper, Joseph Fruton, Patrick Bruel, Otto Klemperer, Claude Dornier, Antonio Berni, Patrice Munsel, Kurt Browning

May 15: Katherine A. Porter, L. Frank Baum, Jasper Johns, Claudio Monteverdi, Brian Eno, James Mason, Richard Avedon, Joseph Cotton, Pierre Curie, Max Frisch, David Cronenburg, Don Bragg, Mario Monicelli, Mike Oldfield

May 16: Olga Korbut, Liberace, Garth Allen, Billy Cobham, Margaret Sullivan, Zoe Fontana, Betty Carter, Henry Fonda, Joan Benoit, Janet Jackson, Debra Winger, Woody Herman, Christian Lacroix, Gabriela Sabatini, Richard Tauber

May 17: Dennis Hopper, Jesse Winchester, Archibald Cox, Edward Jenner, Eric Satie, Sugar Ray Leonard, Birgit Nilsson, Zinka Milanov, Paul Quinichette, Jackie McLean, Deenis Brain, Dewey Redman, Jean Gabin, Maureen O'Sullivan

May 18: Bertrand Russell, Pope John Paul II, Toyah Willcox, Meredith Wilson, Warren Rudman, Pierre Balmain, Frank Capra, Nicholas II of Russia, Reggie Jackson, Jacob Javits, Big Joe Turner, Brooks Robinson, Perry Como, Kai Winding

May 19: Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Grace Jones, Nelllie Melba, Lorraine Hansberry, Pete Townsend, Cecil McBee, Sonny Fortune, Jane Ellen Brody, Nora Ephron, Lady Nancy Astor, Jim Lehrer, James Fox, Edward de Bono, Joey Ramone

May 20: Socrates, Honore de Balzac, Jimmy Stewart, J.J. Astor, Lya Bosi, Constance Towers, Elijah Fenton, Sigrid Undset, Cher, Joe Cocker, John Stewart Mill, William Thornton, George Gobel, Owen G. Smith, Doris Fleeson, Stan Mikita

May 21: Albrecht Durer, Andre Sakharov, Mary Robinson, Stephen Girard, Fats Waller, Henri Rousseau, Marcel Breuer, Philip II of Spain, Baron Guy de Rothschild, Hermann Lotze, Malcolm Fraser, Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines, Gina Bachauer

May 22: Sir Laurence Olivier, Cyril Fagan, Marie Fish, Susan Strasberg, Lois M. Rodden, Richard Wagner, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Cassatt, Judith Crist, M. Scott Peck, Charles Aznavour, Paul Winfield, T Bone Walker, Harvey Milk

May 23: Rosemary Clooney, Alexander Ruperti, Scatman Crothers, Rennie Davis, Carolus Linnaeus, Franz Anton Mesmer, Robert Moog, Franz Kline, Alicia De Larrocha, Joan Collins, James Blish, John Bardeen, Joshua Lederberg, Marvin Hagler

May 24: Gary Burghoff, James Crenshaw, George Washington Carver, Albert Andre, Bob Dylan, Queen Victoria of England, Jean-Paul Marat, Patti Labelle, Elsa Maxwell, Roseanne Cash, Priscilla Presley, Mai Zetterling, Joan Micklin Silver

May 25: Gene Tunney, Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Beverly Sills, Bennet Cerf, Mary Wells Lawrence, Robert Ludlum, Leslie Uggams, John Weitz, Carlo Dolci, Theodore Hesburgh, Jamaica Kincaid, Lindsey Nelson, Ian McKellan

May 26: Dr. David Wdowinski, Peggy Lee, Richard Lederer, William Bolcom, Vivian Robson, John Wayne, Queen Mary of Britain, Sally K. Ride, James Arness, Jay Silverheels, Hank Williams Jr., Pam Grier, Stevie Nicks, Levon Helm, Jean Crain

May 27: Louis Gossett Jr., Herman Wouk, Harlan Jay Ellison, Edwin Morris, William S. Sessions, Rachel Carson, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Kissinger, Jay Gould, Wild Bill Hickok, Julia Ward Howe, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Dashiell Hammett

May 28: Jim Thorpe, J.C. Warner, Gyorgi Ligeti, Ian Fleming, Gladys Knight, Jerry West, John Fogarty, Barry Commoner, Patrick White, Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr., Rudolph Giuliani, Kirk Gibson, Thomas Moore, Edvard Benes, Warwich Keeping

May 29: Latoya Jackson, Beatrice Lillie, Charles II of Britain, Pearl Lang, John F. Kennedy, Patrick Henry, Bob Hope, Annette Bening, Tony Zale, T.H. White, Isaac Albeniz, Oswald Spengler, Joseph von Sternberg, Paul R. Ehrlich

May 30: Agnes Varda, Christine Jorgensen, Dave McKenna, Wynonna Judd, Paul Klopsteg, Jane Deeter Rippin, Gale Sayers, Benny Goodman, Peter the Great of Russia, Peter Carl Faberge, Paola Fendi, Mel Blanc, Cornelia Otis Skinner

May 31: Patricia Harris, Jean Rouch, Ludwig Tieck, Frei P. Otto, Clint Eastwood, Walt Whitman, Norman Vincent Peale, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Joe Namath, Brooke Shields, Fred Allen, Hilla Rebay, Pope Pius XI, Henry "Scoop" Jackson