American physicist (d. 1945) May 5 Jim Conacher, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2020) Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) Eric Tweedale, English-born Australian rugby union player May 6 – Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988) May 8 – Robert Hugh Ferrell, American historian (d. 2018) May 9 – Sophie Scholl, German student, anti-Nazi resistance fighter (executed) (d. 1943) May 11 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016) Alec Mathieson, Australian rules footballer (d. 2022) May 12 Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986) Farley Mowat, Canadian writer, naturalist (d. 2014) Lily Renée, Austrian-born American cartoonist May 15 – Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (d. 2009) May 16 Earl Ashby, Cuban baseball player Harry Carey Jr., American actor (d. 2012) May 17 – Dennis Brain, English musician (d. 1957) May 18 – Michael A. Epstein, English pathologist and academic May 19 Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999) Yuri Kochiyama, Japanese-American civil rights activist (d. 2014) May 20 – Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947) May 21 Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, human rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1989) Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher, author of the socio-economic Progressive Utilization Theory (d. 1990) May 23 Beate Albrecht, German violinist and music educator (d. 2017) James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975) Laurin L. Henry, American researcher Ray Lawler, Australian actor and director Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician, radio personality (d. 2008) Georgy Natanson, Russian director, screenwriter and playwright (d. 2017) May 25 Hal David, American songwriter and lyricist (d. 2012) Kitty Kallen, American singer (d. 2016) Sadhu Ram Sharma, Indian politician Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020) May 26 Inge Borkh, German soprano (some sources say she was born 1917) (d. 2018) Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991) May 28 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999) May 29 – Norman Hetherington, Australian puppeteer and artist (d. 2010) May 30 Branko Mamula, Yugoslav politician (d. 2021) Jamie Uys, South African actor, film director (d. 1996) June June 1 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985) June 3 – Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete (d. 2016) June 4 – Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016) June 5 James Francis Edwards, Canadian fighter pilot (d. 2022) P. K. Warrier, Indian Ayurveda practitioner (d. 2021) June 6 – Mikheil Tumanishvili, Georgian theater director, teacher (d. 1996) June 7