Slovenian athlete (d. 2022) April 26 – Padú del Caribe, Aruban musician and songwriter (d. 2019) April 27 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956) April 30 Diet Eman, Dutch author and resistance worker (d. 2019) Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and woman's history author (d. 2013) Captain Sir Tom Moore, English army officer and fundraiser (d. 2021) May May 1 – Alan Burgess, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2021) May 2 Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004) Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born writer, ecological activist (d. 2000) Joan van der Waals, Dutch physicist (d. 2022) May 3 – Godfrey Evans, English cricketer (d. 1999) May 5 – Jon Naar, British-American author, photographer (d. 2017) May 6 Mollie Lentaigne, English medical artist and Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (d. 2004) May 8 Tom of Finland, Finnish artist (d. 1991) Jean Maran, French politician (d. 2021) May 8 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d. 1996) May 9 Richard Adams, English novelist (d. 2016) Michael Dauncey, British Army brigadier (d. 2017) Mitsuko Mori, Japanese actress (d. 2012) May 11 – Gene Hermanski, American baseball player (d. 2010) May 12 John Tyler Bonner, American biologist (d. 2019) Gerald Stapleton, South African Battle of Britain fighter pilot (d. 2010) May 13 – Vassos Lyssarides, Cypriot politician and physician (d. 2021) May 15 – Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal (d. 2019) May 17 – Lydia Wideman, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2019) May 18 – Pope John Paul II (d. 2005) May 19 – Tina Strobos, Dutch psychiatrist known for rescuing Jews during World War II (d. 2012) May 20 John Cruickshank, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient Betty Driver, British singer and actress (d. 2011) Domenico Leccisi, Italian politician (d. 2008) May 21 – Sonja de Lennart, German fashion designer May 22 – Helen Andelin, American author (d. 2009) May 23 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993) May 25 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992) May 26 John Dall, American actor (d. 1971) Ted Knap, American journalist Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002) May 28 – Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer and director (d. 1999) May 29 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000) May 30 Godfrey Binaisa, President of Uganda (d. 2010) James F. Leonard, American diplomat (d. 2020) Frederick M. Nicholas, American lawyer Franklin Schaffner, American film,