Famous people born on 1 May

• Isabella I of CastileQueen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 · 1451–1504
  53 yrs
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonBritish Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834 · 1769–1852
  83 yrs
• Santiago Ramón y CajalSpanish scientist · 1852–1934
  82 yrs
• Joseph AddisonEnglish essayist, poet, playwright and politician · 1672–1719
  47 yrs
• Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFrench philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist · 1881–1955
  73 yrs
• Ahmad YasinPalestinian political and religious leader · 1937–2004
  66 yrs
• Joseph HellerAmerican writer · 1923–1999
  76 yrs
• Rudolph I of Germany ↗Count of Habsburg, king of Germany · 1218–1291
  73 yrs
• Nikolai Yezhov ↗NKVD director under Joseph Stalin · 1895–1940
  44 yrs
• Glenn Ford ↗Canadian-American actor · 1916–2006
  90 yrs
• Johann Jakob Balmer ↗Swiss mathematician · 1825–1898
  72 yrs
• Scott Carpenter ↗American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut · 1925–2013
  88 yrs
• Yannis Ritsos ↗Greek poet · 1909–1990
  81 yrs
• Giovannino Guareschi ↗Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist · 1908–1968
  60 yrs
• Danielle Darrieux ↗French actress and singer · 1917–2017
  100 yrs
• Ignazio Silone ↗Italian writer and politician · 1900–1978
  78 yrs
• Ralf Dahrendorf ↗German-British sociologist, politician · 1929–2009
  80 yrs
• Theo Van Gogh ↗Dutch art dealer (1857-1891), brother of painter Vincent van Gogh · 1857–1891
  33 yrs
• Marc-Vivien Foé ↗Cameroonian and French footballer · 1975–2003
  28 yrs
• José de Alencar ↗Brazilian writer · 1829–1877
  48 yrs
• Calamity Jane ↗American scout and frontierswoman · 1852–1903
  51 yrs
• Mark W. Clark ↗United States Army general · 1896–1984
  87 yrs
• Peter Lax ↗American mathematician of Hungarian origin · 1926–2025
  99 yrs
• Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ↗British prince (1850–1942), Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916 · 1850–1942
  91 yrs
• Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse ↗German prince · 1868–1940
  72 yrs
• Jacob Bekenstein ↗Mexican-Israeli physicist · 1947–2015
  68 yrs
• Dan O'Herlihy ↗Irish actor · 1919–2005
  85 yrs
• Jules Breton ↗French painter · 1827–1906
  79 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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