May 1 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 1, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#194 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 1 birthdays
Johann Jakob Balmer · Swiss mathematician1825
Mother Jones · Irish-born American labor and community organizer1830
Santiago Ramón y Cajal · Spanish scientist1852
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin · French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist1881
Glenn Ford · Canadian-American actor1916
Joseph Heller · American writer1923
Scott Carpenter · American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut1925
Ahmed Yassin · Palestinian political and religious leader1937
Patrice Talon · President of Benin between 2016 and 20261958
Oliver Bierhoff · German association football official and former player1968
Wes Anderson · American filmmaker1969
Yasuyuki Moriyama · Japanese association football player1969
Julie Benz · American actress1972
Zaz · French singer1980
Alexander Hleb · Belarusian footballer1981
Darijo Srna · Croatian footballer1982
Jamie Dornan · Northern Irish actor1982
Leonardo Bonucci · Italian association football player1987
Anushka Sharma · Indian actress1988
Charli D'Amelio · American social media personality2004
On this day in history
1884Moses Fleetwood Walker, the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the Toledo Blue Stockings.
1931New York City's Empire State Building, at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.
1950Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
2004Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
1945Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.
1974Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization.
1991In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.
2002The Horncastle boar's head, which probably once formed part of the crest of an Anglo-Saxon helmet, was found.
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