page_title: 1926
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1926 / Births / May
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context_page_description: 1926 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
context_section_description: May 1 – Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician, academic
  May 3
  Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler
  Ema Derossi-Bjelajac, Croatian politician (d. 2020)
  May 4 – David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon, English politician
  May 5
  Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
  Bing Russell, American actor (d. 2003)
  May 8
  Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster, naturalist and producer
  David Hurst, German actor (d. 2019)
  Don Rickles, American stand-up comedian, actor (d. 2017)
  May 10
  Hugo Banzer, 62nd and 75th President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
  Pasquale Panìco, Italian politician (d. 2018)
  May 12 – Earl Hutto, American politician
  May 14 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian, author (d. 1984)
  May 15
  Anthony Shaffer, English novelist, playwright (d. 2001)
  Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2016)
  May 17
  David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, Scottish soldier and politician
  Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, banker, philanthropist and author (d. 2016)
  Franz Sondheimer, German-born British chemist (d. 1981)
  Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian film actor (d. 2014)
  May 18 – Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet (d. 2018)
  May 19
  Mark Andrews, American politician
  Edward Parkes, English engineer and academic (d. 2019)
  May 21 – Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
  May 23 – Aileen Hernandez, African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist (d. 2017)
  May 24 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
  May 25
  Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
  Bill Sharman, American basketball player, coach (d. 2013)
  May 26 – Miles Davis, African-American Jazz musician (d. 1991)
  May 27
  Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009)
  Kees Rijvers, Dutch football player and manager
  May 29
  Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe, Queen Consort of Tonga (d. 2017)
  Abdoulaye Wade, 3rd President of Senegal
  Katie Boyle, Italian-British actress, television personality, and game-show panelist (d. 2018)
  May 30
  Tony Terran, American trumpet player, session musician (d. 2017)
  Johnny Gimble, American country musician, fiddler (d. 2015)
  Tsuneo Watanabe, Japanese businessman
caption: David Attenborough
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