page_title: 1944
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 / Births / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Promotional photo of Joe Cocker.
context_page_description: 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: May 1
  Costa Cordalis, German singer (d. 2019)
  Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
  Marva Whitney, American singer (d. 2012)
  May 3 – Rusty Wier, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
  May 4 – Russi Taylor, American actress (d. 2019)
  May 5
  Roger Rees, Welsh actor and director (d. 2015)
  John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor
  May 8 – Gary Glitter, English singer
  May 9
  Richie Furay, American musician (Poco, Buffalo Springfield)
  Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961)
  May 10
  Jim Abrahams, American film director
  Jackie Lomax, English singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2013)
  May 12 – Sara Kestelman, English actress
  May 13
  Armistead Maupin, American author
  Carolyn Franklin, American singer (d. 1988)
  May 14
  Connie Lawn, American journalist (d. 2018)
  George Lucas, American film director and producer
  May 15
  Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (d. 2015)
  Gunilla Hutton, Swedish-born American actress and singer
  May 16 – Danny Trejo, Hispanic-American actor
  May 17
  Luís de Matos Monteiro da Fonseca, Cape Verdean diplomat and civil servant
  Jesse Winchester, American-Canadian musician and songwriter (d. 2014)
  May 19 – Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (d. 2019)
  May 20
  Joe Cocker, English rock singer (d. 2014)
  Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
  Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
  May 21 – Mary Robinson, President of Ireland
  May 22 – Roberto A. Abad, Filipino lawyer
  May 23
  John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
  Avraham Oz, Israeli theater professor, translator, and political activist
  May 24
  David Mark Berger, American-born Israeli weightlifter, murdered at the Munich Olympics (d. 1972)
  Patti LaBelle, American singer, actress and entrepreneur
  May 25 – Frank Oz, English puppeteer and film director
  May 26 – Jan Schakowsky, U.S. Representative, Illinois's 9th congressional district
  May 27 – Chris Dodd, American politician
  May 28
  Rudy Giuliani, American politician, former Mayor of New York City
  Gladys Knight, American singer
  Sondra Locke, American actress and director (d. 2018)
  Rita MacNeil, Canadian folk singer (d. 2013)
  Patricia, Lady Stephens (née Quinn), retired Northern Irish actress
  May 29 – Helmut Berger, Austrian actor
  May 30 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
  May 31 – Ayad Allawi, 38th Prime Minister of Iraq
caption: Joe Cocker
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