01 May: today's birthdays

• Wes Anderson - American film director, screenwriter and producer
• Leonardo Bonucci - Italian football player
• Gianna Bryant - Gianna Bryant, also nicknamed Gigi was an American middle school basketball player and daughter of NBA legend Kobe Bryant.
  She and her father tragically died in a helicopter crash in California
• Rita Coolidge - American singer
• Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf - German philosopher and sociologist
• Glenn Ford - Canadian actor
• Joseph Heller - American novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays author. The novel Catch-22 is his best-known novel: a biting satire on war and bureaucracy. The title has become a synonym for an illogical or contradictory choice
• Jannis Ritsos (Yiannis Ritsos) - Greek poet 
• Jesse Klaver - Dutch politician, born Jesse Feras Klaver. He is the leader of the GroenLinks, Green Left
• Tim McGraw - American country singer
• Emmanuel Mounier - French philosopher
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal - Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 along with Italian scientist Camillo Golgi
• Drew Sidora - American actress and singer
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - French philosopher, palaeontologist and priest
• Karel van Mander - Flemish painter and poet