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This article is about the year 1957. For the 2002 album by Soul-Junk, see1957 (album).

From top to bottom, left to right: TheSputnik satellite is launched by theSoviet Union, starting theSpace Race;Sputnik 2 follows, carrying the dogLaika as the first living creature in orbit; theTreaty of Rome establishes theEuropean Economic Community to promote economic integration in Europe; the1957–1958 influenza pandemic spreads worldwide, killing over a million; theLittle Rock Nine integrateLittle Rock Central High School, challenging racial segregation in the United States;The Bridge on the River Kwai premieres to critical and commercial acclaim; theSyrian Crisis of 1957 escalates tensions in the Middle East; theLewisham rail crash kills 90 in London; andHurricane Audrey devastates the U.S. Gulf Coast.

1957 (MCMLVII) was acommon year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar, the 1957th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the2nd millennium, the 57th year of the20th century, and the 8th year of the1950s decade.

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1957 in variouscalendars
Gregorian calendar	1957 MCMLVII
Ab urbe condita	2710
Armenian calendar	1406 ԹՎ ՌՆԶ
Assyrian calendar	6707
Baháʼí calendar	113–114
Balinese saka calendar	1878–1879
Bengali calendar	1363–1364
Berber calendar	2907
British Regnal year	5 Eliz. 2 – 6 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2501
Burmese calendar	1319
Byzantine calendar	7465–7466
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4654 or 4447 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4655 or 4448
Coptic calendar	1673–1674
Discordian calendar	3123
Ethiopian calendar	1949–1950
Hebrew calendar	5717–5718
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	2013–2014
-Shaka Samvat	1878–1879
-Kali Yuga	5057–5058
Holocene calendar	11957
Igbo calendar	957–958
Iranian calendar	1335–1336
Islamic calendar	1376–1377
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 32 (昭和３２年)
Javanese calendar	1888–1889
Juche calendar	46
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4290
Minguo calendar	ROC 46 民國46年
Nanakshahi calendar	489
Thai solar calendar	2500
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 2083 or 1702 or 930 — to — མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Bird) 2084 or 1703 or 931

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Events

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January

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January 1 – TheSaarland joinsWest Germany.
January 3 –Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electricwatch.
January 5 – South African playerRussell Endean becomes the firstbatsman to bedismissed for havinghandled the ball inTest cricket.
January 9 – British Prime MinisterAnthony Eden resigns on health grounds.
January 10 –Harold Macmillan becomesPrime Minister of the United Kingdom.
January 11 – TheAfrican Convention is founded inDakar.
January 14 –Kripalu Maharaj is named fifthJagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
January 15 – The filmThrone of Blood,Akira Kurosawa's reworking ofMacbeth, is released in Japan.
January 16 – Global hotel brandMarriott opens its first hotel, theMarriott Motor Hotel inArlington, Virginia.^[1]
January 20 –Israel withdraws from theSinai Peninsula (captured fromEgypt on October 29,1956).
January 26 – TheIbirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city ofSão Paulo,Brazil.

February

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February 2 – PresidentIskander Mirza ofPakistan lays the foundation-stone of theGuddu Barrage across theIndus River, nearSukkur.
February 4
- France prohibits U.N. involvement inAlgeria.
- The firstnuclear-powered submarine,USS Nautilus, logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictionalNautilus described inJules Verne's1870 novelTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. It is decommissioned onMarch 3,1980.
- A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop Coal Mine inBishop, Virginia, United States, kills 37 men.
February 6 – TheSoviet Union announces that Swedish envoyRaoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison ("possibly of aheart attack"), onJuly 17,1947
February 10 – TheConfederation of African Football is founded, at a meeting inKhartoum.
February 15 –Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of theSoviet Union.
February 16 –Ingmar Bergman's filmThe Seventh Seal opens at cinemas inSweden.
February 17 – Afire at a home for the elderly inWarrenton, Missouri, United States, kills 72 people.
February 18
- Kenyan rebel leaderDedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
- The last person to be executed in New Zealand,Walter James Bolton, ishanged atMount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.^[2]
February 23 – The founding congress of theSenegalese Popular Bloc opens inDakar.

March

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Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence

March 1
- U Nu becomes Prime Minister ofBurma.
- Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government ofUruguay.
- Sud Aviation forms, from a merger betweenSNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) andSNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest).
March 3 –Net als toen, sung byCorry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen, lyrics byWilly van Hemert), wins theEurovision Song Contest 1957 (held atFrankfurt), for the Netherlands.
March 6
- United Kingdom coloniesGold Coast andBritish Togoland become the independent nation ofGhana.
- Zodi Ikhia founds theNigerien Democratic Front (FDN) inNiger.
March 8 –Egypt re-opens theSuez Canal.
March 14 – PresidentSukarno declaresmartial law inIndonesia.^[3]
March 17 –1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash:Philippine PresidentRamon Magsaysay and 24 others are killed in a plane crash.
March 20 – The French news magazineL'Express reveals that the French army torturesAlgerian prisoners.
March 25 – TheTreaty of Rome (Patto diRoma) establishes theEuropean Economic Community (EEC; predecessor of theEuropean Union) between Italy, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
March 27 – The29th Academy Awards Ceremony is held inHollywood.Around the World in 80 Days winsBest Picture.

April

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April –IBM sells the first compiler for theFortran scientificprogramming language.
April 1 – The first newconscripts join theBundeswehr.
April 5 – TheCommunist Party of India wins the elections inKerala, makingE. M. S. Namboodiripad its first chief minister.
April 9 –Egypt reopens theSuez Canal to all shipping.
April 12 – The United Kingdom announces thatSingapore will gain self-rule on January 1, 1958.
April 13 – The1957 alleged Jordanian military coup attempt againstHussein Bin Talal is made byAli Abu Nuwar.
April 15
- TheDistant Early Warning Line is handed over by contractors to the U.S. and Canadian military.
- White Rock secedes fromSurrey, British Columbia, following a referendum.
April 17 – Suspected Englishserial killer DrJohn Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of murder, at theOld Bailey.
April 24–25 – The1957 Fethiye earthquakes occur on the Mediterranean coast ofTurkey.
April 30 – Thesolar eclipse of April 30, 1957, a non-central annular solar eclipse that does not have a northern path limit, takes place. This is the last of 57 umbral solar eclipses ofSolar Saros 118.

May

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May 2 – "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", written byCornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the South African national anthem, replacing "God Save the Queen", which is retained as aroyal anthem.
May 8 – South Vietnamese PresidentNgo Dinh Diem begins astate visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.^[4]
May 15
- Operation Grapple: AtMalden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its firsthydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.
- Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending anEnglish record international career of almost 23 years.
May 16 –Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the newSecretary General of NATO.
May 24 –May 24 incident:Anti-American riots erupt inTaipei,Taiwan.^[5]
May 30 –Real Madrid beatsFiorentina 2–0 atSantiago Bernabéu Stadium,Madrid, to win the1956–57 European Cup (football).

June

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June 9 –Broad Peak, on the China-Pakistan border, is first ascended.
June 21 –John Diefenbaker becomes the 13thPrime Minister of Canada.
June 27 –Hurricane Audrey demolishesCameron, Louisiana, U.S., killing 400 people.

July

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July 1
- TheInternational Geophysical Year begins.
- TheUniversity of Waterloo is founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- Hugh Everett III publishes the first scientifically foundedmany-worlds interpretation ofquantum mechanics.
- Production of theCitroën Traction Avant automobile, begun in1934, ceases.
July 6 – At the age of fifteen,Paul McCartney meetsJohn Lennon and his band, the Quarrymen, at the St Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.^[6]
July 11 – His Highness Prince KarimAga Khan IV becomes the 49th Imam of theShia Ismaili Muslims at age 20. His grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed ShahAga Khan III appoints Prince Karim in his will.
July 14 –Rawya Ateya takes her seat in theNational Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in theArab world.
July 16 –United States Marine MajorJohn Glenn flies anF8U supersonic jet fromCalifornia to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record.
July 23 –Asghar Khan becomes the first nativeCommander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force and the world's youngest Air Vice Marshal at 36 years old.^[7]^[8]
July 25 –Tunisia becomes a republic, withHabib Bourguiba as its first president.
July 28
- The6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of theKhrushchev Thaw, opens in Moscow.
- Heavy rains and mudslides atIsahaya, westernKyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
July 29 – TheInternational Atomic Energy Agency is established.

August

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August 4 –Juan Manuel Fangio, driving forMaserati, wins theFormula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins this season) his record 5thworld drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship (also a record); these 2 records endure for nearly half acentury.
August 31 – TheFederation of Malaya gains independence from the United Kingdom, subsequently celebrated asMalaysia's National Day.Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan,Yang di-Pertuan Besar ofNegeri Sembilan, becomes the firstYang di-Pertuan Agong ofMalaya. The country's newConstitution had come into force on August 27. TheAlliance Party and its successor are the ruling coalition until 2018.

September

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Federation of Malaya gains independence from the British Empire

Main article:September 1957

September 5 –Cuban Revolution:Fulgencio Batista’s forces bomb anti-government riots inCienfuegos.^[9]^[10]
September 9 – TheCivil Rights Act of 1957 is enacted, establishing theUnited States Commission on Civil Rights.
September 21
- Olav V becomes King of Norway on the death of his fatherHaakon VII.
- The sailing shipPamir sinks off theAzores in a hurricane.
September 24 –Camp Nou, home stadium ofFC Barcelona, officially opens inBarcelona,Spain.^[11]
September 26 –West Side Story, a new musical byLeonard Bernstein with lyrics byStephen Sondheim, opens onBroadway in New York City.^[12]
September 29 – TheKyshtym disaster occurs at theMayak nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia.

October

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Main article:October 1957

October 4: Sputnik program begins, the firstsatellite launched into space

October 1 – TheAfricanized bee is accidentally released inBrazil.^{[citation needed]}
October 4
- Space Age –Sputnik program: TheSoviet Union launchesSputnik 1, the first artificialsatellite to orbit the Earth.^[13]^[14]
- TheAvro Canada CF-105 Arrow delta wing interceptor aircraft is unveiled.^[15]
October 9 – TheJodrell Bank radio telescope inCheshire, England, is controlled from its control room for the first time.^[16]^[17]
October 10 –Windscale fire: Fire at theWindscale nuclear reactor on the north-west coast of England releases radioactive material into the surrounding environment, includingiodine-131.^[18]^[19]
October 11 – Theorbit of the last stage of theR-7 Semyorka rocket (carryingSputnik I) is first successfully calculated on anIBM 704 computer at theMIT Computation Center as part ofOperation Moonwatch,Cambridge, Massachusetts.
October 20 – Two trainscollide at Yarımburgaz inTurkey; 95 die.^[20]^[21]^[22]
October 23 –Morocco begins itsinvasion of Ifni.
October 27 –Celâl Bayar is re-electedpresident of Turkey.^[23]

November

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Main article:November 1957

Laika the dog became the first animal to orbit Earth.

November 1 – TheMackinac Bridge, the world's longestsuspension bridge between anchorages at this time, opens in the United States, to connectMichigan's twopeninsulas.^[24]
November 3 –Sputnik program: TheSoviet Union launchesSputnik 2, with the firstanimal to orbit the Earth, a dog namedLaika, on board.^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28] There is no technology available to return her to Earth.^[29]^[30]
November 13
- Flooding in thePo Valley of Italy leads to flooding also inVenice.^[31]
- Gordon Gould invents thelaser.^[32]
November 15
- Yugoslavia announces the end of an economic boycott ofFrancoist Spain (although it does not reinstitute diplomatic relations).^[33]
- 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash: Aflying boat crash on theIsle of Wight leaves 45 dead.^[34]^[35]
November 16 –Adnan Menderes of theDemocrat Party forms the new government ofTurkey (23rd government, last government formed by DP and Menderes).
November 30
- Indonesian presidentSukarno survives agrenade attack at the Cikini School inJakarta, but six children are killed.^[36]
- 1957 New Zealand general election: TheLabour Party defeats the governingNational Party, withWalter Nash succeedingKeith Holyoake as Prime Minister.^[37]

December

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Main article:December 1957

December 1 – InIndonesia,Sukarno announces thenationalization of 246Dutch businesses.
December 4
- TheLewisham rail crash in London, UK, leaves 92 people dead.^[38]
- 1957 Bayankhongor Earthquake in Mongolia kills 30+ people
December 5 – All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled fromIndonesia.^[39]
December 6 – The first U.S. attempt to launch asatellite fails, when theVanguard rocket blows up on thelaunch pad.^[40]
December 10 – Canadian diplomatLester B. Pearson receives theNobel Peace Prize, for his peacekeeping efforts in the United Nations.^[41]
December 18 – Aviolent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois.^[42]
December 20 – TheBoeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.^[43]^{[self-published source?]}

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Mao Zedong admits that 800,000 "class enemies" had beensummarily liquidated inChina between1949 and1954.
Gruppe SPUR, an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany.
Raja Fashions, a tailoring business, is founded inHong Kong.^[44]
The so-called 'mound ofMidas', the GreatTumulus nearGordium, is excavated.
Three new neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released:Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum),Neue Haas Grotesk (designed byMax Miedinger) andUnivers (designed byAdrian Frutiger); all will be influential in theInternational Typographic Style ofgraphic design.
Albeit the practice was in decline since the late 19th Century, and illegal since 1912, the very last new case ofChinese foot binding was reported this year.^[45]

Births

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Births
January ·February ·March ·April ·May ·June ·July ·August ·September ·October ·November ·December

January

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January 3 –Bojan Križaj, Slovenian alpine skier
January 4 –Patty Loveless, American country music singer^[46]
January 6 –Nancy Lopez, American golfer^[47]
January 7
- Katie Couric, American television host^[48]
- Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
- Julian Solís, Puerto Rican former world bantamweight champion boxer
January 8 –David Lang, American composer
January 9 –Bibie, Ghanaian singer
January 11
- Bryan Robson, English footballer
- Claude Criquielion, Belgian bike racer (d.2015)
January 12 –John Lasseter, American director, writer and animator
January 13
- Lorrie Moore, American writer
- Daniel Scioli, Argentine politician and sportsman
January 14 –Anchee Min, Chinese writer
January 15 –Mario Van Peebles, Mexican-born African-American actor and director^[49]
January 16 –Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor
January 17 –Steve Harvey, African-American comedian, television host, radio personality and actor^[50]
January 22
- Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player (d.2022)
- Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
January 23 –Princess Caroline of Monaco, Princess of Hanover^[51]
January 26 –Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (d.2003)
January 27
- Frank Miller, American comic book writer
- Janick Gers, British heavy metal guitarist
January 29 –Grażyna Miller, Polish poet
January 30 –Payne Stewart, American golfer (d.1999)

February

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February 1 –Dennis Brown, Jamaican reggae singer (d.1999)^[52]
February 2 –Phil Barney, French singer
February 5 –Jackie Woodburne, Australian actress
February 6
- Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
- Robert Townsend, African-American actor, comedian, director, and writer
February 8 –Cindy Wilson, American rock singer (The B-52's)
February 9 –Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
February 14 –Soile Isokoski, Finnish lyric soprano
February 16 –LeVar Burton, African-American actor^[53]
February 17 –Loreena McKennitt, Canadian singer, composer, harpist (Mummers' Dance)
February 18
- Marita Koch, German athlete
- Vanna White, American game show presenter (Wheel of Fortune)
February 19
- Falco, Austrian rock musician (Rock Me Amadeus) (d.1998)
- Ray Winstone, British actor
February 20 –Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
February 23
- Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (d.2009)
- Charlie Brandt, American serial killer (d. 2004)^[54]
February 25 –Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singaporean politician, 9thPresident of Singapore
February 27
- Danny Antonucci, Canadian creator of theCartoon Network showEd, Edd n Eddy
- Timothy Spall, English actor
February 28
- Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer
- John Turturro, American actor, writer and director

March

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March 4 –Mykelti Williamson, American actor
March 5 –Mark E. Smith, English singer (d.2018)^[55]
March 6 –Eddie Deezen, American actor and comedian
March 8 –Clive Burr, British heavy metal drummer (d.2013)
March 9 –Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
March 10
- Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born terrorist and founder ofal-Qaeda (d.2011)^[56]
- Hans-Peter Friedrich, German politician
March 11
- Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (d.2020)
- Isabel Ordaz, Spanish actress^[57]
March 12
- Val Demings, American politician^[58]
- Marlon Jackson, African-American singer
March 15
- Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese actor
- Park Overall, American film and television actress
- Steve Witkoff, American real estate investor, former lawyer, and diplomat^[59]
March 18 –György Pazdera, Hungarian rock bassist (Pokolgép)
March 19 –Christopher Murray, American actor
March 20
- Vanessa Bell Calloway, African-American actress
- Spike Lee, African-American film director and actor
- Theresa Russell, American actress
March 22 –Michael Mosley, British television and radio journalist, producer, presenter and writer (d.2024)^[60]
March 23
- Edna Molewa, South African politician (d.2018)
- Lucio Gutiérrez, 41stPresident of Ecuador
- Robbie James, Welsh footballer
- Amanda Plummer, American actress
March 27 –Stephen Dillane, English actor
March 28 –Paul Eiding, American actor and voice actor
March 29 –Christopher Lambert, French-American actor
March 30
- Shen Yi-ming, Taiwanese Air Force general officer (d.2020)
- Ian Shelton, Canadian astronomer who discoveredSN 1987A
March 31 –Marc McClure, American actor

April

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April 1
- J. Karjalainen, Finnish rock musician
- Denise Nickerson, American actress (d.2019)
April 2
- Giuliana De Sio, Italian actress
- Maria Roosen, Dutch sculptor and illustrator
April 4
- Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexican drug lord
- Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
April 5 –Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner
April 8 –Henry Cluney, Irish musician
April 9 –Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (d.2011)
April 12 –Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter
April 14 –Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
April 17 –Afrika Bambaataa, American DJ and producer
April 19 –Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman^[61]
April 21
- Herbert Wetterauer, German artist and author
- Faustin-Archange Touadéra, 8thPresident of the Central African Republic
April 22 –Donald Tusk,Prime Minister of Poland
April 23
- Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (d.2014)
- Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
April 24 –Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Pakistani-British Labour Party politician and convictedsex offender^[62]
April 25
- Eric Bristow, English darts player (d.2018)
- Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, 7th Prime Minister and 8th President of Burkina Faso
April 28 –Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, Cuban-born experimental filmmaker
April 29
- Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor
- Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist and filmmaker (d.2003)

May

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May 1 –Jo Jorgensen, American libertarian politician and academic
May 3 –Jo Brand, English comedian
May 5 –Richard E. Grant, English actor
May 10 –Sid Vicious (John Beverley), English punk rock bassist (Sex Pistols) (d.1979)
May 13 –Carrie Lam, Hong Kong civil servant
May 14 –Daniela Dessì, Italian operatic soprano (d.2016)
May 15
- Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler
- Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister)
May 16
- Joan Benoit, American Olympic gold medal-winning marathon runner
- Bob Suter, American professional ice hockey player (d.2014)
May 17 –Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish rock singer and songwriter (Leevi and the Leavings) (d.2003)
May 18
- Michael Cretu, Romanian–German new-age musician (Enigma)
- Frank Plasberg, German journalist and television presenter
May 20 –Yoshihiko Noda, 62ndPrime Minister of Japan
May 21
- Rebecca Jones, Mexican actress
- Judge Reinhold, American actor
- Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
May 22
- Shinji Morisue, Japanese gymnast
- Gary Sweet, Australian actor
- Lisa Murkowski, US Senator- R-Alaska
May 23 –Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), Northern Irish singer and dancer (d.1995)
May 24
- John Harrington, American professional ice hockey player
- Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer^[63]
- John G. Rowland, AmericanRepublican politician,Governor of Connecticut and felon
May 26
- François Legault, Canadian politician,Premier of Quebec^[64]
- Pontso Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
May 27 –Siouxsie Sioux, born Susan Ballion, English post-punk singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
May 28 –Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
May 29 –Ted Levine, American actor
May 31 –Jim Craig, American professional ice hockey player