Music for film and television, including "Jeeves and Wooster", "Kavanagh QC", "Artists in Crime", "The Rory Bremner Show", "Buster", "The Miracle", "The Pope Must Die", "The Crying Game", "The Grotesque", "The Full Monty" (winner of the 1998Academy Award for Best Original Musical/Comedy Score), "Knight Moves", "Pushing Tin", "In My Father's House", "The Perfect Blue"
... physicist (+ 1967)
May 6 - Harry Martinson, swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
May 11 - Salvador Dalí, artist
May 17 - Jean Gabin[?], actor ...