Alphabetical list of historical battles (see also Military history, List of battles):
NOTE: Where a year has been used to disambiguate battles it is the year when the battle started. In some cases these may still have gone on for several years.
... Oppenheimer, physicist (+ 1967)
May 6 - Harry Martinson, swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
May 11 - Salvador Dalí, artist
May 17 - Je ...