Birthdays

May birthdaysEvery day of the month: its sign, its famous birthdays and its 2027 numbers

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May birthdays are Taurus from May 1 to 20 and Gemini from May 21 to 31, in most years. May 20 and May 21 are cusp days, when the Sun changed sign during the date in some years. The May birthstone is emerald, and its birth flowers are lily of the valley and hawthorn.

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Each date has its own page: the Sun’s sign for every year from 1940 to 2030, the decan, the day’s twelve best-known birthdays, its birthday number and its 2027 Personal Year. Each date below shows its usual sign; a gold edge marks a cusp day.

1. 1Tau
2. 2Tau
3. 3Tau
4. 4Tau
5. 5Tau
6. 6Tau
7. 7Tau
8. 8Tau
9. 9Tau
10. 10Tau
11. 11Tau
12. 12Tau
13. 13Tau
14. 14Tau
15. 15Tau
16. 16Tau
17. 17Tau
18. 18Tau
19. 19Tau
20. 20Tau/Gem
21. 21Gem/Tau
22. 22Gem
23. 23Gem
24. 24Gem
25. 25Gem
26. 26Gem
27. 27Gem
28. 28Gem
29. 29Gem
30. 30Gem
31. 31Gem

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May, day by day

• May 1: Taurus; birthday number 1; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852).
• May 2: Taurus; birthday number 2; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Catherine the Great (1729–1796).
• May 3: Taurus; birthday number 3; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527).
• May 4: Taurus; birthday number 4; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993).
• May 5: Taurus; birthday number 5; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Karl Marx (1818–1883).
• May 6: Taurus; birthday number 6; Personal Year 22 in 2027. Born this day: Sigmund Freud (1856–1939).
• May 7: Taurus; birthday number 7; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941).
• May 8: Taurus; birthday number 8; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Harry S. Truman (1884–1972).
• May 9: Taurus; birthday number 9; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: J. M. Barrie (1860–1937).
• May 10: Taurus; birthday number 1; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Fred Astaire (1899–1987).
• May 11: Taurus; birthday number 11; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Salvador Dalí (1904–1989).
• May 12: Taurus; birthday number 3; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Florence Nightingale (1820–1910).
• May 13: Taurus; birthday number 4; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: Pope Pius IX (1792–1878).
• May 14: Taurus; birthday number 5; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984).
• May 15: Taurus; birthday number 6; Personal Year 22 in 2027. Born this day: Pierre Curie (1859–1906).
• May 16: Taurus; birthday number 7; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Megan Fox (born 1986).
• May 17: Taurus; birthday number 8; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Edward Jenner (1749–1823).
• May 18: Taurus; birthday number 9; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Pope John Paul II (1920–2005).
• May 19: Taurus; birthday number 1; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814).
• May 20: Taurus or Gemini, a cusp day; birthday number 2; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850).
• May 21: Gemini or Taurus, a cusp day; birthday number 3; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528).
• May 22: Gemini; birthday number 22; Personal Year 11 in 2027. Born this day: Richard Wagner (1813–1883).
• May 23: Gemini; birthday number 5; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).
• May 24: Gemini; birthday number 6; Personal Year 22 in 2027. Born this day: Bob Dylan (born 1941).
• May 25: Gemini; birthday number 7; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882).
• May 26: Gemini; birthday number 8; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: John Wayne (1907–1979).
• May 27: Gemini; birthday number 9; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406).
• May 28: Gemini; birthday number 1; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Kylie Minogue (born 1968).
• May 29: Gemini; birthday number 11; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936).
• May 30: Gemini; birthday number 3; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876).
• May 31: Gemini; birthday number 4; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: Walt Whitman (1819–1892).

May birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone

Emerald

Birth flowers

Lily of the valley and hawthorn

Birthstones from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised); birth flowers from The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s list of birth month flowers, the primary flower first.

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