The 121st day of the year, the 122nd in a leap year
Born on 1 May
Every 1 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 1 May in any year.
Which weekday 1 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 1 May falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
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How common a birthday 1 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,816 babies were born on 1 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 164th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 1 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | 1769–1852 | British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834 |
| Santiago Ramón y Cajal | 1852–1934 | Spanish scientist |
| Joseph Addison | 1672–1719 | English essayist, poet, playwright and politician |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | 1881–1955 | French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist |
| Anushka Sharma | 1988– | Indian actress |
| Leonardo Bonucci | 1987– | Italian association football player |
| Joseph Heller | 1923–1999 | American writer |
| Wes Anderson | 1969– | American filmmaker |
| Rudolf I of Germany | 1218–1291 | count of Habsburg, king of Germany |
| Darijo Srna | 1982– | Croatian footballer |
| Nikolai Yezhov | 1895–1940 | NKVD director under Joseph Stalin |
| Glenn Ford | 1916–2006 | Canadian-American actor |
| Charli D'Amelio | 2004– | American social media personality |
| Johann Jakob Balmer | 1825–1898 | Swiss mathematician |
| Oliver Bierhoff | 1968– | German association football official and former player |
| Alexander Hleb | 1981– | Belarusian footballer |
| Jamie Dornan | 1982– | Northern Irish actor |
| John Woo | 1946– | Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer |
Died on 1 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Antonín Dvořák | 1841–1904 | Czech composer |
| Joseph Goebbels | 1897–1945 | Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister |
| Ayrton Senna | 1960–1994 | Brazilian racing driver |
| David Livingstone | 1813–1873 | Scottish missionary and explorer |
| Pope Pius V | 1504–1572 | Pope from 1566 to 1572 |
| Aram Khachaturian | 1903–1978 | Soviet Armenian composer |
| Pope Marcellus II | 1501–1555 | pope of the Catholic Church and bishop of Rome from 9 April to 1 May 1555 |
| Arcadius | 377–408 | Roman emperor from 383 to 408 |
| Olympia Dukakis | 1931–2021 | American actress |
| Albert I of Germany | 1255–1308 | King of Germany |
| Isabella of Portugal | 1503–1539 | 16th-century Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Spain |
| Magda Goebbels | 1901–1945 | Wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels |
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