1906 - Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

1909 – Howard DaSilva (Silverblatt) (born May 5) 1909 - Actor ("The Lost Weekend", "The Great Gatsby")

1923 - Ed "Cass" Cassidy (born May 5) 1923 - Musician (New Jazz Trio, Taj Mahal, Spirit)

1947 - Dr. DasariNarayanaRao(born May 3, 1947, Palakol, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh) , is an Indian is a politician, film director, and film producer. Narayana Rao directed about 150 films, produced 53 films and worked in above 250 films as a dialogue writer and as a lyricist.

1951 - Jackie Jackson (born May 5) 1951 - Singer (The Jackson Five, The Jacksons)

1956 - Suresh Bhagwat (born May 5) is a Bollywood actor who has worked in various films like- Aitraaz (2004) , Dev (2004) , Chalte Chalte (2003) , Baaz: A Bird in Danger
(2003)

1965 - Anang Desai Born 5th May is an actor, trained in National School of Drama and presently working in TV and Films.

1987 - Paul Butterfield died of complications of a drug overdose at the age of 44.

2000 - Ms Manini Chatterjee has been awarded the Rabindra Puraskar for 2000 for her book Do or Die : The Chittagong Uprising (1930-34). The award, instituted by the Bengal government, will be conferred on Ms Chatterjee in Calcutta on May 8, the birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

2000 - It was announced that KISS would auction off almost everything they own from its touring days. The auction was scheduled for June 24-25, 2000. -Sampurn Media