Born in May

1 May
1988: Naseem Hameed, Pakistani athlete

2 May
1924: Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer
1969: Brian Lara, West Indies cricketer

3 May
1920: Sobho Gianchandani, Pakistani social scientist

4 May
1928: Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian President

5 May
1818: Karl Marx, Father of Communism

6 May
1961: Motilal Nehru, Indian independence leader

7 May
1861: Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali Nobel laureate
1893: Feroz Khan Noon, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan
1959: Dr. Khalid Mehmood Soomro, JUI-F Sindh chapter President

8 May
1828: Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of Red Cross and Red Crescent

11 May
1912: Saadat Hassan Manto, Indo-Pakistani writer

12 May
1820: Florence Nightingale, Founder of Nursing

13 May
1950: Ishaq Dar, Finance Minister of Pakistan

14 May
940: Ferdowsi, Persian poet
1907: General Ayub Khan, 2nd President of Pakistan
1914: Mir Gul Khan Naseer, Balochi poet
1984: Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook

16 May
1805: Alexander Burnes, British explorer and diplomat

18 May
1048: Omar Khayam, Persian polymath
1872: Bertrand Russell, British Nobel laureate

19 May
1881: Mustafa Kemal Attaturk, Founder of Turkey

21 May
1688: Alexander Pope, English poet

23 May
1707: Carl Linnaeus, Father of Taxonomy
1961: Sohail Warraich, Geo TV host

25 May
1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist
1899: Qazi Nazrul Islam, the greatest poet of Bengali

26 May
1990: Umar Akmal, Pakistani cricketer

27 May
1332: Ibne Khaldun, Founder of sociology
1923: Henry Kissinger, American diplomat
1977: Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer

28 May
1974: Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer

29 May
1917: John F. Kennedy, 35th US President
1940: Farooq Laghari, 8th President of Pakistan
1982: Fatima Bhutto, daughter of Murtaza Bhutto

30 May
1972: Ness Wadia, great grandson of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

31 May
1577: Noor Jahan, wife of Mughal Emperor Jahangir
1902: Ahmed G Chagla, music composer of Pakistani National Anthem
1943: Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab

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