May 11 Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist and anthropologist who studied comparative anatomy, paleontology and the facial angle, born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1789)
May 21 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, German composer and violinist, born in Bayreuth (d. 1790)
May 22 Johannes Schmidlin, Swiss composer, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1772)
May 29 James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician, born in Drogheda, Louth, Ireland (d. 1773)