Events in Film & TV
- May 3 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
Event of Interest
May 10 WABC NYC plays its last record (John Lennon's Imagine)

John Lennon
Event of Interest
May 19 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion

Sophia Loren
Birthdays in Film & TV
- May 1 Jamie Dornan, Irish actor (Fifty Shades of Grey), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
- May 1 Katya [Brian McCook] American drag queen, comedian and TV performer (The Trixie and Katya Show), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- May 5 Dieter Brummer, Australian TV actor (Home and Away), born in Sydney, New South Wales
- May 9 Rachel Boston, American actress
- May 10 Despina Caldis, Greek-Australian actress
- May 11 Jonathan Jackson, actor (Lucky-General Hospital), born in Orlando Florida
Cory Monteith
May 11 Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (Glee, Monte Carlo), born in Calgary, Alberta (d. 2013)

Cory Monteith
- May 15 Alex Breckenridge, American actress
- May 15 Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
- May 15 Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
- May 16 Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model
- May 18 Eric West, American singer and actor
- May 22 John Bobek, American actor
- May 26 David Reed, British writer and comedian
- May 28 Alexa Davalos, American actress
- May 29 Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
- May 29 Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
- May 31 Jonathan Tucker, American actor
Weddings in Film & TV
Wedding of Interest
May 1 Actress Kate Jackson (33) weds business executive David Greenwald in Beverly Hills, California

Kate Jackson
Deaths in Film & TV
- May 1 Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
- May 2 Helmut Dantine, Austrian-American actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies of a heart attack at 64
- May 2 Hugh Marlowe [Hipple], American actor (All About Eve, Ellery Queen), dies from a heart attack at 71
- May 6 Sam Baker, American actor, dies at 75
- May 11 Leigh Snowden [Martha Lee Estes], American actress (All That Heaven Allows), dies of cancer at 51
- May 14 Hugh Beaumont, American actor (The Mole People, Leave it to Beaver), dies from a heart attack at 73
- May 25 Larry J Blake, actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68
- May 29 Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43