Events in Film & TV
- May 3 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
Radio History
May 10 WABC radio (NYC) plays its last record - John Lennon's "Imagine"
Film & TV History
May 19 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples, Italy for tax evasion
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 singer (Glee; Monte Carlo), born in Calgary, Alberta (d. 2013)
- 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 21 Tay Zonday [Adam Bahner], American singer-songwriter ("Chocolate Rain"), and YouTube personality, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 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 (Sports Illustrated), born in Itabira, Brazil
- May 29 Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2014)
- May 31 Jonathan Tucker, American actor
Weddings in Film & TV
Kate Jackson
May 1 Actress Kate Jackson (33) weds business executive David Greenwald in Beverly Hills, California
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 7 Alfred Adam, French character actor, dies at 72
- 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
