May 2 John Galt, Scottish novelist (Annals of the Parish), born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland (d. 1839)
May 25 Hendrik Marcus de Kock, Dutch general and politician (Lieutenant Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1826-30), born in Heusden, Dutch Republic (d. 1845)
Deaths in History
May 3 John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
May 11 John Heart, American farmer (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at about 68