Born close to 20 - 22 May
- Tench Coxe (born in 1755)
- Moshe Dayan (born in 1915)
- Novak Djokovic (born in 1987)
- Barbara Hepworth (born in 1903)
- Wally Herger (born in 1945)
- George Phillips Bond (born in 1825)
- Armand Hammer (born in 1898)
- Walter Isaacson (born in 1952)
- Timothy Olyphant (born in 1968)
- Theodore Kaczynski (born in 1942)
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell (born in 1825)
- Alexander Pope (born in 1688)
- Elizabeth Fry (born in 1780)
- Henri Rousseau (born in 1844)
- Mikhail Glinka (born in 1804)
- Richard Baker (born in 1948)
- Robert Creeley (born in 1926)
- Tom Daley (born in 1994)
- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (born in 1959)
- Matt Czuchry (born in 1977)
Died close to 20 - 22 May
- Archibald Primrose (died in 1929)
- C. Day Lewis (died in 1972)
- Les Aspin (died in 1995)
- Francesco Guicciardini (died in 1540)
- John Garfield (died in 1952)
- Jules Renard (died in 1910)
- John Gielgud (died in 2000)
- Barbara Cartland (died in 2000)
- John Clare (died in 1864)
- Albert Claude (died in 1983)
- Maria Edgeworth (died in 1849)
- Jane Addams (died in 1935)
- Arthur Erickson (died in 2009)
- Alister Hardy (died in 1985)
- Hugh Williamson (died in 1819)
- Eleanor Porter (died in 1920)
- Lewis B. Hershey (died in 1977)
- Ray Manzarek (died in 2013)
- Gilbert Murray (died in 1957)
- Tommaso Campanella (died in 1639)