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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer. He is co-founder and board member of, solar sail spacecraft development project, Breakthrough Starshot.
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. Lucas is known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic. He was the chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012.
Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel.
On 16 May, the USA celebrates its National Day of the Sea-Monkeys
The 17th of May stands since 2005 for the World Hypertension Day.
The importance of bees as pollinators for biodiversity and food security is fundamental to humanity. The General Assembly of the United Nations has declared May 20 as World Bee Day.
According to US radio preacher Harold Egbert Camping (1921 - 2013), the beginning of the end of the world should begin on 21 May 2011. Fortunately a wrong prognosis, which caused many US-Americans to celebrate this date since then omitted as world doom day and/or rapture party day.
Star Wars fans naturally celebrate 21 May as Talk Like Yoda Day.
Ash Ketchum is the main character of the Pokémon anime. He is also the main character of various manga based on the anime, including The Electric Tale of Pikachu, Ash & Pikachu, and Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Pac-Man is a maze arcade game developed and released by Namco in 1980. The original Japanese title of Puck Man was changed to Pac-Man for international releases as a preventative measure against defacement of the arcade machines. Outside Japan, the game was published by Midway Games as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America.