People born on May 1

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834

Isabella I of Castile

Queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Spanish scientist (1852-1934)

Joseph Addison

English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist

Leonardo Bonucci

Italian association football player

Mary Harris Jones

Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)

Anushka Sharma

Indian actress

Joseph Heller

American writer

Patrice Talon

President of Benin since 2016

Darijo Srna

Croatian association football player

Wes Anderson

American filmmaker (born 1969)

Rudolph I of Germany

Count of Habsburg, king of Germany (1218-1291)

Nikolai Yezhov

NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)

Zaz

French singer; recording artist