May 1st, 1958

Born on May 1st, 1958

Weekday

Thursday

May 1st, 1958 was a Thursday.

Age

People born on May 1st, 1958 turned 68 this year (2026).

Zodiac

♉

Taurus (The Bull)

April 21st, 1958 - May 21st, 1958

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 24,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 75 days, exactly on October 11th, 2026, people who were born on May 1st, 1958 will be 25,000 days old!

24,925 Days

3,560 Weeks

818 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

Born on May 1st, 1958: When to retire?

Birth

67 80

Childhood & Education 20 Years

Work 47 Years

Retirement 13 Years

Already retired

According to the assumptions made it looks like you can already enjoy your well-deserved retirement!

What happened on May 1st?

May 1st, 2002

The Horncastle boar's head (pictured), which probably once formed part of the crest of an Anglo-Saxon helmet, was found.

May 1st, 2016

The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned for another 14 months, becoming the costliest disaster in Canadian history.

May 1st, 1991

In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.

May 1st, 1974

Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization.

May 1st, 1950

Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

May 1st, 1947

Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.

May 1st, 1945

Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.

May 1st, 1941

Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.

May 1st, 1931

New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.

May 1st, 1900

A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U.S., killed at least 200 miners.

May 1st, 1885

The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.

May 1st, 1884

Moses Fleetwood Walker (pictured), the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the Toledo Blue Stockings.

May 1st, 1794

War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Second Battle of Boulou.

May 1st, 1786

The Marriage of Figaro (audio featured), an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

May 1st, 1776

The secret society known as the Order of Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt and Adolph Freiherr Knigge in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 1st

Born on May 1st, 1958

Same year
Born in 1958

Michael Jackson

American singer, songwriter, and dancer (1958–2009)

*August 29th, 1958, Gary †June 25th, 2009, Los Angeles

Gary Numan

English musician (born 1958)

*March 8th, 1958, Hammersmith

Jah Wobble

British bass guitarist and music producer (born 1958)

*August 11th, 1958, Stepney

Jane Wiedlin

American musician

*May 20th, 1958, Oconomowoc

Jon Cassar

Maltese-Canadian director and producer

*April 27th, 1958, Crown Colony of Malta

Jello Biafra

American singer and activist (born 1958)

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

Wayne Hussey

English musician, singer of The Mission

*May 26th, 1958, Bristol

Olaf Scholz

German politician (SPD), ninth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (2021-2025), Member of the Bundestag

*June 14th, 1958, Osnabrück

Madonna

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)

*August 16th, 1958, Bay City

Ursula von der Leyen

President of the European Commission since 2019

*October 8th, 1958, Ixelles - Elsene

Glenn Gregory

English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist

*May 16th, 1958, Sheffield

Dietmar Bartsch

German politician

*March 31st, 1958, Stralsund

Chicho Sibilio

Spanish basketball player and coach (1958–2019)

*October 3rd, 1958, San Cristóbal †August 10th, 2019, San Gregorio de Nigua

Jens Arentzen

Danish actor

*March 2nd, 1958, Frederiksberg †November 22nd, 2022

Peter Altmaier

German politician

*June 18th, 1958, Ensdorf

Alec Baldwin

American actor

*April 3rd, 1958, Amityville

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

Frank Pagelsdorf

German association football player and manager

*February 5th, 1958, Hanover

Dieter Althaus

German politician

*June 29th, 1958, Heilbad Heiligenstadt

Harald Sicheritz

Austrian screenwriter and film director

*June 25th, 1958, Stockholm

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 1st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Commemoration of the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat following the foundation of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti , International Workers' Day or Labour Day , May Day) which are celebrated on May 1st.

Maharashtra Day

Commemoration of the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat following the foundation of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti (India)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra_Day