May 1st, 1996

Born on May 1st, 1996

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 785 days, exactly on June 13th, 2026, people who were born on May 1st, 1996 will be 11,000 days old!

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What happened on May 1st?

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, 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.

May 1st, 1707

Under the terms of the Acts of Union, the Kingdoms of England and Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, with a single parliament and government based in Westminster.

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

Born on May 1st, 1996

27

Michael Seaton

Jamaican footballer

*May 1st, 1996, Spanish Town

27

Jacob Saifiti

Australian rugby league footballer

*May 1st, 1996, Newcastle

27

Daniel Saifiti

Australian rugby league footballer

*May 1st, 1996, Newcastle

27

William Nylander

Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player

*May 1st, 1996, Calgary

27

Sydney Imbeau

Canadian actress

*May 1st, 1996, Vernon

27

Ariel Gade

American actress

*May 1st, 1996, San Jose

Same Day
Who's birthday is on May 1st?

21

Jesita Putri Miantoro

Badminton player

*May 1st, 2002, Depok City

57

Olaf Thon

German association football player and manager

*May 1st, 1966, Gelsenkirchen

31

Sammy Ameobi

English-Nigerian footballer (born 1992)

*May 1st, 1992, Newcastle upon Tyne

36

Leonardo Bonucci

Italian association football player

*May 1st, 1987, Viterbo

58

Gunnar Beck

German EU lawyer and legal philosopher

*May 1st, 1965, Düsseldorf

41

Darijo Srna

Croatian association football player

*May 1st, 1982, Metković

70

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

55

Lisa Campbell

Australian badminton player

*May 1st, 1968, Frankston

40

Fran Vázquez

Basketball player

*May 1st, 1983, Saramagal

30

Jean-Christophe Bahebeck

French and Cameroonian footballer

*May 1st, 1993, Saint-Denis

35

Anushka Sharma

Indian actress

*May 1st, 1988, Ayodhya

51

Julie Benz

American actress

*May 1st, 1972, Pittsburgh

62

Jan van Aken

German activist for Greenpeace and politician with the Left Party

*May 1st, 1961, Reinbek

19

Charli D'Amelio

American social media personality

*May 1st, 2004, Norwalk

64

Yasmina Reza

French actor and writer

*May 1st, 1959, Paris

33

Patrick Schelling

Swiss bicycle racer

*May 1st, 1990, Hemberg

29

Lewis Gibson

British figure skater and ice dancer

*May 1st, 1994, Prestwick

77

Joanna Lumley

English actress and former model

*May 1st, 1946, Srinagar

24

YNW Melly

American rapper (born 1999)

*May 1st, 1999, Gifford

26

Miles Sanders

American football player (born 1997)

*May 1st, 1997, Pittsburgh

Same year
Born in 1996

28

Dove Cameron

American actress and singer

*January 15th, 1996, Bainbridge Island

27

Lauren Jauregui

American singer

*June 27th, 1996, Miami

27

Luke Hemmings

Australian singer and guitarist

*July 16th, 1996, Freemans Reach

27

Kungs

French DJ, record producer and musician

*December 17th, 1996, Aix-en-Provence

27

Jenifer Brening

German singer

*December 15th, 1996, Zehlendorf

27

Lili Reinhart

American actress

*September 13th, 1996, Cleveland

27

Ruben Jille

Dutch badminton player

*July 11th, 1996, Nieuwegein

27

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

28

Summer Walker

American R&B singer

*April 11th, 1996, Atlanta

28

Dawid Kwiatkowski

Polish singer-songwriter

*January 1st, 1996, Gorzów Wielkopolski

27

Nico Dannowski

Badminton player

*December 1st, 1996, Ebersbach-Neugersdorf

27

Duki

Argentine rapper

*June 24th, 1996, Almagro

28

Mabel

English singer and songwriter

*February 19th, 1996, Alhaurín el Grande

27

Aden Foyer

Norwegian record producer and DJ

*September 8th, 1996, Asker

28

Wakana Nagahara

Japanese badminton player

*January 9th, 1996, Hokkaido

27

Anthony Sinisuka Ginting

Indonesian badminton player

*October 20th, 1996, Cimahi City

28

Muhammad Rian Ardianto

Badminton player

*February 13th, 1996, Bantul

28

Huang Kaixiang

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

28

Zheng Yu

Chinese badminton player

*February 7th, 1996, Shandong

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.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on May 1st, 1996
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1996 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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