page_title: 1931 in the United States
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1931 in the United States / Births / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Carroll Baker in 1962.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1931 in the United States.
context_section_description: May 6
  Louis Gambaccini, civil servant (d. 2018)
  Willie Mays, African-American baseball player
  May 7
  Teresa Brewer, pop and jazz singer (d. 2007)
  Jerry Chesnut, songwriter (d. 2018)
  May 8 – Bob Clotworthy, American diver (d. 2018)
  May 9 – Don Gardner, American singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
  May 13 – Jim Jones, American People's Temple cult leader (d. 1978)
  May 14 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
  May 15
  Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
  Ken Venturi, golfer (d. 2013)
  May 16
  Jack Dodson, actor (d. 1994)
  Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., politician
  May 17 – Marshall Applewhite, Heaven's Gate religious sect founder (d. 1997)
  May 18
  Don Martin, artist (MAD Magazine) (d. 2000)
  Robert Morse, actor
  May 20 – Ken Boyer, baseball player (d. 1982)
  May 23
  Barbara Barrie, actress
  Patience Cleveland, actress and diarist (d. 2004)
  May 28 – Carroll Baker, actress
  May 31
  John Schrieffer, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972 (d. 2019)
  Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
caption: Carroll Baker
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