The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.

* May 21 – Christopher Smart, English poet ( b. 1722 )

Tahj Dayton Mowry ( born May 17, 1986 ), is an American actor, dancer, and singer, mostly known for his role as Teddy on the ABC series, Full House, one of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's friends, T. J. Henderson on the The WB sitcom, Smart Guy, and as Wade on the animated comedy, Kim Possible on the Disney Channel.

Dembo is the author of three books: Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk, co-authored with Andrew Freeman, published in April 1998 ; Upside Downside: Simple Rules of Risk Management for the Smart Investor, co authored with Daniel Stoffman, published in March 2006 ; and Everything You Wanted to Know About Offsetting But Were Afraid to Ask, co-authored with Clive Davidson and released in May 2007.

* May 15 – Get Smart ( 1965 – 1970 ).

His FAQ cited an article on Renshaw's studies in the Saturday Evening Post for April 17, 24, and May 1, 1948, “ You ’ re Not As Smart As You Could Be .”

Casey sang " Get Down Tonight " on American Idol on April 22, 2009 and, with his band, performed many of his greatest hits for the IBM Impact Smart SOA Conference on May 6, 2009 at The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada.

On 2 May, the commander at RAF Habbaniya, Air Vice-Marshal Harry George Smart, responded to the Iraqi demands by launching a pre-emptive strike against the Iraqi forces overlooking the air base.

* May 6-Poet Christopher Smart is confined to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London.

Remaining members Seymour Glass and Mat Anthony were joined by Laura Kidd ( bass ) and Dan Smart ( drums ) for a final UK tour in May, June and July 2006, ( supported for the most part by We Start Fires ).

On May 4, 2006, Smart signed with the Oakland Raiders as a free agent.

* May 10 – George Thomas Smart, composer

* May 21 – Christopher Smart, poet and hymn-writer ( b. 1722 )

Deacon appeared in the sitcoms It's a Great Life, How to Marry a Millionaire, Get Smart ; The Addams Family, in which he administers Cousin Itt a battery of psychological tests in the May 1965 episode " Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor "; and The Munsters episode " Pike's Pique ".

* May 2011: Pioneer announces the release of the Smart Concept Car with a full DJ setup.

On May 5, 2011, ESET released a beta test version of ESET Smart Security 5. 0.

In 1838, the first Sheriff, Samuel Smart, was wounded during a robbery that led to one of the offenders, Michael Magee, becoming the first person to be hanged in South Australia on 2 May 1838.

In May 2011 TCL launched the China Smart Multimedia Terminal Technology Association in partnership with Hisense Electric Co. and Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., with the aim of helping to establish industry standards for smart televisions.

Kristin Denise Smart ( born February 20, 1977, legally presumed dead May 25, 2002 ) is an American missing person.

On 21 December 2011, Air One Smart Carrier announced a new base at Venice Marco Polo Airport, with flights starting in May 2012.

Sir George Thomas Smart ( May 10, 1776 – February 23, 1867 ) was an English musician.

Billy Smart, Jr ( 15 October 1934 – 23 May 2005 ) was widely known in Britain as a circus performer and impresario.

Two of the presenters, James May and Richard Hammond, were filming a review of the Smart Forfour.

Walter A. Haas, Sr. ( May 11, 1889 – December 7, 1979 ), son of the founder of Hellman-Haas Grocery ( which became Smart & Final ), was a former President and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. Haas was credited with saving the once struggling company.

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Mozart wrote to his father in May 1783 about Salieri and Lorenzo Da Ponte, the court poet: " You know those Italian gentlemen ; they are very nice to your face!

As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics ( alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and others ) and remembered as ' The Last of the Great Romantics ' and ' The Bard of Auburn '.

) May calls Oxford's 16 canonical poems the ' output of a competent, fairly experimental poet working in the established modes of mid-century lyric verse.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for " elders ," and that the following month ( June ) is named for the iuniores, or " young people " ( Fasti VI. 88 ).

Frederic Ogden Nash ( August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971 ) was an American poet well known for his light verse.

May describes Oxford as a " competent, fairly experimental poet working in the established modes of mid-century lyric verse " and his poetry as " examples of the standard varieties of mid-Elizabethan amorous lyric ".

Ralph Waldo Emerson ( May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882 ) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.

The Hungarian poet Ferenc Kazinczy was in the audience for a May performance, and later remembered the powerful impression the work made on him:

* May 19 – John Betjeman, English poet ( b. 1906 )

* May 29 – Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer, and poet ( b. 1831 )

* May 25 – Theodore Roethke, American poet ( d. 1963 )

* May 31 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet ( b. 1878 )

* May 29 – Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic ( d. 1981 )

* May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter ( d. 1882 )

* May 16 – Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages ( d. 1866 )

* May 28 – K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam poet

* May 24 – Bob Dylan, American poet and musician

* May 11 – Rose Ausländer, German poet ( d. 1988 )

* May 27 – Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet ( d. 1933 )