Editing 1884 (section)

===May===
[[File:TRUMAN 58-766-06 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Harry S. Truman]]]]
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[John Boland (South Dakota politician)|John Boland]], American politician (d. [[1958]])<ref>{{cite news |title=John Boland, Local Pioneer, Dies At 74 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/rapid-city-journal-john-boland-local-pi/149558133/ |access-date=June 19, 2024 |work=[[Rapid City Daily Journal]] |date=October 10, 1958 |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/article/rapid-city-journal-john-boland-local-pi/149558133/ 1], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/rapid-city-journal-john-boland/149558575/ 2] |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Jean Decoux]], French admiral, [[Governor-General of French Indochina]] (1940–1945) (d. [[1963]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Harry S. Truman]], 33rd [[president of the United States]] (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Olga Petrova]], English-born American actress (d. [[1977]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Claude Dornier]], German aircraft designer (d. [[1969]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Leon Schlesinger]], American producer, filmmaker (d. [[1949]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Cordelia Camp]], American educator (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Stephens|first=George Myers|date=1979|title=Camp, Cordelia|encyclopedia=[[NCpedia]]|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/camp-cordelia|access-date=19 May 2024}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Corrado Gini]], Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist (d. [[1965]]) 
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Max Brod]], Austrian author (d. [[1968]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Edvard Beneš]], Czechoslovak politician, prime minister and president of Czechoslovakia (d. [[1948]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Robert Alfred Theobald]], American admiral (d. [[1957]])