Editing 1970 (section)

===May===
[[File:Nelly Sachs 1966.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Nelly Sachs]]]]
[[File:Terry Sawchuk 1963.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Terry Sawchuk]]]]
* [[May 1]]
** [[Ralph Hartley]], American inventor (b. [[1888]])
** [[Yi Un]], Crown Prince of Korea (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Walter Reuther]], American labor union leader and president of the [[United Auto Workers]] (b. [[1907]]) <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0901.html |title=Reuther Dies in Jet Crash With Wife and 4 Others |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 11, 1970 |access-date=October 17, 2014}}</ref>
* [[May 11]] – [[Johnny Hodges]], American jazz musician (b. [[1907]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaYDAAAAMBAJ |title=Saxophonist Johnny Hodges Leaves $86,000 Estate To His Widow And Children. |date=December 28, 1972 |work=JET |access-date=March 28, 2018}}</ref>
* [[May 12]]
** [[Władysław Anders]], General of the Polish Army (b. [[1892]])
** [[Nelly Sachs]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1891]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Leo Baeck Institute |title=Catalog of the Archival Collections |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hqzCTJ6DODIC&pg=PA124 |year=1990 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |isbn=978-3-16-145597-1 |pages=124}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] – [[Sir William Dobell]], Australian artist (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Billie Burke]], American actress (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Heinz Hartmann]], Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. [[1894]])
*[[May 22]] – [[Mahmoud Zulfikar]], Egyptian film director (b. [[1914]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mahmoud Zulfikar {{!}} Director, Actor, Writer |url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0958575/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – [[Phan Khắc Sửu]], South Vietnamese politician and [[Leaders of South Vietnam#Heads of state 2|Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Iuliu Hossu]], Romanian [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and servant of God (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 29]] 
** [[John Gunther]], American writer (b. [[1901]])
** [[Eva Hesse]], German-born American sculptor (b. [[1936]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Terry Sawchuk]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1929]])<ref>John A. Drobnicki, "Sawchuk, Terrance Gordon ('Terry')," in ''The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures'' (Scribner's, 2002), Vol. 2, pp. 335–336.</ref>