Editing 1915 (section)

=== May ===
* [[May 7]] – [[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt]], American sportsman (b. [[1877]]; died in the [[Sinking of the RMS Lusitania|Sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania'']]) 
* [[May 9]] 
** [[François Faber]], Luxembourgish cyclist (killed in action) (b. [[1887]])
** [[Anthony Wilding]], New Zealand tennis player (killed in action) (b. [[1883]])
* [[May 18]] – [[William Bridges (general)|Sir William Bridges]], Australian army general (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 24]] – [[John Condon (British Army soldier)|John Condon]], Irish private soldier in British Army, claimed as youngest British soldier to die in WWI (killed in action) (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Emil Lask]], German philosopher (killed in action) (b. [[1875]])
** [[Julian Grenfell]], English poet (killed in action) (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicholas Mosley|title=Julian Grenfell, His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1AwAAAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston|isbn=978-0-03-017596-1|page=265|access-date=July 25, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125423/https://books.google.com/books?id=N1AwAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] – [[Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero]], 3-time [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1832]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey]], 18th [[Governor of New South Wales]] (b. [[1845]])