Editing 1919 (section)

===May===
[[File:Milan Rastislav Štefánik.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Milan Rastislav Štefánik]]]]
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Gustav Landauer]], German anarchist, assassinated (b. [[1870]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Milan Rastislav Štefánik]], Slovak general, politician and astronomer (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[L. Frank Baum]], American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker (''The Wizard of Oz'') (b. [[1856]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greasley |first1=Philip A. |title=Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 1: The Authors |date=30 May 2001 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-10841-8 |page=53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZnuYKJSoHCMC&pg=PA53 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra]], Dominican political figure, twice [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. [[1846]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[D. M. Canright]], American Seventh-day Adventist minister and author, later one of the church's severest critics (b. [[1840]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Henry J. Heinz]], American entrepreneur (b. [[1844]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Aaron Aaronsohn]], Romanian-born Israeli botanist (b. [[1876]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Victor Segalen]], French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Madam C. J. Walker]], African-American entrepreneur and philanthropist (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1291389/cj-walker-obit/|title=CJ Walker Obit.|date=1919-05-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-22|pages=15}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Hermann von Spaun]], Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. [[1833]])