Editing 1922 (section)

===May===
* [[May 4]] – [[Viktor Kingissepp]], Estonian Communist politician (executed) (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Roszkowski | first = Wojciech | title = Biographical dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 2015 | isbn = 9781317475941 | page=459}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] – [[Max Wagenknecht]], German composer (b. [[1857]])
* [[May 12]] – [[John Martin Poyer]], [[United States Navy]] [[Commander (United States)#Naval rank|commander]], 12th [[Governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Leslie Ward]], English portrait artist, caricaturist (b. [[1851]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Rudolf Montecuccoli]], Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. [[1843]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran]], French physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1845]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Son Byong-hi]], Korean activist (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Michael Mayr]], Austrian politician, 2nd [[Chancellor of Austria]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Ernest Solvay]], Belgian chemist, philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. [[1838]])