Editing 1925 (section)

===May===
[[File:William Ferguson Massey 1919.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William Massey]]]]
[[File:Lucien Guitry.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Lucien Guitry]]]]
* [[May 2]]
** [[Johann Palisa]], Austrian astronomer (b. [[1848]])
** [[Antun Branko Šimić]], Croatian poet (b. [[1898]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Clément Ader]], French Army captain and aviation pioneer (b. [[1841]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Grassi]], Italian physician and zoologist (b. [[1854]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Catharine van Tussenbroek]], Dutch physician (b. [[1852]])
* [[May 7]]
** [[William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme]], British industrialist, philanthropist and politician (b. [[1851]])
** Sir [[Doveton Sturdee]], British admiral (b. [[1859]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36364?docPos=1|title=Doveton Sturdee|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/36364|access-date=7 December 2014}}</ref>
* [[May 10]]
** [[Alexandru Marghiloman]], 25th prime minister of Romania (b. [[1854]])
** [[William Massey]], 19th prime minister of New Zealand (b. [[1856]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[Amy Lowell]], American poet (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Herbert Lawrence|author2=Amy Lowell|author3=E. Claire Healey|title=The Letters of D.H. Lawrence & Amy Lowell, 1914-1925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAYeAQAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Black Sparrow Press|isbn=978-0-87685-667-3|page=135}}</ref>
** [[Charles Mangin]], French general (b. [[1866]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner]], British politician and colonial administrator (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{cite EB1922 |wstitle= Milner, Alfred Milner, Viscount |short=x}}</ref>
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[H. Rider Haggard]], British writer (b. [[1856]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Rider Haggard Dies in London Hospital. Author of 'She,' 'King Solomon's Mines' and Many Other Novels Was Nearly 69. He Was Knighted in 1912. An Authority on Agriculture and Sociology. Served on Government Missions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/05/15/archives/rider-haggard-dies-in-london-hospital-author-of-she-king-solomons.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=15 May 1925 |access-date=18 November 2012 }}</ref> 
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Nelson A. Miles]], American general (b. [[1839]])
* [[May 20]]
**[[Ramón Auñón y Villalón]], Spanish admiral and politician (b. [[1844]])
**[[Elias M. Ammons]], Governor of Colorado (b. [[1860]])
**[[Joseph Howard (Prime Minister)|Joseph Howard]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Malta]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Hidesaburō Ueno]], Japanese agricultural scientist and guardian of Hachikō (b. [[1871]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[John French, 1st Earl of Ypres]], British World War I field marshal (b. [[1852]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Karl Abraham]], German psychoanalyst (b. [[1877]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[João Pinheiro Chagas]], Prime Minister of Portugal (b. [[1863]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Percy Fawcett]], British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist (disappeared) (b. [[1867]])
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[John Palm]], [[Curaçao]]-born composer (b. [[1885]])