Editing 1937 (section)

===May===
[[File:Portrait of J. D. Rockefeller.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John D. Rockefeller]]]]
[[File:Lizardo Garcia Sorrroza.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lizardo García]]]]
[[File:Jean Harlow 1937.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Jean Harlow]]]]
* [[May 1]]
** [[Snitz Edwards]], Hungarian actor (b. [[1868]])
** [[Herbert Hughes (composer)|Herbert Hughes]], Irish composer (b. [[1882]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Takuji Iwasaki]], Japanese meteorologist (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Noel Rosa]], Brazilian songwriter (b. [[1910]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[Camillo Berneri]], Italian philosopher, anarchist (b. [[1897]])
** [[C.K.G. Billings]], American horseman (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Ernst A. Lehmann]], German captain of the ''[[LZ 129 Hindenburg|Hindenburg]]'' (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19620505&id=RBgfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HJoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7297,712296|title=The Day the Angels Lost Their Grip|author=Moody, Sid|date=6 May 1962|page=6|publisher=Tuscaloosa News|access-date=23 February 2014}}</ref>
* [[May 9]]
** [[Harry Barton (architect)|Harry Barton]], American architect (b. [[1876]])
** [[Maurice Conner]], Canadian politician (b. [[1868]])
* [[May 10]] – [[James Blindell|Sir James Blindell]], British politician (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 11]] 
** [[Afonso Costa]], Portuguese lawyer, professor, politician and 3-time [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (b. [[1871]])
** [[Ellen Hansell]], American tennis champion (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Percy Lee Gassaway]], American politician (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 23]] – [[John D. Rockefeller]], American industrialist, philanthropist (b. [[1839]])
* [[May 24]]
** [[Luis F. Álvarez]], Spanish physician (b. [[1853]])
** [[Francis Bird (architect)|Francis Bird]], Australian architect (b. [[1845]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Henry Ossawa Tanner]], American artist (b. [[1859]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Bertha May Crawford]], Canadian opera singer (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Alfred Adler]], Austrian psychologist (b. [[1870]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Lizardo García]], 17th [[President of Ecuador]] (b. [[1844]])