Editing 1942 (section)

===May===
[[File:Stauning i1920-erne.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Thorvald Stauning]]]]
[[File:José Abad Santos.jpg|thumb|100px|[[José Abad Santos]]]]
[[File:Actor John Barrymore (SAYRE 2535).jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Barrymore]]]] 
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[José Abad Santos]], Filipino chief justice of the [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] (b. [[1886]])<!-- "Abad" is first surname" -->
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Thorvald Stauning]], 9th [[Prime Minister of Denmark]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Józef Czempiel]], Polish [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] priest, martyr and blessed (b. [[1883]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Habib Pacha Es-Saad]], 3rd Prime Minister and 2nd President of Lebanon (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the961.com/ain-trez-history-in-photos/|title=The History Of Ain Trez, Lebanon In 15+ Photos|first=Souad|last=Lazkani·Photos·|date=June 21, 2020|access-date=August 31, 2021|archive-date=August 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831155319/https://www.the961.com/ain-trez-history-in-photos/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Felix Weingartner]], Austrian conductor (b. [[1863]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Graham McNamee]], American radio announcer (b. [[1888]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Joe Weber (vaudevillian)|Joe Weber]], American vaudevillian (b. [[1867]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Sakutarō Hagiwara]], Japanese poet and writer (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Hannu Hannuksela]], Finnish general (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Frank Churchill]], American composer (b. [[1901]])
* [[May 16]] 
** [[Kaneko Kentarō]], Japanese diplomat and statesman (b. [[1853]])
** [[Bronisław Malinowski]], Polish anthropologist (b. [[1884]])
** [[Maria Michał Kowalski]], Polish priest and blessed (b. [[1871]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[A. E. Waite]], British occultist (b. [[1857]])
* [[May 20]]
** [[John D. Craddock]], American politician (b. [[1881]])
** [[Charles E. Dietrich]], American politician (b. [[1889]])
** [[John Goodall]], English footballer (b. [[1863]])
* [[May 22]] 
** [[Stjepan Filipović]], Yugoslav national hero (b. [[1916]])
** [[Tateo Katō]], Japanese fighter ace (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Ivan Horbachevsky]], Austrian chemist and politician (b. [[1854]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Emanuel Feuermann]], Austrian cellist (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Chen Duxiu]], General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (b. [[1879]])
* [[May 29]]
** [[John Barrymore]], American actor (b. [[1882]])
** [[Akiko Yosano]], Japanese author and poet (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Félix Cadras]], French lace designer and militant (b. [[1906]])