Editing 1943 (section)

===May===
[[File:GRZEGORZ FRACKOWIAK.jpg|thumb|100px|Blessed [[Grzegorz Bolesław Frąckowiak]]]]
[[File:Fethi Okyar.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fethi Okyar]]]]
[[File:Rida pasha alrikabi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rida Pasha al-Rikabi]]]]
[[File:Joseph Gordon Coates, 1931.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gordon Coates]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Johan Oscar Smith]], Norwegian Christian leader, founder of [[Brunstad Christian Church]] (b. [[1871]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Frank Maxwell Andrews]], American general (plane crash) (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 4]] 
** [[Cesira Ferrani]], Italian soprano (b. [[1863]])
** [[Saverio Marotta]], Italian naval officer (killed in action) (b. [[1911]])
* [[May 5]] 
** [[Grzegorz Bolesław Frąckowiak]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] priest, martyr and blessed (executed) (b. [[1911]])
** [[Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart]], British politician, judge (b. [[1870]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Fethi Okyar]], Turkish diplomat, politician and 2nd [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Miroslav Šalom Freiberger]], Yugoslav rabbi, writer and spiritual leader (killed at Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 14]]
** [[George, Crown Prince of Saxony]], Catholic priest (b. [[1893]])
** [[Henri La Fontaine]], Belgian lawyer, author and Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1854]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Horst Hannig]], German Luftwaffe fighter ace (b. [[1921]])
* [[May 17]]
** [[Johanna Elberskirchen]], German feminist (b. [[1864]])
** [[Montagu Love]], British actor (b. [[1877]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Kristjan Raud]], Soviet painter, drawer (b. [[1865]])
* [[May 20]] – [[John Stone Stone]], American physicist, inventor (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Helen Taft]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Johannes Orasmaa]], Estonian army general (in labour camp) (b. [[1890]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Ali Rikabi]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Syria]], 2-time [[Prime Minister of Jordan]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Edsel Ford]], American businessman, president of Ford Motor Company (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Gordon Coates]], 21st [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 31]]
** [[Prince Georg of Bavaria]], Catholic priest (b. [[1880]])
** [[Helmut Kapp]], German Gestapo official (killed by partisans)