Editing 1947 (section)

===May===
[[File:Miguel Abad%C3%ADa M%C3%A9ndez.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Miguel Abadía Méndez]]]]
[[File:George William Forbes.jpg|thumb|110px|[[George William Forbes]]]]
* [[May 8]] – [[Harry Gordon Selfridge]], American department store magnate (b. [[1858]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Frederic Goudy]], American printer, artist and type designer (b. [[1865]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]], Bengali poet (b. [[1926]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Miguel Abadía Méndez]], Colombian politician, 12th [[President of Colombia]] (b. [[1867]])
* [[May 16]]
** [[Frederick Gowland Hopkins|Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins]], British biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1861]])
** [[Kalle Hakala]], Finnish politician (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Kalle Hakala |url=http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hx5000.sh?{hnro}=910400&{kieli}=su&{haku}=kaikki |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611192919/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hx5000.sh?{hnro}=910400&{kieli}=su&{haku}=kaikki |archive-date=11 June 2011 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref>
** [[Michael Joseph Curley]], American [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and reverend (b. [[1879]])
** [[Zhang Lingfu]], Chinese general of the [[National Revolutionary Army]] (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 17]]
** [[George Forbes (New Zealand politician)|George Forbes]], 22nd [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. [[1869]])
** [[Seabiscuit]], thoroughbred racehorse (b. [[1933]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Lucile Gleason]], American actress (b. [[1888]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Philipp Lenard]], Austrian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1862]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz]], Swiss writer (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 28]] – [[August Eigruber]], Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1907)
* [[May 30]] – [[Georg Ludwig von Trapp]], Austrian sailor, patriarch of the Von Trapp Family of ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' fame (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Adrienne Ames]], American actress (b. [[1907]])