Editing 1948 (section)

===May===
[[File:Lady Hartington.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington|Kathleen Cavendish]]]]
[[File:Dame May Whitty.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dame May Whitty]]]]
* [[May 9]] – [[Viola Allen]], American actress (b. [[1867]])
* [[May 13]]
** [[Milan Begović]], Yugoslavian writer (b. [[1876]])
** [[Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington]] (b. [[1920]])
* [[May 15]] 
** [[André Dauchez]], French painter (b. [[1870]])
** Father [[Edward J. Flanagan]], Irish-born American [[Roman Catholic]] priest, founder of Boys Town and monsignor (b. [[1886]])
** [[Toyoaki Horiuchi]], Japanese general, Class B war criminal suspect (executed) (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Habibullah]], Indian politician (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Francisco Alonso]], Spanish composer (b. [[1887]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Maximilian Lenz]], Austrian painter and sculptor (b. [[1860]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Jacques Feyder]], French filmmaker (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Claude McKay]], Jamaican-born American writer and poet (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Witold Pilecki]], Polish resistance leader (executed) (b. [[1901]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Émile Gaston Chassinat]], French egyptologist (b. [[1868]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Unity Mitford]], British socialite; friend of [[Adolf Hitler]] (b. [[1914]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; Dame [[May Whitty]], British actress (b. [[1865]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[József Klekl (politician)|József Klekl]], [[Slovenes|Slovene]] politician in Hungary (b. [[1874]])