Editing 1957 (section)

=== May ===
[[File:Joseph McCarthy adjusted.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joseph McCarthy]]]]
[[File:Eliot Ness in 1931.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eliot Ness]]]]
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* [[May 1]] – [[Grant Mitchell (actor)|Grant Mitchell]], American actor (b. [[1874]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Joseph McCarthy]], American senator (b. [[1908]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Katie Johnson (English actress)|Katie Johnson]], British actress (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 7]]
** [[Wilhelm Filchner]], German explorer (b. [[1877]])
** [[Zenón Noriega Agüero]], Peruvian general, interim [[President of Peru]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Ezio Pinza]], Italian bass (b. [[1892]])
** [[Heinrich Campendonk]], German-Dutch painter and graphic designer (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Erich von Stroheim]], Austrian actor and director (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Michael Fekete]], Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Marie Vassilieff]], Soviet artist (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Eliot Ness]], American [[Bureau of Prohibition|Prohibition agent]] (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Francesco Balilla Pratella]], Italian composer (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Gilbert Murray]], Australian-British classical scholar and intellectual (b. [[1866]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Aleksandr Vertinsky]], Russian singer and actor (b. [[1889]])<ref>[http://russia-ic.com/people/culture_art/v/239/ Alexander Vertinsky]</ref>
* [[May 29]] – [[James Whale]], English film director (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Leopold Staff]], Polish poet (b. [[1878]])