Editing 1960 (section)

===May===
[[File:John D. Rockefeller Jr..jpg|thumb|100px|[[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]]]]
[[File:Georges Claude 1926.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Georges Claude]]]]
[[File:George Zucco.jpg|thumb|100px|[[George Zucco]]]]
[[File:James Montgomery Flagg (1).jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Montgomery Flagg]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Sergei Safronov (fighter pilot)|Sergei Safronov]], Soviet fighter pilot (b. [[1930]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Caryl Chessman]], American criminal (executed) (b. [[1921]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Masa Niemi]], Finnish actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[May 8]]
** [[Hersch Lauterpacht|Sir Hersch Lauterpacht]], British international lawyer (b. [[1897]])
** [[J. H. C. Whitehead]], British mathematician (b. [[1904]])
* [[May 11]] – [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]], American philanthropist (b. [[1874]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Prince Aly Khan]], Pakistani [[United Nations]] ambassador (b. [[1911]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Lucrezia Bori]], Spanish opera singer (b. [[1887]])
* [[May 22]] – [[İbrahim Çallı]], Turkish painter (b. [[1882]])
* [[May 23]]
** [[Georges Claude]], French inventor (b. [[1870]])
** [[The Great Gama]], Punjabi wrestler (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Avraham Arnon]], Israeli educator and a recipient of the Israel Prize (b. [[1887]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Rafael Gómez Ortega]], Spanish bullfighter (b. [[1882]])
* [[May 27]]
** [[Edward Brophy]], American character actor (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://threestooges.net/cast/actor/737|title=Cast Member : Edward Brophy -- ThreeStooges.net}}</ref>
** [[James Montgomery Flagg]], American artist, comics artist and illustrator (b. [[1877]])
** [[George Zucco]], English-born character actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Boris Pasternak]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (declined)  (b. [[1890]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Walther Funk]], German Nazi politician (b. [[1890]])