Editing 1978 (section)

=== May ===
[[File:Aldo Moro 1968.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Aldo Moro]]]]
[[File:Portrait Menzies 1950s.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Robert Menzies]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Aram Khachaturian]], Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Ethelda Bleibtrey]], American Olympic swimmer (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Duncan Grant]], Scottish painter (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Aldo Moro]], Italian Christian Democratic politician and statesman, 38th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (assassinated) (b. [[1916]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Alby Roberts]], New Zealand cricketer (b. [[1909]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Robert Menzies|Sir Robert Menzies]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[May 16]] – [[William Steinberg]], German-American conductor (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Armin T. Wegner]], German human rights activist (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd]], English politician (b. [[1904]])
* [[May 20]] 
** [[Ernest Cadine]], French weightlifter, Olympic champion ([[1920 Summer Olympics|1920]]) (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://olympics.com/en/athletes/ernest-cadine ERNEST CADINE]</ref>
** [[P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri]], Indian Sanskrit scholar (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://thecommunemag.com/p-s-subrahmanya-sastri-the-man-who-first-translated-ancient-tamil-text-tolkapiyam-to-english/ P.S. Subrahmanya Sastri, the man who first translated ancient Tamil text ‘Tolkapiyam’ to English]</ref>
* [[May 22]] 
** [[Joseph Colombo]], American gangster (b. [[1923]])
** [[Aubrey Fitch]], American admiral (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/aubrey-fitch.html|title=Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34)|website=NHHC}}</ref>
* [[May 26]] 
**[[Tamara Karsavina]], Soviet ballerina (b. [[1885]])
** [[Jorge Icaza Coronel]], Ecuadorean novelist (b. [[1906]])
* [[May 31]]
** [[József Bozsik]], Hungarian footballer (b. [[1925]])
** [[José Gonzalvo]], Spanish footballer and manager (b. [[1920]])