Editing 1918 (section)

=== May ===
[[File:Blandine Merten.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Maria Magdalena Merten]]]]
* [[May 2]] 
** [[Ernie Parker]], Australian tennis champion (killed in action) (b. [[1883]])
** [[Jüri Vilms]], Estonian politician (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 14]] – [[James Gordon Bennett Jr.]], American newspaper publisher (b. [[1841]])
* [[May 17]] – [[William Drew Robeson I]], African-American minister, father of singer and actor Paul Robeson (b. [[1844]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Blandine Merten]], German nun and Blessed (b. [[1883]])
* [[May 19]] 
** [[Ferdinand Hodler]], Swiss painter (b. [[1853]])
** [[Raoul Lufbery]], Franco-American fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 21]]
** [[Sofia Hjulgrén]], Finnish politician (executed) (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Person: Hjulgrén, Edla Sofia |url=https://sotasurmat.narc.fi/fi/victims/page/p_879/table/table |website=[[War Victims of Finland 1914–1922]] |publisher=[[National Archives of Finland]] |access-date=27 December 2023 |location=Helsinki, Finland}}</ref>
** [[Wilho Laine]], Finnish politician (executed) (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Wilho Laine |url=http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=910875 |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date=27 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016004243/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=910875 |archive-date=16 October 2014 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] – [[Mariano Ponce]], Filipino diplomat, politician and writer (b. [[1863]])
* [[May 24]] – [[József Kiss]], Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Georgi Plekhanov]], Russian revolutionary, philosopher (b. [[1856]])