Editing 1946 (section)

===May===
[[File:Алексей Николаевич Бах.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alexei Nikolaevich Bach]]]]
[[File:PrinceFRIEDRICHPyrmont.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]]]
[[File:Marcela de Agoncillo.png|thumb|110px|[[Marcela de Agoncillo]]]]
* [[May 1]]
** [[Bill Johnston (tennis)|Bill Johnston]], American tennis champion (b. [[1894]])
** [[Israfil Mammadov]], Soviet WWII heroine (b. [[1919]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Charles Daniel-Vincent]], French teacher and politician (b. [[1874]])
* [[May 9]] 
** [[Léon Guillet]], French metallurgist (b. [[1873]])
** [[Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney]], British child artist's model, actress, dancer and singer (b. [[1865]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Emile de Cartier de Marchienne]], Belgian diplomat (b. [[1871]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Pedro Henríquez Ureña]], Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist and philologist (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Alexei Nikolaevich Bach]], Soviet biochemist, revolutionary leader (b. [[1857]])
* [[May 16]]
** [[Bruno Tesch]], German chemist, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. [[1890]])
** [[Karl Weinbacher]], German manager, war criminal (executed) (b. [[1898]])
** [[Karl Eberhard Schöngarth]], Nazi SS officer and war criminal (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 17]] – [[William Jefferson Blythe Jr.]], American salesman and biological father of [[Bill Clinton]] (b. [[1918]])
* [[May 19]] 
** [[Francesco Camero Medici]], Italian diplomat (b. [[1886]])
** [[Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo]], Spanish lawyer, statesman (b. [[1873]])
** [[Booth Tarkington]], American novelist (b. [[1869]])
** [[John K. Tener]], Irish-born American politician and Major League Baseball player and executive (b. [[1863]])
* [[May 20]]
** [[Jacob Ellehammer]], Danish inventor (b. [[1871]])
** [[Enrico Gasparri]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal, archbishop (b. [[1871]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Karl Hermann Frank]], German Nazi official, war criminal (executed) (b. [[1898]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Ernest Rhys]], Welsh-English writer (b. [[1859]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]] (b. [[1865]])
** [[Joseffy]], Austrian magician (b. [[1873]])
** [[Francis Lacey]], English cricketer, cricket administrator and barrister (b. [[1859]])
* [[May 27]] 
** [[Claire Croiza]], French soprano (b. [[1882]])
** [[Henri Hauser]], French historian, geographer and economist (b. [[1866]])
* [[May 28]] 
** [[Claus Schilling]], German medical researcher and war criminal (executed) (b. [[1871]])
** [[Otto Moll]], Nazi mass murderer and war criminal (b. [[1915]])
** [[Wilhelm Ruppert]], [[SS-Totenkopfverbande|SS-TV]] ''[[Obersturmbannführer]]'' in charge of executions at [[Dachau concentration camp]] (b. [[1905]])
** [[Carter Glass]], American newspaper publisher and politician (b. [[1858]])
* [[May 29]] 
** `[[Cagnaccio di San Pietro]], Italian painter (b. [[1897]])
** [[Martin Gottfried Weiss]], commandant of the [[Dachau concentration camp]] and Nazi war criminal (b. [[1905]])
* [[May 30]]
**[[Marcela Agoncillo]], Filipino who sewed the first Filipino flag (b. [[1860]])
**[[Louis Slotin]], Canadian physicist, chemist (b. [[1910]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Picoğlu Osman]], Turkish kemenche player (b. [[1901]])