Editing 1949 (section)

===May===
[[File:Prince Louis II of Monaco 05670r.jpg|thumb|110px|Prince [[Louis II of Monaco]]]]
[[File:Archbishop Damaskinos of Greece.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Damaskinos of Athens]]]]
* [[May 1]]
** [[Josep Maria Jujol]], Andorran architect (b. [[1879]])
** [[Gheorghe Petrașcu]], Romanian painter (b. [[1872]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Valerio Bacigalupo]], Italian goalkeeper (b. [[1924]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Hideo Nagata]], Japanese poet, playwright (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 6]] 
** [[Stanisław Grabski]], Polish economist, politician (b. [[1871]])
** [[Kunihiko Hashimoto]], Japanese composer (b. [[1904]])
** [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] laureate (b. [[1862]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Louis II, Prince of Monaco]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Paul Schultze-Naumburg]], German architect, painter, publicist and politician (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Damaskinos of Athens]], Archbishop of Athens, 57th [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Klaus Mann]], German writer (b. [[1906]])
* [[May 22]]
** [[James Forrestal]], U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (b. [[1892]])
** [[Hans Pfitzner]], German composer (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hans-Pfitzner|title=Hans Pfitzner &#124; German composer &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=2 April 2024 }}</ref>
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Jan Frans De Boever]], Belgian painter (b. [[1872]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Robert Ripley]], American creator of ''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not!]]'' (b. [[1890]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Igor Belkovich]], Soviet astronomer (b. [[1904]])
* Date unknown &ndash; [[Abd Allah Siraj]], Prime Minister of Jordan (b. c. [[1876]])