Editing 1951 (section)

===May===
[[File:HomeroManzi.jpg|100px|thumbnail|[[Homero Manzi]]]]
[[File:Henri Carton de Wiart.jpg|100px|thumbnail|[[Henri Carton de Wiart]]]]
[[File:Mary Emelia Moore.jpg|100px|thumbnail|[[Mary Emelia Moore]]]]
[[File:Empress Teimei official portrait 4 1949.jpg|100px|thumbnail|[[Empress Teimei]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Klymentiy Sheptytsky]], Soviet [[Orthodox priest]], martyr and blessed (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 2]]
** [[Alphonse de Châteaubriant]], French writer (b. [[1877]])
** [[Mansour bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]], Saudi politician (b. [[1921]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Homero Manzi]], Argentine Tango lyricist and author (b. [[1907]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[Eddie Dunn (actor)|Eddie Dunn]], American actor (b. [[1896]])
** [[John Flynn (minister)|John Flynn]], Australian medical services pioneer (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/about-the-rfds/history/john-flynn-bio/ |title=John Flynn biography |website=Royal Flying Doctor Service}}</ref>
** [[Andronicus Rudenko]], Greek [[Orthodox priest]] and blessed (b. [[1874]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Henri Carton de Wiart]], 23rd [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Warner Baxter]], American actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Pat Hartigan (actor)|Pat Hartigan]], American actor and director (b. [[1881]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Nikola Mushanov]], 23rd [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[May 16]] – [[François Hussenot]], French engineer (b. [[1912]])
* [[May 17]]
** [[William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood]], British field marshal (b. [[1865]])
** [[Mary Emelia Moore]], New Zealand Presbyterian missionary in [[China]] (b. [[1869]])
** [[Empress Teimei]] of Japan, Empress consort of [[Emperor Taishō]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Gaspar Agüero Barreras]], Cuban composer, pianist and composer (b. [[1873]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Marguerite Merington]], English-American author (b. [[1857]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Antonio Gandusio]], Italian actor (b. [[1875]])
* [[May 25]]
** [[Franz Klebusch]], German actor (b. [[1887]])
** [[Paula von Preradović]], Austrian poet and writer (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schoolfield |first=G. C. |date=July 1954 |title=Paula von Preradović - An Introduction |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0483.1954.tb00671.x |journal=German Life and Letters |language=en |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=285–292 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0483.1954.tb00671.x}}</ref>
* [[May 27]] – Sir [[Thomas Blamey]], Australian field marshal (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 29]]
** [[Fanny Brice]], American entertainer (b. [[1891]])
** [[Antonio Mosca]], Italian painter (b. [[1870]])
* [[May 30]]
** [[Hermann Broch]], Austrian author (b. [[1886]])
** [[Reginald Tyrwhitt|Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt]], British admiral (b. [[1870]])