Editing 1959 (section)

===May===
[[File:Senator John Foster Dulles (R-NY).jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Foster Dulles]]]]
* [[May 5]] 
** [[Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente|Georges Grente]], French [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal and eminence (b. [[1872]])
** [[Carlos Saavedra Lamas]], Argentine politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 8]] 
** [[Renato Caccioppoli]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1904]])
** [[Ibrahim of Johor]], Malaysian sultan (b. [[1873]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Marcella Albani]], Italian actress (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Sidney Bechet]], American-born jazz saxophonist (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 17]] – [[George Albert Smith (film pioneer)|George Albert Smith]], English film pioneer (b. [[1864]])
* [[May 18]]
** [[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]], Antarctic explorer (b. [[1886]])
** [[Enrique Guaita]], Argentinian footballer (b. [[1910]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Alfred Schütz]], Austrian sociologist (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 24]] – [[John Foster Dulles]], 52nd [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Ed Walsh]], American baseball player (b. [[1881]])