Editing 1971 (section)

===May===
[[File:Glenda Farrell The Road to Reno.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Glenda Farrell]]]]
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[[File:Audie Murphy.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Audie Murphy]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Glenda Farrell]], American actress (b. [[1904]])
* [[May 5]] – [[Violet Jessop]], Argentine-born British [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] survivor (b. [[1887]])<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/violet-constance-jessop.html Violet Constance Jessop]</ref>
* [[May 8]] – [[Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern]], English-born Rhodesian politician and physician, [[Prime Minister of Rhodesia]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Seán Lemass]], 4th [[Taoiseach]] of Ireland (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Tor Johnson]], Swedish wrestler and actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 19]] 
** [[Ogden Nash]], American poet (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ron Padgett|title=World Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins-William Shakespeare|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HoHAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-80609-9|page=245}}</ref>
** [[Earl Thomson]], Canadian athlete, Olympic champion ([[1920 Summer Olympics|1920]]) (b. [[1895]])<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/earl-tommy-thomson Earl “Tommy” Thomson]</ref>
* [[May 27]] – [[Chips Rafferty]], Australian actor (b. [[1909]])
* [[May 28]]
** [[Kim Iryeop]], Korean writer, journalist, feminist activist, [[bhikkhuni|Buddhist nun]] (b. [[1896]])<!-- "Kim" is surname -->
** [[Audie Murphy]], American World War II hero and actor (b. [[1925]])
** [[Jean Vilar]], French stage actor (b. [[1912]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Marcel Dupré]], French composer (b. [[1886]])