Editing 1979 (section)

=== May ===
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* [[May 1]] – [[Morteza Motahhari]], Iranian cleric and politician (b. [[1919]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Giulio Natta]], Italian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1963/natta/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=25 February 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] – [[Milton Ager]], American songwriter (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Talcott Parsons]], American sociologist (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 11]]
** [[Joan Chandler]], American actress (b. [[1923]])
** [[Barbara Hutton]], American socialite (b. [[1912]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Predrag Đajić]], [[Bosnian Serb]] and [[Yugoslavs|Yugoslav]] [[association football|footballer]] (b. [[1922]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Jean Rhys]], Dominican novelist (b. [[1890]])
* [[May 16]] – [[A. Philip Randolph]], African-American civil rights activist (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Benjamin W. Fortson Jr.|Benjamin W. Fortson Jr]], American politician and [[Georgia Secretary of State]] from 1946 to 1979 (b. [[1904]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Bernadette Armiger]], Catholic nun and president of the [[American Association of Colleges of Nursing]] from 1972 to 1974 (b. [[1915]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Ahmed Ould Bouceif]], Mauritanian military officer, second [[Prime Minister of Mauritania]] (b. [[1934]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Mary Pickford]], Canadian-American actress and producer (b. [[1892]])