Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929)
May 10 German chancellor (1923) who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, born in Berlin, Germany
- May 11 Jan Machiel Reyskens, oldest male resident of the Netherlands, (d. 1990 aged 111)
- May 13 Muriel Robb, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1907)
- May 14 J. L. Wilkinson, American Baseball HOF executive (founder All Nations Baseball club 1912 & NgL Kansas City Monarchs 1920), born in Algona, Iowa (d. 1964)
- May 15 Francisco Pujol, Catalan singer, choirmaster (Orfeó Català), composer, and musicologist, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1945)
- May 16 Taylor Holmes, American actor (Sleeping Beauty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1959)
- May 19 Adam Carse, English composer and instrument collector, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1958)
- May 19 Theodore Goddard, British attorney, born in Highbury, London (d. 1952)
- May 20 Karel Komzák III, Austrian conductor and composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1924) [1]
- May 21 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, American inventor (hydroplane) and founder of the US aviation industry, born in Hammondsport, New York (d. 1930)
- May 21 Louis de Visser, Dutch Communist politician (CPN), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1945)
- May 24 Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and industrial engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954), born in Oakland, California (d. 1972)
Bill Robinson (1878-1949)
May 25 American actor and tap dancer (Stormy Weather; The Little Colonel), born in Richmond, Virginia
- May 28 Paul Pelliot, French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and his rediscovery of many important Chinese texts among the Dunhuang manuscripts, born in Paris (d. 1945)
- May 30 Mike Donlin, American baseball player (NY Giants), born in Peoria, Illinois (d. 1933)
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