- May 17 Adriaan van Bevervoorde, Dutch journalist (Treason), dies at 31
- May 22 Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
- May 23 Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69
- May 24 Stanko Vraz [Jakob Frass], Slovenian-Croatian poet (Grammatica), dies at 40