- May 6 Ann Todd, English stage and screen actress (The Seventh Veil; The Paradine Case; The Passionate Friends), dies of a stroke at 84
- May 6 Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in NY at 77
- May 7 Mary Philbin, American silent film actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
- May 8 Kees Deenik, Dutch singer, bandleader, and broadcaster, dies at 78-ish
- May 9 Mary Duncan Sanford, American actress, dies at 98
- May 13 Joaquin Garcia [Vargas] "Borolas", Mexican comedian and actor (Santa Sangre), dies at 71
- May 21 John Holland, American actor (My Fair Lady, Chinatown), dies at 85
- May 23 James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77
- May 25 Dan Seymour [Daniel Seymour Katz], American actor (To Have and Have Not, We the People, Sing It Again), dies following a stroke at 78
- May 26 Marvin Young, American producer and silent film child actor (Player), dies at 90
- May 27 Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies
- May 27 Roger MacDougall, Scottish playwright and screenwriter (The Man in the White Suit), dies at 82
- May 30 Marge [Marjorie Henderson Buell], American cartoonist (created Little Lulu), dies of lymphoma at 88
- May 31 John Granger, American actor (Advise & Consent), dies at 69
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