- May 3 Darrell Johnson, American baseball player, dies at 75
- May 10 Alf Valentine, Jamaican cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner), dies at 74
- May 11 Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach, dies at 64
- May 22 Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast who won Olympic gold USSR vault, horizontal bar 1968; World C'ship gold all-round, rings 1966, dies at 59
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