May thumb|110px|Nelly Sachs thumb|110px|Terry Sawchuk May 1 Ralph Hartley, American inventor (b. 1888) Yi Un, Crown Prince of Korea (b. 1897) May 9 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers (b. 1907) May 11 – Johnny Hodges, American jazz musician (b. 1907) May 12 Władysław Anders, General of the Polish Army (b. 1892) Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) May 13 – Sir William Dobell, Australian artist (b. 1899) May 14 – Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884) May 17 – Heinz Hartmann, Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1894) May 22 – Mahmoud Zulfikar, Egyptian film director (b. 1914) May 24 – Phan Khắc Sửu, South Vietnamese politician and Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1893) May 28 – Iuliu Hossu, Romanian Roman Catholic bishop and servant of God (b. 1885) May 29 John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901) Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (b. 1936) May 31 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)John A. Drobnicki, "Sawchuk, Terrance Gordon ('Terry')," in The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures (Scribner's, 2002), Vol. 2, pp. 335-336.
May thumb|110px|Nelly Sachs thumb|110px|Terry Sawchuk May 1 Ralph Hartley, American inventor (b. 1888) Yi Un, Crown Prince of Korea (b. 1897) May 9 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers (b. 1907) May 11 – Johnny Hodges, American jazz musician (b. 1907) May 12 Władysław Anders, General of the Polish Army (b. 1892) Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) May 13 – Sir William Dobell, Australian artist (b. 1899) May 14 – Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884) May 17 – Heinz Hartmann, Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1894) May 22 – Mahmoud Zulfikar, Egyptian film director (b 1914) May 24 – Phan Khắc Sửu, South Vietnamese politician and Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1893) May 28 – Iuliu Hossu Romanian Roman Catholic bishop and servant of God (b. 1885) May 29 John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901) Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (b. 1936) May 31 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)John A. Drobnicki, "Sawchuk, Terrance Gordon ('Terry')," in The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures (Scribner's, 2002) Vol. 2, pp. 335-336.