| 52321 | May.06 | Death | 1596 – Giaches de Wert, Flemish-Italian composer (b. 1535) |
| 52322 | May.06 | Death | 1631 – Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, English historian and politician, founded the Cotton library (b. 1570) |
| 52323 | May.06 | Death | 1638 – Cornelius Jansen, Dutch-French bishop and theologian (b. 1585) |
| 52324 | May.06 | Death | 1708 – François de Laval, French-Canadian bishop (b. 1623) |
| 52325 | May.06 | Death | 1757 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1683) |
| 52326 | May.06 | Death | 1757 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684) |
| 52327 | May.06 | Death | 1782 – Christine Kirch, German astronomer and academic (b. 1696) |
| 52328 | May.06 | Death | 1840 – Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792) |
| 52329 | May.06 | Death | 1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769) |
| 52330 | May.06 | Death | 1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817) |
| 52331 | May.06 | Death | 1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804) |
| 52332 | May.06 | Death | 1882 – Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829) |
| 52333 | May.06 | Death | 1882 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, English-Irish politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836) |
| 52334 | May.06 | Death | 1902 – Bret Harte, American-English author and poet (b. 1836) |
| 52335 | May.06 | Death | 1910 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841) |
| 52336 | May.06 | Death | 1913 – Alexandros Schinas, Greek assassin of George I of Greece (b. 1870) |
| 52337 | May.06 | Death | 1919 – L. Frank Baum, American journalist and author (b. 1856) |
| 52338 | May.06 | Death | 1939 – Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869) |
| 52339 | May.06 | Death | 1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) |
| 52340 | May.06 | Death | 1951 – Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869) |
| 52341 | May.06 | Death | 1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870) |
| 52342 | May.06 | Death | 1959 – Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907) |
| 52343 | May.06 | Death | 1961 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895) |
| 52344 | May.06 | Death | 1963 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881) |
| 52345 | May.06 | Death | 1963 – Ted Weems, American violinist, and trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901) |
| 52346 | May.06 | Death | 1963 – Monty Woolley, American actor and director (b. 1888) |
| 52347 | May.06 | Death | 1967 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885) |
| 52348 | May.06 | Death | 1970 – Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879) |
| 52349 | May.06 | Death | 1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish activist (b. 1947) |
| 52350 | May.06 | Death | 1973 – Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1893) |