| 51948 | May.05 | Death | 1962 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889) |
| 51949 | May.05 | Death | 1965 – Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915) |
| 51950 | May.05 | Death | 1965 – John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893) |
| 51951 | May.05 | Death | 1971 – Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887) |
| 51952 | May.05 | Death | 1973 – Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948) |
| 51953 | May.05 | Death | 1977 – Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897) |
| 51954 | May.05 | Death | 1981 – Bobby Sands, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1954) |
| 51955 | May.05 | Death | 1983 – Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901) |
| 51956 | May.05 | Death | 1983 – John Williams, English-American actor (b. 1903) |
| 51957 | May.05 | Death | 1985 – Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (b. 1901) |
| 51958 | May.05 | Death | 1988 – Michael Shaara, American author and academic (b. 1928) |
| 51959 | May.05 | Death | 1992 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor and singer (b. 1927) |
| 51960 | May.05 | Death | 1994 – Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (b. 1906) |
| 51931 | May.05 | Death | 1833 – Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (b. 1777) |
| 51932 | May.05 | Death | 1855 – Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786) |
| 51933 | May.05 | Death | 1859 – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805) |
| 51934 | May.05 | Death | 1860 – Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (b. 1804) |
| 51935 | May.05 | Death | 1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818) |
| 51936 | May.05 | Death | 1896 – Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839) |
| 51937 | May.05 | Death | 1907 – Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841) |
| 51938 | May.05 | Death | 1916 – John MacBride, Irish soldier (b. 1865) |
| 51939 | May.05 | Death | 1916 – Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866) |
| 51940 | May.05 | Death | 1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) |
| 51941 | May.05 | Death | 1924 – A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1853) |
| 51942 | May.05 | Death | 1931 – Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899) |
| 51943 | May.05 | Death | 1939 – Clara Schønfeld, Danish actress (b. 1856) |
| 51944 | May.05 | Death | 1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920) |
| 51945 | May.05 | Death | 1944 – Bertha Benz German wife of Karl Benz (b. 1849) |
| 51946 | May.05 | Death | 1947 – Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917) |
| 51947 | May.05 | Death | 1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878) |