| 54211 | May.11 | Death | 1938 – George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858) |
| 54212 | May.11 | Death | 1939 – Yevgeny Miller, Latvian-Russian general and politician (b. 1867) |
| 54213 | May.11 | Death | 1940 – Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese physician (b. 1880) |
| 54214 | May.11 | Death | 1954 – Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Turkish author and poet (b. 1906) |
| 54215 | May.11 | Death | 1955 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874) |
| 54216 | May.11 | Death | 1960 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874) |
| 54217 | May.11 | Death | 1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) |
| 54218 | May.11 | Death | 1966 – Alfred Wintle, English lieutenant and author (b. 1897) |
| 54219 | May.11 | Death | 1967 – James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930) |
| 54220 | May.11 | Death | 1970 – Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1906) |
| 54221 | May.11 | Death | 1973 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919) |
| 54222 | May.11 | Death | 1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designed Finlandia Hall and Paimio Sanatorium (b. 1898) |
| 54223 | May.11 | Death | 1979 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Foggy Mountain Boys and Nashville Grass) (b. 1914) |
| 54224 | May.11 | Death | 1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| 54225 | May.11 | Death | 1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bob Marley and the Wailers) (b. 1945) |
| 54226 | May.11 | Death | 1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900) |
| 54227 | May.11 | Death | 1986 – Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (b. 1953) |
| 54228 | May.11 | Death | 1986 – Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894) |
| 54229 | May.11 | Death | 1988 – Kim Philby, Indian-Russian spy (b. 1912) |
| 54230 | May.11 | Death | 1990 – Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer (b. 1935) |
| 54231 | May.11 | Death | 1994 – Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928) |
| 54232 | May.11 | Death | 1996 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian journalist and politician, 1st President of Nigeria (b. 1904) |
| 54233 | May.11 | Death | 1996 – Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961) |
| 54234 | May.11 | Death | 1996 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1922) |
| 54235 | May.11 | Death | 1996 – Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949) |
| 54236 | May.11 | Death | 1999 – Giorgos Kappis, Greek actor (b. 1929) |
| 54237 | May.11 | Death | 2000 – René Muñoz, Cuban-Mexican actor and screenwriter (b. 1938) |
| 54238 | May.11 | Death | 2000 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and producer (b. 1907) |
| 54239 | May.11 | Death | 2001 – Douglas Adams, English author and screenwriter (b. 1952) |
| 54240 | May.11 | Death | 2002 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1905) |