| 54991 | May.13 | Death | 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864) |
| 54992 | May.13 | Death | 1916 – Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859) |
| 54993 | May.13 | Death | 1921 – Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848) |
| 54994 | May.13 | Death | 1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857) |
| 54995 | May.13 | Death | 1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861) |
| 54996 | May.13 | Death | 1938 – Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861) |
| 54997 | May.13 | Death | 1941 – Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877) |
| 54998 | May.13 | Death | 1941 – Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891) |
| 54999 | May.13 | Death | 1945 – Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895) |
| 55000 | May.13 | Death | 1947 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926) |
| 55001 | May.13 | Death | 1948 – Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920) |
| 55002 | May.13 | Death | 1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886) |
| 55003 | May.13 | Death | 1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor and singer (b. 1901) |
| 55004 | May.13 | Death | 1962 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (b. 1893) |
| 55005 | May.13 | Death | 1962 – Franz Kline, American painter and academic (b. 1910) |
| 55006 | May.13 | Death | 1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian-Italian bishop (b. 1885) |
| 55007 | May.13 | Death | 1972 – Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928) |
| 55008 | May.13 | Death | 1974 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican poet and diplomat (b. 1902) |
| 55009 | May.13 | Death | 1974 – Arthur J. Burks, American colonel and author (b. 1898) |
| 55010 | May.13 | Death | 1975 – Bob Wills, American singer-songwriter and actor (Light Crust Doughboys) (b. 1905) |
| 55011 | May.13 | Death | 1977 – Mickey Spillane, American mobster (b. 1934) |
| 55012 | May.13 | Death | 1985 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893) |
| 55013 | May.13 | Death | 1988 – Chet Baker, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1929) |
| 55014 | May.13 | Death | 1992 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (b. 1909) |
| 55015 | May.13 | Death | 1994 – Duncan Hamilton, Irish-English race car driver (b. 1920) |
| 55016 | May.13 | Death | 1999 – Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Saudi Arabian scholar and academic (b. 1910) |
| 55017 | May.13 | Death | 1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer and journalist (b. 1902) |
| 55018 | May.13 | Death | 2000 – Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1938) |
| 55019 | May.13 | Death | 2000 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (b. 1951) |
| 55020 | May.13 | Death | 2001 – Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (b. 1939) |