| 58861 | May.22 | Death | 1989 – Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (b. 1953) |
| 58862 | May.22 | Death | 1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer and actor (b. 1922) |
| 58863 | May.22 | Death | 1991 – Shripad Amrit Dange, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899) |
| 58864 | May.22 | Death | 1991 – Stan Mortensen, English footballer and manager (b. 1921) |
| 58865 | May.22 | Death | 1992 – Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (b. 1909) |
| 58866 | May.22 | Death | 1993 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892) |
| 58867 | May.22 | Death | 1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) |
| 58868 | May.22 | Death | 1997 – Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (b. 1930) |
| 58869 | May.22 | Death | 1998 – John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926) |
| 58870 | May.22 | Death | 1998 – José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910) |
| 58871 | May.22 | Death | 2000 – Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916) |
| 58872 | May.22 | Death | 2003 – Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabe-American arts trader (b. 1960) |
| 58873 | May.22 | Death | 2004 – Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960) |
| 58874 | May.22 | Death | 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945) |
| 58875 | May.22 | Death | 2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914) |
| 58876 | May.22 | Death | 2005 – Julia Randall, American poet and academic (b. 1924) |
| 58877 | May.22 | Death | 2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914) |
| 58878 | May.22 | Death | 2006 – Heather Crowe, Canadian waitress and activist (b. 1945) |
| 58879 | May.22 | Death | 2006 – Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945) |
| 58880 | May.22 | Death | 2007 – Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970) |
| 58881 | May.22 | Death | 2008 – Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (b. 1946) |
| 58882 | May.22 | Death | 2010 – Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914) |
| 58883 | May.22 | Death | 2010 – Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima, South African clan leader (b. 1970) |
| 58884 | May.22 | Death | 2011 – Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938) |
| 58885 | May.22 | Death | 2012 – Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1970) |
| 58886 | May.22 | Death | 2012 – Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927) |
| 58887 | May.22 | Death | 2012 – Janet Carroll, American actress and singer (b. 1940) |
| 58888 | May.22 | Death | 2012 – Shiu-Ying Hu, Chinese botanist and academic (b. 1910) |
| 58889 | May.22 | Death | 2012 – Flinder Anderson Khonglam, Indian physician and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Meghalaya (b. 1945) |
| 58890 | May.22 | Death | 2012 – Dave Mann, American-Canadian football player (b. 1932) |