| 60511 | May.26 | Death | 1818 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1761) |
| 60512 | May.26 | Death | 1818 – Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (b. 1785) |
| 60513 | May.26 | Death | 1824 – Capel Lofft, English lawyer (b. 1751) |
| 60514 | May.26 | Death | 1840 – Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (b. 1764) |
| 60515 | May.26 | Death | 1868 – Michael Barrett, Northern Irish terrorist (b. 1841) |
| 60516 | May.26 | Death | 1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (b. 1824) |
| 60517 | May.26 | Death | 1883 – Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian ruler (b. 1808) |
| 60518 | May.26 | Death | 1902 – Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (b. 1839) |
| 60519 | May.26 | Death | 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857) |
| 60520 | May.26 | Death | 1907 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States (b. 1847) |
| 60521 | May.26 | Death | 1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835) |
| 60522 | May.26 | Death | 1914 – Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849) |
| 60523 | May.26 | Death | 1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859) |
| 60524 | May.26 | Death | 1926 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904) |
| 60525 | May.26 | Death | 1933 – Horatio Bottomley, English financier, journalist, and politician (b. 1860) |
| 60526 | May.26 | Death | 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897) |
| 60527 | May.26 | Death | 1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American physician, co-founded Mayo Clinic (b. 1865) |
| 60528 | May.26 | Death | 1943 – Edsel Ford, American businessman (b. 1893) |
| 60529 | May.26 | Death | 1943 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (b. 1864) |
| 60530 | May.26 | Death | 1944 – Christian Wirth, German SS officer (b. 1885) |
| 60531 | May.26 | Death | 1948 – Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (b. 1896) |
| 60532 | May.26 | Death | 1948 – Theodor Morell, German physician (b. 1886) |
| 60533 | May.26 | Death | 1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer (b. 1880) |
| 60534 | May.26 | Death | 1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (b. 1900) |
| 60535 | May.26 | Death | 1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918) |
| 60536 | May.26 | Death | 1956 – Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (b. 1902) |
| 60537 | May.26 | Death | 1959 – Philip Kassel, American gymnast (b. 1876) |
| 60538 | May.26 | Death | 1966 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894) |
| 60539 | May.26 | Death | 1968 – Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937) |
| 60540 | May.26 | Death | 1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937) |