| 62581 | May.31 | Death | 1985 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (b. 1921) |
| 62582 | May.31 | Death | 1986 – Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (b. 1918) |
| 62583 | May.31 | Death | 1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) |
| 62584 | May.31 | Death | 1987 – John Abraham, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1937) |
| 62585 | May.31 | Death | 1989 – Owen Lattimore, American author and academic (b. 1900) |
| 62586 | May.31 | Death | 1992 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian-German author and illustrator (b. 1921) |
| 62587 | May.31 | Death | 1993 – Francis Lynch, American politician (b. 1920) |
| 62588 | May.31 | Death | 1994 – Uzay Heparı, Turkish actor, producer, and composer (b. 1969) |
| 62589 | May.31 | Death | 1994 – Herva Nelli, Italian-American soprano (b. 1909) |
| 62590 | May.31 | Death | 1995 – Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930) |
| 62591 | May.31 | Death | 1996 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (b. 1920) |
| 62592 | May.31 | Death | 1998 – Charles Van Acker, Belgian-American race car driver (b. 1912) |
| 62593 | May.31 | Death | 1999 – Neil Shanahan, Irish race car driver (b. 1979) |
| 62594 | May.31 | Death | 2000 – Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938) |
| 62595 | May.31 | Death | 2000 – A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (b. 1928) |
| 62596 | May.31 | Death | 2001 – Arlene Francis, American actress and talk show host (b. 1907) |
| 62597 | May.31 | Death | 2002 – Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (b. 1929) |
| 62598 | May.31 | Death | 2004 – Aiyathurai Nadesan, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1954) |
| 62599 | May.31 | Death | 2004 – Robert Quine, American guitarist (Richard Hell and the Voidoids) (b. 1941) |
| 62600 | May.31 | Death | 2004 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French screenwriter and composer (b. 1941) |
| 62601 | May.31 | Death | 2006 – Ryan Bennett, American sportscaster (b. 1970) |
| 62602 | May.31 | Death | 2006 – Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (b. 1933) |
| 62603 | May.31 | Death | 2006 – Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914) |
| 62604 | May.31 | Death | 2006 – Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter (b. 1930) |
| 62605 | May.31 | Death | 2008 – John Ambler, English businessman (b. 1924) |
| 62606 | May.31 | Death | 2009 – Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer (b. 1912) |
| 62607 | May.31 | Death | 2009 – Danny La Rue, Irish-English drag queen performer and singer (b. 1927) |
| 62608 | May.31 | Death | 2009 – George Tiller, American physician (b. 1941) |
| 62609 | May.31 | Death | 2010 – Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1911) |
| 62610 | May.31 | Death | 2010 – Brian Duffy, English photographer and producer (b. 1933) |