Amadeo Giannini (1870-1949)
May 6 American banker and entrepreneur (founded Bank of America), born in San Jose, California
- May 6 John T. McCutcheon, American cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931), born in South Raub, Tippecanoe County, Indiana (d. 1949)
Harry Vardon (1870-1937)
May 9 Jersey golfer (6 time British Open champion, US Open 1900), born in Grouville, Jersey
- May 14 Zygmunt Stojowski, Polish-American concert pianist, composer, and pedagogue, born near Kielce, Russian Empire (now Poland) (d. 1946)
- May 19 Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
- May 19 Nishida KitarÅ, Japanese philosopher (Kyoto School), born in Unoke, Japan (d. 1945)
- May 24 Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and jurist, born in NYC, New York (d. 1938)
- May 24 Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and proponent of Commonwealth & League of Nations, born in Bovenplaats, Cape Colony (d. 1950)
- May 27 Lionel Palairet, British cricket batsman (2 Tests; Somerset CCC, Oxford Uni CC), born in Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, England (d. 1933)