Famous Deaths in May 1918

May 3 Charlie Soong, Chinese Methodist missionary and key player in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, dies at 55
May 9 George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
May 12 Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (Violet Crumble), dies at 73
May 14 James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
May 16 Eusapia Palladino, Italian spiritual medium, dies at 64
May 18 Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer, dies after being shot in a quarrel at 34
May 19 Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace, dies at 33
May 24 Evan Williams, American oratorio tenor
May 27 Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80
May 30 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies