Birthdays in Music
- May 4 Mátyás Seiber, composer (Scherzando), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1960)
- May 6 Norman De Tar, composer
- May 8 Inglis Gundry, Wimbledon, British composer
- May 8 Red Nichols, American musician (d. 1965)
- May 10 Markos Vamvakaris, Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter (d. 1972)
- May 18 Eric Zeisl, Austrian American composer, born in Vienna (d. 1959)
- May 21 Edward Lockspeiser, composer
- May 24 Zdeněk Blažek, Czech composer and music theorist (Verchovina), born in Žarošice, Moravia (d. 1988)
- May 26 Hans Holewa, Austrian-born Swedish composer, born in Vienna (d. 1991)
- May 29 Fela Sowande, composer