Birthdays in Music
- May 6 Billy Cotton, British bandleader and entertainer, born in Smith Square, London (d. 1969)
Fred Astaire
May 10 Fred Astaire, American tap dancer, presenter and actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1987)

Fred Astaire
Deaths in Music
- May 29 Frantz Jehin-Prume, Canadian violinist and composer, dies at 60