- May 4 Frederick Jacobi, American composer, born in San Francisco (d. 1952)
- May 14 Egon Kornauth, Austrian composer, born in Olmütz, Moravia (d. 1959)
- May 16 Richard Tauber [Denemy], Austrian-British operatic tenor and film actor, born in Linz, Austria (d. 1948)
- May 22 Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1963)
- May 22 Lucien Cailliet, French-American clarinetist, composer, conductor (Allentown Band), arranger (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1919-1937), and teacher, born in Châlons-sur-Marne, France (d. 1985)
- May 27 Claude Champagne, Canadian composer, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1965)
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