- May 3 Frank Hoyt Losey, American composer, arranger of band and orchestral music, and advisor to Edison Phonograph Company, dies at 59 [1]
- May 3 Otto Winter-Hjelm, Norwegian musician and composer, dies at 93
- May 12 Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violin virtuoso (Caesar Franck's sonata), composer (Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27), educator (Brussels Conservatoire, 1881-98), and conductor (Cincinnati Symphony, 1918-22), dies pf complications from diabetes at 72
- May 13 Josif Marinković, Serbian composer, dies at 79
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