- May 7 Clarence Dickinson, American composer, born in Lafayette, Indiana (d. 1969)
- May 15 Nikolay Tcherepnin, Russian composer of ballets, born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1945)
- May 19 Federico Gerdes, Peruvian pianist, composer, and educator (founder and first director of the National Conservatory of Music, 1909-26), born in Tacna, Peru (d. 1953)
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