The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2014.

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.

May 2014

 May 1 - Richard Percival Lister, 99, English author, poet, artist and metallurgist.
 May 1 - Assi Dayan, 68, Israeli movie director and actor.
 May 1 - Juan de Dios Castillo, 63, Mexican football player and coach, skin cancer.
 May 1 - Manfred von Richthofen, 80, German sports official, Director of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (1994–2006).
 May 1 - Juan Formell, 71, Cuban Grammy Award-winning musician, composer and director.
 May 1 - Georg Stollenwerk, 83, German football player and coach (1. FC Köln).
 May 1 - Mel Clark, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
 May 2 - Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, 67, Iranian classical musician, cancer.
 May 2 - Nigel Stepney, 56, British Formula One mechanic, traffic collision.
 May 2 - Žarko Petan, 85, Slovenian writer.
 May 2 - Pauline Wagner, 103, American actress (King of Jazz, College Lovers) and glamour girl.
 May 2 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., 95, American actor  (Batman: The Animated Series), possible heart attack.
 May 3 - Jim Oberstar, 79, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for Minnesota's 8th District (1975–2011).
 May 3 - Gary Becker, 83, American economist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1992).
 May 4 - Dick Ayers, 90, American comic book artist and cartoonist.
 May 4 - Elena Baltacha, 30, British tennis player, liver cancer.
 May 4 - Edgar Cortright, 90, American scientist and engineer, stroke.
 May 4 - Helga Königsdorf, 75, German physicist and author, Parkinson's disease.
 May 4 - Ross Lonsberry, 67, Canadian hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins), cancer.
 May 4 - Tatiana Samoilova, 80, Soviet actress, complications from a heart condition.
 May 5 - Eduardo Mac Entyre, 85, Argentine artist.
 May 5 - Billy Frank, Jr., 83, American Nisqually tribal fishing rights activist.
 May 5 - Butler Derrick, 77, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for South Carolina's 3rd district (1975–1995), cancer.
 May 6 - Wil Albeda, 88, Dutch politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1977–1981), member of the Senate (1966–1977, 1981–1983).
 May 6 - Farley Mowat, 92, Canadian author.
 May 6 - Jimmy Ellis, 74, American boxer, WBA heavyweight champion (1968–1970), dementia.
 May 6 - Leslie Thomas, 83, Welsh writer (The Virgin Soldiers, Dangerous Davies).
 May 7 - Nazim Al-Haqqani, 92, Cypriot Islamic Sufism prelate and scholar, multiple organ failure.
 May 7 - Raúl Baca Carbo, 82, Ecuadorian engineer and politician.
 May 7 - Ramón Vega Hidalgo, 80, Chilean military officer and politician, Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Air Force (1991–1995).
 May 7 - Manuel Jiménez de Parga, 85, Spanish politician.
 May 7 - Colin Pillinger, 70, British planetary scientist, brain haemorrhage.
 May 7 - Sir Neville McNamara, 91, Australian defence chief.
 May 8 - Jair Rodrigues, 75, Brazilian musician and singer.
 May 8 - Mercedes Salisachs, 97, Spanish writer.
 May 8 - Nancy Malone, 79, American Emmy Award-winning producer, director (Dynasty) and actress (Naked City), leukemia-induced pneumonia.
 May 9 - Harlan Mathews, 87, American politician, Senator from Tennessee (1993–1994), brain cancer.
 May 9 - Jules Mutebusi, 54, Congolese militant.
 May 9 - Patrick Lucey, 96, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1971-1977), United States Ambassador to Mexico (1977-1979).
 May 9 - Jorge Zavala, 91, Ecuadorian politician.
 May 9 - Mel Patton, 89, American sprinter, double Olympic champion (1948), cancer and diabetes issues. 
 May 10 - Carmen Alardin, 80, Mexican poet, writer and translator.
 May 10 - José Falcó Sanmartín, 97, Spanish fighter pilot.
 May 10 - Andres Carrasco, 67, Argentine neurologist, challenged Monsanto over safety of glyphosate. 
 May 10 - Lem Johns, 88, American Secret Service agent (Lyndon B. Johnson).
 May 11 - Martin Špegelj, 86, Croatian politician and army officer.
 May 11 - Barbara Knudson, 86, American actress (Meet Danny Wilson, The Jayhawkers!, The Cry Baby Killer).
 May 11 - Francisco Sobrino, 82, Spanish sculptor.
 May 11 - Reg Gasnier, 74, Australian Hall of Fame rugby league player (St. George Dragons) and national team captain.
 May 12 - Cornell Borchers, 89, Lithuanian-born German actress.
 May 12 - H. R. Giger, 74, Swiss Academy Award-winning artist (Alien), fall.
 May 12 - Ľudovít Lehen, 88, Slovakian painter and chess composer.
 May 12 - Brian Marchinko, 65, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders).
 May 12 - Pál Orosz, 80, Hungarian Olympic bronze-medalist football player (1960) and coach.
 May 12 - Sarat Pujari, 80, Indian actor, heart attack.
 May 12 - Nash the Slash, 66, Canadian rock musician (FM). (death announced on this date)
 May 13 - Máximo Alcócer, 81, Bolivian footballer.
 May 13 - Malik Bendjelloul, 36, Swedish Academy Award-winning documentary movie director (Searching for Sugar Man), suicide.
 May 13 - Fred Dunsmore, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Winnipeg Maroons).
 May 13 - David Malet Armstrong, 87, Australian philosopher.
 May 14 - Stephen Sutton, 19, British charity fundraiser, colorectal cancer.
 May 15 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, 73, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1992–1999), fall.
 May 16 - Viktor Sukhodrev, 81, Soviet-born Russian interpreter (Leonid Brezhnev).
 May 16 - Albert Viaplana, 81, Spanish architect.
 May 17 - Miss Beazley, 9, American Scottish terrier, pet of George W. Bush, euthanized due to lymphoma.
 May 17 - Gerald Edelman, 84, American biologist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease.
 May 18 - Dobrica Ćosić, 92, Serbian writer and politician, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–1993).
 May 18 - Jerry Vale, 83, American singer.
 May 18 - Per Almar Aas, 84, Norwegian politician.
 May 18 - Hans-Peter Dürr, 84, German physicist.
 May 18 - Gordon Willis, 82, American cinematographer (The Godfather series, Annie Hall, Manhattan).
 May 18 - Kaiketsu Masateru, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler and executive, ischemic heart disease.
 May 18 - Wubbo Ockels, 68, Dutch physicist and astronaut, first Dutch citizen in space, kidney cancer.
 May 18 - Morris Weiss, 98, American cartoonist.
 May 19 - Jack Brabham, 88, Australian racing driver, three times Formula One world champion.
 May 19 - Antanas Šurna, 75, Lithuanian actor.
 May 19 - Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, 79, Polish Olympic boxer. 
 May 19 - Mario Missiroli, 80, Italian movie director.
 May 19 - Simon Andrews, 29, English motorcycle racer, head injuries from race accident.
 May 20 - Charles W. Robinson, 94, American businessman and diplomat, Deputy Secretary of State (1976–1977).
 May 20 - Arthur Gelb, 90, American newspaper editor and critic (The New York Times), complications from a stroke.
 May 20 - Barbara Murray, 84, English actress (Passport to Pimlico, The Plane Makers), heart attack.
 May 21 - Alireza Soleimani, 58, Iranian Olympic freestyle wrestler, heart attack.
 May 21 - Jaime Lusinchi, 89, Venezuelan politician, President (1984–1989).
 May 21 - Poni Adams, 95, American actress (House of Dracula).
 May 22 - Imre Gedővári, 62, Hungarian Olympic champion and bronze-medalist fencer.
 May 23 - Joel Camargo, 67, Brazilian footballer (Santos), renal failure.
 May 23 - Walter Romberg, 85, East German politician, Minister of Finance (1990).
 May 23 - Mona Freeman, 87, American actress.
 May 24 - John Vasconcellos, 82, American politician, organ failure.
 May 25 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, 90, Polish military officer and politician, stroke.
 May 25 - Bunny Yeager, 85, American model and photographer.
 May 25 - David Allen, 78, English cricketer.
 May 25 - Herb Jeffries, 100, American jazz and traditional pop singer and actor, heart failure.
 May 25 - Tommy Blom, 67, Swedish radio host and singer.
 May 25 - Malcolm Simmons, 68, English motorcycle speedway racer (Poole Pirates), World Team Cup Winner (1974, 1975, 1977), World Pairs Champion (1976, 1977, 1978), emphysema.
 May 26 - Manuel Uribe, 48, Mexican man, world's third-heaviest person, liver failure.
 May 26 - Miodrag Radulovacki, 81, Serbian medical research scientist.
 May 27 - Helma Sanders-Brahms, 73, German movie director. 
 May 27 - Massimo Vignelli, 83, Italian graphic designer.
 May 28 - Maya Angelou, 86, American poet, author, and civil rights activist.
 May 28 - Malcolm Glazer, 85, American real estate executive and sports franchise owner (Manchester United, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
 May 28 - Ciro de Quadros, 74, Brazilian physician, pancreatic cancer.
 May 28 - Azlan Shah of Perak, 86, Malaysian royal, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1989–1994), Sultan of Perak (since 1984), Lord President of the Supreme Court (1982–1984), Chief Justice (1979–1982).
 May 29 - Karlheinz Böhm, 86, Austrian actor.
 May 29 - Walter Jakob Gehring, 75, Swiss developmental biologist (University of Basel).
 May 29 - Christine Charbonneau, 70, Canadian singer and songwriter, cancer.
 May 30 - Hienadz Buraukin, 77, Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations (1990–1994), cancer.
 May 30 - Hanna Maron, 90, German-born Israeli actress.
 May 30 - Joan Lorring, 88, British Hong Kong-born American actress.
 May 30 - Henning Carlsen, 86, Danish Bodil Award-winning movie director (Hunger, People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart).
 May 31 - Marilyn Beck, 85, American syndicated entertainment journalist and columnist, lung cancer.
 May 31 - Hoss Ellington, 79, American race car driver and team owner (NASCAR), cancer.
 May 31 - Martha Hyer, 89, American actress.
 May 31 - Brajanath Ratha, 78, Indian poet.
 May 31 - Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, 91, British aristocrat.

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