May 1st Deaths |
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| May 1st, 2008 (May 01 2008) | Death | Anthony Mamo, Malta s first President (born in 1909) | |
| May 1st, 2008 (May 01 2008) | Death | Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (born in 1956) | |
| May 1st, 2006 (May 01 2006) | Death | Big Hawk, American rapper (b.1969) | |
| May 1st, 2006 (May 01 2006) | Death | Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (born in 1940) | |
| May 1st, 2006 (May 01 2006) | Death | Rob Lacey, Christian Author. (born in 1962) | |
| May 1st, 2003 (May 01 2003) | Death | Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (born in 1960) | |
| May 1st, 2000 (May 01 2000) | Death | Steve Reeves, American actor (born in 1926) | |
| May 1st, 1998 (May 01 1998) | Death | Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (born in 1935) | Eldridge Cleaver Quotes |
| May 1st, 1994 (May 01 1994) | Death | Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver and three-time F1 world champion (born in 1960) | Ayrton Senna Quotes |
| May 1st, 1993 (May 01 1993) | Death | Pierre Beregovoy, French Prime Minister (born in 1925) | |
| May 1st, 1993 (May 01 1993) | Death | Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born in 1924) | |
| May 1st, 1990 (May 01 1990) | Death | Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor (born in 1926) | |
| May 1st, 1989 (May 01 1989) | Death | Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (born in 1912) | |
| May 1st, 1989 (May 01 1989) | Death | Douglass Watson, American actor (born in 1921) | |
| May 1st, 1986 (May 01 1986) | Death | Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (born in 1905) | |
| May 1st, 1986 (May 01 1986) | Death | Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (born in 1916) | |
| May 1st, 1982 (May 01 1982) | Death | William Primrose, Scottish violist (born in 1903) | |
| May 1st, 1978 (May 01 1978) | Death | Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (born in 1903) | |
| May 1st, 1976 (May 01 1976) | Death | Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (born in 1939) | |
| May 1st, 1976 (May 01 1976) | Death | T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (born in 1908) | |
| May 1st, 1970 (May 01 1970) | Death | Crown Prince Euimin, Crown Prince Korea (born in 1897) | |
| May 1st, 1968 (May 01 1968) | Death | Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician (born in 1886) | |
| May 1st, 1968 (May 01 1968) | Death | Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b.1895) | |
| May 1st, 1965 (May 01 1965) | Death | Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (born in 1911) | |
| May 1st, 1963 (May 01 1963) | Death | Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (born in 1879) | |
| May 1st, 1945 (May 01 1945) | Death | Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide with his wife Magda Goebbels) (born in 1897) | Joseph Goebbels Quotes |
| May 1st, 1943 (May 01 1943) | Death | Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith s Friends (b.1871) | |
| May 1st, 1937 (May 01 1937) | Death | Snitz Edwards, American actor (born in 1868) | |
| May 1st, 1935 (May 01 1935) | Death | Henri Pelissier, French cyclist (born in 1889) | |
| May 1st, 1913 (May 01 1913) | Death | John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (born in 1850) | John Armstrong Quotes |
| May 1st, 1904 (May 01 1904) | Death | Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (born in 1841) | Antonin Dvorak Quotes |
| May 1st, 1899 (May 01 1899) | Death | Ludwig Buchner, German philosopher and physician (born in 1824) | Philo Quotes |
| May 1st, 1873 (May 01 1873) | Death | David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (born in 1813) | |
| May 1st, 1813 (May 01 1813) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Bessieres, French marshal (killed in combat) (born in 1768) | |
| May 1st, 1772 (May 01 1772) | Death | Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (born in 1719) | |
| May 1st, 1738 (May 01 1738) | Death | Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (born in c. 1669) | |
| May 1st, 1731 (May 01 1731) | Death | Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (born in 1677) | |
| May 1st, 1572 (May 01 1572) | Death | Pope Pius V (born in 1504) | |
| May 1st, 1555 (May 01 1555) | Death | Pope Marcellus II (born in 1501) | |
| May 1st, 1539 (May 01 1539) | Death | Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (born in 1503) | |
| May 1st, 1308 (May 01 1308) | Death | Albert I of Habsburg (murdered) (born in 1255) | |
| May 1st, 1240 (May 01 1240) | Death | Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals | |
| May 1st, 1118 (May 01 1118) | Death | Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (born in c. 1080) | |
| May 1st, 0408 (May 01 0408) | Death | Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (born in 337/338) | |
