May 31st
* Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.
* Jonas Bevacqua, 33, American fashion designer (Lifted Research Group)
* Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian-born American film director.
* Philip Rose, 89, American theatrical producer, stroke.
* Grant Sullivan, 86, American actor (Pony Express), cancer.
May 30th
* Paul B. Ferrara, 68, American scientist and administrator, pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, brain tumor.
* Clarice Taylor, 93, American actress (Sesame Street, The Cosby Show).
* Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American Nobel laureate.
May 28th
* John H. Sinfelt, 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure.
May 27th
* Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints).
* Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor (Grease, Taxi, Babylon 5).
* Johanna Fiedler, 65, American author, daughter of Arthur Fiedler.
* Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet, musician and author.
May 26th
* Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer (Pan's People), bronchial pneumonia.
* George Heron, 92, American tribal leader, President of the Seneca Nation of New York (1958–1960; 1962–1964).
* Irwin D. Mandel, 89, American dental scientist in preventative dentistry.
May 25th
* Lillian Adams, 89, American actress (The Suite Life on Deck, Bruce Almighty).
* Gene Smith, 94, American baseball player (Negro Leagues).
* Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
May 24th
* Huguette M. Clark, 104, American heiress, daughter of William A. Clark.
* Mark Haines, 65, American television anchor (CNBC).
May 23rd
* Harry Redmond, Jr., 101, American special effects artist and producer (King Kong), natural causes. [92]
May 22nd
* Joseph Brooks, 73, American Grammy-winning songwriter ("You Light Up My Life"), suicide by asphyxiation.
May 21st
* Irene Gilbert, 76, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.
* Bill Rechin, 80, American cartoonist (Crock), complications from esophageal cancer.
* Echo Valley, 56, American pornographic actress, car crash.
May 20th
* John Cigna, 75, American radio personality (KDKA).
* Steve Rutt, 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer.
* Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler.
May 19th
* Phyllis Avery, 88, American actress (Meet Mr. McNutley), heart failure.
* William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet.
May 18th
* Leonard Kastle, 82, American composer and filmmaker (The Honeymoon Killers).
* Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish-born American painter. (body found on this date)
* Dick Wimmer, 74, American author, heart complications.
May 17th
* Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals), esophageal cancer.
May 16th
* Robert Berks, 89, American sculptor, industrial designer and planner.
* Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold-medal winning (1960) wrestler, motorcycle accident.
* Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson), kidney cancer.
May 15th
* Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen) and musician.
* William Pennington, 88, American casino executive (Circus Circus Enterprises), Parkinson's disease.
* Barbara Stuart, 81, American actress (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.).
* Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony.
May 14th
* Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous).
* Diane Sinclair, 90, American actress and dancer.
May 13th
* Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer.
* Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who).
* Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser).
May 12th
* Charles F. Haas, 97, American television director (Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).
* Jack Jones, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (Los Angeles Times), lung disease.
* Bill Summers, 75, American car builder (Goldenrod).
* Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging.
May 11th
* Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes.
* Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets), suspected heart attack.
* Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment.
May 10th
* Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur (Napster) and politician, Mayor of San Carlos, California (2010–2011), heart attack.
* Michael Baze, 24, American jockey.
* Mia Amber Davis, 36, American plus-size model and actress (Road Trip), postoperative complications.
* Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia.
* Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President of CNN (1982–1990), complications from strokes.
* Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer (The Lawrence Welk Show).
May 9th
* Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, heart failure.
* Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby").
* Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist.
May 8th
* Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema.
* Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator (Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Jumper), brain cancer.
May 7th
* Ross Hagen, 72, American actor (Daktari, Speedway).
* Ella Schuler, 113, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas.
* Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, Chairman and CEO of General Motors (1990–1992).
* Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer.
* John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer.
* Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist.
May 6th
* Lawrence Johnson, 97, American boat trailer inventor and manufacturer, natural causes.
* Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science), complications of a stroke.
* Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League.
May 5th
* Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story).
* Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), heart failure.
May 4th* Mary Murphy, 80, American actress (The Wild One).
* Richard Steinheimer, 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease.
May 3rd
* Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing").
* Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang, Superman) and director (M*A*S*H).
* Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall.
May 2nd* Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.
* David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease.
May 1st
* William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.
* J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist.
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