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.