* May 8 – Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer and motion picture pioneer ( b. 1830 )

Eadweard James Muybridge (; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904 ) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection.

His father was a soldier, sheriff, and photographer from New York, while his mother, May Venzor, from El Paso, Texas, was an evangelist and lifelong soldier in the Salvation Army.

* May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer ( d. 1979 )

* May 25 – Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer and photojournalist ( d. 1965 )

* April 15 – May 15 – First exhibition of the group of young painters, Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, at the studio of the photographer Nadar in Paris.

Dominic Elliot, Billy Wallace, and Colin Tennant, Margaret married the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 1960.

William Friese-Greene ( 7 September 1855 – 5 May 1921 ) ( born William Edward Green ) was a British portrait photographer and prolific inventor.

Suze Randall ( born May 18, 1946 ) is an English model, photographer, and pornographer.

In a pictorial in Playboy's May 1976 issue, Randall was both photographer and model.

Jacob August Riis ( May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914 ) was a Danish American social reformer, " muckraking " journalist and social documentary photographer.

Kevyn Aucoin ( February 14, 1962 – May 7, 2002 ) was an American make-up artist and photographer.

Martin Parr ( born 23 May 1952 ) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector.

Aunt May lives in constant fear for her " frail " ( but unaccountably secretive ) nephew who insisted on a job as a freelance photographer.

Robert Capa ( born Endre Ernő Friedmann ; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954 ) was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War.

( May 27, 1923 – January 30, 2002 ) was an Austrian-born photographer.

In 1959 Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Cole's Studio Five before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later that year.

In St. Louis, Morton D. May became his patron and, already an avid amateur photographer and painter, a student of the artist.

The photographer Ryan McGinley has staged several photo shoots in and around the village, and the artist Dash Snow shot one of his last 8mm pieces, " Sisyphus, Sissy Fuss, Silly Puss ", there in late May 2009.

Fernando Pereira ( May 10, 1950 – July 10, 1985 ) was a freelance Dutch photographer, of Portuguese origin, who drowned when French intelligence ( DGSE ) used two underwater mines to sink the ship Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on July 10, 1985 ( see sinking of the Rainbow Warrior ).

Thirty-two kilos, an exhibition by photographer Ivonne Thein, went on display at the Berlin Postfuhramt art exhibition center in May 2008 and the Washington Goethe-Institut in January 2009, featuring photographs of young women digitally manipulated to appear skeletally thin.

* Dybas, Cheryl Lyn, Ilya Raskin, photographer, " Out of Africa: A Tale of Gorillas, Heart Disease ... and a Swamp Plant " BioScience, 57 ( May 2007 ) pp. 392 – 397.

* May 2-Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American portrait photographer ( d. 1979 )

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

* Grandchildren: Alexander ( b. March 1974 ), Kindra ( b. May 1976 ), Camberley ( b. June 1978 ), and Francis ( b. February 1981 ), Michael & Barbara Crick's children ; Mark & Nicholas, the late Jacqueline and Christopher Nichols ' children.

# Johann ( b. Dresden, 24 August 1498 – d. Dresden, 11 January 1537 ), Hereditary Duke of Saxony ; married on 20 May 1516 to Elizabeth of Hesse.

# Christof ( b. and d. Dresden, 27 May 1501 ).

On 27 July 1928 he married the popular young singer Olive May Franks ( b. 1898 / 9 ), of Bristol, daughter of George Franks, a Cardiff businessman.

* 1989 – May Allison, American actress ( b. 1890 )

A report of sushi being consumed in Britain occurred when the then Prince, now Emperor, Akihito ( b. 1933 ) visited Queen Elizabeth II during her Coronation in May 1953.

* May 2 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician ( b. 1879 )

* May 10 – Carol Haney, American dancer and actress ( b. 1924 )

* May 13 – Diana Wynyard, English actress ( b. 1906 )

* May 21 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1882 )

* May 27 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India ( b. 1889 )

* May 11 – Douglas Adams, English author ( b. 1952 )

* May 12 – Perry Como, American singer ( b. 1912 )

* May 13 – R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist ( b. 1906 )

* May 24 – Javier Urruticoechea, Spanish footballer ( b. 1952 )

* May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor ( b. 1938 )

* May 12 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist ( b. 1914 )