Notable deaths on May 1

Canadian singer-songwriter (1938–2023)

American actress (1931–2021)

British motorcycle racer (1923–2015)

American actress and singer (1930–2015)

Mexican actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and dancer (1940–2015)

Azerbaijani diplomat (1940–2015)

Governor of Kwara State, Nigeria, 1979–1983

Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter and producer (1945–2014)

Mexican footballer and manager (1951–2014)

French computer scientist (1947–2014)

American hip-hop group

Lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia from 1994 to 2000

Israeli lawyer and politician (1930–2012)

British boxer (1934–2011)

English snooker commentator (1920–2011)

American actress (1918–2010)

President of Malta from 1974 to 1976

German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (1917–2008)

African-American married psychologist duo

American professional wrestling manager (1960–2003)

Dutch racing cyclist (1923–2003)

American bodybuilder and actor (1926–2000)

American activist (1935–1998)

Canadian sociologist, philosopher, theologian and poet (1927–1997)