Famous Deaths on 7 May

Famous Deaths on 7 May

1092 - Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown)
1427 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
1523 - Franz von Sickingen, German soldier (b. 1481)
1539 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
1617 - David Fabricius, German astronomer (b. 1564)
1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (b. 1616)
1682 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
1718 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658)
1793 - Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (b. 1722)
1800 - Niccola Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)
1805 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
1825 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)
1840 - Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
1868 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
1876 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
1887 - C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
1896 - H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) , American serial killer (b. 1860)
1922 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
1925 - William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851)
1940 - George Lansbury, Labour Party Leader (b. 1859)
1941 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)
1942 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)
1951 - Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
1967 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935)
1986 - Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (b. 1949
1987 - Colin Blakely, British actor (b. 1930)
1989 - Guy Williams, American actor (b. 1924)
1995 - Ray McKinley, American jazz drummer, singer and bandleader (b. 1910)
1998 - Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
1998 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)
2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
2002 - Kevyn Aucoin, Makeup Artist and Photographer (b. 1962)
2002 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974)
2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956)
2005 - Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971)
2005 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
2005 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
2006 - Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943)
2006 - Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918)
2006 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943)
2007 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1926)
2007 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
2007 - Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (b. 1935)
973 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)