Famous Deaths on 31 May

Famous Deaths on 31 May

1246 - Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England
1349 - Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
1408 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)
1410 - King Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356)
1495 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415)
1558 - Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
1567 - Guido de Bres, Belgian theologian (b. 1522)
1594 - Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
1680 - Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650)
1740 - King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1688)
1747 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1799 - Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
1809 - Jean Lannes, French marshal (b. 1769)
1809 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732)
1831 - Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
1832 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
1837 - Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (b. 1779)
1846 - Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780)
1847 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780)
1848 - Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805)
1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839)
1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (b. 1821)
1931 - Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866)
1945 - Odilo Globocnik, Austrian nazi (b. 1904)
1957 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
1960 - Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
1960 - Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (b. 1882)
1961 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
1962 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874)
1967 - Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
1970 - Terry Sawchuk, hockey player (b. 1929)
1972 - Walter Freeman, American physician (b. 1895)
1976 - Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1977 - William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)
1978 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
1983 - Jack Dempsey, American boxer (b. 1895)
1986 - Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank), American artist (b. 1918)
1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1987 - John Abraham (director), Indian film director
1993 - Spuds Mackenzie, American advertisement dog
1994 - Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (b. 1909)
1996 - Timothy Leary, American professor and LSD advocate (b. 1920)
1997 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905)
1998 - Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (b. 1912)
2000 - Tito Puente, American musician (b. 1923)
2000 - Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
2001 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 1907)
2004 - Robert Quine, American guitarist (b. 1941)
2004 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2006 - Ryan Bennett, broadcast commentator (b. 1970)
2006 - Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (b. 1933)
2006 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2006 - Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder (b. 1930)

Famous Deaths on 30 May

Famous Deaths on 30 May

1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
1252 - King Ferdinand III of Castile
1416 - Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (b. 1379)
1431 - Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)
1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general
1469 - Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop
1574 - King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
1718 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (b. 1670)
1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
1744 - Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
1770 - François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1778 - Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
1865 - John Catron, United States Supreme Court Justice
1868 - Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823
1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
1912 - Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)
1918 - Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (b. 1856)
1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
1946 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
1951 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1955 - Bill Vukovich, Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1918)
1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)
1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
1964 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian nuclear physicist (b. 1898)
1964 - Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
1964 - Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
1967 - Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
1975 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
1975 - Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)
1975 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1976 - Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
1981 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
1986 - Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
1993 - Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)
1994 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
1994 - Marcel Bich, French industrialist (b. 1914)
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader
1995 - Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
1995 - Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b.1911)
1995 - Bobby Stokes, former English footballer (b. 1951)
2000 - Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
2000 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
2003 - Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
2005 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
2005 - Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
2006 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
2006 - Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
2006 - David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933)
2008 - Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)

Famous Deaths on 29 May

Famous Deaths on 29 May

1259 - King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
1379 - King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
1405 - Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
1425 - Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
1453 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine Emperor (b. 1404)
1500 - Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer
1546 - David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal
1593 - John Penry, Welsh Protestant leader (b. 1559)
1660 - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
1691 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
1790 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)
1796 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
1814 - Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)
1829 - Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)
1847 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
1866 - Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
1868 - Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
1882 - Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
1892 - Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
1896 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
1903 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (b. 1864)
1903 - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
1910 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
1911 - William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836)
1919 - Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860)
1935 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
1939 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865)
1942 - John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
1946 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
1948 - Dame May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
1951 - Fanny Brice, American singer/comedian (b. 1891)
1953 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
1958 - Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1970 - John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901)
1972 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902)
1972 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
1973 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
1977 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
1979 - John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (b. 1916)
1979 - Mary Pickford, Canadian-born American actress and studio founder (b. 1892)
1982 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
1983 - Arvīds Pelše, Soviet Latvian statesman (b. 1899)
1989 - John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
1994 - Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b. 1912)
1996 - Tamara Toumanova, Ballet star and actress (b. 1919)
1997 - George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
1997 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (drowned) (b. 1966)
1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909)
2002 - Mildred Benson, American writer (b. 1905)
2003 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
2004 - Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)
2004 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b. 1925)
2005 - George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
2006 - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (b. 1930)
2006 - Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
2007 - Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 - Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian Politician (stroke) (b. 1927)
2007 - Posteal Laskey, American convicted murderer widely believed to be the Cincinnati Strangler of natural causes (b. 1938)
2008 - Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
2008 - Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
2008 - Dianne Odell, American medical figure (b. 1947)

Famous Deaths on 28 May

Famous Deaths on 28 May

1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
1556 - Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo (b. 1494?)
1672 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
1787 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
1805 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
1808 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
1811 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
1816 - Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord
1828 - Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
1843 - Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758)
1849 - Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820)
1864 - Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and liberal politician (b. 1808)
1878 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1916 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
1927 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)
1947 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
1948 - Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
1953 - Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
1968 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
1971 - Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)
1971 - Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894
1975 - Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight champion (b. 1921)
1976 - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
1978 - Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
1981 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
1982 - Lt Col 'H'. Jones VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
1983 - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)
1988 - Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)
1994 - Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)
2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
2001 - Joe Moakley, American politician (b. 1927)
2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
2003 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)
2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
2007 - Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
2008 - David Mitton, Scottish-born director (b. 1938)
2008 - Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)

Famous Deaths on 27 May

Famous Deaths on 27 May

1039 - Dirk III, Count of Holland
1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
1508 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
1525 - Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader
1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473)
1564 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
1610 - François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
1615 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1661 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish religious dissident (b. 1607)
1675 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
1702 - Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)
1707 - Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
1797 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (b. 1760)
1831 - Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1840 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
1896 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1910 - Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1843)
1919 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848)
1926 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
1941 - Ernst Lindemann, German captain, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1894)
1941 - Gunther Lutjens, German admiral, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1889)
1947 - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1949 - Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890)
1953 - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)
1963 - Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889)
1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
1969 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
1973 - P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor,singer and songwriter (b. 1922)
1984 - Vincent James McMahon, was a U.S. professional wrestling promoter.
1986 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
1987 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
1990 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908)
1991 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
1993 - Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
1993 - Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
2000 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917)
2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
2001 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
2003 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
2006 - Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
2006 - Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
2006 - Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
2006 - Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
2006 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
2007 - Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
2007 - Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
2007 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
2008 - Franz Künstler, Last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
366 - Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
735 - Bede, English historian and theologian (b. 672 or 673)
866 - Ordoño I of Asturias, King of Asturias (b. 831)
927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)

Famous Deaths on 26 May

Famous Deaths on 26 May

1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria
1421 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
1512 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
1536 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet
1595 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
1647 - Alse Young, American "witch"
1648 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
1653 - Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
1679 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
1685 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
1742 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
1762 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
1799 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, officially named the Guillotine (b. 1789)
1818 - Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (b. 1761)
1824 - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
1840 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
1881 - Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
1883 - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
1883 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
1902 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (b. 1835)
1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
1933 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
1943 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
1948 - Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (b. 1880)
1954 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
1955 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1918)
1968 - Little Willie John, American singer (b. 1937)
1969 - Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation; b. 1889)
1969 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
1974 - Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
1976 - Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"
1977 - William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays) (b. 1942)
1978 - Cybele, Greek actress (b. 1887)
1979 - George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
1989 - Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (b. 1927)
1999 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
1999 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
2001 - Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952)
2001 - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
2001 - Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
2002 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
2003 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
2004 - Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934)
2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2005 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
2006 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
2007 - J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (b. 1942)
2008 - Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
604 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921)

Famous Deaths on 25 May

Famous Deaths on 25 May

1085 - Pope Gregory VII
1261 - Pope Alexander IV
1452 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
1555 - Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
1555 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)
1595 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
1693 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
1741 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
1786 - Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)
1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
1797 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
1805 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
1848 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
1849 - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
1899 - Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1822)
1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
1917 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
1919 - Madame C.J. Walker, African American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
1926 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
1927 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
1930 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
1934 - Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
1940 - Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
1943 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
1951 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
1954 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson, (Alec "Rice" Miller) American Blues singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1899)
1968 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1977 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
1979 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
1981 - Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
1983 - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1983 - Black Jack Stewart,Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
1986 - Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901)
1988 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1994 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b. 1940)
1995 - Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
1996 - Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (b. 1929)
1996 - Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968)
2000 - Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
2002 - Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976)
2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
2005 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)
2005 - Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
2005 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
2005 - Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
2007 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and host (b. 1931)
2008 - J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (b. 1909)
709 - Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (b. cica 639)
735 - Bede, English historian and monk (b. circa 672 or 673)
967 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
992 - Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans (b. circa 935)

Famous Deaths on 24 May

Famous Deaths on 24 May

1153 - King David I of Scotland (b. 1084)
1351 - Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297)
1408 - Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
1425 - Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)
1456 - Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)
1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (b. 1473)
1612 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman (b. 1563)
1627 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (b. 1561)
1725 - Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1682)
1734 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1749 - Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish nobleman
1792 - George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (b. 1718)
1806 - John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723)
1843 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)
1861 - Elmer E. Ellsworth, American Civil War officer (b. 1837)
1872 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (b. 1794)
1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
1879 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist and publisher (b. 1805)
1881 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (b. 1805)
1883 - Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader (b. 1808)
1908 - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821)
1919 - Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (b. 1870)
1941 - Lancelot Holland, British admiral, died in sinking of the HMS Hood (51) (b. 1887)
1945 - Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1947 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
1948 - Jacques Feyder, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1949 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (b. 1873)
1950 - Archibald Wavell, British general (b. 1883)
1959 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
1963 - Elmore James, American musician (b. 1918)
1969 - Willy Ley, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1906)
1974 - Duke Ellington, American composer and musician (b. 1899)
1984 - Vincent J. McMahon, American pro wrestling promoter (b. 1914)
1991 - Miriam di San Servolo, Italian actress (b. 1912)
1991 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (b. 1944)
1992 - Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (b. 1956)
1995 - Harold Wilson, British politician (b. 1916)
1997 - Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
1999 - Owen Hart, Professional Wrestler (b.1965)
2000 - Kurt Schork, American reporter (b. 1947)
2002 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (b. 1926)
2003 - Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
2004 - Henry Ries, American photographer (b. 1917)
2004 - Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
2004 - Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (b. 1900)
2005 - Vivian Liberto, first wife of Johnny Cash (b. 1934)
2005 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (b. 1913)
2005 - Carl Amery, German writer (b. 1922)
2006 - Henry Bumstead, American art director (b. 1915)
2006 - Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (b. 1930)
2007 - Bill Johnston, Australian cricket player (b. 1922)
2008 - Dick Martin American comedian (b. 1922)

Famous Deaths on 23 May

Famous Deaths on 23 May

1125 - Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
1304 - Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
1498 - Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. 1452)
1523 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
1524 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
1662 - John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605)
1670 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
1691 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
1701 - Captain Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
1752 - William Bradford, English-born printer (b. 1663)
1754 - John Wood, the Elder, English architect (b. 1704)
1783 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
1786 - Móric Beňovský, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (b. 1746)
1813 - Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772)
1825 - Ras Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia
1841 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
1846 - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (b. 1778)
1855 - Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (b. 1797)
1857 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
1868 - Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809)
1886 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
1893 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
1895 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (b. 1798)
1906 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1828)
1908 - François Coppée, French poet and novelist (b. 1842)
1920 - Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
1934 - Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (b. 1909)
1934 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (b. 1910)
1937 - John D. Rockefeller, American entrepreneur (b. 1839)
1945 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b. 1900)
1965 - Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1966 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
1967 - Lionel Groulx, French Canadian priest and historian (b. 1878)
1975 - Moms Mabley, American comedian (b. 1894)
1981 - David Lewis, Canadian labour lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
1981 - George Jessel, American actor (b. 1898)
1981 - Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist (d. 1911)
1981 - Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
1986 - Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916)
1989 - Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (b. 1915)
1991 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
1992 - Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)
1994 - Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (b. 1929)
1994 - Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (b. 1951)
1996 - Patrick Cargill, English actor (b. 1918)
1996 - Rob Hall, New Zealand high altitude climber (b. 1941)
1996 - Scott Fischer, American high altitude climber (b. 1955)
1999 - Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2002 - Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
2003 - Jean Yanne, French actor and director (b. 1933)
2004 - Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (b. 1919)
2006 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (b. 1949)
2006 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
2006 - Frits Bernard, American activist (b. 1920)
2006 - Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
2008 - David Mitton, British television director (b. 1939)

Famous Deaths on 22 May

Famous Deaths on 22 May

1068 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
1455 - Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
1455 - Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406)
1457 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
1538 - John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471)
1540 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
1666 - Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
1667 - Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
1745 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
1746 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
1760 - Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
1772 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
1795 - Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
1851 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
1859 - King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
1868 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
1885 - Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
1901 - Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (b. 1869)
1910 - Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
1932 - Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
1939 - Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
1939 - Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893)
1965 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
1966 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
1967 - Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
1972 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904)
1972 - Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
1975 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (b. 1900)
1983 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
1989 - Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
1990 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
1992 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
1997 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
1998 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
2003 - Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
2004 - Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
2004 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2005 - Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
2005 - Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2006 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
2006 - Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
2008 - Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
337 - Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (b. 272)
748 - Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)

Famous Deaths on 21 May

Famous Deaths on 21 May

1254 - Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
1481 - King Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1426)
1512 - Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena
1524 - Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier
1542 - Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer
1607 - John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)
1639 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian (b. 1568)
1647 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet (b. 1581)
1650 - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish royalist (b. 1612)
1664 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman
1670 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)
1686 - (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)
1690 - John Eliot, English Puritan missionary (b. 1604)
1719 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646)
1724 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661)
1742 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
1771 - Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
1786 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742)
1790 - Thomas Warton, English poet (b. 1728)
1844 - Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (b. 1775)
1862 - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
1879 - Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
1894 - Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
1894 - August Kundt, German physicist (b. 1839)
1895 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (b. 1819)
1911 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)
1915 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
1919 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
1920 - Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
1929 - Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
1935 - Jane Addams, American social worker, Nobel laureate (b. 1860)
1949 - Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
1952 - John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
1957 - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
1964 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1965 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
1970 - E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist (b. 1885)
1973 - Vaughn Monroe, American musician (b. 1911)
1981 - Patsy O'Hara, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1981 - Raymond Mccreesh, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1983 - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (b. 1903)
1984 - Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891)
1985 - Julie Vega, Philippine Actress (b. 1968)
1988 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
1991 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
1995 - Les Aspin, American politician (b. 1938)
1996 - Paul Delph, American musician and producer (b. 1957)
1996 - Lash LaRue, American actor (b. 1917)
1999 - Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12) (b. 1979)
2000 - Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (b. 1956)
2000 - Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
2002 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
2003 - Frank D. White, American politician (b. 1933)
2003 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (b. 1928)
2005 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (b. 1919)
2006 - Cherd Songsri, Thai film director (b. 1931)
2006 - Katherine Dunham, American dancer (b. 1909)
2006 - Spencer Clark, American racecar driver (b. 1987)
2006 - Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)
987 - King Louis V of France (b. 967)

Famous Deaths on 20 May

Famous Deaths on 20 May

1277 - Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
1285 - John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)
1444 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)
1503 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463)
1506 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
1622 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
1648 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)
1677 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (b. 1612)
1713 - Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
1717 - John Trevor, British statesman (b. 1637)
1722 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
1732 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
1782 - William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)
1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
1825 - Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (b. 1788)
1834 - Gilbert du Motier, French statesman (b. 1757)
1841 - Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775)
1873 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
1896 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
1909 - Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
1917 - Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
1940 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
1947 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1949 - Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
1956 - Max Beerbohm, English theater critic (b. 1872)
1961 - Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
1971 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
1973 - Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
1975 - Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (b. 1903)
1976 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
1976 - Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz "disappeared"
1989 - Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
1989 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1992 - Roger Keith Coleman, American convict
1996 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)
2000 - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920)
2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
2005 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
2008 - Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
685 - King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)

Famous Deaths on 19 May

Famous Deaths on 19 May

1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045)
1125 - Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
1296 - Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
1319 - Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
1389 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
1531 - Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
1536 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England
1601 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer
1610 - Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
1637 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
1715 - Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
1786 - John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
1795 - Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
1798 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
1825 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
1876 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)
1885 - Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
1895 - José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)
1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
1904 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
1912 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
1915 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
1918 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
1935 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
1943 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
1945 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
1954 - Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
1958 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
1958 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
1965 - Tui Malila, world's oldest tortoise (b. 1773 or 1777)
1969 - Coleman Hawkins, American musician (b. 1901)
1971 - Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
1983 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
1984 - John Betjeman, English poet and Poet Laureate (b. 1906)
1986 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
1987 - James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
1989 - CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
1994 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)
1998 - Sōsuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
1999 - James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901)
1999 - Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2001 - Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
2002 - Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
2002 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
2004 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
2005 - Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
2006 - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)
2007 - Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
2008 - Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright, (b. 1928)
804 - Alcuin, English monk (b. c. 735)
988 - Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)

Famous Deaths on 18 May

Famous Deaths on 18 May

1401 - Władysław Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 - 1378, count palatine of Poland
1450 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397)
1550 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498)
1551 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486)
1584 - Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559)
1675 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623)
1675 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
1692 - Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (b. 1617)
1733 - Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1761)
1780 - Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland
1781 - Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru (b. 1742)
1799 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (b. 1732)
1800 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
1807 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b. 1721)
1808 - Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (b. 1738?)
1829 - Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (b. 1803)
1844 - Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
1889 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, Scottish Shakepearean actress (b. 1823)
1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
1909 - George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
1909 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1910 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
1910 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841)
1911 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1922 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
1927 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)
1941 - Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
1956 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
1963 - Ernie Davis, American football player (b. 1939)
1967 - Andy Clyde, American actor (b. 1892)
1971 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1973 - Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880)
1975 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
1980 - Ian Curtis, English musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (b. 1956)
1980 - Harry Truman, victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1896)
1980 - David A. Johnston, a U.S. Volcanoligist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1949)
1980 - Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1952)
1981 - William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)
1981 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
1988 - Daws Butler, American voice actor (b. 1916)
1990 - Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
1992 - Skip Stephenson, American TV personality (b. 1940)
1992 - Marshall Thompson, American actor (b. 1925)
1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
1995 - Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
1995 - Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
1997 - Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975)
1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
1999 - Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
2000 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
2000 - Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi, Muslim scholar
2002 - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2003 - Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking crusader (b. 1961)
2003 - Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican beauty contest organizer (b. 1914)
2004 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927)
2004 - Serge Turgeon, Quebec actor and union leader (b. 1946)
2006 - Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy" (b. 1972)
2007 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
2007 - Yoyoy Villame, Philippine novelty singer and movie actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Joseph Pevney, American television director

Famous Deaths on 17 May

Famous Deaths on 17 May

1189 - Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
1336 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
1365 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
1395 - Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm
1464 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)
1510 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)
1536 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, English diplomat
1575 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
1626 - Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
1643 - Giovanni Picchi, Italian composer
1727 - Catherine I of Russia (b. 1684)
1729 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
1765 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1797 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
1801 - William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)
1807 - John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
1809 - Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (b. 1722)
1822 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)
1829 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
1838 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
1838 - René Caillé, French explorer (b. 1799)
1839 - Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1868 - Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
1875 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1879 - Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)
1886 - John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (b. 1804)
1888 - Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
1916 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
1917 - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
1919 - Guido von List, German occult author (b. 1848)
1927 - Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
1935 - Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865)
1936 - Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (b. 1868)
1937 - Guilląme Furrét, Portuguese playwright and political activist (b. 1863)
1938 - Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (b. 1877)
1947 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
1963 - John Wilce, physician and former head football coach at the Ohio State University (b. 1888)
1974 - Ernest Nash, German born archaeologist (b. 1898)
1985 - Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer (b. 1910)
1987 - Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1992 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
1995 - Hector "Toe" Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and NHL coach (b. 1912)
1996 - Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer and instrumentalist (b. 1966)
1996 - Scott Brayton, American race car driver (b. 1959)
1999 - Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian record producer and musician (b. 1949)
2000 - Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
2001 - Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist and physician (b. 1908)
2002 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 - Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (b. 1940)
2002 - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2002 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer (b. 1927)
2003 - Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (b. 1916)
2004 - Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council (b. 1943)
2004 - Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
2004 - Jørgen Nash, Danish artist (b. 1920)
2005 - Frank Gorshin, American actor (b. 1934)
2006 - Cy Feuer, American playwright (b. 1911)
2006 - Eric Forth, British Member of Parliament (b. 1944)
2006 - Captain Nichola Goddard, Canadian soldier (b. 1980)
2007 - Lloyd Alexander, author (b. 1924)

Famous Deaths on 16 May

Famous Deaths on 16 May

1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
1569 - Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
1657 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1669 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (b. 1596)
1691 - Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)
1703 - Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)
1778 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
1782 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
1790 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)
1830 - Joseph Fourier, French scientist (b. 1768)
1891 - Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1913 - Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
1920 - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
1926 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
1943 - Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
1944 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
1947 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (b. 1893)
1955 - James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876)
1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
1959 - Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)
1961 - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881)
1969 - Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954)
1979 - A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist and labor union leader (b. 1889)
1981 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (b. 1922)
1984 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
1984 - Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
1985 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
1988 - Charles Keeping, English illustrator (b. 1924)
1990 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)
1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)
1992 - Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b, 1960)
1993 - Marv Johnson, American R&B and soul singer (b. 1938)
1994 - Jack Dodson, American actor (b. 1931)
1996 - Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939)
1997 - Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)
2000 - Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988)
2001 - Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)
2002 - Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
2002 - Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
2003 - Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)
583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)

Famous Deaths on 15 May

Famous Deaths on 15 May

1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)
1157 - Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
1174 - Nur ad-Din, ruler of Syria (b. 1118)
1381 - Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1585 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
1591 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (b. 1582)
1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
1634 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
1698 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
1699 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
1714 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
1740 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
1760 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
1773 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)
1782 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
1924 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)
1935 - Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
1937 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (b. 1902)
1945 - Charles Williams, UK writer (b. 1886)
1948 - Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
1954 - William March, American writer (b. 1893)
1956 - Austin Osman Spare, English magician (b. 1886)
1964 - Vladko Maček, Kingdom of Yugoslavia deputy prime minister (b. 1879)
1967 - Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
1971 - Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
1978 - Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1982 - Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1984 - Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher, and pastor (b. 1912)
1986 - Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915)
1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
1989 - Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
1991 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
1991 - Ronald Lacey, English actor (b. 1935)
1992 - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)
1993 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
1994 - Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (b. 1905)
1995 - Eric Porter, British actor (b. 1928)
1996 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
1998 - Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
2003 - George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
2005 - Alan B. Gold, Quebec Chief Justice (b. 1917)
2007 - Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
2007 - Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
2008 - Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
2008 - Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (b. 1919)
2008 - Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (b. 1960)
913 - Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz

Famous Deaths on 14 May

Famous Deaths on 14 May

1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
1610 - Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1643 - Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
1761 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
1893 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
1912 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)
1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
1925 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
1934 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
1936 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)
1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
1959 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
1962 - Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
1970 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1980 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
1982 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
1983 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
1984 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
1985 - Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
1991 - Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
1992 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
1992 - Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)
1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
2004 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
2006 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
2007 - Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)
964 - Pope John XII

Famous Deaths on 13 May

Famous Deaths on 13 May

1162 - Géza II of Hungary
1176 - Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
1312 - Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
1704 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
1742 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1807 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
1832 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
1835 - John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
1866 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
1871 - Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
1884 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1901 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
1903 - Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (b. 1864)
1916 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)
1921 - Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
1925 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)
1926 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
1930 - Fridtjof Nansen, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1861)
1937 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
1938 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
1961 - Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
1962 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893)
1963 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
1972 - Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
1974 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
1975 - Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
1985 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
1988 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
1992 - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
1994 - Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (b. 1920)
1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2000 - Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
2001 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
2001 - Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
2002 - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
2002 - Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
2005 - Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
2005 - Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
2006 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
2006 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
2008 - Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
2008 - Ron Stone, American television reporter (b. 1936)

Famous Deaths on 12 May

Famous Deaths on 12 May

1003 - Pope Silvester II
1012 - Pope Sergius IV
1382 - Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327)
1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea
1634 - George Chapman, English writer
1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)
1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
1700 - John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
1708 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
1792 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
1796 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)
1798 - George Vancouver, British navy officer and explorer (b. 1757)
1801 - Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
1845 - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1859 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)
1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
1864 - J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833)
1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
1871 - Anselme Payen, French physicist (b. 1795)
1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
1884 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
1889 - John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801)
1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
1916 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1931 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (b. 1858)
1935 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
1944 - Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer (b. 1863)
1944 - Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
1956 - Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895)
1957 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
1957 - Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885)
1963 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
1966 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
1967 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
1970 - Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1971 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
1973 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
1985 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901)
1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897)
1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
1992 - Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
1992 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (b. 1911)
1992 - Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
1994 - John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)
1994 - Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
1995 - Mia Martini, real name: Domenica Bertè, Italian singer and song-writer (b. 1947)
1999 - Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (b. 1910)
1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)
2002 - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
2003 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
2005 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
2005 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
2006 - Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)
2007 - Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (b. 1966?)
2007 - Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (b. 1936)
2008 - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)

Famous Deaths on 11 May

Famous Deaths on 11 May

1304 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552)
1672 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)
1708 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
1723 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
1777 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
1778 - William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)
1848 - Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
1849 - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777)
1871 - John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
1887 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
1891 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
1916 - Max Reger, German composer (b. 1873)
1916 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
1920 - William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
1929 - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
1934 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
1939 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1955 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
1963 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 - Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)
1973 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1976 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
1979 - Lester Flatt, American bluegrass musician (b. 1914)
1981 - Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
1985 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1986 - Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)
1986 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910)
1988 - Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
1994 - Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928)
1996 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
1996 - Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
2000 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
2002 - Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
2003 - Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945)
2004 - Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach
2004 - John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)
2005 - Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (b. 1917)
2006 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
2006 - Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921)
2006 - Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1932)
2007 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913)
2007 - Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American author (b. 1918)
2008 - Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934)
2008 - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953)
912 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)

Famous Deaths on 10 May

Famous Deaths on 10 May

1034 - Mieszko II of Poland (b. 990)
1290 - Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)
1424 - Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
1482 - Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
1493 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
1521 - Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457)
1566 - Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (b. 1501)
1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)
1657 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
1691 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)
1696 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
1717 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641)
1726 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)
1733 - Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
1737 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (b. 1702)
1774 - King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
1787 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1792 - John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1807 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
1818 - Paul Revere, American patriot (b. 1735)
1829 - Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
1850 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
1863 - Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (b. 1824)
1868 - Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
1889 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)
1904 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
1937 - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (b. 1876)
1945 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
1950 - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)
1955 - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
1955 - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881)
1960 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
1963 - Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
1964 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
1967 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver, (b. 1935)
1968 - Scotty Beckett, American child actor (b. 1929)
1974 - Hal Mohr, Cinematographer, Husband of Evelyn Venable (b. 1894)
1976 - Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888)
1977 - Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
1982 - Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
1988 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1944)
1990 - Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916)
1990 - Susan Oliver, American actress (b. 1922)
1992 - Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
1994 - John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
1997 - Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (b. 1935)
1999 - Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)
2000 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs) (b. 1962)
2000 - Jules Deschênes, Quebec superior court judge (b. 1923)
2001 - Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
2002 - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (b. 1948)
2002 - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
2003 - Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
2005 - David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (b. 1958)
2006 - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
2006 - A. M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922)
2006 - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (b. 1969)
2006 - Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
2008 - Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
2008 - Jessie Jacobs, Australian Actress (b. 1990)

Famous Deaths on 9 May

Famous Deaths on 9 May

1315 - Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
1446 - Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368)
1657 - William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
1707 - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer
1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer(b. 1663)
1747 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
1760 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
1789 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b. 1715)
1790 - William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)
1805 - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b. 1759)
1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
1889 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)
1914 - C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)
1915 - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 - George CoÅŸbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
1931 - Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1938 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866)
1949 - Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
1950 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
1955 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858)
1957 - Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
1965 - Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (b. 1902)
1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
1968 - Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)
1968 - Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1885)
1970 - Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
1970 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1976 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
1976 - Ulrike Meinhof, German revolutionist (b. 1934)
1977 - James Jones, American writer (b. 1921)
1978 - Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
1979 - Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and industrialist (b. 1883)
1981 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
1985 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
1986 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa and 1st sherpa to climb Mt. Everest (b. 1914)
1989 - Keith Whitley, American country music singer (b. 1955)
1990 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1935)
1993 - Jacques Dextraze, French Canadian military officer (b. 1919)
1994 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
1997 - Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (b. 1928)
1998 - Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
2001 - James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer (b. 1919)
2002 - Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
2003 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)
2004 - Alan King, American comedian (b. 1927)
2004 - Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951)
2005 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b. 1969)
2007 - Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian WWI veteran (b. 1901)
2007 - Edith Rodriguez, hospital emergency room refused to treat (b. 1964)
2008 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929)
2008 - Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942)

Famous Deaths on 8 May

Famous Deaths on 8 May

1192 - Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163)
1278 - Emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268)
1319 - King Haakon V of Norway (b. 1270)
1473 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
1538 - Edward Fox, English bishop
1672 - Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
1766 - Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693)
1773 - Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1728)
1781 - Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715)
1785 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
1785 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (b. 1701)
1788 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723)
1794 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)
1819 - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii
1828 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (b. 1781)
1837 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)
1842 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790)
1853 - Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (b. 1785)
1873 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (b. 1806)
1880 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
1891 - Helena Blavatsky, Russian-born author (b. 1831)
1903 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
1936 - Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)
1943 - Mordechaj Anielewicz, Polish Resistance Fighter (b. 1919)
1945 - Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police leader of Nazi-occupied Norway (b. 1900)
1945 - Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (b. 1883)
1945 - Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway (b. 1898)
1947 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)
1948 - U Saw, Burmese politician (b. 1900)
1950 - Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865)
1952 - William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1879)
1960 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)
1967 - LaVerne Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1911)
1969 - Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (b. 1892)
1975 - Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)
1982 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943)
1982 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
1984 - Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (b. 1890)
1984 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1916)
1985 - Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
1985 - Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (b. 1918)
1987 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (b. 1920)
1988 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (b. 1907)
1990 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (b. 1924)
1991 - Jean Langlais, French composer and pianist (b. 1907)
1991 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
1993 - Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
1994 - George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928)
1995 - Teresa Teng, Asian superstar (b. 1953)
1996 - Beryl Burton, English cyclist (b. 1937)
1996 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1926)
1996 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912)
1998 - Bebe Rebozo, American banker and Watergate figure (b. 1912)
1999 - Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
1999 - Ed Gilbert, American actor (b. 1931)
1999 - Dirk Bogarde, British actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918)
2000 - Alexander Chislenko, Russian-American transhumanist (b. 1959)
2000 - Henry Nicols, AIDS activist (b. 1973)
2005 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (b. 1981)
2006 - Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (b. 1938)
2008 - Eddy Arnold, Country music star (b. 1918)
2008 - François Sterchele, Belgian football player (b. 1982)

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)

Famous Deaths on 6 May

Famous Deaths on 6 May

1502 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)
1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
1620 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)
1631 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician
1638 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
1708 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)
1757 - Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683)
1757 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
1840 - Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792)
1859 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
1877 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
1882 - Thomas Henry Burke, civil servant (b.1829) and Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (b.1836) in the Phoenix Park Murders.
1902 - Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836)
1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
1919 - L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
1939 - Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869)
1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1951 - Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)
1952 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
1961 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
1963 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881)
1963 - Monty Woolley, American actor (b. 1888)
1967 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
1970 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)
1972 - Deniz GezmiÅŸ, Turkish Left-wing Political Activist (b. 1947)
1973 - Ernest MacMillan, Canadian orchestra conductor and composer (b. 1893)
1975 - József Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1892)
1983 - Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer (b. 1922)
1984 - Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
1984 - Bonner Pink, Conservative Party politician
1985 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
1987 - William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913)
1989 - Earl Blaik, Former American football coach (b. 1897)
1990 - Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901)
1991 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (b. 1903)
1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
1992 - Jilly Rizzo, restaurateur (b. 1917)
1993 - Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
1995 - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907)
1995 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
2002 - Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
2003 - Art Houtteman, baseball player (b. 1927)
2004 - Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (b. 1912)
2004 - Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (b. 1923)
2006 - Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958)
2006 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
2006 - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
2006 - Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (b. 1958)
2007 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (b. 1926)
2007 - Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
2007 - ĐorÄ'e Novković, Croatian songwriter (b. 1943)
680 - Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602)

Famous Deaths on 5 May

Famous Deaths on 5 May

1028 - King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia
1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
1219 - King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
1309 - King Charles II of Naples
1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)
1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
1671 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)
1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
1760 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)
1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)
1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)
1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
1859 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)
1892 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
1931 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
1941 - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
1942 - Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
1945 - Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
1971 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (b. 1897)
1981 - Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954)
1983 - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901)
1985 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
1988 - Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927)
1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player, grandmaster and world champion (b. 1911)
1997 - Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
200 - Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
2001 - Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher
2001 - Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler
2002 - Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (b. 1904)
2002 - George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
2002 - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926)
2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
2004 - Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
2007 - Theodore Harold Maiman, Inventor (b. 1927)
2008 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
311 - Galerius, Roman Emperor
984 - Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia

Famous Deaths on 4 May

Famous Deaths on 4 May

1436 - Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)
1471 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)
1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)
1506 - Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
1519 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
1626 - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)
1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
1684 - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
1734 - James Thornhill, English painter
1737 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
1774 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714)
1776 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
1790 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
1799 - Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750)
1811 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1824 - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
1849 - Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760)
1858 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (b. 1773)
1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
1880 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1901 - John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
1903 - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872)
1916 - Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
1919 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (b. 1880)
1922 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
1937 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)
1945 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1955 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
1961 - Anita Stewart, American film actress (b. 1895)
1969 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)
1970 - Allison Krause - Kent State victim (b. 1951)
1970 - Jeffrey Miller - Kent State victim (b. 1950)
1970 - Sandra Scheuer - Kent State victim (b. 1949)
1970 - William Schroeder (b. 1950)
1971 - Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (b. 1934)
1972 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1973 - Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (b. 1917)
1975 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897)
1980 - Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
1984 - Diana Dors, British actress (b. 1931)
1984 - Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
1985 - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
1987 - Paul Butterfield, American blues harmonica player (b. 1942)
1992 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
2001 - Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (b. 1956)
2005 - David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)

Famous Deaths on 3 May

Famous Deaths on 3 May

1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)
1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100)
1270 - King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
1294 - John I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1252/1253)
1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
1598 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
1606 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
1622 - Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
1679 - James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
1693 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
1704 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (b. 1644)
1724 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
1750 - John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
1752 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c. 1692)
1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
1763 - George Psalmanazar, British impostor (b. 1679)
1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712)
1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
1793 - Martin Gerbert, German theologian and historian (b. 1720)
1839 - Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b. 1803)
1918 - Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary
1921 - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1958 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
1969 - Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897)
1972 - Bruce Cabot, American film actor (b. 1904)
1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1989 - Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual (b. 1926)
1989 - Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
1991 - Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-born writer (b. 1933)
1991 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
1992 - George Murphy, American dancer, actor and politician (b. 1902)
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
1996 - Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
1996 - Alex Kellner, American baseball player (b. 1924)
1997 - Sébastien Enjolras, French racing driver (b. 197)
1997 - Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1927)
1999 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1999 - Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
2000 - John Joseph Cardinal O'Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
2001 - Billy Higgins, American drummer (b. 1936)
2002 - Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
2002 - Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
2003 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
2004 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Ken Downing, British racing driver (b. 1917)
2004 - Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
2006 - Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2006 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
2007 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
2007 - Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
2007 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
2008 - Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Primer Minister (b. 1926)