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)