| 2007 | Anna Nicole Smith, dies in Hollywood, Florida, of drug overdose, at 39 |
| 2004 | Julius Schwartz, comic editor/agent, dies at 88 |
| 2002 | Eldon Rudd, Representative-R-Arizona 1977 - 1987 |
| 1999 | Iris Murdoch, writer, Jackson's Dilemma, dies at 79 |
| 1998 | William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78 |
| 1997 | Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | John Hartford Worlock, RC Bishop (Liverpool), dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Mercer Kennedy Ellington, trumpeter bandleader/composer, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | William Fulbright, U.S. politician, dies |
| 1994 | Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Raymond Scott, composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies |
| 1993 | Douglas Heyes, director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73 |
| 1993 | Eliot Janeway, financial columnist (Eliot Doomsday), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies |
| 1992 | Baruch Lumet, actor (Killer Shrews), dies at 93 |
| 1991 | Silvio O. Conte, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1959 - 1991, died of prostate cancer |
| 1990 | Del Shannon, American Musician |
| 1989 | Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81 |
| 1988 | Allan Cuthbertson, actor (Running Man, 7th Dawn), dies at 67 |
| 1987 | Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies |
| 1987 | Harriet MacGibbon, actress (Mrs Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies |
| 1987 | Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74 |
| 1985 | Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony-Millionaire), dies at 71 |
| 1985 | Tom Greenway, actor (Miami Story), dies of a heart attack at 75 |
| 1982 | John Hay Whitney, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 76 |
| 1979 | Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82 |
| 1975 | Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert and Sullivan, Mikado), dies at 75 |
| 1974 | Fern Andra, dies at 80 |
| 1974 | Fritz Zwicky, Swiss/US astronomer (supernova), dies at 75 |
| 1968 | J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56 |
| 1964 | Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91 |
| 1963 | Abdul Karim Kassem, Prime Minister of Iraq 1958 - 1963, assassinated in Baghdad at 48 |
| 1963 | George Dolenz, Italian actor (Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 55 |
| 1961 | William Duncan, actor (Hopalong Rides Again), dies at 81 |
| 1960 | J. L. Austin, English Philosopher |
| 1959 | William J "Wild Bill" Donovan, Office Strategic Services, dies at 76 |
| 1957 | John Von Neumann, astronomer, dies at 53 |
| 1957 | Walther Bothe, German Physicist |
| 1956 | Connie Mack, baseball manager (Philadelphia A's, 1901-50), dies at 93 |
| 1954 | Mabel Paige, actress (Lucky Jordan), dies at 73 |
| 1953 | Cliff Clark, actor (Golden Hoofs, Kid Glove Killer), dies at 63 |
| 1949 | Franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1949 | Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1947 | Ernest Samuel Williams, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1946 | Miles Mander, actor and director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57 |
| 1942 | Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50 |
| 1937 | Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian, dies at 75 |
| 1935 | Max Liebermann, Germany impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87 |
| 1932 | Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang |
| 1924 | Gee John, U.S. mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies |
| 1921 | Pjotr A Kropotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist, dies at 78 |
| 1920 | Richard Dehmel, writer, dies at 56 |
| 1911 | Gustaf Froding, Swedish poet (Grabstank), dies at 50 |
| 1909 | Edouard Silas, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1909 | Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1907 | Hendrik W. Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52 |
| 1905 | Jay Cooke, American Businessman |
| 1902 | Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays', dies |
| 1897 | Antonio Canovas del Castillo, premier of Spain, murdered at 69 |
| 1884 | Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at 76 |
| 1878 | Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at 83 |
| 1874 | David F Strauss, German theologist, dies at 66 |
| 1874 | David Friedrich Strauss, German Theologian |
| 1849 | France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec), dies at 48 |
| 1849 | Francois-Antoine Habeneck, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1824 | Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71 |
| 1821 | Paul Anton Wineberger, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1801 | Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1797 | Johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1771 | Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies |
| 1749 | Jan van Huysum, Dutch still life painter, dies at 66 |
| 1740 | Clement XII, Lorenzo Corsini, blind Pope (1730-40), dies at 87 |
| 1725 | Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia (1682-1725), dies at 52 |
| 1709 | Giuseppi Torelli, Italian composer, dies at 50 |
| 1691 | Carlo Rainaldi, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1691 | Carlo di Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect/composer, dies at 79 |
| 1686 | Francois Tak, Dutch diplomat on Java, murdered |
| 1676 | Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov-czar of Russia, dies at 46 |
| 1650 | John Adriaensz, hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about 74 |
| 1611 | Jan H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies |
| 1587 | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 |
| 1587 | Mary Queen of Scots, Scottish Royalty |
| 1513 | Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish explorer (Curaeao and Bonaire), dies |
| 1303 | Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple), dies |
| 1245 | Johannes de Rupella/de la Rochelle, French theologist, dies |
| 1124 | Stefanus of Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint, dies |
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