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
