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May 1, 2005 Rene Rivkin, Australian Businessman May 1, 2000 Steve Reeves, actor, Italian Hecules movies, dies at 74 May 1, 1998 Otto Bettman, archivist/writer, Started a huge photo archive, dies at 94 May 1, 1998 Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist May 1, 1997 Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40 May 1, 1996 Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67 May 1, 1996 Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74 May 1, 1996 William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday May 1, 1994 Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34 May 1, 1994 Imre Gyongyossy, Hungarian director, dies at 64 May 1, 1993 Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50 May 1, 1993 Pierre Beregovoy, PM of France (1992-93), commits suicide at 67 May 1, 1993 Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68 May 1, 1991 Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies May 1, 1990 Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62 May 1, 1989 David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered May 1, 1989 Douglass Watson, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 68 May 1, 1989 Marion Mack, actress (General), dies May 1, 1988 Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer May 1, 1988 Paolo Stoppa, actor (Garibaldi, Visit, Freedom Fighters), dies May 1, 1984 Gordon Jenkins, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73 May 1, 1983 V N Swamy, Indian cricket pace bowler (without distinction), dies May 1, 1982 Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72 May 1, 1981 Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75 May 1, 1981 Peter Huchel, writer, dies at 78 May 1, 1978 Aram Katchaturian, Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74 May 1, 1978 Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist May 1, 1976 Rex O'Malley, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75 May 1, 1972 Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator (Orfeo), dies at 82 May 1, 1971 Edith Day, actress (Romance of Air), dies at 75 May 1, 1971 Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66 May 1, 1969 Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 May 1, 1968 Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 May 1, 1965 Leo Spies, composer, dies at 65 May 1, 1965 Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53 May 1, 1959 Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies May 1, 1957 Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82 May 1, 1954 Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50 May 1, 1952 William Fox, [Fried], U.S. film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73 May 1, 1948 Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered May 1, 1947 Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed May 1, 1946 Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71 May 1, 1946 Percy William Whitlock, composer, dies at 42 May 1, 1945 Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59 May 1, 1945 Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide May 1, 1941 John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 May 1, 1939 Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van olien), dies May 1, 1937 Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 May 1, 1934 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 May 1, 1932 Paul Doumer, President France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov May 1, 1926 Nicolaus Adriani, translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60 May 1, 1924 August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62 May 1, 1921 Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43 May 1, 1917 Jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies May 1, 1904 Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62 May 1, 1903 Luigi Arditi, violist/composer, dies at 80 May 1, 1902 John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 May 1, 1900 Mihaly von Munkacsy, [Michael von Lieb], German painter, dies at 56 May 1, 1898 Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81 May 1, 1896 Nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65 May 1, 1892 Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89 May 1, 1886 Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens) May 1, 1886 Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer, dies at 56 May 1, 1874 Vilem Blodek, composer, dies at 39 May 1, 1873 David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60 May 1, 1872 Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies May 1, 1870 Francisco Solano Lopez, fieldmarshal/president of Paraguay May 1, 1863 Edward Dorr Tracy, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 29 May 1, 1856 John Wilbur, American Clergyman May 1, 1831 Antonius van Alphen, apostle vicar of De Bosch, dies at 82 May 1, 1813 Jacques Delille, French Poet May 1, 1772 Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52 May 1, 1733 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Saon), dies at 75 May 1, 1703 Kiva Yoshinaka, Japanese monarch, murdered May 1, 1700 John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies May 1, 1679 Esaias Reusner, composer, dies at 43 May 1, 1572 Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies May 1, 1555 Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53 May 1, 1471 Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91 May 1, 1456 Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies May 1, 1447 Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies May 1, 1308 Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered May 1, 1277 Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies May 1, 1171 Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies |