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May 12, 2004 Syd Hoff, cartoonist/children's book illustrator, The New Yorker, dies at 91 May 12, 2001 Perry Como, singer, dies at 88 May 12, 2000 David B. Guralnik, Webster's lexicographer, dies at 79 May 12, 2000 Adam Petty, American Celebrity May 12, 1999 Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84 May 12, 1996 Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84 May 12, 1996 Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35 May 12, 1995 Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95 May 12, 1995 Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71 May 12, 1995 Reza Abdoh, theatre Director, dies at 32 May 12, 1994 Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91 May 12, 1994 David Brooks, psychologist, dies at 91 May 12, 1994 Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63 May 12, 1994 John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55 May 12, 1994 Erik Erikson, Psychologist May 12, 1992 Joe Burke, president (Kansas City Royals), dies at 68, dies May 12, 1992 Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59 May 12, 1989 Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81 May 12, 1989 Marcelle de Manziarly, composer, dies at 89 May 12, 1987 Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53 May 12, 1986 Elisabeth Bergner, dies at 85 May 12, 1986 Lee Bonnell, dies May 12, 1985 Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies May 12, 1985 Jean Dubuffet, French Artist May 12, 1984 Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure May 12, 1982 Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66 May 12, 1981 Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies May 12, 1980 Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies May 12, 1973 Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85 May 12, 1970 Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78 May 12, 1970 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78 May 12, 1970 Nelly Sachs, German Poet May 12, 1967 Julius Kalas, composer, dies at 64 May 12, 1965 Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57 May 12, 1963 Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at 69 May 12, 1963 Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman May 12, 1962 Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67 May 12, 1960 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70 May 12, 1960 Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant May 12, 1957 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71 May 12, 1956 Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87 May 12, 1956 Louis Calhern, dies at 61 May 12, 1956 Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65 May 12, 1951 Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80 May 12, 1948 Isidor Achron, composer, dies at 55 May 12, 1944 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80 May 12, 1944 Max Brand, American Writer May 12, 1943 Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48 May 12, 1935 Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies May 12, 1932 Lindbergh baby, found dead May 12, 1931 Eugene Ysaye, composer, dies at 72 May 12, 1931 Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72 May 12, 1930 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70 May 12, 1925 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71 May 12, 1925 Amy Lowell, writer, dies at 51 May 12, 1925 Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer, dies at 82 May 12, 1924 Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82 May 12, 1921 Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies May 12, 1908 Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69 May 12, 1907 J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59 May 12, 1897 Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53 May 12, 1897 Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies May 12, 1896 Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38 May 12, 1884 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies at 60 May 12, 1876 Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63 May 12, 1871 Daniel-Franeois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89 May 12, 1871 John F. W. Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies May 12, 1864 Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 37 May 12, 1864 J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31 May 12, 1861 Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50 May 12, 1852 John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies May 12, 1845 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77 May 12, 1845 August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet May 12, 1843 Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74 May 12, 1825 Elias Mann, composer, dies at 75 May 12, 1825 Stanislao Mattei, composer, dies at 75 May 12, 1814 Robert Treat Paine, U.S. judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83 May 12, 1811 Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52 May 12, 1796 Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75 May 12, 1795 Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman May 12, 1792 Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist May 12, 1788 Louis E van Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Austrian duke, dies at 69 May 12, 1737 Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83 May 12, 1700 John Dryden, English Poet May 12, 1649 Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered May 12, 1641 Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48 May 12, 1634 George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies May 12, 1382 Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies May 12, 1012 Sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies May 12, 1003 Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome May 12, 1003 Sylvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st Fren Pope (999-1003), dies May 12, 912 Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45 |