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May 15, 2003 June Carter Cash, singer/actress, The Apostle, dies at 73 May 15, 2003 June Carter, American Musician May 15, 2002 "Darwood ""Ken"" Kaye Smith", actor/minister, Our Gang, dies at 72 May 15, 1999 John Minor Wisdom, American Judge May 15, 1996 George M Tindley, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57 May 15, 1995 Edouard Dermit, actor (Testament of Orpheus), dies at 69 May 15, 1995 Eric Richard Porter, actor (Crucible, Hennessy), dies at 67 May 15, 1995 Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist, dies at 68 May 15, 1995 Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52 May 15, 1994 Frederik baron van Pallandt, Danish singer (Nina and F), murdered at 61 May 15, 1994 Gilbert Roland, Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88 May 15, 1994 Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71 May 15, 1994 Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71 May 15, 1994 [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79 May 15, 1992 Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44 May 15, 1992 Robert Morris Page, U.S. physicist (radar), dies at 88 May 15, 1991 Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84 May 15, 1991 Freddie Paris, dies May 15, 1991 Reno Brown, dies May 15, 1989 John Waldo Green, composer, dies at 80 May 15, 1988 Andrew Duggan, actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 64 May 15, 1988 Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill), dies May 15, 1987 John Baur, museum director, dies at 78 May 15, 1987 Wynne Gibson, actor (Night After Night, Aggie Appleby), dies May 15, 1986 Theodore H White, U.S. journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71 May 15, 1986 Theodore White, American Journalist May 15, 1985 Jackie Curtis, actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38 May 15, 1984 Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85 May 15, 1984 Francis Schaeffer, American Theologian May 15, 1983 James Van Der Zee, American Photographer May 15, 1976 Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S. historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88 May 15, 1976 Samuel E. Morison, American Historian May 15, 1973 Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95 May 15, 1972 Nigel Green, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies at 47 May 15, 1967 Edward Hopper, U.S. painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84 May 15, 1967 Jaromir Fiala, composer, dies at 74 May 15, 1965 Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies May 15, 1964 Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61 May 15, 1959 Berend van den Amstel, [Bernard CED Hattink], Dutch actor, dies at 56 May 15, 1958 Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91 May 15, 1952 Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84 May 15, 1952 Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at 76 May 15, 1949 Mary Antin, Russian Activist May 15, 1945 Major Courtney, U.S. medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf May 15, 1940 Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75 May 15, 1940 Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), suicide at 63 May 15, 1935 Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist May 15, 1933 Ernest Torrence, actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at 54 May 15, 1932 Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered May 15, 1926 Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies May 15, 1925 Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier May 15, 1924 Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71 May 15, 1899 Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70 May 15, 1895 Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75 May 15, 1892 Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered May 15, 1889 Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies May 15, 1886 Emily Dickinson, U.S. poet, dies at 55 May 15, 1873 Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53 May 15, 1872 Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87 May 15, 1855 Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75 May 15, 1852 Louisa Catherine Adams, American First Lady May 15, 1847 Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician May 15, 1845 Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer, dies at 76 May 15, 1842 Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76 May 15, 1833 Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock), dies at 46 May 15, 1832 Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer, dies at 73 May 15, 1824 Alexander Campbell, composer, dies at 60 May 15, 1823 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69 May 15, 1822 Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer, dies at 64 May 15, 1821 John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54 May 15, 1801 Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73 May 15, 1785 Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer, dies at 29 May 15, 1761 Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies), dies at 56 May 15, 1746 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer, dies at 67 May 15, 1685 Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies May 15, 1622 Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69 May 15, 1621 Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56 May 15, 1591 Dimitri Ivanovitch, Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered at 9 May 15, 1482 Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician and mapmaker, dies May 15, 1470 Charles VIII, Knutsson Bonde, king of Sweden (14??-70), dies May 15, 1174 Nur ad-Din Mahmud, King of Syria, dies May 15, 884 Marinus I, [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies May 15, 392 Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21 |