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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



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