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May 16, 2004 June Taylor, choreographer, Jackie Gleason Show, dies at 85 May 16, 2003 Mark McCormack, American Businessman May 16, 2002 Dave Berg, cartoonist, Mad, dies at 81 May 16, 1996 Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60 May 16, 1996 Mike Jeremy Boorda, commandant (NATO), commits suicide at 57 May 16, 1996 Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72 May 16, 1995 Lola Flores, singer and actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70 May 16, 1995 Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82 May 16, 1994 Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies May 16, 1994 Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82 May 16, 1994 Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66 May 16, 1993 Marv Johnson, U.S. soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54 May 16, 1992 Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53 May 16, 1991 Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies May 16, 1990 Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian May 16, 1990 Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53 May 16, 1990 Sammy Davis Jr, singer and actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64 May 16, 1989 Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered May 16, 1988 Carrie Baxter, Best Bodybuilder (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42 May 16, 1988 Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42 May 16, 1988 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78 May 16, 1985 Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82 May 16, 1984 Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35 May 16, 1984 Irwin Shaw, U.S. writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71 May 16, 1983 Carel Brons, composer, dies at 52 May 16, 1979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 May 16, 1979 A. Philip Randolph, American Activist May 16, 1975 Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder May 16, 1973 A P Gutersloh, writer, dies at 86 May 16, 1972 Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79 May 16, 1969 Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44 May 16, 1966 Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home May 16, 1959 Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69 May 16, 1958 Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49 May 16, 1957 Eliot Ness, American Public Servant May 16, 1955 James Agee, U.S. critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY May 16, 1954 Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61 May 16, 1954 Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38 May 16, 1953 Django Reinhardt, Belgian Musician May 16, 1949 William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies May 16, 1944 George Ade, U.S. novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78 May 16, 1944 Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75 May 16, 1944 Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies May 16, 1942 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies May 16, 1942 Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish Scientist May 16, 1938 Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies May 16, 1932 Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered May 16, 1932 William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies May 16, 1929 Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies May 16, 1928 Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies May 16, 1926 Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies May 16, 1924 Candy Cummings, American Athlete May 16, 1918 Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64 May 16, 1910 Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53 May 16, 1904 N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies May 16, 1903 Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72 May 16, 1892 John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies May 16, 1892 Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74 May 16, 1880 Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76 May 16, 1864 Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered May 16, 1863 Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47 May 16, 1862 Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 May 16, 1847 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59 May 16, 1835 Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies May 16, 1830 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies May 16, 1829 William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56 May 16, 1819 Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75 May 16, 1805 Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68 May 16, 1782 Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies May 16, 1777 Button Gwinnet, U.S. revolutionary leader, dies from wounds May 16, 1768 Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81 May 16, 1762 Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86 May 16, 1754 Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76 May 16, 1703 Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies May 16, 1691 Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason May 16, 1669 Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies May 16, 1669 Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 May 16, 1620 William Adams, English Explorer May 16, 1434 Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60 May 16, 942 Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies |