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May 2, 2002 Judy Toll, comic/writer, Sex and the City, dies at 44
May 2, 1999 Oliver Reed, actor, Oliver!, dies at 61
May 2, 1998 Don Harrison, Headline News anchor, dies at 61
May 2, 1998 Gene Raymond, actor, dies at 89
May 2, 1996 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97
May 2, 1996 Emile Habibi, writer, dies at 73
May 2, 1996 Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63
May 2, 1994 Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65
May 2, 1994 Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin, hero, dies at 75
May 2, 1993 Julio Gallo, wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82
May 2, 1993 WLPM, the Short, Dutch MP (KVP, 1945-73), dies at 83
May 2, 1993 Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86
May 2, 1992 Joey Cuevas, dancer, dies at 34
May 2, 1992 Lee Salk, baby doctor/author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
May 2, 1992 Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
May 2, 1992 Philip Dunne, screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84
May 2, 1992 Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82
May 2, 1991 Hal Bell, dies at 65
May 2, 1991 Leib Lensky, dies at 82
May 2, 1990 David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself at 38
May 2, 1990 Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49
May 2, 1990 William Levi Dawson, composer, dies at 90
May 2, 1985 Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery
May 2, 1985 Milton S Eisenhower, U.S. diplomat, dies at 85
May 2, 1984 Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
May 2, 1984 Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Failing God, Niggers), dies at 64
May 2, 1983 Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies
May 2, 1982 Helmut Dantine
May 2, 1982 Hugh Marlowe, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World), dies at 71
May 2, 1980 Clarrie Grimmett, cricket (36 Tests for Australia, 216 wickets), dies
May 2, 1973 Alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61
May 2, 1972 Hugo Hartung, writer, dies at 69
May 2, 1972 J Edgar Hoover, head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77
May 2, 1972 J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant
May 2, 1969 Franz JHMM von Papen, German chancellor (1932), dies at 89
May 2, 1969 Franz von Papen, German Politician
May 2, 1968 Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St. Louis), dies at 69
May 2, 1964 Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
May 2, 1964 Nancy Astor, British Politician
May 2, 1963 Tomas Vackar, composer, dies at 17
May 2, 1963 Van Wyck Brooks, U.S. historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77
May 2, 1960 Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
May 2, 1959 Yrlo Henrik Kilpinen, Finnish composer, dies at 67
May 2, 1958 Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies at 89
May 2, 1957 Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R-Wisc), dies at 47
May 2, 1957 Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer, dies at 53
May 2, 1955 Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66
May 2, 1954 Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82
May 2, 1947 William Moulton Marston, American Psychologist
May 2, 1945 Martin Bormann, propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
May 2, 1937 Arthur Somervell, composer, dies at 73
May 2, 1919 Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
May 2, 1897 William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63
May 2, 1892 Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69
May 2, 1864 Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72
May 2, 1857 LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
May 2, 1857 Alfred de Musset, French Writer
May 2, 1849 David H Chasse, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84
May 2, 1845 August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
May 2, 1818 Herman W. Daendels, governor-gen of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55
May 2, 1799 Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, dies at 58
May 2, 1736 Albert Seba, Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71
May 2, 1727 Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70
May 2, 1685 Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter, buried
May 2, 1669 Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61
May 2, 1567 Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
May 2, 1519 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67
May 2, 1488 Jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies
May 2, 1459 Pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies
May 2, 1250 Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered
May 2, 649 Maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies


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