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May 21, 2002 Joe Cobb, actor, an original Our Gang cast member, dies at 84
May 21, 2000 Barbara Cartland, romance writer, dies at 98
May 21, 2000 Mark Reynolds Hughes, entreprenuer, Herbalife founder, dies at 43
May 21, 2000 Sir John Gielgud, British actor, Arthur, dies at 96
May 21, 1996 Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78
May 21, 1996 Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67
May 21, 1996 Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist, dies at 83
May 21, 1996 Laurence Dowdall, lawyer, dies at 91
May 21, 1996 Mary Perot Nichols, journalist, dies at 79
May 21, 1996 Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60
May 21, 1995 Kieron Walsh, academic, dies at 46
May 21, 1995 Les Aspin, U.S. sec of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
May 21, 1995 Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68
May 21, 1994 Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60
May 21, 1994 Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
May 21, 1994 Giovanni Goria, PM of Italy (1987-88), dies
May 21, 1994 John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81
May 21, 1994 John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71
May 21, 1993 John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
May 21, 1993 John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65
May 21, 1992 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
May 21, 1992 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
May 21, 1992 Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
May 21, 1992 Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
May 21, 1991 Bobby Dale, dies at 92
May 21, 1991 Jean Van Joutte, PM of Belgium (1952-54), dies
May 21, 1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46
May 21, 1990 Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37
May 21, 1990 Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
May 21, 1990 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
May 21, 1988 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92
May 21, 1987 Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
May 21, 1984 Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70
May 21, 1984 Ann Little, actress (Roaring Road), dies
May 21, 1983 Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61
May 21, 1981 Yuki Shimoda, actor (Farewell to Manzanar), dies
May 21, 1980 Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies
May 21, 1978 Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77
May 21, 1976 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77
May 21, 1973 Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79
May 21, 1973 George Breakstone, actor and director (Great Expectations), dies at 53
May 21, 1973 Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
May 21, 1971 Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73
May 21, 1970 Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
May 21, 1968 Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
May 21, 1966 Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75
May 21, 1954 Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68
May 21, 1952 John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39
May 21, 1949 Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
May 21, 1935 Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
May 21, 1935 Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65
May 21, 1933 John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
May 21, 1926 Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65
May 21, 1926 Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40
May 21, 1924 Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold and Loeb, at 14
May 21, 1920 Eleanor Porter, American Novelist
May 21, 1919 Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French ship's doctor/writer, dies
May 21, 1897 Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77
May 21, 1895 Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
May 21, 1894 August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
May 21, 1885 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73
May 21, 1860 Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53
May 21, 1844 Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68
May 21, 1817 Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64
May 21, 1815 Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73
May 21, 1812 Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38
May 21, 1810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
May 21, 1790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
May 21, 1786 Carl W.Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43
May 21, 1725 Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63
May 21, 1703 Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle
May 21, 1690 John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
May 21, 1650 James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
May 21, 1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65
May 21, 1639 Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70
May 21, 1639 Tommaso Campanella, Philosopher
May 21, 1542 Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
May 21, 1524 Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80
May 21, 1481 Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
May 21, 1254 Koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26
May 21, 987 Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies



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