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May 23, 2002 Sam Snead, golfer, dies at 89 May 23, 1999 Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer May 23, 1996 Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81 May 23, 1996 Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61 May 23, 1996 Patrick Cargill, actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77 May 23, 1994 Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82 May 23, 1994 Joe Pass, U.S. jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65 May 23, 1993 James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77 May 23, 1992 Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies May 23, 1992 Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered May 23, 1991 Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies May 23, 1991 Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies May 23, 1991 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30 May 23, 1990 Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock and Roll), dies May 23, 1988 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73 May 23, 1987 Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86 May 23, 1986 Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue and Gray), dies at 70 May 23, 1983 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84 May 23, 1982 Louis J N Gerardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69 May 23, 1981 George Jessel, U.S. comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies at 83 May 23, 1979 Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79 May 23, 1975 Jackie "Moms" Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81 May 23, 1974 Kathleen Cannell, writer, dies May 23, 1973 Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies at 57 May 23, 1970 Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr. Bobbins), dies at 68 May 23, 1969 Diane Aubrey, actress (Haunted Strangler), dies of heart attack at 79 May 23, 1969 Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74 May 23, 1969 Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 May 23, 1968 James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81 May 23, 1968 Merle Kendrick, orch leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 May 23, 1967 Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58 May 23, 1967 Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30 May 23, 1966 Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79 May 23, 1965 David Smith, sculptor, dies May 23, 1961 Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53 May 23, 1960 Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies May 23, 1952 Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85 May 23, 1947 C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68 May 23, 1945 Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 May 23, 1941 Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies May 23, 1941 Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45 May 23, 1940 Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies May 23, 1940 Paul Nizan, French journalist and writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35 May 23, 1938 Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70 May 23, 1937 John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla May 23, 1937 John D. Rockefeller, American Businessman May 23, 1934 Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush May 23, 1934 Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush May 23, 1926 Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73 May 23, 1908 Francois Coppee, French poet, dies May 23, 1906 Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78 May 23, 1906 Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet May 23, 1905 Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75 May 23, 1897 Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago and Back), dies at 34 May 23, 1895 Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96 May 23, 1891 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 May 23, 1887 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74 May 23, 1883 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright (Wanda), dies May 23, 1881 Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies May 23, 1881 Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies May 23, 1875 Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78 May 23, 1867 Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74 May 23, 1860 Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies May 23, 1851 Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69 May 23, 1842 Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34 May 23, 1841 Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76 May 23, 1838 John W. Janssens, Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at 75 May 23, 1836 Edward Livingston, American Judge May 23, 1834 Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76 May 23, 1785 William Woollett, engraver, dies May 23, 1783 James Otis, American lawyer, dies May 23, 1776 Julie de Lespinasse, French Author May 23, 1754 John Wood, architect/town planner, dies May 23, 1701 William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock May 23, 1684 Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48 May 23, 1668 Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried May 23, 1648 Luis de Nain, painter, dies May 23, 1627 Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet and writer, dies May 23, 1568 Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27 May 23, 1498 Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45 May 23, 1423 Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies May 23, 1153 David I, king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68 May 23, 1125 Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies |