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May 30, 2003 "DeVon ""Robot Man"" Smith", world champion hitchhiker, dies at 76 May 30, 2002 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright May 30, 2000 "Gordon ""Tex"" Beneke", band leader/saxophonist, led the Glenn Miller Orchestra after Miller's death, dies at 86 May 30, 2000 Mary Jenkins Langston, cook, cooked peanut butter and banana sandwiches for Elvis, dies at 77 May 30, 1996 Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57 May 30, 1996 John Cameron, judge, dies at 96 May 30, 1996 John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47 May 30, 1996 Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92 May 30, 1995 Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44 May 30, 1995 Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72 May 30, 1995 Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82 May 30, 1995 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87 May 30, 1994 Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79 May 30, 1994 Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94 May 30, 1994 Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58 May 30, 1994 Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85 May 30, 1994 Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79 May 30, 1993 Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, U.S. jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79 May 30, 1993 Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79 May 30, 1992 Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59 May 30, 1992 Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77 May 30, 1992 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72 May 30, 1991 Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74 May 30, 1989 Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83 May 30, 1988 Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66 May 30, 1987 Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94 May 30, 1987 Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71 May 30, 1986 Hank Mobley, U.S. jazz saxophonist, dies at 55 May 30, 1983 Alfred M Gruenther, U.S. general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84 May 30, 1981 Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated May 30, 1981 Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Politician May 30, 1980 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek and Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment May 30, 1980 Timmy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies May 30, 1979 Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82 May 30, 1977 Claire Goll, writer, dies at 86 May 30, 1977 Paul Desmond, U.S. jazz saxophonist, dies at 52 May 30, 1975 Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80 May 30, 1973 Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66 May 30, 1972 Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104 May 30, 1971 Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46 May 30, 1971 Marcel Dupre, French composer, dies at 85 May 30, 1971 Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66 May 30, 1969 Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66 May 30, 1969 John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45 May 30, 1967 Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77 May 30, 1966 Waino V Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor, dies at 72 May 30, 1964 Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66 May 30, 1961 Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69 May 30, 1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr. Zhivago), dies at 70 May 30, 1959 Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85 May 30, 1957 Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies May 30, 1954 Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67 May 30, 1953 George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60 May 30, 1951 Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64 May 30, 1947 Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72 May 30, 1945 Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed May 30, 1944 Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79 May 30, 1940 Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104 May 30, 1938 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49 May 30, 1935 Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49 May 30, 1923 Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63 May 30, 1922 David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curaeaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45 May 30, 1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies May 30, 1918 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies May 30, 1912 Wilbur Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies May 30, 1906 William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30 May 30, 1870 Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89 May 30, 1865 William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27 May 30, 1864 James Barbour Terrill, U.S. attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26 May 30, 1840 Dominique J de Eerens, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59 May 30, 1833 Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27 May 30, 1809 Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43 May 30, 1797 Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48 May 30, 1791 Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56 May 30, 1778 Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42 May 30, 1746 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69 May 30, 1744 Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56 May 30, 1718 Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48 May 30, 1718 Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63 May 30, 1640 Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies May 30, 1640 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62 May 30, 1593 Christopher Marlowe, British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered May 30, 1574 Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies May 30, 1434 Prokopius, [Bohemia], leader of taboriets, dies in battle May 30, 1431 Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19 May 30, 1416 Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church May 30, 1252 Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castilie/Leon, dies May 30, 1035 Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies May 30, 727 Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72 |