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May 5, 2002 George Sidney, American Director May 5, 2001 Cliff Hillegass, businessman, invented Cliffs Notes, dies at 83 May 5, 2001 Morris Graves, American Artist May 5, 1996 Ai Qing, poet, dies at 86 May 5, 1996 Beryl Burton, cyclist, dies at 58 May 5, 1995 Anthony Wagner, genealogist, dies at 86 May 5, 1995 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89 May 5, 1995 Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist, dies at 86 May 5, 1995 James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81 May 5, 1995 Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer, dies at 75 May 5, 1995 Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world chess champ, dies May 5, 1995 Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63 May 5, 1994 Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83 May 5, 1994 Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63 May 5, 1993 Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73 May 5, 1993 Irving Howe, U.S. writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72 May 5, 1993 Lenore Kingston Jenson, dies of cancer at 79 May 5, 1992 Ben Frommer, dies at 78 May 5, 1992 Dick Yarmy, dies of lung cancer at 58 May 5, 1992 Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64 May 5, 1992 Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72 May 5, 1991 William De Acutis, dies at 33 May 5, 1989 Frank Easton, cricket wicketkeeper (NSW 1933-39), dies May 5, 1988 George Rose, actor (Devil's Disciple, Hideaways), dies at 68 May 5, 1988 Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist May 5, 1986 Jon William Haussermann Jr, composer, dies at 76 May 5, 1986 Rui Coelho, composer, dies at 94 May 5, 1983 John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80 May 5, 1981 Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike May 5, 1980 Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79 May 5, 1979 Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68 May 5, 1977 Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80 May 5, 1976 Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47 May 5, 1972 Rev Gary David, vocalist, dies at 76 May 5, 1972 Frank Tashlin, American Artist May 5, 1971 Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81 May 5, 1971 Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia May 5, 1969 Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57 May 5, 1968 Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62 May 5, 1963 Heinrich Gebhard, composer, dies May 5, 1963 Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73 May 5, 1960 Sulho Ranta, composer, dies at 58 May 5, 1957 Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74 May 5, 1956 Charles R Gallas, lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88 May 5, 1951 Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54 May 5, 1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies May 5, 1945 Gudmundur Jonsson Kamban, Icelandic writer (Vi mordere), dies at 56 May 5, 1927 Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies May 5, 1921 Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies May 5, 1921 Alfred Fried, Austrian Activist May 5, 1909 Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies May 5, 1902 Bret Harte, writer, dies at 65 May 5, 1892 Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80 May 5, 1886 Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61 May 5, 1885 Lauro Rossi, composer, dies at 73 May 5, 1879 Isaac Butt, Irish Politician May 5, 1875 Jan A C A van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch MP (1848-75), dies at 71 May 5, 1864 Alexander Hays, U.S. Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44 May 5, 1864 John Marshall Jones, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 43 May 5, 1864 Leroy A Stafford, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 42 May 5, 1859 Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53 May 5, 1851 Philip Hone, American Politician May 5, 1840 Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer, dies at 67 May 5, 1840 Matthaus Fischer, composer, dies at 76 May 5, 1837 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 May 5, 1831 Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer, dies at 65 May 5, 1827 Frederik Augustus I, Justified, King of Saxon (1806-27), dies at 76 May 5, 1821 Napoleon I Bonaparte, emperor France (1799-1815), dies in St. Helena May 5, 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader May 5, 1801 Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 74 May 5, 1786 Pedro III, King of Portugal, dies May 5, 1705 Leopold I von Hapsburg, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64 May 5, 1702 Jacob Hintze, composer, dies at 79 May 5, 1678 Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70 May 5, 1613 Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66 May 5, 1604 Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71 May 5, 1582 Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies May 5, 1553 Erasmus Alberus, Germ theologist (Barfusser Monche), dies at about 52 May 5, 1525 Frederik III, the Wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies at 62 May 5, 1504 Anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82 May 5, 1309 Charles II, the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies May 5, 1194 Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies May 5, 1028 Alfonso V, King of Leon/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle May 5, 311 Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50 |