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May 8, 2005 Lloyd Cutler, American Lawyer May 8, 2005 Lloyd Norton Cutler, American Lawyer May 8, 1999 Dana Plato, child star, Different Strokes, dies at 34 May 8, 1999 Dirk Bogarde, actor/writer, A Tale of Two Cities, dies at 78 May 8, 1997 Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies May 8, 1996 Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80 May 8, 1996 Luis Miguel Domiguin, bullfighter, dies at 69 May 8, 1996 Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer, dies at 95 May 8, 1995 Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63 May 8, 1995 Jerry Zipkin, socialite, dies at 80 May 8, 1995 Prem Bhatia, journalist, dies at 83 May 8, 1995 Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41 May 8, 1994 Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88 May 8, 1994 George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65 May 8, 1994 Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36 May 8, 1994 Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48 May 8, 1993 Kees Deenik, singer/conductor May 8, 1992 Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80 May 8, 1992 Brian Moore, writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59 May 8, 1992 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies May 8, 1992 Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer May 8, 1991 Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84 May 8, 1991 Lloyd Ford, stuntman, dies at 79 May 8, 1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72 May 8, 1990 Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies May 8, 1988 Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80 May 8, 1988 Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer May 8, 1987 Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off May 8, 1985 Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74 May 8, 1985 Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies of Alzheimer's at 69 May 8, 1985 Karl Marx, German composer and conductor, dies at 87 May 8, 1985 Theodore Sturgeon, American Writer May 8, 1982 Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident May 8, 1982 Neil Bogart, American Businessman May 8, 1981 Daniel Gilles, Belgian writer, dies at 64 May 8, 1981 Margaret Lindsay, actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies May 8, 1981 Maurice Fernandes, cricket capt (WI in 1st Test win, 1930 vs. Eng), dies May 8, 1979 Talcott Parsons, U.S. sociologist, dies at 76 May 8, 1976 Alan Baxter, dies at 67 May 8, 1976 Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies May 8, 1975 Avery Brundage, CEO (International Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87 May 8, 1974 Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train May 8, 1973 Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies May 8, 1967 Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39 May 8, 1967 Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74 May 8, 1967 Laverne Andrews, singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51 May 8, 1961 James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63 May 8, 1960 Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88 May 8, 1959 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 May 8, 1958 Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered May 8, 1957 Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75 May 8, 1951 Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40 May 8, 1950 Franklin Dyall, dies at 76 May 8, 1948 Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81 May 8, 1943 Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed May 8, 1941 Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86 May 8, 1936 Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies May 8, 1932 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician May 8, 1930 Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61 May 8, 1924 Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23 May 8, 1915 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 U.S. black army chaplain, dies at 82 May 8, 1909 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies May 8, 1908 Ludovic Halevy, French Author May 8, 1904 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies May 8, 1903 Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies May 8, 1894 Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79 May 8, 1891 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies May 8, 1887 Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar May 8, 1885 Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65 May 8, 1880 Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Salammbo), dies May 8, 1876 Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies May 8, 1873 John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 May 8, 1864 James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56 May 8, 1861 Laselo Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide May 8, 1853 Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67 May 8, 1846 Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59 May 8, 1844 Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies May 8, 1829 Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47 May 8, 1818 Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78 May 8, 1809 Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78 May 8, 1794 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined May 8, 1794 Antoine Lavoisier, French Scientist May 8, 1785 Pietro Longhi, painter, dies May 8, 1773 Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies May 8, 1725 John Lovewell, U.S. indian fighter, dies in battle May 8, 1684 Henri Dumont, composer, dies May 8, 1577 Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies May 8, 1319 Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies May 8, 685 Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies May 8, 535 John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies |