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May 9, 2004 Alan King, comic/producer, Friar's Club roasters, dies at 76 May 9, 2004 Brenda Fassie, South African Musician May 9, 2003 Jack Gelber, American Playwright May 9, 2002 Dan Devine, American Coach May 9, 1998 Alice Faye, actress/singer, Alexander's Ragtime Band, dies at 83 May 9, 1995 Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68 May 9, 1995 Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher, dies at 74 May 9, 1995 Marshall Royal, jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82 May 9, 1993 Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61 May 9, 1993 Mary Duncan Sanford, dies at 98 May 9, 1993 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author May 9, 1992 Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident May 9, 1991 James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies May 9, 1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72 May 9, 1991 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies May 9, 1990 Luigi Nono, Ital composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66 May 9, 1990 Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate President debate, dies at 84 May 9, 1989 Keith Whitley, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33 May 9, 1989 Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at 82 May 9, 1987 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, President of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78 May 9, 1986 Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], Limbourg activist, dies at 60 May 9, 1986 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62 May 9, 1986 Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71 May 9, 1985 Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69 May 9, 1982 Ab [Albert] Visser, poet and writer (Kain sloeg Abel), dies May 9, 1981 Nelson Algren, U.S. writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72 May 9, 1979 Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95 May 9, 1979 Lan Adomian, composer, dies at 73 May 9, 1977 James Jones, U.S. writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55 May 9, 1977 Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 71 May 9, 1976 Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74 May 9, 1976 Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59 May 9, 1975 Philip Dorn, dies at 73 May 9, 1974 Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69 May 9, 1970 Percy Brier, composer, dies at 84 May 9, 1970 Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies May 9, 1968 Finlay Currie, dies at 90 May 9, 1968 Harold Gray, U.S. comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74 May 9, 1968 Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81 May 9, 1968 Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at 58 May 9, 1967 Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies May 9, 1967 Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer, dies at 35 May 9, 1966 Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, dies at 56 May 9, 1966 Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies May 9, 1965 Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies at 62 May 9, 1958 Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns and Allen), dies at 47 May 9, 1957 Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Met Opera), dies May 9, 1957 Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at 67 May 9, 1952 Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in New York City at 45 May 9, 1951 Marie Ault, dies at 80 May 9, 1949 Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies May 9, 1944 Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86 May 9, 1937 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43 May 9, 1931 A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, U.S. physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78 May 9, 1928 Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81 May 9, 1926 Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies May 9, 1905 Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78 May 9, 1903 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies May 9, 1903 Paul Gauguin, French Artist May 9, 1884 Hermanus W. Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69 May 9, 1880 Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54 May 9, 1864 "Uncle" John Sedgwick, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 50 May 9, 1864 Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident May 9, 1853 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73 May 9, 1850 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies May 9, 1822 Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62 May 9, 1805 Friedrich Schiller, writer, dies at 45 May 9, 1805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45 May 9, 1799 Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72 May 9, 1791 Francis Hopkinson, U.S. writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53 May 9, 1785 Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44 May 9, 1770 Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61 May 9, 1760 Nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59 May 9, 1745 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82 May 9, 1707 Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69 May 9, 1688 Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68 May 9, 1667 Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) May 9, 1657 William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies May 9, 1590 Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66 May 9, 1474 Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded May 9, 1460 Jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies May 9, 1443 Niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies May 9, 1280 Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42 May 9, 1079 Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered |