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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



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