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May 1
1998: Eldridge Cleaver, the American Black Panther leader who later
regretted his past and became a Republican, died in Pomona, California, at age 62.
2000: Steve
Reeves, Hollywood actor, died in Escondido, California, at age 74.
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Politicians who died May 1
May 2
1519: Leonardo da Vinci, Italian sculptor, scientist and painter of the
"Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper", died at Cloux, France. 1957:
Wisconsin Republican US Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the anti-communist
promoter, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, USA.
1960: Caryl Chessman, rapist and best-selling author for his
book, was
executed at San Quentin Prison in California. 1964: Lady Nancy Astor, who became the first woman to sit in the British
House of Commons in 1919, died. 1972: John Edgar Hoover, founder and director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation for 48 years, died in Washington at age 77. 1982: 350 men were
killed in the Falklands war when the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was sunk
by the British submarine Conqueror. 1996: Emile Habibi, famous Arab author, died.
1998 - Hideto Matsumoto, guitarist for the popular rock band X
Japan, hanged himself in his Tokyo apartment. 1999: Oliver Reed, British actor,
died of a heart attack in Malta, where Ridley Scott was filming
"Gladiator."
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Politicians who died May 2
May 3
1916: Padraic Pearse, Irish nationalist, were executed with two others
by the
British for their roles in the Easter Rising.
1991: Jerzy Kosinski, Polish author, was found dead in his New York
apartment at age 57.
1997: Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist, died.
1998: Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man, DNA testing
was confirmed. His body unearthed on a Berlin building site over 20 years earlier.
2000: Cardinal John O'Connor, the archbishop of New York, died
at age 80
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Politicians who died May 3
May 4
1955: Georges Enescu, Romanian composer and violinist, died.
1970: 4 students were killed and 11 wounded at Kent State
University when National Guards opened fire to demonstrators against the Vietnam war. 1980:
Marshal Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia since 1945, died
just three days
before his 88th birthday.
1982: 20 British servicemen were killed in the Falklands war
when an
Exocet missile hit and sunk the British destroyer Sheffield.
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Politicians who died May 4
May 5
1760: Earl Ferrers, British peer, was hanged in
London for murdering his steward.
1821: Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile as a British prisonor on the island of St Helena.
1980: 4 of the 5 gunmen who had taken over the Iranian embassy in
London and seized hostages, were killed when British troops stormed the building.
1981: Bobby Sands died in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
He started his hunger strike on March1, 1981.
1993: Irving Howe, American writer and intellectual, died.
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May 6
1910: Britain's King Edward VII died.
1919: L. Frank Baum, American author of children's stories about the imaginary
land of Oz, died. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was adopted from his
stories.. 1937: 35 of the 97 people on board of the hydrogen-filled German
airship Hindenburg were killed when it burst into flames on arrival at
Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA. One navy
crewman were also killed on the ground.
1976: 973
people died in a result of an earthquake struck the town of Udine in northern
Italy.
1992: Marlene Dietrich, the German-born cabaret singer and
Hollywood legendary star, died.
1996: William E. Colby, former CIA director, was found dead on a riverbank near his
southern Maryland vacation home. He had disappeared eight days before.
1998: More than 150 people were killed when flood and rain
washed off towns in southern Italy with mud and rocks
2000: James Andanson, Famous French film star photographer, was found
dead in Paris. He was 54.
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Politicians who died May 6
May 7
1915: 1,198 passengers and crew perished when a German
submarine torpedo sank
the British liner Lusitania off the Irish coast.
1942: Felix Weingartner, Austrian composer and conductor of Wagner and
Beethoven works, died.
1999: 3 people were killed when NATO jets bombed the Chinese embassy in
Belgrade.
2000: Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Hollywood star, died in New
York at age 90.
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Politicians who died May 7
May 8
1880: Gustave Flaubert, French novelist famous for his
"Madame Bovary" novel, died.
1902: 30,000 people died when Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted and destroyed the town of St.
Pierre.
1903: Paul Gauguin, French impressionist painter, died in Tahiti.
1952: William Fox, American film producerand founder of the Fox Film
Corporation in 1915, died. 1996: Luis Miguel Dominguin, the world's
best bullfighter in the 1950s, died at age 69.
1999: Dirk
Bogarde, British actor of such films "Death in Venice" and "The
Servant", died at age 78.
1991: Rudolf Serkin, concert pianist, died in Guilford, Vermont,
USA, at age 88.
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Politicians who died May 8
May 9
1657: William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony in
Massachusetts for 30 years, died.
1805: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German romantic poet and
playwright, died. 1978: Aldo Moro, Italian Prime Minister, was found
dead in an automobile in the
center of Rome. He had been kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades. 1980:
35 motorists were killed when a Liberian freighter hit a 1,400-foot section
of Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, USA.
1986 - Sherpa Tenzing Norgay died. He and Edmund Hillary achieved to
be the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953.
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Politicians who died May 9
May 10
1994: John Wayne
Gacy, serial killer who murdered 33 young men and boys, were executed in the state of Illinois.
1996: 14 people were killed when two US Marine helicopters collided in the dark and crashed in
a swamp at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, USA. 2000: Craig
Stevens, TV actor of "Peter Gunn", died in Los
Angeles at age 81.
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May 11
1981: Bob Marley, reggae singer, died in a Miami
hospital at age 36. 1985: 50 people died in a fire
accident in soccer
stadium in Bradford, England. 1996: All 110
people on board of ValuJet Flight 592 from Miami to Atlanta were killed. The DC-9
plane caught fire shortly after
takeoff and nose-dived into the Florida Everglades.
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Politicians who died May 11
May 12
1932: The body of the 20-month-old infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was
found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J. He was kidnapped from the
family home March1, 1932.
1957: Erich Von Stroheim, world famous silent screen's directors,
died.
1967: John Masefield, British poet, died.
1884: Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer of "The
Bartered Bride", died.
2000: Adam Petty, the 4th generation driver of NASCAR's most
famous family, died in a crash at New Hampshire International Speedway at the
age of 19.
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Politicians who died May 12
May 13
1835: John Nash, British architect, died.
1961: Gary Cooper, Hollywood star who won 2 Oscars for
"Sergeant York" and "High Noon", died
at age 60.
1975 - Bob Wills, American country music fiddler, died at age 70. 1985:
11 people died when Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the radical
group "MOVE" headquarters; they had refused to surrender.
1996: More than 600
people in Bangladesh by a tornado.
1999 - Gene Sarazen, proffessioal golf player, died at age 97.
2000: Explosions at a fireworks warehouse in the Netherlands killed
22 people and injured nearly 1,000.
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Politicians who died May 13
May 14
1912: August Strindberg, Swedish playwright of "Miss
Julie" and "The Father", died.
1919: Henry John Heinz, American food manufacturer, died
1940: 1,000 Dutch were killed when German bombed the city of Rotterdam.
1991: Jiang Qing, Mao Tse-tung's widow and
leader of the "Gang of Four", committed suicide at age 77. Her
death was officially announced on June 4, 1991.
1991: The government of China announced
the death of Jiang Qing, the 77-year-old widow of , saying she had
committed suicide on May 14.
1991: 42 people were killed in a train collision in western Japan.
1993: William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper owner, died
of heart
attack at age 85.
1998: Frank Sinatra, world famous popular entertainer and actor,
died at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82.
2000: Keizo Obuchi, Japanese Prime Minister, died in
Tokyo at age 62.
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Politicians who died May 14
May 15
1886: Emily Dickinson, American poet, died in Amherst,
Massachusetts, USA. 1970: Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at
Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire
during student protests. 1987: Rita
Hayworth, American film actress and dancer, died.
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May 16
1703: Charles Perrault, French writer of children's fairy tales
including "Sleeping Beauty", died.
1955: James Agee, American critic writer, died in New York.
1977: 5 people were killed when a New York Airways helicopter
crashed on top of the Pan Am Building in Manhattan.
1990: Sammy Davis Jr., American entertainer, died of throat
cancer in Los Angeles at age 64.
1990: Jim
Henson, creator of "Kermit the Frog" and "Miss Piggy", died at age
53.
1996: Jeremy Mike Boorda, US Navy Admiral, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Politicians who died May 16
May 17
1510: Sandro Botticelli, Italian
Florentine
Renaissance painter of the "Birth of Venus" and "Primavera", died.
1935: Paul Dukas, French composer, died.
1987: 37 American sailors were killed when an Iraqi F-I Mirage warplane fired two Exocet missiles at the
U.S. Navy "Stark" in the Persian Gulf.
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Politicians who died May 17
May 18
1799: Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright of
"The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Barber of
Seville", died.
1911: Gustav Mahler, Czech-born Austrian composer, died in Vienna,
Austria. 1980: 57 people were dead or missing when Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state,
USA, exploded.
1995: Elisha Cook Jr., Hollywood actor, died.
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Politicians who died May 18
May 19
1536: Anne Boleyn was beheaded
for adultery. She was the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, . 1795:
James Boswell, Scottish diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson,
died. 1935: T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, died in
England after a motorcycle accident. 1958 - Ronald Colman, British actor,
died.
1993: All 132 passengers and crew on board of SAM airlines were killed when
the Boeing 727 crashed into a mountain before landing at Medellin, northwest
Colombia. 1994: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of
John F. Kennedy and then Aristotle Onassis, died in New York at age
64. 1997: 105 people were killed when a cyclone struck
Bangladesh.
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Politicians who died May 19
May 20
1506: Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator and explorer, died in poverty in Spain. 1834:
The Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman, died. 1989:
Gilda Radner, the famous comedian, died in Los Angeles at age 42.
2000: World famous Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal died in Paris. He
was 78.
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May 21
1471: King Henry VI was murdered in the Tower of London during England's
Wars of the Roses.
1542: Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer of South America and southeastern states of the United States, died
in Mississippi.
1924: Two students at the University
of Chicago, Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, murdered a14-year-old Bobby Franks.
1935: Hugo de Vries, Dutch geneticist and botanist, died.
1982: 22 British troops died HMS Ardent was sunk in the Falklands
War. 1991:
Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister, was assassinated by a bomb hidden
in a bouquet of flowers in the southern state of
Tamil Nadu. He was cremated 4 days later. 1995: Les Aspin, former
US Secretary of Defense, died at a Washington D.C.
hospital after suffering a massive stroke at age 56. 1996: 886
people lost their lives when a Tanzanian ferry capsized on
Lake Victoria near the western town of Mwanza.
2000: 19 people were killed when a charter plane crashed in the Pocono
Mountains in Pennsylvania, USA.
2000: Sir John Gielgud, British actor, died at age 96.
2000: American Author Dame Barbara
Cartland died at age 98.
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Politicians who died May 21
May 22
1885: Victor Hugo, French poet, and author of "Les
Miserables", died. 1915: 227 people were killed
when when a troop train
collided with a passenger train at Gretna Green, Scotland. 1967:
320 people were killed in a fire accident in a department store "L'Innovation"
in Brussels.
1972: Cecil Day-Lewis, British poet, died. 1990:
Rocky Graziano, boxing champion, died in New York at age 71.
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Politicians who died May 22
May 23
1701: Captain William Kidd was hanged in London for piracy and murder. 1934:
Louisiana police shot American cross-country bank robbers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow,
in an ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA. 1937:
Millionaire John D. Rockefeller died in Ormond Beach, Florida, USA 1945:
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official, committed suicide in a Luneburg prison, Germany.
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Politicians who died May 23
May 24
1543: Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, died. 1881:
200 people died when the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sank
near London, Ontario. 1941: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British dreadnought Hood in
the North Atlantic. 3 days later it was sunk by British navy off coast of france,
claiming 2,300 lives. 1959: John Foster Dulles, US
Secretary of state, died.
1974: Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and composer, died.
1994: 270 Muslims were killed in a stampede in Mecca, Saudi Arabia,
while performing the annual haj pilgrimage.
1995: Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister, died in London at age
79.
2000: 5 people were killed by a gunmen in a robbery attempt at
a Wendy's restaurant in Queens, N.Y.
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Politicians who died May 24
May 25
1979: 275 people died when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed on takeoff
from Chicago's O'Hare airport.
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May 26
604: Saint Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury who founded the
Christian church in southern England, died. 735: Bede, English monk and historian, died.
1703: Samuel Pepys, British diarist, died.
1798: 500 Irish insurgents were killed during the Irish
Rebellion in the Battle of Tara.
1981: 14 people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck
of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off coast of Florida, USA.
1991: All 223
people aboard a Lauda-Air Boeing 767 died when it crashed shortly after takeoff in
Thailand. 2000: Barry Grunow, an English teacher at Lake Worth Community
Middle School in Florida, USA, was shot to death by a 13 year old Nathaniel
Brazill. He was 35.
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Politicians who died May 26
May 27
1564: John Calvin, French-born Swiss theologian, died in Geneva.
1840: Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist and composer, died.
1896: 255 people were killed when a tornado hit St. Louis,
Missouri, and
East St. Louis, Illinois, USA.
1910: Robert Koch, German bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner
for Medicine in 1905, died.
1941: 2,300 German servicemen died when the British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off
coast of France.
1964: Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister after
independence, died.
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Politicians who died May 27
May 28
1089: Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury for 19 years, died.
1849: Anne Bronte, British novelist and sister of Charlotte and Emily
Bronte, died. 1972: The Duke of Windsor, King Edward VIII who had given
up the British throne to marry
Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.
1977: 165 people were killed in a fire accident in Beverly Hills
Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, USA.
1981: Stefan Wyszynski, Poland's anti-Communist Cardinal, died
in Warsaw.
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May 29
1453: 12,000 Turkish army captured
Constantinople in a furious battle after a long siege. Emperor
Constantine XI was killed in the midst of invasion.
1500: Bartolomeu Diaz, Portuguese explorer and
discoverer of the Cape of Good
Hope, drowned during one of his voyage.
1914: 1,012 people died when the liner Empress of Ireland carrying 1,477 passengers and crew
collided with the Norwegian freighter Storstadt in the St Lawrence River in
Canada. 1942: John Barrymore, Hollywood actor, died in Hollywood at age
60. 1979: Mary Pickford, silent movie star and co-founder
of United Artists Corporation, died. 1985: 35 people were killed in
a fight between British and
Italian spectators at the European Cup soccer final in Brussels, Belgium. 1995:
Margaret Chase Smith, US senator, died in Skowhegan, Maine, USA, at age 97. 1998:
Barry Goldwater, Arizona senator, died in Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA,
at
age 89.
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May 30
1431: Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic by
English-dominated church court, was burned at the stake
in Rouen, France. 1593: Christopher Marlowe, English playwright of
"Tamburlaine the Great", was killed in a
fight in a London tavern.
1640: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish baroque painter, died in
Antwerp, Holland.
1744: Alexander Pope, British poet, died in London.
1778: Voltaire, whose real name was Francois Marie Arouet, died in Paris.
1883: 12 people were killed in a stampede with a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was
about to collapse.
1912: Wilbur Wright, who made first flight in history of aviator
in 1903, died. 1922: Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington
D.C.. 1937: 10 people were killed when police fired on steelworkers
demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago. 1958:
Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and the Korean War,
were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. 1960: Boris Pasternak, Russian
author of "Doctor
Zhivago", died in Moscow.
1961: General Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, was
shot to death on his way to his farm. He was 70. 1981: Ziaur Rahman,
Bangladesh president, was assassinated in a
failed military coup.
1967: Claude Rains, British film actor of such films
"Casablanca" and "Notorious", died.
1998: 3,000 people were killed in some 50 villages in Takhtar
province when an earthquake hit northern Afghanistan.
1999: 52 people were crushed to death when hundreds ran into an
underground railway station to escape a storm in the Belarussian capital Minsk.
2000: Robert P. Casey, Pennsylvania Governor, died in Scranton, Pennsylvania,
USA, at
age 68.
2000: Gordon Tex Beneke, a saxophone player with the Glenn Miller
Orchestra, died in Costa Mesa, California, at age 86.
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May 31
1809: Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian Music composer, died at age 77.
1837: Joseph Grimaldi, British dancer and actor, died. 1889:
2,000 people perished when city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, washed off
by water of a nearby dam. 1962: Adolph Eichmann, the Gestapo official
who helped to organize Nazi Germany's murder of
millions of Jews, was hanged in Jerusalem, Israel. 1970: Tens of thousands of people died in an earthquake in Peru. 1976:
Martha Mitchell, wife of US Attorney General John
N. Mitchell, died in New York.
1996: Timothy Leary, the hippie of the '60s and the drug
"LSD" supporter , died of cancer. 2000: Tito Puente, Puerto-Rican jazz
player, died in New York at age 77.
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