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Deaths on May 08

1319 : Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies
1577 : Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies
1684 : Henri Dumont, composer, dies
1725 : John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle
1773 : Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies
1785 : Pietro Longhi, painter, dies
1794 : Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined
1809 : Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78
1818 : Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78
1829 : Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47
1844 : Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies
1846 : Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59
1853 : Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67
1861 : L sel¢ Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide
1864 : James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56
1873 : John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
1876 : Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies
1880 : Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Salammb“), dies
1885 : Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65
1887 : Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
1891 : Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
1894 : Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79
1903 : EugŠne-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies
1904 : Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies
1909 : Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies
1915 : Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
1924 : Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23
1930 : Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61
1932 : Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1936 : Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
1941 : Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86
1943 : Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
1948 : Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81
1950 : Franklin Dyall, dies at 76
1951 : Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40
1957 : Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75
1958 : Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered
1959 : Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55
1960 : Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88
1961 : James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
1965 : H T W Hardinge, cricketer (scored 25 & 5 in only Test for Engld), dies
1967 : Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39
1967 : Elmer Rice, NY playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74
1967 : Laverne Andrews, singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51
1973 : Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies
1974 : Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train
1975 : Avery Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87
1976 : Alan Baxter, dies at 67
1976 : Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies
1979 : Talcott Parsons, US sociologist, dies at 76
1981 : Daniel GillŠs, Belgian writer, dies at 64
1981 : Margaret Lindsay, actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies
1981 : Maurice Fernandes, cricket capt (WI in 1st Test win, 1930 v Eng), dies
1982 : Colin Blunstone, rocker (Zombies), dies of cancer at 36
1982 : Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident
1985 : Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74
1985 : Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies of Alzheimer's at 69
1985 : Karl Marx, German composer/conductor, dies at 87
1987 : Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off
1988 : Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80
1990 : Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies
1991 : Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84
1991 : Lloyd Ford, stuntman, dies at 79
1991 : Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72
1992 : Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80
1992 : Brian Moore, writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59
1992 : Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), dies
1992 : Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies
1992 : Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer
1993 : Kees Deenik, singer/conductor
1994 : Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88
1994 : George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65
1994 : Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36
1994 : Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
1995 : Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63
1995 : Jerry Zipkin, socialite, dies at 80
1995 : Prem Bhatia, journalist, dies at 83
1995 : Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41
1996 : Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80
1996 : Luis Miguel Domiguin, bullfighter, dies at 69
1996 : Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer, dies at 95
1997 : Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German Pres of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies
1999 : Dana Plato, actor (Diff'rent Strokes), dies at 34.

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