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Deaths on May 12

1003 : Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome
1003 : Sylvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st Fren Pope (999-1003), dies
1012 : Sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies
1382 : Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies
1634 : George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies
1641 : Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48
1649 : Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered
1737 : Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83
1788 : Louis E van Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, Austrian duke, dies at 69
1796 : Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
1811 : Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52
1814 : Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83
1825 : Elias Mann, composer, dies at 75
1825 : Stanislao Mattei, composer, dies at 75
1843 : Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74
1845 : August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77
1852 : John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
1861 : Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50
1864 : Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 37
1864 : J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31
1871 : Daniel-Fran‡ois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89
1871 : John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies
1876 : Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
1884 : Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies at 60
1896 : Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38
1897 : Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53
1897 : Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies
1907 : J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59
1908 : Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69
1921 : Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies
1924 : Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82
1925 : Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
1925 : Amy Lowell, writer, dies at 51
1925 : Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer, dies at 82
1930 : Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70
1931 : Eugene Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
1931 : Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
1932 : Lindbergh baby, found dead
1935 : Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies
1943 : Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48
1944 : Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80
1948 : Isidor Achron, composer, dies at 55
1951 : Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80
1956 : Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87
1956 : Louis Calhern, dies at 61
1956 : Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65
1957 : Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71
1960 : Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70
1962 : Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67
1963 : Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at 69
1965 : Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57
1967 : Julius Kalas, composer, dies at 64
1970 : Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78
1970 : Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78
1971 : J M Taylor, cricketer (20 Tests 1920-26, 997 runs), dies
1973 : Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85
1980 : Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies
1981 : Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies
1982 : Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66
1984 : Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure
1985 : Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies
1986 : Elisabeth Bergner, dies at 85
1986 : Lee Bonnell, dies
1987 : Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53
1989 : Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81
1989 : Marcelle de Manziarly, composer, dies at 89
1992 : Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies
1992 : Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59
1994 : Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91
1994 : David Brooks, psychologist, dies at 91
1994 : Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63
1994 : John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
1994 : Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (9 Tests for S Africa, 22 wkts), dies
1995 : Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95
1995 : Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71
1995 : Reza Abdoh, theatre Director, dies at 32
1996 : Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84
1996 : Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35

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