Today in History for Year 1978

Months in Year 1978: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 688

Jan 1st - "Your Arm's Too Short..." closes at Lyceum NYC after 429 perfs
Jan 1st - Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
Jan 1st - Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
Jan 2nd - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
Jan 2nd - Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
Jan 3rd - Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
Jan 6th - 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
Jan 6th - US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
Jan 7th - Angola revises its constitution
Jan 8th - Israeli government votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
Jan 9th - Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
Jan 10th - Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
Jan 11th - Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
Jan 11th - Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
Jan 14th - Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF)
Jan 15th - Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
Jan 15th - Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, DT
Jan 16th - 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & C Twitty
Jan 16th - Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder Jan 18th - Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak Karachi
Jan 18th - Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries)
Jan 18th - Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
Jan 19th - Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
Jan 19th - Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
Jan 19th - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
Jan 20th - Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
Jan 21st - Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
Jan 23rd - Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
Jan 23rd - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13
Jan 23rd - Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer.
Jan 24th - 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
Jan 24th - Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
Jan 25th - Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
Jan 25th - Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)
Jan 26th - Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"
Jan 26th - International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
Jan 26th - Mario Soares forms Portuguese government
Jan 26th - Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
Jan 28th - "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
Jan 28th - Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
Jan 28th - Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
Jan 29th - Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
Jan 29th - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
Jan 30th - Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Jan 30th - Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
Jan 31st - "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 perfs
Jan 31st - Israel turns 3 milt outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman Feb 1st - Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
Feb 1st - Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
Feb 3rd - Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
Feb 3rd - India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
Feb 5th - Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
Feb 6th - Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
Feb 6th - Snowstorm hits New England, parts of RI (54" (137cm))
Feb 7th - Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
Feb 8th - Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
Feb 8th - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
Feb 10th - Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
Feb 11th - 16 Unification church couples wed in NYC
Feb 11th - 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
Feb 11th - China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
Feb 11th - EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
Feb 12th - "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 perfs
Feb 12th - Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
Feb 12th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
Feb 12th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
Feb 13th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 14th - 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
Feb 14th - In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
Feb 15th - England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt)
Feb 15th - Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla
Heavyweight Boxing Champ Muhammad Ali Feb 15th - Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Feb 15th - Zaire revises constitution
Feb 16th - 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
Feb 18th - 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
Feb 19th - "On the 20th Century" opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 perfs
Feb 19th - Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8)
Feb 19th - Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in NYC
Feb 20th - 4th People's Choice Awards: Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope
Feb 20th - Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
Feb 20th - Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
Feb 20th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
Feb 22nd - 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn
Feb 23rd - 20th Grammy Awards: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins
Feb 24th - Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
Feb 25th - Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 v NZ Christchurch
Feb 26th - Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in NYC
Feb 26th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
Feb 27th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
Mar 1st - "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances
Comedian Charlie Chaplin Mar 1st - Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
Mar 2nd - 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
Mar 2nd - Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
Mar 3rd - 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia)
Mar 3rd - Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
Mar 4th - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
Mar 5th - "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 perfs
Mar 5th - Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif
Mar 6th - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga
Mar 7th - Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 852

Jan 1st - Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritualist
Jan 1st - Nina Bott, German actress
Jan 1st - Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
Jan 1st - Tarik O'Regan, British composer
Jan 2nd - Devin Doherty, actor (Jimmy Clayton-Swan's Crossing)
Jan 2nd - Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
Jan 3rd - Kimberley Locke, American singer
Jan 3rd - Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
Jan 3rd - Dominic Wood, English children's television presenter and magician
Jan 3rd - Mike York, American ice hockey player
Jan 4th - Dominik Hrbatý, Slovakian tennis player
Jan 4th - Mai Meneses, Spanish singer
Jan 5th - Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
Jan 5th - January Jones, American actress
Jan 5th - Sabrina Harman, American military figure and accused torturer
Jan 6th - Steve Hartsell, Ann Arbor Mich, pairs skater (& Danielle Hartsell)
Jan 6th - Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
Jan 6th - Casey Fossum, Major League Baseball player
Jan 6th - Tara Spencer-Nairn, Canadian actress
Jan 7th - Kevin Mench, American baseball player
Jan 8th - Petra Minarova, Miss Czech Republic Universe (1997)
Jan 8th - Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
Jan 9th - Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
Jan 9th - Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
Jan 9th - Chad Johnson, American football player
Jan 9th - AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
Jan 9th - Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
Jan 10th - Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
Jan 11th - Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer
Jan 11th - Emile Heskey, English footballer
Jan 11th - Holly Brisley, Australian actress
Jan 12th - Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
Jan 12th - Amerie, American singer and songwriter
Jan 12th - Luis Ayala, Mexican baseball pitcher
Jan 12th - Jeremy Camp, American musician
Jan 12th - Kim Sa Rang, Korean actress
Jan 12th - Kris Roe, American musician (The Ataris)
Jan 14th - Just Blaze, American hip hop producer
Jan 14th - Shawn Crawford, American sprinter
Jan 15th - Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
Jan 15th - Eddie Cahill, American actor
Jan 16th - Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
Jan 17th - Irina A Borisova, Miss Universe-Ukraine (1996)
Jan 18th - Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
Jan 20th - Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
Jan 20th - Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
Jan 20th - Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model
Jan 21st - Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
Jan 21st - Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
Jan 21st - Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
Jan 21st - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
Jan 22nd - Chone Figgins, American baseball player
Jan 25th - Christine Lakin, actress (Alicia Lambert-Step by Step)
Jan 25th - Mandy Carraway, Miss Kansas Teen USA (1996)
Jan 25th - Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
Jan 25th - Jason Roberts, English-born footballer
Jan 25th - Derrick Turnbow, Major League Baseball Player
Jan 26th - Reesa Starr Jr
Jan 26th - Estéban Germán, Dominican baseball player
Jan 26th - Corina Morariu, American tennis player
Jan 26th - Kelly Stables, American actress
Jan 27th - Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
Jan 28th - Helga Bauer Salas, Miss Bolivia Universe (1997)
Jan 28th - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
Jan 28th - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
Jan 28th - Jamie Carragher, English footballer
Jan 29th - Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
Jan 29th - Rob Bironas, American football player
Jan 30th - Lnd Girchoukevitch, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
Jan 30th - John Patterson, American baseball player
Jan 31st - Fabián Caballero, Argentine footballer
Jan 31st - Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! champion
Jan 31st - Ray Shah, Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter
Feb 2nd - Annabel Ellwood, Canberra Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures NC)
Feb 2nd - Eden Espinosa, American singer and stage actress
Feb 2nd - Barry Ferguson, Scotish football player
Feb 3rd - Adrian R'Mante, American actor
Feb 3rd - Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer
Feb 4th - Laurence Borremans, Miss Belgium Universe (1997)
Feb 4th - Danna Garcia, Colombian actress
Feb 5th - Kristina Cherina, Miss Croatia Universe (1997)
Feb 5th - Shawn Reaves, American actor
Feb 5th - Brian Russell, American football player
Actor Ashton Kutcher (Feb 7th) Feb 7th - Ashton Kutcher, American actor
Feb 7th - Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer
Feb 7th - Endy Chávez, baseball player
Feb 7th - David Aebischer, National Hockey League goaltender
Feb 8th - Christa Williams, Houston TX, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
Feb 9th - Airton Daré, Brazilian racing driver
Feb 9th - Daniel Mann, British television commentator
Feb 10th - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
Feb 10th - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
Feb 12th - Brett Hodgson, Australian rugby league footballer
Feb 12th - Gethin Jones, British (Welsh) television presenter
Feb 12th - Silver Meikar, Estonian politician
Feb 13th - Hamish Glencross, Scottish guitarist My Dying Bride
Feb 13th - Mini Anden, Swedish model and actress
Feb 14th - Laurie Schwoy, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
Feb 14th - Dean Gaffney, British actor
Feb 14th - Richard Hamilton, American basketball player

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 12 of 12

Jan 24th - Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.
May 5th - "Happy Days" actor Anson Williams (28) weds Lorrie Maheffey
May 8th - Singer Donny Osmond (20) weds Debra Glenn (19) at Salt Lake Temple in Utah
Jun 15th - Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American
Jun 30th - English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
Aug 2nd - Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young (32) weds Pegi Morton
Sep 2nd - George Harrison marries Olivia
Sep 2nd - Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
Oct 6th - ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad (32) weds fellow musician Benny Andersson (41)
Oct 13th - James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu
Nov 4th - "The Nanny" actress Fran Drescher (20) weds writer and director Peter Marc Jacobson (20)
Nov 17th - Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

May 1st - Actress and model Bianca Jagger files for divorce from Rolling Stone rocker Mick Jagger after 7 years of marriage on the grounds of his adultery with model Jerry Hall

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 253

Jan 4th - Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber/lumber/wood manufacturer, dies at 76
Jan 6th - John D MacArthur, US insurance billionaire, dies at 80
Jan 6th - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
Jan 8th - Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75
Jan 9th - Eddie Gilbert, cricket (Aboriginal Qld quick got Don for a duck), dies
Jan 10th - John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71
Jan 10th - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua
Jan 10th - Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62
Jan 10th - Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
Jan 11th - Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper), dies at 57
Jan 11th - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
Jan 12th - Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious
Jan 13th - Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly, Minn
Jan 13th - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees), dies at 96
Jan 14th - Blossom Rock, actress (Grandmamma-Addams Family), dies at 81
Jan 14th - Robert Heger, composer, dies at 91
Jan 14th - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
Jan 14th - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
Jan 15th - Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
Jan 18th - Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 56
Jan 18th - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer, dies at 68
Jan 18th - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
Jan 18th - Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
Jan 21st - Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898)
Jan 22nd - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555 runs), dies
Jan 22nd - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
Jan 23rd - Jack Oakie, actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster), dies at 74
Jan 23rd - Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32
Jan 23rd - Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
Jan 24th - Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
Jan 25th - Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse
Jan 26th - Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies at 72
Jan 27th - Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87
Jan 27th - Oscar Homolka, actor (7 Year Itch, Ball of Fire), dies at 79
Jan 29th - Tim McCoy, actor (Arizona Bound), dies at 86
Feb 2nd - Wendy Barrie, TV hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), dies at 65
Feb 4th - Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73
Feb 5th - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Omzien), dies at 83
Feb 5th - Frans van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, dies at 68
Feb 9th - Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
Feb 9th - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
Feb 9th - Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
Feb 11th - James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84
Feb 11th - Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1904)
Feb 14th - Paul Governali, American professional football player (b. 1921)
Feb 15th - Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party), dies at 72
Feb 16th - E. Roland Harriman, American financier (b. 1895)
Feb 18th - Charlotte Greenwood, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami), dies at 84
Feb 18th - Derrick De Marney, actor (Inheritance, Projected Man), dies at 71
Feb 18th - Maggie McNamara, actress (3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal), dies at 49
Feb 21st - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
Feb 22nd - Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74
Feb 22nd - Phyllis McGinley, US poetess (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72
Feb 25th - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr, retired Air Force general, dies at 58
Feb 27th - Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer, dies at 65
Feb 28th - Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73
Feb 28th - Philip Ahn, LA California, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66
Feb 28th - Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
Mar 4th - Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
Mar 7th - Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
Mar 11th - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
Mar 12th - John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41
Mar 12th - Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies
Mar 13th - David McKinley Williams, composer, dies at 91
Mar 13th - Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), dies
Mar 17th - George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies
Mar 18th - Faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84
Mar 18th - Peggy Wood, actress (One Life to Live, Mama), dies at 86
Mar 19th - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
Mar 22nd - Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR at 73
Mar 23rd - Bill Kenny, American singer, dies at 63
Mar 24th - Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 62
Mar 25th - Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
Mar 27th - Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73
Mar 28th - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)
Mar 29th - Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India), dies
Mar 30th - George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935), dies
Mar 30th - Harold Gimblett, cricketer (Batted in 3 Tests for England), suicide
Mar 31st - Astrid Allwyn, actress (Love Affair, Girl for Calgary), dies at 68
Mar 31st - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
Apr 3rd - Ray Noble, English bandleader and composer (b. 1903)
Apr 4th - Gino Contilli, composer, dies at 70
Apr 6th - Nicolas Nabokov, composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
Apr 6th - Reinoud Anders, Dutch actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at 65
Apr 7th - Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83
Apr 8th - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner, dies at 83
Apr 9th - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (b.1883)
Apr 13th - Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
Apr 13th - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (b. 1931)
Apr 16th - Lucius D Clay, gen/gov US zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80
Apr 19th - Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher, dies at 70
Apr 21st - Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37
Apr 22nd - Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75
Apr 25th - Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
Apr 27th - Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered
May 1st - Aram Katchaturian, Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74
May 3rd - Wim van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71
May 5th - Alfred H H Gilligan, cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies
May 6th - Ethelda Bleibtrey, US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920), dies at 76
May 6th - Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61