Famous Deaths for May 1996

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Deaths 1 - 105 of 105

1st - Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67
1st - Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74
1st - William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday
2nd - Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97
2nd - Emile Habibi, writer, dies at 73
2nd - Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63
3rd - Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71
3rd - Timothy Gullikson, tennis player/coach, dies at 45
4th - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
4th - Stanley William Reed, cineaste, dies at 85
5th - Ai Qing, poet, dies at 86
5th - Beryl Burton, cyclist, dies at 58
6th - Frank Hercules, writer, dies at 85
6th - Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist, dies at 78
6th - Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87
6th - Joseph Stone, lawyer, dies at 79
6th - Leon Joseph Suenens, cardinal, dies at 91
6th - Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50
7th - Albert Meltzer, anarchist, dies at 76
7th - Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
7th - Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76
8th - Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80
8th - Luis Miguel Domiguin, bullfighter, dies at 69
8th - Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer, dies at 95
8th - Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912)
11th - Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85
11th - Joan Thirkettle, journalist, dies at 48
11th - Malcolm MacEwen, writer, dies at 84
11th - Nnamdi Azikiwe, Pres of Nigeria (1963-66), dies
11th - Walter Hyatt, #Musician, dies at 46
11th - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
12th - Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84
12th - Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35
13th - John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57
14th - Edqard John Gurney, politician, dies at 82
14th - Qazaleh Alizadeh, writer, dies at 48
14th - Sritharan Jeganathan, cricketer, 1st Sri Lankan Test player to die
14th - Vera Chapman, writer, dies at 98
15th - George M Tindley, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57
15th - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
16th - Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60
16th - Mike Jeremy Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) commits suicide at 57
16th - Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72
17th - Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), dies
17th - Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver, dies at 37
17th - Willi Daume, olympic organiser, dies at 82
17th - Willis Conover, broadcaster, dies at 75
17th - Johnny "Guitar" Watson, musician, dies at 61
17th - Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer and instrumentalist (b. 1966)
18th - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76
18th - Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner, dies at 44
19th - Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday), dies at 89
20th - Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65
20th - George Malcolm Thomson, journalist, dies at 96
20th - Jack Wyngaard, dancer, dies at 37
20th - Janaki Ramachandran, PM of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies
20th - John Pertwee, actor (Dr Who), dies at 76
20th - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist, dies at 70
20th - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101
21st - Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78
21st - Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67
21st - Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist, dies at 83
21st - Laurence Dowdall, lawyer, dies at 91
21st - Mary Perot Nichols, journalist, dies at 79
21st - Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60
22nd - Duncan Montgomery Stewart, academic, dies at 66
22nd - Rex Collings, writer/publisher, dies at 70
23rd - Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81
23rd - Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61
23rd - Patrick Cargill, actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77
23rd - Rob Hall, New Zealand high altitude climber (b. 1941)
23rd - Scott Fischer, American high altitude climber (b. 1955)
24th - Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83
24th - Harry Campion, statistician, dies at 91
24th - Jack McCarthy, kiddie show host (Popeye), dies of cancer at 81
24th - Jacob R Druckman, composer, dies at 67
24th - John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90
24th - Joseph Mitchell, writer, dies at 87
25th - Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83
25th - Buck, dog (Married with Children), dies at 13
25th - David W Howe, test pilot, dies at 77
25th - Enid Kathleen Hutchinson, adult educationalist, dies at 86
25th - John Morrison, politician/landowner, dies at 89
25th - Laurence Marks, journalist, dies at 67
25th - Renzo de Felice, historian, dies at 67
26th - Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76
26th - Matima Kinuani Mpiosso, musician, dies at 45
27th - Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79
27th - Ivan Sutton, concert Promotoer, dies at 82
27th - Jack Massey, groundsman, dies at 85
28th - John "Jack" Layden, local politician, dies at 70
28th - Sidney Greenbaum, grammarian, dies at 66
29th - James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist, dies at 77
29th - Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem), dies at 45
29th - Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77
30th - Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57
30th - John Cameron, judge, dies at 96
30th - John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
30th - Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92
31st - Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80
31st - Elsbeary Hobbs, singer, dies at 59
31st - Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies
31st - Paul Peter Piech, artist, dies at 76
31st - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer, dies at 68
31st - Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard prof/LSD guru, dues of cancer at 75


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