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Deaths 301 - 450 of 1,164

Mar 30th - Ryoei Saito, businessman, dies at 79
Mar 31st - Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer, dies at 91
Mar 31st - Dario Bellezza, poet, dies at 51
Mar 31st - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, musician, dies at 37
Mar 31st - Julius Young, fast food entrepreneur, dies at 73
Apr 1st - Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978), dies
Apr 1st - Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89
Apr 1st - John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist, dies at 87
Apr 1st - John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51
Apr 1st - Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47
Apr 1st - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (b. 1926)
Apr 1st - John McSherry, American baseball umpire (b. 1944)
Apr 3rd - Carl Stokes, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Cleve), dies
Apr 3rd - Christopher John Seward, aid worker, dies at 45
Apr 3rd - Ron Brown, sec of Comerce, dies in an accident
Apr 3rd - Ronald Harmon Brown, politician, dies at 54
Apr 3rd - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman, dies at 59
Apr 3rd - Ron Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
Apr 4th - Carl Burton Stokes, politician, dies at 68
Apr 4th - David Keylsey, actor/director, dies at 63
Apr 4th - David Whitton, campaigner, dies at 44
Apr 4th - Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist, dies at 97
Apr 4th - Joy Newton, dancer, dies at 82
Apr 4th - Larry Laprise, songwriter, dies at 83
Apr 4th - Seamas NacNeill, piper, dies at 79
Apr 4th - Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
Apr 5th - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67
Apr 6th - Greer Garson, actress (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 92
Apr 7th - Ian Spurling, ballet designer, dies at 59
Apr 8th - Basil Hembry, farmer/campaigner, dies at 80
Apr 8th - Ben Johnson, cowboy actor (Tex, Dillinger), dies of heart attack at 77
Apr 8th - Charles Donald Adams, singer, dies at 67
Apr 8th - Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918)
Apr 9th - James William Rouse, US builder (shopping malls), dies at 81
Apr 9th - Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist, dies at 83
Apr 9th - Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81
Apr 9th - Sandy Becker, NYC Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74
Apr 10th - Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7
Apr 11th - Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80
Apr 11th - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76
Apr 11th - Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across US, crashed at 7
Apr 11th - Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82
Apr 11th - Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89
Apr 12th - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82
Apr 12th - Nancy Sheehan, writer, dies at 69
Apr 12th - William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist, dies at 63
Apr 13th - Denis Sargan, econometrician, dies at 71
Apr 13th - George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74
Apr 13th - James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal, dies at 64
Apr 14th - Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe Nnamdi, politician, dies at 91
Apr 14th - Gaylord Birch, drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50
Apr 14th - Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer, dies at 80
Apr 14th - Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81
Apr 14th - William K Everson, film historian, dies at 67
Apr 16th - Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73
Apr 16th - Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer, dies at 89
Apr 16th - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62
Apr 16th - Stavros Spyros Niarchos, Greek shipowner, dies at 86
Apr 17th - Eva Jones, poet/novelist, dies at 82
Apr 17th - Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher, dies at 86
Apr 17th - Michele Carew, daughter of baseball great Rod, dies of Leukemia at 18
Apr 18th - Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62
Apr 18th - Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55
Apr 18th - Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80
Apr 18th - Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88
Apr 19th - Bernard Edwards, bass player, dies at 44
Apr 19th - Norman Oldfield, cricketer (scored 99 runs in Test for England), dies
Apr 19th - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72
Apr 20th - Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, bBC Executive, dies at 88
Apr 20th - Christopher Robin Milne, bookseller, dies at 75
Apr 20th - Tran Van Tra, soldier, dies at 77
Apr 21st - A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies
Apr 21st - Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991), dies at 52
Apr 21st - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76
Apr 21st - Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76
Apr 21st - Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93
Apr 21st - Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86
Apr 22nd - David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63
Apr 22nd - Erma Bombeck, humorist (Grass is Greener), dies at 69
Apr 22nd - Hiteshwar Saikia, PM of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies
Apr 22nd - Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (b. 1908)
Apr 23rd - Leonard Kuntstat, blues discographer, dies at 70
Apr 23rd - Pamela Lyndon Travers, writer (Mary Poppins), dies at 96
Apr 23rd - Jean-Victor Allard, Canadian military officer (b. 1913)
Apr 24th - Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62
Apr 24th - Erma Bombeck, columnist (Septic Tank is Always Greener), dies
Apr 24th - Preston Lockwood, actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle), dies at 83
Apr 25th - John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian, dies at 87
Apr 25th - John Lorne Campbell, folklorist, dies at 90
Apr 25th - Saul Bass, designer, dies at 74
Apr 26th - Burton Stein, historian, dies at 69
Apr 26th - John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist, dies at 94
Apr 26th - Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter, dies at 78
Apr 27th - Joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86
Apr 27th - William Egan Colby, cIA Director, dies at 76
Apr 28th - Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84
Apr 28th - Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at 75
Apr 28th - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician, dies at 80
Apr 28th - William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies
Apr 29th - David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87
Apr 29th - Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71
Apr 29th - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
Apr 29th - Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45
Apr 30th - David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46
Apr 30th - David Opatoshu, actor (Torn Curtian, Raid on Entebbe), dies at 78
Apr 30th - Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive, dies at 71
Apr 30th - Helene Cordet, entertainer/nightclub owner, dies at 78
Apr 30th - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, pres of Guatemala (1966-70), dies
May 1st - Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67
May 1st - Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74
May 1st - William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday
May 2nd - Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97
May 2nd - Emile Habibi, writer, dies at 73
May 2nd - Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63
May 3rd - Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71
May 3rd - Timothy Gullikson, tennis player/coach, dies at 45
May 4th - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
May 4th - Stanley William Reed, cineaste, dies at 85
May 5th - Ai Qing, poet, dies at 86
May 5th - Beryl Burton, cyclist, dies at 58
May 6th - Frank Hercules, writer, dies at 85
May 6th - Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist, dies at 78
May 6th - Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87
May 6th - Joseph Stone, lawyer, dies at 79
May 6th - Leon Joseph Suenens, cardinal, dies at 91
May 6th - Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50
May 7th - Albert Meltzer, anarchist, dies at 76
May 7th - Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
May 7th - Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76
May 8th - Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80
May 8th - Luis Miguel Domiguin, bullfighter, dies at 69
May 8th - Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer, dies at 95
May 8th - Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912)
May 11th - Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85
May 11th - Joan Thirkettle, journalist, dies at 48
May 11th - Malcolm MacEwen, writer, dies at 84
May 11th - Nnamdi Azikiwe, Pres of Nigeria (1963-66), dies
May 11th - Walter Hyatt, #Musician, dies at 46
May 11th - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
May 12th - Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84
May 12th - Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35
May 13th - John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57
May 14th - Edqard John Gurney, politician, dies at 82
May 14th - Qazaleh Alizadeh, writer, dies at 48
May 14th - Sritharan Jeganathan, cricketer, 1st Sri Lankan Test player to die
May 14th - Vera Chapman, writer, dies at 98
May 15th - George M Tindley, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57
May 15th - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
May 16th - Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60
May 16th - Mike Jeremy Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) commits suicide at 57

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