May 7 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)
  • 1092 – Remigius de Fécamp, Benedictine monk, 1st bishop of Lincoln
  • 1427 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
  • 1523 – Franz von Sickingen, German soldier (b. 1481)
  • 1539 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
  • 1615 – Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
  • 1617 – David Fabricius, German astronomer (b. 1564)
  • 1667 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (b. 1616)
  • 1682 – Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
  • 1718 – Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658)
  • 1793 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (b. 1722)
  • 1800 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)
  • 1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
  • 1825 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)
  • 1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
  • 1868 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, English statesman, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
  • 1876 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
  • 1887 – C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
  • 1896 – H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1860)
  • 1922 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
  • 1925 – William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1851)
  • 1937 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German zeppelin captain (b. 1886)
  • 1940 – George Lansbury, English politician and editor (b. 1859)
  • 1941 – Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)
  • 1942 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)
  • 1946 – Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian politician (b. 1864)
  • 1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
  • 1986 – Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 1987 – Colin Blakely, English actor (b. 1930)
  • 1989 – Guy Williams, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 1993 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
  • 1995 – Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)
  • 1998 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)
  • 1998 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1941)
  • 2000 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
  • 2001 – Jacques de Bourbon Busset, French novelist, essayist, and politician (b. 1912)
  • 2002 – Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974)
  • 2002 – Kevyn Aucoin, American makeup artist and photographer (b. 1962)
  • 2004 – Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956)
  • 2005 – Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971)
  • 2005 – Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
  • 2005 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
  • 2006 – Richard Carleton, Australian reporter (b. 1943)
  • 2006 – Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918)
  • 2006 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (b. 1943)
  • 2007 – Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
  • 2007 – Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1926)
  • 2007 – Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader, founded Nation of Yahweh (b. 1935)
  • 2009 – David Mellor, English designer (b. 1930)
  • 2009 – Danny Ozark, American baseball coach and manager (b. 1923)
  • 2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
  • 2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (b. 1924)
  • 2011 – Allyson Hennessy, Trindadian journalist (b. 1948)
  • 2011 – Big George, English musician, composer, bandleader, and broadcaster (b. 1957)
  • 2012 – Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist (b. 1943)
  • 2012 – Jules Bocandé, Senegalese footballer (b. 1958)
  • 2012 – Dennis E. Fitch, American pilot (b. 1942)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)