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)