Notable Deaths on May 7th
May 7th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
685 |
Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies |
973 |
Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60 |
1092 |
Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown) |
1166 |
Willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66) |
1205 |
Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6 |
1427 |
Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman |
1523 |
Franz von Sickingen, Germ knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42 |
1539 |
Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466) |
1617 |
David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53 |
1667 |
Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist/singer/composer, dies at 50 |
1671 |
Edward Montagu, English baron Kimbolton, dies at about 68 |
1671 |
Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of Opperkrijgshof, dies at 62 |
1673 |
Johannes Teellinck, Dutch vicar, dies at about 58 |
1682 |
Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661) |
1718 |
Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658) |
1736 |
John Weldon, composer, dies at 60 |
1792 |
Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82 |
1793 |
Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68 |
1793 |
Pietro Nardini, composer, dies at 71 |
1800 |
Laurens P van Spiegel, regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64 |
1800 |
Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72 |
1805 |
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737) |
1814 |
Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer, dies at 79 |
1818 |
Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer, dies at 70 |
1825 |
Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74 |
1825 |
Antonio Salieri, Iron Man |
1836 |
Norbert Burgmuller, composer, dies at 26 |
1840 |
Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774) |
1863 |
Amiel Weeks Whipple, US Union gen-major, dies of injuries at 46 |
1868 |
Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778) |
1871 |
Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies |
1876 |
Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69 |
1876 |
William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795) |
1879 |
Charles de Coster, Legenda o Tile |
1884 |
Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72 |
1887 |
C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811) |
1890 |
James Nasmyth, Scottish Engineer and Inventor of the steam hammer, dies at 81 |
1896 |
H. H. Holmes [Herman Webster Mudgett], American serial killer executed by hanging at 34 |
1896 |
H.H. Holmes, |
1900 |
Richard Storrs Willis, composer, dies at 81 |
1904 |
Peter Hille, writer, dies |
1911 |
F.M. Paget, |
1914 |
Edward Mollenhauer, composer, dies at 87 |
1915 |
Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania |
1915 |
Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US Lusitania officer, dies |
1915 |
Charles Frohman, dies aboard Lusitania |
1915 |
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Coaching for a Record |
1915 |
Elbert Hubbard, A Message to Garcia |
1915 |
Charles Frohman, Are You a Mason? |
1915 |
Mary Plamondon, |
1915 |
Charles Plamondon, |
1915 |
Hugh Lane, |
1915 |
Charles Klein, Furlough on Parole |
1915 |
Justus Miles Forman, The Face Between |
1917 |
Albert Ball, |
1922 |
Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857) |
1922 |
Manuel Granero, Gloria que mata |
1925 |
William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851) |
1925 |
Teuvo Pakkala, Tukkijoella |
1926 |
Lillian Lawrence, Three Ages |
1927 |
Clem Easton, The Trail of the Upper Yukon |
1927 |
Bruce McRae, The Chain Invisible |
1928 |
Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer, dies at 56 |
1928 |
Aleksandr Spendiarov, Second Armenian Film-Concert |
1929 |
Albert Anselmi, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone |
1929 |
John Scalise, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone |
1929 |
Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone |
1929 |
John Scalise, |
1929 |
Albert Anselmi, |
1930 |
Will M. Cressy, Stateroom Secrets |
1932 |
Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies |
1932 |
Iisakki Lattu, Kihlaus |
1932 |
E.H. Crowder, The Girl Who Stayed at Home |
1934 |
Edward Naylor, composer, dies at 67 |
1936 |
Jan Pawlowski, Bestia |
1936 |
William Ingersoll, The Cheat |
1937 |
Clarissa Mackie, A Midnight Mystery |
1937 |
Armand Zäpfel, Peer Gynt |
1940 |
George Lansbury, Labour Party Leader (b. 1859) |
1940 |
George Lansbury, The Man with Two Faces |
1941 |
David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies |
1941 |
Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854) |
1941 |
Popelka Biliánová, Matka Krácmerka |
1942 |
Felix Paul von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79 |
1942 |
Felix Weingartner, |
1943 |
Wade Boteler, The Green Hornet Strikes Again! |
1946 |
Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed |
1946 |
Joe Humphries, cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for England 1907-08), dies |
1946 |
Anton Mussert, |
1950 |
Steve Clemente, King Kong |
1951 |
Warner Baxter, dies at 62 |
1951 |
Harry Stoddard, Party Girl |
1951 |
Warner Baxter, 42nd Street |
1953 |
Ormerod Pearse, cricketer (55 runs & 3 wkts in 3 Tests for S Af), dies |
1954 |
Daniil Demutsky, Arsenal |
1954 |
Asa Artman, The Mummy's Curse |
1954 |
Frank Artman, Because of You |
1955 |
Holger Gabrielsen, Mani |
1955 |
Oscar Loraine, Rhapsody in Blue |
1955 |
Alberto Collo, Guglielmo Oberdan, il martire di Trieste |
1956 |
Józef Karbowski, Car Dymitr Samozwaniec |
1957 |
Charles King, Please Excuse Me |
1957 |
Wilhelm Filchner, Om mani padme hum |
1958 |
Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81 |
1958 |
Adriano Giovannetti, Si fa così |
1958 |
Sheldon Lewis, Orphans of the Storm |
1959 |
Michael McCarthy, Operation Amsterdam |
1959 |
Buck Moulton, The Left Hand Brand |
1960 |
Alice Moore, Woman Against the World |
1960 |
John Reed Kilpatrick, Rocky Marciano vs. Ezzard Charles |
1960 |
Max Borch, 7th Heaven |
1962 |
Jimmy Conlin, dies at 77 |
1962 |
Jimmy Conlin, Anatomy of a Murder |
1963 |
Max Miller, Hoots Mon |
1966 |
Lee Sims, Eggs Mark the Spot |
1967 |
Judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54 |
1967 |
Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935) |
1968 |
Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41 |
1970 |
Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60 |
1971 |
Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83 |
1975 |
Julius Hay, Haben |
1975 |
Gyula Háy, Az élet hídja |
1977 |
Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73 |
1977 |
Leonard Ceeley, A Day at the Races |
1979 |
Aleksei Smirnov, Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures |
1979 |
Rita Owin, Our Little Girl |
1979 |
Pierre Vianson-Porte, Mai 68 |
1980 |
Vadim Gomolyaka, Za dvumya zaytsami |
1980 |
Jet Van Dijck-Rieckert, Fair in the Rain |
1980 |
Ryszard Piekarski, Zaloga |
1980 |
Billy Kimbley, Shep Comes Home |
1981 |
Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79 |
1981 |
Peggy Stuart, The Silken Affair |
1982 |
Alfred Adam, dies at 72 |
1982 |
Alfred Adam, The American Beauty |
1983 |
Peter Edel, writer, dies |
1983 |
Edward Bryla, Powszedni dzien gestapowca Schmidta |
1983 |
József Romhányi, Szaffi |
1983 |
Winnie C. Logan, |
1984 |
Roger Dormoy, Napoleon |
1984 |
Max Palmer, Killer Ape |
1985 |
Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54 |
1985 |
Dawn Addams, The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse |
1985 |
Ludwik Hager, Pharaoh |
1985 |
Adam Bahdaj, Podróz za jeden usmiech |
1986 |
Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75 |
1986 |
Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (b. 1949 |
1986 |
Melanija Bugarinovic, Zbogom ostaj bunkeru na reci |
1986 |
Florence Dagmar, Young Romance |
1986 |
Haldun Taner, Kesanli Ali's Epic |
1986 |
Sally Travers, The Innocent Crocodile |
1986 |
Tony Pendrell, |
1986 |
Anthony Pendrell, No Haunt for a Gentleman |
1986 |
Lolita Vendrell, Así es la vida |
1986 |
Jeffrey Mylett, Brewster's Millions |
1987 |
Colin Blakely, dies at 56 |
1987 |
Dimitar Bochev, Spomen za bliznachkata |
1987 |
Rolland Bédard, Big Red |
1987 |
Hilton Anderson, Junior Bonner |
1987 |
Colin Blakely, The Pink Panther Strikes Again |
1987 |
Roberto Santos, The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga |
1987 |
Chester Clark, Night Shadows |
1988 |
Harris Glenn Divine, dies of natural causes at 42 |
1988 |
Kenkichi Yamamoto, Haiku no kokoro |
1988 |
Nelson Cordes, The Wizard of Oz |
1988 |
Don Hoye, The Bat |
1988 |
Ágoston Kollányi, Álmodik az állatkert |
1988 |
Lasse Viljas, Hot Cat? |
1988 |
Alberto De Zavalia, Malambo |
1989 |
The Stick, Hurry-Up |
1989 |
Willie Covan, The Duke Is Tops |
1990 |
Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60 |
1990 |
Jessica James, Diner |
1990 |
Elizeth Cardoso, Black Orpheus |
1990 |
Berta Waterstradt, Die Buntkarierten |
1990 |
Fred Zendar, Jaws |
1991 |
Marc Briand, Casse-tête chinois pour le judoka |
1991 |
Gediminas Karka, Maza ispazintis |
1991 |
Bill McPeak, Paper Lion |
1991 |
Dennis Crosby, Sergeants 3 |
1991 |
Wolfgang Reichmann, Woyzeck |
1991 |
Hans Bender, Things That Go Bump in the Night |
1991 |
Phil Zwickler, Rights and Reactions: Lesbian & Gay Rights on Trial |
1992 |
Tiny Timbrell, When Willie Comes Marching Home |
1992 |
Elliot Kaplan, The Food of the Gods |
1992 |
Nigel Preston, Dreamtime Live at the Lyceum |
1993 |
Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89 |
1993 |
Thurman Tucker, Game 6 |
1993 |
Mary Philbin, The Phantom of the Opera |
1993 |
Bhubaneshwar Misra, 27 Down |
1993 |
Eero Vasara, Keisari ja senaattori |
1993 |
Harry Marble, Goldie on 'Face to Face' |
1993 |
Tommy Aguilar, The Loan |
1993 |
Lilo Pempeit, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul |
1993 |
Andrzej Jarecki, Konsul |
1994 |
Clement Greenberg, US art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85 |
1994 |
Margaret Skeete, oldest American, dies at 115 |
1994 |
Marian Drozdowski, Seans nie ostatni |
1994 |
Hans-Dieter Schwarze, Spätere Heirat erwünscht oder Pallü ist ein Spiel |
1994 |
Ray Elton, Last Holiday |
1994 |
Ann Staunton, Hollow Triumph |
1994 |
Linda Brent, Below the Border |
1995 |
Ernest H Martin, impressario, dies at 75 |
1995 |
Lawrence Josset, engraver, dies at 84 |
1995 |
Maria Luisa Bemberg, fil maker, dies at 73 |
1995 |
Ray McKinley, drummer, dies at 84 |
1995 |
Ray McKinley, Episode #1.5 |
1995 |
Gus Bell, Episode dated 24 June 1956 |
1995 |
María Luisa Bemberg, I Don't Want to Talk About It |
1995 |
Giti Pashayi, The Lead |
1995 |
Hermann Kiessner, Der Fackelträger |
1996 |
Albert Meltzer, anarchist, dies at 76 |
1996 |
Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87 |
1996 |
Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76 |
1996 |
Don McNeill, Episode #1.20 |
1996 |
Cliff Ferre, Make Mine Music |
1998 |
Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924) |
1998 |
Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941) |
1998 |
Eddie Rabbitt, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
1998 |
Jack Whitman, The Dukes of Hazzard |
1998 |
Blue Lu Barker, J.D.'s Revenge |
1998 |
Seymour Green, Suez 1956 |
1998 |
István Hasznos, Helsinki 1952: Games of the XV Olympiad |
1998 |
Kiyoko Tange, Dodes'ka-den |
1999 |
Gilbert Millstein, The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation |
2000 |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909) |
2000 |
Tísner, Alice in Spanish Wonderland |
2000 |
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Lillian Gish |
2000 |
Proyko Proykov, Zhoro, Sharo i Mara v 'Studio X' |
2001 |
Ross Hahn, The Raven |
2001 |
Vincent D. Survinski, Night of the Living Dead |
2001 |
Edwin A. Finckel, The Drummer Man |
2001 |
Margaretha Krook, Persona |
2001 |
Prem Dhawan, Sawa Lakh Se Ek Ladaun |
2001 |
Gary Wissner, Se7en |
2001 |
Vickie Lester, Tom Dick and Harry |
2001 |
Johnny Holshuysen, Red Sien |
2002 |
Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974) |
2002 |
Kevyn Aucoin, Makeup Artist and Photographer (b. 1962) |
2002 |
Josef Meinertzhagen, Große Filmpläne |
2002 |
Adelino Moreira, Stay with Me Tonight |
2002 |
Les Schifrin, Like Mother, Like Son: Sante and Kenny Kimes |
2002 |
Monica Sinclair, 2046 |
2002 |
James 'Buster' Brown, The Cotton Club |
2002 |
Kevyn Aucoin, The Real Me |
2002 |
Xavier Montsalvatge, Dragón Rapide |
2002 |
Bob Onorato, Once Upon a Forest |
2003 |
Tord Andersén, Glasblåsarns barn |
2003 |
Duane Allen, Tango & Cash |
2003 |
Elissa Fontes, Pig in a Blanket |
2003 |
Ernie Buttelman, The Missiles of October |
2004 |
Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956) |
2004 |
Diana Chesney, The Great Mouse Detective |
2004 |
David Piel, Killer Klowns from Outer Space |
2004 |
Nick Berg, |
2005 |
Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971) |
2005 |
Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909) |
2005 |
Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980) |
2005 |
Betty Talmadge, The Baron and the Kid |
2005 |
Ragnar Sörman, Episode #1.1 |
2005 |
Françoise Engel, La main passe |
2005 |
Waldemar Walisiak, Rozdroze |
2005 |
Peter Rodino, Watergate |
2005 |
Mark Estrin, Bare Essentials |
2006 |
Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943) |
2006 |
Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918) |
2006 |
Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943) |
2006 |
Maria Salorio, Torero, fra sogno e realtà |
2006 |
Barbara Bohrer, Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told |
2006 |
Machiko Soga, Kamen Rider Stronger |
2006 |
Alfredo Salazar, The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot |
2006 |
Cesare Calabrese, Catch Me If You Can |
2006 |
John Burke, Ship of Fools |
2006 |
Richard Carleton, 60 Minutes |
2006 |
Steve Bender, Episode #1.1 |
2007 |
Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977) |
2007 |
Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1926) |
2007 |
Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (b. 1935) |
2007 |
Arch Whiting, The Alternative Factor |
2007 |
Isabella Blow, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou |
2007 |
Shirl Conway, An Unweeded Garden |
2007 |
Fulton Burley, Gnomeo & Juliet |
2007 |
Lori Michaels, Ghost Town |
2007 |
Nicholas Worth, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
2007 |
Peter Bartlett, A Countess from Hong Kong |
2008 |
Fuji, The Wrecking Crew |
2008 |
Beverly Rowland, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers |
2008 |
Lionel J. Toll, Blonde Savage |
2008 |
Milos Stefanovic, Zenica |
2008 |
Ben Stone, Satan in High Heels |
2008 |
Lydia Bruce, Episode dated 19 March 1979 |
2009 |
David Mellor, English cutlery designer (b. 1930) |
2009 |
Mary Jane Woods, Wonder Man |
2009 |
Danny Ozark, 1979 MLB All-Star Game |
2009 |
Jim B. Smith, Homicide: Who Killed Who? |
2009 |
Linda Dangcil, The Young and the Restless |
2009 |
Robin Blaser, Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place |
2009 |
John Furia, The Singing Nun |
2009 |
Mickey Carroll, Memories of Oz |
2010 |
David Everritt, This Darkness: The Vampire Virus |
2010 |
Adele Mara, Sands of Iwo Jima |
2010 |
Pamela Green, Peeping Tom |
2010 |
Dennis Tinerino, Pumping Iron |
2010 |
Babs Chula, Cheats |
2010 |
Dave Fisher, The Fall Guy |
2010 |
Walter J. Hickel, Episode dated 5 October 1971 |
2010 |
Francisco Aguabella, Maria Costa's Macho Men and the Women Who Love Them |
2011 |
Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer, dies of brain cancer at 54 |
2011 |
Allyson Hennessy, Trindadian television presenter |
2011 |
Big George, British broadcaster, composer, bandleader and musician (b. 1957) |
2011 |
Big George, Christmas Special: Part 2 |
2011 |
Doric Wilson, Stonewall Uprising |
2011 |
Thomas Bridegroom, BJ and Racquia |
2011 |
Ross Hagen, The Hellcats |
2011 |
Gunter Sachs, Happening in Weiß |
2011 |
Peter Uwe Arndt, Hausmeister Krause - Ordnung muss sein |
2011 |
Jane Rhodes, Jean-Claude Brialy |
2011 |
John Maus, Episode #1.8 |
2011 |
Severiano Ballesteros, Episode dated 31 March 2008 |
2011 |
Sten Aaröe, Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt |
2012 |
Nathalie Nerval, The Law Is the Law |
2012 |
Stefano Tassinari, Segni particolari |
2012 |
Virgil Frye, Revenge of the Ninja |
2012 |
Dennis E. Fitch, Episode #1.7 |
2012 |
Kevin R. Young, North and South |
2012 |
Halina Lubaczewska, Czwartki ubogich |
2012 |
Andrea Crisanti, Cinema Paradiso |
2012 |
Michal Pesek, Od vrazdy jenom krok ke lzi |
2013 |
George Sauer, Jr., American football player, dies from heart failure at 69 |
2013 |
Ray Harryhausen, American visual effects creator, dies at 92 |
2013 |
Ray Harryhausen, Clash of the Titans |
2013 |
Peter Rauhofer, The 56th Annual Grammy Awards |
2013 |
Dennis Handby, A Wedding |
2013 |
George Sauer, Super Bowl III |
2013 |
Mate Ergovic, Marsal |
2013 |
Khatam Faiziyev, Women Kingdom |
2013 |
Aubrey Woods, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
2013 |
Vojko Duletic, Draga moja Iza |
2014 |
George Christie, Glyndebourne: A Celebration of Fifty Years |
2014 |
Christine Reinhold, I'll Force You to Live |
2014 |
Colin Pillinger, British Space Race |
2014 |
Leigh Spence, Episode #1.97 |
2014 |
Steve Rez, Slipstream |
2014 |
Will Gaines, Episode #1.13 |
2014 |
Muazzez Bora, The Angels Are My Witnesses |
2015 |
Thomas Engel, Punktchen and Anton |
2015 |
Gilbert Lewis, General Hospital |
2015 |
Manfred Schreiber, One Day in September |
2016 |
Tonbridge-born film buff Barry Littlechild dies aged 69 |
2016 |
First Whitbread champion, Ramon Carlin dies aged 92 |
2016 |
Devon celebrity photographer Matt Irwin dies, aged 36 |
2017 |
Neighbours and The Flying Doctors star Val Jellay dies aged 89 |
2017 |
American Olympic champion bobsledder Steven Holcomb dies aged 37 |
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