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:

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)