Death Anniversaries - w/e May 13, 2000
A D Evans
MAY 7
1805 - 2nd Earl of Shelburne, English Prime Minister 1782-83, in
Berkeley Square, London aged 67.
1825 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, in Vienna, Austria aged 74.
1873 - Jose Antonio Paez, Venezuelan President 1831-46, in New York City
aged 82.
1932 - Paul Doumer, French President 1931-32, shot dead by a Russian
anarchist Pavel Gorgulov in Paris, France aged 75.
1942 - Felix Weingartner, Austrian conductor and composer, in
Winterthur, Switzerland aged 78.
1963 - Max Miller, English music hall comedian, in Brighton, Sussex aged
68.
1985 - Dawn Addams, English actress, from cancer in hospital in London
aged 54.
1987 - Colin Blakely, English actor, from leukaemia aged 56.
2000 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., US actor, in New York City aged 90.
MAY 8
1794 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist, guillotined at the Place de la
Revolution, Paris, France aged 50.
1873 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and social reformer, in
Avignon, France aged 66.
1880 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, in Croisset, France aged 58.
1903 - Paul Gauguin, French painter, in Atuona, the Marquesas Islands
aged 54.
1944 - Dame Ethel Smyth, English composer, in Woking, Surrey aged 86.
1947 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, US-born British department store founder,
in Putney, London aged 83.
1967 - LaVerne Andrews, US singer (Andrews Sisters), from cancer and
pneumonia in Brentwood, California aged 51.
1967 - Elmer Rice, US dramatist, in Southampton, Hampshire aged 74.
1978 - Duncan Grant, Scottish painter, in Aldermaston, Berkshire aged
93.
1984 - Lila Bel Wallace, US co-founder of Readers Digest, in Mount
Kisco, New York aged 94.
1985 - Edmond O'Brien, US actor, from Alzheimer's disease in Inglewood,
California aged 69.
1990 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer, in Venice, Italy aged 66.
1994 - George Peppard, US actor, from pneumonia at UCLA Medical Center,
Los Angeles, California aged 65.
1996 - Serge Chermayeff, Russian-born US architect, in Wellfleet,
Massachusetts aged 95.
1999 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor and writer, from a heart attack at
his home in London aged 78.
1999 - Dana Plato, US actress, committed suicide by taking an overdose
of painkillers in Moore, Oklahoma aged 34.
MAY 9
1657 - William Bradford, English-born American Pilgrim Father and
governor of the Plymouth colony, in Plymouth, Massachusetts aged 67.
1805 - Friedrich von Schiller, German dramatist and poet, in Weimar,
Germany aged 45.
1850 - Joseph Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist, in Paris, France
aged 71.
1931 - Albert Michelson, Polish-born US physicist (Nobel physics 1907),
in Pasadena, California aged 78.
1970 - Walter Reuther, US trade unionist, near Pellston, Michigan aged
62.
1977 - James Jones, US novelist, in Southampton, New York aged 55.
1978 (date found) - Aldo Moro, Italian Prime Minister 1963-68 & 1974-76,
shot dead by members of the Red Brigade and left in the back of a
Renault car in Rome, Italy aged 61.
1986 - Tenzing Norgay (Sherpa Tenzing), Nepalese mountaineer who, with
Edmund Hillary, was the first to reach the summit of Everest, in
Darjeeling, India aged 71.
MAY 10
1774 - Louis XV of France, King 1715-74, from smallpox in Versailles,
France aged 64.
1798 - George Vancouver, English explorer, in Richmond, Surrey aged 40.
1818 - Paul Revere, US patriot, in Boston, Massachusetts aged 83.
1849 - Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist, in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan
aged 88.
1863 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, US Confederate soldier, at Guinea
Station, Virginia after being accidentally wounded by his own troops at
the Battle of Chancellorsville four days previously, aged 39.
1904 - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born US/British explorer and
journalist, in London aged 63.
1914 - Sir William Alexander Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys'
Brigade, aged 59.
1920 - John Wesley Hyatt, US inventor of the process of making
celluloid, in Short Hills, New Jersey aged 82.
1968 - Finlay Currie, Scottish actor, at Chalfont and Gerrards Cross
Hospital, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire aged 90.
1977 - Joan Crawford, US actress, from cancer and acute coronary
occlusion in New York City aged 73.
1990 - Walker Percy, US novelist, in Covington, Louisiana aged 73.
1999 (date found) - Shel Silverstein, US author and cartoonist, at his
home in Key West, Florida aged 66.
MAY 11
1778 - William Pitt the Elder (1st Earl of Chatham), English Prime
Minister 1766-68, in Hayes, Kent aged 69.
1812 (approx 5.30pm) - Spencer Perceval, English Prime Minister 1809-12,
shot dead by a bankrupt Liverpool broker John Bellingham in the lobby of
the House of Commons, London aged 49.
1871 - Sir John Herschel, English astronomer, in Collingwood, Kent aged
78.
1916 - Max Reger, German composer, from a heart attack in Leipzig,
Germany aged 43.
1927 - Juan Gris, Spanish painter, in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France aged
40.
1970 - Johnny Hodges, US jazz saxophonist, in New York City aged 64.
1973 - Lex Barker, US actor, from a heart attack in New York City aged
53.
1976 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, in hospital in Helsinki, Finland
aged 78.
1981 - Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (Nobel chemistry 1969), in Oslo,
Norway aged 83.
1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, from cancer in
Miami, Florida aged 36.
1985 - Chester Gould, US cartoonist, in Woodstock, Illinois aged 84.
1988 - Kim Philby, British double agent, in Moscow, Russia aged 76.
1995 - Arthur Lubin, US film director, following a stroke, at Autumn
Hills nursing home, Glendale, California aged 95.
1996 - Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian President 1963-66, in Enugu, Nigeria
aged 91.
MAY 12
1860 - Sir Charles Barry, English architect (Palace of Westminster),
aged 64.
1884 - Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer, in Prague, Czechoslovakia aged
60.
1925 - Amy Lowell, US poet, in Brookline, Massachusetts aged 51.
1944 - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer, in Fowey, Cornwall aged
80.
1944 (approx) - Max Brand, US novelist and short story writer, killed
near Santa Maria Infante, Italy where he was serving as a war
correspondent, aged 51.
1956 - Louis Calhern, US actor, from a heart attack in Tokyo, Japan aged
61.
1957 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and film director, from spinal
cancer in Maurepas, France aged 71.
1963 - Herbert Gasser, US physiologist (Nobel phys/med 1944), in New
York Hospital, New York City aged 74.
1967 - John Masefield, English poet and novelist, near Abingdon,
Berkshire aged 88.
1970 - Nelly Sachs, German-born Swedish poet and playwright (Nobel
literature 1966), at St Gorans Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden aged 78.
1992 - Robert Reed, US actor, from AIDS-related colon lymphoma in
Pasadena, California aged 59.
1994 - John Smith, Scottish leader of the Labour Party 1992-94, from a
heart attack in London aged 55.
1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born US artist, at his home in
Manhattan, New York City aged 84.
MAY 13
1832 - Georges Cuvier, French anatomist, from paralysis in Paris, France
aged 62.
1835 - John Nash, British architect, in Cowes, Isle of Wight aged about
82.
1884 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, US inventor and industrialist, in Chicago,
Illinois aged 75.
1916 - Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian writer, in New York City aged 57.
1930 (2.20pm) - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer (Nobel peace 1922),
following a stroke at his home in Lysaker, near Oslo, Norway aged 68.
1961 - Gary Cooper, US actor, from cancer at his home in Holmby Hills,
Los Angeles, California aged 60.
1987 - Richard Ellmann, US-born biographer of Oscar Wilde and James
Joyce, at Oxford Infirmary, Oxford, Oxfordshire aged 69. He was
suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1988 - Chet Baker, US jazz trumpeter, killed in a fall from a 2nd floor
hotel window in Amsterdam, Netherlands aged 58.
1999 (shortly after 9.00am) - Gene Sarazen, US golfer, from
complications of pneumonia at Naples Community Hospital, Naples, Florida
aged 97.
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Andrew Evans
Louis Epstein
: DEATH ANNIVERSARIES - W/E MAY 13, 2000
:
: MAY 7
: 1805 - 2nd Earl of Shelburne, English Prime Minister 1782-83, in
: Berkeley Square, London aged 67.
: 1825 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, in Vienna, Austria aged 74.
: 1873 - Jose Antonio Paez, Venezuelan President 1831-46, in New York City
: aged 82.
: 1932 - Paul Doumer, French President 1931-32, shot dead by a Russian
: anarchist Pavel Gorgulov in Paris, France aged 75.
: 1942 - Felix Weingartner, Austrian conductor and composer, in
: Winterthur, Switzerland aged 78.
: 1963 - Max Miller, English music hall comedian, in Brighton, Sussex aged
: 68.
: 1985 - Dawn Addams, English actress, from cancer in hospital in London
: aged 54.
: 1987 - Colin Blakely, English actor, from leukaemia aged 56.
: 2000 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., US actor, in New York City aged 90.
And it's the anniversary of his death already?
: MAY 8
: 1794 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist, guillotined at the Place de la
: Revolution, Paris, France aged 50.
: 1873 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and social reformer, in
: Avignon, France aged 66.
: 1880 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, in Croisset, France aged 58.
: 1903 - Paul Gauguin, French painter, in Atuona, the Marquesas Islands
: aged 54.
: 1944 - Dame Ethel Smyth, English composer, in Woking, Surrey aged 86.
: 1947 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, US-born British department store founder,
: in Putney, London aged 83.
: 1967 - LaVerne Andrews, US singer (Andrews Sisters), from cancer and
: pneumonia in Brentwood, California aged 51.
: 1967 - Elmer Rice, US dramatist, in Southampton, Hampshire aged 74.
: 1978 - Duncan Grant, Scottish painter, in Aldermaston, Berkshire aged
: 93.
: 1984 - Lila Bel Wallace, US co-founder of Readers Digest, in Mount
: Kisco, New York aged 94.
Lila Bell Acheson Wallace,you mean?
("Lila Acheson Wallace" is seen more often than "Lila Bel Wallace")
: 1985 - Edmond O'Brien, US actor, from Alzheimer's disease in Inglewood,
: California aged 69.
: 1990 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer, in Venice, Italy aged 66.
: 1994 - George Peppard, US actor, from pneumonia at UCLA Medical Center,
: Los Angeles, California aged 65.
: 1996 - Serge Chermayeff, Russian-born US architect, in Wellfleet,
: Massachusetts aged 95.
: 1999 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor and writer, from a heart attack at
: his home in London aged 78.
: 1999 - Dana Plato, US actress, committed suicide by taking an overdose
: of painkillers in Moore, Oklahoma aged 34.
:
: MAY 10
: 1774 - Louis XV of France, King 1715-74, from smallpox in Versailles,
: France aged 64.
Had he lived longer,could the deluge apres him have been altered or
delayed?
:
: MAY 13
: 1916 - Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian writer, in New York City aged 57.
Pen name,wasn't it?
: Andrew Evans
A D Evans
Epstein <l...@put.com> writes
>: 2000 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., US actor, in New York City aged 90.
>
>And it's the anniversary of his death already?
>
Okay - I jumped the gun by a year.
>: 1984 - Lila Bel Wallace, US co-founder of Readers Digest, in Mount
>: Kisco, New York aged 94.
>
>Lila Bell Acheson Wallace,you mean?
>("Lila Acheson Wallace" is seen more often than "Lila Bel Wallace")
Spelling corrected and point noted.
>: MAY 13
>: 1916 - Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian writer, in New York City aged 57.
>
>Pen name,wasn't it?
>
Yes. Real name Solomon Rabinowitz.
--
Andrew Evans
Del Stanley
>
> DEATH ANNIVERSARIES - W/E MAY 13, 2000
> MAY 9
> 1864- General John Sedgwick, U.S. Civil War Federal soldier, at
Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia. While riding down the union
lines he noticed that his soldiers were jumping into trenches, ducking
behind trees, and taking whatever cover they could to avoid
rebel sniper fire. Sedgwick chided his men telling them "why they
couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!". Moments later he lay
dead, hit by sniper fire. Famous last words.
>
> MAY 12
> 1864- General James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart, U.S. Civil War Confederate
soldier. Famous for cavalry exploits. Helped capture John Brown at
Hapers Ferry, VA (now W Va). Mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern
(near Richmond Va.) on May 11 by one of George (Little Big Horn )
Custer's boys. Died on May 12, 1864.