May 1 - Deaths

Deaths

• 408 – Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)
• 1118 – Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c.1080)
• 1308 – Albert I of Habsburg (b. 1255)
• 1539 – Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503)
• 1555 – Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
• 1572 – Saint Pope Pius V (b. 1504)
• 1731 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
• 1738 – Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c.1669)
• 1772 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719)
• 1813 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768)
• 1873 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (b. 1813)
• 1899 – Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)
• 1904 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
• 1913 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
• 1920 – Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1937 – Snitz Edwards, American actor (b. 1868)
• 1943 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (b. 1897)
• 1963 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, father of the Filipino language (b. 1879)
• 1965 – Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (b. 1911)
• 1968 – Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1968 – Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b. 1895)
• 1970 – Crown Prince Euimin, Crown Prince of Korea (b. 1897)
• 1973 – Asger Jorn, Danish painter (b. 1914)
• 1976 – Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (b. 1939)
• 1976 – T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908)
• 1978 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b. 1903)
• 1982 – William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
• 1985 – Denise Robins (aka Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane) British romance novelist (b. 1897)
• 1986 – Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1916)
• 1989 – Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Douglass Watson, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Sharon Redd, American house music and urban contemporary singer (b. 1945)
• 1993 – Pierre Bérégovoy, French Prime Minister (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)
• 1996 – Luana Patten, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
• 2000 – Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Big Hawk, American rapper (b. 1969)
• 2006 – Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Rob Lacey, Christian author (b. 1962)
• 2008 – Anthony Mamo, Malta's first President (b. 1909)
• 2008 – Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, last surviving member of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944 (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Danny Gans, American entertainer (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Rob McConnell, Canadian jazz composer/arranger and valve trombonist (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Helen Wagner, American Actress (b. 1918)