Died on This Day (22-May)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Judith Kerr | Anna Judith Gertrud Helene Kerr was a German-born British writer and illustrator whose books sold more than 10 million copies around the world. | German-born British writer and illustrator | 95 | 1 | |
Salman Abedi | On 22 May 2017, an Islamist extremist suicide bomber detonated a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb as people were leaving the Manchester Arena following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande. | British suicide bomber | 22 | 3 | |
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Henri Dutilleux | Henri Dutilleux was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. | French composer | 97 | 7 |
Joseph Brooks | Joseph Brooks, born Joseph Kaplan , was an American composer, director, producer, and screenwriter. | Song Writer | 73 | 9 | |
Thurl Ravenscroft | Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft was an American actor, voice actor and bass singer known as the booming voice behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades. | Actor | 91 | 15 | |
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Noel Robins | David Noel Robins, OAM was an Australian sailor. He began sailing as a child, and became partially quadriplegic after receiving a spinal fracture from a car crash at the age of 21. | Australian sailor | 67 | 17 |
Rocky Graziano | Thomas Rocco Barbella , better known as Rocky Graziano, was an Italian-American professional boxer who held the World Middleweight title. | American boxer | 71 | 30 | |
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Lefty Grove | Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was an American professional baseball pitcher. | Major League Baseball pitcher | 75 | 45 |
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Walter Krüger | Walter Krüger . He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. | German general | 55 | 75 |
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William Cogswell | William Cogswell was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War who was appointed to the grade of brevet brigadier general, U. | Union Army general | 56 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Philip Roth | Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. | American novelist | 85 | 2 |
Terry Sue-Patt | Terence Anthony "Terry" Sue-Patt was a British actor, best known for playing Benny Green in the BBC series Grange Hill . | British actor | 50 | 5 | |
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Dave Mann | David Carl Mann was an American professional gridiron football punter in the NFL and CFL. | American football player | 79 | 8 |
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Martin Gardner | Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. | American mathematician | 95 | 10 |
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Richard Biggs | Richard James Biggs II was an American television and stage actor, known for his roles on the television series Days of Our Lives and Babylon 5. | American actor | 44 | 16 |
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Davie Fulton | Edmund Davie Fulton, was a Canadian Rhodes Scholar, politician and judge, who was also known as E. | Canadian politician | 84 | 20 |
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Vincent Cavallaro | Vincent Cavallaro was a painter, sculptor and abstract artist. | American artist | 72 | 35 |
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Constantin Andreas von Regel | Constantin Andreas von Regel was a Russian and Lithuanian horticulturalist and botanist. | Russian botanist | 79 | 50 |
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Joseph J. Gill | Joseph John Gill was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. | American politician | 73 | 100 |
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James Dutton | James Naper Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne , was a British peer. | British Baron | 75 | 200 |