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===1901–present=== *[[1901]] – [[Gaetano Bresci]], Italian-American anarchist, assassin of [[Umberto I of Italy]] (b. 1869) *[[1910]] – [[Jules Renard]], French author and playwright (b. 1864) *[[1932]] – [[Augusta, Lady Gregory]], Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the [[Abbey Theatre]] (b. 1852) *[[1933]] – [[Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav]], Mongolian politician, 10th [[List of Prime Ministers of Mongolia|Prime Minister of Mongolia]] (b. 1894) *[[1938]] – [[William Glackens]], American painter and illustrator (b. 1870) *[[1939]] – [[Ernst Toller]], German playwright and author (b. 1893) * 1939 – [[Jiří Mahen]], Czech author and playwright (b. 1882) *[[1948]] – [[Claude McKay]], Jamaican writer and poet (b. 1889) *[[1954]] – [[Chief Bender]], American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884) *[[1965]] – [[Christopher Stone (broadcaster)|Christopher Stone]], English radio host (b. 1882) *[[1966]] – [[Tom Goddard]], English cricketer (b. 1900) *[[1967]] – [[Langston Hughes]], American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902) * 1967 – [[Charlotte Serber]], American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/peacewarreminisc00serb/page/203|title=Peace & war : reminiscences of a life on the frontiers of science|last=(Robert)|first=Serber, R.|date=1998|publisher=Columbia University Press|others=Crease, Robert P.|isbn=0231105460|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/peacewarreminisc00serb/page/203 203–204]|oclc=37631186|url-access=registration}}</ref> *[[1972]] – [[Cecil Day-Lewis]], Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904) * 1972 – [[Margaret Rutherford]], English actress (b. 1892) *[[1974]] – [[Irmgard Flügge-Lotz]], German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903) *[[1975]] – [[Lefty Grove]], American baseball player (b. 1900) *[[1982]] – [[Cevdet Sunay]], Turkish general and politician, 5th [[President of Turkey]] (b. 1899) *[[1983]] – [[Albert Claude]], Belgian biologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1899) * 1983 – [[Erna Scheffler]], German lawyer and [[List of justices of the Federal Constitutional Court|justice of the Federal Constitutional Court]] (b. 1893)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Döring |first=Linn Katharina |date=2014 |title=Erna Scheffler, die erste Juristin am Bundesverfassungsgericht |url=https://www.freilaw.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/download_doering_erna_scheffler.pdf |journal=Freilaw |language=de |volume=2014 |issue=3 |pages=49–51 [51]}}</ref> *[[1984]] – [[Karl-August Fagerholm]], Finnish politician, ''[[valtioneuvos]]'', the [[Speaker of the Parliament of Finland|Speaker of the Parliament]] and the [[Prime Minister of Finland]] (b. 1901)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=637|title=FAGERHOLM, Karl-August (1901–1984)|first=Mikko|last=Majander|website=Biografiskt lexikon för Finland|access-date=December 31, 2021|language=sv}}</ref> *[[1985]] – [[Wolfgang Reitherman]], German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909) *[[1988]] – [[Giorgio Almirante]], Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914) *[[1989]] – [[Steven De Groote]], South African pianist and educator (b. 1953) *[[1990]] – [[Rocky Graziano]], American boxer (b. 1922) *[[1991]] – [[Lino Brocka]], Filipino director and screenwriter (b. 1939)<ref>{{cite news|date=22 May 1991 |title=Filipino Film Director Lino Brocka Dies in Car Accident |url=https://apnews.com/article/0aea6453e6e82e05cc6ca5cda06342e0 |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=26 May 2022}}</ref> * 1991 – [[Shripad Amrit Dange]], Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899) * 1991 – [[Stan Mortensen]], English footballer and manager (b. 1921) *[[1992]] – [[Zellig Harris]], American linguist and academic (b. 1909) *[[1993]] – [[Mieczysław Horszowski]], Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892) *[[1997]] – [[Alziro Bergonzo]], Italian architect and painter (b. 1906) * 1997 – [[Alfred Hershey]], American biochemist and geneticist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1908) *[[1998]] – [[John Derek]], American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926) * 1998 – [[José Enrique Moyal]], Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910) *[[2000]] – [[Davie Fulton]], Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916) *[[2004]] – [[Richard Biggs]], American actor (b. 1960) * 2004 – [[Mikhail Voronin]], Russian gymnast (b. 1945) *[[2005]] – [[Charilaos Florakis]], Greek politician (b. 1914) * 2005 – [[Thurl Ravenscroft]], American voice actor and singer (b. 1914) *[[2006]] – [[Lee Jong-wook]], South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945) *[[2007]] – [[Pemba Doma Sherpa]], Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970) *[[2008]] – [[Robert Asprin]], American soldier and author (b. 1946) *[[2010]] – [[Martin Gardner]], American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914) *[[2011]] – [[Joseph Brooks (songwriter)|Joseph Brooks]], American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938) *[[2012]] – [[Muzafar Bhutto]], Pakistani politician (b. 1970) * 2012 – [[Wesley A. Brown]], American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927) *[[2013]] – [[Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt]], Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922) *[[2015]] – [[Marques Haynes]], American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) * 2015 – [[Vladimir Katriuk]], Ukrainian-Canadian [[SS]] officer (b. 1921) *[[2016]] – [[Bata Živojinović|Velimir "Bata" Živojinović]], Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933) *[[2017]] – [[Nicky Hayden]], American motorcycle racer (b. 1981)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/motor/2017/05/17/superbike-race-nicky-hayden-hit-by-car-bicycle-italy/101803180/|title=American Superbike rider Nicky Hayden hit by car while cycling|website=[[USA Today]]|date=2017-05-17|access-date=2020-02-28}}</ref> *[[2019]] – [[Judith Kerr]], German-born British writer and illustrator (b. 1923) *[[2020]] – [[Denise Cronenberg]], Canadian costume designer (b. 1938)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/denise-cronenberg-dead-dead-ringers-incredible-hulk-costume-designer-was-81-1298112|title = Denise Cronenberg, Costume Designer for 'Dead Ringers' and 'The Incredible Hulk,' Dies at 81|website = [[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date = 11 June 2020}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Dervla Murphy]], Irish touring cyclist and author (b. 1931)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-26 |title=Dervla Murphy obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/may/26/dervla-murphy-obituary |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[David Wilkie (swimmer)|David Wilkie]], Scottish swimmer (b. 1954)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-22 |title=David Wilkie: Olympic champion swimmer dies aged 70 |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/swimming/articles/c3ggndekv8lo |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref> <!-- Please do not add non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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