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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[604]] – [[Augustine of Canterbury]], Benedictine monk and archbishop * [[735]] – [[Bede]], English monk, historian, and theologian * [[818]] – [[Ali al-Ridha]], 8th of [[The Twelve Imams]] * [[926]] – [[Yuan Xingqin]], Chinese general and governor * [[946]] – [[Edmund I]], king of England (b. 921) *[[1035]] – [[Berenguer Ramon I]], Spanish nobleman (b. 1005) *[[1055]] – [[Adalbert, Margrave of Austria|Adalbert]], margrave of Austria *[[1250]] – [[Peter I, Duke of Brittany|Peter I]], duke of Brittany *[[1339]] – [[Aldona of Lithuania|Aldona Ona]], queen of Poland *[[1362]] – [[Louis I of Naples|Louis I]], king of Naples (b. 1320) *[[1421]] – [[Mehmed I]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1389) *[[1512]] – [[Bayezid II]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1447) *[[1536]] – [[Francesco Berni]], Italian poet (b. 1498) *[[1552]] – [[Sebastian Münster]], German cartographer and cosmographer (b. 1488) ===1601–1900=== *[[1648]] – [[Vincent Voiture]], French poet and author (b. 1597) *[[1653]] – [[Robert Filmer]], English theorist and author (b. 1588) *[[1679]] – [[Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria|Ferdinand Maria]], Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636) *[[1685]] – [[Charles II, Elector Palatine|Charles II]], German elector palatine (b. 1651) *[[1702]] – [[Zeb-un-Nissa]], Mughal princess and poet (b. 1638)<ref>{{cite book|first=Jadunath|last=Sarkar|title=A Short History of Aurangzib, 1618-1707|location=New Delhi|publisher=Orient Longman|year=1979|page=14|isbn=978-0-86131-083-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDxuAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> *[[1703]] – [[Samuel Pepys]], English politician (b. 1633)<ref>{{cite web |title=Samuel Pepys {{!}} English diarist and naval administrator |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Pepys |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=22 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1742]] – [[Pylyp Orlyk]], Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1672) *[[1746]] – [[Thomas Southerne]], Irish playwright (b. 1660) *[[1762]] – [[Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten]], German philosopher and academic (b. 1714) *[[1799]] – [[James Burnett, Lord Monboddo]], Scottish linguist, biologist, and judge (b. 1714) *[[1818]] – [[Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly]], Russian field marshal and politician, [[Governor-General of Finland]] (b. 1761) * 1818 – [[Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza]], Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (b. 1785) *[[1824]] – [[Capel Lofft]], English lawyer (b. 1751) *[[1840]] – [[Sidney Smith (Royal Navy officer)|Sidney Smith]], English admiral and politician (b. 1764) *[[1881]] – [[Jakob Bernays]], German philologist and academic (b. 1824) *[[1883]] – [[Abdelkader El Djezairi]], Algerian ruler (b. 1808) ===1901–present=== *[[1902]] – [[Almon Brown Strowger]], American soldier and inventor (b. 1839) *[[1908]] – [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]], Indian religious leader, founded the [[Ahmadiyya|Ahmadiyya movement]] (b. 1835) *[[1914]] – [[Jacob Riis|Jacob August Riis]], Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849) *[[1924]] – [[Victor Herbert]], Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers]] (b. 1859) *[[1925]] – [[William H. Shockley]], American mining engineer, amateur photographer, and hobbyist botanist (b. 1855)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1925/05/27?page=1§ion=MODSMD_ARTICLE12#article|title=William H. Shockley Dies in Los Angeles|work=[[The Daily Palo Alto]]|location=[[Palo Alto, California]]|volume=67|number=63|page=1}}</ref> *[[1926]] – [[Srečko Kosovel]], Slovenian poet (b. 1904) *[[1933]] – [[Horatio Bottomley]], English financier, journalist, and politician (b. 1860) * 1933 – [[Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmie Rodgers]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897) *[[1939]] – [[Charles Horace Mayo]], American physician, co-founded [[Mayo Clinic]] (b. 1865) *[[1943]] – [[Edsel Ford]], American businessman (b. 1893) * 1943 – [[Alice Tegnér]], Swedish organist, composer, and educator (b. 1864)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=2006|page=457|isbn=978-0-33351-598-3}}</ref> *[[1944]] – [[Christian Wirth]], German [[SS]] officer (b. 1885) *[[1948]] – [[Torsten Bergström]], Swedish actor and director (b. 1896) *[[1951]] – [[Lincoln Ellsworth]], American explorer (b. 1880) *[[1954]] – [[Lionel Conacher]], Canadian football player and politician (b. 1900) *[[1955]] – [[Alberto Ascari]], Italian racing driver (b. 1918) *[[1956]] – [[Al Simmons]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1902) *[[1959]] – [[Philip Kassel]], American gymnast (b. 1876) *[[1964]] – [[Ruben Oskar Auervaara]], Finnish fraudster (b. 1906)<ref name="soukola">Soukola, Timo: "Auervaara, Ruben Oskar (1906–1964)", [[Suomen kansallisbiografia]], volume 1, pp 443–444. Helsinki: [[Finnish Literature Society]], 2003. {{ISBN|951-746-442-8}}. [https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/8354/ Online version].</ref> *[[1966]] – [[Elizabeth Dilling]], American author and activist (b. 1894) *[[1969]] – [[Paul Hawkins (racing driver)|Paul Hawkins]], Australian racing driver (b. 1937) * 1969 – [[Allan Haines Loughead]], American engineer, co-founded the [[Lockheed Corporation]] (b. 1889) *[[1974]] – [[Silvio Moser]], Swiss racing driver (b. 1941) *[[1976]] – [[Martin Heidegger]], German philosopher and academic (b. 1889) *[[1978]] – [[Cybele Andrianou]], Greek actress (b. 1887) *[[1979]] – [[George Brent]], Irish-American actor (b. 1904) *[[1984]] – [[Elizabeth Peer]], American journalist (b. 1936) *[[1989]] – [[Don Revie]], English footballer and manager (b. 1927) *[[1994]] – [[Sonny Sharrock]], American guitarist (b. 1940) *[[1995]] – [[Friz Freleng]], American animator, director, and producer (b. 1906) *[[1997]] – [[Ralph Horween]], American football player and coach (b. 1896) *[[1999]] – [[Paul Sacher]], Swiss conductor and philanthropist (b. 1906) * 1999 – [[Waldo Semon]], American chemist and engineer (b. 1898) *[[2001]] – [[Vittorio Brambilla]], Italian racing driver (b. 1937) * 2001 – [[Anne Haney]], American actress (b. 1934) * 2001 – [[Moven Mahachi]], Zimbabwean soldier and politician, [[Ministry of Defence (Zimbabwe)|Zimbabwean Minister of Defence]] (b. 1952) * 2001 – [[Dona Massin]], Canadian actress and choreographer (b. 1917) *[[2002]] – [[Mamo Wolde]], Ethiopian runner (b. 1932) *[[2003]] – [[Kathleen Winsor]], American journalist and author (b. 1919) *[[2004]] – [[Nikolai Chernykh]], Russian astronomer (b. 1931) *[[2005]] – [[Eddie Albert]], American actor (b. 1906) * 2005 – [[Chico Carrasquel]], Venezuelan baseball player and manager (b. 1928) * 2005 – [[Ruth Laredo]], American pianist and educator (b. 1937) * 2005 – [[Leslie Smith (businessman)|Leslie Smith]], English businessman, co-founded [[Lesney Products]] (b. 1918) *[[2006]] – [[Édouard Michelin (born 1963)|Édouard Michelin]], French businessman (b. 1963) * 2006 – [[Kevin O'Flanagan]], Irish footballer and physician (b. 1919) *[[2007]] – [[Jack Edward Oliver]], English illustrator (b. 1942) * 2007 – [[Howard Porter (basketball)|Howard Porter]], American basketball player (b. 1948) *[[2008]] – [[Sydney Pollack]], American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1934) * 2008 – [[Zita Urbonaitė]], Lithuanian cyclist (b. 1973) *[[2009]] – [[Mihalis Papagiannakis]], Greek journalist and politician (b. 1941) * 2009 – [[Peter Zezel]], Canadian ice hockey and soccer player (b. 1965) *[[2010]] – [[Art Linkletter]], Canadian-American radio and television host (b. 1912) * 2010 – [[Chris Moran]], English air marshal and pilot (b. 1956) * 2010 – [[Kieran Phelan]], Irish politician (b. 1949) *[[2011]] – [[Arisen Ahubudu]], Sri Lankan scholar, author, and playwright (b. 1920) *[[2012]] – [[Arthur Decabooter]], Belgian cyclist (b. 1936) * 2012 – [[Leo Dillon]], American illustrator (b. 1933) * 2012 – [[Stephen Healey]], Welsh captain and footballer (b. 1982) * 2012 – [[Hiroshi Miyazawa]], Japanese politician (b. 1921) * 2012 – [[Hans Schmidt (wrestler)|Hans Schmidt]], Canadian wrestler (b. 1925) * 2012 – [[Jim Unger]], English-Canadian illustrator (b. 1937) *[[2013]] – [[Ray Barnhart]], American businessman and politician (b. 1928) * 2013 – [[John Bierwirth]], American lawyer and businessman (b. 1924) * 2013 – [[Roberto Civita]], Italian-Brazilian businessman (b. 1936) * 2013 – [[Tom Lichtenberg]], American football player and coach (b. 1940) * 2013 – [[Otto Muehl]], Austrian painter (b. 1925) * 2013 – [[Jack Vance]], American author (b. 1916) *[[2014]] – [[Baselios Thoma Didymos I]], Indian metropolitan (b. 1921) * 2014 – [[Miodrag Radulovacki]], Serbian-American academic and neuropharmacologist (b. 1933) * 2014 – [[William R. Roy]], American physician, journalist, and politician (b. 1926) * 2014 – [[Hooshang Seyhoun]], Iranian-Canadian architect, sculptor, and painter (b. 1920) *[[2015]] – [[Vicente Aranda]], Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926) * 2015 – [[Les Johnson]], Australian politician and diplomat, [[List of Australian High Commissioners to New Zealand|Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand]] (b. 1924) * 2015 – [[Robert Kraft (astronomer)|Robert Kraft]], American astronomer and academic (b. 1927) * 2015 – [[João Lucas (footballer, born 1979)|João Lucas]], Portuguese footballer (b. 1979) *[[2016]] – [[Hedy Epstein]], German-born American human rights activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1924) *[[2017]] – [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], Polish-born American politician (b. 1928) *[[2019]] – [[Prem Tinsulanonda]], Former Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1920)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1684176/gen-prem-dies-of-heart-failure-at-98|title=Gen Prem dies|newspaper=Bangkok Post |access-date=18 March 2021}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Andy Fletcher (musician)|Andy Fletcher]], English musician (b. 1961)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/26/entertainment/andy-fletcher-depeche-mode-death-cec/index.html|title=Depeche Mode's Andy Fletcher dies at 60|last=Marya|first=Radhika|work=[[CNN]]|date=May 26, 2022|access-date=June 3, 2022}}</ref> * 2022 – [[Ray Liotta]], American actor (b. 1954)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61600212 |title=Goodfellas star Ray Liotta dies aged 67 |work=BBC News |date=May 26, 2022 |access-date=May 26, 2022}}</ref> * 2022 – [[Alan White (Yes drummer)|Alan White]], English drummer (b. 1949)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-61600583 |title=Yes drummer Alan White dies aged 72|work=BBC News|date=May 26, 2022 |access-date=May 26, 2022}}</ref>
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