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May 7th
178 Notable deaths
Joseph Greenberg
American linguist.
Born May 28th, 1915 in Brooklyn. [ref]
Died May 7th, 2011 at 95 years old in Stanford (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
Nicholas Worth
American actor.
Born September 4th, 1937 in Clayton.
Died May 7th, 2007 at 69 years old in Van Nuys (heart failure).
Octavian Goga
Romanian politician and poet.
Born April 1st, 1881 in Rășinari.
Died May 7th, 1938 at 57 years old in Ciucea.
Yuri Averbakh
Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022).
Born February 8th, 1922 in Kaluga. [ref]
Died May 7th, 2022 at 100 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Polish writer (1909-1966).
Born March 6th, 1909 in Lviv. [ref]
Died May 7th, 1966 at 57 years old in Warsaw. [ref]
Charles Sheeler
American artist (1883-1965).
Born July 16th, 1883 in Philadelphia. [ref]
Died May 7th, 1965 at 81 years old in Dobbs Ferry. [ref]
Arnold van Gennep
French ethnographer and folklorist.
Born April 23rd, 1873 in Ludwigsburg. [ref]
Died May 7th, 1957 at 84 years old in Bourg-la-Reine. [ref]
Gholam Reza Pahlavi
Persian royal.
Born May 15th, 1923 in Tehran.
Died May 7th, 2017 at 93 years old in Neuilly-sur-Seine (pneumonia). [ref]
Chaim Bar-Lev
Israeli military officer and politician (1924-1994).
Born November 16th, 1924 in Vienna. [ref]
Died May 7th, 1994 at 69 years old in Tel Aviv (cancer).
Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist and inventor.
Born August 19th, 1924 in Amherst.
Died May 7th, 2011 at 86 years old in Wallace (kidney disease). [ref]
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He who is not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan