Died on This Day (22-May)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Judith Kerr | Anna Judith Gertrud Helene Kerr OBE 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 pop singer Ariana Grande. | British suicide bomber | 22 | 3 | |
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 | |
Dave Mann | David Carl Mann was an American professional gridiron football punter in the NFL and CFL. | American football player | 79 | 8 | |
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 | |
Davie Fulton | Edmund Davie Fulton, PC OC QC was a Canadian Rhodes Scholar, politician and judge. | Canadian politician | 84 | 20 | |
Vincent Cavallaro | Vincent Cavallaro was a painter, sculptor and abstract artist. | American artist | 72 | 35 | |
Lefty Grove | Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was an American professional baseball pitcher. | Major League Baseball pitcher | 75 | 45 | |
Walter Krüger | Walter Krüger was a German SS official during the Nazi era. | German general | 55 | 75 | |
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 | Anniv | |
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Philip Roth | Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short story writer. | American novelist | 85 | 2 | |
DeAndre Kpana-Quamoh | DeAndre Tejan Kpana-Quamoh was a high school track & field star at East Nashville Magnet School. | American high school athlete | 18 | 4 | |
Lee Rigby | On the afternoon of 22 May 2013, a British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was attacked and killed by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. | British terrorist murder victim | 25 | 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 and bass singer. | American actor | 91 | 15 | |
Rocky Graziano | Thomas Rocco Barbella , better known as Rocky Graziano, was an American professional boxer and actor who held the World Middleweight title. | American boxer | 71 | 30 | |
Louise Elisabeth de Meuron | Louise Elisabeth de Meuron , known as Madame de Meuron, was a well-known eccentric Swiss aristocrat from Bern. | Swiss aristocrat | 97 | 40 | |
Constantin Andreas von Regel | Constantin Andreas von Regel was a Russian and Lithuanian horticulturalist and botanist. | Russian botanist | 79 | 50 | |
Joseph J. Gill | Joseph John Gill was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U. | American politician | 73 | 100 | |
James Dutton | James Naper Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne , was a British peer. | British Baron | 75 | 200 |