Famous Deaths in May 1976

May 1 Rex O'Malley, British actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75
May 1 Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (b. 1939)
May 1 T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908)
May 3 David Bruce [Marden Andrew McBroom], American actor (The Mad Ghoul, Flying Tigers), dies from a heart attack at 60
May 3 Ernie Nevers, American College, Pro Football Hall of Fame fullback, coach (Stanford, Chicago Cardinals), dies of heart & kidney ailments at 72
May 5 Thomas Burnett Swann, American sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47
May 6 Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85
May 8 Alan Baxter, dies at 67
May 8 Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies
May 9 Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74
May 9 Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59
May 9 Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian poet and writer (Dikt, Jonas), dies at 55
May 10 George Curzon, dies at 77
May 10 Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888)
May 11 Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78
May 11 Camille Schmit, composer, dies at 68

May 11 J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered
May 14 Keith Relf, British musician and vocalist (the Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance), electrocuted while playing an improperly earthed electric guitar at 33
May 15 Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), dies at 88
May 20 Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 64
May 20 Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz "disappeared"
May 21 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77
May 21 Harold Blair, Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist, dies at 51
May 24 Henk Lankhorst [Hendrik Johannes Lankhorst], Dutch politician (PSP), dies at 62
May 24 Melle J Oldeboerrigter ("Melle"), painter/cartoonist, dies at 65
May 26 Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Being & Time), dies at 86
May 26 Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"
May 27 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
May 28 Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
May 30 Max Carey, American baseball player, dies at 86
May 31 Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies
May 31 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in NY at 57