Sunday, May 22, 2022
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1943 - Death of US first lady Helen Taft.
1948 - Claude McKaye, Jamaican/American poet/author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies in Chicago, Illinois at age 57.
1949 - Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies at age 42.
1970 - Joseph W Krutch, American writer (Measure of Man), dies at age 76.
1985 - Death of Wolfgang Reitherman, American animator (born 1909).
1992 - Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, American mobster (Saint Valentines Day), dies at age 86 (born 1906).
1997 - Death of Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1908).
2004 - Death of Richard Biggs, American actor (born 1960).
2005 - Death of Thurl Ravenscroft of cancer in the USA; distinctive voice in movies, TV commercials, Disneyland attractions over decades, Johnny Mann Singers ("You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch"), Tony the Tiger ("they're grrrrreat!"), named Disney Legend 1995.