Famous Deaths for 9th May 2022

1446 – Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples, dies at 79
1790 – William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1822 – Charles Duquesnoy, French composer, dies at 62
1905 – Ernst Pauer, Austrian composer and pianist, dies at 78
1963 – Charles Vyner Brooke, 3rd and last White Rajah of Sarawak (1917-46), dies at 88
1968 – Harold Gray, American comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74
1970 – Walter P. Reuther, American worker’s union leader and president of the CIO, dies in a plane crash at 62
1976 – Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74
1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber who was the 1st to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 71
2010 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (Cabin in the Sky), dies at 92

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