Died On This Day: May 17

• Mario Benedetti (2009, Montevideo, Uruguay)
• David Herbert Donald (2009, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
• Radek Hajda (2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
• Prakash Mehra (2009, Bombay, Maharashtra, India)
• Petar Slabakov (2009, Sofia, Bulgaria)
• John Sliskovich (2009, El Mirage Lake, San Bernardino County, California, USA)
• Octavia St. Laurent (2009, New York City, New York, USA)
• Mitsuko Yorichika (2009, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan)
• Zélia Gattai (2008, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil)
• Page Hearn (2008, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA)
• Hannelore Jacob (2008, Gravenbruch, Neu-Isenburg, Hesse, Germany)
• Joseph Lebworth (2008, New York City, New York, USA)
• Wilfred Mellers (2008, Scrayingham, North Yorkshire, England, UK)
• Sophan Sophiaan (2008, Sragen, Central Java, Indonesia)
• Yue Wong (2008, Hong Kong, China)
• Lloyd Alexander (2007, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, USA)
• Dietmar Pflegerl (2007, Klagenfurt, Austria)
• Toki Shiozawa (2007, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan)
• Eva Maria Bauer (2006, Hamburg, Germany)
• Cy Feuer (2006, New York City, New York, USA)
• Wolf Flüs (2006, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany)
• Dan Q. Kennis (2006, Palo Alto, California, USA)
• John Miles (2006, Vero Beach, Florida, USA)
• Clive H. Mizumoto (2006, Woodland Hills, California, USA)
• Gordy (2005, Rügen, Germany)
• Frank Gorshin (2005, Burbank, California, USA)
• Jukka Kajava (2005, Berlin, Germany)
• Keith Miller (2005, England, UK)
• Jarmo Porola (2005, Spain)
• Gianni Zullo (2005, Pianello Valtidone, Piacenza, Italy)
• Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (2004, East London, South Africa)
• Gunnar Graps (2004, Tallinn, Estonia)
• Jørgen Nash (2004, Örkelljunga, Skåne län, Sweden)
• Tony Randall (2004, New York City, New York, USA)
• Cathy Rosier (2004, Marrakech, Morocco)
• Edith Carlmar (2003, Oslo, Norway)
• Jørgen Fønss (2003, Denmark)
• Harold Loeb (2003, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Maurice McEndree (2003, Carnation, Washington, USA)
• Suzi Bass (2002)
• Dave Berg (2002, Marina del Rey, California, USA)
• Joe Black (2002, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA)
• Marie Kenney (2002, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Ladislao Kubala (2002, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain)
• Sharon Sheeley (2002, Sherman Oaks, California, USA)
• Norman Vaughan (2002, London, England, UK)
• Ikuma Dan (2001, Suzhou, China)
• Frank Frezzo (2001)
• Robert Knapp (2001, Glendale, California, USA)
• Frank Slaughter (2001, Jacksonville, Florida, USA)
• Yossi Yadin (2001, Tel Aviv, Israel)
• Egil Lorck (2000, Norway)
• Paul Nickell (2000, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA)
• James Broughton (1999, Port Townsend, Washington, USA)
• Nat Dickerson (1999, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
• Henry Jones (1999, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Ivan Butler (1998, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK)
• Andrzej Kierc (1998, Lódz, Poland)
• Hugh Rouse (1998, Alberton, South Africa)
• Durgabai (1997, Pune, Maharashtra, India)
• Willis Conover (1996)
• Rita Gladunko (1996)
• Georg Hensel (1996, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany)
• Virgil Ross (1996)
• Gerald Tueber (1996, Desert Hot Springs, California, USA)
• Nikolaus Utermöhlen (1996)
• Johnny 'Guitar' Watson (1996, Yokohama, Japan)
• Hector 'Toe' Blake (1995)
• George Metkovich (1995, Costa Mesa, California, USA)
• Shawn Nelson (1995, San Diego, California, USA)
• Robert Sommerwerck (1995)
• Hélène Darly (1994, Conches-sur-Gondoire, Seine-et-Marne, France)
• Jarmila Smejkalová (1994, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Robert Lapoujade (1993, Saincy-sur-Bellot, Seine-et-Marne, France)
• Joe Ploski (1993, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Frederick Heider (1992, Palm Desert, California, USA)
• George Hurrell Sr. (1992, North Hollywood, California, USA)
• Astrid Marmstedt (1992, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden)
• Irving Rosenberg (1992, Studio City, California, USA)
• Edgardo Suárez (1992, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• J.D. Trop (1992, Miami, Florida, USA)
• Lawrence Welk (1992, Santa Monica, California, USA)
• Göthe Grefbo (1991, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden)
• Junchao Jiang (1991, Beijing, China)
• Ilse Trautschold (1991, Berlin, Germany)
• William Bosche (1990)
• Bob Danvers Walker (1990)
• Carlos Riquelme (1990, Mexico City, Mexico)
• Georgi Alurkov (1989, Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Roger Ammann (1989, Los Angeles County, California, USA)
• Geoff Brewer (1989, Clark Air Force Base, Philippines)
• Michael Dyne (1989, Linlithgo, New York, USA)
• Mike Graham (1989, Clark Air Force Base, Philippines)
• Walter Gross (1989, Berlin, Germany)
• Ota Hofman (1989, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic])
• Jojo Imperiale (1989, Clark Air Force Base, Philippines)
• Don Marshall (1989, Clark Air Force Base, Philippines)
• Wiktor Buchwald (1988, Poznan, Poland)
• Frank Gallop (1988)
• Guy Glover (1988, Hudson, Quebec, Canada)
• Anna Kulawinska (1987, Lódz, Poland)
• John Gibson (1986, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Robert Meadows (1986, New York City, New York, USA)
• J. Brian (1985, San Francisco, California, USA)
• Hugh Burden (1985, London, England, UK)
• Abe Burrows (1985, New York City, New York, USA)
• Armando Domínguez (1985, Mexico City, Mexico)
• Rodolfo Lombardi (1985, Rome, Lazio, Italy)
• Luigi Alfano (1984, San Francisco, California, USA)
• Elza Gomes (1984, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Vick Knight (1984, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Gordon Sinclair (1984, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
• Victor Halperin (1983, Benton, Arizona, USA)
• Edward C. Higgins (1983, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
• Herbert Körbs (1983, Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic [now Federal Republic of Germany])
• Thomas Cooper (1982, Tralee, Ireland)
• Pjer Majhrovski (1982, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Yugoslavia)
• Ross Allen (1981, Gainesville, Florida, USA)
• László Ferencz (1981, Budapest, Hungary)
• Hugo Friedhofer (1981, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Tomiko Hattori (1981)
• Konstantin Sorokin (1981)
• Gertrude Sutton (1980, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Ernst Wiemann (1980, Hamburg, Germany)
• Jerzy Kotowski (1979, near Kraków, Poland)
• Donyale Luna (1979, Rome, Lazio, Italy)
• Vladimir Medar (1978, Bela Crkva, Serbia, Yugoslavia)
• Herbert Spencer Griswold (1976, Orange County, California, USA)
• Mary Holly (1976, Palm Springs, California, USA)
• Hermann Warm (1976, Berlin, Germany)
• Grete Bendix (1975, Denmark)
• Peter Holland (1975, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
• Ben Bard (1974, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Charles Braswell (1974, The Bronx, New York, USA)
• James Joyce (1974, Santa Monica, California, USA)
• Maurice Lehmann (1974, Paris, France)
• Lajos Sugár (1974, Budapest, Hungary)
• Kazimierz Wozniak (1974, Katowice, Upper Silesia, Poland)
• Pedro Biker (1973, Denmark)
• Vivian Peï (1973, Ibiza, Spain)
• Matty Roubert (1973, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
• Giannina Chiantoni (1972, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
• José María Contursi (1972, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• John Shelton (1972, Colombo, Ceylon. [now Sri Lanka])
• Lan-Ping Chow (1971)
• Nigel Balchin (1970)
• Sven Erixson (1970)
• Fanny Watson (1970, Albany, New York, USA)
• Helen Whitson (1970, London, England, UK)
• Arthur 'Bugs' Baer (1969, New York City, New York, USA)
• Charles Bancroft (1969, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Maria Olszewska (1969, Baden, Austria)
• Carroll Clark (1968, Glendale, California, USA)
• Domenico Gambino (1968, Rome, Italy)
• Paul E. Burns (1967, Van Nuys, California, USA)
• Krystyna Lapinska (1967, Lódz, Poland)
• Péter Palotás (1967, Budapest, Hungary)
• Blanca Podestá (1967, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Raffaello Matarazzo (1966, Rome, Italy)
• Randolph Turpin (1966, Warwickshire, England)
• Mary Breckinridge (1965)
• Lord Brabazon of Tara (1964, London, England, UK)
• Edna Hammel (1964, Southwick, Massachusetts, USA)
• Otto Wille Kuusinen (1964, Moscow, USSR)
• Steve Owen (1964, New York City, New York, USA)
• A.V. Bramble (1963, Friern Barnett, England, UK)
• Daniel Mendaille (1963, Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France)
• Ricardo Beltri (1962, Mexico City, Mexico)
• Evgeniy Raykovskiy (1962)
• Dolly Tree (1962, Long Island, New York, USA)
• Andrei Demidenko (1961)
• Viola Roache (1961, Hollywood, California, USA)
• Georgia Harvey (1960, New York City, New York, USA)
• Jules Supervielle (1960, Paris, France)
• Erzsi Antal (1959, Budapest, Hungary)
• Marjorie Cantor (1959, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• George Albert Smith (1959)
• Jerry Unser (1959, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
• F. Hugh Herbert (1958, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Shalva Azmaiparashvili (1957)
• Edward J. Meagher (1956, Los Angeles County, California, USA)
• Francesco Balilla Pratella (1955, Ravenna, Italy)
• Ethel Hill (1954, Hollywood, California, USA)
• Arthur Lucan (1954, Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK)
• Eduard Wenck (1954, Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany)
• Eric DeLamarter (1953, Orlando, Florida, USA)
• Howard Fogg (1953, Montreal, Canada)
• Leon Xanrof (1953, Paris, France)
• S. Sylvan Simon (1951)
• Laura Walker (1951, New York City, New York, USA)
• Béla Balázs (1949, Budapest, Hungary)
• William J. Kelly (1949, New York City, New York, USA)
• Seabiscuit (1947, Willits, California, USA)
• Ben Taggart (1947, Santa Monica, California, USA)
• David Clyde (1945, San Fernando Valley, California, USA)
• Shayle Gardner (1945)
• Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins (1945, Merced, California, USA)
• Henry H. Knibbs (1945, San Diego, California, USA)
• Hans Georg von Friedeburg (1945, Flensburg, Germany)
• Louis Aubert (1944, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée, France)
• Felix Basch (1944, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Milena Jesenska (1944, Ravensbruck concentration camp, Germany)
• John Wahlbom (1944)
• Montagu Love (1943, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Edward McWade (1943, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Solly Ward (1942, Hollywood, California, USA)
• Milla Davenport (1936, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Edwards Davis (1936, Hollywood, California, USA)
• Ernest Glendinning (1936, South Coventry, Connecticut, USA)
• Ben Greet (1936, London, England, UK)
• Blackie Thompson (1936, Los Angeles, California, USA)
• Paul Dukas (1935, Paris, France)
• Alvah D. Simms (1930)
• Hermin Haraszti (1921, Budapest, Hungary)
• Karl Mantzius (1921, Frederiksberg, Denmark)
• Frank Reilly (1919, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
• William L. Abingdon (1918, New York City, New York, USA)