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Known as the Beast of Chicago, the Devil in the White City or the Torture Doctor, he committed his most notorious crimes in Chicago around the time of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Notable Deaths on May 7
1896 — H. H. Holmes
American serial killer (born 1861)
May 7 has 89 recorded notable deaths across history, from 721 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
89 source records
721 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on May 7
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1992 Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49. Source
- 1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer. Source
- 2000 Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia. Source
- 1942 World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships. Source
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Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 112 died, while 184 people survived.
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A member of a gifted golfing family, he won 90 international tournaments in his career, including five major championships between 1979 and 1988; The Open Championship three times and the Masters Tournament twice.
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Eddie Rabbitt's career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974.
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" His first marriage was to actress Joan Crawford.
More major people who died on May 7
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2012
Dennis E. Fitch
American captain and pilot (born 1942)
United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport in…
2011
Seve Ballesteros
Spanish golfer (born 1957)
Severiano Ballesteros Sota was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s.
1998
Eddie Rabbitt
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
Edward Thomas Rabbitt was an American country music singer and songwriter.
2000
Douglas Fairbanks
Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (born 1909)
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. was an American actor, producer, and United States Navy officer.
1840
Caspar David Friedrich
German painter and educator (born 1774)
Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional…
1925
William Lever
1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (born 1851)
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician.
1880
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva
Duke of Caxias, Brazilian general and statesman (born 1803)
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, nicknamed "the Peacemaker" and "the Iron Duke", was an army officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil.
2010
Wally Hickel
American politician, Governor of Alaska and Secretary of the Interior (born 1919)
Walter Joseph Hickel was an American businessman, real estate developer, and politician who served as the second governor of Alaska from 1966 to 1969 and 1990 to 1994, as well as U.S.
1685
Bajo Pivljanin (born 1630)
Bajo Pivljanin, born Dragojlo Nikolić, was a Serbian hajduk commander mostly active in the Ottoman territories of Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia.
1014
Bagrat III
1st King of Georgia (born 960)
Bagrat III, also known as Bagrat the Unifier, of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king (mepe) of the Kingdom of Abkhazia from 978 and king of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1008 until his death in 1014.
721
John of Beverley
bishop of York
John of Beverley was an English bishop active in the kingdom of Northumbria. He was the bishop of Hexham and then the bishop of York, which was the most important religious designation in the area.
1205
Ladislaus III of Hungary (born 1201)
Ladislaus III was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1204 and 1205. He was the only child of King Emeric. Ladislaus was crowned king upon the orders of his ill father, who wanted to secure his infant son's succession.
1951
Warner Baxter
American actor (born 1889)
Warner Leroy Baxter was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s.
2015
Frank DiPascali
American businessman (born 1956)
Frank DiPascali Jr. was an American fraudster and financier who was a key lieutenant of Bernie Madoff for three decades.
1887
C. F. W. Walther
German-American religious leader and theologian (born 1811)
Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was a German-American Lutheran minister. He was the first president of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) and one of its most influential theologians.
2007
Diego Corrales
American boxer (born 1977)
Diego "Chico" Corrales Jr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2007.
1805
William Petty
2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1737)
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home…
2014
Neville McNamara
Australian air marshal (born 1923)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Neville Patrick McNamara, was a senior commander of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
1718
Mary of Modena
Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1658)
Mary of Modena was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James VII and II.