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Famous People Who Died in May 1929

  • May 4 Henry Morton Dunham, American composer, dies at 75
  • May 7 Albert Anselmi, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
  • May 7 John Scalise, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
  • May 7 Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
  • May 11 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor, dies at 65
  • May 16 Lilli Lehmann, German opera soprano (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 80

Archibald Primrose (1847-1929)

May 21 5th Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister (Liberal: 1894-95), dies at 82

  • May 21 V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
  • May 28 Alice Stopford Green, Irish historian and proponent of Irish independence, dies at 81