Who's who May 18 - 24
THURSDAY MAY 18 Deaths: Elizabeth Montgomery, star of Bewitched, 1995. FRIDAY MAY 19 Deaths: Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, 1536; Nanthaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter novelist, 1864; William Gladstone, British Prime Minister, 1898; TE Law
THURSDAY MAY 18
Deaths: Elizabeth Montgomery, star of Bewitched, 1995.
FRIDAY MAY 19
Deaths: Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, 1536; Nanthaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter novelist, 1864; William Gladstone, British Prime Minister, 1898; TE Lawrence, otherwise Lawrence of Arabia, 1935; Ogden Nash, poet, 1971; Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate, 1984; Jackie Kennedy Onassis, wife of John F Kennedy, 1994.
SATURDAY MAY 20
Deaths: Jon Pertwee, ex-Dr Who, 1996.
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SUNDAY MAY 21
Deaths: Lord Kenneth Clark, historian and creator of Civilisation, 1983; Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1991; Dame Barbara Cartland, romantic novelist, 2000; Sir John Gielgud, actor, 2000.
MONDAY MAY 22
Deaths: Cecil Day Lewis, Poet Laureate, 1972; Dame Margaret Rutherford, actress, 1972; Max Wall, comedian, 1990.
TUESDAY MAY 23
Deaths: Henrik Ibsen, playwright of A Doll's House, 1906; John D Rockefeller, tycoon, 1937.
WEDNESDAY MAY 24
Deaths: Duke Ellington, jazz musician, 1974; Harold Wilson, Prime Minister, 1995.