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Who died on 22 May?
Celebrities who died on 22 May
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Langston Hughes
American writer and social activist
Philip Roth
American novelist
James Forrestal
United States Navy officer and civil servant, Undersecretary of the Navy
Jerry Sloan
American basketball player and coach
Heather Chasen
actress
Dervla Murphy
Irish touring cyclist and writer
Dina Merrill
American actress, socialite heiress, businesswoman and philanthropist
Oscar Bonavena
Argentine boxer
Cornelia Oberlander
Canadian architect
Veturi Sundararama Murthy
Indian lyricist
Peter Lamborn Wilson
American political writer, poet and essayist
Yuan Longping
Chinese biologist
Jiřina Šiklová
Czech sociologist, publicist and feminist
John Derek
American actor, director and photographer
Beverly Lunsford
American actress
Ashley Cooper
Australian tennis player
Chief Bender
American baseball player and coach
Judith Kerr
British writer and illustrator
Cecil Day-Lewis
English poet
Arnulf Baumann
German author
Joan Davis
Actress, vaudevillian
Wu Mengchao
Chinese scientist
Herbert Richmond Palmer
English barrister and colonial supervisor
Kaiser Wilhelm
American baseball player
Ernst Toller
German playwright
Syamsudin Mahmud
Indonesian economist and politician
Lefty Grove
Major League Baseball pitcher
Oemarsono
Indonesian politician
Velimir Bata Živojinović
Yugoslav and Serbian actor and politician
Albert Memmi
French writer of Tunisian-Jewish origin
Joe Beckwith
American baseball player
Torben Meyer
actor
John Marley
1907–1984; American actor
André Ribeiro
Brazilian racing driver
Francesc Arnau
Spanish footballer
Luigi Simoni
Italian footballer and manager
Eduard Punset
Spanish lawyer, economist, writer and scientific popularizer, sophist
Edward F. Cline
American actor and director
Fritz Hippler
German film director
Mory Kanté
Guinean musician
Hassan Sayyad Khodaei
Iranian ballistic missile expert
Raam Laxman
Indian composer
Bonar Sianturi
Indonesian military officer
Bernabé Ferreyra
Argentine footballer
Jake Atz
American baseball player
Pat Walsh
Australian rugby union player
Paul Giel
American football and baseball player, college athletics administrator
Júlio Pomar
Portuguese artist