In deaths:
| May 9th 1968 | | Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at 58
| | May 9th 1968 | | Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
| | May 9th 1968 | | Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74
| | May 9th 1968 | | Finlay Currie, dies at 90
| | May 9th 1970 | | Percy Brier, composer, dies at 84
| | May 9th 1970 | | Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies
| | May 9th 1974 | | Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69
| | May 9th 1975 | | Philip Dorn, dies at 73
| | May 9th 1976 | | Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74
| | May 9th 1976 | | Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59
| | May 9th 1977 | | James Jones, US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55
| | May 9th 1977 | | Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 71
| | May 9th 1979 | | Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95
| | May 9th 1979 | | Lan Adomian, composer, dies at 73
| | May 9th 1981 | | C E "Nip" Pellew, cricketer (10 Tests 484 runs at 37), dies
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