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Events in May 2005

May. 1 Kamala Mukherjee (92), veteran freedom fighter at a Kolkata hospital after protracted, illness. Full Story
May. 2 Wee Kim Wee (89), former Singapore President (1985-93) known as the “People’s President”, at his home of complications of prostate cancer. Full Story
Bob Hunter (63), a Canadian who co-founded Greenpeace 34 years ago in Toronto of prostate cancer.
May. 3 Jagjit Singh Aurora (89), who commanded the troops in the liberation struggle of East Pakistan in 1971 of heart attack at a military hospital in New Delhi. Full Story
May. 11 T.T. Vasu (76), industrialist and former president of the Music Academy, Chennai after a brief illness. Full Story
May. 19 Ajit N. Haksar (80), Chairman Emeritus, ITC Limited, in New Delhi, following a brain haemorrhage.
May. 21 Chung Se-Yung (78), founder of Hyundai, South Korea’s largest automaker, of pneumonia, in Seoul. Full Story
May. 25 Ismail Merchant (68), maker of films such as “A Room With a Review,” “Howard’s End”, in partnership with American James Ivory, in a London hospital. Full Story
Sunil Dutt (75), veteran actor and Union Sports Minister, of cardiac arrest at his house in Mumbai. Full Story
May. 26 Israel Epstein (90), veteran journalist and a true friend of the Chinese people in Beijing.
May. 27 K.N. Modi (84), noted industrialist after a protracted cancer ailment, in New Delhi.
May. 30 K. Kunjunny Raja (85), Sanskrit scholar, in Aluva.

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