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Obituary Events in May 2002
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May 3
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M. S. Oberoi (103), chairman of the Oberoi Group, in New Delhi, after a brief illness.
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B. P. Sinha (85), prominent historian who discovered the ancient Vikramashila University in Bhagalpur, after a protracted illness, in Patna.
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Baroness Barbara Castle (91), hailed as Labour's "Red Queen" and U.K.'s first Iron Lady, in her sleep, in London.
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May 4
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Yevgeni Svetlanov (74), pianist and conductor, highly decorated during the Soviet period, in his Moscow apartment after a long illness.
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May 10
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Kaifi Azmi (82), well-known Urdu poet, in Mumbai after prolonged illness.
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May 18
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S. L. Shakdher (83), former CEC and former Secretary-General, Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, after a brief illness.
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May 19
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Nasikrao Tirpude (85), veteran Congressman who championed the cause of a separate Vidarbha State, in Mumbai.
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Stephen Jay Gould (60), American evolutionist theorist (punctuated equilibrium), in New York, of a rare form of cancer.
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May 27
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Iqbal Singh Gulati (79), leading economist and planner, in Thiruvananthapuram, battling cancer.
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May 29
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Herbert Johnson (104), one of the last living rescuers of survivors from the Titanic, after slipping into a coma.
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