Milestones: May 13, 1966

Died. Richard Farina, 29, folk singer who, with Wife Mimi (sister of Folk Heroine Joan Baez), cut two well-received albums before writing a just-published novel on the hippies (Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me); in the crash of a speeding motorcycle, near Carmel, Calif.

Died. Prince Friedrich of Prussia, 54, Kaiser Wilhelm's grandson and a gentleman farmer, who spent World War II as a volunteer farm laborer in England and became a British subject, but later returned home to resume his royal titles; by drowning, presumably suicide, the same day his wife of 20 years, Brewery Heiress Lady...

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