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He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005)
Notable Deaths on April 13
115 people
548 – 2026
April 13 has seen 115 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 548 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2022 — Michel Bouquet
French stage and film actor (born 1925)
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He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Les côtelettes in 1998, then again for Exit the King in 2005
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In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career
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He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018.
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He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020
548
Visigothic prince and saint
Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild, was the son of King Liuvigild of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year. During his…
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585
Italian monk and historian (born 720)
Paul the Deacon, also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefridus, Barnefridus, or Winfridus, and sometimes suffixed Cassinensis, was a Benedictine monk, scribe, and historian of the Lombards.
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799
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862
Byzantine general
Bardas Phokas was a Byzantine general who took a conspicuous part in three revolts for and against the ruling Macedonian dynasty.
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989
1035
Vsevolod I Yaroslavich was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1078 until his death in 1093.
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1093
1113
1138
regent of Brittany
Guy of Thouars was Duke of Brittany from 1199 to 1201 as the third husband of Constance, Duchess of Brittany. They married in Angers, County of Anjou, between August and October 1199 after her son Arthur entered Angers…
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1213
Eleanor of England was the youngest child of John, King of England and Isabella of Angoulême. She married Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.
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1275
2nd Baron Tibetot (born 1313)
John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot, English nobleman, was the son of Pain Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tibetot and Agnes de Ros.
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1367
Italian architect and sculptor (born 1511)
Bartolomeo Ammannati was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence, Italy. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino and closely imitated the style of Michelangelo.
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1592
Tsar of Russia (born 1551)
Boris Feodorovich Godunov was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty. After the end of Feodor's reign, Russia…
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1605
Japanese samurai (born 1585)
Sasaki Kojirō was a Japanese swordsman who may have lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods and is known primarily for the story of his duel with Miyamoto Musashi in 1612, where Sasaki was killed.…
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1612
Ottoman prince (born 1572)
Fakhr al-Din Ma'n, commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II, was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman over much of…
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1635
1638
1641
French author and poet (born 1621)
Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and…
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1695
1st Earl of Torrington, English admiral and politician (born 1648)
Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington was an English naval officer and politician. Dismissed by James II of England in 1688 for refusing to vote to repeal the Test Act, which prevented Catholics from holding public…
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1716
Irish priest and theologian (born 1650)
Charles Leslie was a former Church of Ireland priest who became a leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution. One of a small number of Irish Protestants to actively support the Stuarts after 1688,…
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1722
French botanist, lawyer, and politician (born 1763)
Pierre Gaspard Anaxagore Chaumette was a French politician of the Revolutionary period who served as the president of the Paris Commune and played a leading role in the establishment of the Reign of Terror. He was a…
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1793
French playwright and poet (born 1741)
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, known in his adult life as Nicolas Chamfort and as Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister Madame…
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1794
German cellist, composer, and conductor (born 1763)
Franz Ignaz Danzi was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–1798) and brother of the noted singer Franziska Danzi.
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1826
German chemist and academic (born 1788)
Leopold Gmelin was a German chemist. Gmelin was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test, and wrote his Handbook of Chemistry, which over successive editions…
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1853
Jr., American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (born 1788)
James Iredell Jr. was the 23rd Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina between 1827 and 1828.
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1853
English geologist and palaeontologist (born 1796)
Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods. He was the first…
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1855
Tewodros II was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1855 until his death in 1868. His rule is often placed as the beginning of modern Ethiopia and brought an end to the decentralized Zemene Mesafint.
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1868
Russian rabbi (born 1820)
Bezalel Ben Moses HaKohen was a rabbi and Talmudist at Vilnius, then in the Russian Empire.
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1878
Scottish botanist and author (born 1813)
Robert Fortune was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller, best known for introducing around 250 new ornamental plants, mainly from China, but also Japan, into the gardens of Britain, Australia, and North…
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1880
German historian and philosopher (born 1809)
Bruno Bauer was a German philosopher, theologian, and historian. A prominent member of the Young Hegelians, he was a radical rationalist critic of the Bible and Christianity. Initially a student of Georg Wilhelm…
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1882
American religious leader, founded the Oneida Community (born 1811)
John Humphrey Noyes was an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded utopian communities at Putney, Vermont, Oneida, New York, and Wallingford, Connecticut, and is credited with…
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1886
American captain, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1828)
Samuel Jackson Randall was an American politician from Pennsylvania who represented the Queen Village, Society Hill, and Northern Liberties neighborhoods of Philadelphia from 1863 to 1890 and served as the 44th speaker…
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1890
Anglo-Irish lawyer and scholar (born 1830)
Whitley Stokes, CSI, CIE, FBA was an Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar.
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1909
Scottish-English painter and educator (born 1835)
Sir William Quiller Orchardson was a Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects who was knighted in June 1907, at the age of 75.
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1910
Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (born 1852)
John McLane was a Scottish-American furniture maker and politician who served as the 50th governor of New Hampshire from 1905 to 1907.
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1911
American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (born 1827)
George Washington Glick was the ninth governor of Kansas.
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1911
Japanese poet and author (born 1886)
Takuboku Ishikawa was a Japanese poet. Well known as both a tanka and "modern-style" or "free-style" poet, he began as a member of the Myōjō group of naturalist poets but later joined the "socialistic" group of…
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1912
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1856)
James Buchanan Brady, also known as Diamond Jim Brady, was an American businessman, financier and philanthropist of the Gilded Age.
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1917
Russian general (born 1870)
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. He served as Supreme Commander of the Russian Army and as the military…
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1918
Greek jurist, banker and politician (born 1896)
Stefanos Streit was a Greek jurist, banker and politician. He served as chairman of the National Bank of Greece and Minister of Finance.
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1920
German politician, Mayor of Frankfurt (born 1866)
Georg Philipp Wilhelm Voigt was a German politician. Voigt was the mayor of Rixdorf, Barmen, Frankfurt, and Marburg.
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1927
Mexican Catholic priest (born 1888)
Sabás Reyes Salazar was a Mexican Catholic vicar and one of many priests martyred during the Cristero War. Reyes was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 21 May 2000 as one the Martyrs of the Cristero War.
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1927
Greek politician 129th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1876)
Konstantinos Demertzis was a Greek academic and politician. He was the 49th Prime Minister of Greece from November 1935 to April 1936. Demertzis died during his mandate, of a heart attack, on April 13, 1936.
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1936
1938
American astronomer and academic (born 1863)
Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard…
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1941
Canadian soccer player (born 1879)
William Twaits was a Canadian amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Twaits was born in Galt, Ontario. In 1904 he was a member of the Galt F.C. team, which won the gold medal in the soccer…
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1941
Dutch politician (born 1883)
Hendricus Josephus Franciscus Marie Sneevliet, known as Henk Sneevliet or by the pseudonym "Maring", was a Dutch communist politician who was active in both the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. As a functionary of…
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1942
Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (born 1879)
Anton Uesson was an Estonian politician and engineer.
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1942
French pianist and composer (born 1857)
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer.
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1944
Polish-American philosopher and academic (born 1874)
Ernst Alfred Cassirer was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Trained within the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic…
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1945
American high jumper (born 1880)
Samuel Symington Jones was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the high jump where he won the gold…
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1954
Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (born 1890)
Angus Lewis Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer, law professor and politician from Nova Scotia. He served as the Liberal premier of Nova Scotia from 1933 to 1940, when he became the federal minister of defence for naval…
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1954
Danish-German painter and educator (born 1867)
Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color.…
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1956
Dutch pianist, violinist, and conductor (born 1901)
Eduard Alexander van Beinum was a Dutch conductor.
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1959
American soldier (born 1936)
John Arthur Bennett was a U.S. Army soldier who remains the last person to be executed after a court-martial by the United States Armed Forces. The 18-year-old private was convicted of the rape and attempted murder of…
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1961
American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of California (born 1876)
Culbert Levy Olson was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 29th governor of California from 1939 to 1943. A member of the Democratic Party, Olson was previously elected to both the Utah State Senate and…
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1962
Norwegian footballer and chemical engineer (born 1891)
Kristian August Krefting was a Norwegian footballer, military officer, chemical engineer and company owner. He was Norwegian champion with the club Lyn in 1910 and 1911, and was on the Norway national football team at…
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1964
Iraqi colonel and politician, 2nd President of Iraq (born 1921)
Abdul Salam Mohammed ʿArif Al-Jumaili was an Iraqi military officer and politician who served as the second president of Iraq from 1963 until his death in a plane crash in 1966. He played a leading role in the 14 July…
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1966
Italian painter (born 1881)
Carlo Carrà was an Italian painter and a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books…
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1966
French soldier and author (born 1884)
Georges Duhamel was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit, the first of a series featuring the…
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1966
1967
Italian partigiano and priest (born 1901)
Don Antonio Ambrogio Gianotti was a Catholic priest and member of the Italian resistance movement.
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1969
Estonian pianist and composer (born 1901)
Alfred Karindi was an Estonian organist and composer.
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1969
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1949)
Michel Edouard Brière was a Canadian professional ice hockey player for one season in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1969–70. Following his rookie season with the Penguins, Brière was…
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1971
Estonian author, poet, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Juhan Smuul was an Estonian writer. Until 1954 he used the given name Johannes Schmuul. Smuul was one of the most recognized writers in Soviet Estonia and was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of…
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1971
American janitor and author (born 1892)
Henry Joseph Darger Jr. was an American janitor and hospital worker. He gained recognition only after his death for his a vast body of visual art and writing.
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1973
American actor and singer (born 1914)
Samuel Lawrence Klusman Parks was an American stage and film actor. His career arced from bit player and supporting roles to top billing, before it virtually ended when he admitted to having been a member of a Communist…
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1975
Chadian soldier, academic, and politician, 1st President of Chad (born 1918)
François Tombalbaye, also known as N'Garta Tombalbaye, was a Chadian politician who served as the first President of Chad from the country's independence in 1960 until his overthrow in 1975. A dictatorial leader, his…
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1975
Canadian painter and director (born 1931)
John Richard Chambers was an artist and filmmaker. Born in London, Ontario, Chambers' painting style shifted from surrealist-influenced to photo-realist-influenced. He used the term "Perceptual Realism" and later…
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1978
Nigerian educator and women's rights activist (born 1900)
Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, also known as Funmilayo Aníkúlápó-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political organizer, and women's rights advocate who intellectually engaged with anti-imperialist, Pan-Africanist, and…
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1978
Austrian racing driver (born 1956)
Markus Höttinger was an Austrian racing driver who died after an accident at Germany's Hockenheimring during the third lap of the second round of the 1980 European Formula Two Championship, on 13 April 1980. He was 23…
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1980
English footballer (born 1934)
Gerald Archibald Hitchens was an English footballer who played as a centre forward.
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1983
Greek physician, author, and poet (born 1896)
Theodore Philip Stephanides was a Greek-British doctor and polymath, best remembered as the friend and mentor of Gerald Durrell. He was also known as a naturalist, biologist, astronomer, poet, writer and translator.
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1983
American harpsichordist and musicologist (born 1911)
Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick was an American harpsichordist and musicologist, widely known for his chronological catalog of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas as well as for his performances and recordings.
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1984
Greek actor (born 1912)
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos was a Greek actor. He was born in Diakopto in the northeastern part of Achaea in 1912. He studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece in Athens and made his stage debut in…
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1984
Canadian actor and director (born 1920)
Jean Gascon was a Canadian opera director, actor, and administrator.
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1988
Canadian economist and politician (born 1923)
Maurice Sauvé was a Canadian economist, politician, cabinet minister and businessman. He was the husband of Jeanne Sauvé, who served as 23rd Governor General of Canada.
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1992
Turkish mathematician and physicist (born 1921)
Feza Gürsey was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his contributions to theoretical physics, his work on the chiral model and on SU(6) symmetry of the quark model are the most well-known.
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1992
Australian actor (born 1968)
Daniel John Pollock was an Australian film actor. He was perhaps best known for his role as Davey in the 1992 drama film Romper Stomper.
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1992
American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1909)
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
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1993
English author and educator (born 1910)
Leila Antoinette Sterling Mackinlay was a British writer of romance novels from 1930 to 1979 as Leila S. Mackinlay or Leila Mackinlay and also under the pseudonym Brenda Grey. Some of her novels are based on real people…
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1996
American soldier and white supremacist, founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People (born 1920)
Bryant William Bowles Jr. was a white supremacist bitterly opposed to racial integration of public schools in the United States.
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1997
Australian public servant (born 1920)
Sir Alan Sydenham Cooley, was a senior Australian Public Service official and policymaker.
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1997
American author and actress (born 1896)
Dorothy Frooks was an American writer, publisher, military officer, lawyer, and suffragist. She also ran for Congress twice, in 1920 as a member of the Prohibition Party and in 1934 on the Law Preservation ticket for…
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1997
Estonian wrestler (born 1903)
Voldemar Väli was an Estonian two-time Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.
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1997
French skydiver and base jumper (born 1960)
Patrick de Gayardon was a French skydiver, skysurfer and a BASE jumper.
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1998
Estonian-New Zealand chess player and author (born 1924)
Ortvin Sarapu, known in New Zealand as "Mr Chess", was an Estonian-born chess player who emigrated to New Zealand and won or shared the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times from 1952 to 1990.
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1999
German engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of East Germany (born 1914)
Wilhelm Stoph was a German politician. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic from 1964 to 1973, and again from 1976 until 1989. He also served as chairman of the State…
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1999
Italian author and poet (born 1916)
Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual.
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2000
American baseball player and manager (born 1910)
Stanley George "Frenchy" Bordagaray was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder and third baseman for the Chicago White Sox, Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis…
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2000
Northern Irish television host (born 1962)
Caron Louisa Keating was a British television presenter.
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2004
American pianist and songwriter (born 1924)
Johnnie Clyde Johnson was an American pianist who played jazz, blues, and rock and roll. His work with Chuck Berry led to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional…
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2005
American painter and sculptor (born 1912)
Philip Pavia (1911-2005) was a culturally influential American artist of Italian descent, known for his scatter sculpture and figurative abstractions, and the debate he fostered among many of the 20th century's most…
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2005
Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (born 1918)
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
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2006
American physicist and academic (born 1911)
John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr to…
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2008
Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (born 1941)
Cecil Chaudhry SJ SBt PP was a Pakistani academic, human rights activist, and a veteran fighter pilot. As a flight lieutenant, he fought in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and as a squadron leader in the Indo-Pakistani…
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2012
Japanese illustrator (born 1936)
Shūichi Higurashi (日暮修一) was a Japanese manga illustrator and magazine artist. Higurashi was the cover artist for Big Comic, a Japanese manga magazine, for more than forty years, from 1970 until fall 2011.
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2012
English composer and educator (born 1924)
Stephen Cuthbert Vivian Dodgson was a British composer and broadcaster. Dodgson's prolific musical output covered most genres, ranging from opera and large-scale orchestral music to chamber and instrumental music, as…
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2013
Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (born 1935)
Ernesto Laclau was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner, Chantal…
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2014
American journalist and author (born 1951)
Michael Craig Ruppert was an American writer and musician, Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist, political activist, and peak oil awareness advocate known for his 2004 book Crossing The…
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2014
Uruguayan journalist and author (born 1940)
Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters".
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2015
German novelist, poet, playwright, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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2015
American author and illustrator (born 1939)
Herbert William Trimpe was an American comics artist and occasional writer, best known as the seminal 1970s artist on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who…
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2015
American football executive and former United States Ambassador to Ireland (born 1932)
Daniel Milton Rooney was an American professional football executive and diplomat best known for his association with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL), and son of the Steelers' founder, Art…
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2017
2018
American musician and bandleader (born 1921)
Gloria Parker was an American musician and bandleader who had a radio show during the big band era. The Gloria Parker Show was broadcast nightly from 1950 to 1957, coast to coast on WABC. She played the marimba, organ,…
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2022
American artist and author (born 1930)
Faith Ringgold was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.
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2024
American diplomat and government official (born 1945)
Richard Lee Armitage was an American diplomat and government official. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Armitage served as a U.S. Navy officer in three combat tours of duty in the Vietnam War as a riverine…
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2025
Peruvian novelist and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of…
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2025
English actress and screenwriter (born 1934)
Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh was an English actress and writer. She co-created and starred in the ITV series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975), for which she won the 1975 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama…
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2025
Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (born 1952)
Moya Brennan, also known as Máire Brennan, was an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist and philanthropist. She began performing professionally in 1970 when her family formed the band Clannad. Brennan released her…
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2026
American football player and coach (born 1951)
David McGinnis was an American professional football coach in the National Football League (NFL). He was the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals from 2000 to 2003 and assistant head coach of the St. Louis/Los Angeles…
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2026
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Michel Bouquet — French actor (1925–2022)
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Death year2022
Known forHe appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020
Deaths on this date115 (548 – 2026)
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