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Samuel Moore Walton was an American business magnate best known for co-founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively
Notable Deaths on April 5
244 people
517 – 2024
April 5 has seen 244 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 517 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1992 — Sam Walton
American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (born 1918)
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for several consecutive years, with a net worth of around $440.62 billion US as of January 2026
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In 1992 at the age of 74, Walton died of blood cancer and was buried at the Bentonville Cemetery in his longtime home of Bentonville, Arkansas.
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For a period of time, Walton was the richest person in the United States
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grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world
Byzantine patriarch
Timothy I of Constantinople or Timotheus I was a Christian priest who was appointed patriarch of Constantinople by the Byzantine emperor Anastasius I Dicorus in 511.
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517
Byzantine patriarch
Eutychius of Constantinople, considered a saint in the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions, was the patriarch of Constantinople from 552 to 565 and from 577 to 582. His feast is kept by the…
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582
Irish abbot
Ruadán mac Fergusa Birn, also known Rowan, Ruadon, Roadan, Ruadhán, Rodon and Rodan, was an Irish Christian abbot who founded the monastery of Lorrha, near Terryglass. He was known for his prophecies. After his death,…
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584
Abbasid caliph
Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn, better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh, was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 892 until his death in 902.
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902
2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (born 1104)
Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester was Justiciar of England 1155–1168.
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1168
Spanish count of Cerdanya and Provence
Ramon Berenguer III or IV, born Peter, was the count of Cerdanya (1162–1168) and count of Provence (1173–1181).
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1183
queen regnant of Jerusalem (born 1172)
Isabella I was the queen of Jerusalem who reigned from the early 1190s to her death. She received the homage of her vassals as the rightful heir to the throne after the death of her half-sister Queen Sibylla in 1190,…
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1205
Belgian canoness and saint
Juliana of Liège, was a medieval Norbertine canoness regular and mystic in what is now Belgium. Traditional scholarly sources have long recognized her as the promoter of the Feast of Corpus Christi, first celebrated in…
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1258
Hungarian baron and oligarch
Ivan Kőszegi was an influential lord in the Kingdom of Hungary at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Earlier historiographical works also refer to him Ivan Németújvári. He was Palatine in 1281, between 1287 and…
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1308
1st Baron of Monthermer and Earl of Gloucester (born c. 1270)
Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, between 1297 and 1307 jure uxoris Earl of Gloucester and Earl of Hertford, and between 1306 and 1307 also 1st Earl of Atholl, was an English nobleman, who was the son-in-law of…
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1325
Spanish missionary and saint (born 1350)
Vincent Ferrer, OP was a Valencian Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician. After supporting Antipope Benedict XIII during the Western Schism, Ferrer travelled to preach across Western…
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1419
1431
Italian painter (born 1429)
Lazzaro Bastiani was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice. His students included Vittore Carpaccio and Benedetto Rusconi.
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1512
Dutch anabaptist reformer
Jan Matthys was a charismatic Anabaptist leader of the Münster Rebellion, regarded by his followers as a prophet.
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1534
Spanish nun (born 1533)
Catherine of Palma was a Spanish canon and mystic from Mallorca. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and her feast day is commonly celebrated on 5 April although in her home town of Valldemossa she…
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1594
1605
Italian engraver (born 1547)
Diana Scultori was an Italian engraver from Mantua, Italy. She is one of the earliest known women printmakers, making mostly reproductive engravings of well-known paintings or drawings, especially those of Raphael and…
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1612
Spanish composer (born 1555)
Alonso Lobo was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Tomás Luis de Victoria, he was highly regarded at the time, and Victoria himself considered him to be his equal.
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1617
Russian tsarina
Anna Alexeievna Koltovskaya, also known by her monastic name Daria (Дария), was tsaritsa of all Russia as the fourth wife of Ivan the Terrible, the tsar of all Russia.
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1626
Belgian-French explorer and politician, 8th Governor of Formosa (born 1600)
François Caron was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who served the Dutch East India Company for 30 years, rising from cook's mate to the director-general at Batavia (Jakarta), only one grade below…
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1673
French princess (born 1619)
Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon was a French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours, her influence during the civil wars of the Fronde, and her final conversion to Jansenism.
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1679
English mathematician (born 1620)
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, FRS was an Anglo-Irish peer and mathematician who served as the president of the Royal Society from 1662 to 1677. Best known for introducing Brouncker's formula, he also worked…
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1684
prince of Liechtenstein (born 1611)
Karl Eusebius was the Prince of Liechtenstein. He inherited this title in 1627 from his father Karl I. He was 16 and thus considered underage, and his uncles Prince Gundakar and Maximillian acted as regents until 1632.…
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1684
French noblewoman (born 1627)
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, known as La Grande Mademoiselle, was the only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier. One of the greatest…
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1693
German nobleman (born 1668)
Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg was a Prince and Count Palatine of Neuburg.
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1693
English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1633)
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, was an English statesman and writer. He sat in the House of Commons of England in 1660 before being elevated to the House of Lords in 1668.
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1695
king of Sweden (born 1655)
Charles XI or Carl was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death in 1697.
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1697
German nobleman and Duke of Württemberg-Oels (born 1652)
Duke Christian Ulrich I of Württemberg-Oels was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Duke of Württemberg-Bernstadt from 1669 to 1697 and then the ruling Duke of Oels-Württemberg from 1697 until his death.
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1704
German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern (born 1661)
Christian Heinrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, was a German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern and nominal Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach.
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1708
French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635)
Roger de Piles was a French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat.
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1709
Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver (born 1649)
Johannes or Jan Luyken was a Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraver.
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1712
French painter (born 1647)
Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet was a French painter, especially of religious subjects.
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1717
Austrian architect, sculptor and historian (born 1656)
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach was an Austrian architect, sculptor, engraver, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundly influenced and shaped the tastes of the Habsburg Empire. His…
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1723
English minister and philosopher (born 1657)
William Derham FRS was an English clergyman, natural theologian, natural philosopher and scientist. He produced the earliest reasonably accurate measurement of the speed of sound.
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1735
prince consort and king of Sweden (born 1676)
Frederick I was King of Sweden from 1720 until his death, having been prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and was also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730. He ascended the throne following the death of his…
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1751
English poet and author (born 1683)
Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems…
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1765
German princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (born 1685)
Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was a German princess by birth and Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg by marriage.
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1767
1768
Jesuit priest (born 1713)
Marc-Antoine Laugier was a Jesuit priest until 1755, then a Benedictine monk. Overlooking Claude Perrault and numerous other figures, Summerson notes,Marc Antoine Laugier can perhaps be called the first modern…
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1769
French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (born 1759)
Georges Jacques Danton was a French politician and leading figure of the French Revolution. A modest and unknown lawyer on the eve of the Revolution, Danton became a famous orator of the Cordeliers Club and was raised…
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1794
1794
French journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1760)
Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins was a French journalist, politician and a prominent figure of the French Revolution. He is best known for playing an instrumental role in the events that led to the Storming of…
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1794
French actor, dramatist, poet and politician (born 1750)
Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine, commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine, was a French actor, dramatist, poet, and politician of the French Revolution.
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1794
French judge and politician (born 1759)
Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles was a French judge, freemason and politician who took part in the French Revolution.
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1794
French lawyer (born 1754)
Pierre Philippeaux(French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ filipo]; 9 November 1754 – 5 April 1794, Paris), was a French lawyer who was a deputy to the National Convention for Sarthe.
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1794
French general (born 1751)
Brigadier-General François Joseph Westermann was a French Army officer. He is best known as one of the main French Republican commanders in the initial stage of the War in the Vendée.
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1794
German historian (born 1727)
Johann Christoph Gatterer was a German historian who was a native of Lichtenau. He was the father of cameralist Christoph Wilhelm Jacob Gatterer (1759–1838) and poet Magdalena Philippine Engelhard (1756–1831). He was a…
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1799
French general (born 1761)
Divisional-General Jean-Charles Pichegru was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Under his command, French troops overran the Austrian Netherlands and Dutch Republic in the Flanders…
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1804
German engraver (born 1715)
Johann Georg Wille, or Jean Georges Wille was a German-born copper engraver, who spent most of his life in France. He also worked as an art dealer.
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1808
Irish chemist and playwright (born 1774)
Richard Chenevix was an Irish chemist, mineralogist and playwright who also wrote on a range of other topics. He was known for his sharp cynicism and for engaging in combative criticism. Chenevix received the Copley…
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1830
Belgian entomologist (born 1797)
Pierre Léonard Vander Linden was a Belgian entomologist born in Brussels. In Italy, he studied under the botanist Antonio Bertoloni (1775–1869), the zoologist Camillo Ranzani (1775–1841) and the physician Giacomo…
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1831
5th Emir of Afghanistan (born 1785)
Shuja Shah Durrani was Shah of the Durrani Empire from 1803 until his deposition in 1809, and again from 1839 until his assassination in 1842. A son of Timur Shah Durrani, Shuja was of the Sadozai lineage of the Durrani…
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1842
(born 1800)
Felix Ludwig Johann Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg was a Bohemian nobleman and an Austrian statesman who restored the Austrian Empire as a European great power following the Revolutions of 1848. He served as…
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1852
1861
Dutch artist (born 1803)
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer, and the most famous member of the Koekkoek family of painters.
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1862
Italian general (born 1806)
Manfredo Fanti was an Italian general; he is known as the founder of the Royal Italian Army.
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1865
British physician (born 1798)
Thomas Hodgkin RMS was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of…
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1866
Czech painter (born 1834)
Karel Purkyně was a Czech painter and art critic. He was one of the most prominent proponents of realism in Czech art in the second half of the 19th century.
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1868
Italian geologist and ornithologist (born 1798)
Paolo Savi was an Italian geologist and ornithologist.
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1871
French astronomer (born 1812)
Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier was a French astronomer, one of two French astronomers referred to as M. Laugier.
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1872
Serbian soldier and politician (born 1824)
Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac was a Serbian general and politician who served as regent from 1868 to 1872, as well as head of government from 1872 to 1873.
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1873
(born 1806)
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play was a French engineer, sociologist and economist.
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1882
Russian author (born 1855)
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian author of short stories.
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1888
1891
French mathematician, economist, and academic (born 1822)
Joseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician and historian of science whose work emphasized number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
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1900
Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (born 1832)
Osman Nuri Pasha, also known as Gazi Osman Pasha, was an Ottoman Turkish field marshal. Being one of the most respected and decorated Ottoman pashas of all time, many songs have been written for him, and many places…
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1900
Italian social scientist and statistician (born 1820)
Angelo Messedaglia was an Italian social scientist, statistician and politician.
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1901
German bacteriologist (born 1850)
Hans Ernst August Buchner was a German bacteriologist who was born and raised in Munich. He was the older brother of Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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1902
4th Prince of Leiningen (born 1830)
Ernst, Prince of Leiningen was a German nobleman who served with distinction in the British Royal Navy.
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1904
Irish writer (born 1822)
Frances Power Cobbe was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups,…
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1904
American painter (born 1824)
Jonathan Eastman Johnson was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes…
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1906
German forestry scientist (born 1836)
Bernard Robert August Borggreve was a German forestry scientist. He is known for introducing the "Borggreve method", a silvicultural process for selection cutting of trees.
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1914
Russian sociologist (born 1851)
Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky was a jurist and the main authority on sociology in the Russian Empire. He was vice-president (1895) and president (1905) of the International Institute of Sociology. He also held a chair…
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1916
King of Tonga (born 1874)
George Tupou II was the King of Tonga from 18 February 1893 until his death. He was officially crowned at Nukuʻalofa, on 17 March 1893. He was also the 20th Tuʻi Kanokupolu.
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1918
French geographer (born 1845)
Paul Vidal de La Blache was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics. He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is…
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1918
French sculptor (born 1848)
Laurent-Honoré Marqueste was a French sculptor in the neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts tradition. He was a pupil of François Jouffroy and of Alexandre Falguière. Marqueste won the Prix de Rome in 1871.
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1920
Dutch composer (born 1862)
Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.
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1921
Swedish writer and translator (born 1853)
Sophie Elkan was a Swedish writer and translator.
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1921
5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (born 1866)
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon,, styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's…
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1923
German zoologist (born 1835)
Christian Andreas Victor Hensen was a German zoologist and marine biologist (planktology). He coined the term plankton and laid the foundation for biological oceanography and quantitative studies.
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1924
English cricketer and soldier (born 1890)
Roy Kilner was an English professional cricketer who played nine Test matches for England between 1924 and 1926. An all-rounder, he played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1927. In all first-class…
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1928
Czech painter and illustrator (born 1861)
Viktor Oliva was a Czech painter and illustrator.
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1928
English Benedictine monk (born 1846)
Francis Aidan Gasquet was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar. He controversially challenged what he regarded as the anti-Catholic narrative of the English history of his age, and uncovered the extent of…
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1929
1929
Spanish painter (born 1881)
María Gutiérrez-Cueto y Blanchard was a Spanish painter. She was known for developing a unique style of Cubism.
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1932
American novelist and playwright (born 1884)
Earl Derr Biggers was an American novelist and playwright. His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan were adapted into popular films made in the United States and China.
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1933
Finnish mathematician and functional theorist (born 1854)
Robert Hjalmar Mellin was a Finnish mathematician and function theorist.
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1933
Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (born 1860)
Salvatore Di Giacomo was an Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist, one of the signatories to the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals.
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1934
1934
Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1856)
Achille Locatelli was a Roman Catholic cardinal. He worked in papal diplomacy, and among other positions, he was nuntius in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
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1935
Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (born 1870)
Emil Szymon Młynarski was a Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue.
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1935
Hungarian violinist and composer (born 1893)
Franz von Vecsey was a Hungarian violinist and composer, who became a well-known virtuoso in Europe through the early 20th century. He made his first public debut at the age of 10. An accomplished violinist, he went…
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1935
American golfer and architect (born 1884)
Henry Chandler Egan was an American amateur golfer and golf course architect of the early 20th century.
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1936
(born 1866)
Gustav Adolf Deissmann was a German Protestant theologian, best known for his leading work on the Greek language used in the New Testament, which he showed was the koine, or commonly used tongue of the Hellenistic world…
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1937
1937
Finnish artist and writer (born 1857)
Helena Charlotta Westermarck was a Swedish-speaking Finnish artist and writer. She is known for her pioneering biographies of women.
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1938
Finnish revolutionary (born 1890)
Verner Lehtimäki was a Finnish socialist, soldier, pilot, aerospace engineer and revolutionary who fought for the Reds during the Finnish Civil War.
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1938
English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (born 1871)
Charles Freer Andrews was an Anglican priest and Christian missionary, educator and social reformer, and an activist for Indian independence. He became a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi and…
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1940
Swiss civil engineer (born 1872)
Robert Maillart was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and…
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1940
American bobsledder (born 1883)
Jay James O'Brien was an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He won two medals at the Winter Olympics with a gold in the four-man event at Lake Placid, New York, in 1932 and a silver in…
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1940
Chinese general (born 1885)
Song Zheyuan was a Chinese general during the Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).
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1940
Persian poet (born 1907)
Rakhshandeh E'tesami, better known as Parvin E'tesami, was a 20th-century Iranian Persian-language poet.
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1941
Scottish-English engineer (born 1876)
Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway…
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1941
Polish general (born 1888)
Franciszek Kleeberg was a Polish general. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army before joining the Polish Legions in World War I and following the Polish Independence later the Polish Army. During the German Invasion…
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1941
German officer (born 1912)
Heinrich Borgmann was a German officer during World War II. He was seriously injured by the 20 July plot bomb planted by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg at the Wolf's Lair headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia.
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1945
German SS officer (born 1897)
Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer who was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany, and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From…
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1945
American composer and producer (born 1898)
Vincent Millie Youmans was an American Broadway composer and producer.
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1946
German painter, artist and architect (born 1872)
Bernhard Wilhelm Maria Pankok was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, and designer. His works are characterized by the transition between Art Nouveau and the International Style. His furniture and book design,…
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1947
Swedish-Danish astronomer (born 1870)
Svante Elis Strömgren was a Swedish–Danish astronomer.
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1947
American socialite and philanthropist (born 1874)
Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family through her marriage to financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., the son…
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1948
Prime Minister of Saxony (born 1886)
Erich Zeigner was a German politician. He was Prime Minister of the German state of Saxony during the attempted communist uprising of 1923.
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1949
Japanese painter (born 1876)
Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. Along with Hasui Kawase, he is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his landscape…
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1950
British tennis player (born 1872)
Agnes Morton was a British female tennis player. She twice reached the Ladies Singles finals at the 1908 and 1909 Wimbledon Championships and claimed victory in 1914 in Ladies Doubles with partner Elizabeth Ryan, the…
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1952
(born 1901)
Princess Märtha of Sweden was Crown Princess of Norway as the spouse of the future King Olav V from 1929 until her death in 1954. As Olav only became king in 1957, Märtha never became Queen of Norway. Her son, Harald V,…
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1954
French pianist and composer (born 1888)
Claude Étienne Edmond Marie Pierre Delvincourt was a French pianist and composer of classical music.
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1954
Hungarian mathematician (born 1918)
Tibor Szele was a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra.
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1955
British gymnast (born 1881)
William Titt was a British gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Cork. Originally named William Lebeau he took on the name of William Titt after his stepfather.…
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1956
Prince Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria and Bourbon was a prince of the House of Wittelsbach and Infante of Spain, the eldest son and child of Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria and Infanta María de la Paz of Spain. He became an…
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1958
Icelandic painter (born 1876)
Ásgrímur Jónsson was an Icelandic painter, and one of the first in the country to make art a professional living.
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1958
Serbian writer (born 1877)
Isidora Sekulić was a Serbian writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic. She was the first woman academic in the history of Serbia, after she joined the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1950.
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1958
Russian composer (born 1908)
Nikolai Nikolayevich Kryukov was a Russian composer active in the Soviet era.
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1961
Swedish gymnast (born 1889)
Anders Boo Georg Kullberg was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Swedish team, which won the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event.
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1962
Dutch architect (born 1890)
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement.
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1963
American ornithologist (born 1889)
James Paul Chapin was an American ornithologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History.
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1964
Swiss artist (born 1886)
Aloïse Blanche Corbaz was a Swiss outsider artist included in Jean Dubuffet's initial collection of psychiatric art. She is one of very few acclaimed female outsider artists.
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1964
American general (born 1880)
Douglas MacArthur was an American general who served as a top commander during World War II and the Korean War, achieving the rank of General of the Army. He served with distinction in World War I; as chief of staff of…
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1964
Italian-Brazilian footballer (born 1908)
Pedro Sernagiotto, also known as Pietro Sernagiotto or Ministrinho was an Italian Brazilian professional football player. He also held Italian citizenship and on October 22, 1933, played for the Italian national B team…
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1965
Hungarian figure skater (born 1893)
Sándor Szalay was a Hungarian pair skater. With partner Olga Orgonista, he was the 1930 and 1931 European Champion. They won two medals at the World Figure Skating Championships, a bronze in 1929 and a silver in 1931.…
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1965
Ukrainian-American violinist (born 1891)
Mischa Elman was a Russian-American violinist famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality.
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1967
Norwegian author (born 1879)
Johan Falkberget, born Johan Petter Lillebakken, was a Norwegian author. He was nominated for the --Nobel Prize in Literature.
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1967
American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)
Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation". Muller warned of…
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1967
British runner (born 1902)
Herbert Arthur Johnston was a British runner who competed in events ranging from one to four miles.
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1967
1968
Hungarian footballer (born 1932)
Lajos Csordás was a Hungarian footballer. He won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and was runner-up of the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
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1968
Italian gymnast (born 1895)
Giuseppe Paris was an Italian gymnast who competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics, the 1924 Summer Olympics and the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was born in Milan. He was part of the Italian team, which was able to win the…
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1968
Italian actor and director (born 1918)
Alberto Bonucci was an Italian film actor and director. He appeared in 53 films between 1950 and 1967.
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1969
Venezuelan novelist and politician (born 1917)
Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. In 1948, he became the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. He was removed from power after only nine months by…
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1969
Estonian SS officer (born 1903)
Ain Mere was an Estonian military officer in World War II. During the German occupation of Estonia, he served in the German-controlled Estonian Security Police and SD.
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1969
South African botanist and taxonomist (born 1877)
Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of authoring more land plant species than any…
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1970
American geneticist and academic (born 1891)
Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan.…
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1970
German diplomat (born 1907)
Karl Borromäus Maria Heinrich Graf von Spreti was a German diplomat. He is best known as the West German Ambassador to Guatemala from 1968 until his assassination in 1970. The story of his assassination by Guatemalan…
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1970
Spanish pianist and conductor (born 1894)
José Antonio Cubiles Ramos was a noted Spanish pianist, conductor and teacher.
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1971
American actress and singer (born 1907)
Isabel Jewell was an American actress, who rose to prominence in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her more famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, and Gone with the Wind.
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1972
British race car driver (born 1909)
David Hugh Murray was a British racing driver from Scotland. He participated in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 13 May 1950, and also founded the Ecurie Ecosse Scottish motor racing team,…
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1973
Russian ballerina (born 1898)
Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress and pedagogue. She was a leading actress of Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre from the late 1920s onward. People's Artist of the…
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1973
1974
Canadian painter (born 1882)
Alexander Young Jackson LL. D. was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in bringing together…
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1974
American middle and long-distance runner (born 1891)
Tell Schirnding Berna was an American middle-distance and long-distance runner.
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1975
Dutch politician (born 1917)
Victor Gerard Marie Marijnen was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 24 July 1963 until 14 April 1965.
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1975
Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1887)
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who led the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 until his death in 1975. His government was based in mainland China until it was defeated in…
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1975
American track and fielder (born 1899)
Harold Marion Osborn D.O. was an American track athlete. He won a gold medal in Olympic decathlon and high jump in 1924 and was the first athlete to win a gold medal in both the decathlon and an individual event.
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1975
American pilot, engineer, and director (born 1905)
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime. He first…
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1976
American-Canadian surgeon and academic (born 1891)
Wilder Graves Penfield was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus. His…
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1976
British cyclist (born 1900)
Frederick Henry "Harry" Wyld was a British track cyclist. He won bronze medals at the 1924 and the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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1976
President of Cuba, (born 1903)
Carlos Manuel Prío Socarrás was a Cuban politician. He served as the President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were…
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1977
Russian actor and director (born 1894)
Yuri Aleksandrovich Zavadsky was a Soviet and Russian theater director, actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1948) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1973).
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1977
Belgian footballer (born 1892)
Émile Jean Ghislain Hanse was a Belgian football (soccer) player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Belgium team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament. Hanse played for R.U.…
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1981
1981
French artist (born 1890)
Pinchus Krémègne, aka Pinchus Kremegne, was a Lithuanian Belarusian Jewish-French artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer.
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1981
American lawyer and jurist (born 1910)
Abraham Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Fortas graduated from Rhodes…
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1982
Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer. (born 1907)
Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari was a Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer, born and raised in Medina under Ottoman and Hashemite rule into a Khazraji family. Employed by local government just after graduation from a…
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1983
Danish military officer (born 1899)
Hans Mathiesen Lunding was a Danish military officer, eventing rider, resistance fighter and director of military intelligence in Denmark.
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1984
Italian scholar of oriental cultures (born 1894)
Giuseppe Tucci was an Italian orientalist, Indologist and scholar of East Asian studies, specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism. During its zenith, Tucci was a supporter of Italian fascism, and he…
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1984
American writer (born 1903)
Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of…
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1986
2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (born 1914)
Joseph Leabua Jonathan was the first prime minister of Lesotho. He succeeded Chief Sekhonyana Nehemia Maseribane following a by-election and held that post from 1965 to 1986.
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1987
Swedish actor and director (born 1920)
Alf Kjellin was a Swedish film actor and director, who also appeared on some television shows.
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1988
American pole vaulter (born 1895)
Frank Kent Foss was an American pole vaulter. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, while breaking his own unofficial world record.
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1989
Czech director, artist, production designer and animator (born 1910)
Karel Zeman was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator. He is best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation, including Journey to the Beginning of Time…
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1989
American soccer player, physician, and astronaut (born 1947)
Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr., M.D., , was an American physician, professional soccer player, naval officer, aviator, and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-33.
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1991
American basketball player (born 1943)
Jay Julian Miller was an American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA). Miller first played for the St. Louis Hawks before being selected by the…
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1991
Czech journalist, writer and screenwriter (born 1915)
Jiří Mucha was a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter, author of autobiographical novels and studies of the works of his father, the painter Alphonse Mucha.
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1991
1st Viscount De L'Isle (born 1909)
William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, known as Lord De L'Isle and Dudley between 1945 and 1956, was a British Army officer, politician and Victoria Cross recipient who served as the 15th governor-general of…
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1991
American soldier, academic, and politician (born 1925)
John Goodwin Tower was an American politician and military veteran who represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since…
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1991
Japanese footballer (born 1928)
Takeshi Inoue was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
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1992
American actress (born 1898)
Molly Picon was an American actress of stage, screen, radio and television, as well as a lyricist and dramatic storyteller.
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1992
Indian actress (born 1974)
Divya Bharti was an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Hindi and Telugu cinema. Known for her acting, vivacity and beauty, she was among the highest-paid actresses of her time. She received a Filmfare Award and…
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1993
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1967)
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, he…
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1994
1995
Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1913)
Emilio Greco was an Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet. He is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world in museums such as - Tate Modern (London), Hermitage,…
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1995
French Resistance fighter (born 1904)
Christian Pineau was a noted French Resistance fighter, who later served an important term as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 through 1958.
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1995
American actress (born 1928)
Verna Charlene Stavely, professionally known as Charlene Holt, was an American actress known for her supporting roles in television and film.
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1996
American poet (born 1926)
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat…
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1997
British theoretical physicist (born 1911)
Sir Frederick Charles Frank, FRS was a British theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on crystal dislocations, including the idea of the Frank–Read source of dislocations. He also proposed the cyclol…
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1998
English drummer (born 1947)
Cozy Powell was an English drummer who made his name with major rock bands and artists such as The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Gary Moore, Graham Bonnet, Brian May, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake &…
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1998
Italian book publisher (born 1912)
Giulio Einaudi was an Italian book publisher. The eponymous company that he founded in 1933 became "a European wellspring of fine literature, intellectual thought and political theory" and was once considered the most…
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1999
Austrian footballer (born 1909)
Heinrich "Wudi" Müller was an Austrian football player and coach. In the early 1930s he was an albeit minor part of Austria's all conquering Wunderteam. As coach he defined the post-World War II glory period of Austria…
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2000
2000
Italian footballer (born 1910)
Aldo Olivieri was an Italian football goalkeeper from 1931 to 1943, and manager after World War II.
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2001
American singer-songwriter (born 1967)
Layne Thomas Staley was an American singer-songwriter. He was the original lead vocalist of Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of Seattle's grunge movement. He was known for his…
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2002
North Korean composer and politician (born 1917)
Kim Won-gyun was a North Korean composer and politician. He is considered one of the most prominent, if not the most celebrated, composer of North Korea. He composed "Aegukka" — the national anthem of the country — and…
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2002
Japanese painter (born 1944)
Keizo Morishita was a Japanese painter who lived most of his life in Italy.
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2003
Belgian footballer (born 1938)
Fernand Goyvaerts was a Belgian international footballer. He played as an attacker.
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2004
Polish lieutenant (born 1915)
Sławomir Rawicz was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the Soviet invasion of Poland. In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a…
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2004
German mathematician and academic (born 1936)
Heiner Zieschang was a German mathematician. He was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum from 1968 till 2002. He was a topologist. In 1996 he was an honorary doctor of University of Toulouse and in 1997 he was an…
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2004
Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National…
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2005
American military officer and equestrian (born 1913)
Robert John Borg was an American military officer and equestrian. He was born in Manila, Philippines. He placed fourth in individual dressage, and won a silver medal in team dressage at the 1948 Summer Olympics in…
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2005
South Korean footballer (born 1917)
Chung Nam-sik was a Korean football player and manager. He played as a striker for the South Korea national team during the 1940s and 1950s, including at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
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2005
American painter and educator (born 1927)
Allan Kaprow was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His…
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2006
American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American pop and country singer, songwriter, and musician.
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2006
Russian swimmer (born 1958)
Yevgeny Alekseyevich Seredin was a Russian swimmer who competed in the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980, he won a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley relay and placed fifth in the individual 100 m butterfly event.…
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2006
Roman Catholic archbishop (born 1923)
Pasquale Macchi was a Catholic archbishop and the private secretary to Pope Paul VI.
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2006
Swedish journalist and author (born 1923)
Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter, was a Swedish author of books for children and young adults, which were often written in magical and mystical tone. She has written almost forty books, with many of her characters…
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2007
Indian author and academic (born 1908)
Leela Majumdar was an Indian Bengali-language writer.
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2007
German historian and journalist (born 1922)
Werner Maser was a German historian, journalist and professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Maser was the first historian to claim that the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.
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2007
American guitarist (born 1956)
Mark Leslie Norton, better known as Mark St. John, was an American guitarist best known for his brief stint with the hard rock band Kiss from April to November 1984. His work can be heard on the band's 1984 album…
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2007
American pathologist (born 1912)
Thomas Stoltz Harvey was an American pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. Harvey afterwards preserved Einstein's brain on the condition that it would be studied for scientific purposes.
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2007
American actor, director, and political activist (born 1923)
Charlton Heston was an American actor. He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, historical drama films, science-fiction films, and action films. He won an Academy…
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2008
British mathematician (born 1916)
Irving John Good
was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian…
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2009
Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (born 1935)
Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov was a Soviet cosmonaut and an engineer who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.
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2010
American physician and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at…
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2011
Central African politician (born 1937)
Ange-Félix Patassé was a Central African politician who was president of the Central African Republic from 1993 until 2003, when he was deposed by the rebel leader François Bozizé in the 2003 coup d'état. Patassé was…
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2011
German designer (born 1935)
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, also known by the nickname "Butzi", was a German-Austrian designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911. He was the son of Ferry Porsche, and the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche.
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2012
Dominican Republican politician military officer (born 1921)
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit Vanderhorst was a politician and military officer from the Dominican Republic. He served as the 7th provisional president of the Dominican Republic from 1 May until 7 May 1965. He was also a…
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2012
English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (born 1923)
James Charles Marshall known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud, was an English businessman and pioneer of guitar amplification. His company, Marshall Amplification, founded in 1962, has created equipment that is…
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2012
Irish musician (born 1939)
Bernard Noël McKenna, known as Barney McKenna or Banjo Barney, was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He is regarded as a major figure in the development of the tenor banjo in Irish traditional…
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2012
Malawian economist and politician, 3rd President of Malawi (born 1934)
Bingu wa Mutharika was a Malawian politician and economist who served as the third president of Malawi from 2004 until his death in 2012. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he served as the party's…
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2012
2013
Italian tenor and actor (born 1924)
Piero de Palma was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with comprimario roles.
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2013
Greek Navy admiral (born 1930)
Nikolaos Pappas was a Hellenic Navy admiral who, as commander of the destroyer Velos, played a major part in the abortive rebellion of the Navy in May 1973 against the ruling military junta. After the restoration of…
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2013
Scottish saxophonist and painter (born 1920)
James Alan Davie was a Scottish painter and musician.
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2014
Spanish cyclist (born 1939)
Mariano Díaz Díaz was a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. In 1967, he won a stage of the 1967 Vuelta a España, and also won the mountains classification. He also competed in the individual road race and team time…
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2014
American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (born 1927)
Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book…
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2014
American comedian (born 1964)
John Paul Pinette was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and Broadway performer. He toured the comedy club circuit beginning in the 1980s and appeared in cinema and on television. Besides stand-up, Pinette did…
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2014
Brazilian actor, director, and producer (born 1947)
José Wilker Almeida was a Brazilian film, stage, and television actor and director. He gained fame in telenovelas such as Roque Santeiro (1985), but became internationally known for his role as Vadinho, the husband who…
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2014
American dermatologist and author (born 1949)
Fredric Sheldon Brandt was an American physician, researcher, lecturer, author, and radio host specializing in cosmetic dermatology. Among the first to use botulinum toxin ("botox") and fillers, Brandt was noted for his…
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2015
2015
Turkish footballer (born 1936)
Koço Kasapoğlu, also known as Yorgo or Kostas Kasapoğlu, was a Greek-Turkish football player and manager. A forward, throughout his career he was also nicknamed penaltı kralı because he scored 500 of the 501 penalties…
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2016
Italian cyclist (born 1943)
Attilio Benfatto was an Italian professional road cyclist. He most notably won two stages of the Giro d'Italia. Throughout his career, he competed in eight editions of the Giro d'Italia and two editions of the Tour de…
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2017
American chess Grandmaster (born 1929)
Arthur Bernard Bisguier was an American chess player, chess promoter, and writer who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).
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2017
Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer (born 1926)
Paul G. Comba was an Italian-American computer scientist, an amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.
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2017
Japanese poet and literary critic (born 1931)
Makoto Ōoka was a Japanese poet and literary critic. He pioneered the collaborative poetic form renshi in the 1990s, in which he has collaborated with such well-known literary figures as Charles Tomlinson, James…
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2017
American rock composer and producer (born 1956)
Paul O'Neill was an American composer, lyricist, record producer, and guitarist. He was the producer of the progressive metal band Savatage, and the founder of Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
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2017
British race car driver (born 1932)
Reginald Harold Haslam "Tim" Parnell Jr. was a British racing driver from England. He was the son of Reg Parnell, another racing driver.
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2017
Italian actor and director (born 1947)
Amelio "Memè" Perlini was an Italian actor and film director. His directorial debut, Italian Postcards, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
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2017
Romanian sprint canoeist (born 1942)
Atanase Sciotnic, also listed as Atanasie, was a Romanian sprint canoeist. He took part in the two-man and four man events at most major competitions between 1963 and 1974 and won two Olympic and nine world…
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2017
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1958)
Ilkka Antero Jouko Sinisalo was a Finnish professional ice hockey forward who played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota North Stars and Los Angeles Kings. Later he…
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2017
Japanese director (born 1935)
Isao Takahata was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films.
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2018
South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
Sydney Brenner was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic…
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2019
2019
English actor (born 1966)
Simon Paul Adams, known professionally as Paul Ritter, was an English actor. He had roles in films including Son of Rambow (2007), Quantum of Solace (2008), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), The Eagle…
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2021
Israeli-American actor (born 1919)
Nehemiah Persoff was an American actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and theatre productions, and also performed as a voice artist in a career spanning 55 years.
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2022
Taiwanese actor (born 1943)
Jimmy Wang Yu was a Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. Initially a contract player for Shaw Brothers, he rose to fame for his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman…
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2022
American musician and songwriter (born 1959)
Carl Jeffrey Snare was an American singer best known for being the frontman and founding member of the hard rock/glam metal band FireHouse.
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2024
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