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Notable Deaths on April 6
119 people
861 – 2026
April 6 has seen 119 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 861 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2017 — Don Rickles
American actor and comedian (born 1926)
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He won a Primetime Emmy Award for the 2006 documentary Mr
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In 2014, he was honored by fellow comedians in a show at the Apollo Theater, which was taped and released on Spike TV titled Don Rickles: One Night Only.
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His film roles include Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Enter Laughing (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), and Casino (1995)
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From 1976 to 1978, Rickles had a two-season starring role in the NBC television sitcom C.P.O
bishop of Troyes
Prudentius was bishop of Troyes, a chronicler and an opponent of Hincmar of Reims in the controversy on predestination.
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861
Byzantine missionary and saint (born 815)
Cyril and Methodius were brothers, Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries. For their work evangelizing the Slavs, they are known as the "Apostles to the Slavs".
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885
887
Chinese general and chief of staff (born 881)
Liu Churang, courtesy name Deqian (德謙), was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period states Later Tang and Later Jin, serving as a chief of staff (Shumishi) during the reign of Later Jin's…
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943
943
duke of Swabia (born 1090)
Frederick II, called the One-Eyed, was Duke of Swabia from 1105 until his death, the second from the Hohenstaufen dynasty. His younger brother Conrad was elected King of the Romans in 1138.
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1147
Yemeni poet and historian (born 1121)
Najm al-Dīn Umāra al-Ḥakamī al-Yamanī was a Sunni historian, jurist and poet of Yemen of great repute who was closely associated with the late Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. He was executed by order of Saladin at Cairo on…
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1174
1199
2nd Earl of Pembroke
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke was a medieval English nobleman and one of the sureties of Magna Carta. He fought during the First Barons' War and was present at the Battle of Lincoln (1217) alongside his father…
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1231
Grand Master of the Knights Templar
Guillaume de Sonnac was Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1247 to 1250.
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1250
Italian priest and saint (born 1206)
Peter of Verona, also known as Saint Peter Martyr and Saint Peter of Verona, was a 13th-century Italian Catholic priest. He was a Dominican friar and a celebrated preacher. He served as Inquisitor in Lombardy, was…
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1252
1340
1362
Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (born 1310)
Przecław of Pogorzela was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Bishop of Wrocław and Duke of Nysa from 1342–1376.
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1376
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490 (born 1443)
Matthias Corvinus was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. He is often given the epithet "the Just". After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and…
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1490
1520
1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1479)
Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire was an English peer.
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1523
German painter, engraver, and mathematician (born 1471)
Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe…
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1528
Swiss scholar and politician (born 1484)
Joachim Vadian, born as Joachim von Watt, was a humanist, scholar, mayor and reformer in the free city of St. Gallen.
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1551
Scottish archbishop and academic (born 1512)
John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician, was an illegitimate son of The 1st Earl of Arran.
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1571
English politician and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1532)
Sir Francis Walsingham was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".
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1590
English Puritan and separatist (born 1550)
Henry Barrow was an English Separatist Puritan, or Brownist, who was executed for his views. He led the London underground church from 1587 to 1593; spent most of that time in prison; and wrote numerous works of…
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1593
1605
1st Earl of Hertford (born 1539)
Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Baron Beauchamp, KG, of Wulfhall and Totnam Lodge in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset, of Netley Abbey, Hampshire, and of Hertford House, Cannon Row in…
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1621
Italian painter (born 1581)
Domenico Zampieri, known by the diminutive Domenichino after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters.
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1641
French minister, historian, and scholar (born 1591)
David Blondel was a French Protestant clergyman, historian and classical scholar.
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1655
Italian composer (born 1611)
Leonora Baroni was an Italian singer, theorbist, lutenist, viol player, and composer of the Baroque period.
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1670
English politician, 1st Governor of Connecticut (born 1606)
John Winthrop the Younger, FRS, was an English-born physician, colonial administrator, and alchemist. He was an early governor of the Connecticut Colony who played a large role in the unification of numerous settlements…
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1676
1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish-English politician (born 1614)
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, PC was an Anglo-Irish royalist statesman. After short periods as President of the Council of State and Treasurer of the Navy, he served as Lord Privy Seal between 1673 and 1682 for…
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1686
Dutch-English painter (born 1633)
Willem van de Velde the Younger was a Dutch painter who specialised in marine art. He was the son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, who also specialised in marine art. His brother, Adriaen van de Velde, was a landscape…
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1707
English minister and historian (born 1690)
Richard Rawlinson FRS was an English clergyman and antiquarian collector of books and manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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1755
1790
Ukrainian-Russian painter and educator (born 1757)
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky was a Russian artist of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He served at the court of Catherine the Great and dominated portraiture in Russia at the turn of the 19th century.
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1825
Greek naval commander during the Greek War of Independence (born 1770)
Nikolis Apostolis was a Greek naval commander, leader of the Psarian fleet during the Greek War of Independence.
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1827
Norwegian mathematician and theorist (born 1802)
Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general…
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1829
Greek philosopher and scholar (born 1748)
Adamantios Korais or Koraïs was a Greek scholar credited with laying the foundations of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of…
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1833
Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (born 1763)
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, mineralist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire.
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1838
American author and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1778)
James Kirke Paulding was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy. Paulding's early writings were satirical and violently anti-British, as shown in The Diverting History of John Bull…
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1860
American general (born 1803)
General Albert Sidney Johnston was an American military officer who served as a general officer in three different armies: the Texian Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army. He saw extensive…
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1862
American merchant and politician, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (born 1801)
Benjamin Wright Raymond was an American politician who twice served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Whig Party.
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1883
English businessman, philanthropist, and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1818)
William Edward Forster, PC, FRS was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman. As a minister in Gladstone's government, he steered through the Elementary Education Act 1870 which was the…
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1886
American physician and botanist (born 1809)
Alvan Wentworth Chapman was an American physician and pioneering botanist in the study of flora of the American Southeast. He wrote Flora of the Southern United States, the first comprehensive description of U.S. plants…
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1899
Norwegian author, playwright, and politician, 6th County Governor of Møre og Romsdal (born 1849)
Alexander Lange Kielland was a Norwegian realistic writer of the 19th century. He is one of the so-called "The Four Greats" of Norwegian literature, along with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Jonas Lie.
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1906
4th Earl Belmore (born 1835)
Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore,, styled as Viscount Corry from 1841 to 1845, was an Irish nobleman and Conservative politician who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1868 to 1872.
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1913
American poet (born 1850)
Florence Van Leer Nicholson Coates was an American poet whose prolific output was published in dozens of literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the English poet Matthew Arnold, with whom she…
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1927
American poet and playwright (born 1869)
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and playwright. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
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1935
American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (born 1874)
Rose Cecil O'Neill was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the popular comic strip characters, Kewpies, in 1909, and was also the first published female…
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1944
German agronomist and politician (born 1896)
Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe was a German politician and SS-Obergruppenführer who served as State Secretary and Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture. He was a doctrinaire racial ideologue, a…
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1947
American pole vaulter (born 1882)
Louis Gary Wilkins was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the pole vault where he won the bronze…
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1950
Welsh poet and author (born 1905)
Idris Davies was a Welsh poet. Born in Rhymney, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, he became a poet, originally writing in Welsh, but later writing exclusively in English.
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1953
Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (born 1895)
Leo Aryeh Mayer OBE, was an Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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1959
Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870)
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for his…
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1961
Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (born 1897)
Otto Lyudvigovich Struve was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin. Otto was the descendant of famous astronomers of the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von…
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1963
American basketball player (born 1933)
Maurice Stokes was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Cincinnati/Rochester Royals of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1955 to 1958. Stokes was a three-time NBA All-Star, a…
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1970
Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1882)
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure…
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1971
Dutch architect (born 1884)
Willem Marinus Dudok was a famous Dutch modernist architect. He was born in Amsterdam. He became City Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 where he was best known for the brick Hilversum Town Hall, completed in…
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1974
Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (born 1895)
Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman. A founder of the Australian airline company Qantas, Fysh was born in Launceston, Tasmania. Serving in the Battle of Gallipoli and Palestine Campaign as a…
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1974
Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (born 1889)
Marquess Kōichi Kido was a Japanese statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to emperor Hirohito throughout World War II. He was convicted of war…
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1977
Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (born 1893)
Ivan Vasilyov was a Bulgarian architect, born in 1893, deceased in 1979.
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1979
Indian General who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. (born 1908)
General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri was an Indian army general who served as the 5th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. After his…
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1983
American science fiction writer (born 1920)
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur…
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1992
Rwandan banker and politician, 3rd President of Rwanda (born 1937)
Juvénal Habyarimana was a Rwandan politician and military officer who was the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination in 1994. He was nicknamed Kinani, a Kinyarwanda word meaning "invincible".
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1994
Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (born 1955)
Cyprien Ntaryamira was a Burundian politician who served as President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his assassination two months later in the context of the Burundian Civil War.
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1994
Greek banker and politician, President of Greece (born 1912)
Ioannis Alevras, sometimes spelled Yannis Alevras, was a Greek Panhellenic Socialist Movement politician and Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, who served as acting President of Greece in March 1985.
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1995
English-American actress (born 1904)
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was a British and American actress and singer. Known for playing graceful, noble, and dignified women in period and war dramas, she quickly rose to popularity during the Golden Age of…
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1996
German footballer (born 1958)
Norbert "Nobbi" Christian Schmitz was a German footballer who made a total of 89 2. Bundesliga appearances for Tennis Borussia Berlin and SC Fortuna Köln during his professional career.
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1998
American singer-songwriter (born 1942)
Tammy Wynette was an American country music singer and songwriter, considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists. Along with Loretta Lynn, Wynette helped bring a woman's perspective to the…
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1998
1999
Tunisian politician, 1st President of Tunisia (born 1903)
Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia from 1956 to 1957, and then as the first president of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987. Prior to his…
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2000
American singer-songwriter (born 1963)
Charles & Eddie was an American soul music duo composed of Charles Pettigrew and Eddie Chacon. Their single "Would I Lie to You?", taken from their 1992 debut album, Duophonic, won Ivor Novello Awards in 1993 in the…
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2001
American journalist (born 1963)
David Jerome Bloom was an American television journalist until his sudden death in 2003 after a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) became a pulmonary embolism at the age of 39.
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2003
American computer scientist and educator; founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (born 1949)
Anita Borg was an American computer scientist celebrated for advocating for women’s representation and professional advancement in technology. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper…
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2003
Canadian cardinal (born 1912)
Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toronto from 1978 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.
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2003
Nigerian drummer, educator, and activist (born 1927)
Michael Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist.
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2003
Greek stage director of the Metropolitan Opera (born 1919)
Konstantinos "Dino" Yannopoulos was the principal stage director of the Metropolitan Opera between 1945 and 1977. One of his major works was a production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with Maria Callas on the title role.…
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2003
American baseball player (born 1929)
Louis Joseph Berberet was an American catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers between 1954 and 1960. He was born in Long Beach,…
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2004
Russian linguist and activist (born 1929)
Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union.
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2004
Prince of Monaco (born 1923)
Rainier III was Prince of Monaco from 1949 to his death in 2005. Rainier ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years.
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2005
American orthopedic surgeon and professor (born 1904)
Anthony F. DePalma was an American orthopedic surgeon and professor at Thomas Jefferson University, as well as the founder of the orthopedic department at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. DePalma was…
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2005
American basketball player and coach (born 1977)
Margaret Mary Dixon was an American collegiate women's basketball coach.
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2006
American soldier and diplomat (born 1917)
Francis Leonard Kellogg was an American diplomat, a special assistant to the Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford Administrations and a prominent socialite in New York City.
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2006
Greek actor and director (born 1926)
Stefanos Stratigos was a Greek actor in film and television.
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2006
Italian director and producer (born 1916)
Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the "commedia all'italiana" genre.
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2007
Canadian historian and academic (born 1919)
James Maurice Stockford Careless was a Canadian historian. He taught history at the University of Toronto for 39 years, from 1945 until his retirement in 1984, and served as Chairman of the History Department from 1959…
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2009
Australian rugby player and coach (born 1982)
Shawn Mackay was an Australian rugby union player with the Canberra based Brumbies in the Super 14 competition. He was the son of former Eastern Suburbs rugby league player John Mackay.
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2009
American tribal leader (born 1945)
Wilma Pearl Mankiller was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her…
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2010
English actor (born 1939)
Corin William Redgrave was an English actor. He was also a left-wing activist, co-founding the Marxist Party with his sister Vanessa Redgrave.
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2010
American director and cinematographer (born 1931)
Gerald Perry Finnerman was an American cinematographer who worked on TV series such as Moonlighting and the original Star Trek. He served as vice president of the American Society of Cinematographers, and won a…
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2011
American admiral (born 1934)
Roland George "Gil" Guilbault was an American U.S. Navy rear admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga, the first Aegis cruiser. In 1987, he served as a battle force commander aboard the USS Eisenhower. He retired as a…
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2012
American painter and illustrator (born 1958)
William Thomas Kinkade III was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed…
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2012
Chinese astrophysicist and academic (born 1936)
Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the…
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2012
Australian fashion designer and journalist (born 1920)
Sheila Winifred Gordon Scotter, AM, MBE was an Australian businesswoman. She was a fashion designer and third editor of the Vogue Australia magazine. She also founded the Vogue Living magazine. She was famous for always…
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2012
American poet and critic (born 1919)
Edward Reed Whittemore Jr. was an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the…
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2012
Grenadian physician and politician, 2nd Governor of Grenada (born 1921)
Dame Hilda Louisa Bynoe, DBE was the Governor of Grenada between 1968 and 1974.
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2013
English footballer and manager (born 1931)
William Henry Guttridge was an English professional football player and manager.
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2013
Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1946)
José Juan Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong passion.…
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2013
German lawyer and politician (born 1946)
Ottmar Schreiner was a German lawyer and left-wing politician. He was known as one of the leading leftists in his party, SPD.
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2013
American actress (born 1918)
Mary Bebe Anderson was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film Gone With the Wind as well as one of…
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2014
French pianist and composer (born 1926)
Jacques Castérède was a French composer and pianist.
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2014
Norwegian actress (born 1922)
Liv Dommersnes was a Norwegian actress and reciter of poetry. She was a member of group that founded Studioteatret in 1945.
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2014
American soldier, actor, and dancer (born 1920)
Mickey Rooney was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from…
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2014
American soldier, journalist, and academic (born 1924)
Charles Sumner "Chuck" Stone, Jr. was an American pilot, newspaper editor, journalism professor, and author. He was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was the first president of the National…
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2014
Italian motorcycle designer, co-founded Bimota (born 1943)
Massimo Tamburini was an Italian motorcycle designer for Cagiva, Ducati, and MV Agusta, and one of the founders of Bimota. Tamburini's designs are iconic in their field, with one critic calling him the "Michelangelo of…
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2014
Italian lawyer and politician (born 1924)
Giovanni Berlinguer was an Italian politician, humanist, and professor of social medicine.
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2015
American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1926)
Jewel Franklin Guy, known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. During a career…
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2015
American singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1918)
Ray Charles was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers, who accompanied Perry Como on his records and television…
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2015
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929)
Joseph Dollard Herve St. Laurent was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman.
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2015
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)
Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the…
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2016
British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster (born 1928)
Michael O'Donnell was a British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster.
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2019
American baseball player, broadcaster and executive (born 1934)
Albert William Kaline, nicknamed "Mr. Tiger", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played his entire 22-season career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers. For most of his career,…
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2020
2021
American politician (born 1936)
Alcee Lamar Hastings was an American politician and judge from the state of Florida.
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2021
Russian and Soviet politician (born 1946)
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was a Russian right-wing populist politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) from its creation in 1992 until his death in 2022.
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2022
British politician (born 1923)
Joan Christabel Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1966 to 1997. She was…
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2022
American politician, 70th Governor of Maine (born 1934)
Joseph Edward Brennan was an American lawyer and politician from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 70th governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987 and in the United States House of Representatives for…
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2024
American drummer (born 1954)
Clement Anthony Burke was an American musician best known as the drummer for the band Blondie. He joined the band shortly after its formation in 1975 and remained with Blondie throughout the band's entire career until…
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2025
2025
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Known forHis film roles include Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Enter Laughing (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), and Casino (1995)
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