Notable Deaths on August 17

Q: Who died on August 17?

Notable people who died on August 17 include: Carloman, Li Shouzhen, Eustace IV, Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (born 1243), Irene of Brunswick (born 1293).

Q: What is Jonathan Trumbull known for?

Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (born 1710)

98 people 754 – 2025

August 17 has seen 98 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 754 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1785 — Jonathan Trumbull

English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (born 1710)

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Trumbull and Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island were the only men to serve as governor of both a British colony and a U.S

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state, and he was the only governor to take up the Patriot cause at the start of the Revolutionary War

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was an American politician who served as the governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution

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Trumbull College at Yale University, the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull County, Ohio, and Jonathan the Husky the UConn mascot are all named for him

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Trumbull was the father of John Trumbull, the noted artist, and Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

Carloman

mayor of the palace of Austrasia

Carloman was the eldest son of Charles Martel, mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks, and his wife Chrotrud of Treves. On Charles's death (741), Carloman and his brother Pepin the Short succeeded to their father's…

754

Li Shouzhen

Chinese general and governor

Li Shouzhen was a Chinese military general, monarch, and politician of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period states Later Jin and Later Han, as well as (briefly) the Khitan Liao dynasty. During the reign of…

949

Eustace IV

Count of Boulogne (born 1130)

Eustace IV ruled the County of Boulogne from 1146 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Stephen of England and Countess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English throne on Henry I's death in…

1153

Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (born 1243)

Emperor Go-Fukakusa was the 89th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This reign spanned the years 1246 through 1260.

1304

Irene of Brunswick (born 1293)

Irene of Brunswick, born Adelheid, was the first wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos, and by marriage Byzantine empress, although she died before her husband became senior emperor.

1324

Nitta Yoshisada

Japanese samurai (born 1301)

Nitta Yoshisada also known as Minamoto no Yoshisada was a samurai lord of the Nanboku-chō period Japan. He was the head of the Nitta clan in the early fourteenth century, and supported the Southern Court of Emperor…

1338

John Stewart

Earl of Buchan (born c. 1381)

John Stewart, Earl of Buchan was a Scottish nobleman and soldier who fought alongside the Kingdom of France during the Hundred Years War. In 1419, he was sent to France by his father the Duke of Albany, Regent of…

1424

Edmund Dudley

English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1462)

Edmund Dudley was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons and President of the King's Council.…

1510

Richard Empson

English statesman

Sir Richard Empson, minister of Henry VII, was a son of Peter Empson. Educated as a lawyer, he soon attained considerable success in his profession, and in 1491 was a Knight of the shire for Northamptonshire in…

1510

Katharina von Zimmern

Swiss sovereign abbess (born 1478)

Katharina von Zimmern, also known as the imperial abbess of Zürich and Katharina von Reischach, was the last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich.

1547

Regnier de Graaf

Dutch physician and anatomist (born 1641)

Regnier de Graaf, original Dutch spelling Reinier de Graaf, or Latinized Reijnerus de Graeff, was a Dutch physician, physiologist and anatomist who made key discoveries in reproductive biology. He specialized in…

1673

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

German author (born 1621)

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen was a German author. He is best known for his 1669 picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus and the accompanying Simplician Scriptures series, including The Life of Courage.

1676

Anne Dacier

French scholar and translator (born 1654)

Anne Le Fèvre Dacier, better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar, translator, commentator and editor of the classics, including the Iliad and the Odyssey. She sought to champion ancient…

1720

Joseph Bingham

English scholar and academic (born 1668)

Joseph Bingham was an English scholar and divine, who wrote on ecclesiastical history.

1723

Vasily Trediakovsky

Russian poet and playwright (born 1703)

Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky was a Russian poet, essayist and playwright who helped lay the foundations of classical Russian literature.

1768

Frederick the Great

Prussian king (born 1712)

Frederick II was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the…

1786

Matthew Boulton

English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (born 1728)

Matthew Boulton was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership…

1809

John Johnson

English architect and surveyor (born 1732)

John Johnson was an English architect and surveyor to the county of Essex. He is best known for designing the Shire Hall, Chelmsford.

1814

Husein Gradaščević

Ottoman general (born 1802)

Husein Gradaščević (Husein-kapetan), also known as Zmaj od Bosne, was an Ottoman Bosnian military commander who led an uprising against the Tanzimat, a system of political reforms with aim to modernise the Ottoman…

1834

Lorenzo Da Ponte

Italian playwright and poet (born 1749)

Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Italian, later American librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas: The Marriage of Figaro…

1838

José de San Martín

Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (born 1778)

José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras, nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle…

1850

Alcée Louis la Branche

American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (born 1806)

Alcée Louis la Branche was an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana. He served one term as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845.

1861

Perucho Figueredo

Cuban poet and activist (born 1818)

Pedro Felipe Figueredo,, mostly known as Perucho, was a Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter of the 19th century. In the 1860s, he was active in the planning of the Cuban uprising against the Spanish known as the…

1870

Wilhelm Bleek

German linguist and anthropologist (born 1827)

Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek was a German linguist who lived in the Cape Colony and developed a particular interest for the languages and culture of the San people. He is the author of A Comparative Grammar of South…

1875

William Jervois

English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (born 1821)

Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois was a British military engineer and diplomat. After joining the British Army in 1839, he saw service, as a second captain, in South Africa. In 1858, as a major, he…

1897

Edmond Audran

French organist and composer (born 1842)

Achille Edmond Audran was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas.

1901

Hans Gude

Norwegian-German painter and academic (born 1825)

Hans Fredrik Gude was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism.…

1903

Radoje Domanović

Serbian satirist and journalist (born 1873)

Radoje Domanović was a Serbian journalist, writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories. His adult years were a constant fight against tuberculosis. This circumstance of his life, and the affection…

1908

Madan Lal Dhingra

Indian activist (born 1883)

Madan Lal Dhingra was an Indian freedom fighter who, whilst a student at University College London in 1909, assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, the political Aide-de-camp to the secretary of State for India, in…

1909

Moisei Uritsky

Russian activist and politician (born 1873)

Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky, also known by his pen-name Boretsky, was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was the head of the Petrograd Cheka from January 1918 until his death on…

1918

Ray Chapman

American baseball player (born 1891)

Raymond Johnson Chapman was an American baseball player. He spent his entire career as a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians of the American League.

1920

Tom Kendall

English-Australian cricketer and journalist (born 1851)

Thomas Kingston Kendall was an Australian cricketer, who played in two Test matches in 1877, including the inaugural Test which was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in March 1877.

1924

Ioan Slavici

Romanian journalist and author (born 1848)

Ioan Slavici was a Romanian writer and journalist from Austria-Hungary, later Romania.

1925

Adam Gunn

American decathlete (born 1872)

Adam Beattie Gunn was a Scottish-American athlete who competed mainly in the "All rounder", the forerunner of today's Decathlon. Gunn took first place in the Amateur Athletic Union's U.S. All-around championships in…

1935

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

American sociologist and author (born 1860)

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate for social reform. She was an early…

1935

José María of Manila

Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (born 1880)

José María of Manila was a Criollo Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was martyred in the early phase of the Spanish Civil War, and is the third Filipino to have been declared blessed by…

1936

Billy Fiske

American soldier and pilot (born 1911)

William Meade Lindsley Fiske III was an American combat fighter pilot and Olympic bobsledder. At the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics, Fiske won gold as driver for the US bobsledding team, also acting as the American…

1940

Reidar Haaland

Norwegian police officer and soldier (born 1919)

Reidar Haaland was a police officer and Waffen-SS member.

1945

Gregorio Perfecto

Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (born 1891)

Gregorio Milián Perfecto was a Filipino journalist, politician and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1945 to 1949. A controversial figure who was described as an…

1949

Arthur Fox

English-American fencer (born 1878)

Arthur George Fox was an English-American fencer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

1958

Ken Miles

English race car driver and engineer (born 1918)

Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports…

1966

Otto Stern

German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)

Otto Stern was a German-American experimental physical chemist. He is the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize, with 82 nominations during the years 1925–1945. In 1943, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics…

1969

Rattana Pestonji

Thai director and producer (born 1908)

Rattana Pestonji was a Thai film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, his films placed Thai cinema on the…

1970

Maedayama Eigorō

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (born 1914)

Maedayama Eigorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ehime Prefecture. He was the sport's 39th yokozuna.

1971

Wilhelm List

German field marshal (born 1880)

Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List was a German war criminal and Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

1971

Conrad Aiken

American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (born 1889)

Conrad Potter Aiken was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short stories,…

1973

Jean Barraqué

French pianist and composer (born 1928)

Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué was a French composer and music writer. His relatively small œuvre is known for its serialism.

1973

Paul Williams

American singer and choreographer (born 1939)

Paul Williams was an American baritone singer. He was noted for being one of the founding members and the original lead singer of the Motown group the Temptations. Personal problems and failing health forced Williams to…

1973

Delmer Daves

American screenwriter, director and producer (born 1904)

Delmer Lawrence Daves was an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He worked in many genres, including film noir and warfare, but he is best known for his Western movies, especially Broken Arrow…

1977

John C. Allen

American roller coaster designer (born 1907)

John C. Allen was a roller coaster designer who was responsible for the revival of wooden roller coasters which began in the 1960s. He attended Drexel University. He started working for the Philadelphia Toboggan Company…

1979

Vivian Vance

American actress and singer (born 1909)

Vivian Vance was an American actress best known for playing landlady Ethel Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, among other…

1979

Ira Gershwin

American songwriter (born 1896)

Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable English-language songs of the 20th century. With George, he wrote more than…

1983

Gary Chester

Italian drummer and educator (born 1924)

Gary Chester was an American studio drummer, author, and teacher. Beginning in the 1960s, he played on hundreds of records for bands such as the Coasters, the Monkees and the Lovin' Spoonful.

1987

Rudolf Hess

German soldier and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (born 1894)

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany. Appointed Deputy to the Führer in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew…

1987

Shaike Ophir

Israeli actor and screenwriter (born 1929)

Shaike Ophir was an Israeli actor, comedian, playwright, screenwriter, director, and the country's first mime.

1987

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (born 1924)

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the sixth president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He also served as the second chief of the army…

1988

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.

American lawyer and politician (born 1914)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He served as a United States congressman from New York from 1949 to 1955 and in 1963 was appointed United States Under Secretary of…

1988

Victoria Shaw

Australian actress (born 1935)

Victoria Shaw was an Australian film and television actress.

1988

Pearl Bailey

American actress and singer (born 1918)

Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress, singer, comedian and author. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the…

1990

Feng Kang

Chinese mathematician and academic (born 1920)

Feng Kang was a Chinese mathematician. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. After his death, the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Feng Kang Prize in 1994 to reward young…

1993

Luigi Chinetti

Italian-American race car driver and businessman (born 1901)

Luigi Chinetti was an Italian-born racecar driver, who emigrated to the United States during World War II. He drove in 12 consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans races, taking three outright wins there and taking two more at…

1994

Jack Morrison

Australian rugby league player (born 1905)

Jack Morrison (1905−1994) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s for South Sydney and Canterbury-Bankstown. Morrison was a foundation player for Canterbury-Bankstown and the club's first…

1994

Jack Sharkey

American boxer and referee (born 1902)

Jack Sharkey was a Lithuanian-American boxer who held the NYSAC, NBA, and The Ring heavyweight titles from 1932 to 1933.

1994

Howard E. Koch

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1902)

Howard E. Koch was an American playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studio bosses in the 1950s. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Sergeant York.

1995

Ted Whitten

Australian footballer and coach (born 1933)

Edward James Whitten Sr. OAM was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

1995

Władysław Komar

Polish shot putter and actor (born 1940)

Władysław Stefan Komar was a Lithuanian-born Polish shot putter, actor and cabaretist. Competing in three Summer Olympics between 1964 and 1972, he won the gold medal at the Munich Games in 1972 with a throw of 21.18…

1998

Tadeusz Ślusarski

Polish pole vaulter (born 1950)

Tadeusz Ślusarski was a Polish Olympic gold medalist in pole vault at the 1976 Olympics, as well as a silver medalist at the 1980 Olympics.

1998

Jack Walker

English businessman (born 1929)

Jack Walker was a British industrialist and businessman. Walker built his fortune in the steel industry, amassing a personal fortune of £600 million. He then went on to become the owner and benefactor of Blackburn…

2000

Thea Astley

Australian author and educator (born 1925)

Thea Beatrice May Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards,…

2004

John N. Bahcall

American astrophysicist and academic (born 1934)

John Norris Bahcall was an American astrophysicist and the Richard Black Professor for Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was known for a wide range of contributions to solar, galactic and…

2005

Shamsur Rahman

Bangladeshi poet and journalist (born 1929)

Shamsur Rahman was a Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist. A prolific writer, Rahman produced more than sixty books of poetry collection and is considered a key figure in Bengali literature from the latter half of…

2006

Bill Deedes

English journalist and politician (born 1913)

William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, was a British Conservative politician, army officer and journalist. He was the first person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily…

2007

Eddie Griffin

American basketball player (born 1982)

Eddie Jamaal Griffin was an American professional basketball player from Philadelphia. He last played for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, who waived him on March 13, 2007. Months later, he was killed in a car crash.

2007

Franco Sensi

Italian businessman and politician (born 1926)

Francesco Sensi, Cavaliere del lavoro was an Italian oil tycoon. He was born in Rome, where he lived throughout his entire life, though he also served time as mayor of Visso, the city where his family came from. He had…

2008

Francesco Cossiga

Italian lawyer and politician, 8th President of Italy (born 1928)

Francesco Maurizio Cossiga was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1985 to 1992. A member of Christian Democracy, he was Prime Minister of Italy from 1979 to 1980. Cossiga is widely…

2010

Aase Bjerkholt

Norwegian politician, Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (born 1915)

Aase Ingerid Nathalie Bjerkholt was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was born in Oslo.

2012

Victor Poor

American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (born 1933)

Victor "Vic" Poor was an American engineer and computer pioneer. At Computer Terminal Corporation, he co-created the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the…

2012

Patrick Ricard

French businessman (born 1945)

Patrick Ricard was a French entrepreneur and chairman and CEO of the liquor and wine group Pernod Ricard.

2012

John Lynch-Staunton

Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1930)

John George Lynch-Staunton was a Canadian senator, who served as interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, from December 2003 to March 2004. He represented the Senate division of Grandville, Quebec.…

2012

Odilia Dank

American educator and politician (born 1938)

Odilia Mary Russo Dank was an American educator and politician from Oklahoma City who served as a Republican member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, from District 85. Dank was elected in 1994 and served until…

2013

Jack Harshman

American baseball player (born 1927)

John Elvin Harshman was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the New York Giants, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland Indians between 1948 and 1960. He batted and threw…

2013

John Hollander

American poet and critic (born 1929)

John Hollander was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and…

2013

David Landes

Jewish-American historian and economist (born 1924)

David Saul Landes was a professor of economics and of history at Harvard University. He is the author of Bankers and Pashas, Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties.…

2013

Frank Martínez

American painter (born 1924)

Francisco Alonzo "Frank" Martínez was an American artist. He painted murals of his Mexican American heritage.

2013

Gus Winckel

Dutch lieutenant and pilot (born 1912)

Willem Frederick August "Gus" Winckel was a Dutch military officer and pilot who flew for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force (ML-KNIL) in World War II. During the attack on Broome, Western Australia, on 3 March…

2013

Børre Knudsen

Norwegian minister and activist (born 1937)

Børre Arnold Knudsen (1937–2014) was a Norwegian Lutheran priest noted for his anti-abortion activism. Together with Ludvig Nessa, he staged protests at abortion clinics starting in the late 1980s, and he spent time in…

2014

Wolfgang Leonhard

German historian and author (born 1921)

Wolfgang Leonhard was a German political author and historian of the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic and Communism. A German Communist whose family had fled Hitler's Germany and who was educated in the…

2014

Sophie Masloff

American civil servant and politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (born 1917)

Sophie Masloff was an American politician. A long-time member of the Democratic Party and civil servant, she was elected to the Pittsburgh City Council and later served as the mayor of Pittsburgh from 1988 to 1994. She…

2014

Miodrag Pavlović

Serbian poet and critic (born 1928)

Miodrag Pavlović was a Serbian poet, physician writer, critic and academic. Pavlović was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

2014

Pierre Vassiliu

French singer-songwriter (born 1937)

Pierre Vassiliu was a French singer, songwriter and actor.

2014

Yvonne Craig

American ballet dancer and actress (born 1937)

Yvonne Joyce Craig was an American actress best known for her role as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in the 1960s television series Batman. Other notable roles in her career include Dorothy Johnson in the 1963 movie It Happened…

2015

Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder

German businessman (born 1933)

Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, often called "MV", was the Vice President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Prior to his UEFA career, Mayer-Vorfelder was a politician of the Christian Democratic Union of…

2015

László Paskai

Hungarian cardinal (born 1927)

László Paskai, O.F.M. was a Hungarian cardinal of the Catholic Church, He served as the archbishop of Esztergom from 1987 to 2002.

2015

Arthur Hiller

Canadian actor, director, and producer (born 1923)

Arthur Hiller, was a Canadian film and television director. He directed over 33 feature films during a 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s, he was…

2016

Virginia Ogilvy

Countess of Airlie, British countess (born 1933)

Virginia Fortune Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II. She was born in London to an American family, and grew up in the United States before returning to the United Kingdom. In…

2024

Silvio Santos

Brazilian media mogul and television host (born 1930)

Senor Abravanel, known professionally as Silvio Santos, was a Brazilian television presenter and business magnate. Widely regarded as the greatest personality in Brazilian television, he was the founder of the…

2024

Terence Stamp

English actor (born 1938)

Terence Henry Stamp was a British actor. His filmography included a mix of cult and mainstream performances, particularly sophisticated villain roles. He received various accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a…

2025

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