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William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist
Notable Deaths on August 2
119 people
216 BC – 2023
August 2 has seen 119 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 216 BC – 2023. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1997 — William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1914)
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Much of Burroughs's work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators
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With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique
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Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work
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His writing also engaged frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, constant preoccupations in both his fiction and real life.
Roman consul
Gnaeus Servilius Geminus was a Roman consul, serving as both general and admiral of Roman forces, during the Second Punic War.
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Roman consul and general
Lucius Aemilius Paullus, also spelled Paulus, was a consul of the Roman Republic twice, in 219 and 216 BC. He is primarily remembered for being one of the commanders of the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae, and for…
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Roman consul
Marcus Minucius Rufus was a Roman consul in 221 BC. He was also Magister Equitum during the dictatorship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus known as Cunctator.
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Pope Stephen I was the Bishop of Rome from 12 May 254 to his death on 2 August 257. He was later canonized as a saint and some accounts say he was killed while celebrating Mass.
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257
575
Pope Severinus was the bishop of Rome elected in October 638. He was caught up in a power struggle with Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, who pressured him to accept Monothelitism. Severinus refused, which for over eighteen…
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640
Pope John V was the bishop of Rome from 23 July 685 to his death on 2 August 686. He was the first pope of the Byzantine Papacy consecrated without prior imperial consent, and the first in a line of ten consecutive…
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686
Arab theologian and jurist (born 780)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أحمد ابن حنبل, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; was an Arab jurist and founder of the Hanbali school who is widely recognized as the scholar who memorized the most Hadiths in Islamic history. One…
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855
Ælfweard was the second son of Edward the Elder, the eldest born to his second wife Ælfflæd.
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924
John VIII of Constantinople, a native of Trebizond, was a Byzantine intellectual, jurist, and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1064 to 1075. He was the uncle of John Xiphilinus, the Epimator. He is considered…
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1075
William II was King of England from 26 September 1087 until his death in 1100, with powers over Normandy and influence in Scotland. He was less successful in extending his control into Wales. The third son of William…
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1100
Count of Toulouse (born 1156)
Raymond VI was Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence from 1194 to 1222. He was also Count of Melgueil from 1173 to 1190. Raymond's conflicts with Pope Innocent III over his tolerance of the Cathars led into his…
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1222
Chancellor and Regent of the Sultanate of Rum
Muʿīn al-Dīn Sulaymān Parwāna, simply known as Parwāna, was a Persian statesman, who was for a time a key player in Anatolian politics involving the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm, the Mongol Ilkhanate and the Mamluks under…
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1277
Louis of Burgundy was a member of the Capetian House of Burgundy who ruled the Principality of Achaea and claimed the defunct Kingdom of Thessalonica.
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1316
Queen consort of Scotland and Duchess consort of Brittany (born 1263)
Yolande of Dreux was the countess of Montfort-l'Amaury from 1311 until 1322. Between 1285 and 1286, she was Queen of Scotland through her first marriage to Alexander III of Scotland. Through her second marriage to…
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1330
Christopher II was King of Denmark from 1320 to 1326 and again from 1329 until his death. He was a younger son of Eric V. His name is connected with national disaster, as his rule ended in a near-total dissolution of…
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1332
English conspirator (born 1384)
Sir Thomas Grey, of Heaton Castle in the parish of Norham, Northumberland, was one of the three conspirators in the failed Southampton Plot against King Henry V in 1415, for which he was executed.
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1415
Austrian poet and composer (born 1376)
Oswald von Wolkenstein was a poet, composer and diplomat. In his diplomatic capacity, he traveled through much of Europe to as far as Georgia.
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1445
Elisabeth of Görlitz reigned as Duchess of Luxembourg from 1411 to 1443.
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1451
Scottish admiral (born 1466)
Sir Andrew Barton was a Scottish sailor from Leith. He gained notoriety as a privateer, making raids against Portuguese ships. He was killed in battle and memorialised in English and Scottish folk songs.
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1511
Italian physician and philosopher (born 1463)
Alessandro Achillini was an Italian philosopher and physician. He is known for the anatomic studies that he was able to publish, made possible by a 13th-century edict putatively by Emperor Frederick II allowing for…
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1512
Henry III of France was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589 and, as Henry of Valois, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575. Before he came to these thrones, he was known as…
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1589
English admiral (born c. 1570)
Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Leveson was a Royal Navy officer, politician and landowner. His origins were in the landed gentry of Shropshire and Staffordshire. A client and son-in-law of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of…
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1605
Japanese daimyō (born 1562)
Katō Kiyomasa was a Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods. His court title was Higo no Kami . His name as a child was Yashamaru, and first name was Toranosuke. He was one of Hideyoshi's Seven Spears of…
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1611
Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (born 1599)
Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the…
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1667
Robert Campbell, 5th Laird of Glenlyon, was a minor member of Scottish nobility and is best known as one of the commanding officers at the Massacre of Glencoe.
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1696
8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1689)
Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham,, of Burley House near Oakham in Rutland and of Eastwell Park near Ashford in Kent, was a British peer and politician.
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1769
English painter (born 1727)
Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of…
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1788
French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (born 1745)
The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier – were aviation pioneers, balloonists and paper manufacturers from the commune Annonay in Ardèche, France. They invented the…
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1799
French general and politician (born 1763)
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, 1st Count Brune was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
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1815
French mathematician, general, and politician, president of the National Convention (born 1753)
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot was a French mathematician, physicist, military officer, politician and a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution. His military reforms,…
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1823
English diarist (born 1793)
Harriet Arbuthnot was an early 19th-century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the closest woman friend of the hero of Waterloo and British Prime…
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1834
Ottoman Albanian commander (born 1769)
Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman viceroy and governor who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule in 1840, he controlled Egypt, Sudan,…
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1849
German author (born 1771)
Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun, better known by his pen name Heinrich Clauren, was a German author.
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1854
American educator and politician (born 1796)
Horace Mann was an American educational reformer, abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education; he is thus also known as The Father of American Education. In 1848, after public…
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1859
American sheriff (born 1837)
James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor,…
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1876
Argentinian author (born 1851)
Eduardo Gutiérrez was an Argentine writer. His works of gauchoesque nature acquired great popularity, specially Juan Moreira, a novel successfully adapted to the stage in 1884 that popularized the gaucho as a…
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1889
French poet and author (born 1813)
Louise-Victorine Ackermann was a French Parnassian poet.
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1890
Estonian missionary and engraver (born 1847)
Eduard Magnus Jakobson was an Estonian wood engraver and Baptist missionary. He illustrated many books and designed the masthead logo for Sakala, a newspaper founded by his older brother, Carl Robert Jakobson.
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1903
French veterinarian and microbiologist (born 1850)
Edmond Isidore Étienne Nocard, was a French veterinarian and microbiologist, born in Provins.
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1903
Aromanian revolutionary
Ioryi Mucitano, nicknamed Kasapcheto ("Butcher"), was an Ottoman-born Aromanian revolutionary during the Macedonian Struggle. He was the first leader of the first Aromanian band of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary…
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1911
Hungarian architect and academic, designed Zagreb Central Station (born 1851)
Ferenc Pfaff was a Hungarian chief architect of the MÁV and professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
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1913
Australian politician, 16th premier of South Australia (born 1843)
Sir John William Downer, KCMG, KC was an Australian politician who served two terms as Premier of South Australia, from 1885 to 1887 and again from 1892 to 1893. He later entered federal politics and served as a Senator…
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1915
Estonian military pilot (born 1894)
Jaan Mahlapuu was an Estonian fighter pilot for the Imperial Russian Air Service in World War I. He is known for being the first ace of Estonian origin who flew over Riga where he reputedly shot down five or six German…
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1917
Italian tenor and actor (born 1873)
Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic tenor, who sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. Generally…
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1921
Scottish-Canadian engineer, invented the telephone (born 1847)
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company…
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1922
American journalist and politician, 29th president of the United States (born 1865)
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular presidents at the time of his death. After…
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1923
Irish Republican died on hunger strike during the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes (born 1904)
Michael Joseph Whitty was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was the youngest of the 22 Irish republicans who died while on hunger strike in the 20th century. Whitty was one of four Irish Republicans to die…
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1923
German field marshal and politician, 2nd president of Germany (born 1847)
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a German military officer and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany from 1925 until his death…
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1934
Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1900)
Artur Sirk was an Estonian political and military figure. A veteran of the country's struggle for independence, Sirk later became a leading figure within the right-wing Vaps Movement and an outspoken opponent of the…
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1937
American mystic and author (born 1883)
Harvey Spencer Lewis was an American Rosicrucian writer, mystic and the founder of AMORC. He led AMORC as its first leader (imperator) from its creation in 1915 until his death.
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1939
Italian composer and educator (born 1863)
Pietro Mascagni was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo…
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1945
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1901)
Joseph Alfred Pierre Hormisdas "Pit" Lépine was a Canadian ice hockey forward and coach. He was born in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.
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1955
American poet and educator (born 1879)
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in…
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1955
American anthropologist and author (born 1901)
Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge II was an American writer and anthropologist. In 1925 he explored early Olmec sites in Mexico, and later studied additional sites in Central America and the American Southwest. He wrote more…
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1963
English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1886)
Walter Terence Stace was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism. He worked with the Ceylon Civil Service from 1910 to 1932, and from…
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1967
English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (born 1891)
Alexander Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, was a British academic, mathematician, rower, and decorated British Army officer. He served with the Highland Light Infantry during World War I. He was Master of University College,…
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1970
American bass player (born 1942)
Brian Leslie Cole was an American musician. He was the bass guitarist, bass vocalist and one of the founding members of the 1960s folk rock band the Association.
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1972
American psychotherapist and author (born 1911)
Paul Goodman was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil…
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1972
American poet and author (born 1887)
Helen Lyman ,
commonly known as Helen Hoyt or Helen Hoyt Lyman, was an American poet.
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1972
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1915)
Ismail bin Abdul Rahman was a Malaysian politician who served as the second Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia from September 1970 to his death in August 1973. A member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO),…
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1973
French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1917)
Jean-Pierre Grumbach, known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville, was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve…
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1973
English race car driver and businessman (born 1893)
Wallace Douglas Hawkes was a British motor car designer, businessman and racing driver. He was born in Barton, Gloucestershire, married Gwenda Stewart in 1937, and died, aged 80, in Athens, Greece.
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1974
Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1905)
László Kalmár was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science in Hungary.
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1976
Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1890)
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked in Germany and later the United States. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's…
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1976
Mexican composer and conductor (born 1899)
Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican…
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1978
French businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (born 1890)
Antony Noghès was the founder of the Monaco Grand Prix.
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1978
American baseball player (born 1947)
Thurman Lee Munson was an American professional baseball catcher who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees, from 1969 until his death in 1979. A seven-time All-Star, Munson had a…
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1979
Irish hunger striker and politician (born 1955)
Kieran Doherty was an Irish republican hunger striker and politician who served as a TD for Cavan–Monaghan from June 1981 to August 1981. He was a volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican…
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1981
Danish diver (born 1900)
Anna Stefanie Nanna Fryland Clausen was a Danish diver. She was a gold medalist at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
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1981
American bass player (born 1936)
James Lee Jamerson was an American bassist. He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s, and is now regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bass players in…
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1983
1986
American activist and author (born 1914)
Joseph Carcione was a consumer advocate known as "The Green Grocer."
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1988
American short story writer and poet (born 1938)
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk…
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1988
American short story writer and essayist (born 1902)
Norman Fitzroy Maclean was an American professor at the University of Chicago who, following his retirement, became a major figure in American literature. Maclean is known for his collection of novellas A River Runs…
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1990
1990
French singer-songwriter and producer (born 1947)
Michel Jean Hamburger, known professionally as Michel Berger, was a French singer and songwriter. He was a figure of France's pop music scene for two decades as a singer. As a songwriter he wrote for artists such as his…
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1992
French lawyer and politician, 150th prime minister of France (born 1912)
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 to 1962. In…
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1996
Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1917)
Obdulio Jacinto Muiños Varela was a Uruguayan football player. He was the captain of the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup after beating Brazil in the decisive final round match popularly known as the…
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1996
Somalian general and politician, 5th president of Somalia (born 1934)
Mohamed Farrah Hasan Garad, popularly known as General Aidid or Aideed, was a Somali military officer, diplomat, and [[president of Somali Republic].
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1996
Russian serial killer and rapist, last person executed by Russia (born 1959)
Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and necrophile, convicted for the killing of 11 boys between the ages of 10 and 16 in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992. Golovkin, also known…
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1996
Norwegian painter and illustrator (born 1905)
Harald Kihle was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is particularly known for his pictures with motifs from Telemark.
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1997
1997
American television host and puppeteer (born 1933)
Shari Lewis was a Peabody-winning American ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer, television show host, dancer, comedian, singer, actress, author, and symphony conductor. She famously created and performed…
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1998
American writer (born 1934)
William Weaks Morris was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Morris had a lyrical prose style which he lent to reflections on the American South, including…
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1999
Austrian-American physician and academic (born 1924)
Peter Safar was an Austrian anesthesiologist of Czech Jewish descent. He is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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2003
2004
Belgian illustrator (born 1926)
François Craenhals was a Belgian comics artist best known for the comic series Chevalier Ardent and Les 4 As.
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2004
Estonian lawyer and politician, 5th prime minister of Estonia in exile (born 1911)
Heinrich Mark was an Estonian politician and Prime Minister of the Estonian Government in Exile.
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2004
American journalist and author (born 1955)
Steven Charles Vincent was an American author and journalist. In 2005 he was working as a freelance journalist in Basra, Iraq, reporting for The Christian Science Monitor, National Review, Mother Jones, Reason, Front…
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2005
American journalist (born 1950)
Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr. was an American journalist noted for his work primarily on issues of the African-American community. He served as editor-in-chief of the Oakland Post in Oakland, California, from June 2007…
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2007
Japanese illustrator (born 1935)
Fujio Akatsuka was a Japanese manga artist. Known as the "King of Gag Manga" (ギャグ漫画の王様, he created many popular manga such as Osomatsu-kun, Himitsu no Akko-chan, and Tensai Bakabon.
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2008
Spanish author and illustrator (born 1932)
José Sanchis Grau was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like Pumby (1954) and Robín Robot (1972).
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2011
English biologist and academic (born 1927)
Sir Gabriel Horn was a British neuroscientist and Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. His research was into the neural mechanisms of learning and memory.
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2012
Canadian director and producer (born 1948)
Magnus Isacsson was a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose films investigated contemporary political issues and topics in social activism.
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2012
American singer-songwriter (born 1930)
James Jones was an American singer-songwriter who moved to New York City while a teenager. His biggest hits were "Handy Man" (1959) and "Good Timin'" (1960). According to Allmusic journalist Steve Huey, Jones sang "in a…
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2012
English historian and journalist (born 1934)
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air,…
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2012
German footballer (born 1972)
Bernd Meier was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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2012
American soprano (born 1920)
Marguerite Piazza was an American soprano, entertainer and philanthropist from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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2012
American lawyer and activist (born 1936)
Julius LeVonne Chambers was an American lawyer, civil rights leader and educator.
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2013
American businessman, co-founded American Axle (born 1942)
Richard E. "Dick" Dauch was an American businessman, and co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of American Axle and Manufacturing, now Dauch Corporation. Previously, Dauch served as a manufacturing manager at…
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2013
Russian–Israeli chess player (born 1941)
Alla Shulimovna Kushnir was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player and professor of classics, numismatics, and archaeology. She was awarded the FIDE titles of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1962 and Woman Grandmaster…
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2013
2014
American author and educator (born 1938)
Billie Dean Letts was an American novelist and educator. She was a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
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2014
Austrian social worker and politician (born 1954)
Barbara Prammer was an Austrian politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). In 2006 she was the first woman to become President of the National Council of Austria, an office she held until her…
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2014
American-Finnish author (born 1964)
James Thompson was an American-Finnish crime writer based in Helsinki. He had a master's degree in English philology from The University of Helsinki, where he also studied Finnish, in which he was fluent. He studied six…
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2014
American pilot and engineer (born 1921)
Forrest Morton Bird was an American aviator, inventor, and biomedical engineer. He is best known for having created some of the first reliable mass-produced mechanical ventilators for acute and chronic cardiopulmonary…
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2015
Italian jurist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (born 1922)
Giovanni Battista Conso was an Italian jurist who served on the Constitutional Court of Italy for nine years beginning in 1982, and served as President of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1989 until his death in 2015.
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2015
Dutch footballer (born 1936)
Piet Fransen was a Dutch footballer who played as a midfielder.
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2015
American baseball player (born 1933)
Jack Russell Spring was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher. The 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 175 lb (79 kg) left-hander played for the Philadelphia Phillies (1955), Boston Red Sox (1957), Washington Senators…
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2015
New Zealand actor (born 1930)
Terence Bayler was a New Zealand film, television, and stage actor. His most memorable roles were in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).
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2016
American actor (born 1930)
David William Huddleston was an American actor. An Emmy Award nominee, Huddleston had a prolific television career and appeared in many films, including Rio Lobo, Blazing Saddles, Crime Busters, Santa Claus: The Movie,…
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2016
Polish cardinal (born 1927)
Franciszek Macharski was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Archbishop of Kraków from 1978, named by Pope John Paul II to succeed him in that role. Macharski was elevated to the cardinalate…
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2016
Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)
Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to…
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2016
American literary and cookbook editor (born 1924)
Judith Jones was an American writer and editor, initially known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile. Jones is also known as the editor who championed Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle and…
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2017
Hungarian-Dutch visual artist (born 1922)
Suzanne Perlman was a Hungarian-Dutch visual artist known for her expressionist portraits and landscape paintings. Her bold use of colour has its origins in her early paintings of the tropical island of Curaçao, where…
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2020
American sportscaster and game show host (born 1927)
Vincent Edward Scully was an American sportscaster, best known for his broadcast work in Major League Baseball. Scully was the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 years, beginning in…
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2022
Indian art director, production designer, and film and television producer (born 1965)
Nitin Chandrakant Desai was an Indian art director, production designer, and film and television producer. He was most known for his work in Marathi and Hindi Films, World Cultural Festival 2016 at Delhi and films like,…
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2023
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William S. Burroughs — American writer and visual artist (1914–1997)
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Death year1997
Known forHe is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced both underground and popular culture and literature
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