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She won the Slovenian women's championship in 2007 and 2010
Notable Deaths on August 23
103 people
30 BC – 2023
August 23 has seen 103 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 30 BC – 2023. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2013 — Vesna Rožič
Slovenian chess player (born 1987)
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In 2007, Rožič also became the Mediterranean women's champion in Antalya
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In the Women's Mitropa Cup, Rožič won two team golds, four team silvers and two individual gold medals.
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She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in April 2006
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In team events, she represented Slovenia in four Women's Chess Olympiads, four Women's European Team Chess Championships, six Women's Mitropa Cups and four European Girls U18 Team Championships
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Roman soldier (born 47 BC)
Marcus Antonius Antyllus was a son of the Roman Triumvir Marc Antony. He was also called Antyllus, a nickname given to him by his father meaning "the Archer". Despite his three children by Cleopatra, Marc Antony…
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Roman general and politician (born AD 40)
AD 93 (XCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pompeius and Priscinus. The denomination AD 93 for this year has been used since the…
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93
Gothic king
Radagaisus was a Gothic king who led an invasion of Roman Italy in late 405 and the first half of 406. A committed pagan, he was executed after being defeated by the general Stilicho.
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406
634
Emperor Rokujō was the 79th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1165 through 1168.
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1176
Scottish knight and rebel leader (born c.1270)
Sir William Wallace was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.
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1305
Flemish peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel)
Nicolaas Zannekin, was a Flemish peasant leader, best known for his role in a peasant revolt in Flanders from 1323 to 1328.
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1328
Duke of Lorraine (born 1282)
Frederick IV, called the Fighter, was the Duke of Lorraine from 1312 to his death in 1328.
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1329
Christian mystic (born c. 1265)
Heilwige Bloemardinne was a Christian mystic who lived in Brussels and was loosely associated with the Brethren of the Free Spirit. She was also known as Heilwijch Blomart and Bloemardine.
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1335
Archbishop of Canterbury
John de Stratford was Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Winchester, Treasurer and Chancellor of England.
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1348
founder of the Dahan regime (born 1320)
Chen Youliang was the founder and first emperor of the dynastic state of Chen Han in Chinese history. He was one of the military leaders and heroes of the peasant rebellions at the end of the Yuan dynasty.
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1363
Spanish cardinal (born 1310)
Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz more commonly Gil de Albornoz ; c. 1295/1310 – 23 August 1367), was a Spanish curial cardinal, archbishop of Toledo from 13 May 1338 to 17 December 1350. Grand Penitentiary from December…
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1367
Franco-Flemish composer (born c. 1420?)
Johannes Pullois was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in both the Low Countries and Italy. He was one of the early generation of composers to carry the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style from its home…
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1478
English judge and legal author (born c. 1407)
Sir Thomas de Littleton was an English judge, undersheriff, Lord of Tixall Manor, and legal writer from the Lyttelton family. He was also made a Knight of the Bath by King Edward IV.
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1481
Queen of Portugal, eldest daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (born 1470)
Isabella, Princess of Asturias, also known as Isabella of Aragon, was the eldest child and heiress presumptive of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. She was Queen of Portugal as the wife of…
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1498
French poet and composer (born 1435)
Jean Molinet was a French poet, chronicler, and composer. He is best remembered for his prose translation of Roman de la rose.
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1507
Swiss soldier (born 1465)
Philibert Berthelier, often known just as Berthelier, was a Genevan patriot, an uncompromising enemy of the Duke of Savoy in his ambition to control Geneva.
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1519
French philosopher and scholar (born 1467)
Guillaume Budé was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France.
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1540
1st Baron Wharton (born 1495)
Sir Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton was an English nobleman and a follower of King Henry VIII of England. He is best known for his victory at Solway Moss on 24 November 1542 for which he was given a barony.
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1568
Turkish lawyer and jurist (born 1490)
Ebussuud Efendi, was a Hanafi Maturidi Ottoman jurist and Quran exegete, served as the Qadi (judge) of Istanbul from 1533 to 1537, and the Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman Empire from 1545 to 1574. He was also called…
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1574
Spanish poet and academic (born 1527)
Luis de León, was a Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic.
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1591
Dutch poet and playwright (born 1585)
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.
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1618
1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1592)
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was an English courtier, statesman, and notable patron of the arts. He was a favourite and self-described "lover" of King James VI and I. Buckingham remained at the height of…
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1628
1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (born 1600)
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron was an English politician and army officer who fought on the Royalist side during the English Civil War.
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1652
English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1654)
Colonel Edward Nott was an English Colonial Governor of Virginia. He was appointed by Queen Anne on either April 25, 1705 or August 15, 1705. His administration lasted only one year, as he died in 1706 at the age of 49.…
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1706
American minister and author (born 1639)
Increase Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials, he was influential in…
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1723
French physicist and engineer (born 1736)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and…
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1806
Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (born 1766)
Alexander Wilson was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Identified by George Ord as the "Father of American Ornithology", Wilson is regarded as the greatest American ornithologist…
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1813
American commander (born 1785)
Oliver Hazard Perry was a United States Navy officer from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A prominent member of the Perry family naval dynasty, he was the son of Sarah Wallace Alexander and Captain Christopher Raymond…
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1819
Hungarian author and poet (born 1759)
Ferenc Kazinczy was a Hungarian author, poet, translator, neologist, an agent in the regeneration of the Hungarian language and literature at the turn of the 19th century. Today his name is connected with the extensive…
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1831
Prussian field marshal (born 1760)
August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the reform of the Prussian military and the War of Liberation.
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1831
American author and diplomat (born 1800)
Thomas Ruffin Gray was an American attorney, diplomat, and author. He represented several enslaved people during their trials in the wake of Nat Turner's Rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831. Gray…
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1845
American lawyer and politician (born 1806)
Alexander Calder was the first mayor of Beaumont, Texas, on August 8, 1840.
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1853
French poet and author (born 1796)
Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy was a French satirical poet. His name can hardly be separated from that of his friend and compatriot, Joseph Méry (1798–1866), with whom he carried on so intimate a collaboration that it is…
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1867
British boxer (born 1811)
William Abednego Thompson, also known as Bendigo Thompson and mononymously as Bendigo, was an English bare-knuckle boxer who won the heavyweight championship of England from James Burke on 12 February 1839. He was…
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1880
Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (born 1827)
Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the head of provisional government and the first president of Brazil. He was born in Alagoas in a military family, followed a…
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1892
Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1840)
Count Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889. He was one of the genrō, or senior statesman of the Meiji era. Born in the Satsuma Domain to a…
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1900
Slovak-Austrian composer (born 1856)
Heinrich Berté, born Heinrich Bettelheim was an Austrian-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas.
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1924
Italian actor (born 1895)
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or mononymously as Valentino, was an Italian-born actor and dancer. Dubbed the Latin Lover, he became one…
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1926
Italian anarchist convicted of murder (born 1891)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed…
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1927
Italian anarchist convicted of murder (born 1888)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed…
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1927
Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (born 1870)
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau…
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1933
French composer (born 1869)
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His early works…
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1937
Ottoman caliph (born 1868)
Abdülmecid II or Abdul Mejid II, commonly known as Abdülmecid Efendi, was the last Ottoman caliph, the only caliph of the Republic of Turkey, and head of the Osmanoğlu family from 1926 to 1944. Unlike previous caliphs,…
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1944
Polish painter and illustrator (born 1879)
Stefan Filipkiewicz was a Polish painter and designer. He was born in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary, and died in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Nazi Germany, during the Holocaust. Notable for his landscapes inspired by…
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1944
American geographer, journalist, and author (born 1858)
Helen Churchill Candee was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist, and geographer. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, and for her later work as a travel…
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1949
1954
American director, producer, and composer (born 1895)
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and director in musical theater for nearly 40 years. He won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original…
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1960
Russian-German ethnologist and academic (born 1885)
Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson was a Baltic German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.
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1962
American actor, director, and producer (born 1892)
Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson was an American rodeo champion, film actor, film director, and producer. While acting and stunt work began as a sideline to Gibson's focus on rodeo, he successfully transitioned from silent…
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1962
Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (born 1883)
Edmond John "Ned" Hogan was an Australian politician who was the 30th Premier of Victoria. He was born in Wallace, Victoria, where his Irish-born parents were small farmers. After attending a Roman Catholic primary…
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1964
American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1883)
Francis Xavier Bushman was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of…
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1966
Belgian race car driver (born 1918)
Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix.
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1967
American runner and coach (born 1883)
Nathaniel John Cartmell, also known as Nat and Nate, was an American athlete who won medals at two editions of the Olympic Games. Importantly, Nate was on first racially integrated Men's Medley relay team that won…
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1967
Italian psychiatrist and author (born 1888)
Roberto Assagioli was an Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Assagioli founded the psychological movement known as psychosynthesis, which is still being developed…
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1974
Turkish general (born 1913)
Ömer Faruk Gürler was a Turkish general. He was the 15th Commander of the Turkish Army during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état, and then Chief of the General Staff of Turkey (1972–1973). He was the military's candidate in…
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1975
1977
American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
Stanford Moore was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme…
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1982
French race car and boat driver (born 1952)
Didier Joseph Louis Pironi was a French racing driver and offshore powerboat racer, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1982. Pironi was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1982 with…
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1987
Sudanese poet and academic (born 1944)
Mohammed Abdul-Hayy or Muhammad Abd al-Hayy was a member of the first generation of post-colonial Sudanese writers and academics. Together with Ali El-Mak and Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, he is regarded as a pioneer of modern…
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1989
Scottish psychiatrist and author (born 1927)
Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia. Politically, Laing was regarded as a thinker of the New…
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1989
American pianist and composer (born 1910)
David Daniel Rose was a British-American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His best known compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and "Calypso Melody". He also wrote music…
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1990
Hungarian director and screenwriter (born 1917)
Zoltán Fábri was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films The Boys of Paul Street (1969) and Hungarians (1978) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1965 film Twenty Hours…
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1994
German-American photographer and journalist (born 1898)
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the…
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1995
Australian author and activist (born 1904)
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE was an Aboriginal Australian activist and writer who was among the first Aboriginal authors to publish an autobiography If Everyone Cared, in 1977; a new edition of this work was published…
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1996
Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (born 1922)
Sir Eric Matthew Gairy PC was the first Prime Minister of Grenada, serving from his country's independence in 1974 until his overthrow in a coup by Maurice Bishop in 1979. Gairy also served as head of government in…
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1997
English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to…
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1997
American screenwriter (born 1926)
Norman Wexler was an American screenwriter whose work included films such as Saturday Night Fever, Serpico and Joe. A New Bedford, Massachusetts native and 1944 Central High School graduate in Detroit, Wexler attended…
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1999
Irish author (born 1928)
James White was a Northern Irish author of science fiction. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada. After a few years working in the clothing industry, he worked at Short…
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1999
American priest and missionary (born 1932)
John Anthony Kaiser was a Roman Catholic priest and Mill Hill father from Perham, Minnesota, US, who was assassinated near his mission at Morendat, near Naivasha, Rift Valley Province, Kenya.
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2000
American actress (born 1919)
Kathleen Freeman was an American actress. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors and relatives, almost invariably to…
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2001
American journalist and author (born 1929)
Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish ancestry.
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2001
American baseball player and coach (born 1922)
James Hoyt Wilhelm, nicknamed "Old Sarge", was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White…
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2002
American baseball player and manager (born 1946)
Bobby Lee Bonds was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball from 1968 to 1981. He played for the San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians,…
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2003
2003
Czech-Australian violinist and educator (born 1917)
Jan Boleslav Sedivka, Czech-born, was one of Australia's foremost violinists and teachers.
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2003
Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (born 1944)
Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa was a renowned Kenyan politician who at the time of his death was serving as the eighth Vice-President of Kenya.
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2003
American actor (born 1927)
Brock Peters was an American actor, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. He made his Broadway debut in the…
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2005
Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (born 1928)
Walter Maynard Ferguson CM was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957. He was noted for his bands, which often served as…
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2006
English-American author and critic (born 1919)
John Russell CBE was an English art critic and journalist.
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2008
American puppeteer and voice actor (born 1934)
Jerry Nelson was an American puppeteer, best known for his work with the Muppets. Known for his wide range of characters and singing abilities, he performed Muppet characters on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle…
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2012
American anthologist and author (born 1946)
Josepha Sherman was an American author, folklorist, and anthologist. In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel The Shining Falcon.
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2012
American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (born 1955)
Richard Jay Corman was the founder and owner of R. J. Corman Railroad Group, a Nicholasville, Kentucky-based railroad services and short line operating company.
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2013
American psychiatrist and author (born 1925)
William Glasser was an American psychiatrist. He was the developer of W. Edwards Deming's workplace ideas, reality therapy and choice theory. His innovations for individual counseling, work environments and school,…
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2013
American production designer and set director (born 1924)
Charles Alvin Lisanby Jr. was an American production designer who had a formative role for scenic design in early color television. During his career, Lisanby was nominated for sixteen Emmys and won three. In January…
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2013
Polish ethnographer and politician (born 1951)
Konstanty Bronisław Miodowicz was a Polish politician. He was a member of Sejm from 1997 until mid-2013, mostly as a candidate from the Civic Platform.
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2013
Russian sociologist and economist (born 1927)
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika. She was the prime author of the Novosibirsk Report and several books on the economy of the Soviet Union and in sociology…
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2013
Cameroonian footballer (born 1989)
Albert Dominique Ebossé Bodjongo Dika was a Cameroonian footballer who played in Cameroon, Malaysia and Algeria.
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2014
Dutch cyclist (born 1994)
Annefleur Kalvenhaar was a Dutch cyclist and mountain biker. She won the U23 European Cyclo-cross Championships in 2013. She began her career at the age of 13. She participated for the first time in a World Cup in 2012.…
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2014
Swedish author and illustrator (born 1932)
Birgitta Alma Sofia Stenberg was a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. She was the 2005 winner of the Selma Lagerlöf Prize.
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2014
Spanish philologist and publisher (born 1949)
Jaume Vallcorba Plana was a Spanish philologist and publisher.
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2014
Congolese-Belgian nurse (born 1921)
Augusta Marie Chiwy was a Belgian nurse who was a volunteer during the Siege of Bastogne in 1944. She worked with the U.S. Army physician John Prior and with fellow Belgian nurse Renée Lemaire, treating injured soldiers…
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2015
French rugby player and race car driver (born 1930)
Guy Camille Ligier was a French racing driver and team owner. He maintained many varied and successful careers over the course of his life, including rugby player, butcher, racing driver and Formula One team owner.
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2015
Honduran footballer (born 1971)
Germán Enrique Centeno Reneau, known as "Quique" Renau was a Honduran football player.
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2015
Australian lieutenant and pilot (born 1914)
Flight Lieutenant Paul Gordon Royle was an Australian Royal Air Force pilot who was one of the last two survivors of the 76 men who were able to escape from the Stalag Luft III German prisoner-of-war camp in World War…
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2015
Scottish painter and printmaker (born 1931)
Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, was a Scottish painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy of Arts.
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2021
Russian army officer, founder of Wagner Group (born 1970)
Dmitry Valerievich Utkin was a Russian military officer and mercenary. He served as a special forces officer in the GRU, where he held the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the co-founder and military commander of the…
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2023
Russian businessman, chief of Wagner Group (born 1961)
Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin was a Russian mercenary leader, rebel commander, and oligarch. He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until he…
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2023
American professional wrestler (born 1944)
Terrance Dee Funk was an American professional wrestler and actor. Funk is known for the length of his career, which spanned more than 50 years and included multiple short-lived retirements. He is also known for his…
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2023
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Vesna Rožič — Slovenian chess player (1987–2013)
FeaturedVesna Rožič
Death year2013
Known forShe received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in April 2006
Deaths on this date103 (30 BC – 2023)
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