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Gaudreau was a Calder Memorial Trophy finalist for the NHL's best rookie and won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the league's most gentlemanly player for the 2016–17 season
Notable Deaths on August 29
104 people
886 – 2024
August 29 has seen 104 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 886 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2024 — Johnny Gaudreau
American ice hockey player (born 1993)
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A left winger, he played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL)
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He played college ice hockey for the Boston College Eagles in NCAA Division I for three seasons beginning in 2011 and was selected in the fourth round, 104th overall, by the Calgary Flames in the 2011 NHL entry draft
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In 2022, Gaudreau signed with the Columbus Blue Jackets, where he spent his last two seasons
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Gaudreau was noted as helping to grow opportunities for smaller hockey players; despite measuring in at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), he was a seven-time NHL All-Star and finished fourth in Hart Memorial Trophy voting twice.
886
Byzantine nun and saint (born 812)
Theodora of Thessalonica was a Byzantine nun and saint from Aegina. Her hagiography is the longest ever written about a holy woman in Byzantine history. The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates her feast day on 29 August.
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892
Chinese emperor of Min
Wang Jipeng, used the name Wang Chang (王昶) from 935 to 939, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Kangzong of Min (閩康宗), was an emperor of Min during China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He inherited…
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939
Chinese empress
Li Chunyan was an empress of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Min. Her husband was Wang Jipeng.
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939
Chinese empress
Empress Fu, posthumously Empress Xuanyi (宣懿皇后) was an empress consort of the Chinese Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. She was invested the empress in 954 when her husband Guo Rong…
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956
Hamdanid emir
Uddat al-Dawla Abu Taghlib Fadl Allah al-Ghadanfar al-Hamdani, usually known simply by his kunya as Abu Taghlib, was the third Hamdanid ruler of the Emirate of Mosul, encompassing most of the Jazira.
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979
Japanese nobleman (born 948)
Minamoto no Yorimitsu , also known as Minamoto no Raikō, was a Japanese samurai of the Heian period, who served the regents of the Fujiwara clan along with his brother Yorinobu, taking the violent measures the Fujiwara…
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1021
Gerard or Gerard Sagredo was the first bishop of Csanád in the Kingdom of Hungary from around 1030 to his death. Most information about his life was preserved in his legends, which contains most of the conventional…
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1046
1093
1123
Abbasid caliph (born 1092)
Abu Mansur al-Faḍl ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir better known by his regnal name Al-Mustarshid Billah was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1118 to 1135. He was son of his predecessor, caliph al-Mustazhir. He succeeded his…
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1135
Byzantine empress
Bertha of Sulzbach, also known as Irene, was a Byzantine empress by marriage to Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
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1159
Countess of Bar, English princess (born 1269)
Eleanor of England was the eldest surviving daughter of Edward I of England and his first wife, Eleanor of Castile.
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1298
Italian nobleman (born 1291)
Peter, called Tempesta, was the Count of Eboli from 1306. He was the eighth son of Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary. His sobriquet came from his stormy temperament.
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1315
Italian nobleman (born 1296)
Charles of Taranto was the eldest son of Philip I, Prince of Taranto and titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople, and his wife, Thamar Angelina Komnene, daughter of the Despot of Epirus, Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas.
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1315
duke of Austria (born 1349)
Albert III of Austria (9 September 1349 – 29 August 1395), known as Albert with the Braid (Pigtail) (German: Albrecht mit dem Zopf), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1365 until his death.
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1395
1442
Florentine painter (born 1427)
Alesso or Alessio Baldovinetti was an Italian early Renaissance painter and draftsman.
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1499
Lutheran reformer (born 1488)
Ulrich von Hutten was a German knight, scholar, poet and satirist, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer.
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1523
Pál Tomori was a Catholic monk and archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary. He defeated an Ottoman army near Sremska Mitrovica in 1523.
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1526
1533
Portuguese commander (born 1516)
Cristóvão da Gama, anglicised as Christopher da Gama, was a Portuguese military commander who led an army of 400 musketeers on a crusade in Ethiopia (1541–1543) against the Muslim Adal army of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim…
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1542
Mughal empress (born 1527)
Hamida Banu Begum was the empress consort of the second Mughal emperor Humayun and the mother of his successor, the third Mughal emperor Akbar. She was bestowed the title of Mariam Makani, by her son, Akbar. She also…
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1604
English activist (born 1614)
John Lilburne, also known as Freeborn John, was an English political Leveller before, during and after the English Civil Wars 1642–1650. He coined the term "freeborn rights", defining them as rights with which every…
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1657
English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (born 1648)
Gregory King was an English officer of arms, engraver, cartographer and statistician.
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1712
Hungarian pastor and polymath (born 1684)
Matthias Bel or Matthias Bél was a Lutheran pastor and polymath from the Kingdom of Hungary. Bel was active in the fields of pedagogy, philosophy, philology, history, and theoretical theology; he was the founder of…
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1749
English author and educator (born 1672)
Edmond Hoyle was an English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "according to Hoyle" came into the language as a reflection of his broadly perceived authority on the subject;…
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1769
French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (born 1713)
Jacques-Germain Soufflot was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous works are the Panthéon in Paris, built from 1755 onwards, originally as a church dedicated to…
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1780
1799
Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (born 1762)
Edmund Ignatius Rice, F.P.M., C.F.C. was a Catholic missionary and educationalist who founded two institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers.
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1844
English author and activist (born 1778)
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was a British writer in the anti-slavery movement.
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1856
Japanese shōgun (born 1846)
Tokugawa Iemochi was the 14th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, who held office from 1858 to 1866. During his reign there was much internal turmoil as a result of the "re-opening" of Japan to western nations.…
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1866
American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1801)
Brigham Young was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He also served as the first governor of…
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1877
Bulgarian colonel (born 1815)
Stefan Dunjov was a Banat Bulgarian military figure and revolutionary known for participating in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification (Risorgimento), as well as for being the first ethnic…
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1889
French businessman, invented the bicycle (born 1843)
Pierre Lallement is considered by some to be the inventor of the pedal bicycle.
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1891
Scottish historian and author (born 1809)
William Forbes Skene WS FRSE FSA(Scot) DCL LLD, was a Scottish lawyer, historian and antiquary.
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1892
1904
6th Nizam of Hyderabad (born 1866)
Asaf Jah VI, also known as Sir Mir Mahboob Ali Khan Siddiqi, was the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad. He ruled Hyderabad State, one of the princely states of India, between 1869 and 1911.
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1911
American businessman (born 1833)
George Huntington Hartford headed the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) from 1878 to 1917. During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country's largest…
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1917
English priest and author (born 1844)
William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic…
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1930
American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (born 1867)
David Thomas Abercrombie was the founder of the American brand Abercrombie & Fitch. A topographer and expert in the outdoors, Abercrombie opened the company as New York's outfitter for the elite and later partnered up…
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1931
Canadian poet and author (born 1899)
John Raymond Knister was a Canadian poet, novelist, story writer, columnist, and reviewer, "known primarily for his realistic narratives set in rural Canada ... Knister was a highly respected member of the Canadian…
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1932
1944
American businessman (born 1891)
Adolphus Busch III was an American brewing magnate based in St. Louis, Missouri, who was the president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch from 1934 to 1946 during World War II.
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1946
American painter and academic (born 1897)
John Steuart Curry was an American painter whose career spanned the years from 1924 until his death. He was noted for his paintings depicting rural life in his home state, Kansas. Along with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant…
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1946
English economist and civil servant (born 1871)
Sir Sydney John Chapman KCB CBE was an English economist and civil servant. He was Chief Economic Adviser to HM Government from 1927 to 1932.
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1951
Austrian lawyer (born 1894)
Anton Piëch was an Austrian-German lawyer and the son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche. He headed Volkswagenwerk GmbH between 1941 and 1945, which produced the Volkswagen vehicles (KdF-Wagen) at the factory in Wolfsburg,…
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1952
American author and illustrator (born 1897)
Marjorie Flack was an American artist and writer of children's picture books. She was born in Greenport, Long Island, New York in 1897. She was best known for The Story about Ping (1933), illustrated by Kurt Wiese,…
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1958
Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (born 1906)
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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1966
American general (born 1881)
Ulysses Simpson Grant III was a United States Army officer and planner. He was the son of Frederick Dent Grant, and the grandson of General of the Armies and American President Ulysses S. Grant.
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1968
American murderer (born 1904)
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, together known as Leopold and Loeb, were two American murderers who kidnapped and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21,…
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1971
German singer-songwriter (born 1905)
Lale Andersen was a German chanson singer-songwriter born in Lehe. She is best known for her interpretation of the song "Lili Marleen" in 1939, which by 1942 transcended the conflict to become World War II's biggest…
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1972
Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (born 1882)
Éamon de Valera was an Irish statesman and political leader. He served as the president of Ireland from 1959 to 1973, and three terms as prime minister. He had a leading role in introducing the Constitution of Ireland…
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1975
American actress (born 1923)
Jean Hagen was an American actress best known for her role as Doll Conovan in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best…
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1977
Australian race car driver (born 1945)
Brian Anthony Joseph McGuire was a racing driver and constructor from Australia.
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1977
American author and educator (born 1890)
Gertrude Chandler Warner was an American author, mainly of children's stories. She was most famous for writing the original book of The Boxcar Children and for the next 18 books in the series.
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1979
American journalist and author (born 1892)
Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of…
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1981
Swedish actress (born 1915)
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress. With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential actresses in the history of cinema. She won numerous accolades, including three Academy…
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1982
American composer and conductor (born 1910)
A. Lehman Engel was an American composer for television, film, and operas and a conductor of Broadway musicals and operas.
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1982
British-American actress (born 1918)
Evelyn Felisa Ankers was a British-American actress who often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during the 1940s, most notably The Wolf Man (1941) opposite…
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1985
American actor and screenwriter (born 1914)
Archie Campbell was an American comedian, writer, and star of Hee Haw, a country-flavored network television variety show. He was also a recording artist with several hits for RCA Victor in the 1960s.
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1987
American actor (born 1924)
Lamont Warren Marvin Jr., known as Lee Marvin, was an American film and television actor. Known for his bass voice and prematurely white hair, he is best remembered for playing hardboiled "tough guy" characters. He…
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1987
English explorer and painter (born 1909)
Sir Peter Markham Scott was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and…
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1989
Canadian-American mystic and author (born 1901)
Manly Palmer Hall was a Canadian writer, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. Over his 70-year career he gave thousands of lectures and published over 150 volumes, of which the best known is The Secret Teachings of All Ages…
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1990
Italian businessman (born 1924)
Libero Grassi was an Italian clothing manufacturer from Palermo, Sicily, who was killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. The businessman wrote an open letter to the local…
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1991
French philosopher and theorist (born 1930)
Pierre-Félix Guattari was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and created ecosophy independently of Arne Næss.…
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1992
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)
Frank Joseph Perry Jr. was an American stage director and filmmaker. His 1962 independent film David and Lisa earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The couple collaborated on…
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1995
English actress (born 1922)
Sheila Mary Fraser was an English actress. She is best known for her roles in the television serial A Family at War (1970–1971) and as Luke Skywalker's Aunt Beru in Star Wars (1977).
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2000
English footballer and manager (born 1951)
William Dixon Maddren was an English professional football player and manager. A one-club man, he made all his professional club appearances for Middlesbrough between 1968 and 1979, and went on to manage the club from…
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2000
American-Italian painter and academic (born 1913)
Conrad Marca-Relli was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including…
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2000
Australian singer-songwriter & television personality (born 1952)
Graeme Ronald Strachan, professionally billed and known as "Shirley" Strachan or Shirl, was an Australian singer, songwriter, radio and television presenter, and carpenter. He was the lead singer of the rock group…
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2001
Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1926)
Francisco Rabal Valera, popularly known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor. His career spanned more than 200 film and television roles, between 1942 and 2001. He received numerous accolades both in Spain and abroad,…
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2001
English race car driver (born 1919)
Lance Noel Macklin was a British racing driver from England. He participated in 15 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1952. He was infamously involved in the 1955 Le Mans disaster, starting…
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2002
Iraqi politician (born 1939)
Ayatollah al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Muhsin al-Hakim at-Tabataba'i, also known as Shaheed al-Mehraab, was a senior Iraqi Shia Islamic scholar and the leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).…
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2003
English painter and academic (born 1936)
Patrick Procktor was a British painter and printmaker.
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2003
New Zealand businessman (born 1914)
Sir James Muir Cameron Fletcher, often known as Jim or JC Junior, was a New Zealand industrialist known for heading Fletcher Construction, one of the country's largest firms. His father, also Sir James Fletcher, founded…
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2007
American police officer (born 1962)
Richard Allensworth Jewell was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He discovered a…
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2007
French civil servant and politician, 154th Prime Minister of France (born 1916)
Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under Louis XV –…
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2007
Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (born 1920)
Alfred H. Peet was a Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley, California, in 1966. Peet is widely credited with starting the specialty coffee revolution in the US. Among coffee…
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2007
English actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1953)
Geoffrey Howard Perkins was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. He was BBC head of comedy between 1995 and 2001, and produced the first two radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He is one of…
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2008
American geophysicist and theorist (born 1939)
Michael Schoenberg (1939–2008) was an American theoretical geophysicist noted for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of anisotropy in the real earth and its application to the determination of texture,…
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2008
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1915)
David "Honeyboy" Edwards was an American delta blues guitarist and singer from Mississippi.
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2011
Japanese voice actor (born 1931)
Kōhei Takiguchi , better known by his stage name Junpei Takiguchi , was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Chiba Prefecture.
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2011
Canadian academic and philanthropist, co-founded Pier 21 (born 1923)
Ruth Miriam Goldbloom was a Canadian philanthropist who co-founded the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was born and raised in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, to immigrant parents.…
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2012
English historian and author (born 1953)
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a British historian and professor of Western esotericism at the University of Exeter, best known for his authorship of several scholarly books on the history of occultism in Nazism and…
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2012
Japanese-American mathematician and academic (born 1932)
Shoshichi Kobayashi was a Japanese mathematician. He was the eldest brother of electrical engineer and computer scientist Hisashi Kobayashi. His research interests were in Riemannian and complex manifolds,…
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2012
American soprano (born 1924)
Anne McKnight was an operatic soprano. In Italy she used the stage name Anna de Cavalieri.
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2012
2012
Russian volleyball player and coach (born 1969)
Sergei Anatolyevich Ovchinnikov was the head coach of the Russia's National Women Volleyball Team. He committed suicide three weeks after the team lost to Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics quarterfinals.
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2012
American lawyer and politician (born 1934)
Joan L. Krajewski was a Democratic politician and former member of the Philadelphia City Council who represented the Sixth District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for almost thirty years.
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2013
Zambian cardinal (born 1931)
Medardo Joseph Mazombwe was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Zambia's first indigenous cardinal.
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2013
American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (born 1931)
Bruce Churchill Murray was an American planetary scientist. He was a director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and co-founder of The Planetary Society.
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2013
Argentine pianist and composer (born 1975)
Octavio Brunetti was an Argentine pianist, arranger and composer. He was best known for his participation in the album Te amo tango by Raul Jaurena, which won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tango Album in 2007, and was…
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2014
Swedish race car driver (born 1943)
Björn Waldegård was a Swedish rally driver, and the winner of the World Rally Championship for drivers in 1979. His Swedish nickname was "Walle".
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2014
American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (born 1933)
Gene Wilder was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker. He was mainly known for his comedic roles, including his collaborations with Mel Brooks on the films The Producers (1967), Blazing Saddles and Young…
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2016
Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.
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2018
American choreographer (born 1930)
Paul Belville Taylor Jr. was an American dancer and choreographer. He was one of the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists. He founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954 in New…
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2018
2021
Jamaican reggae producer (born 1936)
Lee "Scratch" Perry was a Jamaican record producer, songwriter and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early…
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2021
Belgian orthopedic surgeon, Olympic sailor and the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1942)
Jacques Jean Marie, Count Rogge was a Belgian sports administrator, former athlete, and physician, who served as the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013. In 2013, Rogge became…
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2021
Filipino broadcaster (born 1951)
Miguel "Mike" Castro Enriquez was a Filipino broadcast journalist and television presenter. He started his career as a radio broadcaster in 1969, and after signing with GMA Network in 1995, he became an anchor for…
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2023
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Johnny Gaudreau — American ice hockey player (1993–2024)
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Death year2024
Known forA left winger, he played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL)
Deaths on this date104 (886 – 2024)
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