Notable Deaths on August 3

Q: Who died on August 3?

Notable people who died on August 3 include: Burchard, Egino, Rudolf I, Cao, Thietmar.

Q: What is Andreas Embirikos known for?

Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (born 1901)

111 people 908 – 2025

August 3 has seen 111 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 908 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1975 — Andreas Embirikos

Greek poet and photographer (born 1901)

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As a writer, he emerged from the Generation of the '30s and is considered one of the most important representatives of Greek surrealism

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He studied psychoanalysis in France and was the first to practice it as a profession in Greece in the years 1935–1951

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Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet, writer, photographer, and one of the first Greek psychoanalysts

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Out of his entire literary work, his first collection of poetry, titled Ypsikaminos, stands out as the first purely surrealist Greek text

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Among his prose works, his bold erotic novel The Great Eastern was completed over a period of several decades becoming the lengthiest modern Greek novel

Burchard

duke of Thuringia

Burchard was the Duke of Thuringia from shortly after 892 until his death. He replaced Poppo as duke shortly after his appointment in 892, but the reasons for Poppo's leaving office are unknown. Burchard may have been a…

908

Egino

duke of Thuringia

Egino was a count in East Franconia and Duke of Thuringia in the late 9th century. He was a Popponid, the younger brother of Henry of Franconia and Poppo of Thuringia. All three may have been sons or grandsons of Poppo…

908

Rudolf I

bishop of Würzburg

Rudolf I was the Bishop of Würzburg from 892 until his death. He was the youngest son of Udo of Neustria.

908

Cao

Chinese empress dowager

Empress Dowager Cao, formally, Empress Zhenjian, was a concubine to the late Tang dynasty warlord Li Keyong. She was the mother of his son, Li Cunxu, who went on to establish the Later Tang dynasty as its Emperor…

925

Thietmar

margrave of Meissen

Thietmar (II) (c. 945 – 3 August 979) was Margrave of Meissen from about 976 until his death.

979

At-Ta'i

Abbasid caliph (born 929)

Abu Bakr ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Faḍl, better known by his regnal name al-Ṭāʾiʿ liʾllāh/biʾllāh, was the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad from 974 to his deposition in 991. He was in office during the domination of Iraq by the…

1003

Bartholomew de Burghersh

1st Baron Burghersh, English nobleman

Bartholomew Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh, called "the elder", was an English nobleman and soldier, a younger son of Robert Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh and Maud Badlesmere, sister of Bartholomew Badlesmere, 1st…

1355

James II

king of Scotland (born 1430)

James II was King of Scots from 1437 until his death in 1460. The eldest surviving son of James I of Scotland, he succeeded to the Scottish throne at the age of six, following the assassination of his father. The first…

1460

Scaramuccia Trivulzio

Italian cardinal

Scaramuccia Trivulzio was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Como in Italy, from 1508 to 1518. He was then Bishop of Piacenza, from 1519 to 1525.

1527

Francesco Ferruccio

Italian captain (born 1489)

Francesco Ferruccio was an Italian captain from Florence who fought in the Italian Wars.

1530

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger

Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace (born 1484)

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, also known as Antonio Cordiani, was an Italian architect active during the Renaissance, mainly in Rome and the Papal States. He worked on the design of St. Peter's Basilica in the…

1546

Étienne Dolet

French scholar and translator (born 1509)

Étienne Dolet was a French scholar, translator and printer. He was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime, which was buffeted by the opposing forces of the Renaissance and the French Inquisition. His early…

1546

Bernardino de Mendoza

Spanish commander and diplomat (born 1540)

Bernardino de Mendoza was a Spanish military commander, diplomat, and writer on military history and politics. He served Philip II as ambassador to London and as a spy, from which he was expelled for his involvement in…

1604

Guillaume du Vair

French lawyer and author (born 1556)

Guillaume du Vair was a French bishop, author, lawyer, Magistrate of the Parliament and Keeper of the Seals of France under French king Louis XIII.

1621

Joshua Barnes

English historian and scholar (born 1654)

Joshua Barnes, was an English scholar. His work Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675) was a utopian romance.

1712

Anthonie Heinsius

Dutch politician (born 1641)

Anthonie Heinsius was a Dutch statesman who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1689 to his death in 1720. Heinsius was an able negotiator and one of the greatest and most obstinate opponents of the expansionist…

1720

Grinling Gibbons

Dutch-English sculptor and woodcarver (born 1648)

Grinling Gibbons was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches,…

1721

Johann Matthias Gesner

German scholar and academic (born 1691)

Johann Matthias Gesner was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster.

1761

Stanisław Konarski

Polish poet and playwright (born 1700)

Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1773

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

French epistemologist and philosopher (born 1715)

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was a French philosopher and Catholic priest who focused on psychology and the philosophy of the mind.

1780

Richard Arkwright

English engineer and businessman (born 1732)

Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as the water frame…

1792

Jeffery Amherst

1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1717)

Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army. Amherst is credited as the architect of Britain's successful campaign to conquer the…

1797

Christopher Anstey

English author and poet (born 1724)

Christopher Anstey was an English poet who also wrote in Latin. After a period managing his family's estates, he moved permanently to Bath and died after a long public life there. His poem, The New Bath Guide, brought…

1805

Wenzel Müller

Austrian composer and conductor (born 1767)

Wenzel Müller was an Austrian composer and conductor. He is regarded as the most prolific opera composer of all time with his 166 operas.

1835

Dorothea von Schlegel

German author and translator (born 1763)

Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel was a German novelist and translator.

1839

Eugène Sue

French author and politician (born 1804)

Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated The Mysteries of Paris, which was…

1857

Gábor Klauzál

Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (born 1804)

Gábor Klauzál de Szlavovicz was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in the first government of Hungary. He studied in Szeged. He was…

1866

August Böckh

German historian and scholar (born 1785)

August Böckh was a German classical scholar and antiquarian.

1867

William B. Ogden

American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)

William Butler Ogden was an American politician and railroad executive who served as the first Mayor of Chicago. He was referred to as "the Astor of Chicago." He was, at one time, the city's richest citizen. He brought…

1877

Joseph Severn

English painter (born 1793)

Joseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can…

1879

George Inness

American painter (born 1825)

George Inness was an American landscape painter.

1894

William Lyne

Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (born 1844)

Sir William John Lyne KCMG was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1899 to 1901, and later as a federal cabinet minister under Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. He is best known as the…

1913

Roger Casement

Irish poet and activist (born 1864)

Roger David Casement, known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I.

1916

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius

German mathematician and academic (born 1849)

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, number theory, and to group theory. He is known for the famous…

1917

Peeter Süda

Estonian organist and composer (born 1883)

Peeter Süda was a father of the Estonian organ school, composer and an early collector of Estonian folksongs.

1920

Ture Malmgren

Swedish journalist and politician (born 1851)

Ture Robert Ferdinand Malmgren was a Swedish journalist, book publisher, and municipal politician. A prominent figure in his hometown of Uddevalla, Malmgren became a colorful and well-known part of the city's history…

1922

Joseph Conrad

British novelist (born 1857)

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties – he became a master…

1924

William Bruce

Australian cricketer (born 1864)

William Bruce was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Test matches between 1885 and 1895. He became a lawyer, practising in Melbourne.

1925

Emile Berliner

German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1851)

Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company…

1929

Thorstein Veblen

American economist and sociologist (born 1857)

Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

1929

Konstantin Konik

Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (born 1873)

Konstantin Konik was an Estonian politician and surgeon who served as a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee.

1936

Richard Willstätter

German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)

Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

1942

Frumka Płotnicka

Polish resistance fighter during World War II (born 1914)

Frumka Płotnicka was a Polish resistance fighter during World War II; activist of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) and member of the Labour Zionist organization Dror. She was one of the organizers of self-defence…

1943

Ignotus

Hungarian poet and author (born 1869)

Hugó Veigelsberg was a Hungarian editor and writer who usually published under the pen name Ignotus. He was known for the lyric individuality of his poems, stories, and sociological works. In addition to "Ignotus", he…

1949

Colette

French novelist and journalist (born 1873)

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world…

1954

Peter Collins

English race car driver (born 1931)

Peter John Collins was a British racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1958. Collins won three Formula One Grands Prix across seven seasons. In endurance racing, Collins won the 12 Hours of Sebring in…

1958

Herb Byrne

Australian footballer (born 1887)

Herbert Richard Byrne, was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

1959

Hilda Rix Nicholas

Australian artist (born 1884)

Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian artist. Born in the Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin, at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1902 to…

1961

Signe Salén

Swedish doctor (born 1871)

Sigrid Alfhild Maria "Signe" Salén was a Swedish doctor who was one of Sweden's first female physicians. She was known for specialising in treating venereal diseases as well as campaigning for the rights of female…

1963

Flannery O'Connor

American short story writer and novelist (born 1925)

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.

1964

Lenny Bruce

American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1925)

Leonard Alfred Schneider, better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy that…

1966

Konstantin Rokossovsky

Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (born 1896)

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky was a Soviet and Polish general who served as a top commander in the Red Army during World War II and achieved the ranks of Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland. He…

1968

Alexander Mair

Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (born 1889)

Alexander Mair was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 5 August 1939 to 16 May 1941. Born in Melbourne, Mair worked in various businesses there before moving to Albury, New South Wales…

1969

Giannis Papaioannou

Turkish-Greek composer (born 1913)

Giannis Papaioannou was a famous Greek musician and composer born in Kios, Ottoman Empire. In English his name is sometimes romanticized as Yannis, Ioannis or Yiannis. Most active in the 1940s, he wrote many songs, some…

1972

Richard Marshall

American general (born 1895)

Major General Richard Jaquelin Marshall was a senior officer in the United States Army.

1973

Edgar Johan Kuusik

Estonian architect and interior designer (born 1888)

Edgar Johan Kuusik was an Estonian architect and furniture and interior designer.

1974

Makarios III

Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (born 1913)

Makarios III was a Greek Cypriot prelate and politician who served as Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first president of Cyprus between 1960 and July 1974, with a second term between…

1977

Alfred Lunt

American actor and director (born 1892)

Alfred David Lunt was an American actor and director, best known for his long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, co-starring in Broadway and West End productions. After their…

1977

Bertil Ohlin

Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

Bertil Gotthard Ohlin was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the People's Party, a social-liberal party…

1979

Angelos Terzakis

Greek author and playwright (born 1907)

Angelos Terzakis was a Greek writer of the "Generation of the '30s". He wrote short stories, novels and plays.

1979

Carolyn Jones

American actress (born 1930)

Carolyn Sue Jones was an American actress of television and film. She began her film career in the early 1950s and by the end of the decade, in 1958, had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for…

1983

Wang Hongwen

Chinese labor activist and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1935)

Wang Hongwen was a Chinese politician who was the youngest member of the Gang of Four. He rose to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), after organizing the Shanghai People's Commune, to become one of…

1992

Ida Lupino

English-American actress and director (born 1918)

Ida Lupino was a British-American actress, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen…

1995

Edward Whittemore

American soldier and author (born 1933)

Edward Payson Whittemore was an American novelist, the author of five novels written between 1974 and 1987, four of which comprised his Jerusalem Quartet series. Following a tour of service with the United States Marine…

1995

Jørgen Garde

Danish admiral (born 1939)

Hans Jørgen Garde was a Danish admiral.

1996

Pietro Rizzuto

Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1934)

Pietro Rizzuto was an Italian-born Canadian politician.

1997

Alfred Schnittke

Russian composer and journalist (born 1934)

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a Soviet and Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody as a "composer who was…

1998

Rod Ansell

Australian hunter (born 1953)

Rodney William Ansell was an Australian cattle grazier and a buffalo hunter. Described to be from "the bush", Ansell became famous in 1977 after he was stranded in extremely remote country in the Northern Territory, and…

1999

Byron Farwell

American historian and author (born 1921)

Byron Edgar Farwell was an American military historian, biographer, and politician. He was the mayor of Hillsboro, Virginia, for three terms. He also worked for Chrysler, and was the author of 14 books and published…

1999

Joann Lõssov

Estonian basketball player and coach (born 1921)

Joann Lõssov, also known as Ioann Fyodorovich Lysov, was an Estonian basketball player. Lõssov trained at VSS Kalev, in Tallinn. He was named MVP of the 1947 EuroBasket. Member of the Soviet Union basketball team in…

2000

Christopher Hewett

English actor and director (born 1922)

Christopher George Hewett was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere.

2001

Roger Voudouris

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1954)

John Roger Voudouris was an American musician best known for his 1979 hit "Get Used to It".

2003

Henri Cartier-Bresson

French photographer and painter (born 1908)

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer, and also an artist. He was considered a master of candid photography, and was an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography and viewed…

2004

Françoise d'Eaubonne

French author and poet (born 1920)

Françoise d'Eaubonne was a French author, labour rights activist, environmentalist, and feminist. Her 1974 book, Le Féminisme ou la mort, introduced the term ecofeminism. She co-founded the Front homosexuel d'action…

2005

Arthur Lee

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1945)

Arthur Taylor Lee was an American musician, singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the leader of the Los Angeles rock band Love. Love's 1967 album Forever Changes was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and it is…

2006

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

German-English soprano and actress (born 1915)

Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, was a German-born Austro-British lyric soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the…

2006

John Gardner

English author (born 1926)

John Edmund Gardner was an English writer of spy and thriller novels. He is best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also wrote a series of Boysie Oakes books and three novels containing Sir Arthur Conan…

2007

Peter Thorup

Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1948)

Peter Eiberg Thorup was a Danish guitarist, singer, composer and record producer. He was one of the most important blues musicians in Denmark, and he was known outside his own country, when in the late 1960s he met…

2007

Skip Caray

American sportscaster (born 1939)

Harry Christopher "Skip" Caray Jr. was an American sportscaster, best known for his long career as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. He was the son of…

2008

Erik Darling

American singer-songwriter (born 1933)

Erik Darling was an American singer-songwriter and a folk music artist. He was an important influence on the folk scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

2008

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the…

2008

Nikolaos Makarezos

Greek soldier and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)

Nikolaos Makarezos was a Greek Army officer and one of the masterminds of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.

2009

Bobby Hebb

American singer-songwriter (born 1938)

Robert Alvin Von Hebb was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his 1966 hit "Sunny".

2010

William Sleator

American author (born 1945)

William Warner Sleator III was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon…

2011

Bubba Smith

American football player and actor (born 1945)

Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith was an American professional football defensive end and actor. Smith played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts, Oakland Raiders, and Houston Oilers.

2011

Frank Evans

American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1921)

Frank Evans was a professional baseball player in the Negro leagues.

2012

Martin Fleischmann

Czech-English chemist and academic (born 1927)

Martin Fleischmann FRS was a British chemist who worked in electrochemistry. The premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons, regarding excess heat in heavy water, caused a media sensation and…

2012

Paul McCracken

American economist and academic (born 1915)

Paul Winston McCracken was an American economist born in Richland, Iowa.

2012

John Pritchard

American basketball player (born 1927)

John David Pritchard was an American professional basketball player. Pritchard was selected in the seventh round of the 1949 BAA Draft by the St. Louis Bombers after a collegiate career at Drake. He played for the…

2012

George Shanard

American politician and agribusinessman (born 1926)

George Harris Shanard was an American politician and agribusinessman who served as a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1975 to 1992 and served as majority leader for the Republican Party from 1989 to 1992. He was…

2012

John Coombs

English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman (born 1922)

John Coombs was a British racing driver and racing team owner. After a driving career in various formulae, including a win in a minor Formula One race, he became a team owner in sports car racing and Formula Two. During…

2013

Jack English Hightower

American lawyer and politician (born 1926)

Jack English Hightower was a former Democratic U.S. representative from Texas's 13th congressional district, serving five terms from 1975 to 1985.

2013

Jack Hynes

Scottish-American soccer player and manager (born 1920)

John Hynes was an American soccer forward. He spent over twenty years in the American Soccer League, twice earning league MVP recognition. In 1949, he earned four caps with the United States men's national soccer team.…

2013

Miangul Aurangzeb

Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (born 1928)

Miangul Aurangzeb was the last Wali Ahad of the former Swat State, the son of the last Wali of Swat, Miangul Jahan Zeb, and the son-in-law of the former president of Pakistan, Muhammad Ayub Khan. He served in the…

2014

Edward Clancy

Australian cardinal (born 1923)

Edward Bede Clancy AC was an Australian Catholic bishop and cardinal. He was the seventh Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001. He was made Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1988.

2014

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

American author (born 1916)

Dorothy Margaret Salisbury Davis was an American crime fiction writer.

2014

Kenny Drew

Jr., American pianist and composer (born 1958)

Kenny Drew Jr. was an American jazz pianist. His music is known for its hard-swinging bluesy sound and large, two-handed rooty chords contrasting with fast runs. The son of jazz pianist Kenny Drew, he did not credit his…

2014

Lydia Yu-Jose

Filipino political scientist and academic (born 1944)

Lydia N. Yu-Jose was a Filipino professor of political science and Japanese Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. A graduate of Sophia University, she was best known for her research into the…

2014

Robert Conquest

English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)

George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was influential to both Ronald Reagan and Margaret…

2015

Mel Farr

American football player and businessman (born 1944)

Melvin Farr was an American professional football player and businessman.

2015

Coleen Gray

American actress (born 1922)

Coleen Gray was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley (1947), Red River (1948), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).

2015

Margot Loyola

Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)

Margot Loyola Palacios was a Chilean folklorist, musician, dancer, and teacher. She is considered one of the most influential musicians of Chile, pioneering folkloric research and transforming traditional music…

2015

Johanna Quandt

German businesswoman (born 1926)

Johanna Maria Quandt was a German billionaire businesswoman and the widow of Herbert Quandt, an industrialist and prominent Nazi. When she died in 2015 she was the 8th richest person in Germany, the 77th richest person…

2015

Jef Murray

American artist and author (born 1960)

Jeffrey Patrick Murray was an American fantasy artist and author best known for his illustrations of works by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. His paintings, illustrations, stories, poems, and essays appear regularly in…

2015

John Hume

Northern Irish politician (born 1937)

John Hume was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. A founder and leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume served in the Parliament of Northern Ireland; the…

2020

Jackie Walorski

American politician (born 1963)

Jacqueline Renae Walorski was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 2nd congressional district from 2013 until her death in 2022. She was a member of the Republican Party. Walorski…

2022

Mark Margolis

American actor (born 1939)

Mark Margolis was an American actor best known for his portrayal of the character Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad (2009–2011) and Better Call Saul (2016–2022). His performance in Breaking Bad was nominated for an Emmy…

2023

Bram Moolenaar

Dutch software engineer (born 1961)

Bram Moolenaar was a Dutch software engineer and activist who was the creator, maintainer, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim, a vi-derivative text editor. He advocated for ICCF Holland, a non-governmental…

2023

Yamini Krishnamurthy

Indian dancer (born 1940)

Mungara Yamini Krishnamurthy was an Indian classical dancer recognized for her contributions to Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. She was a recipient of the Padma Shri (1968), Padma Bhushan (2001), Padma Vibhushan (2016) and…

2024

Loni Anderson

American actress (born 1945)

Loni Kaye Anderson was an American actress. She is best known for playing receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982), which earned her nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and…

2025

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Andreas Embirikos — Greek surrealist poet and psychoanalyst

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1975 — Andreas Embirikos

As a writer, he emerged from the Generation of the '30s and is considered one of the most important representatives of Greek surrealism

He studied psychoanalysis in France and was the first to practice it as a profession in Greece in the years 1935–1951

Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet, writer, photographer, and one of the first Greek psychoanalysts

Out of his entire literary work, his first collection of poetry, titled Ypsikaminos, stands out as the first purely surrealist Greek text

Among his prose works, his bold erotic novel The Great Eastern was completed over a period of several decades becoming the lengthiest modern Greek novel

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