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Near the end of the decade, he had his first cinematic leading role in Machine-Gun Kelly (1958).
Notable Deaths on August 30
102 people
526 – 2024
August 30 has seen 102 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 526 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2003 — Charles Bronson
American actor and soldier (born 1921)
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Bronson himself worked in the mines as well until joining the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 to fight in World War II
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During the 1950s, he played various supporting roles in motion pictures and television, including anthology drama TV series in which he would appear as the main character
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Bronson was born into extreme poverty in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town in the Allegheny Mountains
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Bronson's father, a miner, died when Bronson was young
Italian ruler (born 454)
Theodoric the Great, also called the Amal, was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), and ruler of the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patrician of the Eastern Roman…
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832
bishop of Bangor and Ely
Hervey le Breton was a Breton cleric who became Bishop of Bangor in Wales and later Bishop of Ely in England. Appointed to Bangor by King William II of England, when the Normans were advancing into Wales, Hervey was…
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1131
Pope Alexander III, born Roland, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 September 1159 until his death in 1181.
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1181
Chinese emperor (born 1300)
Khutughtu Khan, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, was a son of Khayishan who seized the throne of the Yuan dynasty of China in 1329, but died in suspicious circumstances six months later.…
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1329
Emperor Shōkō was the 101st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1412 through 1428.
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1428
1483
1500
Duke of Savoy (born 1528)
Emmanuel Philibert, known as Testa di ferro, was the 10th Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 17 August 1553 until his death in 1580. He is notably remembered for restoring the Savoyard state, which had…
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1580
Italian Oratorian and bishop (born 1545)
Giovanni Giovenale Ancina was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Saluzzo and was a professed member from the Oratorians. The bishop was also a scholar and music composer and was also known for…
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1604
Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1535)
Shimazu Yoshihiro was the second son of Shimazu Takahisa and the younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa. Traditionally believed to be the 17th head of the Shimazu clan, he was a skilled general during the Sengoku period…
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1619
co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (born 1547)
Baha al-Din al-Amili, commonly known as Sheikh Bahāʾī, was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and polymath in Safavid Iran, who composed various works in Arabic and Persian. Closely tied to the court of Shah Abbas I, he…
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1621
Swedish physicist and engineer (born 1661)
Christopher Polhammar better known as Christopher Polhem, which he took after his ennoblement in 1716, was a Swedish scientist, inventor, and industrialist. He made significant contributions to the economic and…
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1751
Prime Minister of Maratha Empire (born 1755, assassinated)
Narayanrao was the 10th Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy, serving from November 1772 until his assassination in August 1773. He was the third and youngest son of Balaji Baji Rao and Gopikabai, and the younger brother…
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1773
1856
Scottish naval officer and explorer (born 1777)
Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross was a British naval officer and explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to Antarctica.
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1856
American/Confederate general (born 1831)
John Bell Hood was a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
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1879
Jr., American general and politician (born 1836)
Ferris Jacobs Jr. was an American military officer, politician, and lawyer. He served in the Union Army in several roles during the American Civil War, and afterwards spent one term as United States representative from…
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1886
Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (born 1824)
Prince Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky was a Russian statesman, probably best remembered for having concluded the Li-Lobanov Treaty with China, the Peace of Constantinople with the Ottoman Empire, and for his…
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1896
American actor and manager (born 1857)
Richard Mansfield was a German-born English actor-manager best known for his performances in Shakespeare plays, Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and the play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; his performances in the last made such…
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1907
American general (born 1821)
Alexander Peter Stewart was a Confederate military officer during the American Civil War and a college professor. He fought in many of the most significant battles in the Western Theater of the war and briefly took…
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1908
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from…
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1928
French journalist and author (born 1873)
Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; in 1916, he…
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1935
Turkish painter and educator (born 1890)
Namık İsmail was a Turkish Impressionist painter and art educator, who received his training in France.
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1935
2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (born 1886)
Lt.-Col. Ronald Townshend Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn was a British peer, the son of Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn. He succeeded to the Barony on 23 September 1924. He lived at Honingham Hall in Norfolk until…
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1936
Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (born 1877)
Max Factor Sr., born Maksymilian Faktorowicz, was a Polish-American businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor. As a founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, he largely developed the modern cosmetics…
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1938
English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by…
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1940
Danish physicist and engineer (born 1874)
Peder Oluf Pedersen was a Danish engineer and physicist. He is notable for his work on electrotechnology, his cooperation with Valdemar Poulsen on the developmental work on Wire recorders, which he called a…
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1941
Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (born 1885)
Eduard Karel Alexander de Neve was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward for Velocitas Breda, HBS Craeyenhout and the Netherlands national team.
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1943
Dutch priest and missionary (born 1890)
Eustáquio van Lieshout, SSCC was a Dutch Catholic missionary priest in Brazil from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
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1943
Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1893)
Alfréd Schaffer was a Hungarian international footballer. He is recorded as having played for a record number of clubs: 21 in a 15-year career which lasted from 1910 to 1925.
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1945
Russian lawyer (born 1907)
Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky was the leader of the Russian Fascist Party, which he led in exile from Manchuria. Rodzaevsky was also the chief editor of the RFP paper Nash Put'. After the defeat of anti-communist…
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1946
Danish actor and director (born 1890)
Gunnar Sommerfeldt was a Danish actor and film maker.
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1947
German-American social reformer (born 1872)
Alice Salomon was a German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Her role was so important to German social work that the Deutsche Bundespost issued a commemorative postage stamp about…
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1948
English cricketer (born 1877)
Arthur Fielder was an English cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914. He played a major role in Kent's four County Championship wins in the…
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1949
Estonian director and cinematographer (born 1896)
Konstantin Märska was an Estonian cinematographer and film director.
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1951
Italian cardinal (born 1880)
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member of the Benedictines who served as the Archbishop of Milan from 1929 until his death. He took the religious name of Ildefonso as a…
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1954
Peruvian mathematician (born 1894)
Cristóbal de Losada y Puga was a Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer. He was Minister of Education of Peru in the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero and Director of the National Library of Peru between…
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1961
American actor (born 1877)
Charles Douville Coburn was an American actor and theatrical producer. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award three times – for The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), The More the Merrier (1943) and The…
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1961
English-Soviet spy (born 1911)
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. His defection in 1951 to…
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1963
Estonian-English lawyer and politician (born 1888)
Salme Anette Pekkala-Dutt, known by the pen name Sancho, was an Estonian-British communist politician, essayist, writer and translator.
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1964
American painter, illustrator, and academic (born 1913)
Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt was an American abstract painter and art theorist active in New York City for more than three decades. As a theorist he wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on…
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1967
American actor and screenwriter (born 1915)
William Whitney Talman Jr. was an American television and movie actor, best known for playing Los Angeles District Attorney Hamilton Burger in the television series Perry Mason.
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1968
1970
American clothing manufacturer, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (born 1905)
Abraham Zapruder was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, who became known for his film work during the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on…
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1970
Iranian-Turkish sculptor (born 1906)
Ali Hadi Bara was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey.
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1971
American actress (born 1938)
Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress. She is considered an icon of the French New Wave as a result of her performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless.
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1979
American actress and dancer (born 1921)
Vera-Ellen was an American dancer, actress, and singer. She is remembered for her solo performances as well as her work with partners Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye, and Donald O'Connor. She is best known for her…
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1981
Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (born 1933)
Mohammad-Ali Rajai was an Iranian politician who served as the second president of Iran from 2 August 1981 until his assassination four weeks later. Before his presidency, Rajai had served as prime minister under…
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1981
English-American author (born 1900)
Janet Miriam Caldwell was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her married…
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1985
New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1912)
Sir John Ross Marshall was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He entered Parliament in 1946 and was first promoted to Cabinet in 1951. After spending eleven years as the deputy prime minister of New…
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1988
American journalist and critic (born 1922)
Seymour Krim was an American author, editor and literary critic. In the 1950s and '60s, he contributed essays and journalistic pieces to The Village Voice, New York Herald Tribune, The Evergreen Review, Commentary, and…
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1989
Dutch engineer and academic (born 1900)
Bernard D.H. Tellegen was a Dutch electrical engineer and inventor of the pentode and the gyrator. He is also known for a theorem in circuit theory, Tellegen's theorem.
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1990
English footballer and manager (born 1944)
Cyril Barry Knowles was a footballer who played left-back for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He was the son of the rugby league footballer Cyril Knowles, and the older brother of fellow professional footballer Peter…
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1991
Czech bass player (born 1952)
Vladimír Padrůněk was a Czech jazz and rock bass guitarist. He is known for his work with the groups Jazz Q, Energit, Etc..., Abraxas, and others.
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1991
Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1925)
Jean Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely's art satirized automation and the technological…
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1991
American actor (born 1938)
Robert Anson Jordan Jr., known professionally as Richard Jordan, was an American actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include:…
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1993
English director and screenwriter (born 1923)
Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an English filmmaker, theatre director, critic, and actor. He was considered a leading light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave, and a principal exponent of kitchen sink…
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1994
American economist and academic (born 1938)
Fischer Sheffey Black, Jr. was an American economist, best known as one of the co-authors of the Black–Scholes option pricing model. He held academic positions at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts…
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1995
American guitarist and singer (born 1942)
Holmes Sterling Morrison Jr. was an American guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band the Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing backing…
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1995
French actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1953)
Christine Pascal was a French actress, writer, and director known for Le Petit Prince a dit, 1992.
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1996
Dutch discus thrower (born 1912)
Reindert Johannes Brasser also known as Jan Brasser was a Dutch athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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1999
1999
ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (born 1910)
Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa Mbeki was a South African politician, military commander, Communist leader who served as the Secretary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, at its inception in 1961. He was also the younger son of Chief…
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2001
English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914)
John Lee Thompson was an English film director, screenwriter and producer. Initially an exponent of social realism, he became known as a versatile and prolific director of thrillers, action, and adventure films.
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2002
American philosopher and academic (born 1917)
Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher. He served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 2003 after having also held teaching appointments at Stanford…
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2003
American astronomer and academic (born 1906)
Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Among his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the "dirty snowball" hypothesis of…
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2004
Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (born 1926)
Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, was a New Zealand judge and later a British Law Lord and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is widely considered one of New Zealand's most…
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2006
Canadian-American actor and producer (born 1916)
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a…
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2006
Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance…
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2006
English author and journalist (born 1942)
Michael James Jackson was an English beer and whiskey writer. He was a regular contributor to a number of broadsheets, particularly The Independent and The Observer.
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2007
American soldier and politician (born 1918)
Charles Albert Vanik was a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1981.
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2007
Australian rugby player and coach (born 1937)
Brian Clinton Hambly was an Australian rugby league player, a representative forward for the Australia national team between 1959 and 1965. His club career was played with South Sydney and Parramatta. He was considered…
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2008
Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (born 1926)
Wladek Kowalski was a Canadian professional wrestler, known by his ring name Killer Kowalski.
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2008
2009
American wrestler (born 1983)
Joseph Carl Bailey Jr. was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name J. C. Bailey. He wrestled for numerous American-based professional wrestling promotions including Combat Zone Wrestling, IWA…
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2010
French director and screenwriter (born 1943)
Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer.
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2010
Australian cricketer and softball player (born 1921)
Myrtle Edwards was an Australian softball and cricket player.
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2010
Argentine footballer (born 1910)
Francisco Antonio Varallo was an Argentine footballer who played as a forward for the Argentina national team from 1930 to 1937, also representing the country at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930.
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2010
American golfer (born 1923)
William Cammack Campbell, often known as Bill Campbell or William C. Campbell, became one of the most distinguished amateur golfers in golf history. Campbell was two-time President of the United States Golf Association…
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2013
American basketball player and coach (born 1933)
Howard Royce Crittenden was an American basketball player, best known for his college career at Murray State University and in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).
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2013
American philosopher and academic (born 1942)
Allan Stanley Gotthelf was an American philosopher. He was a scholar of the philosophies of both Aristotle and Ayn Rand.
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2013
Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American…
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2013
2013
American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist (born 1945)
Charles Clyde Bowden was an American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was best known for his work documenting violence on the Mexico-United States border, especially in and…
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2014
Indian historian and academic (born 1928)
Bipan Chandra was an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India. An emeritus professor of modern history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he specialized on the Indian independence…
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2014
Belgian cyclist (born 1996)
Igor Decraene was a Belgian cyclist. In 2013, he became the UCI world junior men's time trial champion. The event took place on 24 September in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. In 2013 and 2014 he was also the Belgian national…
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2014
English-American director and producer (born 1920)
Andrew Victor McLaglen was an American film and television director, known for Westerns and adventure films, often starring John Wayne or James Stewart.
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2014
Peruvian lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Felipe Enrique Osterling Parodi was a Peruvian lawyer, writer and politician. He was a member and leader of the Christian People's Party, and served in senior positions in the Peruvian government.
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2014
American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (born 1939)
Wesley Earl Craven was an American filmmaker. Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor. Craven has been…
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2015
American lawyer and politician (born 1929)
Edward Norman Fadeley was an American attorney and politician in the state of Oregon. He was the 88th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Previously he served in both the Oregon House of Representatives and the Oregon…
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2015
Indian scholar, author, and academic (born 1938)
Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi was an Indian scholar of Vachana sahitya in the Kannada language and an academic who served as the vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. A noted epigraphist of Kannada, he was…
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2015
American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (born 1920)
Marvin Mandel was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th Governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969, to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lt. Governor Blair Lee III served as…
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2015
English-American neurologist, author, and academic (born 1933)
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
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2015
American motivational author (born 1926)
Louise Lynn Hay was an American motivational author and professional speaker. She authored several New Thought self-help books, including the 1984 book You Can Heal Your Life, and founded Hay House publishing.
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2017
Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist (born 1943)
Ronald Harry "Skip" Prokop was a Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist. He was also a band leader, was a founding member of the Canadian rock music groups the Paupers and Lighthouse.
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2017
American actress and writer (born 1939)
Valerie Kathryn Harper was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut as a replacement in the musical Li'l Abner. She played Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show…
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2019
8th and final leader of the Soviet Union (born 1931)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party from…
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2022
Māori King (born 1955)
Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, crowned as Kīngi Tūheitia, reigned as the Māori King from 2006 until his death in 2024. He was the eldest son of the previous Māori monarch, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, and…
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2024
American rapper, hype man and radio personality (born 1971)
Isaac Freeman III, better known by his stage name Fatman Scoop, was an American hip-hop artist. Noted for his booming, raw vocal presence on various hip-hop songs, he was best known for his guest performances on the…
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2024
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Charles Bronson — American actor (1921–2003)
FeaturedCharles Bronson
Death year2003
Known forHe was known for his roles in action films and his "granite features and brawny physique"
Deaths on this date102 (526 – 2024)
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