Notable Deaths on August 6

August 6 has 108 recorded notable deaths across history, from 258 to 2024. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

John Hughes

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American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1950)

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Notable Deaths 108 source records 258 – 2024

Major events on August 6

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1861 Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria. Source
  2. 1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. Source

Did you know about Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his resignation in 1959, when he was overthrown in the Cuban Revolution.

Did you know about Theodor W. Adorno

As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—that strongly influenced the European New Left.

Did you know about Pope Paul VI (born 1897)

Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978.

Did you know about Creme Puff

Creme Puff was the oldest cat ever recorded, according to the 2010 edition of Guinness World Records, when she died at the age of 38 years and 3 days.

Did you know about Joël Robuchon

Joël Robuchon's restaurants have been acclaimed, and he held 31 Michelin Guide stars among them by the time of his death in 2018, the most any restaurateur has ever held.

More major people who died on August 6

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1973 Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista

Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (born 1901)
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his resignation in 1959, when he was overthrown in the Cuban Revolution. From 1936 till 1940 he was the de facto leader of Cuba.
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1969 Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno

German sociologist and philosopher (born 1903)
Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and G. W. F. Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—that strongly influenced the European New Left.
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1978 Pope Paul VI (born 1897)

Pope Paul VI (born 1897)

Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council, which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements.
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2005 Creme Puff

Creme Puff

tabby domestic cat, oldest recorded cat (born 1967)
Creme Puff was a mixed tabby domestic cat, owned by Jake Perry of Austin, Texas. She was the oldest cat ever recorded, according to the 2010 edition of Guinness World Records, when she died at the age of 38 years and 3 days.
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2018 Joël Robuchon

Joël Robuchon

French Chef (born 1945)
Joël Robuchon was a French chef and restaurateur. He was named "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989, and awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France in cuisine in 1976. He published several cookbooks, two of which have been translated into English, chaired the committee for the Larousse Gastronomique, and hosted culinary television shows in France. He operated more than a dozen restaurants across Bangkok, Bordeaux, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, Macau, Madrid, Monaco, Montreal, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, and New York City. His restaurants have been acclaimed, and he held 31 Michelin Guide stars among them by the time of his death in 2018, the most any restaurateur has ever held. He is considered to be one of the greatest chefs of all time.
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1945 Richard Bong

Richard Bong

American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1920)
Richard Ira "Dick" Bong was a United States Army Air Forces officer and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. He died in California while testing a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter shortly before the war ended. Bong was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1986 and has several commemorative monuments named in his honor around the world, including an airport, two bridges, a theater, a veterans historical center, a recreation area, a neighborhood terrace, and several avenues and streets, including the street leading to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
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1660 Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez

Spanish painter and educator (born 1599)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art.
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1637 Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

English poet and playwright (born 1572)
Ben Jonson was an English playwright, poet and actor. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614), and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I."
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2012 Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch

American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1944)
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. He is one of a handful of people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards, a feat dubbed the "EGOT". He and composer Richard Rodgers are the only people to have won those prizes and a Pulitzer Prize ("PEGOT").
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1983 Klaus Nomi

Klaus Nomi

German singer-songwriter and actor (born 1944)
Klaus Sperber, known professionally as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor and baritone noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona.
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2001 Wilhelm Mohnke

Wilhelm Mohnke

German general (born 1911)
Wilhelm Mohnke was a German brigadier general who was one of the original members of the Schutzstaffel SS-Stabswache Berlin formed in March 1933. Mohnke, who had joined the Nazi Party in September 1931, rose through the ranks to become one of Adolf Hitler's last remaining general officers at the end of World War II in Europe.
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1978 Edward Durell Stone

Edward Durell Stone

American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (born 1902)
Edward Durell Stone was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. His works include the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City; the Parliament House of Pakistan in Islamabad; the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico; the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India; The Keller Center at the University of Chicago; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the EcoTarium, formerly known as the New England Science Center in Worcester, Massachusetts; and the campus of Windham College in Putney, Vermont.
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1221 Saint Dominic

Saint Dominic

Spanish priest, founded the Dominican Order (born 1170)
Dominic de Guzmán, almost exclusively known as Saint Dominic, was a Castilian religious priest and the founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and the Dominicans are traditionally credited with spreading and popularizing the rosary.
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1964 Cedric Hardwicke

Cedric Hardwicke

English actor and director (born 1893)
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned over 50 years. His theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of Shakespeare and Shaw, and his film work included leading roles in several adapted literary classics.
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1931 Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke

American cornet player, pianist, and composer (born 1903)
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described it like "shooting bullets at a bell”.
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2024 Billy Bean

Billy Bean

American baseball player (born 1964)
William Daro Bean was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers (1987–1989), the Los Angeles Dodgers (1989), and the San Diego Padres (1993–1995). He also played for the Kintetsu Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in 1992.
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1657 Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (born 1595)
Zynoviy Bohdan Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky of the Abdank coat of arms was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Zaporozhian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He led the Cossacks to victory in a successful uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654) that resulted in the creation of an independent Cossack state in Dnieper Ukraine.
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1998 André Weil

André Weil

French-American mathematician and academic (born 1906)
André Weil was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. His influence is due both to his original contributions to a remarkably broad spectrum of mathematical theories, and to the mark he left on mathematical practice and style, through some of his own works as well as through the Bourbaki group, of which he was one of the principal founders.
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2005 Robin Cook

Robin Cook

Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1946)
Robert Finlayson "Robin" Cook was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 until his death in 2005 and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until 2001, when he was replaced by Jack Straw. He then served as Leader of the House of Commons from 2001 until 2003.
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2009 Willy DeVille

Willy DeVille

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
Willy DeVille was an American singer and songwriter. During his thirty-five-year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own, DeVille created songs rooted in traditional American musical styles. He worked with collaborators from across the spectrum of contemporary music, including Jack Nitzsche, Doc Pomus, Dr. John, Mark Knopfler, Allen Toussaint, and Eddie Bo. Latin rhythms, blues riffs, doo-wop, Cajun music, strains of French cabaret, and echoes of early-1960s uptown soul can be heard in DeVille's work.
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1994 Domenico Modugno

Domenico Modugno

Italian singer-songwriter and politician (born 1928)
Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received the first Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. He is considered the first Italian cantautore.
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2001 Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado

Brazilian novelist and poet (born 1912)
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least seven times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
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1945 Hiram Johnson

Hiram Johnson

American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California (born 1866)
Hiram Warren Johnson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917 and represented California in the U.S. Senate for five terms from 1917 to 1945. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century as a leading progressive and ran for vice president on Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive ticket in the 1912 presidential election. As a U.S. senator, Johnson voted for American entry into World War I and was later a critic of the foreign policy of both Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Johnson was the only governor of his state from 1856 until 1943 to serve more than one term.
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2017 Darren Daulton

Darren Daulton

American baseball player (born 1962)
Darren Arthur Daulton, nicknamed "Dutch", was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies and Florida Marlins (1997). While with the Phillies, Daulton was a three-time MLB All-Star and won the 1992 Silver Slugger Award. He won the 1997 World Series with the Marlins.
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1991 Shapour Bakhtiar

Shapour Bakhtiar

Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (born 1915)
Shapour Bakhtiar was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Bakhtiar stated that he favored neither a republican nor a monarchical system, advocating instead for what he called a "progressive democracy."
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2011 Fe del Mundo

Fe del Mundo

Filipino pediatrician and educator (born 1911)
Fe Villanueva del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician. She founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and helped shape the country's modern child healthcare system. Her pioneering work in pediatrics in the Philippines spanned eight decades.
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750 Marwan II

Marwan II

Umayyad general and caliph (born 688)
Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan, commonly known as Marwan II, was the fourteenth and last caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 744 until his death. His reign was dominated by a civil war, and he was the last Umayyad ruler to rule the united Caliphate before the Abbasid Revolution toppled the Umayyad dynasty.
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1925 Surendranath Banerjee

Surendranath Banerjee

Indian academic and politician (born 1848)
Sir Surendranath Banerjee, often known as Rashtraguru, was an Indian nationalist leader during the British Raj. He founded the Indian National Association to bring Hindus and Muslims together for political action. He was also one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress. Unlike Congress, however, Surendranath supported Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms, and with many liberal leaders he left Congress and founded a new organisation, Indian National Liberation Federation, in 1919.
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1985 Forbes Burnham

Forbes Burnham

Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (born 1923)
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham was a Guyanese politician and the leader of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana from 1964 until his death in 1985. He served as Premier of British Guiana from 1964 to 1966, Prime Minister of Guyana from 1964 to 1980 and then as the first executive president of Guyana from 1980 to 1985. He is often regarded as a strongman who embraced his own version of socialism.
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1414 Ladislaus of Naples (born 1377)

Ladislaus of Naples (born 1377)

Ladislaus of Naples was King of Naples from 1386 until his death and an unsuccessful claimant to the kingdoms of Hungary and Croatia. Ladislaus was a skilled political and military leader, protector and controller of Pope Innocent VII; however, he earned a bad reputation concerning his personal life. He profited from disorder throughout Italy to greatly expand his kingdom and his power, appropriating much of the Papal States to his own use. He was the last male of the Capetian House of Anjou.
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2024 Connie Chiume

Connie Chiume

South African actress and filmmaker (born 1952)
Connie Temweka Gabisile Chiume was a South African actress and filmmaker. She was known for her film roles in Black Panther, Black Is King and Blessers. On television, she appeared in S'gudi S'nyasi, Yizo Yizo 2, Zone 14, Rhythm City and Gomora.
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1986 Emilio Fernández

Emilio Fernández

Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1904)
Emilio Fernández Romo, nicknamed "El Indio", was a Mexican film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was one of the most prolific and acclaimed film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and '50s. His film María Candelaria (1944) won the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, the first Mexican film to receive the honor. As an actor, he worked in numerous film productions in both Mexico and in Hollywood.
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1458 Pope Callixtus III (born 1378)

Pope Callixtus III (born 1378)

Pope Callixtus III, born Alonso de Borja, but referred to in English-language accounts as Alfonso de Borgia as a member of the House of Borgia, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 April 1455 to his death, in August 1458.
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1904 Eduard Hanslick

Eduard Hanslick

Austrian author and critic (born 1825)
Eduard Hanslick was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the Neue Freie Presse from 1864 until the end of his life. His best known work, the 1854 treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen, was a landmark in the aesthetics of music and outlines much of his artistic and philosophical beliefs on music.
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2001 Dorothy Tutin

Dorothy Tutin

English actress (born 1930)
Dame Dorothy Tutin was an English actress of stage, film and television. For her work in the theatre, she won two Olivier Awards and two Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress. She was made a CBE in 1967 and a Dame (DBE) in 2000.
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1991 Harry Reasoner

Harry Reasoner

American journalist, co-created 60 Minutes (born 1923)
Harry Reasoner was an American journalist for CBS and ABC News. He is known for his adroit use of language as a television commentator and as one of the original hosts of the news magazine 60 Minutes.
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2012 Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes

Australian-American author and critic (born 1938)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes was an Australian art critic, writer and producer of television documentaries. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as "the most famous art critic in the world".
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1272 Stephen V of Hungary (born 1239)

Stephen V of Hungary (born 1239)

Stephen V of Hungary was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1270 and 1272, and Duke of Styria from 1258 to 1260. He was the oldest son of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. King Béla had his son crowned king at the age of six and appointed him Duke of Slavonia. Still a child, Stephen married Elizabeth, a daughter of a chieftain of the Cumans whom his father settled in the Great Hungarian Plain.
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1946 Tony Lazzeri

Tony Lazzeri

American baseball player and coach (born 1903)
Anthony Michael Lazzeri was an American professional baseball second baseman during the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was part of the famed "Murderers' Row" Yankee batting lineup of the late 1920s, along with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Bob Meusel.
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2017 Betty Cuthbert

Betty Cuthbert

Australian sprinter (born 1938)
Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert, was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion. She was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl". During her career, she set world records for 60 metres, 100 yards, 200 metres, 220 yards and 440 yards. Cuthbert also contributed to Australian relay teams completing a win in the 4 × 100 metres, 4 × 110 yards, 4 × 200 metres and 4 × 220 yards. Cuthbert had a distinctive running style, with a high knee lift and mouth wide open. She was named in 1998 an Australian National Treasure and was inducted as a Legend in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame in 2000.
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523 Pope Hormisdas (born 450)

Pope Hormisdas (born 450)

Pope Hormisdas was the bishop of Rome from 20 July 514 to his death on 6 August 523. His papacy was dominated by the Acacian schism, started in 484 by Acacius of Constantinople's efforts to placate the non-Chalcedonians. His efforts to resolve this schism were successful, and on 28 March 519, the reunion between Constantinople and Rome was ratified in the cathedral of Constantinople before a large crowd.
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258

Pope Sixtus II

Pope Sixtus II, also written as Pope Xystus II, was Pope from 31 August 257 until his death on 6 August 258. He was killed along with seven deacons, including Lawrence of Rome, during the persecution of Christians by the Emperor Valerian.
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1990 Jacques Soustelle

Jacques Soustelle

French anthropologist and politician (born 1912)
Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939. Soustelle and his followers opposed any compromise with anticolonial activists in Algeria in the Algerian War.
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1987 Ira C. Eaker

Ira C. Eaker

American general (born 1896)
Lieutenant general Ira Clarence Eaker was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Eaker, as second-in-command of the prospective Eighth Air Force, was sent to England to form and organize its bomber command. While he struggled to build up airpower in England, the organization of the Army Air Forces evolved and he was named commander of the Eighth Air Force on December 1, 1942.
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1881 James Springer White

James Springer White

American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born 1821)
James Springer White, also known as Elder White, was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the husband of Ellen G. White. In 1849, he started the first Sabbatarian Adventist periodical entitled The Present Truth, in 1855 he relocated the fledgling center of the movement to Battle Creek, Michigan, and in 1863 played a pivotal role in the formal organization of the denomination. He later played a major role in the development of the Adventist educational structure beginning in 1874 with the formation of Battle Creek College.
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1753 Georg Wilhelm Richmann

Georg Wilhelm Richmann

Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (born 1711)
Georg Wilhelm Richmann was a Russian physicist of Baltic German origin who did pioneering work on electricity, atmospheric electricity, and calorimetry. He died by electrocution in St. Petersburg when struck by apparent lightning produced by an experiment attempting to ground the electrical discharge from a storm.
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1027 Richard III

Richard III

Duke of Normandy
Richard III was the duke of Normandy who reigned from August 1026 to his death. His brief reign opened with a revolt by his brother.
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1694 Antoine Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld

French mathematician and philosopher (born 1612)
Antoine Arnauld was a French Catholic theologian, priest, philosopher and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics. Contemporaries called him le Grand to distinguish him from his father.
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2012 Dan Roundfield

Dan Roundfield

American basketball player (born 1953)
Danny Thomas Roundfield was an American professional basketball player. The 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) power forward/center graduated from Detroit's Chadsey Senior High School in 1971. On the collegiate scene, Roundfield was twice selected to the All-Mid-American Conference Team for Central Michigan University; he was also the 1975 MAC Player of the Year.
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2020 Vern Rumsey

Vern Rumsey

American bass guitarist (born 1973)
Vernon Emmry Aldo Rumsey was an American musician. He is best known for his work as the bassist of the post-hardcore band Unwound, in which he was a co-founding member. He was also in the bands Long Hind Legs, Oslo, Fitz of Depression, and Witchypoo, and was playing in the band Flora v. Fauna.
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2001 Adhar Kumar Chatterji

Adhar Kumar Chatterji

Indian Naval officer (born 1914)
Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji was an Admiral in the Indian Navy. He served as the 5th Chief of the Naval Staff, from 4 March 1966, until 28 February 1970. He was the first Indian officer of the navy to hold the rank of full Admiral. He is credited with the transformation of the Indian Navy. He made sweeping changes and restructured the navy, creating the Western and Eastern Naval Commands and the Western Fleet. Under him, the Indian Navy also entered the submarine age, with the commissioning of INS Kalvari (S23) in 1967.
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1968 Ye Gongchuo

Ye Gongchuo

Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (born 1881)
Ye Gongchuo was a Chinese politician, calligrapher, poet, and art patron. Born in Panyu County, Guangdong, to the family of a Qing dynasty official, Ye passed the imperial examination and joined the Ministry of Posts and Communications. He rose through the ministry rapidly, then allied himself with Sun Yat-sen's anti-Qing movement in the 1911 Revolution. During the first decades of the Republic of China, Ye occupied several ministerial positions as a member of the Communications Clique, at times working with the Beiyang government and other times siding with the Kuomintang.
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1553 Girolamo Fracastoro

Girolamo Fracastoro

Italian physician (born 1478)
Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation. His studies of the mode of syphilis transmission are an early example of epidemiology.
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2018 Margaret Heckler

Margaret Heckler

American politician (born 1931)
Margaret Mary Heckler was an American politician and diplomat who represented Massachusetts's 10th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 until 1983. A member of the Republican Party, she also served as the 15th United States secretary of health and human services from 1983 to 1985, as well as United States ambassador to Ireland from 1986 to 1989.
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2024 James Bjorken

James Bjorken

American theoretical physicist (born 1934)
James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken was an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954, received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956, and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1959. Bjorken was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1962. He was also emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was a member of the Theory Department of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1979–1989).
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1915 Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier

Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier

American physician (born 1841)
Jeanne de la Montagnie Lozier was an American physician and educator from New York City. She worked as an instructor of languages and literature in Hillsdale College from the age of nineteen, and after earning her medical degree from New York Medical College, became a professor of physiology. She was a delegate to the International Homoeopathic Congress in Paris in 1889 and was president of Sorosis Club from 1891 to 1894.
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1866 John Mason Neale

John Mason Neale

English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (born 1818)
John Mason Neale was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter. He worked on and wrote a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most famous hymns is the 1853 Good King Wenceslas, set on St. Stephen's day, known as Boxing Day in the UK. An Anglo-Catholic, Neale's works have found positive reception in high-church Anglicanism and Western Rite Orthodoxy.
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2012 Bernard Lovell

Bernard Lovell

English physicist and astronomer (born 1913)
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was a British physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
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2014 Ananda W.P. Guruge

Ananda W.P. Guruge

Sri Lankan scholar and diplomat (born 1928)
Ananda Wahihana Palliya Guruge, known as Ananda W. P. Guruge, was a Sri Lankan diplomat, Buddhist scholar and writer. Guruge was the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sri Lanka to UNESCO, France, and United States from 1985 to 1994. Guruge was adjunct professor of Religious Studies at Cal State Fullerton and was the dean of academic affairs at University of the West.
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2014 John Woodland Hastings

John Woodland Hastings

American biochemist and academic (born 1927)
John Woodland "Woody" Hastings, was a leader in the field of photobiology, especially bioluminescence, and was one of the founders of the field of circadian biology. He was the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He published over 400 papers and co-edited three books.
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1920 Stefan Bastyr

Stefan Bastyr

Polish pilot and author (born 1890)
Stefan Bastyr was a Polish aviator and military pilot, one of the pioneers of the Polish aviation. He is credited with the first military flight in the history of the Polish Air Force on 5 November 1918, almost a week before Poland officially regained her independence, at the opening stages of the Polish-Ukrainian War.
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1979 Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen was a German biochemist. In 1964, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich.
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1412 Margherita of Durazzo

Margherita of Durazzo

Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (born 1347)
Margaret of Durazzo was Queen of Naples and Hungary and Princess of Achaea as the spouse of Charles III of Naples. She was regent of Naples from 1386 until 1393 during the minority of her son Ladislaus of Naples.
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1162 Ramon Berenguer IV

Ramon Berenguer IV

Count of Barcelona (born 1113)
Ramon Berenguer IV, sometimes called the Saint, was the count of Barcelona and the prince of Aragon who brought about the union of the County of Barcelona with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the Crown of Aragon.
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1645 Lionel Cranfield

Lionel Cranfield

1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (born 1575)
Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex was an English merchant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cranfield.
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1815 James A. Bayard

James A. Bayard

American lawyer and politician (born 1767)
James Asheton Bayard Sr. was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Representative from Delaware and U.S. Senator from Delaware.
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1970 Nikos Tsiforos

Nikos Tsiforos

Greek director and screenwriter (born 1912)
Nikos Tsiforos was a Greek humorist, screenwriter, and film director. He had more than 60 film scripts to his credit between 1948 and 1970. He further directed 17 films between 1948 and 1961.
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1794 Henry Bathurst

Henry Bathurst

2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1714)
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, known as The Lord Apsley from 1771 to 1775, was a British lawyer and politician. He was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1771 to 1778.
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1906 George Waterhouse

George Waterhouse

English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1824)
George Marsden Waterhouse was a Premier of South Australia from 8 October 1861 until 3 July 1863 and the seventh premier of New Zealand from 11 October 1872 to 3 March 1873.
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1993 Tex Hughson

Tex Hughson

American baseball player (born 1916)
Cecil Carlton Hughson was an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played his entire career in the American League with the Boston Red Sox. He batted and threw right-handed.
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2009 Riccardo Cassin

Riccardo Cassin

Italian mountaineer and author (born 1909)
Riccardo Cassin was an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author, and an important figure in the history of rock climbing, alpine climbing and big wall climbing.
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1997 Shin Ki-ha

Shin Ki-ha

South Korean lawyer and politician (born 1941)
Shin Ki-ha, was a South Korean politician. A four-term lawmaker, he was a former parliamentary leader of the South Korean political party National Congress for New Politics.
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2014 Ralph Bryans

Ralph Bryans

Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1941)
Ralph Bryans was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Northern Ireland. Bryans was Ireland's only Grand Prix world champion, winning the 50 cc title in 1965.
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2013 Mava Lee Thomas

Mava Lee Thomas

American baseball player (born 1929)
Mava Lee Thomas [′′Tommie′′] was an infielder and catcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). She was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed.
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2015

Ray Hill

American football player (born 1975)
Raymond Millous Hill was a college and professional American football player. He was a defensive back at Michigan State, and played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL), splitting three seasons between the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills. He was signed by the New England Patriots as a free agent in 2001, and was part of their Super Bowl XXXVI championship season. He suffered a leg injury during the 2001 preseason, and was placed on injured reserve for the entire season. His younger brother Renaldo Hill, also played in the NFL.
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1666 Tjerk Hiddes de Vries

Tjerk Hiddes de Vries

Frisian naval hero and commander (born 1622)
Tjerk Hiddes de Vries was a Dutch States Navy officer. The French, who could not pronounce his name, called him Kiërkides. His name was also given as Tsjerk, Tierck or Tjerck.
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1384 Francesco I of Lesbos

Francesco I of Lesbos

Francesco I Gattilusio was an Italian noble, the first member of the Gattilusio family to rule the Aegean island of Lesbos as a vassal of the Byzantine emperor.
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2003

Julius Baker

American flute player and educator (born 1915)
Julius Baker was one of the foremost American orchestral flute players and educators. During the course of five decades he concertized with several of America's premier orchestral ensembles including the Chicago Symphony and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, he was a faculty member at several premier conservatories of music including; The Juilliard School of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music and Carnegie Mellon University.
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1992

Leszek Błażyński

Polish boxer (born 1949)
Leszek Błażyński was a Polish boxer who twice won the bronze medal in the men's flyweight division at the Summer Olympics. He first did so in 1972, when Munich hosted the Games. Four years later in Montreal, he once again captured the bronze after a loss in the semifinals against eventual winner Leo Randolph of the United States.
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1850

Edward Walsh

Irish poet (born 1805)
Edward Walsh was an Irish poet, the son of a sergeant in the Cork Militia, and was born in Derry City, where his father's regiment had been sent for training. His parents were natives in the village of Millstreet, County Cork, near which his father at one time possessed a small holding.
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1952

Betty Allan

Australian statistician and biometrician (born 1905)
Frances Elizabeth Allan was an Australian statistician. She was known as the first statistician at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as "the effective founder of the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics", and for her advocacy of biometrics.
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2008

Angelos Kitsos

Greek lawyer and author (born 1934)
Angelos Kitsos was the president of Rizarios Foundation .He was a Greek from Monodendri, Zagori. He was member of the Councils of the Foundation for the Restoration of Greeks from Albania and the Foundation of Research of the Ionian and Adriatic space. He was a towering figure for Zagori and the rest of Epirus and Western Greece. Kitsos was a lawyer, but he also worked on script-writing for a number of documentaries, and wrote a number of books.
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1679

John Snell

Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition (born 1629)
Sir John Snell, founder of the Snell Exhibitions at the University of Oxford, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a blacksmith. He attended the University of Glasgow from 1642 to 1644.
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1628

Johannes Junius

German lawyer and politician (born 1573)
Johannes Junius was the mayor of Bamberg, and a victim of the Bamberg witch trials, who wrote a letter to his daughter from jail while he awaited execution for witchcraft.
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1195 Henry the Lion

Henry the Lion

Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (born 1129)
Henry the Lion, also known as Henry III, Duke of Saxony and Henry XII, Duke of Bavaria, was a member of the Welf dynasty.
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1530 Jacopo Sannazaro

Jacopo Sannazaro

Italian poet (born 1458)
Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist, member and head of the Accademia Pontaniana from Naples.
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1588 Josias I

Josias I

Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578–1588) (born 1554)
Count Josias I of Waldeck-Eisenberg was a German nobleman who was Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg from 1578 until his death.
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1695 François de Harlay de Champvallon

François de Harlay de Champvallon

French archbishop (born 1625)
François de Harlay de Champvallon was the fifth Archbishop of Paris.
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1757 Ádám Mányoki

Ádám Mányoki

Hungarian painter (born 1673)
Ádám Mányoki was a Hungarian Baroque portrait painter.
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1828 Konstantin von Benckendorff

Konstantin von Benckendorff

Russian general and diplomat (born 1785)
Konstantin von Benckendorff was a Russian general and diplomat of Baltic German descent.
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1893 Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel

Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel

Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1811)
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1864–1872).
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1925 Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

Italian mathematician (born 1853)
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro was an Italian mathematician. He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus.
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1959 Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges

American director, screenwriter, and playwright (born 1898)
Preston Sturges was an American playwright, inventor, screenwriter, and film director.
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1976 Gregor Piatigorsky

Gregor Piatigorsky

Russian-American cellist and educator (born 1903)
Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukrainian-born Russian and American cellist.
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1991 Roland Michener

Roland Michener

Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (born 1900)
Daniel Roland Michener was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as the 20th governor general of Canada from 1967 to 1974.
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2001

Shan Ratnam

Sri Lankan physician and academic (born 1928)
Emeritus Professor Sittampalam Shanmugaratnam, also known as Shan Ratnam, was a Singaporean obstetrician and gynaecologist.
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2002 Edsger W. Dijkstra

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (born 1930)
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, mathematician, and science essayist.
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2004 Donald Justice

Donald Justice

American poet and academic (born 1925)
Donald Rodney Justice was an American poet and teacher of creative writing who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.
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2004 Rick James

Rick James

American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)
James Ambrose Johnson Jr., better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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2007

Zsolt Daczi

Hungarian guitarist (born 1969)
Zsolt Daczi was a Hungarian guitarist. He was born in Kiskunhalas, Hungary.
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2012

Mark O'Donnell

American playwright (born 1954)
Mark O'Donnell was an American writer and humorist.
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2012 Richard Cragun

Richard Cragun

American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1944)
Richard Cragun was an American ballet dancer, teacher and ballet director who performed with the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany from 1965 to 1996.
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2012 Ruggiero Ricci

Ruggiero Ricci

American violinist and educator (born 1918)
Ruggiero Ricci was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini.
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2013 Jerry Wolman

Jerry Wolman

American businessman (born 1927)
Jerry Wolman was an American developer in Washington, D.C. and owned the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League in the 1960s.
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2013 Stan Lynde

Stan Lynde

American author and illustrator (born 1931)
Myron Stanford Lynde was an American comic strip artist, painter and novelist.
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2015 Orna Porat

Orna Porat

German-Israeli actress (born 1924)
Orna Porat was a German-born Israeli theater actress.
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2018

Anya Krugovoy Silver

American poet (born 1968)
Anya Krugovoy Silver was an American poet. She won a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Georgia Author of the Year Award.
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