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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
Notable Deaths on August 6
108 people
258 – 2024
August 6 has seen 108 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 258 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2017 — Betty Cuthbert
Australian sprinter (born 1938)
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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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During her career, she set world records for 60 metres, 100 yards, 200 metres, 220 yards and 440 yards
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Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert, was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion
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Cuthbert had a distinctive running style, with a high knee lift and mouth wide open
Pope Sixtus II, also written as Pope Xystus II, was the bishop of Rome 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…
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258
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…
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523
750
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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1027
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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1162
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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1195
Spanish priest, founded the Dominican Order (born 1170)
Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic de Guzmán, was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and his order are…
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1221
Stephen V 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 and Maria Laskarina. King Béla had his son crowned king at the age of six and…
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1272
Francesco I Gattilusio was 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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1384
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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1412
Ladislaus the Magnanimous 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…
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1414
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…
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1458
Italian poet (born 1458)
Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist, member and head of the Accademia Pontaniana from Naples.
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1530
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…
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1553
1588
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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1628
English poet and playwright (born 1572)
Benjamin Jonson was an English poet and playwright. 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…
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1637
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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1645
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…
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1657
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…
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1660
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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1666
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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1679
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.…
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1694
French archbishop (born 1625)
François de Harlay de Champvallon was the fifth Archbishop of Paris.
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1695
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…
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1753
1757
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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1794
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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1815
Russian general and diplomat (born 1785)
Konstantin von Benckendorff was a Russian general and diplomat of Baltic German descent.
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1828
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,…
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1850
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…
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1866
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…
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1881
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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1893
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…
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1904
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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1906
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…
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1915
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…
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1920
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…
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1925
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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1925
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…
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1931
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,…
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1945
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…
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1945
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"…
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1946
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…
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1952
American director, screenwriter, and playwright (born 1898)
Preston Sturges was an American playwright, inventor, screenwriter, and film director.
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1959
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…
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1964
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…
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1968
German sociologist and philosopher (born 1903)
Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. 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,…
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1969
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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1970
Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (born 1901)
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer, political leader, and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s until his overthrow in the Cuban…
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1973
Russian-American cellist and educator (born 1903)
Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.
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1976
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,…
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1978
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…
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1978
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…
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1979
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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1983
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…
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1985
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.…
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1986
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…
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1987
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…
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1990
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. In the words of the historian Abbas Milani: "more than once in the tone of a jeremiad he…
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1991
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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1991
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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1991
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…
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1992
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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1993
Italian singer-songwriter and politician (born 1928)
Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, 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…
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1994
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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1997
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…
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1998
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…
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2001
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…
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2001
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…
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2001
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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2001
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…
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2001
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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2002
American flute player and educator (born 1915)
Julius Baker was one of the foremost American orchestral flute players. During the course of five decades he concertized with several of America's premier orchestral ensembles including the Chicago Symphony and the New…
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2003
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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2004
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
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…
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2005
tabby domestic cat, oldest recorded cat (born 1967)
Creme Puff was a Calico 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 aged 38 years and 3…
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2005
Hungarian guitarist (born 1969)
Zsolt Daczi was a Hungarian guitarist. He was born in Kiskunhalas, Hungary.
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2007
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…
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2008
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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2009
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…
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2009
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1950)
John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker. He is best known for writing, directing, and producing the films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Weird Science (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off…
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2009
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…
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2011
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
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…
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2012
Australian-American author and critic (born 1938)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes was an Australian-born 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…
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2012
English physicist and astronomer (born 1913)
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
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2012
2012
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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2012
American basketball player (born 1953)
Danny Thomas Roundfield was an American professional basketball player. The 6'8" power forward/center graduated from Detroit's Chadsey Senior High School in 1971. On the collegiate scene, Roundfield was twice selected…
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2012
American author and illustrator (born 1931)
Myron Stanford Lynde was an American comic strip artist, painter and novelist.
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2013
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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2013
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
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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2014
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,…
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2014
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…
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2014
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2015
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,…
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2017
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…
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2018
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…
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2018
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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2018
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,…
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2020
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), Los Angeles Dodgers (1989), and San Diego Padres (1993–1995),…
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2024
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…
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2024
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…
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2024
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Betty Cuthbert — Australian sprinter (1938–2017)
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Death year2017
Known forShe was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl"
Deaths on this date108 (258 – 2024)
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