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Notable Deaths on August 9
103 people
378 – 2024
August 9 has seen 103 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 378 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2008 — Bernie Mac
American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer (born 1957)
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He was the star of The Bernie Mac Show, which ran from 2001 through 2006, earning him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
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Mac died at 50 years old on August 9, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois from complications of pneumonia.
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Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, known professionally as Bernie Mac, was an American stand-up comedian, actor and film producer
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Mac joined Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D
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378
Byzantine ruler (born 752)
Irene of Athens, surname Sarantapechaena, was Byzantine empress consort to Emperor Leo IV from 775 to 780, regent during the childhood of their son Constantine VI from 780 until 790, co-ruler from 792 until 797, and…
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Pope Damasus II was the Bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 17 July 1048 to his death on 9 August that same year. He was the second of the German pontiffs nominated by Emperor Henry III. A native of…
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1048
Emperor Horikawa was the 73rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
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1107
Kurdish soldier and politician
al-Malik al-Afdal Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn Shādhi ibn Marwān, or simply Najmadin, was a Kurdish mercenary and politician from Dvin, and the father of Saladin. He is the eponymous ancestor of the Ayyubid dynasty.
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1173
4th Lord of Bramber, exiled Anglo-Norman baron (born 1144/53)
William de Braose,, 4th Lord of Bramber, court favourite of King John of England, at the peak of his power was also Lord of Gower, Abergavenny, Brecknock, Builth, Radnor, Kington, Limerick, Glamorgan, Skenfrith, Briouze…
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1211
Bishop of Durham
Walter of Kirkham was a medieval English official who held the positions of Keeper of the Wardrobe, Dean of York, and Bishop of Durham. He was elected bishop over Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, the brother of…
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1260
1296
queen consort of Sicily (born 1289)
Eleanor of Anjou was Queen of Sicily as the wife of King Frederick III of Sicily. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou by birth.
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1341
1354
French theologian and cardinal (born 1351)
Pierre d'Ailly was a French theologian, astrologer and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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1420
Early Netherlandish painter (born circa 1450)
Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, generally oil on oak wood, mainly contains fantastic illustrations…
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1516
Italian cardinal and philosopher (born 1470)
Thomas Cajetan, also known as Gaetanus or Cajetanus, commonly Tommaso de Vio or Thomas de Vio, was an Italian philosopher, theologian, the Master of the Order of Preachers 1508 to 1518, and cardinal from 1517 until his…
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1534
Metrophanes III of Constantinople was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople two times, from 1565 to 1572 and from 1579 to 1580.
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1580
Romanian prince (born 1558)
Michael the Brave, born as Mihai Pătrașcu, was the Prince of Wallachia, Prince of Moldavia (1600) and de facto ruler of Transylvania (1599–1600). He is considered one of Romania's greatest national heroes. Since the…
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1634
1720
1st Duke of Chandos, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (born 1673)
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, was a British landowner and politician who represented Hereford in the English and British House of Commons from 1698 until 1714, when he succeeded to his father's peerage as Baron…
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1744
German jurist and author (born 1771)
Johann August Apel was a German writer and jurist. Apel was born and died in Leipzig.
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1816
English composer and publisher (born 1781)
Vincent Novello, was an English musician and music publisher born in London. He was an organist, chorister, conductor and composer, but he is best known for bringing to England many works now considered standards, and…
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1861
Irish lawyer and poet (born 1810)
Sir Samuel Ferguson was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. He was an acclaimed 19th-century Irish poet, and his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history can be seen as a…
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1886
Chinese martial artist, co-founded the Chin Woo Athletic Association (born 1868)
Huo Yuanjia, courtesy name Jùnqīng, was a Chinese martial artist and co-founder of the Chin Woo Athletic Association, a martial arts school in Shanghai. A practitioner of the martial art Mizongyi, Huo is considered a…
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1910
Italian composer and educator (born 1857)
Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Throughout his career, Leoncavallo produced numerous operas and songs, but it is his 1892 opera Pagliacci that remained his lasting contribution, despite…
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1919
Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (born 1845)
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919. He also served a term as Chief Justice of Queensland and two terms…
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1920
Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (born 1863)
John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
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1932
Executed Irish Republican (born 1915)
Richard (Richie) Goss (1915–1941) was an executed Irish Republican born to Patrick Goss and Margaret Clinton who had married at Inniskeen Roman Catholic Church In 1909. His parents were both Roman Catholic as is shown…
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1941
German nun and saint (born 1891)
Edith Stein was a German philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She was murdered in the gas chamber at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp on 9 August 1942, and is…
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1942
Belarusian-French painter and educator (born 1893)
Chaïm Soutine was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.
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1943
Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1917)
Robert Hampton "Hammy" Gray, was a Canadian naval officer, pilot, and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II. He and Eugene Esmonde are the only personnel of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm to be decorated…
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1945
American runner and coach (born 1881)
Harry Livingston Hillman Jr. was one of the longest serving Dartmouth Track and Field Coaches from 1910–45, and an American track and field athlete who won three gold medals at the 1904 Summer Olympics and a silver at…
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1945
South African cricketer (born 1876)
Albert Edward Ernest Vogler was a South African cricketer. A leading all-rounder skilled both at batting and bowling, Vogler played cricket in South Africa prior to becoming eligible to play for Middlesex County Cricket…
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1946
1948
American psychologist and academic (born 1874)
Edward Lee Thorndike was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to his "theory of…
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1949
German Nazi physician (born 1898)
Carl Clauberg was a German gynecologist who conducted medical experiments on Jewish and Romani women at Auschwitz concentration camp. He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz…
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1957
German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with…
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1962
American son of John F. Kennedy (born 1963)
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was the youngest child of United States president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. His elder siblings were Caroline, John Jr., and Arabella.
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1963
1967
English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Cecil Frank Powell was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950 for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes, and for the resulting…
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1969
lifelong militant and editor (born 1907)
Jimmy Steele was an Irish republican militant. He was one of the most prominent Irish Republican Army (IRA) men in Belfast after the Irish Civil War who held practically every senior position in the Northern Command of…
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1970
Turkish lawyer and academic (born 1897)
Sıddık Sami Onar was a Turkish academic specialized in administrative law at the Istanbul University.
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1972
American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1934)
Bill Chase was an American trumpeter and leader of the jazz-rock band Chase.
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1974
Russian pianist and composer (born 1906)
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
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1975
American novelist and short story writer (born 1903)
James Gould Cozzens was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer whose work enjoyed an unusual degree of popular success and critical acclaim for more than three decades. His 1949 Pulitzer win was for the WWII race…
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1978
American businessman, owner of baseball's Dodgers (born 1903)
Walter Francis O'Malley was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball…
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1979
American gang leader, founded the Crips (born 1953)
Raymond Lee Washington was an American gangster, known as the founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. Washington formed the Crips as a minor street gang in the late 1960s in South Los Angeles, becoming a prominent…
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1979
American pilot (born 1906)
Jacqueline Cochran was an American pilot and business executive. She pioneered women's aviation and was the first woman to break the sound barrier on 18 May 1953. Cochran was the wartime head of the Women Airforce…
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1980
American civil rights activist (born 1909)
Ruby Hurley was an American civil rights activist. She was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and administrator for the NAACP, and was known as the "queen of civil rights".
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1980
Austrian-born car importer and businessman (born 1904)
Maximilian Edwin Hoffman, was an Austrian-born, New York-based importer of luxury European automobiles during the 1950s.
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1981
Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1927)
Clive Bernard Churchill AM was an Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach in the mid-20th century. An Australian international and New South Wales and Queensland interstate representative fullback, he…
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1985
Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (born 1914)
Eoin McNamee was an Irish Republican and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army.
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1986
American author, educator, poet, and playwright (born 1919)
M. Carl Holman was an American author, poet, playwright, and civil rights advocate. In 1968, Ebony listed him as one of the 100 most influential Black Americans.
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1988
Italian composer (born 1905)
Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi, count d'Ayala Valva was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French.
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1988
English footballer and manager (born 1914)
Joseph Mercer was an English footballer and manager. He played as a defender for Everton and Arsenal and managed Aston Villa and Manchester City, and served as caretaker manager of the England national football team.
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1990
Iranian singer and actor (born 1938)
Fereydoun Farrokhzad was an Iranian showman, host, poet, actor, political activist, singer, humanitarian, and writer. He is best known for his television variety show, The Silver Carnation, which introduced and featured…
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1992
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)
Jerome John Garcia was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s. Although…
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1995
English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (born 1907)
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a…
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1996
English sports journalist and sportscaster (born 1956)
Helen Frances Rollason was a British sports journalist and television presenter, who in 1990 became the first female presenter of the BBC's sports programme Grandstand. She was also a regular presenter of Sport on…
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1999
Egyptian journalist and politician (born 1910)
Fouad Pasha Serageddin was an Egyptian liberal politician and leader of Egypt's old Wafd Party and new Wafd party. He was the grandfather of the Egyptian writer Samia Serageldin.
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1999
Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.
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2000
American murder victim (born 1984)
Nicholas Samuel Markowitz was an American teenager who was kidnapped and murdered at the age of 15 after a feud over drug money between his half-brother Benjamin Markowitz and Jesse James Hollywood.
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2000
English guitarist (born 1953)
Paul Samson was an English guitarist, closely associated with the new wave of British heavy metal.
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2002
French director and screenwriter (born 1929)
Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.
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2003
English footballer and manager (born 1945)
Raymond Thomas Harford was an English footballer, better known for his successes as a coach and manager than as a player. He is considered to have been one of the top coaches of his generation.
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2003
American actor, dancer, and choreographer (born 1946)
Gregory Oliver Hines was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and singer. He is one of the most celebrated tap dancers of all time. As an actor, he is best known for History of the World, Part I (1981), Wolfen…
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2003
Sri Lankan lawyer, journalist, and academic (born 1931)
Kalasuri Ratnadurai Sivagurunathan was a Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, academic and editor of Thinakaran.
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2003
French lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (born 1908)
Robert Lecourt was a French politician and lawyer, judge and the fourth President of the European Court of Justice.
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2004
American guitarist and composer (born 1918)
Anthony C. "Tony" Mottola was an American jazz guitarist who released dozens of solo albums. He was born in Kearny, New Jersey, and died in Denville.
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2004
American composer and educator (born 1912)
David Raksin was an American composer noted for his work in film and television. Raksin had more than 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit. Some sources called him the "Grandfather of Film Music".
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2004
American author (born 1935)
Judith Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975) and August (1983).
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2005
2006
American physicist and academic (born 1914)
James Alfred Van Allen was an American space physicist at the University of Iowa who was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. His discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in…
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2006
American photographer and journalist (born 1922)
Joseph Roger O'Donnell was an American documentarian, photojournalist and a photographer for the United States Information Agency.
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2007
Palestinian author and poet (born 1941)
Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet.
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2008
American singer and bass player (born 1926)
Calvin "Fuzz" Jones was an American electric blues bassist and singer. He worked with many blues musicians, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, the Legendary Blues Band, Mississippi Heat, James Cotton, Luther "Guitar…
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2010
American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1923)
Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr. was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he was the longest-serving Republican Senator in history at…
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2010
American record producer (born 1934)
Carl H. Davis Sr. was an American record producer and music executive, who was particularly active in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. He was responsible for hit R&B records by Gene Chandler, Major Lance, Jackie Wilson,…
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2012
American engineer, theorist, and academic (born 1927)
Gene F. Franklin was an American electrical engineer and control theorist known for his pioneering work towards the advancement of the control systems engineering – a subfield of electrical engineering. Most of his work…
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2012
Jr., American actor, director, and educator (born 1934)
Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr. was an American actor, director, and educator. A life member of The Actors Studio, Freeman appeared in a wide variety of plays, ranging from Leroi Jones' Slave/Toilet to Joe Papp's revivals…
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2012
Canadian-American actor and journalist (born 1964)
David Benjamin Rakoff was a Canadian and American essayist and humorist, born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, who spent his professional career in New York City. Rakoff was an essayist, journalist, and actor, and a…
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2012
Puerto Rican-American actress (born 1930)
Carmen Belén Richardson was a Puerto Rican actress and comedian.
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2012
American director and producer (born 1928)
Mel Stuart was an American film director and producer who often worked with producer David L. Wolper, at whose production firm he worked for 17 years, before going freelance.
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2012
American baseball player and coach (born 1923)
Harry Lewis Elliott was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 92 games in Major League Baseball for the 1953 and 1955 St. Louis Cardinals. A 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), 175 lb (79 kg) outfielder, Elliott…
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2013
Argentinian guitarist and composer (born 1923)
Eduardo Falú was an Argentine folk music guitarist and composer.
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2013
Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1947)
William "Bill" Lynch Jr. was an American politician and political consultant, advising politicians from the Democratic Party. He was a prominent political figure in New York politics, especially within the…
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2013
Nigerian historian and academic (born 1929)
Jacob Festus Adeniyi Ajayi, commonly known as J. F. Ade Ajayi, was a Nigerian historian and a member of the Ibadan school, a group of scholars interested in introducing African perspectives to African history and…
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2014
Ukrainian footballer and coach (born 1958)
Andriy Mykhaylovych Bal was a Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a midfielder and football manager.
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2014
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Arlen Realty and Development Corporation (born 1930)
Arthur George Cohen was an American businessman and real estate developer in New York City.
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2014
2014
American football player, sportscaster, and actor (born 1930)
Francis Newton Gifford was an American professional football player, actor, and television sports commentator. After a 12-year playing career as a halfback, flanker and safety for the New York Giants of the National…
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2015
American computer scientist and academic (born 1929)
John Henry Holland was an American scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. He was a pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms.
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2015
Honduran footballer (born 1977)
Walter Nahún López Cárdenas was a Honduran football player.
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2015
English author and screenwriter (born 1935)
David Gordon Nobbs was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s television series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.
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2015
Indian journalist, author, and poet (born 1915)
Kayyara Kinhanna Rai was an Indian independence activist, author, poet, journalist, teacher and farmer.
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2015
Turkish painter and journalist (born 1926)
Fikret Otyam was a Turkish painter and journalist.
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2015
6th Duke of Westminster, third-richest British citizen (born 1951)
Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster was a British landowner, businessman, aristocrat, Territorial Army general, and peer. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and…
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2016
English actress and producer (born 1928)
Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell was a British-American actress and producer. She was the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of her father's…
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2021
South African rapper, dancer and record producer (born 1998)
Sakhile Hlatshwayo, known professionally as Killer Kau, was a South African singer, dancer and record producer best known for his hit songs "Tholukuthi Hey" and "Amaneighbour"
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2021
Malaysian voice actress (born 1972)
Zairaini binti Sarbini was a Malaysian freelance voice actress who dubbed for anime, foreign films, cartoons and TV programs in Malay that air on the Astro Ceria, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney Channel…
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2021
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1943)
Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson was a Canadian musician, composer, and producer. Robertson was the onetime lead guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band. He was also the guitarist and primary songwriter of the Band from…
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2023
Polish-American technology executive (born 1968)
Susan Diane Wojcicki was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022.
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2024
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Who died on August 9?
Bernie Mac — American comedian and actor (1957–2008)
FeaturedBernie Mac
Death year2008
Known forHis most noted film roles were as Frank Catton in the Ocean's film series from 2001 through 2007 and as the title character of Mr
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