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Clubs he managed include Paris Saint-Germain, Lens and Liverpool, where he won the FA Cup, League Cup, FA Charity Shield, UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 2001
Notable Deaths on December 14
120 people
618 – 2025
December 14 has seen 120 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 618 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2020 — Gérard Houllier
French Football manager (born 1947)
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He became manager of Aston Villa in September 2010
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He then guided Lyon to two French titles, before announcing his resignation on 25 May 2007
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He also coached the France national team between 1992 and 1993
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In June 2011, he stepped down from club coaching, leaving his managerial role at Aston Villa, following frequent hospitalisation over heart problems.
emperor of Qin
Xue Rengao, also known as Xue Renguo (薛仁果), was an emperor of the short-lived state of Qin, established by his father Xue Ju at the end of the Chinese Sui dynasty. Xue Rengao was regarded as a fierce general but overly…
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618
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
John III of the Sedre was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 631 until his death in 648. He is commemorated as a saint by the Syriac Orthodox Church, and his feast day is 14 December.
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648
704
Pope Adrian II was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 867 to his death on 14 December 872. He continued the policy of his predecessor, Nicholas I. Despite seeking good relations with Louis II of…
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872
Holy Roman Empress and regent (born c. 1025)
Agnes of Poitou was the queen of Germany from 1043 and empress of the Holy Roman Empire from 1046 until 1056 as the wife of Emperor Henry III. From 1056 to 1061, she ruled the Holy Roman Empire as regent during the…
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1077
Mamluk sultan of Egypt
Al-Malik Al-Ashraf Salāh ad-Dīn Khalil ibn Qalawūn was the eighth Turkic Bahri Mamluk sultan, succeeding his father Qalawun. He served from 12 November 1290 until his assassination in December 1293. He was well known…
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1293
German queen consort (born 1276)
Margaret of Brabant, was the daughter of John I, Duke of Brabant and Margaret of Flanders. She was the wife of Henry, Count of Luxembourg, and after his election as King of Germany in 1308, she became Queen of Germany.
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1311
Mongolian emperor (born 1326)
Rinchinbal, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Ningzong of Yuan, was a son of Kuśala who was briefly installed to the throne of the Yuan dynasty of Mongol, but died soon after he was installed to the throne.…
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1332
Lord of Verona (born 1332)
Cangrande II della Scala was Lord of Verona from 1351 until his death.
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1359
English Lollard leader
Sir John Oldcastle was an English Lollard leader. From 1409 to 1413, he was summoned to parliament as Baron Cobham, in the right of his wife.
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1417
Italian scholar and translator (born 1370)
Guarino Veronese or Guarino da Verona was an Italian classical scholar, humanist, and translator of ancient Greek texts during the Renaissance. In the republics of Florence and Venice he studied under Manuel…
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1460
humanist scholar (born 1429)
Niccolò Perotti, also Perotto or Nicolaus Perottus was an Italian humanist and the author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars.
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1480
regent of Sweden (born 1440)
Sten Sture the Elder was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden from 1470 to 1497 and again from 1501 to 1503. As the leader of the victorious Swedish separatist forces against the royal unionist forces led by Danish…
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1503
Duke Frederick of Saxony, also known as Friedrich von Sachsen or Friedrich von Wettin, was the 36th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, serving from 1498–1510. He was the third son of Albert III, Duke of Saxony, and…
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1510
James V was King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death in 1542. He was crowned on 21 September 1513 at the age of seventeen months. James was the son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry…
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1542
Spanish priest and saint (born 1542)
St. John of the Cross was a Spanish Catholic priest, mystic, and Carmelite friar. He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and he is one of the 38 Doctors of the Church.
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1591
3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon was an English Puritan nobleman. Educated alongside the future Edward VI, he was briefly imprisoned by Mary I, and later considered by some as a potential successor to Elizabeth I.…
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1595
1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord High Admiral of England (born 1536)
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, KG, known as Lord Howard of Effingham, was an English statesman and Lord High Admiral under Elizabeth I and James I. He commanded the English fleet…
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1624
French historian and scholar (born 1582)
Pierre Dupuy, otherwise known as Puteanus, was a French scholar, the son of the humanist and bibliophile Claude Dupuy.
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1651
English archbishop (born 1636)
Thomas Tenison was an English church leader, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1694 until his death. During his primacy, he crowned two British monarchs.
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1715
English bishop and historian (born 1674)
Thomas Tanner was an English antiquary and prelate. He was Bishop of St Asaph from 1732 to 1735.
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1735
French historian and educator (born 1661)
Charles Rollin was a French historian and educator.
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1741
Italian painter and engraver (born 1727)
Giovanni Battista Cipriani was an Italian painter and engraver, who lived in England from 1755. He is also called Giuseppe Cipriani by some authors. Much of his work consisted of designs for prints, many of which were…
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1785
German pianist and composer (born 1714)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German composer and musician of the Baroque and Classical eras. He was the fifth child and…
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1788
Charles III was King of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza as Charles I (1731–1735), King of Naples as Charles VII and King of Sicily as Charles III (1735–1759). He was the…
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1788
American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (born 1732)
George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American…
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1799
American businessman and politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati (born 1765)
Martin Baum was an American businessman and politician.
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1831
Canadian physician (born 1806)
Jean-Olivier Chénier was a medical doctor in Lower Canada. Born in Lachine. During the Lower Canada Rebellion, he commanded the Patriote forces in the Battle of Saint-Eustache. Trapped with his men in a church by the…
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1838
king of several tribes around Cape Palmas
Ben Crack-O was a king of the Crack-O tribe in the region around Cape Palmas, in the present day border area of Liberia and the Ivory Coast, in the 1840s. He was killed by men under Commodore Matthew C. Perry during the…
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1842
4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign…
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1860
1861
Danish geologist and mineralogist (born 1794)
Johan Georg Forchhammer was a Danish mineralogist and geologist.
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1865
Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (born 1807)
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
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1873
Princess Alice was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until her death in 1878 as the wife of Grand Duke Louis IV. She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of…
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1878
English lieutenant and explorer (born 1887)
Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis was an English officer in the Royal Fusiliers and an Antarctic explorer who was a member of Douglas Mawson's 1911 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
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1912
1915
Welsh rugby player (born 1889)
Phillip Dudley Waller was an English-born international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Newport and Johannesburg. He won six caps for Wales and also played for the British Isles in their 1910 tour of South…
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1917
American football player (born 1895)
George Gipp, nicknamed "the Gipper", was an American college football player at the University of Notre Dame under head coach Knute Rockne. Gipp was selected as Notre Dame's first Walter Camp All-American and played…
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1920
Russian mathematician and academic (born 1842)
Julian Karol Sochocki was a Polish-Russian mathematician. His name is sometimes transliterated from Russian in several different ways.
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1927
British admiral (born 1855)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, was a British Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Anglo-Zulu War he established an early reputation as a pioneer of ship-to-ship wireless technology. Later he…
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1929
American author (born 1902)
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great acclaim in July 1934; the alien Tweel was arguably the first character to satisfy John W.…
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1935
Filipino painter and educator (born 1869)
Don Fabián de la Rosa y Cueto was a Filipino painter. He was the uncle and mentor to the Philippines' national artist in painting, Fernando Amorsolo, and to his brother Pablo. He is regarded as a "master of genre" in…
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1937
Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1872)
Anton Korošec was a Slovene Yugoslav politician, a prominent member of the conservative People's Party, a Roman Catholic priest and a noted orator.
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1940
American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (born 1852)
John Harvey Kellogg was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the Progressive Movement. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the…
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1943
Mexican actress (born 1908)
María Guadalupe "Lupe" Villalobos Vélez was a Mexican actress, singer, and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
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1944
English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1867)
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was prominent in the political leadership of the United Kingdom between the world wars. He was prime minister on…
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1947
English-American 3rd General of The Salvation Army (born 1864)
Edward John Higgins was the third General of The Salvation Army (1929–1934).
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1947
American author and academic (born 1896)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling—about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn—won a Pulitzer Prize…
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1953
Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (born 1870)
Juho Kusti Paasikivi was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1946 to 1956. Representing the Finnish Party until its dissolution in 1918 and then the National Coalition Party, he previously…
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1956
American singer and pianist (born 1924)
Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular Black female recording artists of the 1950s. Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including…
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1963
American actor (born 1906)
William Bendix was an American film, radio, and television actor, known for his portrayals of rough, blue-collar characters. He gained significant recognition for his role in Wake Island, for which he was nominated for…
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1964
German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (born 1876)
Louis Rudolph Franz Schlegelberger was State Secretary in the German Reich Ministry of Justice (RMJ) who served as Justice Minister during the Third Reich. He was the highest-ranking defendant at the Judges' Trial in…
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1970
Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (born 1926)
Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury was a prominent Bengali essayist, prized scholar of Bengali literature, educator and linguist of the Bengali language.
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1971
Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic (born 1925)
Abu Naeem Mohammad Munier Choudhury was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident. He was a victim of the mass killing of Bangladeshi intellectuals in 1971.
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1971
Bangladeshi journalist and author (born 1927)
Shahidullah Kaiser was a Bangladeshi novelist and writer. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1969, Ekushey Padak in 1983, and the Independence Day Award in 1998.
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1971
American journalist and author (born 1889)
Walter Lippmann was an American journalist. With a career spanning 60 years, he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological…
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1974
English-American entertainer (born 1894)
Arthur Veary Treacher, Jr. was an English film and stage actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, and known for playing English types, especially butler and manservant roles, such as the P. G. Wodehouse valet character…
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1975
Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (born 1886)
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Spanish "eminent liberal", diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize and awarded the Charlemagne Prize in…
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1978
American baseball player and coach (born 1929)
Elston Gene Howard was an American professional baseball player who was a catcher and a left fielder. During a 14-year baseball career, he played in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1948 through…
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1980
Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in…
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1984
Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (born 1896)
Catherine de Hueck Doherty was a Russian-born Catholic activist who founded the Madonna House Apostolate in 1947. She was a pioneer in the struggle for interracial justice, spiritual writer, lecturer, and spiritual…
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1985
American baseball player and coach (born 1934)
Roger Eugene Maris was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is best known for setting a new MLB single-season home run record with 61 home runs in 1961.
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1985
Belgian mercenary, farmer, and convicted murderer (born 1929)
Jean "Black Jack" Schramme was a Belgian mercenary and planter. He managed a vast estate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 1967.
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1988
American actor and stuntman (born 1919)
Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney, known professionally as Jock Mahoney, was an American actor and stuntman. He starred in two action/adventure television series, The Range Rider and Yancy Derringer. He played Tarzan in two…
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1989
Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.
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1989
Swiss author and playwright (born 1921)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas,…
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1990
French composer, pianist and lyricist (born 1908)
Antonietta Paule Pepin Fitzpatrick, also known as Nenette, was a French composer, pianist and lyricist.
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1990
Japanese-English actor (born 1908)
Robert Leadam Eddison, OBE was a British actor, who despite his lengthy career as a classical stage actor, is probably most widely remembered in the role of the Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He…
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1991
1993
1993
American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (born 1910)
Orval Eugene Faubus was an American politician who served as the 36th governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967, as a member of the Democratic Party. He is best known for the 1957 Little Rock Crisis, when he refused to…
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1994
American soldier and author (born 1922)
G. C. Edmondson was the working name of science fiction author Garry Edmonson. According to the obituary published in Locus Magazine, Edmondson was born in Washington state During World War II he served as a U. S.…
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1995
Canadian poet and author (born 1928)
Gaston Miron was an important Canadian poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic L'homme rapaillé has sold over 100,000 copies and is one of the most widely read texts of the Quebecois literary…
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1996
American actor and comedian (born 1918)
Bernard Shalom Kotzin, known professionally as Stubby Kaye, was an American actor, comedian, vaudevillian and singer, known for his appearances on Broadway and in film musicals.
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1997
American author (born 1919)
Emily Cheney Neville was an American author. Her first book, It's Like This, Cat (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964.
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1997
Canadian guitarist and songwriter (born 1946)
Kurt Frank Winter was a Canadian guitarist and songwriter, best known as a member of The Guess Who.
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1997
American actor and comedian (born 1924)
Norman Fell was an American actor of film and television, most famous for his role as landlord Mr. Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers, and his film roles in Ocean's 11 (1960), The Graduate…
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1998
American lawyer, judge, and activist (born 1928)
Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. was an American civil rights advocate, historian, presidential adviser, and federal court judge. From 1990 to 1991, he served as chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the…
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1998
American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (born 1924)
Annette Louise Greenfield Strauss was an American philanthropist and politician who served as the 54th mayor of Dallas. The Annette Strauss Artist Square in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas is named in honor…
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1998
German novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1944)
Winfried Georg Sebald, known as W. G. Sebald or Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to The New Yorker "widely recognized for his extraordinary…
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2001
American actress (born 1925)
Jeanne Elizabeth Crain was an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for the title role in Pinky (1949). She also starred in the films In the Meantime, Darling (1944), State Fair…
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2003
Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1927)
Blas Fajardo Ople was a Filipino journalist and politician who held several high-ranking positions in the executive and legislative branches of the Philippine government, including as Senate President from 1999 to 2000,…
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2003
American union leader and mobster (born 1920)
Francis Joseph Sheeran, also known as "The Irishman", was an American labor union official and enforcer for Jimmy Hoffa and Russell Bufalino. He was accused of having links to the Bufalino crime family in his capacity…
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2003
American baseball player (born 1934)
Roderick Edwin Kanehl was an American second baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire career with the New York Mets (1962–1964). Beloved by Mets fans, his attitude was exemplary for a team…
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2004
Filipino actor, director, producer, and politician (born 1939)
Fernando Poe Jr. was a Filipino actor, director and screenwriter. Nicknamed "Da King" and often referred to by his initials FPJ, he has been described as a cultural icon, having dominated the Philippine box-office from…
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2004
Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (born 1938)
Anton Balasingham Stanislaus was a Sri Lankan journalist, rebel and chief political strategist and chief negotiator for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka.
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2006
Turkish-American composer and producer, co-founded Atlantic Records (born 1923)
Ahmet Ertegun was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist.
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2006
American actor and screenwriter (born 1949)
Michael Jonas Evans was an American actor and television writer, best known as Lionel Jefferson on both All in the Family and The Jeffersons. Evans was a creator/writer of the series Good Times (1974–79). He was also a…
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2006
English footballer and manager (born 1934)
Alan A'Court was an English professional footballer who mostly played for Liverpool. He gained five caps for England and represented the nation at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
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2009
American politician, Mayor of Springfield (born 1957)
Timothy J. Davlin was the mayor of the U.S. city of Springfield, Illinois, from April 2003 until his suicide in December 2010 at age 53. Although the mayor's office is officially non-partisan, the Illinois capital has a…
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2010
2010
English footballer (born 1986)
Dale Roberts was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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2010
2011
American singer-songwriter (born 1937)
Billie Jo Spears was an American country music singer. She was known for a series of singles whose characters often represented women in assertive positions. Among these recordings was a song about sexual harassment,…
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2011
English general (born 1923)
Major-General John David Carew Graham, was a British Army officer who was instrumental in the installation of Qaboos bin Said as Sultan of Oman in the 1970 Omani coup d'état.
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2012
American police officer and politician (born 1950)
Edward Walter "Ed" Jones was a North Carolina Democratic politician who represented the state's 4th Senate district in the North Carolina Senate.
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2012
American educator (born 1985)
Victoria Leigh Soto was an American teacher who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. After the gunman, Adam Lanza, entered the school, she hid her students in her classroom. When Lanza entered Soto's…
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2012
American author (born 1944)
Janet Anne Haradon Dailey was an American author of numerous romance novels as Janet Dailey. Her novels have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide.
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2013
Indian painter and illustrator (born 1940)
C. N. Karunakaran was an Indian painter, illustrator and art director from Kerala. He was the Chairman of the Kerala Lalitakala Academy and a recipient of several honours including the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Award…
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2013
English statistician and academic (born 1923)
Dennis Victor Lindley was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.
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2013
British-Irish actor (born 1932)
Peter James O'Toole was an English and Irish actor known for his leading roles on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include the Academy Honorary Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Golden Globe…
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2013
American painter (born 1944)
George Rodrigue was an American artist who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes, followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th-century and early 20th-century genre…
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2013
American zoologist and academic (born 1927)
Theodora Emily Colborn was Founder and President Emerita of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX), based in Paonia, Colorado, and Professor Emerita of Zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She was an…
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2014
American soprano and pianist (born 1925)
Irene Dalis was an American mezzo-soprano singer, who had a long international career at the highest levels of world opera. In 1946, she received her bachelor's degree from San Jose State College, where she regarded…
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2014
Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1947)
Louis Alphonse Daniel Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengbo was a Congolese politician. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with responsibility for the Ministry of Postal Services,…
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2014
American model, activist, game show panelist and television personality; Miss America 1945 (born 1924)
Bess Myerson was an American politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Miss America who was Jewish. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the…
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2014
American football player (born 1933)
Frederick Charles "Fuzzy" Thurston was an American professional football player who was an offensive guard for the Baltimore Colts and Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football…
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2014
American soldier and politician (born 1954)
Terry Backer, born Terrance Eddy Backer, was an American politician who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1993 until his death in 2015.
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2015
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1929)
Glen Robert Sonmor was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, scout and coach. He played 28 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers from 1953 to 1955, though most of his career was spent in the…
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2015
Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1963)
Vadym Mykolayovych Tyshchenko or Vadim Nikolayevich Tishchenko was a Soviet and Ukrainian association football player and Ukrainian coach.
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2015
German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (born 1927)
Lillian Vernon was an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She founded the Lillian Vernon Corporation in 1951 and served as its chairwoman and CEO until July 1989, though she continued to serve as executive…
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2015
Brazilian cardinal (born 1921)
Paulo Evaristo Arns OFM was a Brazilian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of São Paulo from 1970 to 1998. He was named a cardinal in 1973 and later became protopriest. He was a member of the Order of Friars…
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2016
Welsh actor (born 1927)
Bernard Lawson, better known as Bernard Fox, was a Welsh actor. He is remembered for his roles as Dr. Bombay in the comedy fantasy series Bewitched (1964–1972) of which he was the last surviving adult cast member,…
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2016
Chinese writer (born 1928)
Yu Kwang-chung, also romanised as Yu Guangzhong, was a Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic.
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2017
Mexican-American comedian and actor (born 1956)
Chuy Bravo was a Mexican-American actor and entertainer. He was the sidekick of host Chelsea Handler on the talk show Chelsea Lately during its run from 2007 to 2014. He usually provided comedic relief to Handler's…
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2019
American academic and literary critic (born 1924)
Jean Franco was a British-born American academic and literary critic known for her pioneering work on Latin American literature. Educated at Manchester and London, she taught at London, Essex, and Stanford, and was…
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2022
Slovak writer (born 1937)
Tomáš Janovic was a Slovak writer, songwriter, journalist and poet. He was best known as an aphorist.
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2023
Turkish-Spanish billionaire businessman (born 1953)
İsak Andiç Ermay was a Turkish-Spanish businessman, co-founder of clothing retailer Mango. As Mango's largest shareholder, Andiç was worth an estimated US$4.5 billion at the time of his death, making him the richest…
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2024
American filmmaker and actor (born 1947)
Robert Reiner was an American filmmaker, actor, and political activist. He directed a series of acclaimed studio films in a career that spanned comedy, drama, romance, and documentary. Reiner received numerous…
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2025
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Gérard Houllier — French footballer and manager (1947–2020)
FeaturedGérard Houllier
Death year2020
Known forClubs he managed include Paris Saint-Germain, Lens and Liverpool, where he won the FA Cup, League Cup, FA Charity Shield, UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 2001
Deaths on this date120 (618 – 2025)
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