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Notable Deaths on December 2
115 people
537 – 2024
December 2 has seen 115 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 537 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1255 — Muhammad III of Alamut
Nizari Ismaili Imam
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He ruled the Nizari Ismaili state from 1221 to 1255
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The intellectual life of Persia has been described as having flourished during his 34-year reign
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He was assassinated by an unknown perpetrator on 1 December 1255, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Rukn al-Din Khurshah, in 1255.
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By some accounts, he was considered a respected scholar and the spiritual and worldly leader of the Nisari Ismailis
Pope Silverius was bishop of Rome from 8 June 536 to his deposition in 537, a few months before his death. His rapid rise to prominence from a deacon to the papacy coincided with the efforts of Ostrogothic king…
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949
queen of Alfonso V of Castile (born 996)
Elvira Menéndez was a queen consort of Leon by marriage to King Alfonso V.
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1022
Chief Justice of King Edward III of England
Sir Geoffrey le Scrope was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench for four periods between 1324 and 1338.
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1340
Emperor Hanazono was the 95th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1308 through 1318.
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1348
Flemish priest and mystic (born 1293)
John of Ruusbroec or Jan van Ruusbroec, sometimes modernized Ruysbroeck, was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of the Low Countries. Some of his main literary works include The…
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1381
queen of Portugal (born 1432)
Infanta Isabel of Coimbra was a Portuguese infanta and Queen of Portugal as the first wife of King Afonso V of Portugal.
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1455
1463
Italian banker and politician (born 1416)
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, known as Piero the Gouty, was the de facto ruler of the Republic of Florence from 1464 to 1469, during the Italian Renaissance.
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1469
Khan of Bukhara (born 1451)
Muhammad Shaybani Khan was an Uzbek leader who consolidated various Uzbek tribes and laid the foundations for their ascendance in Transoxiana and the establishment of the Khanate of Bukhara. He was a Shaybanid or…
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1510
Spanish general (born 1453)
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish general and statesman. He led military campaigns during the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars, after which he served as Viceroy of Naples. For his extensive political…
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1515
Spanish general and explorer (born 1485)
Hernán Cortés, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conquistador, military commander, explorer, captain general, and writer who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large…
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1547
Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (born 1512)
Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight…
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1594
French general (born 1541)
Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon was a French soldier, called the Man without Fear and, by Henry IV the Brave of the Brave.
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1615
marquise de Rambouillet, French author (born 1588)
Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, known as Madame de Rambouillet, was a society hostess and a major figure in the literary history of 17th-century France.
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1665
French painter, sculptor, and architect (born 1622)
Pierre Paul Puget was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. His sculpture expressed emotion, pathos and drama, setting it apart from the more classical and academic sculpture of the Style Louis XIV.
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1694
French theologian and author (born 1634)
Pasquier Quesnel, CO was a French Jansenist theologian.
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1719
Duke of Orléans (born 1674)
Philippe, duc d'Orléans, who was known as the Regent, was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723. He is referred to in French as le Régent. He was the son…
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1723
English-American historian and author (born 1665)
Samuel Penhallow was a Cornish colonist, historian, and militia leader in present-day Maine during Queen Anne's War and Dummer's War. He was the commander at Fort Menaskoux and was attacked during the Northeast Coast…
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1726
English poet and scholar (born 1695)
Vincent Bourne, familiarly known as Vinny Bourne, was an English classical scholar and Neo-Latin poet.
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1747
6th Duke of Somerset, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1662)
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, KG, PC,, known by the epithet "The Proud Duke", was an English aristocrat and courtier. He rebuilt Petworth House in Sussex, the ancient Percy seat inherited from his wife, in the…
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1748
German organist and composer (born 1720)
Johann Friedrich Agricola was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio.
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1774
French philosopher, author, and politician (born 1740)
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French writer, libertine, political activist, and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy, and pornography. His works…
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1814
Polish general and politician (born 1768)
Prince Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko (1768–1844) was a Polish nobleman, general, military commander, diplomat and politician.
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1844
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 26 June 1830 to 20 June 1837 as the wife of King William IV. Adelaide was the daughter of George I, Duke…
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1849
American abolitionist (born 1800)
John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried,…
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1859
German author (born 1814)
Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen was a German theatre critic and political activist. She married the philosopher and political economist Karl Marx in 1843.
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1881
Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866–1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People". (born 1826)
Allen Wright was Principal Chief of the Choctaw Republic from late 1866 to 1870. He had been ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1852 after graduating from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was very…
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1885
Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1840)
Namık Kemal was an Ottoman writer, poet, democrat, intellectual, reformer, journalist, playwright, and political activist who was influential in the formation of the Young Ottomans and their struggle for governmental…
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1888
1892
Filipino general and politician, 1st Governor of Bulacan (born 1875)
Gregorio Hilario del Pilar y Sempio was a Filipino general of the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the Philippine–American War.
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1899
French poet and playwright (born 1868)
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic…
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1918
Lithuanian linguist and philologist (born 1879)
Kazimieras Būga was a Lithuanian linguist and philologist. He was a professor of linguistics, who mainly worked on the Lithuanian language.
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1924
German scientist who systematically classified minerals and founded the journal Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie (born 1843)
Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures.
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1927
French composer and educator (born 1851)
Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the Paris…
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1931
American businessman, co-founded Ringling Brothers Circus (born 1866)
John Nicholas Ringling was an American entrepreneur who is the best known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows to create a…
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1936
Norwegian journalist and author (born 1902)
Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg was a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and political activist. He was a popular author and a controversial public figure. He served in World War II as a war correspondent and was…
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1943
Russian pianist and educator (born 1874)
Josef Lhévinne was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. Lhévinne wrote a short book in 1924 that is considered a classic: Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing.
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1944
Egyptian-Italian poet and composer (born 1876)
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye de Créteil between…
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1944
Japanese baseball player and soldier (born 1917)
Eiji Sawamura was a Japanese professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in Japan for the Yomiuri Giants. He is one of just two pitchers in Japanese baseball history to throw three no-hitters and the…
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1944
Romanian pianist and composer (born 1917)
Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from effects related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.…
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1950
Australian rugby player (born 1884)
Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker was an Australian athlete, sports promoter, and actor. Born in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Baker excelled at a number of sports, winning New South Wales…
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1953
Vietnamese historian, scholar, and politician, Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1883)
Trần Trọng Kim (Vietnamese: [t͡ɕən˨˩ t͡ɕawŋ͡m˧˨ʔ kim˧˧]; chữ Hán: 陳仲金, Kanji pronunciation: Chin Jūkin; Japanese: チャン・チョン・キム, romanized: Chan Chon Kimu; 1883 – December 2, 1953; courtesy name Lệ Thần was a Vietnamese…
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1953
American actor (born 1884)
Harrison Ford was an early 20th-century American actor. He was a leading Broadway theater performer and a star of the silent film era.
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1957
Ukrainian-American neurophysiologist and psychiatrist (born 1902)
Manfred Joshua Sakel was an Austrian-American neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, credited with developing insulin shock therapy in 1927.
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1957
Dutch mathematician and philosopher (born 1881)
Luitzen Egbertus Jan "Bertus" Brouwer was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th…
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1966
Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1918)
Giles Stannus Cooper, OBE was an Anglo-Irish playwright and prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC Radio and television. He was awarded the OBE in 1960 for "Services to Broadcasting". A dozen years…
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1966
American cardinal (born 1889).
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman was a senior-ranking American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1939 until his death in 1967. From 1932 to 1939, Spellman served as an auxiliary bishop of the…
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1967
Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet (born 1911)
José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas's living in two…
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1969
Ukrainian-Russian marshal and politician, 3rd Head of State of The Soviet Union (born 1881)
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov, was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era (1924–1953). He was one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union,…
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1969
Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (born 1900)
Sylvi Kekkonen was a Finnish writer and the longest-serving First Lady of Finland.
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1974
American baseball player and manager (born 1917)
Daniel Edward Murtaugh was an American second baseman, manager, front-office executive, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). Murtaugh is best known for his 29-year association with the Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom…
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1976
Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1905)
Chaudhri Muhammad Ali was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the fourth prime minister of Pakistan from 1955 until his resignation in 1956. His government oversaw the promulgation of the first Pakistani…
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1980
Lithuanian-French author, director, and screenwriter (born 1914)
Romain Gary, also known by the pen name Émile Ajar, was a Lithuanian-born French novelist, diplomat, film director, and military aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice. He is considered a…
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1980
American architect, co-founded Harrison & Abramovitz (born 1895)
Wallace Kirkman Harrison was an American architect. Harrison started his professional career with the firm of Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, participating in the construction of Rockefeller Center. He is best known for…
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1981
English actor and comedian (born 1934)
Martin Alan Feldman was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was known for his prominent, misaligned eyes.
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1982
Italian footballer and manager (born 1907)
Giovanni Ferrari was an Italian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder/inside forward on the left. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation, having won Serie A 8 times, as well as two…
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1982
Canadian-American actress and singer (born 1904)
Fifi D'Orsay was a Canadian and American actress and singer.
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1983
English poet, author, and librarian (born 1922)
Philip Arthur Larkin was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947). He came to prominence…
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1985
Cuban-American actor, singer, businessman, and television producer (born 1917)
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III, known as Desi Arnaz, was a Cuban-American actor, musician, producer, and bandleader. He played Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, in which he co-starred…
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1986
American psychologist and academic (born 1912)
John Curtis Gowan was a psychologist who studied, along with E. Paul Torrance, the development of creative capabilities in children and gifted populations.
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1986
French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy…
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1987
Belarusian physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist (born 1914)
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich, also known as YaB, was a leading Soviet physicist of Belarusian origin, who is known for his prolific contributions in physical cosmology, physics of thermonuclear reactions, combustion, and…
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1987
German colonel (born 1904)
Karl-Heinz Bürger was a German SS functionary who held positions as SS and Police Leader during the Nazi era.
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1988
Italian singer-songwriter (born 1922)
Giovanni "Tata" Giacobetti was an Italian singer and jazz musician. He is mostly known for being a member of the vocal quartet Quartetto Cetra.
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1988
American composer and conductor (born 1900)
Aaron Copland was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as the "Dean of American Music". The open,…
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1990
American actor, director, and producer (born 1908)
Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), and in dramatic films,…
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1990
Colombian drug lord (born 1949)
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician who was the founder and leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed the "King of Cocaine", Escobar was one of the wealthiest conventional…
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1993
Canadian author, playwright, and critic (born 1913)
William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term…
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1995
American actress (born 1929)
Roxie Albertha Roker was an American actress. She was best known for her portrayal of Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons. In 1973, she performed as Mattie Williams in the Broadway play The River Niger, and…
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1995
Hungarian–American biophysicist and chemist (born 1900)
Mária Telkes was a Hungarian-American biophysicist, engineer, and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.
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1995
English wrestler (born 1930)
Shirley Crabtree Jr., better known as Big Daddy, was an English professional wrestler. He worked for Joint Promotions and the original British Wrestling Federation. Initially appearing on television as a heel, he teamed…
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1997
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)
Michael Alden Hedges was an American acoustic guitarist and songwriter. He was known as a virtuoso who used unorthodox playing techniques, and much of his output was classified as new age music. Hedges died in an auto…
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1997
American guitarist (born 1925)
Charlie Lee Byrd was an American jazz guitarist who played fingerstyle on a classical guitar. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz…
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1999
American actress (born 1935)
Gail Fisher was an American actress who was one of the first Black women to play substantive roles in American television. She was best known for playing the role of secretary Peggy Fair on the television detective…
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2000
Austrian priest and philosopher (born 1926)
Ivan Dominic Illich was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that he…
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2002
German cartographer and historian (born 1916)
Arno Peters was a German historian who developed the Peters world map, based on the Gall–Peters projection.
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2002
British soldier, historian, and author (born 1924)
Alan Eaton Davidson CMG was a British diplomat and writer best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy.
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2003
English ballerina and choreographer (born 1910)
Dame Alicia Markova DBE was a British ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely…
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2004
American poet and academic (born 1921)
Mona Jane Van Duyn was an American poet. She was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1992.
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2004
American admiral and pilot (born 1930)
William Porter "Bill" Lawrence was a decorated United States Navy vice admiral and Naval Aviator who served as Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy from 1978 to 1981. Lawrence was a noted pilot, the first…
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2005
Australian convicted drug trafficker (born 1980)
Van Tuong Nguyen, baptised Caleb, was an Australian from Melbourne, Victoria, convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore. A Vietnamese Australian, he was also addressed as Nguyen Tuong Van (阮祥雲) in Singaporean media,…
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2005
Dutch singer (born 1947)
Maria Elisabeth Ender, better known as Mariska Veres, was a Dutch singer who was best known as the lead singer of the rock group Shocking Blue. She was known for her sultry voice, eccentric performances, and her…
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2006
Canadian-American ballerina and actress (born 1972)
Jennifer Carrie Alexander was a Canadian ballet dancer.
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2007
American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (born 1916)
Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.
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2007
2008
American memory disorder patient (born 1926)
Henry Gustav Molaison, known widely as H.M., was an American epileptic man who in 1953 received a bilateral medial temporal lobectomy to surgically resect parts of his brain—the anterior two thirds of his hippocampi,…
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2008
Canadian lawyer and businessman (born 1933)
Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers Jr., was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who served as the president and CEO of Rogers Communications. He was the fifth-richest person in Canada in terms of net worth.
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2008
Italian composer, musicologist, and writer (born 1927)
Renato de Grandis was an Italian composer, musicologist, writer and Theosophist.
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2008
American football player and coach (born 1938)
Serafino Dante "Foge" Fazio was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1982 to 1985. Fazio was an assistant coach with five teams in the National…
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2009
Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1945)
Eric Norman Woolfson was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist, and co-creator of the band The Alan Parsons Project, who sold over 50 million albums worldwide. Woolfson also pursued a…
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2009
Canadian playwright, co-founded the Manitoba Theatre Centre (born 1929)
Tom Hendry was the co-founder of the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1958 and, in 2008, the MTC Warehouse Theatre was officially dedicated to Hendry.
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2012
Iranian sociologist and author (born 1926)
Ehsān Narāghi was an Iranian sociologist, writer and Farah Pahlavi adviser
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2012
American soldier and politician, 58th Governor of Mississippi (born 1928)
William A. Allain was an American politician and lawyer who held office as the 59th governor of Mississippi as a Democrat from 1984 to 1988. Born in Adams County, Mississippi, he attended the University of Notre Dame…
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2013
Algerian-French engineer and businessman, founded Orangina (born 1925)
Jean-Claude Beton was a French businessman and entrepreneur. He was a key figure in the rise of the French soft drink maker Orangina, being credited with transforming the drink from a little-known citrus soda first…
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2013
Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1960)
Marcelo Déda Chagas was a Brazilian politician. He was the mayor of Aracaju from 2000 to 2006, and was elected in 2006 and 2010 as Governor of Sergipe.
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2013
Jamaican singer-songwriter (born 1946)
Junior Murvin was a Jamaican reggae musician. He is best known for the single "Police and Thieves", produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1976.
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2013
Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1929)
Abdul Rahman Antulay was an Indian politician. Antulay was a union minister for Minority Affairs and a Member of Parliament in the 14th Lok Sabha of India. Earlier he had been the Chief Minister of the state of…
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2014
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1931)
Joseph Arthur Jean Béliveau was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played parts of 20 seasons with the National Hockey League's (NHL) Montreal Canadiens from 1950 to 1971. Inducted into the Hockey Hall of…
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2014
English basketball player and coach (born 1964)
Josie Cichockyj was a British wheelchair athlete. Born in Huddersfield, she competed in the London Marathon women's wheelchair race for a number of years, finishing as runner-up to Kay McShane and Karen Davidson, before…
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2014
American saxophonist (born 1943)
Robert Henry Keys was an American saxophonist who performed as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Harry Nilsson, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends,…
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2014
2014
American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor (born 1945)
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger was a Democratic attorney who served as the 18th US National Security Advisor for U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001 after he had served as the Deputy National Security Advisor…
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2015
American actor, director, and producer (born 1944)
William George McMillan was an American actor, producer, and director.
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2015
American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1921)
George Taro Sakato was an American combat soldier of World War II who received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award for valor.
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2015
American wrestler (born 1941)
Pat Patterson was a Canadian-American professional wrestler and producer, widely known for his long tenure in the professional wrestling promotion WWE, first as a wrestler, then as a creative consultant and producer, or…
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2020
Canadian Olympic sailor (born 1931)
Edward Botterell was a Canadian sailor who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.
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2024
Romanian footballer (born 1959)
Helmut Duckadam was a Romanian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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2024
Australian tennis player (born 1933)
Neale Andrew Fraser, was an Australian champion tennis player. Fraser is the most recent man to have completed the triple crown, which he did in 1959 and 1960 at the U.S. National Championships. He won the 1960…
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2024
American film producer and writer (born 1933)
Paul Marc Maslansky was an American film producer and writer best known for the Police Academy franchise, and directing the Blaxploitation horror film Sugar Hill (1974).
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2024
Mother of Eminem (born 1955)
Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and record executive. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time, he…
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2024
Mexican boxer (born 1977)
Israel Vázquez Castañeda was a Mexican professional boxer who competed from 1995 to 2010. He was a three-time super bantamweight world champion, having held the IBF title from 2004 to 2005; and the WBC, The Ring titles…
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2024
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Muhammad III of Alamut — 26th Nizari Ismaili Shia Imam (1221–1255)
FeaturedMuhammad III of Alamut
Death year1255
Known forHe ruled the Nizari Ismaili state from 1221 to 1255
Deaths on this date115 (537 – 2024)
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