Notable Deaths on December 28

Q: Who died on December 28?

Notable people who died on December 28 include: Wang Zongbi, Robert II, Hugh Aycelin, Sir David II Strathbogie, Ashikaga Yoshiakira.

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Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and dancer (born 1932)

2016 — Debbie Reynolds

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December 28 has seen 101 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 925 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 101 people 925 – 2025

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She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer with her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words

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Her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

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In 1959, she starred in The Mating Game with Tony Randall, and released Debbie, her first pop music album

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Her other films include: The Singing Nun (1966), Divorce American Style (1967), What's the Matter with Helen? (1971), Mother and In & Out (1997)

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Reynolds was also a cabaret performer; in 1979, she opened the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood.

Wang Zongbi

general of the Chinese state of Former Shu

Wang Zongbi was a Chinese military general and politician of the Former Shu dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

925

Robert II

Count of Dreux (born 1154)

Robert II of Dreux, Count of Dreux and Braine, was the eldest surviving son of Robert I, Count of Dreux, and Agnes de Baudemont, countess of Braine, and a grandson of King Louis VI of France.

1218

Hugh Aycelin

French cardinal (born 1230)

Hugh Aycelin was a French Cardinal. He was also known as Hughes of Billom, Ugo Billomo, Hughes Séguin, Ugo Seguin de Billon, Hughes Aycelin de Montaigut and Hugues Séguin de Billon.

1297

Sir David II Strathbogie

Earl of Atholl, Constable of Scotland, and Chief Warden of Northumberland

Sir David II Strathbogie was Earl of Atholl, Constable of Scotland, and Chief Warden of Northumberland.

1326

Ashikaga Yoshiakira

Japanese shōgun (born 1330)

Ashikaga Yoshiakira was the second shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1358 to 1367 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshiakira was the son of the founder and first shōgun of the Muromachi shogunate,…

1367

Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina

queen of Epirus (born 1350)

Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, also known as Marija Angelina Nemanjić or Anna Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, was a Byzantine Greek-Serbian aristocrat and self-proclaimed basilissa of Epirus from 1384 to…

1394

Antipope Clement VIII (born 1369)

Clement VIII, born Gil Sánchez Muñoz y Carbón, was one of the antipopes of the Avignon obedience, reigning from 10 June 1423 to 26 July 1429. When King Alfonso V of Aragon reached an agreement with Pope Martin V,…

1446

Bertoldo di Giovanni

Italian sculptor (born c. 1435)

Bertoldo di Giovanni was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and medallist.

1491

Piero the Unfortunate

Italian ruler (born 1471)

Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, called Piero the Fatuous or Piero the Unfortunate, was the lord of Florence from 1492 until his exile in 1494.

1503

Andrea Gritti

Doge of Venice (born 1455)

Andrea Gritti was the Doge of the Venetian Republic from 1523 to 1538, following a distinguished diplomatic and military career. He started out as a successful merchant in Constantinople and transitioned into the…

1538

Konrad Peutinger

German humanist and antiquarian (born 1465)

Konrad Peutinger was a German humanist, jurist, diplomat, politician, economist and archaeologist, serving as Emperor Maximilian I's chief archaeological adviser. A senior official in the municipal government of the…

1547

Hermann Finck

German organist and composer (born 1527)

Hermann Finck was a German music theorist, composer and organist.

1558

Francis de Sales

French bishop and saint (born 1567)

Francis de Sales, C.O., O.M. was a Savoyard Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Geneva from 1602 to 1622. He became noted for his deep faith and his gentle approach to the religious divisions in his land resulting…

1622

Francesco Maria Grimaldi

Italian mathematician and physicist (born 1618)

Francesco Maria Grimaldi was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. He was born in Bologna to Paride Grimaldi and Anna Cattani.

1663

Johann Friedrich Gronovius

German scholar and critic (born 1611)

Johann Friedrich Gronovius was a German classical scholar, librarian and critic.

1671

Mary II of England (born 1662)

Mary II was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death in 1694. She was also Princess of Orange following her marriage on 4 November 1677. Her joint…

1694

Pierre Bayle

French philosopher and author (born 1647)

Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697. Many of the more controversial ideas in the book were…

1706

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

French botanist and mycologist (born 1656)

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.

1708

William Carstares

Scottish minister and academic (born 1649)

William Carstares was a Scottish religious minister who was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1705, 1708, 1711 and 1715. He was active in Whig politics and was Principal of the University of…

1715

Rob Roy MacGregor

Scottish outlaw (born 1671)

Robert Roy MacGregor was a Jacobite Scottish outlaw, who later became a Scottish and Jacobite folk hero.

1734

Antonio Caldara

Italian composer (born 1670)

Antonio Caldara was an Italian Baroque composer.

1736

Peter Ernst Wilde

Polish-Estonian physician and journalist (born 1732)

Peter Ernst Wilde was a Baltic German physician and Enlightenment era Estophile. He lived in what was then the Russian Empire.

1785

Eugenio Espejo

Ecuadorian physician and lawyer (born 1747)

Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo[a] was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of indigenous origin in colonial Ecuador. Although he was a notable scientist and writer, he stands out as a polemicist who…

1795

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1st Baron Macaulay, English historian and politician, Secretary at War (born 1800)

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. He is best…

1859

James Van Ness

American lawyer and politician, 7th Mayor of San Francisco (born 1808)

James Van Ness was an American politician who served as the 7th mayor of San Francisco from 1855 to 1856.

1872

Dennis Miller Bunker

American painter (born 1861)

Dennis Miller Bunker was an American painter and innovator of American Impressionism. His mature works include both brightly colored landscape paintings and dark, finely drawn portraits and figures. One of the major…

1890

William Corby

American priest and academic (born 1833)

William Corby, C.S.C. was an American Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a Union Army chaplain in the American Civil War attached to the Irish Brigade. He served twice as president of the University…

1897

Alexandre de Serpa Pinto

Portuguese soldier and explorer (born 1846)

Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Viscount of Serpa Pinto was a Portuguese explorer of southern Africa and a colonial administrator.

1900

Louise Granberg

Swedish playwright (born 1812)

Louise Elisabeth Granberg was a Swedish playwright, translator and theatre director.

1907

Ahmet Mithat Efendi

Turkish journalist and translator (born 1844)

Ahmet Mithat was an Ottoman Turkish journalist, author, translator and publisher during the Tanzimat period. In scholarship, he is typically referred to as Ahmet Mithat Efendi to distinguish him from the contemporary…

1913

Eduard Strauss

Austrian violinist and composer (born 1835)

Eduard "Edi" Strauss was an Austrian composer who, together with his brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. He was the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim. The family…

1916

Alfred Edwin McKay

Canadian captain and pilot (born 1892)

Captain Alfred Edwin "Eddie" McKay MC was a Canadian flying ace who flew with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War.

1917

Olavo Bilac

Brazilian poet and journalist (born 1865)

Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac, known simply as Olavo Bilac, was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian…

1918

Johannes Rydberg

Swedish physicist and academic (born 1854)

Johannes (Janne) Robert Rydberg was a Swedish physicist known for devising the Rydberg formula, in 1888, which is used to describe the wavelengths of photons emitted by changes in the energy level of an electron in a…

1919

Léon Bakst

Russian painter and costume designer (born 1866)

Léon (Lev) Samoylovich Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Jewish origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for…

1924

Jack Blackham

Australian cricketer (born 1854)

John McCarthy Blackham was a Test cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia.

1932

Clarence Day

American author and illustrator (born 1874)

Clarence Shepard Day Jr. was an American author and cartoonist, best known for his 1935 work Life with Father.

1935

Maurice Ravel

French pianist and composer (born 1875)

Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and…

1937

Florence Lawrence

Canadian actress (born 1886)

Florence Lawrence was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly until evidence…

1938

Alfred Flatow

German gymnast (born 1869)

Alfred Flatow was a Jewish German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was murdered in the Holocaust.

1942

Steve Evans

American baseball player (born 1885)

Louis Richard (Steve) Evans was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball. He played in the National League (NL) for the New York Giants (1908) and St. Louis Cardinals (1910–13), and in the Federal League (FL)…

1943

Theodore Dreiser

American novelist and journalist (born 1871)

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and…

1945

Elie Nadelman

Polish-American sculptor (born 1882)

Elie Nadelman was a Polish-American sculptor, draughtsman of the School of Paris and a collector of folk art.

1946

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (born 1869)

Victor Emmanuel III was King of Italy from 29 July 1900 until his abdication on 9 May 1946. A member of the House of Savoy, he also reigned as Emperor of Ethiopia from 1936 to 1941 and King of the Albanians from 1939 to…

1947

Jack Lovelock

New Zealand runner and soldier (born 1910)

John Edward Lovelock was a New Zealand athlete who became the world 1500m and mile record holder and 1936 Olympic champion in the 1500 metres.

1949

Ante Pavelić

Croatian fascist dictator during World War II (born 1889)

Ante Pavelić was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the Ustaše in 1929 and was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied Yugoslavia by the…

1959

Philippe Panneton

Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat (born 1895)

Philippe Panneton was a Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer.

1960

Paul Hindemith

German violist, composer, and conductor (born 1895)

Paul Hindemith was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist, and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the…

1963

Katharine McCormick

American biologist and philanthropist (born 1875)

Katharine Dexter McCormick was an American suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of the research necessary to develop the…

1967

David Ogilvy

12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (born 1893)

Colonel David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, was a Scottish peer, soldier and courtier. He was the father-in-law of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy.

1968

Max Steiner

Austrian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1888)

Maximilian Raoul Steiner was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's greatest musical composers.

1971

Katharine Byron

American politician (born 1903)

Katharine Byron, a Democrat, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from May 27, 1941, to January 3, 1943. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Maryland.

1976

Allan Dwan

Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1885)

Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian and American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.

1981

Dennis Wilson

American drummer, songwriter, and producer (born 1944)

Dennis Carl Wilson was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He was their drummer and the middle brother of bandmates Brian and Carl Wilson. The only dedicated surfer in the group,…

1983

Sam Peckinpah

American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)

David Samuel Peckinpah was an American filmmaker and actor. He was known for his revisionist approach to the Western genre, employing a visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence. His 1969 film…

1984

Mary Stewart

Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch, British politician and educator (born 1903)

Mary Elizabeth Henderson Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch, Baroness Stewart of Fulham, was a British politician and educator. She was a baroness in her own right and the wife of Labour Foreign Secretary, Michael…

1984

Peter Kihss

American journalist

Peter Frederick Kihss was an American reporter for The New York Times and other news organizations for nearly half a century until his retirement in 1982. Kihss was known for his reporting on a wide range of topics,…

1984

John D. MacDonald

American colonel and author (born 1916)

John Dann MacDonald was an American writer of novels and short stories. A prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many set in his adopted home of Florida, he was one of the most successful American novelists of…

1986

Jan Nieuwenhuys

Dutch painter (born 1922)

Johannes "Jan" Theodorus Nieuwenhuys was a Dutch painter and one of the early active founders of the Dutch Experimentalists group (Reflex) that later became part of CoBrA.

1986

Hermann Oberth

Romanian-German physicist and engineer (born 1894)

Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross in 1943.

1989

Warren Skaaren

American screenwriter and producer (born 1946)

Warren Skaaren was an American screenwriter and film producer.

1990

Sal Maglie

American baseball player and coach (born 1917)

Salvatore Anthony Maglie was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB), and later a scout and a pitching coach. He played from 1945 to 1958 for the New York Giants, Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York…

1992

William L. Shirer

American journalist and historian (born 1904)

William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian. His history of Nazi Germany The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has been read and cited in scholarly works for more than 60 years;…

1993

Jean-Louis Lévesque

Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1911)

Jean-Louis Lévesque, was a Canadian entrepreneur, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist.

1994

Clayton Moore

American actor (born 1914)

Clayton Moore was an American actor best known for playing the fictional Western character the Lone Ranger from September 1949 to September 1952 and then again from September 1954 to September 1957 on the television…

1999

Samuel Abraham Goldblith

American lieutenant, biologist, and engineer (born 1919)

Samuel Abraham Goldblith was an American food scientist. While involved in World War II, he studied malnutrition, and later was involved in food research important for space exploration.

2001

William X. Kienzle

American priest and author (born 1928)

William Xavier Kienzle was an American priest and later writer.

2001

Benjamin Thurman Hacker

American admiral (born 1935)

Rear Admiral Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935–2003) was a U.S. Naval officer, who became the first Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank.

2003

Jerry Orbach

American actor and singer (born 1935)

Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor and singer described as "one of the last bona fide leading men of the Broadway musical".

2004

Susan Sontag

American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright (born 1933)

Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the…

2004

Jamal Karimi-Rad

Iranian politician, Iranian Minister of Justice (born 1956)

Jamal Karimi-Rad was the Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

2006

Irene Lieblich

Polish-American painter and illustrator (born 1923)

Irene Lieblich was a Polish-born artist and Holocaust survivor noted for illustrating the books of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and for her paintings highlighting Jewish life and culture. She is also a distant…

2008

Jimmy Sullivan

American musician, composer and songwriter. Known by his stage name The Rev (born 1981)

James Owen Sullivan, also known by his stage name The Rev, was an American musician and songwriter. He was the drummer, pianist, backing vocalist, and occasional co-lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Avenged…

2009

Billy Taylor

American pianist and composer (born 1921)

Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic…

2010

Terry Peder Rasmussen

American serial killer (born 1943)

Terry Peder Rasmussen was an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who was convicted of one murder, and linked to at least six more in a series of crimes that stretched across the contiguous United…

2010

Nicholas Ambraseys

Greek-English seismologist and engineer (born 1929)

Nicholas Neocles Ambraseys was a Greek engineering seismologist. He was emeritus professor of engineering seismology and senior research fellow at Imperial College London. For many years Ambraseys was considered the…

2012

Mark Crispin

American computer scientist and academic, designed the IMAP (born 1956)

Mark Reed Crispin is best known as the father of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory. He is the author or co-author of…

2012

Václav Drobný

Czech footballer (born 1980)

Václav Drobný was a Czech footballer who notably played for Sparta Prague having spent time in their youth team as well as spells at Czech, Slovak, French and German sides. Drobný played twice for the Czech Republic and…

2012

Frankie Walsh

Irish hurler and manager (born 1936)

Frankie Walsh was an Irish hurler who played as a left wing-forward at senior level for the Waterford county team.

2012

Halton Arp

American-German astronomer and critic (born 1927)

Halton Christian "Chip" Arp was an American astronomer. He is remembered for his 1966 book Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which catalogued unusual-looking galaxies and presented their images.

2013

Esther Borja

Cuban soprano and actress (born 1913)

Esther Borja Lima was a Cuban operatic soprano.

2013

Andrew Jacobs

Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1932)

Andrew Jacobs Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as an Indiana state legislator and Congressman. Jacobs represented part of Indianapolis in the United States House of Representatives for…

2013

Alfred Marshall

American businessman, founded Marshalls (born 1919)

Alfred Marshall was an American businessman who founded Marshalls, a chain of department stores which specializes in overstocked, irregular and out-of-season name brand clothing sold at deeply discounted prices. He…

2013

Joseph Ruskin

American actor and producer (born 1924)

Joseph Ruskin was an American character actor.

2013

Ilya Tsymbalar

Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (born 1969)

Ilya Vladimirovich Tsymbalar was a Ukrainian-Russian professional football player and coach. A midfielder, he represented both Ukraine and Russia on the international level. He primarily played as an attacking…

2013

Leelah Alcorn

American transgender teenager (born 1997)

Leelah Alcorn was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention. Prior to her death, she had posted a suicide note to her Tumblr blog about societal standards affecting transgender people…

2014

Vahan Hovhannisyan

Armenian politician (born 1956)

Vahan Hovhannisyan was an Armenian politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF). He was Vice-President of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and was a candidate in the February 2008…

2014

Frankie Randall

American singer-songwriter (born 1938)

Frankie Randall was an American singer and pianist.

2014

John Bradbury

English drummer and songwriter (born 1953)

John "Brad" Bradbury was an English drummer and record producer. He is best known for having been the drummer in the English ska group the Specials.

2015

Eloy Inos

Mariana Islander businessman and politician, 8th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (born 1949)

Eulogio Songao "Eloy" Inos was a Northern Marianan politician who served as the eighth governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from 2013 to 2015. Inos, a member of the Republican Party, also served as the eighth…

2015

Lemmy

English musician, singer, and songwriter (born 1945)

Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as Lemmy, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead vocalist, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member from 1975 to…

2015

Jean-Christophe Victor

French political scientist (born 1947)

Jean-Christophe Victor was a French political scientist focusing on international relations. He was the son of the polar explorer Paul-Émile Victor and the television producer Eliane Decrais. He earned master's degrees…

2016

Rose Marie

American actress and comedienne (born 1923)

Rose Marie Guy, known professionally as Rose Marie, was an American actress, singer, comedienne, and vaudeville performer with a career spanning nine decades, which included film, radio, records, theater, night clubs…

2017

Grichka Bogdanoff

French television presenter and scientific essayist (born 1949)

Igor Youriévitch Bogdanoff and Grégoire "Grichka" Youriévitch Bogdanoff, alternatively spelled Bogdanov, were French television presenters, producers, and essayists who presented a variety of programmes in science…

2021

John Madden

American football Hall of Fame coach and commentator (born 1936)

John Earl Madden was an American professional football coach and sports commentator in the National Football League (NFL). He served as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1969 to 1978, leading them to eight…

2021

Harry Reid

American lawyer, politician, and former Senate majority leader (born 1939)

Harry Mason Reid Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017. He led the Senate Democratic Caucus from 2005 to 2017 and was the Senate majority leader…

2021

Philomena Franz

German Romani author (born 1922)

Philomena Franz was a Sinti writer and activist from Germany, who was a survivor of the Romani Holocaust, having been imprisoned in Auschwitz. She later published works that recounted her experiences and was recognised…

2022

Vijayakanth

Indian actor and politician (born 1952)

Vijayaraj Alagarswami, known by his stage name Vijayakanth, was an Indian actor, filmmaker, philanthropist and politician. He worked in Tamil cinema in a career spanning four decades. He ventured into politics in the…

2023

Charles Dolan

American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO (born 1926)

Charles Francis Dolan was an American billionaire businessman and media mogul, best known as founder of Cablevision and HBO. Today, the Dolan family controls Madison Square Garden Sports, MSG Networks, Madison Square…

2024

Brigitte Bardot

French actress, singer and activist (born 1934)

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, often referred to by her initials B.B., was a French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist. She became one of the best-known symbols of the sexual revolution and gained…

2025

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Unrest in the form of mass protests erupt across Iran, the largest uprising in the country since the Iranian Revolution. Wikipedia →

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