Notable Deaths on December 4

December 4 has 464 recorded notable deaths across history, from 749 to 2025. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

Frank Zappa

Died on December 4, 1993 — Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American musician, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he additionally produced nearly all the 60-plus albums he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

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Did you know about Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse musicians of the 20th century.

Did you know about Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu became known as the Red Eminence, a term derived from the style of Eminence applied to cardinals and their customary red robes.

Did you know about Fred Hampton

Hampton also formed an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change.

Did you know about Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

Did you know about Bert Lahr

Bert Lahr was best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion, as well as his counterpart Kansas farmworker "Zeke", in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Major events on December 4

See what else happened on this day in history.

1918 Woodrow Wilson

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US…

December 4, 1918
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
1865 North Carolina

North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed two days later by Georgia…

December 4, 1865
North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed two days later by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
2005 December 2005 protest for democracy in Hong Kong

Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal…

December 4, 2005
Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
1965 Gemini 7

Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive…

December 4, 1965
Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.

Who died on December 4?

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1642 Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu

French cardinal and politician, Chief Minister to the French Monarch (born 1585)
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs. He became known as the Red Eminence, a term derived from the style of Eminence applied to cardinals and their customary red robes.
1969 Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton

American Black Panthers activist (born 1948)
Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was an African American revolutionary and political activist who served as deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party, a Marxist–Leninist and black power political and militant organization from 1966 until his assassination in 1969. He was also chair of the Illinois chapter and founded the anti-racist, anti-classist Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that combined Black Panthers, Young Patriots, and the Young Lords, which were all leftist political organizations that included African Americans, White Southerners, and Puerto Ricans. Hampton also formed an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change.
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Hampton began his activism in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving as the Youth Council President of the West Suburban branch in the Chicago area.
1975 Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

German-American historian, theorist, and academic (born 1906)
Hannah Arendt was a German and American philosopher, political theorist, and public historian. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.
2024 Brian Thompson

Brian Thompson

businessman (born 1974)
On December 4, 2024, Brian Robert Thompson, the CEO of the American health insurance company UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed by 26-year-old Luigi Mangione outside the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan, New York City, where Thompson was heading to attend an investors' meeting.
1967 Bert Lahr

Bert Lahr

American actor (born 1895)
Irving Lahrheim, known professionally as Bert Lahr, was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion, as well as his counterpart Kansas farmworker "Zeke", in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939). He was well known for his quick-witted humor and his work in burlesque and vaudeville and on Broadway.
1976 Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1913)
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).
1131 Omar Khayyám

Omar Khayyám

Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1048)
Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian literature. He was born in Nishapur, Iran and lived during the Seljuk era, around the time of the First Crusade.
749 John of Damascus

John of Damascus

Syrian priest and saint (born 676)
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, was a Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist. He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749.
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A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music, he was given the by-name of Chrysorroas. He wrote works expounding the Christian faith, and composed hymns which are still used both liturgically in Eastern Christian practice throughout the world as well as in western Lutheranism at Easter.
2014 Jeremy Thorpe

Jeremy Thorpe

English lawyer and politician (born 1929)
John Jeremy Thorpe was a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Devon from 1959 to 1979 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. In May 1979 he was tried at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder his former boyfriend, Norman Scott. Thorpe was acquitted on all charges, but the case, and the scandal surrounding it, ended his political career.
1845 Gregor MacGregor

Gregor MacGregor

Scottish soldier and explorer (born 1786)
Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish soldier, adventurer and con man who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule as "Cazique". Hundreds invested their savings in supposed Poyaisian government bonds and land certificates. About 250 emigrated to MacGregor's invented country in 1822–1823 to find only an untouched jungle in Honduras; more than half of them died.
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MacGregor's Poyais scheme has been called one of the most brazen confidence tricks in history.
1987 Arnold Lobel

Arnold Lobel

American author and illustrator (born 1933)
Arnold Stark Lobel was an American author and illustrator of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series (1970–79) and Mouse Soup (1977). He also authored Fables, a 1981 Caldecott Medal winner for best-illustrated U.S. picture book. Lobel also illustrated books by other writers, including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley.
1950 Jesse L. Brown

Jesse L. Brown

1st African-American Naval aviator (born 1926)
Jesse LeRoy Brown was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African-American aviator to complete the United States Navy's basic flight training program, the first African-American naval officer killed in the Korean War, and a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross.
1334 Pope John XXII (born 1249)

Pope John XXII (born 1249)

Pope John XXII, born Jacques Duèze, was head of the Catholic Church from 7 August 1316 to his death, in December 1334. He was the second and longest-reigning Avignon Pope, elected by the Conclave of Cardinals, which was assembled in Lyon. Like his predecessor, Clement V, Pope John centralized power and income in the Papacy and lived a princely life in Avignon.
2022 Bob McGrath

Bob McGrath

American singer and actor (born 1932)
Robert Emmett McGrath was an American actor, singer, and children's author best known for playing original human character and music teacher Bob Johnson on the educational television series Sesame Street from 1969 to 2016.
1798 Luigi Galvani

Luigi Galvani

Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1737)
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher who studied animal electricity. In 1780, using a frog, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. This was an early study of bioelectricity, following experiments by John Walsh and Hugh Williamson.
1696 Empress Meishō of Japan (born 1624)

Empress Meishō of Japan (born 1624)

Empress Meishō , personal name Okiko , was the 109th monarch of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Her reign lasted from 1629 to 1643. Her reign officially began when she was five years old and continued for fifteen years.
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It is believed that Meishō's father actually ruled in her name until she abdicated in favor of her younger half-brother.
2010 King Curtis Iaukea

King Curtis Iaukea

American wrestler (born 1937)
Curtis Piehu Iaukea III was an American professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional U.S. promotions, both as a single and in various tag team combinations, during the 1960s. He then competed in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) where he won the WWF Tag Team Championship with Baron Scicluna.
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He also wrestled Pedro Morales for the WWWF title. He was also later The Master of the Dungeon of Doom in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Under the name "Iau Kea" he appeared in the film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze with Moe Howard declaring "That's not a man! That's a committee!".
2015 Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett

Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Premier of British Columbia (born 1932)
William Richards Bennett, was a Canadian politician who served as the 27th premier of British Columbia from 1975 to 1986. He was leader of the Social Credit Party from 1973 to 1986 and represented the electoral district of Okanagan South in the Legislative Assembly from 1973 to 1986.
1984 Jack Mercer

Jack Mercer

American animator, screenwriter, voice actor, and singer (born 1910)
Winfield Bennett Mercer, known professionally as Jack Mercer, was an American voice actor. He is best known as the voice of cartoon characters Popeye the Sailor Man and Felix the Cat. The son of vaudeville and Broadway performers, he also performed on the vaudeville and legitimate stages.
1893 John Tyndall

John Tyndall

Irish-English physicist and chemist (born 1820)
John Tyndall (; 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was an Irish physicist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air, proving the connection between atmospheric CO2 and what is now known as the greenhouse effect in 1859.
771 Carloman I

Carloman I

Frankish king (born 751)
Carloman I, German Karlmann, Karlomann, was king of the Franks from 768 until his death in 771. He was the second surviving son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon and was a younger brother of Charlemagne. His death allowed Charlemagne to take all of Francia.
2009 Liam Clancy

Liam Clancy

Irish singer, actor, and guitarist (born 1935)
Liam Clancy was an Irish folk singer from Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. He was the youngest member of the influential folk group the Clancy Brothers, regarded as Ireland's first pop stars. They achieved global sales of millions and appeared in sold-out concerts at such prominent venues as Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
1935 Charles Richet

Charles Richet

French physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1850)
Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis". Richet devoted many years to the study of paranormal and spiritualist phenomena, coining the term "ectoplasm".
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He believed in the inferiority of black people, was a proponent of eugenics, and presided over the French Eugenics Society towards the end of his life. The Richet line of professorships of medical science continued through his son Charles and his grandson Gabriel. Gabriel Richet was also one of the pioneers of European nephrology.
2015 Robert Loggia

Robert Loggia

American actor and director (born 1930)
Salvatore Loggia, known professionally as Robert Loggia, was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jagged Edge (1985) and won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Big (1988). In a career spanning over 60 years, Loggia performed in many films, including The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), three Pink Panther films, An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Scarface (1983), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Oliver & Company (1988), Innocent Blood (1992), Independence Day (1996), Lost Highway (1997), Return to Me (2000), and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012).
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He also appeared on numerous television series, including Malcolm in the Middle (2001), The Sopranos (2004), and Men of a Certain Age (2011), and played lead roles, such as Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat in T.H.E. Cat (1966–1967), Nick Mancuso in Mancuso, F.B.I. (1989–1990), and Elfego Baca in the Walt Disney limited series The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca (1958–1960).
1732 John Gay

John Gay

English poet and playwright (born 1685)
John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.
2005

Gregg Hoffman

American film producer (born 1963)
Gregg Hoffman was a film producer responsible for developing Saw and Saw II. He studied communications, law and economics at American University in Washington, D.C. Hoffman was working on Saw III and Crawlspace when he died in a hospital in Hollywood, California of natural causes.
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He was 42 years old at his death. The movie Dead Silence (2007) was dedicated to him. He was also thanked in the film Gross Misconduct, mentioned as dedicatee for Saw III, and posthumously credited with producing the Saw films from 2007 through 2023.
2011 Hubert Sumlin

Hubert Sumlin

American singer and guitarist (born 1931)
Hubert Charles Sumlin was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin' Wolf's band. He was ranked number 43 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
1637 Nicholas Ferrar

Nicholas Ferrar

English trader (born 1592)
Nicholas Ferrar was an English scholar, courtier and businessman, who was ordained a deacon in the Church of England. He lost much of his fortune in the Virginia Company and retreated with his extended family in 1626 to the manor of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, for his remaining years, in an informal spiritual community following High Anglican practice. His friend the poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), on his deathbed, sent Ferrar the manuscript of The Temple, telling him to publish the poetry if it might "turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul."
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"If not, let him burn it; for I and it are less than the least of God's mercies." Ferrar published the verses in 1633; they remain in print.
2012 Jack Brooks

Jack Brooks

American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1922)
Jack Bascom Brooks was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Texas who served 42 years in the United States House of Representatives, initially representing Texas's 2nd congressional district from 1953 through 1967, and then, after district boundaries were redrawn in 1966, the 9th district from 1967 to 1995. He had strong political ties to other prominent Texas Democrats, including Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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For over fifteen years, he was the dean of the Texas congressional delegation.
2000 Henck Arron

Henck Arron

Surinamese banker and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Suriname (born 1936)
Henck Alphonsus Eugène Arron was a Surinamese politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Suriname after it gained independence in 1975. A member of the National Party of Suriname, he served from 24 December 1973 with the transition government, to 25 February 1980. He was overthrown in a coup d'état by the military, led by Dési Bouterse.
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Released in 1981 after charges of corruption were dropped, he returned to banking, his previous career. In 1987, Arron was elected as Vice President of Suriname and served until another coup in 1990 overthrew the government.
1408 Valentina Visconti

Valentina Visconti

wife of Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
Valentina Visconti was a Countess of Vertus, and Duchess consort of Orléans as the wife of Louis I, Duke of Orléans, the younger brother of King Charles VI of France. As the Duchess consort of Orléans, she was at court and acquired the enmity of the Queen consort of France, Isabeau of Bavaria, and was subsequently banned from the court and had to leave Paris. Due to political animosity, Valentina's husband was murdered in 1407.
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She died on 4 December 1408.
2015 Yossi Sarid

Yossi Sarid

Israeli journalist and politician, 15th Israeli Minister of Education (born 1940)
Yossi Sarid was an Israeli politician and news commentator. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006. A former Minister of Education and Minister of the Environment, he led Meretz between 1996 and 2003 and served as Leader of the Opposition from 2001 to 2003.
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Known for his determined moral stance and his willingness to pay the political price for that determination, Sarid was often referred to as Israel's moral compass.
1585

John Willock

Scottish minister and reformer (born 1515)
John Willock was a Scottish reformer. He appears to have been a friar of the Franciscan House at Ayr. Having joined the party of reform before 1541, he fled for his life to England.
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There he became noted as a zealous and taking preacher. This led to his arrest for heresy under an Act of Henry VIII., "for abolishing diversity of opinion" in matters of religion. He was found guilty of preaching against purgatory, holy water, priestly confession, and prayer to the saints, and of holding that priests might lawfully be married, he was for some time confined in the Fleet prison. After the accession of Edward VI he was chaplain to Henry, Duke of Suffolk, who had married King Henry's niece, and is best known as the father of Lady Jane Grey. He preached for a time in London, in St Katherine's Church, when both he and John Knox, his fast friend, were granted general license to preach anywhere in England. Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, presented him to the rectory of Loughborough in Leicestershire, a living which he continued to hold during King Edward's reign, and again during that of Queen Elizabeth for the rest of his life. Thus in his later years he was in the unique position of being at the same time a parish minister in both England and Scotland. When Mary Tudor came to the English throne in 1553, Willock fled to Embden, in the Protestant Duchy of Friesland. There he practised as a physician with much success, and rose to some eminence. In 1555, and again in 1556, the Duchess Anne of Friesland sent him to Scotland as her Commissioner on matters of trade. In 1558 he returned home, and preached for some time in Dundee, with much acceptance among the friends of reform. In 1559, when John Knox had to leave Edinburgh in peril of his life, Willook took his place as the evangelist of the Reformation. It was then that he conducted in St Giles what is believed to have been the earliest public celebration of the Holy Communion in Scotland after the reformed ritual. In 1560, when Queen Mary of Guise lay dying, the Earls of Argyll and Moray, and other Lords of the Congregation advised her to "send for a godly, learned man of whom she might receive instruction"; and Willock was chosen to minister to her, which he faithfully did. That same year he was made Superintendent of Glasgow and the West. He was also one of the six Johns entrusted with the drawing up of the First Book of Discipline, the others being John Knox, John Winram, John Spottiswood, John Douglas, and John Row. Sometime in that year he went to England, and brought home his wife, Katherine Picknavell, an English lady. He was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly in 1563, 1564, 1565, and 1568. In 1565 Queen Mary endeavoured to put a stop to his activity by having him imprisoned in Dumbarton Castle; but the Reformers were now too strong for her, and she had to depart from her purpose.
1926 Ivana Kobilca

Ivana Kobilca

Slovenian painter (born 1861)
Ivana Kobilca was a Slovene painter, and is considered the most prominent painter and a key figure of Slovene cultural identity. She was a realist painter who studied and worked in Vienna, Munich, Paris, Sarajevo, Berlin, and Ljubljana. She mostly painted oil paintings and pastels, whereas her drawings are few.
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The themes include still life, portraits, genre works, allegories, and religious scenes. She was a controversial person, criticized for following movements that had not developed further in later periods.
1971 Shunryū Suzuki

Shunryū Suzuki

Japanese-American monk and educator, founded the San Francisco Zen Center (born 1904)
Shunryu Suzuki was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the first Zen Buddhist monastery outside Asia. Suzuki founded San Francisco Zen Center which, along with its affiliate temples, comprises one of the most influential Zen organizations in the United States. A book of his teachings, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, is one of the most popular books on Zen and Buddhism in the West.
2017 Shashi Kapoor

Shashi Kapoor

Indian actor (born 1938)
Shashi Kapoor was an Indian actor and producer known primarily for his work in Hindi films. He is considered as one of the greatest actors in the history of Hindi cinema, and is a recipient of several accolades, including four National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 2011, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2014, for his contribution to Indian cinema.
1828 Robert Jenkinson

Robert Jenkinson

2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1770)
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, was a British Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827. Before becoming prime minister he had been foreign secretary, home secretary and secretary of state for war and the colonies. He held the constituency of Rye from 1790 until 1803, when he was elevated to the House of Lords, where he was Leader 1803–1806 and 1807–1827.
1980 Francisco de Sá Carneiro

Francisco de Sá Carneiro

Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1934)
Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro was a Portuguese politician, who was one of the founders and the first leader of the Social Democratic Party. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal for eleven months during 1980, until his death in a plane crash in Camarate on 4 December 1980.
1603 Maerten de Vos

Maerten de Vos

Flemish painter and draughtsman (born 1532)
Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos was a Flemish painter, known mainly for his history and allegorical paintings and portraits. He was, together with the brothers Ambrosius Francken I and Frans Francken I, one of the leading history painters in the Spanish Netherlands after Frans Floris's career slumped in the second half of the sixteenth century as a result of the Iconoclastic Fury.
1944 Roger Bresnahan

Roger Bresnahan

American baseball player and manager (born 1879)
Roger Philip Bresnahan, nicknamed "the Duke of Tralee", was an American baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). As a major-league player, Bresnahan competed for the Washington Senators (1897), Chicago Orphans (1900), Baltimore Orioles (1901–02), New York Giants (1902–1908), St. Louis Cardinals (1909–1912) and Chicago Cubs (1913–1915). Bresnahan also managed the Cardinals (1909–1912) and Cubs (1915).
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He was a member of the 1905 World Series champions.
1839 John Leamy

John Leamy

Irish–American merchant (born 1757)
John Leamy was an Irish-born American merchant who pioneered Philadelphia's trade with the Spanish colonies in the Americas. He was a founder of the Insurance Company of North America and the Hibernian Society. As an active Roman Catholic, he helped fund the construction of St. Augustine Church, was a trustee at St. Mary's and there participated in the Hogan schism.
1270 Theobald II of Navarre (born 1238)

Theobald II of Navarre (born 1238)

Theobald II was King of Navarre and also, as Theobald V, Count of Champagne and Brie, from 1253 until his death. He was the son and successor of Theobald I and the second Navarrese monarch of the House of Blois. After he died childless, the throne of Navarre passed to his younger brother, Henry I.
1999 Rose Bird

Rose Bird

American academic and judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (born 1936)
Rose Elizabeth Bird was the 25th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. She was the first female law clerk of the Nevada Supreme Court, the first female deputy public defender in Santa Clara County, the first woman to serve in the California State Cabinet, and the first female Chief Justice of California.
1938 Tamanishiki San'emon

Tamanishiki San'emon

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (born 1903)
Tamanishiki San'emon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kōchi. He was the sport's 32nd yokozuna. He won a total of nine top division yūshō or tournament championships from 1929 to 1936, and was the dominant wrestler in sumo until the emergence of Futabayama.
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He died whilst still an active wrestler.
2011 Sonia Pierre

Sonia Pierre

Haitian-Dominican activist (born 1965)
Solange Pierre, known as Sonia Pierre, was a human rights advocate in the Dominican Republic who worked to end antihaitianismo, which is discrimination against individuals of Haitian origin either born in Haiti or in the Dominican Republic. For this work, she won the 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
2016 Patricia Robins

Patricia Robins

British writer and WAAF officer (born 1921)
Patricia Robins was a British writer of short stories and over 80 novels, mainly romance, from 1934 to 2016. She also signed under the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer; she had sold more than ten million copies. She served as Women's Auxiliary Air Force officer during World War II tracking Nazi bombers.
1933 Stefan George

Stefan George

German-Swiss poet and translator (born 1868)
Stefan Anton George was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelaire. He is also known for his role as leader of the highly influential literary circle called the George-Kreis and for founding the literary magazine Blätter für die Kunst.
1976 Tommy Bolin

Tommy Bolin

American guitarist and songwriter (born 1951)
Thomas Richard Bolin was an American rock and jazz-rock fusion guitarist and songwriter who played with Zephyr, the James Gang and Deep Purple, in addition to maintaining a career as a solo artist and session musician, notably for Billy Cobham on his 1973 album Spectrum.
1214 William the Lion

William the Lion

Scottish king (born 1143)
William the Lion, sometimes styled William I and also known by the nickname Garbh, 'the Rough', reigned as King of Alba from 1165 to 1214. His almost 49-year-long reign was the longest for a Scottish monarch before the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
1980 Stanisława Walasiewicz

Stanisława Walasiewicz

Polish-American runner (born 1911)
Stanisława Walasiewicz, also known as Stefania Walasiewicz, and Stella Walsh, was a Polish-American track and field athlete, who became a women's Olympic champion in the 100 metres. Born in Poland and raised in the United States, she became an American citizen in 1947.
1340 Henry Burghersh

Henry Burghersh

English bishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1292)
Henry Burghersh, was Bishop of Lincoln (1320–1340) and served as Lord Chancellor of England (1328–1330). He was a younger son of Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh, and a nephew of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere. He was educated in France.
1075 Anno II

Anno II

German archbishop and saint (born 1010)
Anno II was Archbishop of Cologne from 1056 until his death. From 1063 to 1065 he acted as regent of the Holy Roman Empire for the minor Emperor Henry IV. Anno is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church.
1679 Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

English philosopher and theorist (born 1588)
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
2024 Princess Birgitta of Sweden

Princess Birgitta of Sweden

Swedish royal (born 1937)
Princess Birgitta of Sweden was a member of the Swedish royal family. She was the second child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and an elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf.
2007 Pimp C

Pimp C

American rapper (born 1973)
Chad Lamont Butler, better known by his stage name Pimp C, was an American rapper and record producer. He was best known for his work with Bun B as one half of the hip-hop duo Underground Kingz (UGK).
1897 Griffith Rhys Jones

Griffith Rhys Jones

Welsh conductor (born 1834)
Griffith Rhys Jones, commonly known as Caradog, was a Welsh conductor of the famous 'Côr Mawr' of some 460 voices, which twice won first prize at The Crystal Palace choral competitions in London in 1872 and 1873.
1948 Frank Benford

Frank Benford

American physicist and engineer (born 1883)
Frank Albert Benford Jr. was an American electrical engineer and physicist best known for rediscovering and generalizing Benford's law, an earlier statistical statement by Simon Newcomb, about the occurrence of digits in lists of data.
1942 Fritz Löhner-Beda

Fritz Löhner-Beda

Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (born 1883)
Fritz Löhner-Beda, born Bedřich Löwy, was an Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer. Once nearly forgotten, many of his songs and tunes remain popular today. He was murdered in Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp.
2014 Claudia Emerson

Claudia Emerson

American poet and academic (born 1957)
Claudia Emerson was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife, and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008.
1932 Edmund Wojtyła

Edmund Wojtyła

Polish doctor (born 1906)
Edmund Antoni Wojtyła was a Polish doctor who died of scarlet fever a few years after graduating. He was the elder brother of Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II.
1945 Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan

American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and embryologist. In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the role of chromosomes in heredity.
2006 Ross A. McGinnis

Ross A. McGinnis

American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1987)
Ross Andrew McGinnis was a United States Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the United States' highest decoration for bravery, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Iraq War.
2014 V. R. Krishna Iyer

V. R. Krishna Iyer

Indian lawyer and judge (born 1914)
Vaidyanathapuram Rama Krishna was an Indian judge who became a pioneer of judicial activism. He pioneered the legal-aid movement in the country. Before that, he was a state minister and politician.
1680 Thomas Bartholin

Thomas Bartholin

Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (born 1616)
Thomas Bartholin was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian. He discovered the lymphatic system in humans and advanced the theory of refrigeration anesthesia, being the first to describe it scientifically.
2022 Patrick Tambay

Patrick Tambay

French race car driver (born 1949)
Patrick Daniel Tambay was a French racing driver, broadcaster and politician, who competed in Formula One from 1977 to 1986. Tambay won two Formula One Grands Prix across nine seasons.
1938 Borghild Holmsen

Borghild Holmsen

Norwegian pianist, composer and music critic (born 1865)
Borghild Holmsen was a Norwegian pianist, teacher, music critic and composer. She is thought to be the first Norwegian woman to perform a concert featuring only her own compositions.
1945 Richárd Weisz

Richárd Weisz

Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (born 1879)
Richárd Weisz was a Hungarian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games and at the 1908 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in 1908.
1988 Osman Achmatowicz

Osman Achmatowicz

Polish chemist and academic (born 1899)
Osman Achmatowicz was a Polish chemist of Lipka Tatar descent, who studied alkaloid natural products. His son, Osman Achmatowicz Jr., is credited with the Achmatowicz reaction in 1971.
2012 Miguel Calero

Miguel Calero

Colombian footballer and manager (born 1971)
Miguel Ángel Calero Rodríguez was a Colombian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played 50 times for the Colombia national team between 1995 and 2007.
1459 Adolphus VIII

Adolphus VIII

Count of Holstein (born 1401)
Adolphus XI of Schauenburg, as Adolph I Duke of Schleswig, and as Adolph VIII Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, was the mightiest vassal of the Danish realm.
1963 Constance Davey

Constance Davey

Australian psychologist (born 1882)
Constance Muriel Davey was an Australian psychologist who worked in the South Australian Department of Education, where she introduced the state's first special education classes.
2003

Iggy Katona

American race car driver (born 1916)
Egnatius "Iggy" Katona was an American stock car racing driver from Willis, Michigan. He is most famous for his performance in the ARCA series in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, where he won six championships and 79 races, both of which stood as series records until Frank Kimmel surpassed both; first in 2005 for championships and then in 2013 for wins. Other ARCA records held by Katona include most starts (630), oldest race winner and most consecutive seasons with a win
1341 Janisław

Janisław

Archbishop of Gniezno
Janisław was an Archbishop of Gniezno 1317–41, having in 1317 succeeded Borzysław I. Janisław unconditionally supported the policy of reunification of Polish lands carried out by Władysław I the Elbow-high, whom he crowned King of Poland on 20 January 1320.
1993

Margaret Landon

American missionary and author (born 1903)
Margaret Landon was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages. In 1950, Landon sold the musical play rights to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who created the musical The King and I from her book. A later work, Never Dies the Dream, appeared in 1949.
1981

Jeanne Block

American psychologist (born 1923)
Jeanne Lavonne Humphrey Block was an American psychologist and expert on child development. She conducted research on sex-role socialization and theories of personality. Block was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and conducted her research with the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of California, Berkeley.
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She retired in 1981 after being diagnosed with cancer, and died in December of the same year.
1992

Henry Clausen

American lawyer and author (born 1905)
Henry Christian Clausen was an American lawyer, and investigator. He authored the Clausen Report, an 800-page report on the Army Board's Pearl Harbor Investigation. He traveled over 55,000 miles over seven months in 1945, and interviewed nearly a hundred personnel, Army, Navy, British and civilian, as a Special Investigator for the Secretary of War Henry L.
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Stimson carrying out an investigation ordered by Congress.
2012

Vasily Belov

Russian author, poet, and playwright (born 1932)
Vasily Ivanovich Belov was a Soviet and Russian writer, poet and dramatist, who published more than sixty books which sold seven million copies. A prominent member of the influential 1970s–1980s derevenschiki movement, Belov's best known novels include Business as Usual, Eves, The Best is Yet to Come and The Year of a Major Breakdown.
870

Suairlech ind Eidnén mac Ciaráin

Irish bishop
Suairlech ind Eidnén mac Ciaráin was an Irish abbot and bishop. Little is known about him, but he is mentioned in the Annals of Inisfallen as the abbot of Bennchor. He was also known to have been Abbot of Clonard at somepoint during the 9th century.
1980

Don Warrington

Canadian football player (born 1948)
Don Warrington was a running back who played ten seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Edmonton Eskimos. In his career, Warrington was a part of four Grey Cup championship teams. He was nicknamed "Jeep".
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He played college football for the Simon Fraser Clan.
1576

Georg Joachim Rheticus

Austrian-Slovak mathematician and cartographer (born 1514)
Georg Joachim de Porris, also known as Rheticus, was a mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as Nicolaus Copernicus's sole pupil. He facilitated the publication of his master's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
2014

Vincent L. McKusick

American lawyer and judge (born 1921)
Vincent Lee McKusick was an American attorney and Chief Justice of Maine. At the time of his death McKusick worked at the firm Pierce Atwood in Portland, Maine, as of Counsel.
1976

W. F. McCoy

Irish soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1886)
William Frederick McCoy was an Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for South Tyrone who went on to become an early supporter of Ulster nationalism.
2012

Anthony Deane-Drummond

English general (born 1917)
Major-General Anthony John Deane-Drummond, CB, DSO, MC & Bar was an officer of the Royal Signals in the British Army, whose career was mostly spent with airborne forces.
1260

Aymer de Valence

Bishop of Winchester (born 1222)
Aymer de Valence was a Bishop of Winchester around 1250.
1456 Charles I

Charles I

Duke of Bourbon (born 1401)
Charles de Bourbon was the oldest son of John I, Duke of Bourbon, and Marie, Duchess of Auvergne.
1595 William Whitaker (theologian)

William Whitaker (theologian)

English theologian (1548–1595), Master of St. John's College, Cambridge (1548–1595)
William Whitaker (1548 – 4 December 1595) was a prominent Protestant Reformed Anglican churchman, academic, and theologian who was Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, and a leading divine in the university in the latter half of the sixteenth century. His uncle was Alexander Nowell, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral and catechist.
1609

Alexander Hume

Scottish poet (born 1560)
Alexander Hume was a Scottish poet who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in the early 17th century.
1649 William Drummond of Hawthornden

William Drummond of Hawthornden

Scottish poet (born 1585)
William Drummond, called "of Hawthornden", was a Scottish poet.
1670 Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst

Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst

Regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1614-1670)
Emilie Antonia of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (15 June 1614 in Delmenhorst – 4 December 1670 in Rudolstadt), was Princess consort of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and then regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt during the minority of her son Albert Anton from 1646 to 1662.
1681 Maurice

Maurice

Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, German Duke of Saxe-Zeitz
Maurice of Saxe-Zeitz (28 March 1619 – 4 December 1681) was a duke of Saxe-Zeitz and member of the House of Wettin. Born in Dresden, he was the youngest surviving son of John George I, Elector of Saxony, and his second wife Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia.
1715 Charles Joseph of Lorraine

Charles Joseph of Lorraine

Roman Catholic archbishop (1680-1715)
Charles Joseph John Anthony Ignace Felix of Lorraine (German: Karl Joseph Anton Johann Ignaz Felix von Lothringen), also known as Charles III in his capacity as the bishop of Olomouc (24 November 1680 – 4 December 1715), was a German prelate. Born in Vienna, he was the second son of Charles V, Duke of Lorraine. He was bishop of Olomouc (1695–1711) and Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück (1698–1715), for which he was the successful candidate of the House of Palatinate, opposed by Brandenburg and, following some reverses and to the accompaniment of an enormous payment to the chapter of Trier, Charles Joseph was made archbishop and prince-elector of Trier (1711–1715), a political position of notable importance in the Holy Roman Empire.
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Already in 1711, he was able to make use of his electoral rights in the election of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. He participated in the negotiations surrounding the end of the War of the Spanish Succession and succeeded in having the French occupying forces leave the Archbishopric in 1714. Charles Joseph died of smallpox while visiting Vienna.
1727 Princess Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth and by marriage Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Princess Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (9 August 1693, in Saalfeld – 4 December 1727, in Rudolstadt) was a Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth, and Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt by marriage.
1728

Richard Ferrier

English politician (born c. 1671)
Richard Ferrier was an English Tory politician who served as MP for Great Yarmouth from 1708 till 1715.
1793 Armand de Kersaint

Armand de Kersaint

French naval officer, revolutionary politician (1742-1793)
Vice-Admiral Armand-Guy-Simon de Coetnempren, comte de Kersaint (29 July 1742 – 4 December 1793) was a French Navy officer and politician who served in the American Revolutionary War. During the French Revolution, he aligned himself with the Girondins and was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror.
1839 Samuel Butler (schoolmaster)

Samuel Butler (schoolmaster)

English classical scholar and schoolmaster (1774-1839)
Samuel Butler (30 January 1774 – 4 December 1839) was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster of Shrewsbury School, and Bishop of Lichfield. His biography was written by his grandson Samuel Butler, the author of the novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.
1841

David Daniel Davis

Welsh-English physician and academic (born 1777)
David Daniel Davis M.D. F.R.C.P. was a British physician.
1850 William Sturgeon

William Sturgeon

English physicist, invented the electric motor (born 1783)
William Sturgeon was an English electrical engineer and inventor who made the first electromagnet and the first practical electric motor.
1865 Adolph Kolping

Adolph Kolping

German catholic priest (1813-1865)
Adolph Kolping (8 December 1813 – 4 December 1865) was a German Catholic priest and the founder of the Kolping Association. He led the movement for providing and promoting social support for workers in industrialized cities while also working to promote the dignities of workers in accordance with the social magisterium of the faith. He was called Gesellenvater (the Journeymen's Father).
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The beatification for the priest commenced on 21 March 1934 and he was later titled as Venerable in 1989. His beatification was celebrated under Pope John Paul II on 27 October 1991 in Saint Peter's Square; his liturgical feast is not affixed to the date of his death as is the norm but rather on 6 December.
1867 Engelbert Sterckx

Engelbert Sterckx

Roman Catholic archbishop (1792-1867)
Engelbert Sterckx (2 November 1792 – 4 December 1867) was the Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium, from 1832 to 1867.
1891 Frederick Whitaker

Frederick Whitaker

Premier of New Zealand (1812–1891)
Sir Frederick Whitaker (23 April 1812 – 4 December 1891) was an English-born New Zealand politician who served twice as the premier of New Zealand and six times as Attorney-General.
1893

Eugenio Ruspoli

Italian explorer (1866-1893)
Prince Eugenio Ruspoli (Țigănești, 6 January 1866 – near Burgi, Somalia, 4 December 1893) was an Italian explorer and naturalist. He was the author of the book Nel Paese della Mirra, published in 1892.
1893 Heinrich Göbel

Heinrich Göbel

German-American inventor (1818–1893)
Heinrich Göbel (April 20, 1818 – December 4, 1893) was a German-born American precision mechanic and inventor also known by his anglicized name Henry Goebel. In 1848 he immigrated to New York City, where he resided until his death. He received American citizenship in 1865.
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In 1893, magazines and newspapers reported that 25 years earlier Göbel had developed incandescent light bulbs comparable to those invented in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison. Göbel did not apply for a patent for this invention. In 1893, the Edison Electric Light Company sued three manufacturers of incandescent lamps for infringing Edison's patent. The defense of these companies claimed the Edison patent was void because of the same invention by Göbel 25 years earlier, which came to be known as the Goebel defense. Judges of four courts raised doubts; there was no clear and convincing proof for the claimed invention. Research work published in 2007 concluded that the Goebel defense was fraudulent. After Göbel's death the legend arose in some countries that he was the true inventor of the practical incandescent light bulb. Göbel acquired patents for an improvement of sewing machines in 1865, for an improvement of the Geissler pump in 1882, and for a technique to connect carbon threads to metal wires in incandescent lamps in 1882. These three patents have had no influence on further technical developments to date.
1893 Marie Wiegmann

Marie Wiegmann

German painter (1826-1893)
Marie Elisabeth Wiegmann (7 November 1820 – 4 December 1893) née Hancke, was a German genre and portrait painter who worked in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands. She studied under artists Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Hermann Stilke. She was a celebrated painter throughout her more than 50-year career.
1894 Leon Abbett

Leon Abbett

American politician (1836–1894)
Leon Abbett (October 8, 1836 – December 4, 1894) was an American Democratic Party politician and lawyer who served two nonconsecutive terms as the 26th Governor of New Jersey from 1884 to 1887 and 1890 to 1893. His official state biography refers to Abbett as "undoubtedly the most powerful person in New Jersey in the late nineteenth century" and "the first urban-oriented governor" of New Jersey. He was popularly known as the "Great Commoner" for his advocacy on behalf of ordinary citizens, and presided over a wide range of reforms during his time as governor.
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He failed in two attempts to win election to the United States Senate.
1902 Charles Dow

Charles Dow

American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (born 1851)
Charles Henry Dow was an American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser.
1916 Preston Lea

Preston Lea

American businessman (1841-1916)
Preston Lea (November 12, 1841 – December 4, 1916) was an American businessman and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party who served as Governor of Delaware.
1923 Maurice Barrès

Maurice Barrès

French novelist (1862-1923)
Auguste-Maurice Barrès (French: [oɡyst mɔʁis baʁɛs]; 19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was an anti-Semitic French novelist, journalist, philosopher, and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888. He was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1906.
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In politics, Barrès was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1889 as a Boulangist and would play a prominent political role for the rest of his life. He presided over the Ligue des Patriotes from 1914 until his death in 1923.
1927 Alexander Kolowrat

Alexander Kolowrat

Austrian film producer (1886-1927)
Count Alexander "Sascha" Joseph von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (29 January 1886 – 4 December 1927) was an Austrian film producer of Bohemian-Czech descent from the House of Kolowrat. A pioneer of Austrian cinema, he founded the first major film studio Sascha-Film in Vienna.
1927 Helena Janina Pajzderska

Helena Janina Pajzderska

Polish writer and women's rights activist
Helena Janina Pajzderska née Boguska, also known as Szolc-Rogozińska (1862–1927), was a Polish writer, literary translator, traveller and a women's rights activist. She wrote a number of novels, travel literature and translations under the pen name Hajota.
1932 Gustav Meyrink

Gustav Meyrink

Austrian writer and translator (1868-1932)
Gustav Meyrink (19 January 1868 – 4 December 1932) was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, novelist, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem. He has been described as the "most respected German language writer in the field of supernatural fiction".
1934 Adrien de Gerlache

Adrien de Gerlache

Belgian explorer (1866–1934)
Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (French pronunciation: [adʁijɛ̃ viktɔʁ ʒozɛf də ʒɛʁlaʃ də ɡɔmʁi]; 2 August 1866 – 4 December 1934) was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.
1934 Georg Bilgeri

Georg Bilgeri

Austrian officer and mountaineer (1873–1934)
Georg Bilgeri (11 October 1873 – 4 December 1934) was an officer in the Austro–Hungarian Army, mountaineer, and Austrian pioneer of skiing. Bilgeri learned to ski in Gargellen about 1893.
1935 Johan Halvorsen

Johan Halvorsen

Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1864)
Johan Halvorsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor, and violinist.
1937 Wilbur L. Adams

Wilbur L. Adams

Lawyer, politician (1884–1937)
Wilbur Louis Adams (October 23, 1884 – December 4, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served one term as U.S. Representative from Delaware from 1933 to 1935.
1942 Atsushi Nakajima

Atsushi Nakajima

Japanese writer (1909–1942)
Atsushi Nakajima (中島 敦, Nakajima Atsushi; 5 May 1909 – 4 December 1942) was a Japanese author known for his unique style and self-introspective themes. His major works include "The Moon Over the Mountain" and "Light, Wind and Dreams" with the former being published in many Japanese textbooks. During his life he wrote about twenty works, including unfinished works, typically inspired by Classical Chinese stories and his own life experiences.
1942 Juhan Kukk

Juhan Kukk

Estonian politician, 3rd Head of State of Estonia (born 1885)
Juhan (Johann) Kukk was an Estonian politician.
1943 Otto Arpke

Otto Arpke

Graphic artist, illustrator and painter (1886-1943)
Otto Arpke (16 October 1886 – 4 December 1943) was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and teacher at the Kunst- und Gewerbeschule in Mainz. Arpke was famous for his designs for the movie Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari and posters for the North German Lloyd shipping line. He designed one type face, Arpke Antiqua (1928, Shriftguss type foundry) which is available in digital form as Taiko.
1954 George Shepherd

George Shepherd

1st Baron Shepherd (born 1881)
George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd PC, was a British Labour politician.
1955 József Galamb

József Galamb

Hungarian-American engineer (born 1881)
József Galamb was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, most known as main-engineer for designing the Ford Model T.
1967

Cedric MacLeod

Australian rules footballer
Cedric James Gordon MacLeod (26 November 1899 – 4 December 1967) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
1967 Daniel Jones (phonetician)

Daniel Jones (phonetician)

British phonetician (1881–1967)
Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris). He was head of the Department of Phonetics at University College London.
1967

Harold A. Hamersley

Australian flying ace (1896-1967)
Harold Alan Hamersley MC (6 February 1896 – December 1967) was an Australian World War I flying ace credited with 13 confirmed aerial victories. He later went on to serve in the Royal Air Force following the war, serving in India and reaching the rank of group captain before retiring.
1967

John Hobson (politician)

British politician (1912-1967)
Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson, OBE, TD, PC, QC (18 April 1912 – 4 December 1967) was a British Conservative Party politician.
1967 Lewis Einstein

Lewis Einstein

American diplomat and art collector (1877-1967)
Lewis David Einstein (March 15, 1877 – December 4, 1967) was an American diplomat, historian аnd art collector.
1967

Monchile Concepción

Puerto Rican baseball player (1905-1967)
Ramón Concepción Ramos (February 5, 1905 – December 4, 1967), nicknamed "Monchile", was a Puerto Rican outfielder in the Negro leagues between 1929 and 1934. A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Concepción made his Negro leagues debut in 1929 with the Lincoln Giants. He went on to play for the Cuban Stars (East) and the Bacharach Giants.
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Concepción managed the Puerto Rico national baseball team at the 1953 Amateur World Series, held in Venezuela. The tem, which included Felle Delgado (as a coach) and future major leaguer Félix Torres, finished in sixth place. He died in San Juan in 1967 at age 62.
1967 Pierre Jeanneret

Pierre Jeanneret

Swiss architect (1896-1967)
Pierre Jeanneret (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒanʁɛ]; 22 March 1896 – 4 December 1967) was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his cousin, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier), for about twenty years.
1967 Sarah Padden

Sarah Padden

American actress (1881-1967)
Sarah Ann Padden (16 October 1881 – 4 December 1967) was an English-born American theatre and film character actress. She performed on stage in the early 20th century. Her best-known single-act performance was in The Clod, a stage production in which she played an uneducated woman who lived on a farm during the American Civil War.
1967

Yrjö Vesa

Finnish businessperson (1898-1967)
Yrjö Waldemar Vesa (12 April 1898 – 4 December 1967) was a Finnish engineer, businessman and vuorineuvos. Vesa was born and he did his studies in Helsinki. Following his graduation as Mechanical Engineer in 1921 he worked in Germany and United States in engineering and automotive companies.
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He returned in Finland in 1927 working for the following five years for Tampereen Pellava- ja Rauta-Teollisuus Oy in Tampere. Yrjö Vesa started his career in Helsinki-based engineering company Kone ja Silta in 1932. The company was taken over by Wärtsilä and by time Vesa became manager of Kone ja Silta, and subsequently he was Deputy Director of Wärtsilä until 1947. During the 1930s and 1940s Vesa was board member and later chairman of the Finnish Employers' Central Association (STK). His most difficult time as negotiator was after the World War II, when communists organised several strikes and reached for weight in companies. Yrjö Vesa became the first manager of state-owned Valmet. He was involved at starting tractor and paper machine production, which later grew flourishing businesses. The company's shipyards created problems, and when the board wanted to produce ships unprofitably due to employment reasons, Vesa was against it, and was subsequently fired. For the rest of his career he managed an insurance company.
1968 Billy Baird

Billy Baird

Canadian ice hockey player
William John Baird (March 18, 1884 – December 4, 1968) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player in the early 1900s. He was one of the first professionals in the sport of ice hockey. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he played for the Ottawa Senators, Haileybury Comets, Pittsburgh Pros, Waterloo Colts and Galt.
1968 Emil Yde

Emil Yde

American baseball player
Emil Ogden Yde (January 28, 1900 – December 4, 1968) was an American left-handed professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1924–27) and Detroit Tigers in 1929. As a rookie in 1924, Yde led the National League in shutouts with four and in winning percentage (.842) with a Win–loss record of 16–3.
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In 1925, Yde became the first pitcher ever to allow back-to-back home runs in a World Series when Goose Goslin and Joe Harris hit consecutive homers in the third inning of the fourth game of the series. He also was a good hitting pitcher in his brief major league career, posting a .233 batting average (74-for-317) with 46 runs, 1 home run and 28 RBI. Yde was of Danish descent. His father worked at Naval Station Great Lakes and later as a superintendent at a coal yard. Yde attended both the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He served in the United States Navy during World War I. He moved to Leesburg, Florida during his playing career and eventually became a real estate dealer there. In 1944, he ran for sheriff of Lake County, Florida but lost in the Democratic Party primary to Willis V. McCall.
1968

Félicien Kempeneers

Belgian artistic gymnast
Félicien Kempeneers (6 July 1890 – 4 December 1968) was a Belgian gymnast. He competed in the men's team all-around event at the 1920 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal.
1968 Ivy Close

Ivy Close

British actress (1890-1968)
Ivy Lilian Close (15 June 1890 – 4 December 1968) was a British actress. She acted in 44 films between 1912 and 1929.
1968

Jack Eaton

film producer and director (1888-1968)
Jack Eaton (June 16, 1888 – December 4, 1968) was an American film producer and director. He produced 78 films between 1918 and 1953. He also directed 38 films between 1918 and 1953.
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He was nominated for five Academy Awards, all for Best Short Subject, winning once, in 1950, for Aquatic House Party. He died in Mystic, Connecticut. Eaton's short film White Rhapsody was preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in conjunction with the UCLA Film and Television Archive, in 2013.
1968

Johan Franciscus Schønheyder

Norwegian ships engineer
Johan Franciscus Schønheyder (25 August 1879 – 4 December 1968) was a Norwegian ships engineer.
1968 Louisa Wilkinson

Louisa Wilkinson

Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (1889-1968)
Dame Louisa Jane Wilkinson, (née Lumsden; 11 December 1889 – 4 December 1968) was a British military nurse and nursing administrator who served as Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service from 1944 to 1948. She founded Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, and was also president of the Royal College of Nursing.
1968

Senn Slemmons

American sports coach, athletics administrator (1897–1968)
Senn Daniel Slemmons (March 27, 1897 – December 4, 1968) was an American college football coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at North Dakota State Normal and Industrial School in Ellendale, North Dakota from 1925 to 1948. Slemmons was also the athletic director at Ellendale.
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In 1955, Slemmons moved to Muleshoe, Texas, where he served as manager of the chamber of commerce until 1959. Until 1960, he was operated the Tri-County Bowling Alley, and was the postmaster in Muleshoe until 1962. Slemmons died on December 4, 1968, at Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City.
1969

Alexandru Marky

Romanian association football player (1919-1969)
Alexandru Marky (5 August 1919 – 4 December 1969) was a Romanian football goalkeeper.
1969 Bohdan Winiarski

Bohdan Winiarski

Polish politician (1884–1969)
Bohdan Stefan Winiarski (27 April 1884 – 4 December 1969) was a Polish politician and jurist who served as President of the International Court of Justice from 1961 to 1964.
1969

H. A. Lindsay

Australian author and conservationist (1900-1969)
H. A. Lindsay (1900–1969) was an Australian writer of novels, short stories, newspaper articles, and children's books.
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He was born in Hyde Park, South Australia.
1969 Helen Cargill

Helen Cargill

British nurse and Royal Air force officer
Air Commandant Dame Helen Wilson Cargill, , CStJ (1 October 1896 – 4 December 1969) was a British nurse and Royal Air force officer. From 1948 to 1952, she was Matron-in-Chief of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
1969 Jack Payne (bandleader)

Jack Payne (bandleader)

British bandleader (1899-1969)
John Wesley Vivian Payne (22 August 1899 – 4 December 1969) was a British bandleader who established his reputation during the British dance band era of the 1930s.
1969 Karl Kaufmann

Karl Kaufmann

German politician (1900-1969)
Karl Kaufmann (10 October 1900 – 4 December 1969) was a German politician who served as a Nazi Party Gauleiter from 1925 to 1945 and as the Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of Hamburg from 1933 to 1945.
1969 Mark Clark (activist)

Mark Clark (activist)

American activist (1947-1969)
Mark Clark (June 28, 1947 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Clark was instrumental in the creation of the enduring Free Breakfast Program in his hometown of Peoria, Illinois, as well as the Peoria branch's engagement in local rainbow coalition politics, primarily revolving around the anti-war movement. He was killed on December 4, 1969, with Fred Hampton, state chairman of the Black Panthers, during a predawn Chicago Police raid.
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In January 1970, a coroner's jury held an inquest and ruled the deaths of Clark and Hampton to be justifiable homicide. Survivors and the relatives of Clark and Hampton filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Chicago, Cook County, and the federal government (specifically the FBI). It was settled in November 1982, with each entity paying $616,333 to a group of nine plaintiffs.
1969 Oswald Short

Oswald Short

British aerospace engineer (1883-1969)
Hugh Oswald Short, AFRAeS (16 January 1883 – 4 December 1969) was an English aeronautical engineer.
1969

Sophia Hope Gorham

British motor boat racer (1881–1969)
Sophia Hope Gorham (1881–1969) was a British motorboat racer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. She is the only woman in Olympic history to compete in a motorboat event.
1970 Norman Tunna

Norman Tunna

Recipient of the George Cross
Norman Tunna (29 April 1908 – 4 December 1970), a shunter for the Great Western Railway in Birkenhead was awarded the George Cross in 1941.
1970

Paul Kuczo

American football player (1903-1970)
Paul Jams Kuczo (February 4, 1903 – December 4, 1970) was an American football player. Kuczo was born in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1903. He attended Stamford High School where he played football, baseball (as a pitcher), and basketball (as a guard and forward).
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He played college football as the quarterback for Villanova. He was captain of the 1927 Villanova Wildcats football team that compiled a 6–1 record. He played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for the Staten Island Stapletons. He appeared in four NFL games, one as a starter, during the 1929 season. He also played baseball. He was a pitcher for Villanova's baseball team. After graduating from Villanova, he played for Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the Eastern League. After retiring as a player, Kuczo was the football coach at Stamford High School from 1928 to 1968. His teams won Connecticut state championships in 1937, 1950, 1952, and 1953.
1970

Rashid Mammadbeyov

Azerbaijani wrestler (1927-1970)
Rashid Garabey oglu Mammadbeyov (Azerbaijani: Rəşid Məmmədbəyov, Russian: Рашид Мамедбеков; 28 February 1927 – 4 December 1970) was a bantamweight freestyle wrestler. He became the first Olympic medalist of Azerbaijani origin when he won the freestyle wrestling silver medal at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games.
1970 Walter Cawthorn

Walter Cawthorn

Australian diplomat and Army officer (1896–1970)
Sir Walter Joseph Cawthorn (11 June 1896 – 4 December 1970) also known as Bill Cawthorn, and also as W. J. Cawthorn and Wally Cawthorn, was an Australian teacher, diplomat, and a senior officer in the British Indian Army.
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He is considered Australia's greatest spymaster. On the recommendation of his friend Richard G. Casey, who was the then Governor of Bengal, Cawthorn was sent to Melbourne in 1946 as an Indian representative on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Australia. Subsequent to the Partition of British India in August 1947, Cawthorn was seconded to the Pakistan Army, where he played a key role in founding the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and served as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Army from February 1948 to February 1951. He returned to Australia in 1952 and served as Director Joint Intelligence Bureau (Australia) until 1954. Richard Casey, now Australian Minister for External Affairs, sought 'a better outlet for Cawthorn's talents' and selected him for a five-year posting as Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan. During this time, Cawthorn forged strong ties with local political and military leaders. Governor-General Iskandar Ali Mirza once told Casey, 'We have no secrets from Bill Cawthorn.' Casey visited Karachi in 1956 and noted that due to Cawthorn's rapport with 'top Pakistanis, we are much better informed than the much larger diplomatic posts.' On the night of 27 October 1958, General Ayub Khan informed foreign officials, including Cawthorn and U.S. Ambassador James M. Langley, of his military coup against President Iskandar Ali Mirza and his takeover as president. Both reacted sharply to the news, as Cawthorn was a close friend of Iskandar and expressed concerns about his safety. In March 1959, he was appointed High Commissioner of Australia to Canada and, in September 1960, he returned to take the helm of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). His tenure was characterised as 'a period of consolidation and development,' during which he served until his retirement on 3 July 1968.
1971 Al Ferguson

Al Ferguson

Irish-American actor (1888-1971)
Al Ferguson (19 April 1888 – 4 December 1971) was an Irish-born American film actor. Born in County Wexford, Ireland, he appeared in nearly 300 films between 1912 and 1956. Billed as Smoke Ferguson, by 1912 he was making Westerns for Selig Polyscope Company.
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In the 1920s he was the star, producer, and director for several low-budget Western films. He also appeared in some television Westerns in the 1950s. Ferguson died in Burbank, California. He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
1971

Anton Horner

Austrian hornist (1877–1971)
Anton Horner (June 21, 1877 – December 4, 1971) was an American horn player. He was part of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 44 years and served for 28 years as its solo horn player. He is credited for introducing the double horn to the United States.
1971

Bernard Bruyère

French egyptologist (1879-1971)
Bernard Bruyère (10 November 1879 – 4 December 1971) was a French Egyptologist. He was one of the discoverers of the Tomb of Tutankhamun.
1971

Christopher Foster (cricketer)

English cricketer (1904-1971)
Christopher Knollys Foster (27 September 1904 – 4 December 1971) was an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played first-class cricket for Worcestershire in 1927.
1971 Edward Grasett

Edward Grasett

British Army general (1888-1971)
Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Edward Grasett, (20 October 1888 – 4 December 1971) was a British-Canadian soldier who served with the British Army in Canada, the United Kingdom, British India and China.
1971 Georg von Rauch

Georg von Rauch

German anarchist (1947-1971)
Georg von Rauch (12 May 1947 – 4 December 1971) was a member of the 1960s-70s German student movement. He was part of the 2 June Movement and a leader of the Tupamaros West-Berlin. In 1970 he was arrested for assaulting a journalist.
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He was convicted but succeeded in fleeing the courtroom after the verdict was announced. In December 1971, von Rauch and Bommi Baumann were pulled over by a West Berlin police officer. Von Rauch opened fire and was killed in the ensuing shootout. The squat Georg-von-Rauch-Haus was founded shortly after his death and named in his honor. His father was a history professor specializing in Russian and Baltic history.
1971 Hugo Sillén

Hugo Sillén

Swedish communist (1892–1971)
Klas Hugo Sillén (18 December 1892, Stockholm – 4 December 1971) was a Swedish communist party politician. He first joined communism in 1917, becoming the secretary of the youth wing of the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Youth League, which he was secretary of until 1924. In the 1929 split of the Communist Party of Sweden, Sillén led the pro-Comintern fraction that expelled Karl Kilbom and the majority of the party members with support of the Comintern that feared Kilbom would support Bukharin's right opposition against Joseph Stalin.
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He was also editor-in-chief of the party organ, Ny Dag, from 1931 to 1934. Hugo Sillén became a devoted Stalinist.
1971

Ivy Cummings

British racing car driver
Ivy Cummings (1901–1971) was an early racing car driver, reputedly the youngest person ever to lap Brooklands. In 2009 her Bugatti car sold for over £2m.
1971 James Donald (politician)

James Donald (politician)

New Zealand politician
Sir James Bell Donald (13 October 1879 – 4 December 1971) was a United Party Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister in Auckland, New Zealand.
1971 John M. Kemper

John M. Kemper

American educator, administrator, and biographer
John Mason Kemper (September 1, 1912 – December 4, 1971) was a military historian and the 11th Headmaster of Phillips Academy Andover, serving for 23 years, from 1948 to 1971. Kemper was born at Fort D.A. Russell in Wyoming into a military family.
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He graduated high school from Western High School in Washington, D.C. In 1931, he started at the United States Military Academy, and graduated in 1935. Kemper later returned to West Point to teach history, and obtained a master's degree in history from Columbia University in 1942. He was serving in the historical division of the Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel when he was selected to be headmaster of Andover in 1948—the first chosen from outside the faculty ranks of the school in over 70 years. In the Army, Kemper had led the service's World War II historical program branch; the program today is now the United States Army Center of Military History. In 1951, Kemper convinced the Lawrenceville School and Phillips Exeter Academy to join in what became the Advanced Placement program offering college level courses to high school students. Kemper also sought to dispel the view that private schools like Andover were "training grounds for snobs", and worked to diversify the student body. Kemper was featured on the cover of the October 26, 1962 issue of TIME. In October 1971, at age 59, he announced his resignation, due to illness. He soon after died of cancer in December 1971, and is buried at the Phillips Academy Cemetery.
1971 Reinhold Rehs

Reinhold Rehs

German politician and chairman of the Federation of Expellees (1901-1971)
Reinhold Rehs (12 October 1901 – 4 December 1971) was a German politician and chairman of the Federation of Expellees in 1967–70.
1971

Ronald Sydney Nyholm

Australian chemist (1917–1971)
Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm (29 January 1917 – 4 December 1971) was an Australian chemist who was a leading figure in inorganic chemistry in the 1950s and 1960s.
1971 Ted Cabot

Ted Cabot

American politician (1917–1971)
Ted Cabot (February 5, 1917 – December 4, 1971) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
1971

Walter Ockey

American baseball player (1920–1971)
Walter Andrew "Footie" Ockey (January 4, 1920 – December 4, 1971) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in two games, both in relief, for the New York Giants in 1944. The 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m), 175 lb (79 kg) right-hander was a native of New York City. Ockey is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the major leagues during World War II.
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He made his major league debut on May 3, 1944, in a home game against the Philadelphia Blue Jays at the Polo Grounds. His only other appearance was on May 20 against the St. Louis Cardinals at Sportsman's Park. Totals for his brief career include 1 game finished, 1 earned run allowed in 22⁄3 innings pitched, and an ERA of 3.38. Defensively, he recorded 2 assists without making an error. Bill Lee of the Philadelphia Phillies is the only batter Ockey struck out. Ockey died at the age of 51 in Staten Island, New York.
1971

Zafar Muhammad Khan

Pakistani naval captain
Zafar Muhammad Khan (death: 4 December 1971) was a Pakistani naval officer who was the captain and commanding officer of the PNS Ghazi submarine during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The PNS Ghazi was on a reconnaissance mine-laying mission in the approaches to the Indian port of Visakhapatnam (Bay of Bengal) when it sank under mysterious circumstances on 4 December at about 00:10 hours. A total of 93 men, including 11 commissioned officers, and 82 non-commissioned officers lost their lives.
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In 1971, he was one of the naval officers who were posthumously awarded the Hilal-i-Jur'at for their actions.
1972 Cynthia Spencer

Cynthia Spencer

Countess Spencer, British countess (1897-1972); paternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales
Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Spencer, Countess Spencer (née Hamilton; 16 August 1897 – 4 December 1972) was a British peeress and the paternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
1972

Johan Rühl

Dutch water polo player (1885-1972)
Johan Hendrik Willem Rühl (9 May 1885 – 4 December 1972) was a Dutch water polo player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was the goalkeeper of the Dutch water polo team, which finished fourth in the 1908 tournament.
1972

John Henry Russell (baseball)

American baseball player
John Henry Russell (February 24, 1898 – December 4, 1972), nicknamed "Pistol", was an American Negro league second baseman in the 1920s and 1930s. A native of Dolcito, Alabama (a former community in Jefferson County), Russell made his Negro leagues debut in 1923 with the Memphis Red Sox. After three years with Memphis, he spent the following five seasons with the St. Louis Stars, and contributed six hits and two RBIs in the Stars' 1928 Negro National League championship series victory over the Chicago American Giants.
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While representing the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Russell laid down a successful suicide squeeze bunt in the 1933 East–West All-Star Game. He died in Cleveland, Ohio in 1972 at age 74.
1972

Julian Biggs

Canadian filmmaker (1920-1972)
Julian Biggs (1920–1972) was a director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada and its first Director of English Production. Over the course of his 20-year career, he created 146 films, two of which (Herring Hunt (1953) and Paddle to the Sea (1966)) were nominated for Academy Awards. His film 23 Skidoo (1964) received two BAFTA nominations, including the BAFTA United Nations award.
1972 Kadish Luz

Kadish Luz

3rd Speaker of the Knesset (1895–1972)
Kadish Luz (Hebrew: קַדִּישׁ לוּז; 10 January 1895 – 4 December 1972) was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1955 and 1959 and as Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969. He is the longest-serving speaker of the Knesset. Born in Russia, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine and fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War as part of the Haganah.
1972

Lynn Ungoed-Thomas

British politician (1904-1972)
Sir Arwyn Lynn Ungoed-Thomas (29 June 1904 – 4 December 1972) was a Welsh Labour Party politician and British judge.
1972 Nina Lumbard

Nina Lumbard

American painter (1876–1972)
Nina Evangeline Lumbard (August 14, 1876 – December 4, 1972) was an American ceramic painter, illustrator, and teacher who worked in Fremont and Omaha, Nebraska, during the late nineteenth century. During her brief career, she exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair and Trans-Mississippi Exposition, taught at the Omaha Art Institute, and illustrated a multitude of local publications.
1973

Alfred Fuller

American businessman
Alfred Carl Fuller (January 13, 1885 – December 4, 1973) was a Canadian-born American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who was the original "Fuller Brush Man". He created the Fuller Brush Company, a multi-million dollar corporation.
1973 Boris Anisfeld

Boris Anisfeld

Russian-American artist of Moldovan Jewish origin (1878-1973)
Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld (Russian: Борис Израилевич Анисфельд; October 14 [O.S. October 2] 1878 – December 4, 1973) was a Russian-American painter and draughtsman of Moldovan-Jewish origin. A representative of the Symbolist movement during what is known in Russian scholarship as the Silver Age, Anisfeld was particularly known for his designs for Ballets Russes.
1973

Eddie Lund

American musician
Eddie Lund (October 12, 1909 – December 4, 1973) was a pianist and bandleader. He grew up in Vancouver, Washington, USA, and later moved to Oregon where he worked as a pianist. He later moved to Tahiti in either 1936 or 1938 where he stayed permanently and published and released many records.
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He was the leader of a popular band, Eddie Lund and His Tahitians which released records on the ABC-Paramount, Decca and Tahiti labels. He picked up the Tahitian language quickly and secured a residence at Quinns night club in Papeete. Much of Tahiti's music has been written by him. Lund has been referred to as the Irving Berlin of Island music and the father of modern Tahitian folk music. He died in 1973.
1973 Frank Duncan (catcher)

Frank Duncan (catcher)

American baseball player
Frank Lee Duncan Jr (February 14, 1901 – December 4, 1973) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1948. He was primarily a catcher for the Kansas City Monarchs, handling their pitching staff for over a decade. While playing part-time, he managed the Monarchs to two pennants in 1942 and 1946; he managed the Monarchs for the longest of all managers in team history with six and he won 281 games as skipper, a club record.
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He caught two no-hitters with the Monarchs, in 1923 and 1929.
1973

Jack McKenna (runner)

long-distance runner
Jack McKenna (14 April 1889 – 4 December 1973) was a British long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
1973

Joe Rosentover

American football executive
Joseph Rosentover (12 January 1903 - 4 December 1973) became the manager and president of the American Association football league in 1936 and also became the president of Atlantic Coast Football League in 1963.
1973

John Edward Jennings

American writer (1906–1973)
John Edward Jennings Jr. (December 30, 1906 – December 4, 1973) was an American historical novelist. He wrote many best-selling novels of American history and seagoing adventure. He also wrote several nonfiction books on history.
1973 Lauri Lehtinen

Lauri Lehtinen

Finnish athletics competitor (1908–1973)
Lauri Aleksanteri Lehtinen (10 August 1908 – 4 December 1973) was a Finnish long-distance runner and the winner of a controversial 5000 m race at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Lehtinen set a new world record in the 5000 m (14:17.0) just a month before the Olympics, making him a leading favourite for the Olympic 5000 m title. In the final, Lehtinen and fellow Finn Lauri Virtanen led the race early, eventually distancing themselves from all competitors except Ralph Hill of the United States.
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The race soon became a duel between Lehtinen and Hill. On the last lap, Hill attempted to overtake Lehtinen, who blocked him by zig-zagging across lanes—a common tactic in Europe but unfamiliar to the American audience, who responded with boos. Lehtinen narrowly won by 50 centimetres, with both runners recording identical times of 14:30.0. Hill declined to protest the result. This remains the only Olympic race longer than 200 meters where the top two finishers recorded identical times. Lehtinen won the British AAA Championships title in the 3-mile event at the 1933 AAA Championships. At the 1936 Summer Olympics, Lehtinen attempted to defend his title but finished second to fellow Finn Gunnar Höckert. In 1940, Lehtinen donated his Los Angeles gold medal to a soldier who had served with distinction on the Karelian Isthmus. This gesture honoured Höckert, who was killed in action on the Isthmus. In the village of Kerkkoo in Porvoo, a road is named in his honour: "Lauri Lehtisen Tie."
1973 Michael O'Shea (actor)

Michael O'Shea (actor)

American actor (1906–1973)
Edward Francis Michael Patrick Joseph O'Shea (March 17, 1906 – December 4, 1973) was an American actor, comedian, musician and band leader who appeared on the stage, in feature films and on television in a career that spanned the 1940s through the early 1970s.
1973 Oka Takazumi

Oka Takazumi

Japanese military personnel (1890-1973)
Takazumi Oka (岡 敬純, Oka Takazumi; February 11, 1890 – December 4, 1973) was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a politician. He served as Chief of the Naval Affairs Bureau from 1940 to 1944. He was convicted of war crimes during World War II, sentenced to life in prison, and later granted parole due to health problems.
1973 Oswald Raynor Arthur

Oswald Raynor Arthur

British Colonial Governor (1905–1973)
Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur (16 December 1905 – 4 December 1973) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator.
1973 Richard P. Gale

Richard P. Gale

American politician (1900-1973)
Richard Pillsbury Gale (October 30, 1900 – December 4, 1973) was an American politician and farmer who served as a U.S. representative from Minnesota. He was a member of the Republican Party. Gale was a part of the Pilsbury family, a prominent Minnesota milling family that founded and owned the Pillsbury Company, one of the world's largest grain producers.
1973

Sir William Worsley

4th Baronet, English landowner and cricketer
Col. Sir William Arthington Worsley, 4th Baronet (5 April 1890 – 4 December 1973), was an English landowner and amateur first-class cricketer.
1973 Tom McEllistrim (1894–1973)

Tom McEllistrim (1894–1973)

Irish politician and military activist (1894-1973)
Thomas McEllistrim (14 October 1894 – 4 December 1973) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1923 to 1969. He was a military activist in the period from 1916 to 1923.
1973

Walter H. Gray

American bishop (1898-1973)
Walter Henry Gray (August 20, 1898 – December 4, 1973) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut from 1951 to 1969. He had served previously as suffragan from 1940 to 1945 and coadjutor from 1945 to 1951.
1973 Walter Matthews (priest)

Walter Matthews (priest)

British priest (1881–1973)
Walter Robert Matthews (22 September 1881 – 4 December 1973) was an Anglican priest, theologian, and philosopher.
1974 Alf Perry

Alf Perry

professional golfer (1904-1974)
Alfred Perry (8 October 1904 – 4 December 1974) was a professional golfer from England, the winner of The Open Championship in 1935.
1974

Dick Luebke

American baseball player
Richard Raymond Luebke (April 8, 1935 – December 4, 1974) was an American professional baseball player. A pitcher who threw left-handed and batted right-handed, Luebke was born in Chicago, stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and weighed 200 pounds (91 kg). He spent a decade in minor league baseball and, in his only Major League audition, appeared in ten games as a relief pitcher for the 1962 Baltimore Orioles.
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Luebke was in his ninth year as a member of the Oriole farm system when he was recalled late in the 1962 campaign. After a productive season as a left-handed relief pitcher for the Rochester Red Wings of the Triple-A International League – ten wins in 17 decisions, and an earned run average of 1.77 with 43 hits allowed in 61 innings pitched – Luebke made his Major League debut on August 10, 1962, at Fenway Park against the Boston Red Sox. In relief of Baltimore starting pitcher Robin Roberts, a future Hall of Famer, Luebke pitched a one-two-three eighth inning, retiring Eddie Bressoud, Carroll Hardy and Carl Yastrzemski in order. He was charged with his only MLB decision on September 7. He faced only one batter, Leon Wagner, who doubled and later scored the winning run in a 5–4 extra-inning win for the Los Angeles Angels. Nevertheless, Luebke performed creditably for Baltimore. In his ten appearances during August and September, he pitched 13+1⁄3 innings, allowed four earned runs, 12 hits and six bases on balls, with seven strikeouts. During the offseason, however, the Orioles traded Luebke and minor-league infielder Willard Oplinger to the Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Joe Gaines. Luebke was not listed on the Reds' 40-man spring training roster for 1963, and spent the year with their Triple-A affiliate, the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League, before leaving baseball. He died at age 39 in San Diego in December 1974.
1974 Donald Buchanan Blue

Donald Buchanan Blue

Canadian politician (1901-1974)
Donald Buchanan Blue (May 6, 1901 – December 4, 1974) was a Canadian politician, auctioneer, farmer and merchant. He was born in Huron Township, Ontario, Canada. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1949 election as a Member of the Liberal Party to represent the riding of Bruce.
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He was defeated in the elections of 1953 and 1957.
1974 Emanuel Schäfer

Emanuel Schäfer

SS officer (1900–1974)
Emanuel Paul Viktor Schäfer (20 April 1900 – 4 December 1974) was a German war criminal and SS officer, convicted after the war of complicity in the murder and manslaughter of Jews in German-occupied Serbia and of involvement in the deportation of Jews from Cologne. A protégé of Reinhard Heydrich, he commanded Einsatzgruppe II during the invasion of Poland in 1939, and from January 1942 headed the security police (SiPo) and SD in Serbia, where he directed the murder of thousands of Jews held at the Sajmište concentration camp in a mobile gas van. He served a total of some five years' imprisonment before his release in 1956.
1974

Hank Norberg

American football player (1920-1974)
Henry Francis Norberg Jr. (December 22, 1920 – December 4, 1974) was an American professional football end who played for the San Francisco 49ers of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Stanford University.
1974

Joe Ball (footballer)

English footballer (1931-1974)
Joseph Howard Ball (4 April 1931 – 4 December 1974) was a professional footballer who played as a winger. He was born in Walsall. In a short career, he played for three clubs.
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They were Banbury Spencer who he left in 1951 for Ipswich Town. He stayed with them until 1954, when he moved to his final club, Aldershot.
1974

Kathleen Mary Williams

American literary scholar (1919-1974)
Kathleen Mary Williams (11 June 1919 – 4 December 1974) was a Welsh literary scholar. Originally a civil servant at the Ministry of Food during World War II, she taught at University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and was a professor at University of California, Riverside until her death. A 1973 Guggenheim Fellow, she published the books Jonathan Swift and the Age of Compromise (1958) and Spenser's World of Glass: The Faerie Queene (1966).
1974

Lee Kinsolving

American actor (1938-1974)
Arthur Lee Kinsolving Jr. (August 30, 1938 – December 4, 1974), was an American film, theater and television actor. In 1960, Kinsolving was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor at the 18th Golden Globe Awards for his role as Sammy Goldenbaum in the film The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.
1974

Leo Goossen

American draftsman, engineer, designer.
Leo William Goossen (7 June 1892 – 4 December 1974) was an American draftsman, mechanical engineer and automobile designer. He is known for his work with Harry Miller and his long involvement in the design and ongoing development of the four-cylinder Offenhauser ("Offy") racing engine. Goossen is considered to have been the preeminent American designer of racing engines over a fifty-year period that began in the early 1920s.
1975

C. L. Edson

American writer (1881–1975)
Charles Leroy Edson (September 6 or December 6, 1881 – December 4, 1975) was an American newspaper columnist, humorist, and poet whose work appeared in New York papers in the first decades of the 20th century. He wrote a guide to writing newspaper humor, The Gentle Art of Columning: A Treatise on Comic Journalism (1920), and an autobiography, The Great American Ass (1926). Edson also wrote for several national publications.
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Edson's career suffered after he published his autobiography, which included an extensive personal attack on Franklin P. Adams, a New York colleague. In 1935 he joined the Federal Writers' Project in Topeka, Kansas and stayed there until 1937. Thereafter, little is known about the specifics of his life, though in 1963, he was reported to be living in relative obscurity and poverty in a Topeka hotel. After the building was demolished, he resided at a nursing home in the city until his death in 1975.
1975

Graham Towers

Governors of the Bank of Canada (1897–1975)
Graham Ford Towers (29 September 1897 – 4 December 1975) was a Canadian economist who served as the first governor of the Bank of Canada from 1934 to 1954.
1975 Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro

Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro

actress (1896–1975)
Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro (1896–1975) was a Spanish film actress. She was the mother of the actress Luchy Soto. Her sisters Matilde Muñoz Sampedro and Mercedes Muñoz Sampedro were also both actors.
1975 Jack Mollenkopf

Jack Mollenkopf

American football player and coach (1903-1975)
Kenneth Webster "Jack" Mollenkopf (November 24, 1903 – December 4, 1975) was the head football coach at Purdue University from 1956 until 1969. Mollenkopf was also an assistant coach at Purdue from 1947 to 1955 under Stu Holcomb. Mollenkopf was a successful football coach competing at high school and college levels and is widely acknowledged as the greatest football coach in Purdue's history.
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While coaching high school, he led Toledo Waite to three national championships. Mollenkopf is Purdue's all-time leader in Big Ten Conference wins (58) and conference winning percentage (.637). His 84 wins at Purdue placed him first on the school's all-time wins list until Joe Tiller passed him in 2008, and he ranks fourth in overall winning percentage (.670). Mollenkopf's Boilermakers were nationally ranked for 80 weeks, the most under any Purdue head coach, and captured the No. 1 spot the first five weeks of the 1968 season. On January 2, 1967, Mollenkopf coached the Purdue's first appearance in the Rose Bowl, leading the Boilermakers to a 14–13 victory over USC. Against Purdue's in-state rivals, Mollenkopf tallied an 11–2–1 record versus Indiana and a 10–4 mark against Notre Dame. From 1966 to 1969, a Purdue player finished in the top three in balloting for the Heisman Trophy: quarterback Bob Griese was second in 1966, halfback Leroy Keyes placed third in 1967 and second in 1968, and quarterback Mike Phipps finished as runner-up in 1969. Mollenkopf's inaugural season in 1956 was the only losing campaign of his tenure as head coach at Purdue. A prominent figure on the sidelines of postseason all-star games, Mollenkopf served as head coach of the 1958, 1959, and 1960 Blue–Gray Football Classics; the 1962 and 1963 East–West Shrine Games; the 1964, 1967, and 1970 Hula Bowls; the 1968 All-American Bowl; and the 1969 North–South Shrine Game. Mollenkopf was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988; the Bowling Green State University Hall of Fame in 1965 and the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1975. In 1994, Coach Mollenkopf was inducted as a member of the inaugural class of the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame. Mollenkopf died of cancer on December 4, 1975, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
1976 Ace Gutowsky

Ace Gutowsky

American football player (1909–1976)
LeRoy Erwin "Ace" Gutowsky (August 2, 1909 – December 4, 1976) was an American professional American football fullback. He played professional football for eight years from 1932 to 1939 and set the NFL career rushing record in October 1939. He held the Detroit Lions' career and single-season rushing records until the 1960s.
1976 Adam Bruce Thomson

Adam Bruce Thomson

(1885 - 1976) Scottish painter (1885–1976)
Adam Bruce Thomson OBE, RSA, PRSW (22 February 1885 – 4 December 1976) or ‘Adam B’ as he was often called at Edinburgh College of Art, was a Scottish painter perhaps best known for his oil and water colour landscape paintings, particularly of the Highlands and Edinburgh. He is regarded as one of the Edinburgh School of artists.
1976 Clara Horton

Clara Horton

American actress (1904–1976)
Clara Marie Horton (July 29, 1904 – December 4, 1976) was an American actress of the silent film era. Horton was born in Brooklyn. Her mother gave up a career as a piano soloist and instructor to raise her baby.
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She planned for Clara to have a career as a pianist and began teaching her when she had to lift the girl to the piano bench. When Clara was five years old, however, a director employed by the Eclair Company saw the girl and asked her mother to let her appear in a film. Her mother signed a contract, and the Hortons moved to Tucson, Arizona. When Eclair went out of business, they moved to Los Angeles, where work with other studios was available. She appeared in more than 80 films between 1912 and 1942. When Horton was 17, she got married and left the film business. The marriage did not last, and she returned to working in films. She joined the Warner stock company and as of 1934 she was playing bit parts and was a stand-in for stars. After her work in films ended, Horton was a saleslady in Whittier, California. She is buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park.
1976

Dan Muller

American artist (1889-1976)
Daniel Cody Muller, generally known as Dan Muller (1889–1976) was a cowboy, an artist, illustrator, and writer of the American West. Having grown up on a ranch, he learned to break in horses, a skill he utilized for the United States Army during World War I. He made and sold paintings of the American Old West and worked occasionally as a ranch hand into the 1920s.
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In 1933, his first published story was Break 'Em Gentle for Esquire magazine. He wrote and illustrated books, like Chico of the Cross Up Ranch and Horses. He created three large murals for the Chicago World's Fair (Century of Progress) which were awarded a gold medal and a $1,200 cash prize. Muller was a prolific artist who painted scenes with great detail due to his photographic memory. He married Edna Groeschel while both of them were on horseback in Nevada. The couple moved in 1939 to Port Washington, Wisconsin, where Muller continued to work as a creator and lived the rest of his life. Muller wrote the book My Life with Buffalo Bill, which sounds autobiographical, but there has been no verification that Muller had the kind of relationship with Cody that he asserts.
1976

Irving Innerfield

American medical researcher
Irving Innerfield (died 4 December 1976) was a medical researcher in the United States of America. A specialist in inflammation, he discovered that the enzyme trypsin could be used to dissolve blood clots. In November 1952, on hearing that Elizabeth Kenny (the Australian who developed physical therapy as a treatment for polio and established many clinics for polio victims in the USA using her methods) was dying in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia from a cerebral thrombosis, Innerfield dispatched his experimental drug based on trypsin by air to Brisbane to treat her thrombosis.
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Unfortunately Kenny was close to death when the drug arrived and was administered, dying the following day.
1976 James Pirret

James Pirret

New Zealand lawn bowls competitor
James "Ham" Pirret (22 February 1915 – 4 December 1976) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player. At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland he won the men's singles gold medal. In 1954 at the next British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver he won the silver medal in the men's singles.
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Pirret competed in the men's singles at his third consecutive British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958 at Cardiff, finishing in sixth place. Pirret won two New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles representing the Tuakau Bowling Club: the men's singles in 1957; and the men's pairs (as skip), with C. J. Rogers, in 1958. Pirret died on 4 December 1976, and his ashes were buried at Tuakau Cemetery.
1976 Leo Skurnik

Leo Skurnik

Finnish physician
Leo Skurnik (28 March 1907 – 4 December 1976) was a Finnish physician, a medical officer in the Finnish Army and one of the three Finnish Jews who were proposed to be awarded the Iron Cross by Nazi Germany during World War II but refused to accept it.
1976

Lionel Wilkinson

New Zealand mayor (1887-1976)
Lionel Roberts Wilkinson (20 May 1887 − 4 December 1976) was a New Zealand soldier and politician. He was Mayor of Tauranga for 19 years.
1976

N. Pichamoorthi

Indian poet
Venkata Mahalingam (15 August 1900 – 4 December 1976), who wrote under the name of N. Pichamoorthi, was an Indian poet and writer. He is considered father of free verse (Puthu Kavidai) in Tamil.
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He wrote more than 127 short stories, 11 stage plays and a couple of novels. He was a lawyer by profession and also worked as editor in magazines.
1976

Patroklos Karantinos

Greek architect and academic (1903–1976)
Patroklos Karantinos (Greek: Πάτροκλος Καραντινός; 10 April 1903 – 4 December 1976) was a Greek architect of early modernism in Greece. He was born in Constantinople and died in Athens. Karantinos studied architecture in Athens and then went to France, where he studied with Auguste Perret.
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He was professor of architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 1959 to 1968. He is particularly known for the design of many museums in Greece, including the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
1976 Paul Gouin

Paul Gouin

Canadian politician (1898–1976)
Paul Gouin (French pronunciation: [pɔl ɡwɛ̃]; May 20, 1898 – December 4, 1976) was a politician in Quebec, Canada, was the son of Sir Lomer Gouin and the grandson of Premier Honoré Mercier.
1976 Pepe Marchena

Pepe Marchena

Spanish singer (1903–1976)
José Tejada Marín (November 7, 1903 – December 4, 1976), known as Pepe Marchena and also as Niño de Marchena in the first years of his career, was a Spanish flamenco singer who achieved great success in the ópera flamenca period (1922–1956). Influenced by singers like Antonio Chacón, he carried to the extreme the tendency to a more mellow and ornamented style of flamenco singing. Owing to his particular vocal conditions and singing style, he excelled mainly in palos (styles) like fandangos, cantes de ida y vuelta and cantes libres, contributing to making them the most popular flamenco styles in the era of the ópera flamenca, and created a new cante de ida y vuelta, the colombiana, later recorded by many other artists like El Lebrijano or Enrique Morente.
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He was also the first flamenco singer to use an orchestra to accompany flamenco singing, though later he returned to the guitar. Marchena also revolutionized the public image of the flamenco singer: he was the first to sing standing on the stage (instead of sitting on a chair as had always been usual in flamenco), and often wore unusual outfits, such as riding clothes. Both his singing style and public attitudes were widely imitated at the time, to the extent that the period has often been identified as the era of marchenismo. He was the first real popular star of flamenco singing. Until he appeared in the flamenco scene, flamenco was restricted to small venues and theatres, whereas he could attract the masses to fill large theatres and even bullrings.
1976 Thomas Joseph Toolen

Thomas Joseph Toolen

American Roman Catholic archbishop (1886–1976)
Thomas Joseph Toolen (February 28, 1886 – December 4, 1976) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mobile from 1927 to 1969, and was given the personal title of Archbishop in 1954.
1977

Ali Ahmad (politician)

Malaysian politician
Ali bin Ahmad (29 June 1930 – 4 December 1977) was a Malaysian politician.
1977

Fred Wimbridge

Australian rules footballer
Fredrick John "Fred" Wimbridge (9 March 1893 – 4 December 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
1977

Geoffrey Anson

cricketer (1922-1977)
Geoffrey Frank Anson (8 October 1922 – 4 December 1977) was an English cricketer and civil servant. A right-handed batsman, he played ten first-class cricket matches during the 1947 English cricket season for Cambridge University and Kent County Cricket Club. He also played cricket for a team of Europeans in Nigeria whilst serving in the British Colonial Service.
1977

George Coles (businessman)

Australian businessman
Sir George James Coles (28 March 1885 – 4 December 1977), known as G.J. Coles, was an Australian entrepreneur who founded what became the Coles Group, a large retail shopping empire and chain store group in Australia.
1977 Johnny Rizzo

Johnny Rizzo

American baseball player
John Costa Rizzo (July 30, 1912 – December 4, 1977) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1938 to 1942. Rizzo set the Pittsburgh Pirates record for most home runs in a season, with 23 in his rookie year of 1938. Up until 2026, Rizzo held the Pirates record for most RBIs in a game, with nine until Ryan O’Hearn had 10.
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In 1938, Rizzo's rookie season with the Pirates, he ended the season with a .301 batting average and 111 runs batted in. His 167 hits including 31 doubles, nine triples and 23 home runs. Rizzo set a Pirate record for home runs that lasted until Ralph Kiner tied Rizzo with 23 in 1946 and took sole possession with 51 in the 1947 season. No other rookie would break a team single-season home run record until Pete Alonso of the New York Mets did so in 2019. Rizzo held the Pirate rookie record with Kiner until Jason Bay hit 26 in his first season in 2004. The Rookie of the Year Award had not yet been established, but Rizzo finished sixth in the balloting for National League Most Valuable Player in his inaugural season, an award won by Ernie Lombardi the Cincinnati Reds. Rizzo was third in the National League in runs batted in, fifth in home runs, sixth in runs scored (with 97) and ninth in hits. Rizzo's batting went into a slump in the 1939 season, which he finished with a .261 average, six home runs and 55 RBI. That season's bright spot was in the second game of a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals on May 30, 1939, when he hit nine RBI in a game with two home runs, leading the Pirates to a 14–8 win to salvage a split of the twin bill. Rizzo went five-for-six in the game, helping to singlehandedly erase a seven-run Cardinals lead. The nine RBI by Rizzo set a Pirates single game team record that has not been broken until Ryan O'Hearn had a ten RBI game on July 7, 2026. Rizzo continued his slump into the 1940 season, hitting for a .261 average in nine games with the Pirates. He was traded by the Pirates to the Cincinnati Reds on May 8, 1940, in exchange for outfielder Vince DiMaggio. Rizzo perked up with the Reds, hitting for a .282 average and four home runs in 31 games with the team. In turn, the Reds traded Rizzo to the Philadelphia Phillies on June 15, 1940, in exchange for outfielder Morrie Arnovich. Rizzo continued his improvement, hitting .292 with 20 home runs in 103 games over the remainder of the season with the Phillies. Between the three teams, Rizzo finished the 1940 season with a .283 batting average, 24 home runs and 72 RBI. Rizzo finished in third place in the National League for home runs that season. He received three points in voting for the NL's Most Valuable Player that season, enough to tie him for 29th place in the balloting. Rizzo played the entire 1941 season for the Phillies, finishing with a .217 average and four home runs in 99 games. After the season, he was purchased by the Brooklyn Dodgers on December 10, 1941, from Philadelphia. He played 78 games for the Dodgers in the 1942 season, finishing with a .230 batting average and four home runs in 99 games. He played the final game of his Major League career that year on September 25. In 557 games over five seasons, Rizzo posted a .270 batting average (497-for-1842) with 268 runs, 61 home runs, 289 RBIs and 200 bases on balls. Defensively, he recorded a .961 fielding percentage playing at all three outfield positions and several games at third base. Rizzo enlisted as a Seaman in the United States Navy in December 1942, days before a ban placed by President Roosevelt on such enlistments.
1977 Leila Hyams

Leila Hyams

American actress (1905-1977)
Leila Hyams (May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977) was an American actress who came from a show business family. Her relatively short film career began in 1924 during the era of silent films and ended in 1936 (excepting a 1946 film short appearance). The blonde blue-eyed ingenue and leading lady appeared in more than 50 film roles and remained a press favourite, with numerous magazine covers.
1977

Manuel Basté

Spanish water polo player (1899-1977)
Manuel Basté (18 June 1899 – 4 December 1977) was a Spanish water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
1978

Brian Lewis (illustrator)

British illustrator
Brian Moncrieff Lewis (3 June 1929 – 4 December 1978) was a British science fiction illustrator, comics artist, and animator. In the 1950s, he illustrated covers for pulp magazines like New Worlds, Science Fantasy, and Science Fiction Adventures. In the 1960s, he drew adventure comic strips for Tiger, Boys' World, Lion, Hurricane, and Eagle.
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He also used a more cartoony style to draw humor comic strips for Wham!, Smash, Cor!!, and Buster. In the 1970s, Lewis focused on comics adaptations of television and horror film properties.
1978

David Robbie (Scottish footballer)

Scottish footballer (1899-1978)
David Middleton Robbie (6 October 1899 – 4 December 1978) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. Born in Motherwell, he began his career with Bathgate, before moving to England in 1921, where he spent 14 years playing for Bury, scoring 102 goals in 420 league appearances, including scoring four goals in a single match against Barnsley in the 1931–32 season. In July 1935, he joined Plymouth Argyle but made just three appearances in two months with the club before joining Manchester United on a one-month trial, at the end of which he joined Margate.
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Four months later, he joined Luton Town, before returning to Plymouth as a coach at the end of the 1935–36 season. Two years later, he moved back to Bury, where he served as the club's trainer until his retirement.
1978

Giles Blennerhasset

Irish flying ace (1895-1978)
Flying Officer Giles Noble Blennerhassett (16 April 1895 – 4 December 1978) was an Irish World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories while serving as an observer/gunner in No. 18 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps.
1978 Goodie Reeve

Goodie Reeve

English born Australian actress and radio host
Goodie Reeve (1897 – 4 December 1978) was a British-born actor, singer, songwriter, radio host, critic and columnist who found fame in Australia, becoming known as the "First Lady of Sydney Radio".
1978

Henrique Ben David

Footballer (1926-1978)
Henrique de Sena Ben David (5 December 1926 – 4 December 1978) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his career with Atlético Clube de Portugal.
1978 Rudolf Svensson

Rudolf Svensson

Swedish Olympic wrestler (1899–1978)
Johan Rudolf "Starke Rudolf" Svensson (27 March 1899 – 4 December 1978) was a Swedish wrestler and actor. He competed at the 1924, 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics in four freestyle and Greco-Roman events in total, and won a gold or silver medal in each of them. Svensson was most successful in the Greco-Roman light-heavyweight category, in which he won two European titles in 1925 and 1933, seven national titles in 1926–36, two silver medals at the world championships, and three at the European Championships.
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A firefighter by profession, Svensson also played minor roles in several Swedish movies between 1934 and 1952. In 2005 he was inducted into the International Wrestling Hall of Fame. Svensson was born in Gudhem (present Falköping Municipality), represented Brandkårens IK, and died in Bromma, Stockholm.
1978 Samuel Goudsmit

Samuel Goudsmit

Dutch-American physicist (1902–1978)
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (July 11, 1902 – December 4, 1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925. Goudsmit, along with Uhlenbeck, was nominated numerous times for the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of electron spin but never won, despite strong support from nominators. I.
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I. Rabi remarked that the omission of Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck from the Nobel Prize list "will always be a mystery to me."
1978

Sverre Nordby

Norwegian footballer (1910-1978)
Sverre Nordby (13 March 1910 – 4 December 1978) was a Norwegian football goalkeeper who played for Norway in the 1938 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Mjøndalen.
1978 Tadeusz Kasprzycki

Tadeusz Kasprzycki

Polish general (1891–1978)
Tadeusz Adam Kasprzycki (16 January 1891 – 4 December 1978) was a member of the Polish Legions in First World War, major general of the Polish Armed Forces from 1929 and Minister of Military Affairs of Poland from 1935 to 1939. He commanded the 12th Infantry Division from 1927 to 1931. In 1939 he signed the Franco-Polish Military Alliance.
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Later, he was interned in Romania after the evacuation of the Polish government following Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland and was only released in 1945. After the end of the Second World War, he emigrated to Canada.
1978 Tancred Ibsen

Tancred Ibsen

film director, screenwriter, officer, and pilot (1893–1978)
Tancred Ibsen (11 July 1893 – 4 December 1978) was a Norwegian military officer, aviator, film director and screenwriter.
1978 William A. Steiger

William A. Steiger

American politician (1938–1978)
William Albert Steiger (May 15, 1938 – December 4, 1978) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to his death from a heart attack in Washington, DC, in 1978. He served as a Republican from Wisconsin.
1979

Bert Delmas

American baseball player
Albert Charles Delmas (May 20, 1911 in San Francisco, California – December 4, 1979 in Huntington Beach, California), is a former professional baseball player who played second base in the major leagues for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He attended Stanford University. After his brief stint with the Dodgers, he played minor league ball with four teams in the International League in 1934 and 1935.
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Delmas died on December 4, 1979. He was interred at Pacific View Memorial Park.
1979 Friedrich Ebert Jr.

Friedrich Ebert Jr.

German politician (1894-1979)
Friedrich "Fritz" Ebert Jr. (12 September 1894 – 4 December 1979) was a German socialist and later communist politician, the son of Germany's first president Friedrich Ebert. He was originally a Social Democrat like his father before him, but is best known for his role in the foundation of East Germany's ruling party, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, in which he served in various positions.
1979 Käte Rosenheim

Käte Rosenheim

American social worker
Käte Rosenheim (born January 13, 1892 in Berlin; died December 4, 1979 in Cupertino, USA) was a German - American Jewish social worker, especially known for her help in rescuing children and young people from Nazi Germany.
1979 Pedro Dibut

Pedro Dibut

Cuban baseball player (1892-1979)
Pedro Dibut Villafana (November 18, 1892 – December 4, 1979) was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds in 1924 and 1925. In 1923, Dibut played for the Cuban Stars (West) in the Negro National League, one of several white Cubans who played in both Negro league baseball and in the then-segregated major leagues. Dibut was a small man who threw a fastball, a curveball, and "about four different changes of pace."
1979 Petya Dubarova

Petya Dubarova

Bulgarian writer (1962-1979)
Petya Stoykova Dubarova (Bulgarian: Петя Стойкова Дубарова) (April 25, 1962 – December 4, 1979) was a Bulgarian poet.
1979 Robert D. Hodgson

Robert D. Hodgson

American geographer (1923–1979)
Robert David Hodgson (June 7, 1923 - December 4, 1979) was an American geographer and an internationally recognized expert on geographic aspects of the law of the sea and maritime boundaries. Dr. Hodgson believed that broader understanding of geographic principles would reduce international conflicts. He worked for the State Department as the Director of the Office of the Geographer in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
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The Hodgson Seamount was named after him. In 1968, Robert D. Hodgson unilaterally extended the ceasefire line between Indian and Pakistan from NJ9842 to Karakoram Pass, after taking a cue from the US ADIZ (Air Defence Identification Zone). Maps while dealing with the question of how the boundaries of the state of Jammu and Kashmir were to be shown in US maps. This led to Siachen conflict between India and Pakistan. In 1986, the US State Department removed this Hodgson's Line.
1979 Robert Karnes

Robert Karnes

American film, stage and television actor (1917–1979)
Robert Anthony Karnes (June 19, 1917 – December 4, 1979) was an American film, stage and television actor.
1979

Zoltan Kondorossy

Romanian amateur wrestler
Zoltan Kondorossy (28 January 1906 – 4 December 1979) was a Romanian wrestler. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman heavyweight at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
1980 Adelino Amaro da Costa

Adelino Amaro da Costa

Portuguese politician (1943–1980)
Adelino Manuel Lopes Amaro da Costa, GCIH (18 April 1943 – 4 December 1980) was a Portuguese politician. He was a founder of the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), and became the first civilian defence minister since the Carnation Revolution. He died in the 1980 Camarate air crash.
1980

Al Gebert

American football player (1906-1980)
Albert J. Gebert (July 30, 1906 – December 4, 1980) was an American football player and coach. He served as the 16th head football coach at the University of Wichita—now known Wichita State University—in Wichita, Kansas and he held that position for 12 seasons, from 1930 until 1941.
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His record at Wichita was 68–40–6. A native of Jacksonville, Illinois, Gebert attended Routt Catholic High School. He played football at the University of Notre Dame under coaching great Knute Rockne and was one of the first coaches to gather upon the announcement of his death. He was named one of Rockne's "Notre Dame All Stars" and played in the final game that Rockne was head coach.
1980 Dan Curtin (politician)

Dan Curtin (politician)

Australian politician (1898-1980)
Daniel James Curtin (14 February 1898 – 4 December 1980) was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was educated at a Catholic primary school before becoming a boilermaker and organiser of the Boilermakers' Society. In 1949, he was preselected by the Australian Labor Party to contest the safe Labor seat of Watson, displacing the sitting member, Max Falstein, who contested the seat as an independent.
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Curtin won the seat, which he held until 1955, when he transferred to the seat of Kingsford-Smith. He held Kingsford-Smith until 1969, when he retired from politics. Curtin provided an opportunity for several Indigenous Australian women to become involved in politics.
1980 Doris P. Buck

Doris P. Buck

American science fiction author (1898-1980)
Doris Pitkin Buck (January 3, 1898 – December 4, 1980) was an American science fiction author. Born in New York City, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1920 and Columbia University with a master's degree in 1925. She was a stage actress before marrying architect, Richard Sutton Buck Jr. She taught English at Ohio State University and was a founding member of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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She published numerous science fiction stories and poems, many of them in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Buck started published at fifty-four with her first story, "Aunt Agatha" in the October 1952 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Her story "The Little Blue Weeds of Spring" from the June 1966 issue was a nominee on the first ballot for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Her story "Why They Mobbed the White House" appeared in Damon Knight's anthology Orbit 3 (1968). Her story "The Giberel" appeared in Robert Silverberg's anthology New Dimensions 1 (1971) and reappeared in Lloyd Biggle, Jr.'s Nebula Award Stories 7 (1972). Her story "Cacophony in Pink and Ochre" is one of the stories slated to appear in Harlan Ellison's unpublished anthology The Last Dangerous Visions. Buck died at age 82 of a pulmonary embolism. Her final publication was the poem "Travel Tip", published posthumously in the June 1981 issue of F&SF.
1980

Geoffrey Cooke (cricketer)

(1897-1980)
Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Charles Sidney Bancroft Cooke (8 September 1897 – 4 December 1980) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Initially serving in the First World War with the Royal Garrison Artillery, he later attended the University of Cambridge following the conclusion of the war.
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After completing his studies, he served in the Royal Artillery from 1922–1948, serving in the Second World War. He also played first-class cricket for the British Army cricket team.
1980

Georgette Vincent

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Georgette Vincent [Mooney] (July 5, 1928 – December 4, 1980) was a pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the 1947 and 1954 seasons. Listed at 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m), 130 lb., Vincent batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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A member of two champion teams, Georgette Vincent pitched as a reliever and spot starter during her seven seasons in the league. After being used sparingly by the Racine Belles for two seasons, she received better opportunities to achieve her potential with the South Bend Blue Sox. Vincent began with the Belles in 1948, appearing in just four games. The next year she posted a 3–5 record and a 3.66 earned run average in 15 games, while laboring through 59 innings. Then she was assigned to South Bend. She went 3–2 with a 3.50 ERA for the Sox in 1949, working 36 innings in 11 relief appearances. She had a few chances to pitch, due in part to the South Bend's strong pitching rotation headed by Jean Faut, Lillian Faralla, Josephine Hasham and Ruth Williams. During the 1950 season Vincent often started the second game of South Bend's several doubleheaders, which included a 1–0, four-hit shutout against the Peoria Redwings, and a five-hit complete game with eight strikeouts in a 9–2 victory over the Kalamazoo Lassies. She finished the year with an 8–12 record and a 3.12 ERA in 153 innings of work. Her most productive season came in 1951, when she helped South Bend win the pennant and the championship title with a 13–9 record and a 2.42 ERA in a career-high 171 innings. She also set a personal mark with 113 strikeouts, which also was the fifth best of the season. During the best-of-five final round against the Rockford Peaches, Vincent started Game 4 with her team against the wall, 2-to-1. She prevailed in a pitching duel with Helen Fox, giving the Blue Sox a 6–3 victory to tie up the series. Then South Bend routed the Peaches in the final game, 10–2, to make one of the most remarkable comebacks in postseason history after being down two games to none. In 1952, Vincent was 8–8 with a career-best 2.36 ERA and South Bend claimed its second consecutive title in identical ways, 3–2, over the Rockford Peaches. She had to play at second base when her team went into the playoffs with only 12 players in the roster due to a late-season walk-off. ״Jette״, as teammates nicknamed her, missed the 1953 season after being married. She played her last season in the league under the name of Georgette Mooney. She is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
1980 Gösta Cederlund

Gösta Cederlund

Swedish actor and director (1888–1980)
Gösta Cederlund, Gustaf ("Gösta") Edvard Cederlund, (6 March 1888 – 4 December 1980) was a Swedish actor and film director. He was a popular character actor from the 1930s to the 1950s. He was married actress Anna-Lisa Ryding since 1932 and they were together until his death in 1980.
1980

Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe

Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant (1913-1980)
Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe, CCS (18 March 1913 – 4 December 1980) was a Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant. He was High Commissioner to India and concurrently Ambassador to both Nepal and Afghanistan (1963–1967) and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Treasury and the Ministry of Health. Amerasinghe served as Ceylon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1967 to 1980 and served as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1976.
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He was also one of the leaders of the negotiations to draft the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Amerasinghe was the close cousin of famed Sri Lankan nation builder Samson Felix Amerasinghe, OBE.They were close allies throughout his life.
1980

Jacques Fonlupt-Espéraber

French politician (1886–1980)
Jacques Fonlupt, known as Jacques Fonlupt-Espéraber, was a French politician, born on April 30, 1886, in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) and died on December 4, 1980, in Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
1980 Jenő Brandi

Jenő Brandi

Hungarian water polo player (1913–1980)
Jenő Brandi (13 May 1913 – 4 December 1980) was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he was part of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal. He played six matches including the final.
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Twelve years later he won the silver medal with the Hungarian team. At the London Games he played three matches.
1980

Joe Birch

professional footballer (1904-1980)
Joseph Birch (6 July 1904 – 4 December 1980) was an English professional footballer who made more than 200 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic and Fulham. He played as a full back. Birch was born in Hednesford, Staffordshire.
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He played non-league football for Cannock Town and Hednesford Town before joining Birmingham in 1928. Birch played his only game for Birmingham in the First Division on Boxing Day 1928 in a 6–2 defeat at Bolton Wanderers, just before the club paid £4,000 for the services of Huddersfield Town full back Ned Barkas. He played for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic in the Third Division South before moving on to Fulham. In his first season Birch contributed to their winning the Third Division South title and consequent promotion, and in seven seasons with the club he played 185 league games. They awarded him a benefit match against fellow west London club Queens Park Rangers in 1937. He finished off his career with Colchester United, with whom he won the championship of the Southern League in the 1938–39 season. Birch died in Colchester, Essex, in 1980 at the age of 76.
1980

Sultan Ibraimov

Soviet politician (1927–1980)
Sultan Ibraim uulu Ibraimov (20 September 1927 – 4 December 1980) was a Soviet politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic from 22 December 1978 until his assassination in 1980. The slow movement of the investigation created distrust in the Soviet system during a period of intense corruption, and the eventual discovery of the perpetrator's identity as an ethnic Russian ethnonationalist exacerbated ethnic tensions. Since his death, Ibraimov has become an important figure in Kyrgyzstan.
1981

Herman van Loon

Dutch association football player (1910-1981)
Herman van Loon (19 January 1910 – 4 December 1981) was a Dutch footballer. He played in one match for the Netherlands national football team in 1929.
1981 J. D. Gondhalekar

J. D. Gondhalekar

Indian painter
Janardan Dattatraya Gondhalekar (21 April 1909 – 4 December 1981) was an Indian painter, administrator and scholar of Indian & Western Art. He served as the dean of Sir J. J.
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School of Art from 1953 to 1957. J. D. Gondhalekar is known for his portrait paintings and sketches on various subjects. He also gave lectures on art, wrote about it and played the flute.
1981 Jovette Bernier

Jovette Bernier

Canadian journalist, writer, and poet (1900–1981)
Marie-Angèle "Jovette" Alice Bernier (November 27, 1900 – December 4, 1981) was a journalist and writer in Quebec. Because of extensive exposure in the print media and on radio, she was often referred to simply as Jovette.
1981

Mark McElroy (Ohio politician)

American politician (1906-1981)
Mark McElroy (October 16, 1906 – December 14, 1981) was a Democratic politician from Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He served in both houses of the Ohio General Assembly and was Ohio Attorney General from 1959 to 1963.
1981

Maurice Tourniaire

French footballer
Maurice Tourniaire (30 May 1910 – 4 December 1981) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for Cannes in the early 1930s.
1981

Pierre Pastorelli

French cyclist
Pierre Pastorelli (24 March 1910 – 4 December 1981) was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1933 Tour de France.
1981

Stan Hollmig

Major League Baseball outfielder (1926–1981)
Stanley Ernest Hollmig (January 2, 1926 – December 4, 1981) was an American professional baseball player and scout. Born in Fredericksburg, Texas, he was an outfielder who played in 94 games over all or parts of three seasons (1949–51) in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies. Nicknamed "Hondo", Hollmig was listed as 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 190 pounds (86 kg); he threw and batted right-handed.
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He signed with the Phillies after attending Texas A&M University, where he was an All-Conference football player.
1981

Taj Esfahani

Iranian singer (1903-1981)
Jalal al-Din Taj Esfahani (1903 - 4 December 1981), known as Taj Esfahani, was an Iranian singer of Persian traditional music. He was associated with the Isfahan school of singing and is regarded as one of the prominent singers of Iranian vocal music. His best-known works include "Atash-e Del" and "Be Esfahan Ro".
1981

Zoilo Saldombide

Uruguayan footballer (1903-1981)
Lucas Zoilo Saldombide Astol (October 26, 1903 (March 18, 1905 according to other sources) - December 4, 1981) was a Uruguayan footballer. He was part of the team that won the first ever World Cup in 1930 for Uruguay, but he did not play any matches in the tournament. He was a club player of Montevideo Wanderers and Nacional.
1982 A. F. Souza Ferrão

A. F. Souza Ferrão

Indian actor and playwright (1904-1982)
Antonio Francisco Souza Ferrão (5 January 1904 – 4 December 1982), known professionally as A. F. Souza Ferrão, was an Indian actor, playwright, theatre director, and businessman known for his work in Konkani films and tiatr productions.
1982 Alfred T. Adams

Alfred T. Adams

American gridiron football player (1898-1982)
Alfred Thompson Adams (January 8, 1898 – December 4, 1982) was an attorney and an American football and basketball player and coach. He played for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University.
1982

Duke Sedgwick

American baseball player (1898-1982)
Henry Kenneth "Duke" Sedgwick (June 1, 1898 – December 4, 1982) was an American professional baseball player. He was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Philadelphia Phillies and Washington Senators in the 1920s.
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Sedgwick signed with the Phillies in July 1921 after being discovered playing amateur baseball in Washington, D.C.
1982 Emil Freed

Emil Freed

political activist and founder of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Emil Freed (June 25, 1901 - December 4, 1982) was a political activist and founder of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, an archive in Los Angeles.
1982

Harry Freedman (rabbi)

British rabbi
Harry Mordecai Freedman (17 October 1901 – 4 December 1982) was a rabbi, author, translator, and teacher. Among his more famous contributions are his translations done for several tractates of the Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, and Encyclopedia Talmudit.
1982 Ivor Williams

Ivor Williams

Welsh painter (1908-1982)
Ivor Williams (1908 – 1982) was a Welsh artist. He was born in London, the son of the Welsh painter Christopher Williams and Emily Appleyard (sister of the artist Fred Appleyard). He trained at the Central School of Art and Design and later the Slade School of Art, University of London where he was awarded first prize for portraiture.
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He shared with his father a particular aptitude for portraiture and large scale figure compositions; biblical and commemorative commissions. He exhibited regularly in one-man and group shows and contributed to national exhibitions: the Royal Academy, New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the National Eisteddfod of Wales. His major public works include Field-Marshal Montgomery receiving the freedom of the City of Newport (1945) (now in council chamber at the Newport Civic Centre), The Welch Regiment receiving the freedom of the City of Cardiff (1950), Sir Winston Churchill receiving the freedom of the City of Cardiff (1956) and The Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle (1969). In later years he devoted much of his time working on large religious subjects: The Healing of the Sick of the Palsy (1951–4) (on display at Aberystwyth University), The Leaping Beggar (1960–61), The Raising of Lazarus (1967–9) (both on display at the Bangor University) and The Return of the Prodigal Son. Throughout his career he remained committed to the development and promotion of Art in Wales. He died in Cardiff at the age of 74. He married Elizabeth Pocock. Together they had 4 daughters including the artist Annie Williams and the potter Sophia Hughes. His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Wales, National Library of Wales, Newport Civic Centre, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Aberystwyth University, Bangor University and the University of Wales, Lampeter.
1982

Olive Beken

New Zealand artist (1897-1982)
Olive Beken (née Meek) was a New Zealand landscape painter based in Canterbury.
1983

Alf Simensen

Norwegian association football player (1896-1983)
Alf Simensen (9 December 1896 – 4 December 1983) was a Norwegian footballer. He played in three matches for the Norway national football team from 1918 to 1926.
1983

Alfonso Crippa

Italian bicycle racer (1905–1983)
Alfonso Crippa (2 February 1905 – 4 December 1983) was an Italian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1929 Tour de France.
1983

Betty Burch

American athlete
Betty Burch (3 January 1911 – 4 December 1983) was an American athlete. She competed in the women's javelin throw at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
1983

Bruce Drake

basketball player and coach (1905-1983)
Bruce Drake (December 5, 1905 – December 4, 1983) was an American college men's basketball and golf coach. The Gentry, Texas native was head coach at the University of Oklahoma between 1938 and 1955, compiling a 200–181 record. He also coached the Air Force team to a 34–14 record in 1956.
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Prior to coaching, he was also a star for Hugh McDermott's Oklahoma team. He was a 1928–29 Helms Foundation All-American. He was a multi-sport athlete at Oklahoma. As a coach, Drake led the Sooners to two Final Fours–the first one in 1939, here they lost to Oregon 55–37; the second in 1947, where he lost in the Championship Game to Holy Cross 58–47. He made only one additional NCAA tournament appearance, in 1943. However, he coached at a time when only eight teams made the tournament. He won or shared six (Big Six/Big Seven conference titles. At the time of his retirement, he was the winningest coach in OU history, but is now third behind Billy Tubbs and Kelvin Sampson. He coached 5 Olympic (Wayne Glasgow and Marcus Freiberger of University of Oklahoma, 1952; Bill Evans, Ron Tomsic and Gib Ford of Air Force team, 1956) and three All-Americans (Jimmy McNatt, 1940; Gerald Tucker, 1943, 1947; Allie Paine, 1944) Drake was selected as the assistant coach for the 1956 USA Men's Basketball Gold Medal Olympic Team In 1958 he coached the Wichita Vickers in the National Industrial Basketball League getting 30–21 record tying him for first with his old player Gerald Tucker who was coaching the Bartlesville Phillips 66ers. One of the lasting contributions Drake developed is the shuffle offense. He helped make goaltending illegal. Drake was the Chairman of the NCAA Rules Committee from 1951 to 1955. He made the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 1973.
1983

Donald Jacques

American bobsledder (1934–1983)
Donald Jacques (May 10, 1934 – December 4, 1983) was an American bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
1983 Ivan Bezugly

Ivan Bezugly

Soviet general (1897–1983)
Ivan Semyonovich Bezugly (sometimes transliterated as Bezuglyi or Bezuglyy: Russian: Иван Семёнович Безуглый; 23 October 1897– 4 December 1983) was a Soviet Red Army officer who served as commander of the Red Army's 5th Airborne Corps in 1941, the first airborne corps of the Red Army to fight in World War II after the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Suffering heavy casualties just south of Daugavpils in combat against the advancing Panzer units of Army Group North in the summer of 1941, the unit made its way to the Moscow Military District on 15 August. Promoted to lieutenant-general later in the war, Bezugly took part in the Soviet operations against Imperial Japan following the end of World War II in Europe as commanding officer of the 5th Guards Rifle Corps, which fought as part of Colonel-General Ivan Lyudnikov's 39th Army in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945.
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The 5th Guards Rifle Corps captured Solun during the Manchurian operation.
1983

Jack Kerris

American basketball player (1925-1983)
John Edward Kerris (January 30, 1925 – December 4, 1983) was an American professional basketball player. Kerris played college basketball for Loyola of Chicago and was the ninth overall pick in the 1949 BAA draft by the Chicago Stags. He played for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Fort Wayne Pistons and Baltimore Bullets in his four-year career.
1983

Maurice Browning

British actor (1919-1983)
Maurice Browning (11 May 1919 – 4 December 1983) was a British television actor.
1983

Ong Kiat Guan

basketball player
Ong Kiat Guan (c. 1930 – 4 December 1983) was a Singaporean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
1983 Peter J. Weber

Peter J. Weber

American architect (1893–1983)
Peter Joseph Weber (1893–1983) was an American architect who worked in California from 1906 to 1958. Trained in the Beaux-Arts style and technique, he is known primarily for his Mediterranean Revival work in Riverside, California. Nine of his renditions (plus two other projects he contributed to) for the firm of G.
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Stanley Wilson, Architect are for structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1983 Phil Scott (boxer)

Phil Scott (boxer)

English boxer (1900-1983)
Philip Scott Suffling (3 January 1900 – 4 December 1983), born in Paddington, London, was an English professional heavyweight boxer of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, who won the National Sporting Club (NSC) (subsequently known as the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC)) British heavyweight title, British Empire heavyweight title, and European Boxing Union (EBU) heavyweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 195.25 lb (88.56 kg; 13 st 13.25 lb) to 218 lb (98.9 kg; 15 st 8.0 lb). He joined the Royal Navy aged 15, and served as a seaman aboard HMS Trafalgar during the First World War, after the war, he was a police officer at Scotland Yard for two years, then a fireman for the London Fire Brigade from June 1922 to June 1924, and in 1933 he became a boxing instructor for the Egyptian National Police. Scott started his professional boxing career in 1919.
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His coaches admitted that he knew virtually nothing about "infighting", but that he had a fast left hand. He appeared on the cover of the November 1929 edition of The Ring magazine, and he co-wrote a book with R. James Alexander called The Complete Boxer, a textbook on boxing which sold for a shilling.
1983

Walther Zimmerli

Swiss academic theologian (1907-1983)
Walther Theodor Zimmerli (20 January 1907 – 4 December 1983) was a Swiss academic theologian in the Reformed tradition and an Old Testament scholar.
1984

Charles Oluf Herlofson

Norwegian military personnel
Charles Oluf Herlofson, (28 March 1916 – 4 December 1984) was a Norwegian naval officer. He was highly decorated for his achievements during World War II.
1984

Dimitri Aleksidze

Soviet theatre director (1910–1984)
Dimitri "Dodo" Aleksandres dze Aleksidze (Georgian: დიმიტრი ალექსიძე; 8 March 1910 – 4 December 1984) was a Georgian theatre director and pedagogue. A leading figure of Soviet Georgian theatre who also worked extensively in Ukraine, he directed at the Rustaveli Theatre and the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi and at the Ivan Franko Theatre in Kyiv, and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.
1984 Eduard Prchal

Eduard Prchal

Czechoslovak pilot (1911–1984)
Eduard Maximilian Prchal (1 January 1911 – 4 December 1984) was a Czech pilot and sole survivor of a 1943 plane crash that killed the Polish Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski.
1984 Georgette Vallejo

Georgette Vallejo

French poet (1908-1984)
Georgette Marie Philippart Travers (Paris, 7 January 1908 – Lima, 1984), French writer and poet. She was the wife of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo of international fame, considered by Mario Benedetti to be a "human paradigm", while the American poet-monk Thomas Merton points out that "the project for the translation of his poetry is of an urgent and enormous importance for the entire human race."
1984 Leila Cook Barber

Leila Cook Barber

American art historian and professor
Leila Cook Barber (January 4, 1903 – December 4, 1984) was an American art historian and professor, specializing in the Renaissance art and Medieval studies. She was a Professor Emeritus at Vassar College, where she taught from 1931 until 1968.
1984

Major Egan

Irish rugby union player
James Egan, known as Major Egan, was an Irish international rugby union player. A fullback, Egan was capped three times for Ireland in 1931, debuting against France at Colombes. He also appeared in their win over England at Twickenham and later that year faced the touring Springboks at Lansdowne Road.
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Egan served as an officer in the Irish Guards and was married to a member of the wealthy American Merck family.
1984 Narasinh Narayan Godbole

Narasinh Narayan Godbole

Indian government official
Narasinh Narayan Godbole (28 December 1887 – 4 December 1984) was an Indian food chemist and the first Director of Industries & Supplies of Government of Rajasthan.
1984 Seymour Fogel

Seymour Fogel

American artist (1911-1984)
Seymour Fogel (August 24, 1911 – December 4, 1984) was an American artist whose artistic output included social realist art early in the century, abstract art and expressionist art at mid-century, and transcendental art late in the century. His drive to experiment led him to work with expected media – oil paints, watercolors, and acrylics – as well as unconventional media such as glass, plastics, sand, and wax.
1984 Ștefan Voitec

Ștefan Voitec

Romanian politician (1900-1984)
Ștefan Voitec (also rendered Ștefan Voitech, Stepan Voitek; June 19, 1900 – December 4, 1984) was a Romanian Marxist journalist and politician who held important positions in the state apparatus of Communist Romania. Debuting as a member of the Socialist Party of Romania in his late teens, he formed the Socialist Workers Party of Romania, then the United Socialist Party, while also engaging in human rights activism and advocating prison reform. The mid-1930s brought him into contact with the Romanian Communist Party, with whom he formed tactical alliances; however, he rejected its political line, and was for a while known as a Trotskyist.
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In 1939, he joined the consolidated Social Democratic Party, which reunited various socialist groups outlawed by the National Renaissance Front. During World War II, despite ostensibly withdrawing from political life to do research, Voitec served as the party's Secretary and joined the anti-fascist underground. Some reports suggest that he was also a committed anti-communist, critical of the Soviet Union to the point on endorsing war in the East. As a war correspondent, Voitec made contributions to Nazi propaganda, an issue which made him vulnerable to blackmail in later decades. From June 1944, Voitec played a part in plotting the anti-fascist coup, negotiating a unified platform with communist Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu. Following this regime change, he emerged as a leader of the legalized Social Democrats. In November, he became Minister of Education, serving under increasingly communized governments to December 1947. Himself won over by Marxism-Leninism, Voitec directed a purge of the teaching staff, and engineered his party's alliance with, then absorption by, the Communist Party. Voitec was a member of the unified group's Politburo, and represented Dolj County, then Electroputere factory, in the Great National Assembly; he also served as member of the first republican presidium in 1948, and was briefly the Deputy Prime Minister to Petru Groza. Criticized for his leniency and inconsistencies in applying party dogma, he was sidelined and placed under Securitate surveillance in the early 1950s. After serving as head of Centrocoop, which grouped Romania's consumers' cooperatives, Voitec returned to the forefront in 1955–1956, when he was reappointed minister, then Deputy Premier. In 1961, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej also included him on the State Council, as Assembly Chairman. As such, Voitec sanctioned the rise of Nicolae Ceaușescu, participating in his investiture as the first President of Romania (1974). Though his offices were by then largely ceremonial, he used his position to demand privileges for other former Social Democrats, and also obtained reconsideration for Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, the Romanian Marxist classic. Shortly before dying of cancer in 1984, Voitec reportedly expressed regret for his communist conversion, which led to his second marginalization by Ceaușescu. He is remembered for his contributions to cultural development, responsible in large part for the establishment of Craiova University, the National Theater Craiova, and Magazin Istoric journal.
1984

Virginia Emerson Lewis

American political scientist
Virginia Emerson Lewis (d. December 4, 1984) was an American political scientist and legal scholar. She was a professor of political science at Hood College from 1947 until 1984, and she was the head of the History and Political Science Department there from 1965 until 1979.
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On her 70th birthday, Virginia Emerson Lewis Day was proclaimed in the state of Maryland, and in 1984 Hood College established a Virginia E. Lewis Chair in Politics.
1985

Ben Douglas (American football)

American football player (1909-1985)
Frank Benjamin Douglas (March 12, 1909 – December 4, 1985) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball.
1985 Bijoy Sarkar

Bijoy Sarkar

Bangladeshi poet,lyricist,musician (1903-1985)
Bijoy Sarkar (born Bijay Krishna Adhikari; 20 February 1903 – 4 December 1985) was a Bengali poet, baul singer, lyricist, and composer.
1985

Dina De Santis

Italian actress (1943–1985)
Bernina De Santis (21 October 1932 – 4 December 1985) was an Italian actress.
1985

Ernest Fooks

architect (1906–1985)
Dr Ernest Fooks (born Ernest Leslie Fuchs, 6 October 1906 – 4 December 1985) was an influential European-trained architect who made a significant contribution to architecture, town planning, and design education in Australia and to the cultural life of Melbourne after emigrating to the city just before the Second World War.
1985

Ethel Robertson

Scottish businesswoman and whisky brand investor
(Babs) Ethel Greig Robertson (5 May 1902 – 4 December 1985) was a Scottish businesswoman and whisky brand investor. The companies that she and her sister controlled created the largest independent grant-making charitable trust in Scotland.
1985 Forest Sale

Forest Sale

American college basketball player and politician (1911-1985)
Forest E. "Aggie" Sale (June 25, 1911 – December 4, 1985) was an American college basketball player at the University of Kentucky from 1930 to 1933. He played for coach Adolph Rupp and was one of Rupp's first NCAA All-Americans.
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Sale attended Kavanaugh High School in Anderson County, Kentucky prior to matriculating at the University of Kentucky. As a 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) forward/center, he was a rather tall player for his era. Sale used his height to his advantage and was noted as both a good scorer and rebounder. In his three seasons with the Wildcats team, Sale played in 50 career games and scored 657 points. He was twice named a consensus All-American, and as a senior in 1932–33 Sale was selected as the Helms Athletic Foundation (HAF) National Player of the Year. That year, Kentucky won the Southeastern Conference regular season and SEC Tournament titles and finished with a 21–3 overall record. In addition, the team was later retroactively named a national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, although Helms findings are not officially recognized by the NCAA. After college, Sale became a high school history teacher and basketball coach before joining the United States Navy and fighting in World War II for a year. He returned to being a teacher and coach, and then from 1964 to 1967 he ran his own Sale Sporting Goods Store. He entered politics in 1971 as a Democrat and was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 55th District. Sale was re-elected four times before ending his political career. Forest Sale died of a heart attack on December 4, 1985, at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
1985 Frederick Boland

Frederick Boland

University of Dublin chancellor, United Nations general assembly president (1904-1985)
Frederick Henry Boland (11 January 1904 – 4 December 1985) was an Irish diplomat who served as the first Irish Ambassador to both the United Kingdom and the United Nations.
1985 Harry P. Storke

Harry P. Storke

1905-1985 lieutenant general in the United States Army
Harry Purnell Storke (8 March 1905 – 4 December 1985) was a career officer in the United States Army. A veteran of World War II, he served from 1926 to 1961 and attained the rank of lieutenant general. Storke was a recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, and Bronze Star Medal, and his commands included the 1st Infantry Division Artillery, 9th Infantry Division, I Corps, and Allied Land Forces South-Eastern Europe.
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After retiring from the army, Storke served as president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute for eight years. A native of Baltimore and a 1922 graduate of the McDonogh School, Storke went on to the United States Military Academy at West Point, from which he graduated in 1926. Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery, his initial postings included Artillery units in the US and the Philippines. In the mid to late 1930s, he served as assistant professor of military science for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Iowa State University. From the late 1930s to the start of World War II, he was a member of the West Point faculty. During the war, he served in the Mediterranean theatre as a member of the II Corps staff. After the war, he served in Austria as deputy commander for military government of the Vienna Area Command. Later military assignments Storke completed included commander of Camp Desert Rock, Nevada during the Desert Rock exercises, commander of the 1st Infantry Division Artillery, and commander of Allied Forces Southern Europe. He retired in 1961, and went on to serve as president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1962 to 1969. In retirement, he resided in Williamsburg, Virginia. He died in Richmond, Virginia, on 4 December 1985 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1985 Hatsu Ando

Hatsu Ando

Japanese politician (1912-1985)
Hatsu Ando (Japanese: 安藤はつ, 20 January 1912 – 4 December 1985) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.
1985

Henry Freulich

American cinematographer
Henry Freulich (April 14, 1906 – December 4, 1985) was an American cinematographer for 31 years. He was married to the actress Kay Harris.
1985

Johannes Schweter

German politician
Johannes Schweter (28 August 1901 – 4 December 1985) was a German Nazi Party politician. After attending elementary school, Schweter completed an apprenticeship in horticulture. He then worked as a garden assistant until 1922.
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From 1923, he owned his own nursery and a flower shop. From October 1933 to October 1935, Schweter was the government Kreisdeputierter (district administrator) of the Beuthen district (today, Bytom). At the same time, he also was the Nazi Party Kreisleiter (county leader). He was also a member of the district administrative court, the district savings bank committee and Bürgermeister. From October 1935 to the summer of 1939, he was the Kreisleiter of Kreis Kreuzburg (today, Kluczbork County). At the 1936 parliamentary election, he was elected as a deputy to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 9, Oppeln. Reelected in April 1938, he retained this seat until the fall of the Nazi regime. After the Second World War, Schweter worked as a commercial gardener in Gummersbach, where he died in 1985.
1985

José Meléndez (pitcher

born 1908), Nicaraguan baseball player (1908–1985)
José Miguel Ángel Meléndez (April 8, 1908 – December 4, 1985), nicknamed El Chino, was a Nicaraguan baseball pitcher. He played extensively with the Nicaragua national baseball team in the 1930s and 1940s, and also played professionally in Mexico and Panama.
1985 Pearl Corkhill

Pearl Corkhill

Australian Military Nurse of First World War (1887-1985)
Elizabeth Pearl Corkhill, MM (11 March 1887 – 4 December 1985) was an Australian military nurse of the First World War. Trained as a nurse in Sydney, Corkhill enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 4 June 1915. After serving in France at the 1st and 3rd Australian General Hospitals, Corkhill was assigned to the 38th British Casualty Clearing Station near Abbeville on 21 August 1918.
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On 23 August, while the camp was being heavily bombed by enemy aircraft, Corkhill remained calm and continued to tend to her patients, despite the danger. For her bravery, she was awarded the Military Medal, one of only seven Australian nurses to be so decorated in the First World War. Following the Armistice, she went on to work as a nurse at various public hospitals, and donated a large collection of her father's photographs to the National Library of Australia.
1985

Sigvald Berg

American architect
Sigvald Berg (November 15, 1894 - December 4, 1985) was an American architect who designed many buildings in the state of Montana, especially Helena. In 1954, he designed the first residence hall for male students on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman.
1986 Lynwood Gill

Lynwood Gill

Australia cricketer (1891-1986)
Lynwood Gill (19 November 1891 – 4 December 1986) was an Australian cricketer who was a batsman and was praised for having a "fine range of shots" and having a style which was able to popularize the game. He played three first-class matches for Tasmania between 1911 and 1913 and seven matches for Queensland between 1926 and 1928.
1986 Reuben Nakian

Reuben Nakian

American sculptor (1897–1986)
Reuben Nakian (August 10, 1897, College Point, New York – December 4, 1986, Stamford, Connecticut) was an American sculptor and teacher of Armenian extraction. His works' recurring themes are from Greek and Roman mythology. Noted works include Leda and the Swan, The Rape of Lucrece, Hecuba, and The Birth of Venus.
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He was also commissioned to create portraits of Roosevelt's cabinet in the 1930s.
1987

Arthur Vaughan Jones

rugby player
Arthur Vaughan Jones (25 September 1909 – 4 December 1987) was a Welsh-born England international rugby union player of the 1930s. Born in Pontarddulais, near Swansea, Jones was educated at Pontarddulais Boys' School, where he attended the same class as Wales forward Jim Lang. He was a native Welsh-speaker.
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Jones participated in multiple Welsh trials, the first of which ended for him within the first two minutes when he broke his collarbone, then in later opportunities was unable to impress. A British Army lieutenant, Jones was selected by England on the basis of his army rugby career, which was played entirely in the country. He gained three England caps as a wing-forward, featuring twice in the 1932 Home Nations, before making an appearance against Wales at Twickenham the following year.
1987

Carlos Colás

Cuban baseball player (1917-1987)
Carlos Celestino Colás (December 4, 1917 – December 4, 1987) was a Cuban professional baseball catcher and left fielder who played in the American Negro leagues in the 1940s and 1950s. A native of Caimito del Guayabal, Cuba, Colás was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer José Colás. Older brother Carlos made his Negro leagues debut in 1940 with the New York Cubans, and played with New York again the following season.
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He then spent several years in the Mexican League, returning to the Negro leagues in 1949 to spend four seasons with the Memphis Red Sox before playing again in the Mexican League through the mid-1950s. He also played with Indios del Bóer of the Nicaraguan league in 1956. Colás died in Havana, Cuba in 1987 on his 70th birthday.
1987 Constantin Noica

Constantin Noica

Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet (1909–1987)
Constantin Noica (Romanian: [konstanˈtin ˈnojka]; 25 July [O.S. 12 July] 1909 – 4 December 1987) was a Romanian philosopher, essayist, and poet. His preoccupations were throughout all philosophy, from epistemology, philosophy of culture, axiology, and philosophic anthropology to ontology and logics, from the history of philosophy to systematic philosophy, from ancient to contemporary philosophy, from translating and interpretation to criticism and creation.
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In 2006 he was included to the list of the 100 Greatest Romanians of all time by a nationwide poll.
1987

Miriam Jordan

British actor (1904-1987)
Miriam Jordan (3 March 1904 – 4 December 1987) was a British stage and film actress. She enjoyed a brief career in Hollywood as a leading lady during the early 1930s, but most of her work was confined to the stage.
1987 Pericle Fazzini

Pericle Fazzini

Italian artist (1913-1987)
Pericle Fazzini (4 May 1913 – 4 December 1987) was an Italian painter and sculptor. His large work, La Resurrezione, is installed in the Aula Paolo VI in the Vatican City in Rome.
1987 Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Mamoulian

Armenian-American director and screenwriter (born 1897)
Rouben Zachary Mamoulian was an Armenian and American film and theater director.
1988 Abdul Hye Mashreki

Abdul Hye Mashreki

Folk Litterateur and Poet in Bangladesh
Abdul Hye Mashreki (1 April 1919 – 4 December 1988) was a Bangladeshi folk litterateur and poet. He is known for his writing in the 1930s and 1940s. He mainly focused the lifestyle of the rural people of Bengal.
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Some notable works of him include Rakhal Bondhu, Jarina Sundari, Allah Megh De Chaya De, Fande Poriya Boga Kande Re, Amar Kakher Kolshi, He Amar Desh and Kichu Rekhe Jete Chai. Mashreki wrote against the social, economical, religious and racial discrimination in the rural area. Mihir Acarya, researcher of Bengali literature named three main folk poets – Mashreki, Jasimuddin and Bande Ali Mia – in his research in the time period of 1917 to 1936.
1988

Albert Evans (politician)

British politician (1903-1988)
Albert Evans (10 June 1903 – 4 December 1988), was a British Labour Party politician. A master engraver, Evans became involved in the Labour movement in the 1920s, and was elected to Islington Borough Council in 1936. In March 1946 he was elected to the London County Council to represent Islington West.
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He was first elected to Parliament at a by-election in 1947, when the Labour Member of Parliament for Islington West, Frederick Montague, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Amwell. The Islington West constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, when Evans was elected in the new Islington South West constituency. He held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1970 general election.
1988

Alberto Uría

Uruguayan racing driver
Alberto Uría (11 July 1924 – 4 December 1988) was a racing driver from Uruguay. He participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 16 January 1955. He entered two Argentine Grand Prix races as a privateer running a Maserati.
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He scored no championship points, his best finish being a shared sixth place with Óscar González in 1956.
1988

August Howard

founder of the American Polar Society
August Howard (January 2, 1910 - December 4, 1988) was the founder of the American Polar Society in 1934 and publisher of The Polar Times. In 1948 Cape Howard was named for him.
1988

David Trench

British colonial administrator (1915-1988)
Sir David Clive Crosbie Trench (Chinese: 戴麟趾; 2 June 1915 – 4 December 1988) was a British Army officer and colonial governor who served as the Governor of Hong Kong from April 15, 1964 to October 19, 1971 and was High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.
1988 Fernand Mourlot

Fernand Mourlot

Legion d'honneur recipient (1895–1988)
Fernand Mourlot (French: [fɛʁnɑ̃ muʁlo]; 5 April 1895 – 4 December 1988), son of Jules Mourlot, was the director of Mourlot Studios and founder of Editions Mourlot.
1988 George Czerwinski

George Czerwinski

American politician (1890–1988)
George Francis Czerwinski (September 19, 1890 – December 4, 1988), later Sherwin, was an American politician who was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.
1988 Göran von Otter

Göran von Otter

Swedish diplomat (1907-1988)
Baron Göran Fredrik von Otter (4 August 1907 – 4 December 1988) was a Swedish diplomat and friherre, best known for his service in Berlin during World War II. Birgitta and Anne Sofie von Otter are von Otter's daughters; former Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik von Otter was his grandfather.
1988 Joseph Zimmermann (bishop)

Joseph Zimmermann (bishop)

Roman-Catholic bishop (1923-1988)
Joseph Zimmermann (M.S.F.) (12 December 1923 – 4 December 1988) was a Swiss Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Morombe in Madagascar. Zimmermann was born in Birmenstorf, Aargau, Switzerland, and attended the College du Christ-Roi in Nuolen.
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A member of the Missionaries of the Holy Family, he made his first vows in 1945 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1950. In 1955 he began working as a missionary in Madagascar. In 1960, Pope John XXIII created the Roman Catholic Diocese of Morombe and named Zimmermann its bishop. Zimmermann was the first Swiss member of the Missionaries of the Holy Family to be made bishop. He was consecrated on 23 October by Franz von Streng, with Paul Joseph Girouard and Johannes Anton Vonderach as principal co-consecrators. On 20 November he was installed at the cathedral in Morombe. As of 1965, the diocese of Morombe contained approximately 121,000 people, 10,000 of whom were Catholic. In 1988 Zimmermann died in office after suffering a fall. His body is buried in Morombe.
1988

Kola Onadipe

Nigerian author
Nathaniel Kolawole Onadipe (14 July 1922 – 4 December 1988), most commonly known as Kola Onadipe, was a Nigerian author best known for writing children's books.
1988 Lane Mitchell

Lane Mitchell

American academic
Lane Mitchell (July 11, 1907 in Atlanta, Georgia – December 4, 1988) was an American ceramic engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the head (and founder) of the Department of Ceramic Engineering there, now known as Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering.
1988 Natale Vecchi

Natale Vecchi

Italian wrestler (1917-1988)
Natale Vecchi (29 June 1917 – 4 December 1988) was an Italian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle heavyweight at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
1988

Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry

Pakistani physicist (1903–1988)
Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry (Urdu: رفیع محمد چوہدری) FPAS HI, NI, SI, Skdt (1 July 1903 – 4 December 1988) best known as R. M. Chaudhry, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and a professor of particle physics at the Government College University.
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His teaching and instructions on modern physics influenced many of his student to pursue careers in physics who regard him as one of the key architects and the pioneer of experimental nuclear physics research in Pakistan and, along with Abdus Salam and Ishrat Hussain Usmani, one of the main creators of Pakistan's nuclear weapons research program in the 1970s. Chaudhry, who served as professor of nuclear physics at Government College University, was later referred to by Dr. Samar Mubarakmand, one of his students, as "the true father of the nuclear weapons program of Pakistan".
1989

Colin MacKay (footballer)

Australian rules footballer (1908-1989)
Colin MacKay (3 February 1908 – 4 December 1989) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
1989 Elwyn Jones

Elwyn Jones

Baron Elwyn-Jones, British politician (1909-1989)
Frederick Elwyn Elwyn-Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, (24 October 1909 – 4 December 1989), commonly known as Elwyn Jones, was a Welsh barrister and Labour politician.
1989 Émile Janssens

Émile Janssens

Belgian colonial general
Émile Robert Alphonse Hippolyte Janssens (15 June 1902 – 4 December 1989) was a Belgian military officer and colonial official, best known for his command of the Force Publique at the start of the Congo Crisis. He described himself as the "Little Maniac" (French: Petit Maniaque) and was a staunch disciplinarian, but his refusal to see Congolese independence as marking a change in the nature of his command has been cited as the immediate cause of the mutiny by the Force Publique in July 1960 that plunged Congo-Léopoldville into chaos and anarchy.
1989

Jim Vipond

Canadian sports journalist (1916–1989)
James French Vipond (July 11, 1916 – December 4, 1989), was a Canadian sports journalist. A columnist for The Globe and Mail, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He joined the newspaper in 1938 and retired in 1979 to become the Ontario Athletics Commissioner.
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Vipond also served in World War II with the Royal Canadian Air Force, becoming a flight lieutenant and later being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He died in 1989 from Alzheimer's disease.
1989 Kathleen Manners

Kathleen Manners

Duchess of Rutland, English aristocrat (1894-1989)
Kathleen Manners, Duchess of Rutland (née Tennant; 30 January 1894 – 4 December 1989) was an English aristocrat and the wife of John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland.
1989

May Swenson

American poet (1913–1989)
Anna Thilda May Swenson (May 28, 1913 – December 4, 1989) was an American poet and playwright. Harold Bloom considered her one of the most important and original poets of the 20th century. Born to Margaret and Dan Arthur Swenson, she was the eldest of 10 children in a Mormon household where Swedish was spoken regularly and English was a second language.
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Much of her later poetry was devoted to children (e.g. the 1970 collection Iconographs). She also translated the work of contemporary Swedish poets, including the selected poems of Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer.
1989

Steve Lembo

American baseball player (1926-1989)
Stephen Neal Lembo (November 13, 1926 – December 4, 1989) was an American catcher in Major League Baseball. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he played seven games for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1950 and 1952 baseball seasons. He was also with the Dodgers late in the 1951 season, and though he did not appear in any games, he was a bullpen catcher warming up Carl Erskine and Ralph Branca in the deciding National League playoff game against the New York Giants that was ended by Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" (as revealed by author Joshua Prager in his book The Echoing Green).
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After retiring as a ballplayer in 1954, Lembo became a scout for the Dodgers, serving in that role until his death. He died at age 63 in Flushing, Queens.
1989 Sydney Streeter

Sydney Streeter

British film production manager
Sydney Stanley Stephen Streeter (12 December 1910 – 4 December 1989) was a British film production manager, recognised for his contributions to mid-20th-century cinema. He is best known for his work with legendary filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on critically acclaimed films such as Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948) and Battle of the River Plate (1956). He contributed to more than forty films, working as a producer, associate producer, production manager, and assistant director, helping to ensure the success of films such as In Which We Serve (1942), Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).
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Five of the films on which he worked were included in the British Film Institute's list of the Top 100 British films, with The Red Shoes ranking in the top 10.
1989

Tommy Hodgson

English footballer
Tommy Hodgson (19 January 1903 – 4 December 1989) was an English footballer who played as a full back.
1990

Charles B. MacDonald

former Deputy Chief Historian for the United States Army
Charles B. MacDonald (November 23, 1922 – December 4, 1990) was a former Deputy Chief Historian for the United States Army. He wrote several of the Army's official histories of World War II.
1990 Edward Binns

Edward Binns

American actor (1916–1990)
Edward Binns (September 12, 1916 – December 4, 1990) was an American actor. He had a wide-spanning career in film and television, often portraying competent, hard working and purposeful characters in his various roles. He is best known for his work in such acclaimed films as 12 Angry Men (1957), North by Northwest (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Fail Safe (1964), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Patton (1970) and The Verdict (1982).
1990

Francisco Oves-Fernandez

Catholic bishop (1928–1990)
Francisco Ricardo Oves-Fernandez (October 4, 1928 in Camagüey, Cuba – December 4, 1990 in El Paso, Texas, US) was the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Havana.
1990

Grete Csaki-Copony

German painter (1893–1990)
Grete Csaki-Copony (12 October 1893—4 December 1990) was a Transylvanian Saxon painter. She was born in Zărnești and studied in Dresden, Berlin, Munich and Budapest, where she met and married Richard Csaki (later director of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut in Stuttgart). She spent a lot of time in Berlin from 1911 and was greatly influenced by the art scene in the city.
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The first solo exhibition of her works was in 1918, in what is today Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu. Her modernistic art was negatively reviewed in the conservative environment. After an exhibition in Berlin in 1935, the Nazi Germans condemned her art as "Degenerate". From 1954, she continuously spent part of the year in Greece, where she had an atelier. In 1962, she settled permanently in Berlin.
1990

Henry Dornan

Scottish footballer (1916-1990)
Henry Dornan (14 February 1916 – 4 December 1990) was a Scottish footballer who played for Kilmarnock and made 'guest' appearances during the Second World War for Dumbarton and Celtic.
1990

Howie Stange

American musician (1924-1990)
Howard Erwin Stange (March 3, 1924 – December 4, 1990) was an American musician, singer, and pianist who played Rockabilly and Country music, in which possessed a distinctive vocal and playing style. Howie was a musical virtuoso who had the ability to be pick up any instrument and play with a high degree of technical proficiency, despite the fact that he never learned how to read music. Howie was born with four sisters and two brothers who include: Gertrude 'Kiki' Stange, Doris Stange, Frank Anthony Stange, Raymond Christopher Stange, Esther Madelyn Stange and Kathleen Leona Stange.
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Among the six siblings, only his youngest sister, Kathleen, lives to date, age 85. Howie achieved both national and international fame recognition, for his hit 45 record, "Real Gone Daddy/This Old Bomb of Mine", released in 1957. Regarded as one of the most significant and influential Rockabilly musicians of his era, Howie's music currently resides on over 100 record compilations of the best rockabilly music ever produced. Howie's song "Real Gone Daddy" has achieved "Maybelline" status among fans. Additionally, in 1958 he went on to record "Are You Lonesome To-Night?" which was subsequently picked up by Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight? (song) who later went on to chart this song at number 1 on the Billboard Charts in 1960. Howie Stange did not achieve significant fame or fortune during his lifetime: however, his music left a lasting impression on a generation of young listeners who were first being introduced to rock and roll music in the 1950s.
1990

Hugh Smithwick

American football player and coach (1918-1990)
Hugh Smithwick (July 6, 1918 – December 4, 1990) was an American football player and coach. He was the head college football coach for the Portland State Vikings located in Portland, Oregon. He held that position for three seasons, from 1959 until 1961.
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His coaching record at Portland State was 6–17–2.
1990

Kimio Yada

Japanese high jumper
Kimio Yada (矢田 喜美雄, Yada Kimio; 17 September 1913 – 4 December 1990) was a Japanese track and field athlete. He competed in the men's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He later became a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, and was especially noted for his reporting on the Shimoyama incident.
1990 Naoto Tajima

Naoto Tajima

Japanese triple jumper, long jumper (track and field) (1912–1990)
Naoto Tajima (田島 直人, Tajima Naoto; August 15, 1912 – December 4, 1990) was a Japanese athlete who competed at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. In 1932 he finished sixth in the long jump, while in 1936 he finished third in the long jump, behind Jesse Owens and Luz Long, and won the triple jump event, setting a world record at 16.00 m. This record stood until 1951, when Adhemar da Silva improved it by one centimeter.
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Raised in Iwakuni, Tajima graduated in economics from Kyoto Imperial University just prior to competing in the Olympics. His gold medal was Japan's last Olympic track and field gold medal until Naoko Takahashi won the women's marathon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Tajima retired from competitive athletics in 1938 but maintained an administrative role as managing director of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations. He was also a member of the Japanese Olympic Committee, coached the Japanese athletics teams at the 1956 and 1964 Olympics, and worked as a lecturer at Chukyo University.
1990

Nelson Peterson

American football player (1913-1990)
Nelson Lane Peterson (September 22, 1913 – December 4, 1990) was an American football running back who played the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Rams. He attended West Virginia Wesleyan College. Peterson was the head coach and played for the 1945 Fort McClellan Riflemen football team.
1991 Bert Combs

Bert Combs

American federal judge; governor of Kentucky (1911–1991)
Bertram Thomas Combs (August 13, 1911 – December 4, 1991) was an American jurist and liberal politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. After serving on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, he was elected the 50th governor of Kentucky in 1959 on his second run for the office. Following his gubernatorial term, he was appointed to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit by President Lyndon B.
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Johnson, serving from 1967 to 1970. Combs rose from poverty in his native Clay County to earn a law degree from the University of Kentucky and open a law practice in Prestonsburg. He was decorated for prosecuting Japanese war criminals before military tribunals following World War II, then returned to Kentucky and his law practice. In 1951, Governor Lawrence Wetherby appointed him to fill a vacancy on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Later that year, he was elected to a full term on the court, defeating former governor and judge Simeon S. Willis. Kentucky's Democratic Party had split into two factions by 1955 when Earle C. Clements, the leader of one faction, chose Combs to challenge former governor and U.S. Senator A. B. "Happy" Chandler, who headed the other, in the upcoming gubernatorial primary. Chandler, who went on to reclaim the governorship, had promised that he would not need to raise taxes to meet the state's financial obligations, but ultimately he did so. In 1959, Combs was elected governor, defeating Lieutenant Governor Harry Lee Waterfield, Chandler's choice to succeed him in office, in the primary. Early in his term, Combs secured passage of a three-percent sales tax to pay a bonus to the state's military veterans. Knowing a tax of one percent would have been sufficient, he used the excess revenue to enact a system of reforms, including expansion of the state's highway and state park systems. He also devoted much of the surplus to education. Following his term in office, Combs was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit by President Johnson. He served for three years before resigning and running for governor again in 1971. He lost in the Democratic primary to Wendell Ford, his former executive secretary. In 1984, Combs agreed to represent sixty-six of the state's poor school districts in a lawsuit challenging the state's system of financing public education. The suit, Rose v. Council for Better Education, resulted in the Kentucky Supreme Court declaring the state's entire system of public schools unconstitutional. In response, the Kentucky General Assembly drafted a sweeping education measure known as the Kentucky Education Reform Act in 1991. On December 3, 1991, Combs was caught in a flash flood while driving and was killed.
1991

Brian Randall

Australian rules footballer
Brian Thomas Randall (12 October 1920 – 4 December 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL from 1941 to 1945 for the Richmond Football Club. Randall played centre half forward in Richmond's 1943 VFL Grand Final victory. Randall also played in Richmond's 1942 and 1944 losing VFL grand finals too.
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Randall coached Echuca Football Club from 1947 to 1950, including their 1948 Echuca Football League premiership.
1991

Cliff Bastin

English footballer (1912-1991)
Clifford Sydney Bastin (14 March 1912 – 4 December 1991) was an English footballer who played as a winger for Exeter City and Arsenal. He also played for the England national team. Bastin is Arsenal's third-highest goalscorer of all time.
1991

Dan McGee

Major League Baseball player
Daniel Aloysius McGee (September 29, 1911 – December 4, 1991) was an American Major League Baseball player. He played seven games with the Boston Braves between July 14 and July 20, 1934.
1991 Eugen Maucher

Eugen Maucher

German politician (1912-1991)
Eugen Maucher (16 July 1912 – 4 December 1991) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
1991

Herb Thomas (outfielder)

American baseball player (1902-1991)
Herbert Mark Thomas (May 26, 1901 – December 4, 1991) was an American right-handed minor and major league baseball player and minor league manager. Although his major league career lasted only three seasons, 1924, 1925 and 1927, for two different teams, the Boston Braves and New York Giants, his minor league career spanned 17 seasons. He played professionally in three different decades.
1991 Moysés Baumstein

Moysés Baumstein

Brazilian artist, holographer, video and film director (1931-1991)
Moysés Baumstein (June 13, 1931 – December 4, 1991) was a Brazilian artist. Baumstein worked in many fields: from literary creation to painting, from film making to holography. He was driven by singular curiosity and diligence and typified as a "Renaissance Man" joining science with art throughout his accomplishments.
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Baumstein was born and died in São Paulo. He began his artistic career as a painter influenced by the Spanish painter Joan Ponç, with whom he founded the group “L´Espai” in São Paulo in 1960. He later became interested in photography, cinema and theatre, at the beginning of the seventies began to write experimental fiction and produce and direct animation cinema in Super8 and 16mm. In 1981 founded Videcom, a video production house in São Paulo directed for corporate and cultural audiovisual productions. It was not until 1982 that he began to work in holography, using artisanal methods. He completed and perfected his technique in 1983 after a holography workshop with the German artist Dieter Jung (artist). In the same year he had his first holographic exhibition at the Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS) in São Paulo. In 1984 he developed a specific holographic technique for chromatic control and began the regular production of technically very elaborate works. At that time in his holographic studio he began the production of commercial holograms as well as artistic works. In some of his projects in this field he worked in collaboration with other Brazilian artists and poets interested in holography (Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari, Julio Plaza and José Wagner Garcia). The results of such collaboration were shown in exhibitions in Brazil such as the “Triluz” exhibition (1986) in the Museu da Imagem e do Som, and at the “Idehologia” exhibition (1987) in the Museu de Arte Contemporânea, both in São Paulo, and also abroad in Spain and Portugal at the Calouste Gulbekian Foundation (Triluz Portugal) amongst others. With José Wagner Garcia he created the prototype of a holographic cinema projector a "Holographic Kinetoscope". A year after his death a retrospective of his cinema and video works was held at the 9th International “Videobrasil” Festival - 1992 in São Paulo. Holographic poems by Augusto de Campos and produced by Baumstein were purchased by the "Centre Régional des Lettres de Basse-Normandie" in France and in 2007, the holographic poem REVER was exhibited at the exhibition "Concrete Poetry - O Projeto Verbivocovisual" in Tomie Ohtake Institute (São Paulo) and at the Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte). Videcom kept the activities of his holographic laboratory until 2007 when all the equipment was donated to the Optical Lab from the University of Campinas Physics Institute under the responsibility of Prof. Jose Lunazzi. Between September and November 2010 his holograms were presented at the exhibition "TEKHNE" (Tekhne page in English/Portuguese and Spanish) at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) in São Paulo, which introduced the discussion of the importance of the convergence between art and technology.
1991

Norman Wykes

cricketer (1906-1991)
Nigel Wykes (born Norman Gordon Wykes; 19 March 1906 – 4 December 1991) was an English cricketer. He was educated at Oundle School and played for Essex between 1925 and 1936. He was Eton Housemaster from 1944 to 1960 and a distinguished painter of butterflies and plants.
1991

Orestes Jordán

Peruvian footballer (1913-1991)
Orestes Jordán Cánepa (21 November 1913 – 4 December 1991) was a Peruvian international football player. He was born in Chincha Alta. He participated with the Peru national football team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
1991

Ronnie Park

Scottish cyclist
Ronald Andrew Park (6 July 1933 – 12 April 1991) was a Scottish cyclist who appeared at two Commonwealth Games.
1992

Alfie Ferguson

British unionist politician
Alfred Henry "Alfie" Ferguson, CBE (c. 1927 - 4 December 1992) was a British and unionist politician in Northern Ireland. He was a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and served as Lord Mayor of Belfast (1983–85).
1992

Bert James (footballer)

Australian rules footballer (1923-1992)
Albert Thomas James (5 June 1923 – 4 December 1992) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
1992

James Goll

American politician (1927–1992)
James E. Goll (April 10, 1927 – December 4, 1992) was a Republican politician and car dealer from Nebraska who served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 16th district from 1981 to 1987.
1992

Lawrence W. Steinkraus

United States general
Lawrence William Steinkraus (November 29, 1922 – December 4, 1992) was a Major General in the U.S. Air Force. His last post was to serve as the deputy director for operations of the U.S.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff. Prior to that position he served as deputy chief of staff for logistics at the Headquarters Strategic Air Command, and as Commander of the 319th Bombardment Wing, at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.
1992

Lev Zetlin

Israeli-American civil and structural engineer
Lev Zetlin (Hebrew: לב זטלין; July 14, 1918 – December 4, 1992) was an Israeli-American civil and structural engineer. Founder of the engineering consulting firm Lev Zetlin & Associates, he developed several innovations in structural engineering including the double layer bicycle wheel roof system which he first employed at the Utica Memorial Auditorium and later patented. Zetlin was the structural engineer on 14 pavilions at the 1964–65 New York World's Fair including the New York State Pavilion which utilized his double layer cable suspended roof design.
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Born in Russia, Zetlin began his career in Israel and moved in 1950 to New York to earn his master's and doctorate from Cornell University. After starting Lev Zetlin & Associates in 1956, he designed a number of structures that attracted the attention of architects such as Philip Johnson with whom he had a collaborative career. At various times during his career, Zetlin was a professor at Manhattan College, Pratt Institute, and the University of Virginia. Later in his career, he founded Zetlin-Argo Structural Investigations and consulted on several notable structural failure investigations.
1992

Virgia Brocks-Shedd

African-American poet and librarian (1943-1992)
Virgia Brocks-Shedd (June 22, 1943 – December 4, 1992) was an American librarian and poet. She was the head librarian at the Tougaloo College library and was a founding member of multiple library associations, working to ensure African-Americans were represented in libraries. Brocks-Shedd published poetry in multiple venues and inspired an appreciation for literature in generations of students.
1992

Yancho Dimitrov (footballer)

Bulgarian footballer (1943–1992)
Yancho Dimitrov (11 March 1943 – 4 December 1992) was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a forward. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
1993

Amnon Carmeli

Israeli footballer (1929-1993)
Amnon Carmeli (Hebrew: אמנון כרמלי; born 22 August 1929, died 4 December 1993) was a former Israeli footballer who played for Maccabi Petah Tikva, scoring the club's winning goal in the 1952 State Cup final. Carmeli also played one match for the Israel national football team, against Yugoslavia national football team, in 1954. After retirement, in 1960, Carmeli stayed close to Maccabi Petah Tikva, becoming a board member in 1969.
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Carmeli also served as the club's chairmen.
1993 Cortlandt V. R. Schuyler

Cortlandt V. R. Schuyler

United States general (1900-1993)
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler (22 December 1900 – 4 December 1993) was a United States Army four-star general who served as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE) from 1953 to 1959.
1993

Eileen Morris

Irish Medical Missionaries of Mary nun and missionary nurse in Nigeria
Sister Mary Francis or Eileen Morris (25 September 1919 – 4 December 1993) was an Irish Medical Missionaries of Mary nun and missionary nurse in Nigeria.
1993 Frank Sturgis

Frank Sturgis

United States military, undercover operative (1924-1993)
Frank Anthony Sturgis (December 9, 1924 – December 4, 1993), born Frank Angelo Fiorini, was an American CIA agent who was one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the presidency of Richard Nixon. Sturgis served in several branches of the United States military and, in the Cuban Revolution of 1958, worked as an undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency, and is alleged by conspiracy theorists to have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
1993

George Sergienko

American football tackle
George Sergienko Jr. (May 22, 1918 – December 4, 1993) was an American football tackle. He played college football for American International College and professional football for the Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) (1943), Brooklyn Tigers (1944), Boston Yanks (1945), and Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC) (1946).
1993 Hugh Moore (police officer)

Hugh Moore (police officer)

British police officer
Commander Hugh John Moore, (18 October 1929 – 4 December 1993) was a British police officer in the City of London Police who died from heart failure on 4 December 1993, two weeks after a violent struggle with a man whom he had attempted to arrest.
1993

Jusuf Prazina

Bosniak Criminal & Paramilitary Leader (1962–1993)
Jusuf "Juka" Prazina (pronounced [jǔsuf jûka prǎzina]; 7 September 1963 – 4 December 1993) was a Bosnian organized crime figure and warlord during the Bosnian War. A troubled teen, Prazina's youth allegedly contained numerous stays in various jails and correctional facilities of the former Yugoslavia. By the 1980s, he had become involved in organized crime, eventually heading his own racketeering gang based around his home in the city's Centar municipality.
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With the onset of the Siege of Sarajevo in 1992, Prazina expanded his gang into an effective paramilitary fighting force called Juka's Wolves. This force was central in the effort against the besieging Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), and he was rewarded for his contribution to the city's defense by appointment to the head of the government's special forces. Prazina proved problematic for the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following a warrant for his arrest in October, Prazina stationed himself on Mount Igman and coordinated attacks against the ARBiH until his eventual defeat and expulsion in January of the following year. Prazina moved to Herzegovina where he joined forces with the Croatian Defence Council and committed numerous crimes against civilians in the region. He left Bosnia and Herzegovina a few months later for Croatia, and lived on the Dalmatian coast before traveling through a number of European countries and finally relocating to Belgium. He was found dead in a canal near the German border by two hitch-hikers on 31 December 1993. In 2001, documents detailing wartime conversations between then president of Croatia Franjo Tuđman and president of the Croatian parliament Stjepan Mesić were declassified. In one part of these documents, Mesić revealed his suspicions that Bosnian Croat extremists were to blame for Prazina’s death. The most concrete links came from an unsuccessful six-year investigation by the Bavarian Criminal Police.
1993

Marcel Jean

French art historian and painter (1900–1993)
Marcel Jean (1900 in La Charité-sur-Loire, France - 4 December 1993 in Louveciennes, France) was a French painter, writer, and sculptor who joined the surrealist movement in 1933. He is perhaps best known for his trompe l'oeil painting Armoire Surrealiste now in the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. His work is also in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and that of MoMA in New York City.
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He authored two books on the history of Surrealism, Surrealism Histoire de la Peinture Surréaliste and L’Autobiographie du Surréalisme. Jean was a close friend of Marcel Duchamp.
1993

Paul Roudakoff

American Army officer
Paul P. Roudakoff (17 December 1907 – 4 December 1993) was a Lt. Colonel in the U.S.
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Army, serving in 1945 through 1948 as Executive Officer and Deputy Chief, and later as Chief, of the Liaison and Protocol section at OMGUS (Office of the Military Governor, United States) in Berlin, Germany. Retaining his assignment, he moved to the United States Department of State, serving through 1953.
1993

Roy Vernon

Welsh footballer (1937-1993)
Thomas Royston Vernon (14 April 1937 – 4 December 1993) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a forward for Blackburn Rovers, Everton and Stoke City. Vernon won 32 caps for Wales, scoring eight goals in total, and representing his country in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.
1994

Beate Mulholland

Norwegian children's writer
Beate Audum Mulholland (8 December 1944 – 4 December 1994) was a Norwegian children's writer.
1994

Čedo Grbić

politician in Yugoslavia and Croatia
Čedo Grbić (8 April 1921 – 4 December 1994) was a Croatian Serb communist politician. Grbić was born in Rajić, a village near Novska. In 1937, he became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ).
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After the invasion of Yugoslavia during the World War II, Grbić joined the KPJ-led Yugoslav Partisans and became the political commissar of the 2nd Battalion of the 12th Slavonian Proletarian Shock Brigade. He subsequently also performed the function of the political commissar of the entire brigade and of the 28th Division. In August 1943, Grbić also became the political commissar of an Anti-Chetnik Battalion established in the Western Slavonia, composed entirely of ethnic Serbs, to fight against the Nazi-collaborating Chetniks in the area. After the war, Grbić became the political commissar of the Zagreb-district of the Yugoslav Army and the chief of security service of the Zagreb-district command, holding the rank of a colonel. He was awarded the Order of the People's Hero. Grbić held the posts of minister of trade and industry in the government of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, and was member of the central committee of the KPJ, then renamed League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ), and a member of the central committee of the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH). In 1971, during the Croatian Spring, Grbić was among the officials whose resignations were demanded by the Croatian Student Federation. The federation organised a student strike in which 30,000 students were demanding the expulsion of Grbić, along with Jure Bilić, Dušan Dragosavac, Milutin Baltić, and Ema Derossi-Bjelajac from the SKH, accusing them of opposing the policies of the SKH leaders Savka Dabčević-Kučar and Miko Tripalo. In particular, they were accused of promoting greater centralisation of Yugoslavia and reduction of powers devolved to Croatia. After the purge of the SKH leadership and the end of the Croatian Spring, Grbić used his position of the deputy speaker of the Croatian Parliament to uphold the policies put in place by the leadership ousted in 1971 and opposed calls for revanchism. Namely, even though Grbić held Yugoslavist ideas, he publicly opposed greater centralisation of Yugoslavia since 1967 and advocated emancipation of national identities within the framework of Yugoslavia. Grbić was also a member of the Parliament of Yugoslavia and the advisory Council of the Federation. Grbić went on to become the president of the Constitutional Court of Croatia. Historian Sabrina P. Ramet linked the origin of pressure for privatisation of Yugoslav state-owned economy to statements in favour of this process by Grbić in mid-1986.
1994

Hans Müller (physician)

German physician (1915-1994)
Dr. Hans Müller (13 January 1915 – 4 December 1994, Chinese: 汉斯·米勒; pinyin: Hànsī Mǐlè) was a German-Jewish physician who immigrated to China and made contributions to improving health care in China over several decades. Müller contributed in the research effort into hepatitis B and development of a vaccine, in addition, he became the Vice President of Beijing Medical University in China. Müller was also elected a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
1994 Ichiro Ogimura

Ichiro Ogimura

Japanese table tennis player (1932–1994)
Ichiro Ogimura (荻村 伊智朗, Ogimura Ichirō; June 25, 1932 – December 4, 1994) was a Japanese table tennis player, coach, president of the ITTF and former World No. 1 who won 12 World championship titles during his career. Ogimura was also a key figure in the Ping Pong Diplomacy events of the early 1970s, as well as being instrumental in Korea playing as a unified team at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships.
1994

Jock Gibson

fencer (1921-1994)
John Henry Gibson (25 March 1921 – 4 December 1994) was an Australian épée, foil and sabre fencer. He competed in five events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
1994 Mary Blade

Mary Blade

American engineer
Mary Plumb Blade (20 January 1913 – 4 December 1994) was an American engineer, director of the Green Camp from 1955 to 1972, and full-time professor of mechanical engineering in the engineering school of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art from 1946 to 1978.
1994

Reaves Baysinger

American football player and coach (1902–1994)
Reaves Henry Baysinger (February 22, 1902 – December 4, 1994) was the head football coach at Syracuse from 1947 to 1948. Despite his strong ties to the university he only produced a 4–14 (.222) record. On a higher note, in 1927, he coached the freshman basketball team to an undefeated 23–0 record.
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Baysinger played college football as a guard and end at Syracuse. During his senior season, he was an honorable mention all-American. He also played basketball as a point guard, and baseball as an outfielder. Baysinger played one game in the NFL as a member of the Rochester Jeffersons in 1924. He died in 1994.
1994

Rudolf Riedl

Austrian speed skater
Rudolf Riedl (7 June 1907 – 4 December 1994) was an Austrian speed skater. He competed in four events at the 1928 Winter Olympics.
1994

Russ Scarritt

American baseball player (1903-1994)
Stephen Russell Mallory Scarritt (January 14, 1903 – December 4, 1994) was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1929 through 1932 for the Boston Red Sox (1929–1931) and Philadelphia Phillies (1933). Listed at 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), 165 lb, Scarritt batted left-handed and threw right-handed. A native of Pensacola, Florida, he attended University of Florida.
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In a four-season career, Scarritt was a .285 hitter (296-for-1037) with three home runs and 120 RBI in 285 games, including 119 runs, 44 doubles, 25 triples and a 17 stolen bases. In 265 outfield appeared, he collected a .956 fielding percentage (28 errors in 631 chances). Scarritt died at the age of 91 in his home town of Pensacola, Florida.
1994

Tom Reaney

New Zealand cricketer
Thomas Philip Lewis Reaney (11 August 1909 – 4 December 1994) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in seven first-class matches for Wellington and Central Districts from 1927 to 1951.
1995

Allel El Mouhib

Algerian actor
Allel El Mouhib born on 1 March 1920 in Algiers and died on 4 December 1995 (in Arabic : علال المحب) was an Algerian actor. He is known for his work in Algerian films from the 1960s to the 1980s.
1995

Arthur "Smokestack" Hardy

Fire Buff and memorabilia collector of African American fire arcana (1901-1995)
Arthur "Smokestack" Hardy (April 2, 1901 – December 4, 1995) was a volunteer fire fighter, photographer, black fire historian and collector of fire memorabilia (fire buff). He was the first African-American firefighter in Baltimore, Maryland. There is a museum of his collection of fire related artifacts in West Baltimore curated by Guy Cephas, a fellow Retired Auxiliary firefighter.
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Baltimore has named one of their fire stations after him.
1995

Giorgio Bocchino

fencer (1913–1995)
Giorgio Bocchino (14 July 1913 – 4 December 1995) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold and bronze medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
1995

Hans-Ulrich Zbinden

Swiss bookseller and politician
Hans-Ulrich Zbinden (13 November 1932 – 4 December 1995) was a Swiss bookseller, publishing representative, and Socialist politician who was active in cultural policy in Zurich. He served on the Zurich Municipal Council from 1974 to 1990 and was president of the city's Social Democratic Party from 1983 to 1985.
1995 Jerry White (criminal)

Jerry White (criminal)

American murderer (1948–1995)
Jerry White (February 12, 1948 – December 4, 1995) was executed by electric chair by the state of Florida in 1995 for the murder of James Melson, a shopper in a grocery store that White robbed in Orange County in 1981. White's execution was noteworthy due to witnesses reporting that White had an unusual reaction to the electricity. Later two separate death row inmates, Phillip Atkins and Thomas Harrison Provenzano, attempted to use White's execution as evidence that Florida's electric chair was malfunctioning and subjected death row inmates to cruel and unusual punishment.
1995 Leonidas Berry

Leonidas Berry

American physician (1902-1995)
Leonidas Harris Berry (20 July 1902 – 4 December 1995) was an American and pioneer in gastroscopy and endoscopy. He served as the president of the National Medical Association from 1965 to 1966.
1995 Little Beaver (wrestler)

Little Beaver (wrestler)

Canadian professional wrestler (1934–1995)
Lionel Giroux (January 14, 1934 – December 4, 1995) was a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Little Beaver. He is best known for his appearance in a six-man tag team match at WrestleMania III in 1987.
1995

Petar Gligorovski

Macedonian artist and film director (1938-1995)
Petar Gligorovski (Macedonian: Петар Глигоровски, pronounced [pɛ'tar gligɔ'rɔfski]; February 3, 1938 - December 4, 1995) was a Yugoslav and Macedonian animated film director and surrealist artist.
1995

Robert Parrish

American film director (1916–1995)
Robert Reese Parrish (January 4, 1916 – December 4, 1995) was an American film editor, director and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on Body and Soul (1947).
1995

Warren Ambrose

American mathematician (1914-1995)
Warren Arthur Ambrose (October 25, 1914 – December 4, 1995) was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Buenos Aires. He was born in Virden, Illinois in 1914. He received his bachelor of science degree in 1935, his master's in 1936 and his Ph.D. in 1939, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
1995

William S. Kroger

American physician
William Saul Kroger (April 14, 1906 – December 4, 1995) was an American physician who pioneered the use of hypnosis in medicine and was co-founder and founder of medical societies and academies dedicated to furthering psychosomatic medicine and medical hypnosis. Though he was trained as a gynecologist/obstetrician, his contributions to the medical field cut across disciplines and specialties in the medical field, including psychiatry, psychosomatic illness and treatment, endocrinology, neurobiology and bioengineering as well as his own specialty of gynecology and obstetrics. He is the author of the medical textbook Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, considered to be a classic instructional aid in the use of hypnosis in medical settings, as well as co-authoring Psychosomatic Gynecology, Including Problems of Obstetrical Care and Hypnosis and Behavior Modification: Imagery Conditioning, among others.
1996 Albert Winsemius

Albert Winsemius

Dutch economist (1910-1996)
Albert Winsemius (26 February 1910 – 4 December 1996) was a Dutch economist best known for serving as an economic adviser to Singapore between 1961 and 1984. He led the United Nations Survey Mission to Singapore and played a major role in the formulation of Singapore's national economic development strategy.
1996

Ans Wortel

Dutch painter, poet and writer (1929-1996)
Ans (Anna Maria) Wortel (18 October 1929, in Alkmaar, Netherlands – 4 December 1996, in Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands) was a Dutch painter, poet and writer. She made gouaches and oil paintings, aquarelles, drawings, collages, lithographs, etchings, sculptures and glass sculptures. She was an autodidact and won the first prize at the biennale of Paris in 1963.
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She was one of the leading female artists of postwar Dutch modern art. There are some 50 books with contributions from or about Wortel.
1996

Azharul Islam

Bangladeshi politician
Mohammad Azharul Islam (Bengali: মোহম্মদ আজহারুল ইসলাম; 1944 – 4 December 1996) was a Bangladesh politician. He was a former member of parliament for Nilphamari-3.
1996

Basil Nield

British politician (1903-1996)
Sir Basil Edward Nield (7 May 1903 – 4 December 1996) was a British judge and Conservative Party politician. Following the death in 1940 of Sir Charles Cayzer, the member of parliament (MP) for the City of Chester, Nield was elected in a by-election to take his seat in the House of Commons. He held the seat through four subsequent general elections before his appointment as Recorder of Manchester led to the by-election in 1956.
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He was Recorder of Manchester from 1956 to 1960. As a QC he was appointed as a judge to the newly formed Manchester Crown Court, and to the High Court Bench in 1960. According to Graeme Williams, he had the distinction of serving in every Assize town in England & Wales, and published an account of these in 1972 in his book Farewell to the Assizes.
1996

Boni Boyer

American singer
Boni Boyer (July 28, 1958 – December 4, 1996) was an American vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. She was best known for her work with Prince in the late 1980s.
1996

Ernie Harris (cricketer)

Welsh cricketer (1919-1996)
Wilfred Ernest Harris (24 April 1919 – 4 December 1996) was a former Welsh cricketer. Harris was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-pace. He was born at Cardiff, Glamorgan.
1996

Jan Čuřík

Czech cinematographer (1924-1996)
Jan Čuřík (1 November 1924 – 4 December 1996) was a Czech cinematographer whose work was featured in many Czechoslovak films.
1996

José Antonio González Caviedes

Spanish politician (1938-1996)
José Antonio González Caviedes (28 November 1938 – 4 December 1996) was a Spanish politician. He was mayor of the small town of Olmedo, and later served as People's Party senator for Valladolid from 1989 until his death in 1996. He died after suffering a heart attack whilst driving, which caused his car (a Mercedes Benz 300-TD) to collide with a lorry.
1996

Leon Polk Smith

American painter (1906-1996)
Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996) was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and he is a follower of the hard-edge school. His best-known paintings constitute maximally reduced forms, characterized by just two colors on a canvas meeting in a sharply delineated edge, often on an unframed canvas of unusual shape.
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His work is represented in many museums in the United States, Europe, and South America. Thanks to a generous bequest from the artist, the Brooklyn Museum owns a number of his works.
1996

Syd Heylen

Australian actor and comedian (1922–1996)
Syd Heylen (25 May 1923 – 4 December 1996), born as Harold Sydney Charles Heylen) credited variously as Syd Heylen, Sid Heylen and Sydney Heylen, was an Australian character actor of radio, stage, television and film, comedian, and variety performer and soldier, he often performed in a traditional vaudeville style in the vein of Roy Rene.
1996 Willard Parker

Willard Parker

American actor (1912-1996)
Willard Parker (born Worster Van Eps; February 5, 1912 – December 4, 1996) was an American film and television actor. He starred in the TV series Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955–1958).
1997

Richard Vernon

film, television actor (1925-1997)
Richard Evelyn Vernon (7 March 1925 – 4 December 1997) was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic or supercilious roles. Prematurely balding and greying, Vernon settled into playing archetypal middle-aged lords and military types while still in his 30s.
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He played Slartibartfast in the radio adaptation and the TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the lead role of Edwin Oldenshaw in The Man in Room 17 (1965–67), the mutton-chopped Major Smith-Barton in The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–77), Sir James Greenley alias "C" in The Sandbaggers (1978–80), and Sir Desmond Glazebrook in Yes Minister (1980–81) and its sequel series Yes, Prime Minister (1987).
2004 Carl Esmond

Carl Esmond

Austrian actor (1902–2004)
Willy Eichberger (born Carl Cäsar Willy Simon; June 14, 1902– December 4, 2004) was an Austrian actor, credited in most of his English-language roles as Carl Esmond. He had a successful stage and screen career in Europe, before emigrating to the United States in the late 1930s as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
2004 Elena Souliotis

Elena Souliotis

Greek soprano and actress (born 1943)
Elena Souliotis was a Greek operatic soprano.
2005 Errol Brathwaite

Errol Brathwaite

New Zealand soldier and author (born 1924)
Errol Freeman Brathwaite was a New Zealand author.
2005 Gloria Lasso

Gloria Lasso

Spanish singer (1922–2005)
Rosa Vicenta Montserrat Coscolín Figueras (28 October 1922 – 4 December 2005) known professionally as Gloria Lasso was a Spanish-born canción melódica singer, long based in France. In the 1950s, she was one of the major competitors to Dalida. Born in Vilafranca del Penedès (Barcelona) in Catalonia, Spain, she achieved a degree of fame and success in the 1950s and 1960s, with songs such as Amour, castagnettes et tango (1955), Etranger au paradis (1956, a French version of Stranger in paradise by Tony Bennett), Buenas noches mi amor (1957) and Bon voyage (1958).
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Eventually superseded by Dalida, she moved to Mexico, but attempted a comeback to France in 1985 performing at the Paris Olympia. She was reportedly married six times. She died from a myocardial infarction, aged 83, at her Cuernavaca, Mexico home.
2006

Joseph Ki-Zerbo

Burkinabé historian, politician and writer (1922-2006)
Joseph Ki-Zerbo (June 21, 1922 – December 4, 2006, Burkina Faso) was a Burkinabé historian, politician and writer. He is recognized as one of Africa's foremost thinkers. From 1972 to 1978 he was a professor of African History at the University of Ouagadougou.
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In 1983, he was forced into exile, only being able to return in 1992. Ki-Zerbo founded the Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party. He was its chairman until 2005, and represented it in the Burkina Faso parliament until his death in 2006. A socialist and an advocate of African independence and unity, Ki-Zerbo was also a vocal opponent of Thomas Sankara's revolutionary government.
2006 K. Ganeshalingam

K. Ganeshalingam

Sri Lankan accountant and politician, Mayor of Colombo (born 1938)
Kanagasabai Ganeshalingam was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician. He was Mayor of Colombo.
2006

Len Sutton

racecar driver
Len Sutton (August 9, 1925 – December 3, 2006) was an American racecar driver. He is best known for finishing second at the 1962 Indianapolis 500.
2007

Carlos "Patato" Valdes

Conga player (1926-2007)
Carlos Valdés Galán (November 4, 1926 – December 4, 2007), better known as Patato, was a Cuban conga player. In 1954, he emigrated from La Habana to New York City where he continued his prolific career as a sideman for several jazz and Latin music ensembles, and occasionally as a bandleader. He contributed to the development of the tunable conga drum which revolutionized the use of the instrument in the US.
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His experimental descarga albums recorded for Latin Percussion are considered the counterpart to the commercial salsa boom of the 1970s. Tito Puente once called him "the greatest conguero alive today".
2007 Chip Reese

Chip Reese

American poker player (1951–2007)
David Edward "Chip" Reese (March 28, 1951 – December 4, 2007) was an American professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Ohio. He is widely regarded as having been the greatest cash game poker player of his era.
2007

Norval Morrisseau

Anishinaabe [Sand Point, Ontario] artist (1933–2007)
Norval Morrisseau (March 14, 1932 – December 4, 2007), also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an Indigenous Canadian artist from the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation. He is widely regarded as the grandfather of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. Known as the "Picasso of the North," Morrisseau created works depicting the legends of his people, the cultural and political tensions between native Canadian and European traditions, his existential struggles, and his deep spirituality and mysticism.
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His style is characterized by thick black outlines and bright colors. He founded the Woodlands School of Canadian art and was a prominent member of the "Indian Group of Seven."
2008 Forrest J Ackerman

Forrest J Ackerman

American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia (1916-2008)
Forrest James Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor; science fiction writer, and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films; a prominent advocate of the Esperanto language; and one of the world's most avid collectors of genre books and film memorabilia. He was based in Los Angeles, California. As a literary agent, Ackerman represented such science fiction authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, A.
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E. van Vogt, Curt Siodmak, and L. Ron Hubbard. For more than 70 years, he was one of science fiction's staunchest spokesmen and promoters. He was the founding editor and principal writer of the American magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, published by Warren Publishing. He co-created the character Vampirella, whose name was a play on that of the titular character in the 1968 Jane Fonda film Barbarella. Ackerman also acted in films from the 1950s into the 21st century. He appears in several documentaries related to this period in popular culture, like Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (directed by Michael R. MacDonald and written by Ian Johnston), which premiered at the Egyptian Theatre in March 2009, during the Forrest J Ackerman tribute; The Ackermonster Chronicles! (a 2012 documentary about Ackerman by writer and filmmaker Jason V. Brock); and Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man, about late author Charles Beaumont, a former client of The Ackerman Agency. Also called "Forry", "Uncle Forry", "The Ackermonster", "Dr. Acula", "Forjak", "4e", and "4SJ", Ackerman was central to the formation, organization, and spread of science fiction fandom and a key figure in the wider cultural perception of science fiction as a literary, art, and film genre. Famous for his word play and neologisms, he coined the genre nickname "sci-fi". In 1953, he was voted "#1 Fan Personality" by the members of the World Science Fiction Society, a unique Hugo Award never granted to anyone else. Ackerman was also among the first and most outspoken advocates of Esperanto in the science fiction community.
2009

Harold Bell

Marketer (1919-2009)
Harold Bell (October 5, 1919 – December 4, 2009) was an American marketer and merchandising executive who co-created Woodsy Owl, the mascot of the United States Forest Service. Bell created Woodsy Owl with two U.S. park rangers, Chuck Williams and Glenn Kovar, and another colleague, Betty Hite, for the first Earth Day in 1970. Woodsy Owl is best known for the motto, "Give a hoot, don’t pollute!".
2009

Stephen Toulmin

English philosopher (1922–2009)
Stephen Edelston Toulmin (; 25 March 1922 – 4 December 2009) was a British philosopher, author, and educator. Influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toulmin devoted his works to the analysis of moral reasoning. Throughout his writings, he sought to develop practical arguments that can be used effectively in evaluating the ethics behind moral issues.
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His works were later found useful in the field of rhetoric, primarily for analyzing rhetorical arguments. The Toulmin model of argumentation, a diagram containing six interrelated components used for analyzing arguments, and published in his 1958 book The Uses of Argument, was considered his most influential work, particularly in the field of rhetoric and communication, and in computer science.
2009 Umaga (wrestler)

Umaga (wrestler)

American professional wrestler
Edward Smith Fatu (March 28, 1973 – December 4, 2009) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), under the ring name Umaga. Fatu was also known for his tenure in All Japan Pro Wrestling in the mid-2000s, under the ring name Jamal.
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He was a member of the Anoaʻi family, a renowned Samoan wrestling family. During his first stint with WWE billed as Jamal, he was part of tag team 3-Minute Warning, with his cousin Matt Anoaʻi, billed as Rosey. He was released from the company in June 2003, later going to All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and becoming a mainstay for the company from late 2003 to 2005. In April 2006, Fatu returned to WWE under the ring name Umaga. Fatu went undefeated on the Raw brand throughout the year before finally suffering his first defeat in January 2007 at the hands of then WWE Champion John Cena. The following month, he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship for the first time, and won it for the second time in July 2007. He also appeared in the "Battle of the Billionaires" WrestleMania 23 match as Vince McMahon's representative. He was released by WWE in June 2009 and wrestled on the independent circuit until his death in December of that year.
2009 Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Soviet and Russian actor (1928–2009)
Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (Russian: Вячеслав Васильевич Тихонов; 8 February 1928 – 4 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian actor whose best-known role was as Soviet spy Stierlitz in the television series Seventeen Moments of Spring. He was a recipient of numerous state awards, including the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982).
2011 Adam Hanuszkiewicz

Adam Hanuszkiewicz

Polish actor (1924-2011)
Adam Hanuszkiewicz (16 June 1924 – 4 December 2011) was a Polish actor and theater director. He was known for his involvement in Television Theater, as well as for his invaluable stage and film works.
2011

Besim Kabashi

kickboxer (1976-2011)
Besim Kabashi (27 February 1976 – 4 December 2011) was a Kosovar-German kickboxer who competed in the light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions. He began his training in Germany after emigrating from Kosovo and initially competed as a -79 kg/174 lb fighter before moving up through the weight classes until eventually reaching heavyweight. After stints as a German and European champion, Kabashi won the WKA World Heavyweight Muay Thai title in 2008 which he held until his death in December 2011.
2011 Mary Ellen Avery

Mary Ellen Avery

American pediatrician (1927-2011)
Mary Ellen Avery (May 6, 1927 – December 4, 2011), also known as Mel, was an American pediatrician. In the 1950s, Avery's pioneering research efforts helped lead to the discovery of the main cause of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in premature babies: her identification of surfactant led to the development of replacement therapy for premature infants and has been credited with saving over 830,000 lives. Her childhood, mentors, drive, and education inspired Avery to be the visionary that she was.
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In 1991 President George H. W. Bush conferred the National Medal of Science on Avery for her work on RDS.
2011 Sócrates

Sócrates

Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1954)
Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, simply known as Sócrates, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder.
2012

Besse Cooper

American supercentenarian (1896–2012)
Besse Berry Cooper (née Brown; August 26, 1896 – December 4, 2012) was an American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest living person from June 21, 2011 until her death in 2012.
2012 Jean Bollack

Jean Bollack

French philosopher and philologist (1923-2012)
Jean Bollack (15 March 1923 – 4 December 2012) was a French philosopher, philologist and literary critic.
2013 Joana Raspall i Juanola

Joana Raspall i Juanola

Spanish author and poet (born 1913)
Joana Raspall i Juanola was a Spanish writer and librarian. She was born in Barcelona and died in Sant Feliu de Llobregat.
2015 Erik De Vlaeminck

Erik De Vlaeminck

Belgian cyclist (1945–2015)
Erik De Vlaeminck (23 March 1945 − 4 December 2015) was a Belgian cyclist who became cyclo-cross world-champion seven times (in 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973), a record for male riders until it was equalled and eventually surpassed by Mathieu van der Poel.
2016 Gotlib

Gotlib

French comics author and publisher (1934–2016)
Marcel Gottlieb (14 July 1934 – 4 December 2016), known professionally as Gotlib, was a French comics creator and publisher. Through his own work and the magazines he co-founded, L'Écho des savanes and Fluide Glacial, he was a key figure in the switch in French-language comics from their children's entertainment roots to an adult tone and readership. His series include Rubrique-à-Brac, Gai-Luron, and Superdupont.
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His comedy ranges from absurd, metafictional stories to satire with pop culture references and dark, scatological comedy.
2016

Jean-Loup Passek

French film critic (1936-2016)
Jean-Loup Passek (29 July 1936 – 4 December 2016) was a French film critic. He was the director of cinematic collections at the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the author of several books about cinema.
2016

Tadeusz Chmielewski

Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer (1927-2016)
Tadeusz Chmielewski (Polish pronunciation: [taˈdɛ.uʂ xmjɛˈlɛfskʲi]; 7 June 1927 – 4 December 2016) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer, most notable for being one of the pioneers of popular Polish comedy. During World War II and until 1948, he was a soldier for the National Armed Forces and the Home Army.
2017 Ali Abdullah Saleh

Ali Abdullah Saleh

President of North Yemen (1978–1990) and Yemen (1990–2012)
Ali Abdullah Saleh (21 March 1947 – 4 December 2017) was a Yemeni military officer and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Yemen from the Yemeni unification in 1990 until his resignation in 2012, following the Yemeni revolution. Previously, he had served as the fifth and last President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen), from July 1978 to 22 May 1990, after the assassination of President Ahmad al-Ghashmi. al-Ghashmi had earlier appointed Saleh as military governor in Taiz. A veteran and officer of the North Yemen civil war, Saleh consolidated power and restored civilian rule after al-Ghashmi's assassination in 1978.
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Despite military defeat against South Yemen in the Second Yemenite War, a rebellion, and multiple coup attempts, Saleh, though challenged with stagnant economic growth and significant poverty, had managed to bring stability to North Yemen by the mid 1980's, and enjoyed support from both the United States and the Soviet Union. After South Yemen had become unstable following the 1986 crisis and the fall of communism, Saleh achieved reunification as President of the new Republic of Yemen, sharing power in tandem with South Yemen's last leader and transitional Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh, prominent general Mohsen al-Ahmar and tribal Sheikh and leader of the Islamist Islah movement, Abdullah al-Ahmar, through a Presidential Council. Due to apparent North–South divisions, al-Beidh left the Council in 1993, and in the brief civil war that followed, Saleh's forces, assisted by jihadists such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, roundly defeated Southern forces in July 1994. From 1994 onward, Saleh returned to autocratic rule through rule by decree, and was confirmed by elections in 1999, 2006, and a controversial constitutional referendum in 2001. Until 2011, he presided over stable economic growth and an insurgency by the Ansar Allah movement, commonly known as the Houthis. As President of unified Yemen, Saleh and the Presidential Council alienated the US and Saudi governments by expressing opposition to the Gulf War, which prompted an exodus of over 800,000 Yemenis from Saudi Arabia, but after Saleh consolidated absolute power, he developed deeper ties with Western powers, especially the United States, during the war on terror. Subsequently, evidence emerged that Islamic terrorism may have been used and encouraged by Saleh in order to win Western support and for disruptive politically motivated attacks. In 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring, which spread across North Africa and the Middle East (including Yemen), Saleh's time in office became increasingly precarious, culminating in his final resignation from the presidency in 2012. He was succeeded by Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who had been serving as vice president since 1994, and acting president since 2011, and who was elected president in the 2012 Yemeni presidential election. Himself a Zaydi Shia Muslim, Saleh openly allied with the Houthis in May 2015 during the Yemeni civil war, in which a protest movement and subsequent insurgency succeeded in capturing Yemen's capital, Sanaa, forcing President Hadi to resign and later flee to Aden, where he withdrew his resignation and denounced the Houthi takeover as illegitimate. In December 2017, he declared his withdrawal from his coalition with the Houthis and instead sided with his former enemies – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and President al-Hadi. On 4 December 2017, during a battle between Houthi and Saleh supporters in Sanaa, the Houthis accused Saleh of treason, and he was killed by a Houthi sniper. Reports were that Saleh was killed while trying to flee his compound in a car; however, this was denied by his party officials, who said he was killed at his house.
2017

Armenak Alachachian

Soviet basketball player and coach (1930-2017)
Armenak Misakovich Alachachian (alternate spellings: Alachachyan, Alatchatchan, Alajajian) (Armenian: Արմենակ Միսակի Ալաջաջյան, December 25, 1930 – December 4, 2017) was an Armenian-Soviet basketball player and coach. During his club playing career, the point guard reached European stardom with CSKA Moscow and the senior men's Soviet Union national team. He was the first person to ever win a EuroLeague title, as both a player and a head coach.
2017 Christine Keeler

Christine Keeler

English model and showgirl (1942–2017)
Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the height of the Cold War, she became sexually involved with a married British government minister, John Profumo, as well as with a Soviet naval attaché, Yevgeny Ivanov.
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A shooting incident involving a third lover caused the press to investigate her, revealing that her affairs could be threatening national security. In the House of Commons, Profumo denied any improper conduct but later admitted to having lied. This incident discredited the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan in 1963, in what became known as the Profumo affair. Keeler was alleged to have been a prostitute, which was not a criminal offence. Ward was, however, found guilty of being her pimp; a trial was instigated after the embarrassment caused to the government. The trial has since been considered a miscarriage of justice and a charade orchestrated by the establishment to protect itself.
2017

Gregory Rigters

Surinamese association football player and bicycle racer (1985-2017)
Gregory Walter Rigters (26 February 1985 – 4 December 2017) was a Surinamese footballer. Rigters last played as a forward for Walking Boyz Company in the Hoofdklasse, and for the Suriname national team. He died following a traffic collision on 4 December 2017.
2017 Henning Jensen

Henning Jensen

Danish footballer (1949-2017)
Henning Jensen (17 August 1949 – 4 December 2017) was a Danish football player who played professionally for German club Borussia Mönchengladbach, Spanish club Real Madrid and Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam where he won the domestic league championship in each country. He scored nine goals in 21 games for the Denmark national team from 1972 to 1980.
2017 Manuel Marín

Manuel Marín

Spanish politician (1949–2017)
Manuel Marín González (21 October 1949 – 4 December 2017) was a Spanish politician, former President of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was a long-time member of the European Commission, and acting president during the Santer Commission following the resignation of Jacques Santer. He is considered the father of the Erasmus Programme.
2018

Nh. Dini

Indonesian writer (1936-2018)
Nurhayati Srihardini Siti Nukatin Coffin (29 February 1936 – 4 December 2018), better known by her pen name Nh. Dini (sometimes NH Dini in English), was an Indonesian novelist and feminist. She was the mother of Pierre Coffin, a French director and animator known for the Despicable Me franchise.
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She was one of the recipients of the literature award from the SEA Write Award in 2003.
2018 Selma Engel-Wijnberg

Selma Engel-Wijnberg

Dutch Holocaust survivor (1922–2018)
Selma Engel-Wijnberg (born Saartje "Selme" Wijnberg; 15 May 1922 – 4 December 2018) was one of only two Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivors of the Sobibor extermination camp. She escaped during the 1943 uprising, hid in Poland, and survived the war. Engel-Wijnberg emigrated to the United States from Israel with her family in 1957, settling in Branford, Connecticut.
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She returned to Europe again only to testify against the war criminals of Sobibor. In 2010 she was in the Netherlands to receive the governmental honour of Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.
2018 Sidy Lamine Niasse

Sidy Lamine Niasse

Senegalese lawyer
Sidy Lamine Niasse (15 August 1950 – 4 December 2018) was a Senegalese lawyer, teacher, journalist, and religious guide. He was the founder and CEO of the Senegalese press group WalFadjri.
2019 Bob Willis

Bob Willis

English cricketer (1949-2019)
Robert George Dylan Willis (30 May 1949 – 4 December 2019) was an English cricketer, who represented England between 1971 and 1984. A right-handed fast bowler, Willis is regarded by many as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. He was a part of the English squad that finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup.
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As of June 2023 he was England's fourth-highest wicket-taker, behind James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Ian Botham. Willis took 899 first-class wickets overall. He continued to find success, taking a Test career-best eight wickets for 43 runs in the 1981 Ashes series against Australia, one of the all-time best Test bowling performances. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1978. In addition to the Test arena, Willis played 64 One Day International matches for his country, taking 80 wickets, and was a prolific List-A (one-day) cricketer with 421 wickets overall at 20.18. As a tail-ender, Willis made little impression with the bat, with a top Test score of 28 not-out (*); however, he managed two half-centuries at first-class level, and for a time held a record number of Test not-outs. Willis captained the England team in 18 Tests and 28 ODI matches between June 1982 and March 1984. Under Willis's captaincy England won seven, lost five and drew six Tests, and won 16 of the ODIs. Botham recalled Willis as "a tremendous trier.. a great team-man and an inspiration", as well as the "only world-class fast bowler in my time as an England player". The editor of Wisden wrote of him in similar terms: "His indomitable service to England is handsomely reflected in his great collection of Test wickets. Although often beset with aches and pains, he never spared himself when bowling for his country." Retiring in 1984 during a Test series against the West Indies, Willis found later work as a commentator with Sky Sports. He formed a noted commentary partnership with Botham; however, Willis' relatively low-key style, in contrast to Botham's ebullience, meant that from 2006 onwards Willis tended to be used as a second-string commentator. He remained an often-heard broadcaster, a published writer and an occasional critic of the modern game. On the occasion of England's 1000th Test in August 2018, he was named in the country's greatest Test XI by the ECB. The Bob Willis Trophy was established in the 2020 English cricket season in his honour. In June 2021, he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame as one of the special inductees to mark the inaugural edition of the ICC World Test Championship final.
2019

Javier Aguirre (director)

Spanish film director, writer and producer (1935–2019)
Javier Aguirre Fernández (13 June 1935 – 4 December 2019) was a Spanish film director, writer and producer.
2019

Leonard Goldberg

American film and television producer (1934-2019)
Leonard J. Goldberg (January 24, 1934 – December 4, 2019) was an American film and television producer. He had his own production company, Panda Productions (formerly Mandy Films, and earlier Daydream Productions when he was working with Jerry Weintraub).
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He served as head of programming for ABC, and was president of 20th Century Fox. Goldberg was also the executive producer of the CBS series Blue Bloods.
2019 Margaret Morgan Lawrence

Margaret Morgan Lawrence

American psychiatrist
Margaret Cornelia Morgan Lawrence (August 19, 1914 – December 4, 2019) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, gaining those qualifications in 1948. Her work included clinical care, teaching, and research, particularly into the presence and development of ego strength in inner-city families. Lawrence studied young children identified as "strong" by their teachers in Georgia and Mississippi, as well as on sabbatical in Africa in 1973, writing two books on mental health of children and inner-city families.
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Lawrence was chief of the Developmental Psychiatry Service for Infants and Children (and their families) at Harlem Hospital for 21 years, as well as associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S), retiring in 1984.
2019 Rosa Morena

Rosa Morena

Spanish singer (1941–2019)
Rosa Morena (11 July 1941 – 4 December 2019) was a Spanish flamenco pop star who achieved international fame during the 1970s disco era, with the song, "Échale guindas al pavo". Morena was born in Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. Her career began at the age of 8.
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When she was 12 she debuted in Madrid and at the age of 15 she began a tour through the stages of France, Belgium, Latin America and United States, where she acted with artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Celia Cruz and Dean Martin. In New York City, she was considered by the critics as "The best artist in the City of Skyscrapers".
2019 Tetsu Nakamura

Tetsu Nakamura

Japanese-Afghan physician (1946-2019)
Tetsu Nakamura (中村 哲, Nakamura Tetsu; Pashto: تېتڅو ناکامورا), also known as Kaka Murad (Pashto: کاکا مراد, transl. "Uncle Nakamura"), (15 September 1946 – 4 December 2019), was a Japanese physician, humanitarian, and honorary Afghan citizen who headed Peace Japan Medical Services (PMS), an aid group known as Peshawar-kai in Japanese. Nakamura was devoted to building canal projects, from the Kunar River in eastern Afghanistan and was credited with transforming the desert of Gamberi, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, into lush forest and productive wheat farmland.
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He also constructed two hospitals and two mosques. In October 2019, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani granted him honorary Afghan citizenship. On 4 December 2019, as Nakamura was heading to work in his aid vehicle in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, he was assassinated by gunmen along with his bodyguards and driver. On 11 February 2021, sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan claimed that Amir Nawaz (also known as Haji Dubai) was the main suspect in Nakamura's death. Afghan and Pakistani officials claimed that Nawaz was killed in Afghanistan, and that he was a militant commander of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, an anti-Pakistan militant group operating along the Afghan–Pakistani border.
2019 Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser

German film historian (1943–2019)
Thomas Elsaesser (22 June 1943 – 4 December 2019) was a German film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He was also the writer and director of The Sun Island, a documentary essay film about his grandfather, the architect Martin Elsaesser. He was married to scholar Silvia Vega-Llona.
2020 Alain Bernaud

Alain Bernaud

French composer (1932–2020)
Alain Henri Bernaud (8 March 1932 – 4 December 2020) was a French composer.
2020

Narinder Singh Kapany

Indian physicist (1926-2020)
Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) was an Indian-American physicist and a pioneer in the field of fiber optics. Notably, Kapany is known for coining and popularising the term "fiber optics". Fortune named him one of seven "Unsung Heroes of the 20th Century" for his Nobel Prize-deserving invention.
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He was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, posthumously in 2021. He served as an Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) officer. He was also offered the post of Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister of India, by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. He was also associated with the Sikh Foundation and was involved in the preservation of Sikh artwork as a collector.
2020

William Kittredge

American writer (1932–2020)
William Kittredge (August 14, 1932 – December 4, 2020) was an American writer from Oregon, United States, who lived mostly in Missoula, Montana.
2021 Pierre Rabhi

Pierre Rabhi

French writer, farmer, and poet (1938-2021)
Pierre Rabhi (born Rabah Rabhi; 29 May 1938 – 4 December 2021) was a French writer, farmer, and environmentalist. Originally a Muslim, he converted to Christianity before abandoning that religion as well. Rabhi studied in France, and is considered an important figure in French agroecology.
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He invented the concept of an oasis en tous lieux ("an oasis in any place"). Rabhi advocated a society which respects its population and land, supporting the development of agricultural techniques which preserve natural resources. His theories relate particularly, although not exclusively, to arid countries. His use of anthroposophically based biodynamic agriculture was controversial. He died on 4 December 2021, at the age of 83.
2022

Manuel Göttsching

German musician (1952–2022)
Manuel Göttsching (9 September 1952 – 4 December 2022) was a German musician and composer. As the leader of the groups Ash Ra Tempel and Ashra in the 1970s and 80s, as well as a solo artist, he was one of the most influential guitarists of the Krautrock (also known as Kosmische Musik) genre. He also participated in the Cosmic Jokers sessions.
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His style and technique influenced dozens of artists in the post-Eno ambient and Berlin School of electronic music scenes in the 1980s and 1990s.
2022 Nick Bollettieri

Nick Bollettieri

American tennis coach (1931–2022)
Nicholas James Bollettieri (July 31, 1931 – December 4, 2022) was an American tennis coach. He pioneered the concept of a tennis boarding school, and helped develop many leading tennis players over several decades, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, and Maria Sharapova. Bollettieri was also a tour traveling coach, the last time having been for and with Boris Becker for a span of two years.
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Bollettieri was mentioned and/or profiled in several television series and documentary films, including Jason Kohn's documentary film Love Means Zero, which was premiered at the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2017.
2023

Gerald Comeau

Canadian politician
Gerald J. Comeau (February 1, 1946 – December 4, 2023) was a Canadian politician who served as a senator and as a member of Parliament.
2023

James L. Easton

American engineer and archer (1935–2023)
James Leland Easton (July 26, 1935 – December 4, 2023) was an American businessman, archer, and philanthropist. He served as the chairman, chief executive officer and President of BRG Sports. He was the President of the World Archery Federation from 1989 to 2005, and he was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1994.
2023

Josef Vacenovský

Czech soccer player (1937–2023)
Josef Vacenovský (9 July 1937 – 4 December 2023) was a Czech football forward who played for Czechoslovakia in the 1960 European Nations' Cup. He also played for Dukla Prague.
2023

Juanita Castro

sister of Fidel Castro, stateswoman (1933-2023)
Juana de la Caridad "Juanita" Castro Ruz (6 May 1933 – 4 December 2023) was a Cuban-American activist and writer, as well as the sister of Fidel and Raúl, both former presidents of Cuba, and Ramón, a key figure of the Cuban Revolution. Ideologically opposed to her brothers, she collaborated with the Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba from 1961 to 1964, after which she lived in exile in the United States until her death.
2023

Marius Frattini

French rugby league player (1941-)
Marius Frattini (20 June 1941 – 4 December 2023) was a French rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, as a halfback.
2023 Norman F. Ness

Norman F. Ness

American geophysicist (1933–2023)
Norman Frederick Ness (April 15, 1933 – December 4, 2023) was an American geophysicist.
2023

Volodia Vaisman

romanian-french chess player (1937–2023)
Volodia Vaisman (25 December 1937 – 4 December 2023) was a Romanian-French chess player. He became an International Master in 1975.
2024

Lucien Kassi-Kouadio

Ivorian association football player (1963–2024)
Lucien Kassi-Kouadio (5 May 1963 – 4 December 2024) was an Ivorian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made nine appearances for the Ivory Coast national team from 1983 to 1992. He was also named in Ivory Coast's squad for the 1990 African Cup of Nations tournament.
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Kassi-Kouadio died in Abidjan on 4 December 2024, at the age of 61.
2025 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Japanese actor (1950-2025)
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Japanese: 田川 洋行, romanized: Tagawa Hiroyuki; 27 September 1950 – 4 December 2025) was a Japanese-American actor and film producer who was best known for his role as the evil shapeshifter sorcerer Shang Tsung in various works of the Mortal Kombat franchise: he first played the character in the 1995 film adaptation, and reprised it in 2013 for the television series Mortal Kombat: Legacy and in 2019 for the video game Mortal Kombat 11. He appeared as Lt. A.J.
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Shimamura on 15 episodes of the American television series Nash Bridges. Often cast as villains, he became known for his film roles in: The Last Emperor (1987), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), American Me (1992), Rising Sun (1993), Mortal Kombat (1995), The Phantom (1996), Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Planet of the Apes (also 2001), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Tekken (2009), 47 Ronin (2013), Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge (2014), and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). He starred as Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi on the Amazon Prime television series The Man in the High Castle (2015–2018), and Hiroki Watanabe on the Netflix series Lost in Space (2018–2021).
2025 Mabel Bocchi

Mabel Bocchi

Italian basketball player (born 1953)
Liliana Mabel Bocchi (26 May 1953 – 4 December 2025) was an Italian basketball player.
2025

Roger Lumont

French actor
Roger Lumont (French: [ʁɔʒe lymɔ̃]; 21 February 1934 – 4 December 2025) was a French actor and artistic director. Lumont started his career in the theatre, notably being cast in La Grosse Valse, directed by Robert Dhéry. In film, he received leading roles in the productions Chance Glory and Le Voleur de feuilles.
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He worked for Synchro France as an artistic director, notably on the television series A Touch of Frost and Law & Order. Lumont died on 4 December 2025, at the age of 91.
2025

Tetsu Yamauchi

Japanese rock musician
Tetsu Yamauchi (山内 テツ, Yamauchi Tetsu; October 21, 1946 – December 4, 2025) was a Japanese musician. In the 1970s, he was a member of several popular rock bands, including Free, where he replaced original bassist Andy Fraser before the band's final album Heartbreaker, and Faces, where he replaced Ronnie Lane and appears on the band's final single, "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything", as well as touring with them and playing on the live album Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners. He also recorded various solo albums and did extensive work as a session musician before retiring from the music sometime in the late 1990s.

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