Notable Deaths on December 4

Q: Who died on December 4?

Notable people who died on December 4 include: John of Damascus, Carloman I, Suairlech ind Eidnén mac Ciaráin, Anno II, Omar Khayyám.

Q: What is Sócrates known for?

Sócrates, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1954)

2011 — Sócrates

Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1954)

December 4 has seen 101 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 749 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · December 4 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 101 people 749 – 2024

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Famous for his beard and the headband he wore during the 1986 World Cup in solidarity with victims of the Mexico City earthquake, Sócrates became the "symbol of cool for a whole generation of football supporters"

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In 1983, he was named South American Footballer of the Year

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In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players

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Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, simply known as Sócrates, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder

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His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with style and quality of his play, earned him the nickname "Doctor Socrates"

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…

749

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…

771

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…

870

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.

1075

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…

1131

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…

1214

Aymer de Valence

Bishop of Winchester (born 1222)

Aymer de Valence was a Bishop of Winchester around 1250.

1260

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…

1270

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…

1334

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…

1340

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…

1341

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…

1408

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.

1456

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.

1459

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…

1576

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. There he became noted as a zealous…

1585

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…

1603

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.

1609

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…

1637

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…

1642

William Drummond of Hawthornden

Scottish poet (born 1585)

William Drummond, called "of Hawthornden", was a Scottish poet.

1649

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…

1679

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.

1680

Empress Meishō of Japan (born 1624)

Okiko , posthumously honored as Empress Meishō , 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…

1696

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.

1728

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…

1732

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…

1798

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…

1828

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…

1839

David Daniel Davis

Welsh-English physician and academic (born 1777)

David Daniel Davis M.D. F.R.C.P. was a British physician.

1841

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…

1845

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.

1850

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…

1893

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.

1897

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.

1902

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,…

1926

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.

1932

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…

1933

Johan Halvorsen

Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1864)

Johan Halvorsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor, and violinist.

1935

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…

1935

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.

1938

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…

1938

Juhan Kukk

Estonian politician, 3rd Head of State of Estonia (born 1885)

Juhan (Johann) Kukk was an Estonian politician.

1942

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…

1942

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),…

1944

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.

1945

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.

1945

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…

1948

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…

1950

George Shepherd

1st Baron Shepherd (born 1881)

George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd PC, was a British Labour politician.

1954

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.

1955

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.

1963

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…

1967

Fred Hampton

American Black Panthers activist (born 1948)

Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was an African American activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair…

1969

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…

1971

Hannah Arendt

German-American historian, theorist, and academic (born 1906)

Hannah Arendt was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

1975

Tommy Bolin

American guitarist and songwriter (born 1951)

Thomas Richard Bolin was an American rock 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…

1976

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…

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.

1976

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

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…

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".…

1980

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…

1981

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…

1984

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…

1987

Rouben Mamoulian

Armenian-American director and screenwriter (born 1897)

Rouben Zachary Mamoulian was an Armenian-American film and theater director.

1987

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.

1988

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…

1992

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…

1993

Frank Zappa

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1940)

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, conductor, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral…

1993

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…

1999

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…

2000

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,…

2003

Elena Souliotis

Greek soprano and actress (born 1943)

Elena Souliotis was a Greek operatic soprano.

2004

Errol Brathwaite

New Zealand soldier and author (born 1924)

Errol Freeman Brathwaite was a New Zealand author.

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…

2005

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

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.

2006

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).

2007

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…

2009

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…

2010

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…

2011

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.…

2011

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,…

2012

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…

2012

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.

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.

2012

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.

2013

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.

2014

V. R. Krishna Iyer

Indian lawyer and judge (born 1914)

Justice Vaidyanathapuram Rama Iyer Krishna Iyer 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.

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.

2014

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…

2014

Bill Bennett

Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Premier of British Columbia (born 1932)

William Richards Bennett, was a Canadian politician who was the 27th premier of British Columbia from 1975 to 1986.

2015

Robert Loggia

American actor and director (born 1930)

Salvatore "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).

2015

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,…

2015

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…

2016

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,…

2017

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…

2022

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.

2022

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…

2024

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