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He held the major league career record for putouts by a center fielder (6,592) until he was surpassed by Willie Mays in 1971
Notable Deaths on December 8
121 people
855 – 2024
December 8 has seen 121 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 855 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1958 — Tris Speaker
American baseball player and manager (born 1888)
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His 792 career doubles represent an MLB career record
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He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a center fielder from 1907 to 1928
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Considered one of the greatest players in the history of Major League Baseball, he compiled a career batting average of .345
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His 3,514 hits are fifth in the all-time hits list
illegitimate son of Charlemagne (born 801)
Drogo, also known as Dreux or Drogon, was an illegitimate son of Frankish emperor Charlemagne by the concubine Regina.
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855
Arnulf of Carinthia was King of East Francia since 887, King of Italy since 894, and Emperor since 896. Initially, he was the Duke of Carinthia who overthrew his uncle Emperor Charles the Fat to become the Carolingian…
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899
Chinese queen consort
Zhou Ehuang (周娥皇), posthumously named Queen Zhaohui (昭惠國后), was a queen consort of imperial China's short-lived Southern Tang state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Her husband was Li Yu, Southern…
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964
Duke of Zähringen (bornc 1125)
Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen was a Duke of Zähringen and Rector of Burgundy. He was the son of Conrad I, Duke of Zähringen and Clementia of Luxembourg-Namur. He founded numerous cities, including Fribourg.
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1186
Archbishop of Canterbury
John Peckham was a Franciscan friar and Archbishop of Canterbury in the years 1279–1292.
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1292
Duke of Opava (born 1288)
Nicholas II of Opava was Duke of Opava from 1318 to 1365 and Duke of Ratibór from 1337 to 1365 and Burgrave of Kladsko from 1350 to 1365 and also chamberlain of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
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1365
Polish and Lithuanian princess (born 1408)
Hedwig Jagiellon was a Polish and Lithuanian princess, and a member of the Jagiellon dynasty. For most of her life she, as the only child of Władysław II Jagiełło, was considered to be heiress of the Polish and…
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1431
Italian humanist, poet, dramatist and diplomat (born 1478)
Gian Giorgio Trissino, also called Giovan Giorgio Trissino and self-styled as Giovan Giꞷrgio Trissino, was a Venetian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat, grammarian, linguist, and philosopher. He first…
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1550
Marrano writer and martyr (born c. 1566/1567)
Luis de Carvajal the Younger was a Spanish-born Crypto-Jewish writer. He was the nephew of the conquistador Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, who was the governor of New Mexico, and was brought to Mexico at a young age.…
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1596
English poet, lawyer, and politician (born 1569)
Sir John Davies was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621. He became Attorney General for Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that…
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1626
Dutch astronomer and mathematician (born 1561)
Johan Philip Lansberge was a Flemish Calvinist Minister, astronomer and Mathematician. His name is sometimes written Lansberg, and his first name is sometimes given as Philip or Johannes Philippus. He published under…
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1632
Croatian poet (born 1589)
Dživo Franov Gundulić, better known today as Ivan Gundulić, was the most prominent Ragusan Baroque. He is regarded as the Croatian national poet. His work embodies central characteristics of Roman Catholic…
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1638
1643
French missionary and saint (born 1613)
Noël Chabanel was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the Canadian Martyrs.
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1649
1st Marquess of Dorchester, English lawyer and politician (born 1606)
Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, PC, FRS, FRCP was an English peer. He was the son of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, and his wife, the former Gertrude Talbot, daughter of George Talbot…
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1680
English minister, poet, and hymn-writer (born 1615)
Richard Baxter was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". He made his reputation in the late 1630s by his…
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1691
French orientalist and academic (born 1625)
Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville was a French Orientalist.
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1695
French playwright and philologist (born 1625)
Thomas Corneille was a French lexicographer and dramatist.
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1709
Princess Palatine (born 1652)
Madame Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, also known as Liselotte von der Pfalz, was a German member of the House of Wittelsbach who married into the French royal family. She was the second wife of Monsieur…
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1722
English prizefighter
James Figg was an English prizefighter and instructor in historical European martial arts. While Figg primarily fought with weapons including short swords, quarterstaffs, and cudgels, he also played a role in boxing's…
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1734
French mistress of Louis XV (born 1717)
Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux was the youngest of five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become mistresses of King Louis XV of France. Marie Anne was the King's mistress from 1742 until…
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1744
French orientalist and academic (born 1683)
Étienne Fourmont was a French Orientalist who served as professor of Arabic at the Collège de France and published grammars on the Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese languages.
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1745
English courtier and soldier (born 1693)
Charles Radclyffe, titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater, was one of the few English participants in the Jacobite risings of both 1715 and 1745.
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1746
1st Earl of Harrington, English politician and diplomat, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1690)
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, was a British statesman and diplomat.
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1756
French painter and missionary (born 1702)
Jean Denis Attiret was a French Jesuit painter and missionary to Qing China.
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1768
1779
Methodist preacher and philanthropist (born 1739)
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher was an English preacher credited with persuading John Wesley, a founder of Methodism, to allow women to preach in public. She was born into an affluent family, but after converting to Methodism,…
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1815
Swiss-French philosopher and author (born 1767)
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss and French political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.
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1830
Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (born 1790)
Theobald Mathew was an Irish Catholic priest, member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and teetotalist reformer, popularly known as Father Mathew. He was born at Thomastown, near Golden, County Tipperary, on 10…
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1856
English journalist and author (born 1785)
Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated…
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1859
English mathematician and philosopher (born 1815)
George Boole was an English autodidact, mathematician, philosopher and logician who served as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of differential equations and…
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1864
Ecuadorian saint (born 1832)
Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán was an Ecuadorian virgin and Dominican tertiary in the Roman Catholic Church. Martillo was known for her charitable giving and strict devotion to Jesus Christ while living a virginal and…
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1869
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1821)
William Henry Vanderbilt was an American businessman and railroad magnate. Known as "Billy", he was the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, an heir to his fortune and a prominent member of the Vanderbilt…
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1885
1886
Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1821)
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.
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1894
English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (born 1820)
Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of…
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1903
Oscar II was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907 and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905.
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1907
Belgian race car driver (born 1868)
Camille Jenatzy was a Belgian race car driver. He is known for breaking the land speed record three times and being the first man to break the 100 km/h barrier.
He was nicknamed Le Diable Rouge after the colour of his…
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1913
Swiss mountain guide (born 1828)
Melchior Anderegg, from Zaun, Meiringen, was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascensionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alpinism. His clients were mostly…
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1914
Danish-German admiral (born 1861)
Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee was a German naval officer in the Imperial German Navy, who commanded the East Asia Squadron during World War I. Spee entered the navy in 1878 and served in a variety…
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1914
Russian author (born 1836)
Mendele Mocher Sforim was a Belarusian Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.
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1917
Bosnian Catholic archbishop (born 1843)
Josip Stadler was a Bosnian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first archbishop of Vrhbosna, from 1881 to his death in 1918. He was the founder of the religious order of the Servants of the Infant Jesus.
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1918
American painter (born 1852)
Julian Alden Weir was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of the founding members of "The Ten", a loosely allied group of American artists…
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1919
executed Irish Republican Army leader (born 1889)
Richard Barrett, commonly called Dick Barrett, was a prominent Irish Republican Army officer who fought in the War of Independence and on the Anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War. He was assistant…
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1922
executed Irish Republican Army leader (born 1898)
Joseph McKelvey was an Irish Republican Army officer who was executed during the Irish Civil War without trial or court martial. He participated in the Anti-Treaty IRA's repudiation of the authority of the Dáil Éireann,…
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1922
executed Irish Republican Army leader (born 1892)
William Joseph Mellows was an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician. Born in England to an English father and Irish mother, he grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne before moving to Ireland, being raised in Cork, Dublin and…
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1922
executed Irish Republican Army leader, (born 1883)
Roderick O'Connor was an Irish republican who was Director of Engineering for the IRA in the Irish War of Independence.
O'Connor opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and was chairman of the republican military council…
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1922
Colombian politician and 8th President of Colombia (born 1867)
José Vicente Concha Ferreira was a Colombian politician who served as President of Colombia from 1914 to 1918. He was also a noted member of the Colombian Conservative Party.
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1929
British horticulturist and writer (born 1843)
Gertrude Jekyll was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1000 articles…
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1932
Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (born 1856)
Hans Molisch was a Czech-Austrian botanist.
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1937
1938
English-Canadian bishop and theologian (born 1861)
George Exton Lloyd was an Anglican bishop and theologian who helped found Lloydminster, a city on the border of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada. He served as Bishop of Saskatchewan from 1922 to 1931.
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1940
Hungarian football player and coach (born 1885)
Izidor "Dori" Kürschner, in Brazil primarily known as Dori Kruschner,, was a Hungarian football player and coach. As player he was successful with Budapest club MTK, and also played for the Hungary national team. As…
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1941
American architect, Fisher Building, Packard Automotive Plant, Ford River Rouge Complex (born 1869)
Albert Kahn was an American architect who collaborated with his brother Julius Kahn in designing industrial plant complexes such as the Ford River Rouge automobile complex. Based in Detroit, he also designed…
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1942
American mercenary (born 1880)
Edward Sinnott "Tex" O'Reilly was an American soldier of fortune, writer, journalist, and film actor. He is said to have fought in ten wars under many flags. Initially serving in the U.S. Army in the Spanish–American…
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1946
English sailor (born 1874)
Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller, was a British mariner and naval officer who was the second officer on board the ocean liner RMS Titanic during its ill-fated maiden voyage, and was the most senior crewmember to…
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1952
French artist, photographer, and writer (born 1894)
Claude Cahun was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer.
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1954
American actress (born 1904)
Gladys George was an American actress of stage and screen. Though nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936), she spent most of her career in supporting roles in films…
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1954
American lawyer and politician (born 1888)
Joseph Berry Keenan was an American lawyer best known for serving as Chief Prosecutor for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. He previously served as Assistant Attorney General in the administration of…
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1954
Thai field marshal and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1908)
Sarit Thanarat was a Thai politician and military commander. He served as commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army and as Minister of Defense during Plaek Phibunsongkhram's premiership. In 1957, he became chief of a…
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1963
American playwright, author, and critic (born 1899)
Ward Morehouse was an American theater critic, newspaper columnist, playwright, and author.
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1966
Irish Anti-Partitionist politician (born 1877)
Charles Everard Healy was an Irish politician. He was a leader of northern nationalists and a self-educated man who made major contributions to Ireland's political, cultural and literary heritage.
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1970
Russian geographer and explorer (born 1903)
Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel was a Soviet Arctic explorer, radio operator, and doctor of geographical sciences (1938). He is best known as one of the four members of the North Pole-1 expedition, for which he was awarded…
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1971
Greek poet and critic (born 1896)
Alkis Thrylos was a Greek writer. She was a member of the Negroponte (Νεγρεπόντη) family. She was a critic of literature of the theatre. Her husband was the poet Kostas Ouranis. She died on December 8, 1971.
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1971
New Zealand bass player (born 1948)
Gary Mervin Thain was a New Zealand bassist, best known for his work with British rock band Uriah Heep.
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1975
Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1898)
Golda Meir was the prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and, to date, only female head of government.
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1978
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1940)
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, songwriter and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney…
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1980
1982
Surinamese footballer and manager (born 1924)
Rudi André Kamperveen was a Surinamese football player, sports administrator, politician and businessman.
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1982
American singer-songwriter and race car driver (born 1925)
Martin David Robinson, known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American country and western singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular and successful singers of his genre for most of his nearly…
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1982
Israel Defense Forces fifth Chief of Staff (born 1919)
Haim Laskov was an Israeli public figure and the fifth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
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1982
New Zealand farmer and politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1904)
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake was a New Zealand politician who served as the 26th prime minister of New Zealand, serving for a brief period in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and also as the 13th governor-general of New…
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1983
American actor (born 1919)
Louis Burton Lindley, better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens took up acting, and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. For much of…
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1983
American actor (born 1903)
Luther Adler was an American actor who worked in theatre, film, television, and directed plays on Broadway.
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1984
American militant leader, founded The Order (born 1953)
Robert Jay Mathews was an American neo-Nazi and the leader of The Order, an American white supremacist militant group that committed counterfeiting, several bank robberies, car heists, murders, and assassinations.…
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1984
1984
Turkish general (born 1911)
Semih Sancar was the 16th Chief of the Turkish General Staff from 1973 to 1978, a period including the 1974 Operation Atilla. He was previously Commander of the Turkish Land Forces (1972–1973) and General Commander of…
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1984
American trumpet player and composer (born 1911)
Wilbur Dorsey "Buck" Clayton was an American jazz trumpeter who was a member of Count Basie's orchestra. His principal influence was Louis Armstrong, first hearing the record "Confessin' that I Love You" as he passed by…
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1991
American journalist (born 1917)
William Shawn was an American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987.
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1992
Russian weightlifter (born 1933)
Yevgeny Gavrilovich Minayev was a Russian weightlifter who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
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1993
Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1927)
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and singer. Jobim is considered a great exponent of Brazilian music and one of the…
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1994
American actor (born 1950)
Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's King, George Haley in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations, Coalhouse…
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1996
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (born 1938)
Kashiwado Tsuyoshi was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Yamagata Prefecture. He was the sport's 47th yokozuna, fighting at the sport's highest rank from 1961 to 1969. After his retirement he became an elder…
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1996
1997
Hungarian poet and author (born 1923)
Péter Kuczka was a Hungarian writer, poet and science fiction editor. He was also active as a comic writer.
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1999
Bosnian basketball player and coach (born 1954)
Mirza Delibašić was a Bosnian professional basketball player and coach. He is widely considered one of the greatest players in the history of European basketball.
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2001
American computer scientist and programmer (born 1917)
Frances Elizabeth Holberton was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC. The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean…
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2001
Cuban pianist (born 1919)
Rubén González Fontanills was a Cuban pianist. Together with Lilí Martínez and Peruchín he is said to have "forged the style of modern Cuban piano playing in the 1940s".
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2003
Finnish neo-Nazi and Satanist (b. 1944)
Timo Pekka Olavi Siitoin was a Finnish neo-Nazi, Satanist, and occultist.
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2003
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1966)
Darrell Lance Abbott, known professionally as Dimebag Darrell, was an American musician. He was the guitarist of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan, both of which he co-founded alongside his brother Vinnie…
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2004
British barrister and judge (born 1914)
Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE was a British barrister who served later as a High Court judge. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first class honours degree in law at the…
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2005
American singer (born 1915)
Martha Tilton was an American popular singer during America's swing era and traditional pop period. She is best known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman.
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2006
Dominican baseball player (born 1959)
José Altagracia González Uribe was a Dominican Major League Baseball shortstop from 1984 until 1993. Most of his ten-year career was spent with the San Francisco Giants. He played for the Giants in the 1989 World Series…
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2006
Mexican journalist (born 1983)
Gerardo Israel García Pimentel was a Mexican journalist and crime reporter.
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2007
English voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)
Richard Oliver Postgate was an English animator, puppeteer, and writer. He was the creator and writer of several popular British children's television programmes. Bagpuss, Pingwings, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine,…
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2008
American actor (born 1930)
Robert Prosky was an American actor. He became a well-known supporting actor in the 1980s with his roles in Thief (1981), Christine (1983), The Natural (1984), and Broadcast News (1987).
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2008
2009
American football player (born 1987)
Jerry Jerome Brown Jr. was an American professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL). In college, he played on the defensive line for the University of Illinois. In his professional…
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2012
Scottish-English 16th General of The Salvation Army (born 1934)
John Gowans was a Scottish clergyman, who was the 16th General of The Salvation Army from 1999 to 2002, succeeding General Paul Rader. He is also notable for pairing with General John Larsson in the composition of many…
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2012
American boxer (born 1951)
Johnny Lira was a professional lightweight and welterweight boxing contender who was born and died in Chicago, Illinois.
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2012
Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in…
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2013
Hungarian composer and academic (born 1931)
Sándor Szokolay was a Hungarian composer and professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest.
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2013
American lawyer and diplomat (born 1949)
Richard Salisbury Williamson was an American lawyer, diplomat and political advisor. He previously served as Special Envoy to Sudan under George W. Bush. Williamson was a partner at Winston & Strawn and was also Thomas…
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2013
Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1951)
Thomas Charles Gosnell was mayor of London, Ontario, Canada from December 1, 1985, to December 1, 1994. He was the son of James Fredrick Gosnell, known as "Fred", who was the mayor of London, Ontario, Canada briefly in…
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2014
American baseball player and coach (born 1930)
Russell Paul Kemmerer was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox (1954–1957), the Washington Senators (1957–1960), the Chicago White Sox (1960–1962),…
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2014
Norwegian organist and composer (born 1915)
Knut Nystedt was a Norwegian orchestral and choral composer.
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2014
American soprano and actress (born 1925)
Mattiwilda Dobbs was an American coloratura soprano and was one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career in opera. She was the first black singer to perform at La Scala in Italy, the first black…
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2015
English footballer and coach (born 1936)
Alan Hodgkinson MBE was an English professional football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach.
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2015
American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (born 1943)
Douglas Rainsford Tompkins was an American businessman, conservationist, outdoorsman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and agriculturalist. He founded the North Face Inc, co-founded Esprit and various environmental groups,…
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2015
American author, poet, and actor (born 1946)
John Trudell was an American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz.…
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2015
2015
American astronaut and senator, first American to go into orbit (born 1921)
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his…
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2016
English physician, geneticist, and academic (born 1933)
Sir David John Weatherall was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine.
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2018
American actor (born 1940)
René Marie Murat Auberjonois was an American actor. He was a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winner, and a three-time Emmy Award nominee, among other accolades.
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2019
American rapper, singer and songwriter (born 1998)
Jarad Anthony Higgins, known professionally as Juice Wrld, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He emerged as a leading figure in the emo and SoundCloud rap genres, which garnered mainstream attention during…
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2019
American puppeteer and actor (born 1933)
Caroll Edwin Spinney was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author, artist and speaker, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street from its inception in 1969 until 2018.
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2019
Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer (born 1953)
Robert Warren Dale Shakespeare was a Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer, best known as half of the reggae rhythm section and production duo Sly and Robbie, with drummer Sly Dunbar. Regarded as one of the most…
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2021
American actor (born 1941)
Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal was an American actor. Born in Los Angeles, he trained as an amateur boxer before beginning a career in acting in 1960.
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2023
American actress (born 1954)
Jill Jacobson was an American actress of film, television, primetime soap opera, stage, and standup, best known for her television performances.
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2024
American businessman and politician (born 1928)
Clarke Thomas Reed Sr. was an American businessman and politician. He served as Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1966 to 1976. Prior to his political career, Reed was an agricultural businessman and a…
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2024
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Tris Speaker — American baseball player (1888–1958)
FeaturedTris Speaker
Death year1958
Known forHe played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a center fielder from 1907 to 1928
Deaths on this date121 (855 – 2024)
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