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Notable Deaths on December 9
112 people
638 – 2024
December 9 has seen 112 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 638 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1992 — Vincent Gardenia
American actor (born 1922)
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Frank Ochoa in Death Wish (1974) and its 1982 sequel, Death Wish II, and played Mr
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Mushnik in the musical film adaptation Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
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(1960), The Hustler (1961), The Front Page (1974), Greased Lightning (1977), Heaven Can Wait (1978) and The Super (1991).
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Vincent Gardenia was an Italian American stage, film and television actor
Sergius I of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 610 to 638. He is most famous for promoting Monothelitism Christianity, especially through the Ecthesis.
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638
Arab general
Abu Uqba al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami was an Arab nobleman and general of the Hakami tribe. During the course of the early 8th century, he was at various times governor of Basra, Sistan and Khurasan, Armenia and…
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730
Umayyad general and politician (born 663)
Naṣr ibn Sayyār al-Lāythi al-Kināni was an Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 738–748. Nasr played a distinguished role in the wars against the Turgesh, although he failed to decisively confront…
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748
prince of Later Tang
Li Congrong, formally the Prince of Qin (秦王), was a son of Li Siyuan, the second emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Tang. During Li Siyuan's reign, he, as Li Siyuan's oldest…
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933
Markgräfin of Meißen
Gertrud of Brunswick was Countess of Katlenburg by marriage to Dietrich II, Count of Katlenburg, Margravine of Frisia by marriage to Henry, Margrave of Frisia, and Margravine of Meissen by marriage to margrave Henry I.
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1117
Malcolm IV, nicknamed Virgo, "the Maiden" was King of Scotland from 1153 until his death. He was the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria and Ada de Warenne. The original Malcolm Canmore, a name now…
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1165
Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham
Richard le Gras was Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham in the 13th century.
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1242
Prince of Black Ruthenia, Grand Duke of Lithuania
Vaišvilkas or Vaišelga was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1264 until his death in 1267. He was a son of Mindaugas, the first and only Christian King of Lithuania.
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1268
Archbishop of Trier
Bohemond of Warnesberg was the Archbishop of Trier and a Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1286 to his death.
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1299
1437
Italian poet (born 1491)
Teofilo Folengo, who wrote under the pseudonym of Merlino Coccajo or Merlinus Cocaius in Latin, was one of the principal Italian macaronic poets.
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1544
Pope Pius IV, born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1559 to his death, in December 1565.
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1565
English priest (born 1559)
William Watson was an English Roman Catholic priest and conspirator, executed for treason.
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1603
Dutch historian and geographer (born 1547)
Ubbo Emmius was a German historian and geographer.
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1625
1636
Belgian-English painter and illustrator (born 1599)
Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
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1641
Pope Clement IX, born Giulio Rospigliosi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 20 June 1667 to his death in December 1669.
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1669
1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1609)
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief adviser to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II from 1660 to…
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1674
Dom Pedro II, nicknamed the Pacific was King of Portugal from 1683 until his death, previously serving as regent for his brother Afonso VI from 1668 until his own accession. He was the fifth and last child of John IV…
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1706
Italian monk and cartographer (born 1650)
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was an Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He is considered one of the leading geographers and…
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1718
1761
French-Austrian educator (born 1749)
Yolande de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France. She…
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1793
German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (born 1729)
Johann Reinhold Forster was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist. Born in Dirschau, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he attended school in Dirschau and Marienwerder before being admitted at the…
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1798
Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (born 1757)
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. Schumacher carried out significant research work in malacology, in other words on…
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1830
English army officer (born 1768)
William Thornhill was a British Army officer of the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign. His nephew was the politician William Pole Thornhill.
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1851
Portuguese journalist and author (born 1799)
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician, and a peer of the realm. A major promoter of theater in…
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1854
Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (born 1804)
Robert Baldwin was an Upper Canadian lawyer and politician who with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Lower Canada, led the first responsible government ministry in the Province of Canada. "Responsible…
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1858
Senegalese religious leader
al-Hajj Mahmadu Lamine Drame, also known as Ma Lamine Demba Dibassi, was a nineteenth-century Tijani marabout who led a series of rebellions against the French colonial government in what is now Senegal.
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1887
French author and critic (born 1849)
Ferdinand Vincent-de-Paul Marie Brunetière was a French writer and critic.
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1906
Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer and pioneer on women's skiing (born 1858)
Eva Helene Nansen was a celebrated Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer. She was also a pioneer of women's skiing.
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1907
Japanese author and poet (born 1867)
Natsume Sōseki was a Japanese novelist, poet, and scholar. He is considered one of the greatest writers in modern Japanese history and is often called the first modern novelist of Japan. Sōseki's fiction explored themes…
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1916
Dutch composer and educator (born 1854)
Bernard Zweers was a Dutch composer and music teacher.
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1924
American baseball player and manager (born 1879)
Andrew "Rube" Foster was an American baseball co-founder, player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.
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1930
German photographer, sculptor, and educator (born 1865)
Karl Blossfeldt was a German photographer and sculptor. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature…
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1932
Bangladeshi social worker and author (born 1880)
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India. She is widely regarded as a pioneer of feminism in…
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1932
American journalist and activist (born 1886)
Walter William Liggett, was an American journalist who worked at several newspapers in New York City, including the New York Times, The Sun, New York Post, and the New York Daily News. In the Twin Cities during the…
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1935
English phonetician (born 1882)
Lilias Eveline Armstrong was an English phonetician. She worked at University College London, where she attained the rank of reader. Armstrong is most known for her work on English intonation as well as the phonetics…
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1937
Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
Nils Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses…
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1937
Russian author, poet, and philosopher (born 1865)
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist movement,…
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1941
French painter (born 1870)
Georges Dufrénoy was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism.
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1943
American actor (born 1913)
Samuel Laird Cregar was an American stage and film actor. Cregar was best known for his villainous performances in films such as I Wake Up Screaming (1941), This Gun For Hire (1942) and The Lodger (1944).
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1944
South Korean activist and politician (born 1864)
Yun Ch'iho was a Korean politician. His name is sometimes spelled Yun Tchi-Ho, his art name was Chwaong (좌옹), and his courtesy name was Sŏnghŭm (성흠).
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1945
Turkish general (born 1882)
Ali İhsan Pasha was the commander for the Sixth Army of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. After the war he was exiled to Malta by the British occupation forces. After returning to Turkey, he was appointed to the…
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1957
Nigerian author and educator (born 1903)
Chief Daniel Olorunfẹmi Fágúnwà MBE, popularly known as D. O. Fágúnwà, was a Nigerian author of Yoruba heritage who pioneered the Yoruba language novel.
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1963
American historian, author, and academic (born 1905)
Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller was an American intellectual historian and a co-founder of the field of American Studies. Miller specialized in the history of early America and took an active role in a revisionist view of the…
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1963
English poet and critic (born 1887)
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never…
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1964
American baseball player and manager (born 1884)
Wesley Branch Rickey was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, sports executive, and team owner. He was instrumental in breaking the baseball color line by signing black player Jackie Robinson. He also…
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1965
Luxembourgish lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (born 1898)
Charles-Léon Hammes was a Luxembourgish lawyer, judge and the third president of the European Court of Justice.
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1967
American mob boss (born 1883)
Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson was an American politician from the Republican Party who served as an Atlantic City political boss, sheriff of Atlantic County, businessman, and crime boss who was the leader of the political…
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1968
Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau (born 1905)
Artem (Artyom) Ivanovich Mikoyan was a Soviet Armenian aircraft designer, who cofounded the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau along with Mikhail Gurevich.
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1970
Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1893)
Sir Malik Firoz Khan Noon was a Pakistani politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Pakistan from December 1957 until being ousted in October 1958 when president Iskandar Ali Mirza imposed martial law and…
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1970
American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late…
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1971
Russian sculptor and painter (born 1874)
Sergey Timofeyevich Konenkov, also Sergei Konyonkov was a Russian and Soviet sculptor. He was often called "the Russian Rodin".
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1971
Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary in India and China, writer and poet (born 1886)
Aeneas Francon Williams, FRSGS was a Minister of the Church of Scotland, a missionary, chaplain, writer, and poet. Williams was a missionary in the Eastern Himalayas and China and writer of many published works.
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1971
American writer and columnist (born 1881)
Louella Rose Oettinger, known by the pen name Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and screenwriter. At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide.
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1972
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1896)
William Augustus Wellman was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and military pilot. He was known for his work in crime, adventure, and action genre films, often focusing on aviation themes, a…
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1975
American archbishop (born 1895)
Fulton John Sheen was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1966 to 1969. He was known for his preaching, especially on television and radio.
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1979
American lawyer and politician (born 1905)
Leonidas "Leon" Jaworski was an American attorney and law professor who served as the second special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. He was appointed to that position on November 1, 1973, soon after the…
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1982
Australian zoologist (born 1895)
Marguerite Henry was an Australian zoologist known for her research on freshwater crustaceans; she was active in the early 20th century. Henry's work contributed to the taxonomy and ecology of Australia's freshwater…
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1982
American photographer (born 1898)
Berenice Alice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science…
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1991
Northern Irish footballer and manager (born 1926)
Robert Dennis Blanchflower was a Northern Ireland footballer, football manager and journalist who played for and captained Tottenham Hotspur, including during their double-winning season of 1960–61. He was twice…
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1993
American author and academic (born 1939)
Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade, was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.
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1995
American pilot (born 1907)
Douglas Corrigan was an American aviator, nicknamed "Wrong Way" in 1938. After a transcontinental flight in July from Long Beach, California, to New York City, he then flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn to…
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1995
American singer-songwriter (born 1956)
Patricia Jean Donahue was an American singer. She was the lead vocalist of the American new wave band the Waitresses, known for the singles "I Know What Boys Like" and "Christmas Wrapping".
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1996
English archaeologist and anthropologist (born 1913)
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at…
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1996
French lawyer and politician (born 1909)
Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher was a French politician who served as President of the Senate from 1968 to 1992. In this capacity, he was twice briefly acting President of France, in 1969 and 1974 following the…
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1996
Welsh playwright and screenwriter (born 1908)
Mary Diana Morgan was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter and novelist, mostly associated with her work for Ealing Studios as Diana Morgan. She was married to fellow screenwriter Robert MacDermot.
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1996
Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1948)
Elizabeth Shaughnessy Cohen was a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Windsor—St. Clair for the Liberal Party of Canada from 1993 until her death in 1998.
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1998
American boxer and actor (born 1913)
Archie Moore was an American professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time. He had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport, competing from 1935 to…
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1998
Baron Carver, English field marshal (born 1915)
Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver, was a senior British Army officer. Lord Carver served as the Chief of the General Staff (CGS), the professional head of the British Army, and then as the Chief…
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2001
Australian singer and guitarist (born 1966)
Mary Therese Hansen was an Australian musician. She joined the London-based band Stereolab in 1992 as a singer, guitarist, keyboardist and percussionist, remaining a member of the group until her death.
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2002
American painter and sculptor (born 1944)
Ian Hornak was an American draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. He was a founding figure of the Hyperrealist and Photorealist movements and is credited with being the first Photorealist artist to incorporate the visual…
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2002
2002
American basketball player and coach (born 1926)
Norman Leslie Sloan Jr. was an American college basketball player and coach. Sloan was a native of Indiana and played college basketball and football at North Carolina State University. He began a long career as a…
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2003
American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (born 1928)
Paul Martin Simon was an American author and politician from Illinois. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and in the United States Senate from 1985 to 1997. A member of the…
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2003
Hungarian-American pianist and educator (born 1912)
György Sándor was a Hungarian pianist and writer.
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2005
American author (born 1928)
Robert Sheckley was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
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2005
American singer (born 1919)
Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs achieved acclaim and notoriety in the mid-1950s copying songs originating with the…
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2006
Brazilian race car driver (born 1981)
Rafael Sperafico was a Brazilian racing driver. He was the cousin of fellow racing drivers Ricardo and Rodrigo, and also related to Alexandre. He was born in Toledo, Paraná.
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2007
American sociologist, author, and academic (born 1918)
Gordon Zahn was an American sociologist, pacifist, professor, and author.
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2007
Ghanaian footballer (born 1972)
Ibrahim Allotey Dossey was a Ghanaian professional football goalkeeper.
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2008
Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1939)
Yury Nikolayevich Glazkov was a Soviet Air Force officer and a cosmonaut. Glazkov held the rank of major general in the Russian Air Force.
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2008
American actor (born 1919)
Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor and singer. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City (1952) and The War of the Worlds (1953) and for his portrayal of the…
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2009
American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (born 1925)
James Moody was an American jazz saxophone and flute player and very occasional vocalist, playing predominantly in the bebop and hard bop styles. The annual James Moody Jazz Festival is held in Newark, New Jersey.
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2010
Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset (born 1924)
Dov Shilansky was an Israeli lawyer, politician and Speaker of the Knesset from 1988 to 1992.
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2010
Hungarian painter and academic (born 1918)
Béla Nagy Abodi was a Hungarian painter, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca. He studied in the class of Camil Ressu at the Academia de Belle-Arte in Bucharest, and then went to the Hungarian…
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2012
English lieutenant, astronomer, and educator (born 1923)
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
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2012
English engineer and businessman, founded the Moulton Bicycle Company (born 1920)
Alexander Eric Moulton was an English engineer and inventor, specialising in suspension design.
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2012
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1969)
Dolores Janney "Jenni" Rivera was an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and producer known for her work within the regional Mexican music genre, specifically in the styles of banda, mariachi and…
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2012
American pianist and musicologist (born 1927)
Charles Welles Rosen was an American pianist and music critic. He is remembered for his career as a concert pianist, for his recordings, and for his many writings. He won the National Book Award for Arts and Letters for…
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2012
Italian director and producer, co-founded Diva Futura (born 1953)
Riccardo Schicchi was an Italian pornographer.
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2012
American inventor, co-created the bar code (born 1921)
Norman Joseph Woodland was an American inventor and engineer, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. Later, employed by IBM, he developed the format which…
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2012
Romanian editor, literary critic and writer (born 1928)
Hristu Cândroveanu was a Romanian editor, literary critic, poet, prose writer and translator of Aromanian ethnicity. He published several works related to the Aromanians, led several Aromanian magazines and was involved…
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2013
American soldier, lawyer, and judge (born 1909)
John Gordon Gabbert was an American judge. He was associate justice of the California Courts of Appeal appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan in May 1970. Before that, he was a Superior Court judge for Riverside County,…
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2013
Polish pianist and educator (born 1930)
Barbara Stella Hesse-Bukowska was a Polish pianist. Her family had a long-standing musical history, as her father was a violinist and conductor, her mother was a pianist and teacher, and her grandfather was a piano…
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2013
American actress (born 1922)
Eleanor Jean Parker was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the…
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2013
American football player (born 1943)
John Leonard Wilbur was an American professional football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins. He also was a member of The Hawaiians…
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2013
Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (born 1933)
Sacvan Bercovitch was a Canadian literary and cultural critic who spent most of his life teaching and writing in the United States. During an academic career spanning five decades, he was considered to be one of the…
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2014
American painter and poet (born 1924)
Jane Freilicher was an American representational painter of urban and country scenes from her homes in lower Manhattan and Water Mill, Long Island. She was a member of the informal New York School beginning in the…
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2014
Argentinian cardinal (born 1923)
Jorge María Mejía was an Argentine cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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2014
American model and actress, Miss America 1959 (born 1937)
Mary Ann Mobley was an American actress, television personality, and Miss America 1959.
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2014
Serbian footballer and manager (born 1947)
Blagoje Paunović was a Serbian football defender and manager.
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2014
Slovenian linguist and author (born 1926)
Jože Toporišič was a Slovene linguist. He was the author of the most influential Slovene scientific grammar of the second half of the 20th century, a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and coauthor of…
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2014
Austrian painter (born 1927)
Soshana Afroyim was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. Soshana was a full-time artist and traveled frequently, exhibiting her work internationally. During her journeys, she portrayed many well known…
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2015
American statistician and academic (born 1941)
Norman Edward Breslow was an American statistician and medical researcher. At the time of his death, he was Professor (Emeritus) of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, of the University of Washington. He is…
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2015
Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
Juvenal Juvêncio was a Brazilian lawyer, state representative, investigator of police, and president of São Paulo Futebol Clube. During the legislature 1963–1967, he took over in alternate condition, state deputy…
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2015
Bolivian cardinal (born 1936)
Julio Terrazas Sandoval was a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the Roman Catholic Church.
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2015
American football player (born 1942)
Leslie Herbert "Speedy" Duncan was an American professional football player who was a cornerback and return specialist in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played college football…
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2021
American football player (born 1987)
Demaryius Antwon Thomas was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Denver Broncos. He played college football for the…
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2021
Filipino singer and actor (born 1993)
Jovit Lasin Baldivino was a Filipino singer and actor. He was the first winner of the reality talent competition show Pilipinas Got Talent in 2010.
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2022
American poet, writer and activist (born 1943)
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and…
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2024
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Vincent Gardenia — American actor (1920–1992)
FeaturedVincent Gardenia
Death year1992
Known forHe was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and again for Moonstruck (1987)
Deaths on this date112 (638 – 2024)
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2021
Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico. Wikipedia →
2019
A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts. Wikipedia →
2017
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The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage. Wikipedia →
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