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Aruri was Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science, having served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth from 1965-1998
Notable Deaths on February 10
86 people
547 – 2026
February 10 has seen 86 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 547 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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Palestinian scholar and activist (born 1934)
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In 1993, he was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences “Distinguished Research Award”
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Aruri was a Palestinian scholar-activist and expert on Middle East politics, U.S
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foreign policy in the Middle East and human rights
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Aruri’s papers have been preserved and are on display at the Claire T
Christian nun
Scholastica was an Italian Christian consecrated virgin and the sister of Benedict of Nursia. She is traditionally regarded as the foundress of the Benedictine nuns. Scholastica is honored as a saint of the Catholic…
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547
Duke of Aquitaine (born 1071)
William IX was the Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou between 1086 and his death. He was also one of the leaders of the Crusade of 1101.
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1127
Baldwin III was the king of Jerusalem from 1143 until his death. Although he only took up sole rule in 1152 and died young, he was the longest-reigning of the 12th-century kings of Jerusalem. He expanded the borders of…
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1163
Emperor Shijō was the 87th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This reign spanned the years 1232 through 1242.
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1242
Countess of Flanders (born 1202)
Margaret, often called Margaret of Constantinople, ruled as Countess of Flanders during 1244–1278 and Countess of Hainaut during 1244–1253 and 1257–1280. She was the younger daughter of Count Baldwin IX and Marie of…
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1280
Scottish nobleman
John Comyn III of Badenoch, nicknamed the Red, was a leading Scottish baron and magnate who played an important role in the First War of Scottish Independence. He served as Guardian of Scotland after the forced…
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1306
Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (born 1265)
Öljeyitü Khan, born Temür, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, was the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty of China, ruling from 10 May 1294 to 10 February 1307. Apart from being the Emperor…
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1307
Clare of Rimini was an Italian holy woman who was beatified.
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1346
Margrave of Brandenburg (born 1413)
Frederick II of Brandenburg, nicknamed "the Iron" and sometimes "Irontooth" (Eisenzahn), was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1440 until his abdication in 1470, and was a member of the House of…
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1471
Archduchess of Austria (born 1468)
Catherine of Saxony, a member of the House of Wettin, was the second wife of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria and Regent of Tyrol.
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1524
1526
Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1545)
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley was King of Scotland as the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 29 July 1565 until his murder. Darnley had one child with Mary, James VI of Scotland and I of England. Less than a year…
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1567
German scholar, translator, and academic (born 1532)
Wilhelm Xylander was a German classical scholar and humanist. He served as rector of Heidelberg University in 1564.
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1576
Dutch painter (born 1609)
Judith Jans Leyster was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Her work was highly regarded by her contemporaries but largely forgotten after her death. Her entire oeuvre came to be…
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1660
English genealogist and historian (born 1605)
Sir William Dugdale was an English antiquary and herald. As a scholar he was influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject.
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1686
French Princess (born1727)
Henriette of France was a French princess, a fille de France. She was the second child of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska, and the twin of Louise-Élisabeth of France. She was also considered the favorite…
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1752
French lawyer and philosopher (born 1689)
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher.
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1755
German theologian and author (born 1702)
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and theosopher.
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1782
Pope Leo XII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 28 September 1823 to his death in February 1829.
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1829
British naval officer (born 1772)
Peter Heywood was a Royal Navy officer who was on board HMS Bounty during the mutiny of 28 April 1789. He was later captured in Tahiti, tried and condemned to death as a mutineer, but subsequently pardoned. He resumed…
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1831
Russian poet and author (born 1799)
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.
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1837
Dutch feminist and pamphleteer (born 1781)
Maria Aletta Hulshoff was a Dutch Patriot, feminist and pamphleteer.
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1846
Mexican politician and general (born 1792)
José Joaquín Antonio Florencio de Herrera y Ricardos was a Mexican statesman who served as president of Mexico three times, and as a general in the Mexican Army during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848.
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1854
English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (born 1770)
David Thompson was a British fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native people as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over Thompson's career, he travelled 90,000 kilometres (56,000 mi) across North…
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1857
Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (born 1804)
Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz, usually cited as Emil Lenz or Heinrich Lenz in some countries, was a Russian physicist of Baltic German descent who is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1834.
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1865
French illustrator and painter (born 1808)
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire…
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1879
English author (born 1814)
Ellen Wood, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood, was an English novelist. She is best remembered for her 1861 novel East Lynne. Many of her books sold well internationally and were widely read in the United States. In her…
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1887
Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (born 1850)
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer of equality for women in mathematics. Kovalevskaya…
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1891
American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (born 1844)
John A. Roche was an American politician from Illinois who served as Mayor of Chicago from 1887 to 1889. He was the 30th mayor of the city.
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1904
American-Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)
Ezra Butler Eddy was a Canadian businessman and political figure. Born in Vermont, Eddy moved to Canada, where he founded the E. B. Eddy Company, which produced matches and related wood products, later diversifying into…
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1906
1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (born 1827)
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, was an English surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare. Lister revolutionised the craft of surgery by the use of…
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1912
Greek long jumper (born 1888)
Konstantinos "Kostis" Tsiklitiras was a Greek athlete and Olympic champion.
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1913
English painter (born 1849)
John William Waterhouse was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. His paintings are known for their depictions…
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1917
Ottoman sultan (born 1842)
Abdülhamid II or Abdul Hamid II was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a period of decline with rebellions, and…
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1918
Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1833)
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He adopted the motto In varietate unitas! which later inspired the motto of the…
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1918
English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of South Australia (born 1832)
Henry Bull Templer Strangways was an Australian politician and Premier of South Australia.
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1920
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German experimental physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. In 1901, Röntgen became the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in…
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1923
Mexican martyr and saint (born 1913)
José Luis "Joselito" Sánchez del Río was a Mexican Cristero put to death by soldiers of Mexican Army because he refused to renounce his Catholic faith. His death was seen as a largely political venture on the part of…
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1928
English author and screenwriter (born 1875)
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was a British writer of crime and adventure fiction.
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1932
Pope Pius XI was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 until his death in February 1939. He was also the first sovereign of Vatican City upon its creation on 11 February 1929.
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1939
Greek-French astronomer and chess player (born 1870)
Eugène Michel Antoniadi was a Greek-French astronomer. He is known for creating the Antoniadi scale as well as for his observations of the planets, and was a major opponent of the notion of Martian canals. He created…
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1944
Filipino lawyer and jurist (born 1878)
Anacleto Díaz was a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
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1945
French sociologist and anthropologist (born 1872)
Marcel Israël Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss, in his academic work, crossed the boundaries between sociology and…
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1950
American poet and violinist (born 1872)
Leonora Speyer, Lady Speyer, was an American poet and violinist.
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1956
Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1882)
Emmanouil Tsouderos was a Greek politician and statesman who served as the internationally recognized Prime Minister of Greece from 1941 to 1944 as head of the Greek government-in-exile during the Second World War. He…
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1956
American author (born 1867)
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series Little House on the Prairie, published between 1932 and 1943, which was based…
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1957
Croatian cardinal (born 1898)
Aloysius Viktor Stepinac was a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church. Made a cardinal in 1953, Stepinac served as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 until his death.
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1960
American composer and songwriter (born 1899)
Billy Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman, lyricist and columnist. For years both before and after World War II, Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows such as Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt…
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1966
Greek historian and author (born 1884)
Dionysios Kokkinos was a Greek historian, journalist, academic and writer.
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1967
Greek sailor and poet (born 1910)
Nikos Kavvadias was a Greek poet, writer and a sailor by profession. He used his travels around the world, the life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people, outside the…
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1975
Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1910)
Edvard Kardelj, also known by the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans, and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and economist. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II. During the war,…
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1979
American soldier, journalist, and author (born 1921)
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a…
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1992
New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (born 1929)
Frederick Cossom Hollows was a New Zealand–Australian ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for people in Australia and many other countries through initiatives such as The Fred Hollows…
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1993
American author, poet, and activist (born 1945)
Paul Landry Monette was an American author, poet, and activist best known for his books about gay relationships. In 1992, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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1995
Scottish musician (born 1945)
Brian Francis Connolly was a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of glam rock band Sweet between 1968 and 1979 and known for his charismatic stage presence and distinctive voice.
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1997
American actor, comedian and writer (born 1949)
James Albert Varney Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his Emmy Award winning comedic role as Ernest P. Worrell, originating in a series of television commercial advertising campaigns, and…
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2000
American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (born 1906)
Abraham David Beame was an English-born American accountant, investor, and Democratic Party politician who served from 1974 to 1977 as the 105th mayor of New York City. Beame presided over the city during the 1975 New…
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2001
American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1913)
George Holmes "Buddy" Tate was an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
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2001
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street".
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2002
Mexican-American photographer (born 1910)
Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia, was a Mexican-born American interiors photographer.
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2003
American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (born 1908)
Albert J. Ruffo was an American politician, philanthropist, educator, lawyer, and football coach.
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2003
American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (born 1939)
Ronald Louis Ziegler was the 13th White House Press Secretary, serving during President Richard Nixon's administration.
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2003
American actor, playwright, and author (born 1915)
Arthur Asher Miller was an American actor and writer of plays in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from…
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2005
American record producer and rapper (born 1974)
James Dewitt Yancey, better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer, rapper, and composer. He emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip-hop scene in Detroit, Michigan, as a member…
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2006
American actor and boxer (born 1932)
Roy Richard Scheider was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one…
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2008
American basketball player and coach (born 1925)
Frederick Appleton Schaus was an American basketball player, head coach and athletic director for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, player for the National Basketball Association's Fort Wayne Pistons and New…
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2010
American lieutenant and politician (born 1933)
Charles Nesbitt Wilson was an American politician and naval officer who was a 12-term Democratic Representative from Texas's 2nd congressional district. Wilson is best known for leading Congress into supporting…
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2010
English cricketer and journalist (born 1923)
Trevor Edward Bailey was an England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster.
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2011
New Zealand banker and businessman, founded H. R. L. Morrison & Co (born 1957)
Hugh Richmond Lloyd Morrison was a Wellington, New Zealand-based investment banker and entrepreneur. He founded H.R.L. Morrison & Co in 1988, and Morrison & Co launched the infrastructure company Infratil in 1994.
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2012
American journalist and author (born 1958)
Jeffrey Lloyd Zaslow was an American author and journalist, and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
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2012
American author, screenwriter, and animator (born 1927)
William Watts "Buck" Biggers was an American novelist and co-creator of the long-running animated television series Underdog.
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2013
American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (born 1931)
David Hartman was an American-Israeli leader and philosopher of contemporary Judaism, founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and a Jewish author.
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2013
Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (born 1932)
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall was a Jamaican-British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. Hall – along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams – was one of the founding figures of the school of…
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2014
American actress and diplomat (born 1928)
Shirley Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, politician, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States Ambassador…
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2014
German cardinal and theologian (born 1928)
Karl Josef Becker S.J. was a German Catholic theologian and consultor for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 15 September 1977. He taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
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2015
Chinese theorist and politician (born 1915)
Deng Liqun was a Chinese politician and theorist who was one of the leading figures of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the 1980s, most well known for his involvement with the party's propaganda work. Deng was…
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2015
Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (born 1930)
Fatima Surayya Bajia was an Urdu novelist, playwright and drama writer from Pakistan. She was awarded various awards at home and abroad, including Japan's highest civil award, in recognition of her works. Bajia…
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2016
American businessman (born 1929)
Michael Ilitch Sr., also known as "Mr. I", was an American entrepreneur and restaurateur. He founded Little Caesars in 1959 and later owned two Detroit professional sports franchises: the Detroit Red Wings (1982–2017)…
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2017
American actor (born 1943)
Carmen Antimo Argenziano was an American actor who appeared in over 73 movies and around 100 television movies or episodes. He was best known for playing Jacob Carter on Stargate SG-1. He had recurring roles on Booker,…
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2019
American actor (born 1944)
Jan-Michael Vincent was an American actor. He emerged as a leading man in the 1970s, playing notable roles in films like Going Home (1971), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion…
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2019
American publisher (born 1942)
Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces pornographic magazines, such as Hustler, pornographic videos, and three pornographic television…
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2021
New Zealand rugby league player (born 1957)
Olsen Orekewa Filipaina was a professional rugby league footballer who represented both New Zealand and Western Samoa. He played for the Balmain Tigers, Eastern Suburbs, and North Sydney Bears during his New South Wales…
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2022
2023
American football player and actor (born 1963)
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo was an American actor and professional football player. He is known for his roles as E. Honda in Street Fighter (1994) and Manumana in Necessary Roughness (1991). He also played custodian Yoshi…
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2025
Filipino politician and journalist, 17th and 21st Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives (born 1936)
Jose Claveria de Venecia Jr., also known as JDV, Joe De V or Manong Joe, was a Filipino politician and journalist who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998 and from 2001…
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2026
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Naseer Aruri — Palestinian professor and author (1934–2015)
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Deaths on this date86 (547 – 2026)
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