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Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
Notable Deaths on February 6
117 people
685 – 2025
February 6 has seen 117 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 685 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1918 — Gustav Klimt
Austrian painter and illustrator (born 1862)
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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement
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His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe
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Klimt is known for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art
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Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism
Umayyad caliph (born 691)
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan was the tenth Umayyad caliph, ruling from 724 until his death in 743. His grandson Abd al-Rahman I was the founder and first emir of the Emirate of Córdoba.
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743
Irish king (born 733)
Donnchad mac Domnaill, called Donnchad Midi, was High King of Ireland. His father, Domnall Midi, had been the first Uí Néill High King from the south-central Clann Cholmáin based in modern County Westmeath and western…
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797
Photios I of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 867 and from 877 to 886. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as 'Saint Photius the Great'.
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891
Queen of Sicily
Elvira of Castile was a member of the House of Jiménez and the first Queen of Sicily as the wife of Roger II of Sicily.
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1135
1140
Japanese shikken of the Kamakura bakufu (born 1138)
Hōjō Tokimasa was a Japanese samurai lord who was the first shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate and head of the Hōjō clan. He was shikken from 1203 until his abdication in 1205, and Protector of Kyoto from 1185…
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1215
Joanna of Bourbon was Queen of France by marriage to King Charles V. She acted as his political adviser and was appointed potential regent in case of a minor regency.
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1378
ruler of Epirus
Esau de' Buondelmonti was the ruler of Ioannina and its surrounding area from 1385 until his death in 1411, with the Byzantine title of despot.
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1411
Flemish composer and educator (born 1410)
Johannes Ockeghem was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music. Ockeghem was a significant European composer in the period between Guillaume Du Fay and Josquin des Prez, and he was—with his…
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1497
Italian publisher, founded the Aldine Press (born 1449)
Aldus Pius Manutius was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press. Manutius devoted the later part of his life to publishing and disseminating rare texts. His interest in and preservation of Greek…
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1515
Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Würzburg (born 1459)
Lorenz von Bibra, Duke in Franconia was Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Würzburg from 1495 to 1519. His life paralleled that of Maximilian I (1459–1519), who ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1493 to 1519, whom Lorenz…
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1519
1539
English lawyer and scholar (born 1518)
Edmund Plowden was an English lawyer, legal scholar and theorist during the late Tudor period.
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1585
French author and translator (born 1513)
Jacques Amyot, French Renaissance bishop, scholar, writer and translator, was born of poor parents, at Melun.
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1593
Emperor Ōgimachi was the 106th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from November 17, 1557, to his abdication on December 17, 1586, corresponding to the transition between the…
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1593
Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1529)
Franciscus Patricius was a philosopher and scientist from the Republic of Venice. A native of Cres, he was a defender of Platonism and an opponent of Aristotelianism.
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1597
German mathematician and astronomer (born 1538)
Christopher Clavius, was a Jesuit German mathematician and physicist, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented…
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1612
Italian physician and botanist (born 1553)
Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic…
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1617
Charles II was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
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1685
1695
Pope Clement XII, born Lorenzo Corsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1730 to his death in February 1740.
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1740
English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1721)
William Dowdeswell PC was a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and later leader of the Rockinghamite faction in the House of Commons.
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1775
English gardener and architect (born 1716)
Lancelot "Capability" Brown was an English gardener and landscape architect, a notable figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.
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1783
Italian-French playwright (born 1707)
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their…
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1793
English chemist and theologian (born 1733)
Joseph Priestley was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator and classical liberal political theorist. He published over 150 works, and conducted…
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1804
French zoologist and entomologist (born 1762)
Pierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after…
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1833
English explorer (born 1804)
Richard Lemon Lander was a British explorer of western Africa. He and his brother John were the first Europeans to follow the course of the River Niger, and discover that it led to the Atlantic.
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1834
English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (born 1836)
Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She was born in…
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1865
German general and politician, chancellor of Germany (born 1831)
Georg Leo Graf von Caprivi de Caprara de Montecuccoli was a German general and statesman. He served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire from March 1890 to October 1894, succeeding longtime chancellor Otto…
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1899
English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of South Australia (born 1823)
Sir John Blackler Colton, was an Australian politician, Premier of South Australia and philanthropist. His middle name, Blackler, was used only rarely, as on the birth certificate of his first son.
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1902
English businesswoman and founder of the jewellery retailer H. Samuel (born 1836)
Harriet Samuel was an English businesswoman and the founder of H. Samuel, one of the United Kingdom's best-known high street jewellery retailers.
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1908
Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (born 1867)
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío had a…
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1916
Maria Christina Henriette Desideria Felicitas Raineria of Austria was Queen of Spain as the second wife of Alfonso XII. She was queen regent during the vacancy of the throne between her husband's death in November 1885…
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1929
Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (born 1861)
Motilal Nehru was an Indian lawyer, activist, and politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress. He served as the Congress President twice, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1929. He was a patriarch of the…
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1931
Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (born 1865)
John Earle was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Tasmania from 1914 to 1916 and also for one week in October 1909. He later served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1917 to 1923. Prior to entering politics,…
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1932
Russian-Swiss painter (born 1860)
Mariamna Vladimirovna Veryovkina, commonly known as Marianne von Werefkin, was a Russian-born painter, active in Germany and Switzerland during the late Belle Époque and interwar periods. She is particularly known for…
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1938
Estonian general and politician, 7th Estonian Minister of War (born 1880)
Jaan Soots was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence and politician.
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1942
American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1882)
Charles Evard "Gabby" Street, also nicknamed "the Old Sarge", was an American catcher, manager, coach, and radio broadcaster in Major League Baseball during the first half of the 20th century. As a catcher, he…
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1951
George VI was the King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was…
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1952
Geoffrey Bent was an English footballer who played as a left back for Manchester United from 1948 until 1958. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s. Bent only…
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1958
Roger William Byrne was an English footballer who played as a full-back and captain of Manchester United. He died at the age of 28 in the Munich air disaster. He was one of the eight Manchester United players who lost…
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1958
Edward Colman was an English football player who played as an wing-half and one of the eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster.
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1958
Walter Raymond Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager.
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1958
Mark Jones was an English footballer and one of eight Manchester United players to lose their lives in the Munich air disaster. Jones was born in Wombwell, near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1933, the third of…
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1958
David Pegg was an English footballer who played as an outside-left and one of the eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958.
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1958
Frank Victor Swift was an English footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for Manchester City and England. After starting his career with Fleetwood, near his hometown of Blackpool, in 1932 he was signed by First Division…
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1958
Thomas Taylor was an English footballer, who played as a centre-forward and was known for his aerial ability. He was one of the eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster.
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1958
Italian painter and sculptor (born 1933)
Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a…
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1963
Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (born 1869)
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was a Filipino revolutionary, statesman, and military leader who was the first president of the Philippines from 1899 to 1901, and the first president of an Asian constitutional republic. He led…
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1964
French actress (born 1920)
Martine Carol was a French film actress. She frequently was cast as an elegant blonde seductress. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she was the leading sex symbol and a top box-office draw of French cinema, and she…
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1967
drag racer (born 1933)
Lew Russell Robinson, nicknamed "Sneaky Pete", was an American drag racer.
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1971
American anthropologist (born 1902)
Julian Haynes Steward was an American anthropologist known best for his role in developing "the concept and method" of cultural ecology, as well as a scientific theory of culture change.
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1972
Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (born 1925)
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak was an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright. Widely considered as one of the greatest film makers of all time, his works remained largely underrated and ignored during his…
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1976
American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1928)
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. His compositions for this series included their signature melody…
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1976
American composer and conductor (born 1925)
Hugo Mario Montenegro was an American orchestra leader and composer of film soundtracks. His best-known work is interpretations of the music from Spaghetti Westerns, especially his cover version of Ennio Morricone's…
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1981
British painter (born 1894)
Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM was an English painter of abstract compositions, landscapes, and still-life. He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in England.
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1982
English-Swiss soldier and author (born 1906)
James Hadley Chase was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, he is well known by his various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Raymond Marshall, R. Raymond,…
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1985
Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (born 1899)
Frederick Coutts, CBE was the eighth General of The Salvation Army (1963–1969).
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1986
English actress (born 1907)
Dandy Nichols was an English actress best known for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the character Alf Garnett, in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part.
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1986
American architect, designed the World Trade Center (born 1912)
Minoru Yamasaki was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally…
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1986
Canadian lawyer and jurist (born 1929)
Julien Chouinard, was a Canadian lawyer and civil servant who served as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1979 to 1987. He was the sole Clark appointee to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court.
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1987
American historian and author (born 1912)
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I,…
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1989
American pianist and composer (born 1913)
James Van Heusen was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television, and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his compositions later went on to become jazz…
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1990
Italian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the…
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1991
American actor, producer, and humanitarian (born 1914)
Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz, known professionally as Danny Thomas, was an American entertainer, producer, and philanthropist. After launching his career in the 1940s in radio and cinema, he created and starred in the…
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1991
American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1943)
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was an American professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles in singles and two in doubles. Ashe was the first Black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team, and the only…
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1993
American actor (born 1905)
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (1939) and Sabrina Fair…
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1994
American author and illustrator (born 1917)
Jack Kirby was an American comic book artist, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City and learned to draw cartoon…
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1994
American poet and playwright (born 1926)
James Ingram Merrill was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his…
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1995
1998
Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (born 1926)
Donald Allan Dunstan was an Australian politician who served as the 35th premier of South Australia from 1967 to 1968, and again from 1970 to 1979. He was a member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for the division of…
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1999
American tenor (born 1924)
Jimmy Roberts was an American tenor singer. He was a featured performer on the TV variety program The Lawrence Welk Show during its entire broadcast run from 1955 to 1982.
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1999
American race car driver (born 1916)
Philip F. Walters was an American racing driver, who won both the 12 Hours of Sebring and Watkins Glen Grand Prix twice.
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2000
Syrian novelist and literary academic (born 1939)
Hani Muhammad-Ali al-Rahib was a Syrian novelist and literary academic who wrote a number of distinguished novels. The Defeated was his first novel, which was published in 1961 when he was 22 years old. In the same…
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2000
Filipino theoretician and activist (born 1953)
Filemon Castelar Lagman, also known by the aliases Ka Popoy and Carlos Forte, was a Filipino revolutionary socialist and labor leader who supported Marxism-Leninism. He split with the Communist Party of the Philippines…
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2001
South Vietnamese diplomat and politician (born 1913)
Trần Văn Lắm, also known as Charles Trần Văn Lắm, was a South Vietnamese diplomat and politician, who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Vietnam under Prime Minister Trần Thiện Khiêm during the…
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2001
Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
Max Ferdinand Perutz was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin. He went on to win…
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2002
Canadian lieutenant and economist (born 1920)
Gerald Keith Bouey was a Canadian economist who served as the fourth governor of the Bank of Canada from 1973 to 1987, succeeding Louis Rasminsky. He was succeeded by John Crow.
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2004
German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (born 1913)
Karl Haas was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking voice, humanistic approach to music appreciation, and popularization of classical music. He was the host of the classical music…
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2005
American baseball player and coach (born 1926)
Selva Lewis Burdette, Jr. was an American right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Boston / Milwaukee Braves. The team's top right-hander during its years in Milwaukee, he was…
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2007
American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1913)
Frankie Laine was an American singer and songwriter whose career spanned nearly 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often…
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2007
American runner and long jumper (born 1939)
Willye Brown White was an American track and field athlete who took part in five Olympics from 1956 to 1972. She was America's best female long jumper of the time and also competed in the 100 meters sprint. White was a…
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2007
2008
American actor (born 1925)
Philip Carey was an American actor, well-known for playing the role of Asa Buchanan on the soap opera One Life to Live for nearly three decades.
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2009
American actress (born 1926)
Shirley Jean Rickert was an American child actress who was briefly the "blonde girl" for the Our Gang series in 1931, during the Hal Roach early talkie period.
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2009
American actor (born 1921)
James Allen Whitmore Jr. was an American actor who appeared in over 150 stage, film, and television roles over a 50-year career. He received numerous honors, notably a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony…
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2009
Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1952)
Robert William Gary Moore was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career, he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal and jazz fusion.
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2011
American psychologist and academic (born 1929)
David L. Rosenhan was an American psychologist. He is known best for the Rosenhan experiment, a study challenging the validity of psychiatry diagnoses.
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2012
Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1923)
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and art theorist.
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2012
American engineer and astronaut (born 1956)
Janice Elaine Voss was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Voss received her B.S. in engineering science from Purdue University, her M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT, and her PhD in aeronautics and…
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2012
Tunisian lawyer and politician (born 1964)
Chokri Belaïd, also transliterated as Shokri Belaïd, was a Tunisian politician and lawyer who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement. Belaïd was a vocal critic of the Ben Ali regime…
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2013
German-Israeli academic and jurist (born 1923)
Menachem Elon was an Israeli jurist and Professor of Law specializing in traditional Jewish Law, an Orthodox rabbi, and a prolific author on traditional Jewish law (Halakha). He was the head of the Jewish Law Institute…
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2013
Slovak politician (born 1917)
RSDr. Vasiľ Biľak was a Slovak Communist politician and leader of Rusyn origin.
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2014
American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1922)
Ralph McPherran Kiner was an American professional baseball left fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) and later a broadcaster. Kiner played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and Cleveland Indians from 1946…
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2014
American author and poet (born 1925)
Maxine Kumin was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982.
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2014
2014
South African author and playwright (born 1935)
André Philippus Brink was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town.
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2015
American lawyer and politician (born 1958)
Patrick Alan Nunnelee was an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 1st congressional district from 2011 until his death in 2015. Previously he served in the…
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2015
Venezuelan cartoonist (born 1929)
Pedro León Zapata was a prominent Venezuelan artist, humorist and cartoonist.
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2015
American screenwriter (born 1966)
Daniel Robert Gerson was an American screenwriter and voice actor, best known for his work with Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He co-wrote the screenplays of Monsters, Inc., Monsters…
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2016
2016
American comedian and actor (born 1914)
Irwin Corey was an American stand-up comic, film actor and activist, often billed as "The World's Foremost Authority". He introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at the San Francisco club the…
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2017
German actress (born 1923)
Inge Keller was a German stage and film actress whose career on stage and screen spanned seventy years. She was one of the most prominent performers in the former German Democratic Republic. Thomas Langhoff described…
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2017
English actor (born 1925)
Alexander Duncan McCowen, was an English actor. He was known for his work in numerous film and stage productions.
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2017
South African rugby union footballer (born 1971)
Joost van der Westhuizen was a South African professional rugby union player who made 89 appearances in test matches for the national team, scoring 38 tries. He mostly played as a scrum-half and participated in three…
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2017
English astrophysicist (born 1935)
Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Lynden-Bell…
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2018
German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (born 1927)
Manfred Eigen was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.
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2019
British author (born 1924)
Rosamunde E. M. L. Pilcher, OBE was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was published under the pen name…
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2019
Colombian hitman and drug dealer (born 1962)
Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, also known by the alias "Popeye" or "JJ", was a Colombian hitman, who was part of the criminal structure of the Medellín Cartel until his surrender to the Colombian justice system in 1992.…
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2020
American politician, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Labor (born 1920)
George Pratt Shultz was an American economist, businessman, diplomat, and statesman who served in various positions under presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. A member of the Republican Party, he is one of only…
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2021
Indian singer and music composer (born 1929)
Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Her contribution to the Indian…
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2022
Danish swimmer (born 1927)
Greta Marie Andersen was a Danish swimmer who won a gold and a silver medal in 100 m freestyle events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In the mid-1950s she moved to the United States, where she set several world records in…
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2023
former Chilean president (born 1949)
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique was a Chilean businessman and politician who served as 34th and 36th president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic politician and…
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2024
American football executive (born 1923)
Virginia Halas McCaskey was an American football executive who was the principal owner of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 1983 until her death in 2025. She was the daughter of team founder…
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2025
English screenwriter, producer and writer (born 1953)
Nigel Colin McCrery was an English screenwriter, producer and writer. He was the creator of the long-running crime dramas Silent Witness (1996–present) and New Tricks (2003–2015).
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2025
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Gustav Klimt — Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)
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Death year1918
Known forHis work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe
Deaths on this date117 (685 – 2025)
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