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This tally was 69 wickets ahead of Ted Peate's 1882 record, and has been bettered only by Tom Richardson in 1895 and Tich Freeman in 1928 and 1933
Notable Deaths on January 1
125 people
138 – 2025
January 1 has seen 125 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 138 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1944 — Charles Turner
Australian cricketer (born 1862)
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taking 106 wickets in twelve matches in the Australian season of 1887–88 – a record for any bowler in Australia taking 17 wickets for 50 runs against An England Eleven at Hastings in 1888
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being the first Australian bowler to reach 100 wickets in Test matches
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his 12 for 87 against England in his record season of 1887–1888 is still the best bowling analysis for a Test at the SCG
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the only bowler to take 50 wickets in their first six Test matches.
adopted son and intended successor of Hadrian (born 101)
Year 138 (CXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camerinus. The denomination 138 for this year has been used since…
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138
Christian monk and martyr
Year 404 (CDIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Aristaenetus. The denomination 404 for this year has been used since the…
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404
898
951
Italian abbot (born 962)
Saint William of Volpiano was a Northern Italian monastic reformer, composer, and founding abbot of numerous abbeys in Burgundy, Italy and Normandy.
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1031
Cistercian abbot (born c. 1136)
Henry of Marcy, or Henry de Marsiac, was a Cistercian abbot, first of Hautecombe in Savoy (1160–1177), and then of Clairvaux, from 1177 until 1179. He was created Cardinal Bishop of Albano by Pope Alexander III at the…
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1189
1204
king of Navarre (born 1332)
Charles II, known as the Bad, was King of Navarre beginning in 1349, as well as Count of Évreux beginning in 1343, holding both titles until his death in 1387.
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1387
count of Angoulême (born 1459)
Charles of Orléans was the Count of Angoulême from 1467 until his death. He succeeded his father, John, and was initially under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Rohan, assisted by Jean I de La Rochefoucauld, one…
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1496
1515
king of Denmark (born 1503)
Christian III reigned as King of Denmark from 1534 and King of Norway from 1537 until his death in 1559. During his reign, Christian formed close ties between the church and the crown. He established Lutheranism as the…
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1559
French poet and critic (born 1522)
Joachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a founder of La Pléiade. He notably wrote the manifesto of the group: Défense et illustration de la langue française, which aimed at promoting French as an artistic…
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1560
Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1558)
Hendrick Goltzius was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, lauded for his sophisticated technique, technical…
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1617
Florentine historian and author (born 1625)
Filippo Baldinucci was an Italian art historian and biographer.
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1697
English playwright and poet (born 1641)
William Wycherley was an English playwright best known for writing the plays The Country Wife (1675) and The Plain Dealer (1676).
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1716
Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1667)
Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educating Leonhard Euler in the…
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1748
Jacobite pretender (born 1688)
James Francis Edward Stuart, also known as the Old Pretender, was the senior House of Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1701 until his death in 1766. The only surviving son of James II…
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1766
German organist and composer (born 1713)
Johann Ludwig Krebs was a German Baroque musician and composer for the pipe organ, harpsichord, other instruments and orchestras. His output also included chamber music, choral works and concertos.
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1780
German composer (born 1735)
Johann Christian Bach was a German composer of the Classical era and the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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1782
1st Baron Grantley, English lawyer and politician, British Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1716)
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, PC was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1756 to 1782 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Grantley.
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1789
Italian painter and educator (born 1712)
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting.
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1793
German chemist and academic (born 1743)
Martin Heinrich Klaproth was a German chemist. He trained and worked for much of his life as an apothecary, moving in later life to the university. His shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin, and the most…
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1817
English sailor and explorer (born 1825)
John Shaw Torrington was a Royal Navy stoker. He was part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition to chart unexplored areas of what is now Nunavut, Canada, find the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations. He was…
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1846
Australian farmer and explorer (born 1778)
Gregory Blaxland was an English pioneer farmer and explorer.
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1853
Ukrainian mathematician and physicist (born 1801)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi, was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Zaporozhian Cossacks ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of…
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1862
French activist (born 1805)
Louis-Auguste Blanqui was a French socialist revolutionary and philosopher. A pivotal figure of the 19th-century French radical left, he was a staunch advocate for communism and a proponent of revolutionary theory that…
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1881
American lawyer and politician, 25th Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
Roswell B. Mason served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1869–1871) for the Citizens Party.
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1892
German physicist and academic (born 1857)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves proposed by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.
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1894
American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (born 1826)
Alfred Ely Beach was an American inventor, entrepreneur, publisher, and patent lawyer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is known for his design of the earliest predecessor to the New York City Subway, the Beach…
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1896
American politician and promoter of pseudoscience and pseudohistory (born 1831)
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly was an American U.S. representative, populist writer, and pseudoscientist. He is known primarily now for his fringe theories concerning Atlantis, Catastrophism, and Shakespearean authorship.…
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1901
Scottish-Australian farmer and politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (born 1833)
Sir Hugh Muir Nelson, was an Australian politician who was Premier of Queensland from 1893 to 1898.
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1906
Canadian poet and author (born 1858)
William Wilfred Campbell was a Canadian poet. He is often categorized as one of the country's Confederation Poets, a group that included Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott;…
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1918
German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (born 1856)
Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg was a German politician who was imperial chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917. He oversaw the German entry into World War I and played a key role…
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1921
American baseball player (born 1872)
William Henry Keeler, nicknamed "Wee Willie" because of his small stature, was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1892 to 1910, primarily for the Baltimore Orioles and Brooklyn Superbas…
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1923
American dancer (born 1862)
Loie Fuller, also known as Louie Fuller and Loïe Fuller, was an American dancer and a pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques.
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1928
Turkish civil servant and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (born 1894)
Mustafa Necati, also known as Mustafa Necati Uğural was a Turkish statesman in the early years of the Turkish Republic, who served as the Minister of National Education during the reform period. He died before the…
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1929
Dutch microbiologist and botanist (born 1851)
Martinus Willem Beijerinck was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist who was one of the founders of virology and environmental microbiology. He is credited with the co-discovery of viruses (1898), which he called…
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1931
Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (born 1874)
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (IAST: Bhakti-siddhānta Sarasvatī Thakur ; Bengali: ভক্তিসিদ্ধান্ত সরস্বতী; Bengali: [bʱɔktisiddʱanto ʃɔrɔʃbɔti] ;, born Bimala Prasad Datt, was a Gaudīya Vaisnava guru, Ācārya, and revivalist…
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1937
Indian author and educator (born 1865)
Panuganti Lakshmi Narasimharaavu was one of the popular modern Telugu writers. He was born at Seetanagaram, Rajamundry, Andhra Pradesh. After his education, he became a teacher in Peddapuram High School. Later he moved…
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1940
Hungarian journalist (born 1905)
Jenő Rejtő was a Hungarian interwar journalist, pulp fiction writer and playwright, famous in Hungary for his books and novellas - adventure and detective novels and parodies of these genres, characterized by a unique…
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1943
English architect, designed the Castle Drogo and Thiepval Memorial (born 1869)
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public…
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1944
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)
Hiram "Hank" Williams was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. An early pioneer of country music, he is regarded as one of the most significant and influential musicians of the 20th century. Williams recorded…
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1953
English politician and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1890)
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich,, known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian and writer.
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1954
American poet and critic (born 1887)
Leonard Bacon (1887–1954) was an American poet, translator, and literary critic. The great-grandson of preacher Leonard Bacon, he graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of…
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1954
Indian colloid chemist, academic, and scientific administrator (born 1894)
Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Bhatnagar is revered as the…
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1955
American archaeologist and historian (born 1881)
Arthur Caswell Parker was a Native American archaeologist, historian, folklorist, museologist and noted authority on Native American culture. Of Seneca, Scottish, and English ancestry, he was director of the Rochester…
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1955
American photographer (born 1886)
Edward Henry Weston was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his…
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1958
American actress (born 1909)
Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an American stage and film actress. She began her career onstage in 1929 with the University Players on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In 1933, she caught the attention of film director John M.…
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1960
Scottish cryptologist (born 1881)
Commander Alexander Guthrie Denniston was a Scottish codebreaker, deputy head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) and hockey player. Denniston was appointed operational head of GC&CS in 1919 and remained so…
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1961
French journalist and politician, 16th President of the French Republic (born 1884)
Vincent Jules Auriol was President of France from 1947 to 1954. A member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), he was the first president elected under the Fourth Republic. His presidential term…
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1966
American actor, playwright and screenwriter (born 1902)
Barton MacLane was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s, including his role as General Martin Peterson on the 1960s NBC television comedy…
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1969
Ukrainian saint (born 1894)
Amphilochius of Pochayiv was a 20th-century Ukrainian Orthodox saint from Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine.
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1971
French actor and singer (born 1888)
Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. He is best known for his signature songs, including "Livin' In The Sunlight", "Valentine", "Louise", "Mimi", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls",…
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1972
American lyric tenor and composer (born 1887)
Roland Wiltse Hayes was an American lyric tenor and composer. Critics lauded his abilities and linguistic skills demonstrated with songs in French, German, and Italian. His predecessors as well-known African-American…
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1977
German-Canadian painter (born 1911)
Hans Karl Hesse, known in later life as Carle Hessay, was a German-born Canadian painter. Although much remains uncertain of his early years, he immigrated to Canada in 1927, and later studied at art academies in Paris…
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1978
Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1891)
Pietro Sandro Nenni was an Italian socialist politician and statesman, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and senator for life since 1970. He was a recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951.…
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1980
American-Australian pianist (born 1920)
Hephzibah Menuhin was an American-Australian pianist, writer, and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin. She was also a linguist and…
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1981
American actor (born 1938)
Victor Charles Buono was an American actor, comic, and briefly a recording artist. He was known for playing the villain King Tut in the television series Batman (1966–1968) and musician Edwin Flagg in What Ever Happened…
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1982
French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1928)
Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner, known professionally as Alexis Korner, was a British blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a founding father of British blues". A major influence on…
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1984
known as "Cagancho", Spanish bullfighter (born 1903)
Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega, professionally known as Cagancho, was a Spanish bullfighter much of whose career was spent in Mexico, although he did sometimes perform in his native Spain, and one of his performances there,…
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1984
American folk artist (born 1886 or 1887)
Clementine Hunter was a self-taught Black folk artist from the Cane River region of Louisiana, who lived and worked on Melrose Plantation.
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1988
American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (born 1906)
Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent…
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1992
Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1900)
Colonel Arthur Espie Porritt, Baron Porritt, was a New Zealand physician, military surgeon, statesman and athlete. He won a bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the 100 m sprint. He served as the 11th…
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1994
American actor (born 1907)
César Julio Romero Jr. was an American actor. He was active in film, radio, and television for almost 60 years. His wide range of screen roles included Latin lovers, historical figures in costume dramas, characters in…
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1994
Irish historian and academic (born 1914)
Edward Arthur Thompson was an Irish-born British Marxist historian of classics and medieval studies. He was professor and director of the classics department at the University of Nottingham from 1948 to 1979, and a…
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1994
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus…
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1995
American admiral (born 1901)
Arleigh Albert Burke was an admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Kennedy…
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1996
German-American engineer (born 1906)
Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph was a German rocket engineer who was a leader of the effort to develop the V-2 rocket. After World War II, the United States government's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) brought him to the…
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1996
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1944)
John Townes Van Zandt was an American singer-songwriter. He wrote numerous songs, such as "Pancho and Lefty", "If I Needed You", "Snake Mountain Blues", "Our Mother the Mountain", "Waitin' Round to Die", and "To Live's…
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1997
American tennis player and coach (born 1905)
Helen Newington Wills, also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles during her career, including 19 singles titles.
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1998
American actor (born 1914)
Herman Ray Walston was an American actor. He started his career on Broadway earning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees (1956).
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2001
American film producer and author (born 1944)
Julia Phillips was an American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband Michael three prominent films of the 1970s—The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind—and was the first…
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2002
American soldier, pilot, and politician, 20th Governor of South Dakota (born 1915)
Joseph Jacob Foss was a United States Marine Corps Major and a leading Marine fighter ace in World War II. He received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his role in air combat during the Guadalcanal campaign. In…
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2003
American educator and politician (born 1924)
Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered…
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2005
2005
American economist and journalist (born 1913)
Harry Samuel Magdoff was a prominent American socialist commentator. He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Marxist…
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2006
South African-English biochemist and academic (born 1943)
Professor Roland Levinsky was an academic researcher in biomedicine and a university senior manager. His last post, which he held at the time of his death, was as vice-chancellor of the University of Plymouth in the…
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2007
American short story writer (born 1912)
Tillie Lerner Olsen was an American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.
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2007
American football player (born 1982)
Darrent Demarcus Williams was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). After attending high school in Fort Worth, Texas, Williams played…
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2007
Indian educator and politician (born 1919)
Pratap Chandra Chunder was a union minister of India, educationist and author. He served in the Morarji Desai Ministry as a cabinet minister with education and social welfare portfolios.
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2008
American politician (born 1918)
Claiborne de Borda Pell was an American politician and writer who served as a U.S. senator from Rhode Island for six terms from 1961 to 1997. He was the sponsor of the 1972 bill that reformed the Basic Educational…
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2009
South African anti-apartheid activist and politician (born 1917)
Helen Suzman, OMSG, DBE was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She represented a series of liberal and centre-left opposition parties during her 36-year tenure in the whites-only, National…
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2009
American-Mexican singer-songwriter (born 1972)
Lhasa de Sela, also known by the mononym Lhasa, was an American-Mexican-Canadian singer-songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and divided her adult life between Canada and France. Her first album, La…
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2010
English fencer (born 1922)
Robert James Gilbert Anderson was an English Olympic fencer and a renowned film fight choreographer, with a cinema career that spanned more than 50 years and included films such as Highlander, The Three Musketeers,…
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2012
Macedonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (born 1917)
Kiro Gligorov was a Macedonian and Yugoslav statesman, economist, and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Macedonia from 1991 to 1999. He was born and raised in Štip, where he was also…
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2012
Burmese physician, businessman, and activist (born 1962)
Nay Win Maung was a Burmese physician, businessman and pro-democracy activist.
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2012
American football player and coach (born 1922)
Thomas Allison Mont was an American educator, university administrator, college football coach, and National Football League (NFL) player. He played quarterback for the Washington Redskins as a back-up behind Sammy…
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2012
English journalist (born 1945)
Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins, MBE, also known as CMJ, was a British cricket journalist and a President of MCC. He was also the longest serving commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio, from…
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2013
American singer and actress (born 1927)
Clara Ann Fowler, better known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer. Primarily known for pop and country music, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s,…
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2013
Japanese monk and educator (born 1910)
Count Higashifushimi Kunihide was the titular head of the Higashifushimi-no-miya, an extinct branch of the Imperial House of Japan, and a Buddhist monk. He was the youngest brother of Empress Kōjun and was the maternal…
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2014
Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (born 1950)
William Augustao Mgimwa was a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kalenga constituency from 2010 to 2014. He also served as Tanzania's Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014.
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2014
American actress (born 1914)
Juanita Moore was an American film, television, and stage actress.
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2014
German sociologist (born 1944)
Ulrich Beck was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern age, and he…
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2015
American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New York (born 1932)
Mario Matthew Cuomo was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 52nd governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1994. A member of the Democratic Party, Cuomo previously served as the lieutenant…
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2015
American actress (born 1932)
Donna Douglas was an American actress and singer, known for her role as Elly May Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971). Following her acting career, Douglas became a real estate agent, gospel singer,…
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2015
Lebanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1934)
Omar Abdul Hamid Karami was the 39th prime minister of Lebanon for two non-consecutive terms. He was Prime Minister for the first time from 24 December 1990, when Selim al-Hoss gave up power, until May 1992, when he…
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2015
Russian physician and astronaut (born 1950)
Boris Vladimirovich Morukov was a Russian physician at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). He trained with the Russian Federal Space Agency as a research-cosmonaut and flew aboard NASA…
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2015
United States District Judge (born 1930)
William Lloyd Standish IV was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
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2015
Russian poet and journalist (born 1932)
Fazu Aliyeva was an Avar-speaking Soviet-born Russian poet, novelist and journalist. She played a significant role in the development of Avar in Russian literature. She was also a human rights activist.
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2016
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas (born 1925)
Dale Leon Bumpers was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 38th governor of Arkansas (1971–1975) and in the United States Senate (1975–1999). He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was counsel at the…
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2016
Hungarian-American cinematographer and producer (born 1930)
Vilmos Zsigmond was a Hungarian-American cinematographer. His work helped shape the look of American movies in the 1970s, making him one of the leading figures in the American New Wave movement. In 2003, he was voted as…
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2016
British economist (born 1944)
Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
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2017
2017
American violinist (born 1920)
Robert Nathaniel Mann was a violinist, composer, conductor, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. Mann, the first violinist at Juilliard,…
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2018
American actor (born 1984)
Jon Paul Steuer was an American actor and musician, best known for being the first actor to play Alexander Rozhenko in Star Trek: The Next Generation and for being the first actor to regularly portray Quentin Kelly on…
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2018
Australian politician (born 1940)
Paul Christopher Neville was an Australian politician who was a National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1993 to August 2013, representing the Division of Hinkler, Queensland. After…
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2019
American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (born 1952)
Margaret Mary "Pegi" Young was an American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist.
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2019
2019
American rapper (born 1998)
Alexis Alijai Lynch, better known by her stage name Lexii Alijai, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Born and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Alijai was part of the Twin Cities hip-hop scene. She released…
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2020
British travel writer and journalist (born 1937)
Alexander Russell Frater was a British travel writer and journalist. Described by Miles Kington as 'the funniest man who wrote for Punch since the war', Frater is best known for his various books and for documentaries…
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2020
American baseball player (born 1929)
Don James Larsen was an American professional baseball pitcher. During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he pitched from 1953 to 1967 for seven different teams: the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles, New…
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2020
Australian rugby union player (born 1940)
Barry Stuart McDonald was a Papua New Guinea-born Australian rugby union player who represented Australia.
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2020
American lawyer and businessman (born 1942)
David Joel Stern was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. He oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of the world's most…
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2020
Portuguese fado singer (born 1939)
Carlos Manuel de Ascenção do Carmo de Almeida, better known as Carlos do Carmo, was a Portuguese fado singer.
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2021
2021
Belizean educator and psychologist (born 1930)
Dame Elmira Minita Gordon was a Belizean educator, psychologist and politician; she served as the first governor general of Belize from its independence in 1981 until 1993. She was the first Belizean to receive a…
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2021
American football player (born 1942)
Floyd Douglas Little was an American professional football player who was a halfback for the Denver Broncos, initially in the American Football League (AFL) and later the National Football League (NFL). He played…
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2021
British broadcaster and journalist (born 1975)
Gary Burgess was a British broadcaster and journalist, latterly in the Channel Islands where his freelance work on regional television, local radio and a newspaper led him to become known as a community champion who…
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2022
American football player and coach (born 1944)
Daniel Edward Reeves was an American professional football running back and coach in the National Football League (NFL). During his 38 years in the NFL, Reeves participated in nine Super Bowls, the third most for an…
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2022
American musician and songwriter (born 1955)
Earth, Wind & Fire is an American band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969. Their music spans multiple genres, including jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin and Afro-pop. They are among the best-selling bands of…
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2023
2024
English author and critic (born 1935)
David John Lodge was an English author and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places:…
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2025
Australian musician (born 1933)
Chadwick William Morgan was an Australian country music singer and guitarist known for his vaudeville style of comic country and western and folk songs, his prominent teeth and goofy stage persona. In reference to his…
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2025
American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1951)
Melvin Wayne Osmond was an American musician. He was the second-oldest of the original Osmond Brothers singers and the fourth oldest of the nine Osmond siblings.
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2025
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Charles Turner — Australian cricketer
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Death year1944
Known forAmong his accomplishments were:taking 283 wickets in the English season of 1888 for 11.27 runs each
Deaths on this date125 (138 – 2025)
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Fourteen people are killed and 57 others injured during a vehicle-ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans, Louisiana. Wikipedia →
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