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Nevertheless, Myyrä won the javelin event with an Olympic record of 65.78 meters
Notable Deaths on January 22
113 people
239 – 2026
January 22 has seen 113 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 239 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1955 — Jonni Myyrä
Finnish-American athlete (born 1892)
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He never returned to his home country and died in San Francisco in 1955.
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Joonas "Jonni" Myyrä was a Finnish athlete who competed at the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Olympics
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At the 1920 Olympics, his left arm was fractured in a warm-up accident – the spear thrown by James Lincoln struck Myyrä while he was resting on the grass
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Myyrä successfully defended his javelin title at the 1924 Summer Olympics and then fled to the United States due to his financial problems in Finland
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Saint Anastasius of Persia, also known by his native name Magundat, was a Zoroastrian soldier in the Sasanian army who later became a convert to Christianity and was martyred in 628.
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935
Uqaylid emir of Mosul
Abu Hassān al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab, known with the honorific Husam al-Dawla, was an Uqaylid chieftain. He succeeded his older brother, Muhammad, as ruler of Mosul, succeeding in expelling the Buyid governor from the…
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1001
archbishop of York
Ælfric Puttoc was Archbishop of York from 1023 to his death, and briefly Bishop of Worcester from 1040 to 1041. He may have crowned Harold Harefoot in 1036, and certainly assisted in that king's disinterment in 1040 and…
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1051
Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School (born 1113)
Wang Chongyang is the founder of the Quanzhen school of Taoism. In his life he had many devotees and followers, but formally accepted seven major disciples which are known as the Seven Perfected or the Seven Masters of…
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1170
Ferdinand II, was a member of the Castilian cadet branch of the House of Ivrea and King of León and Galicia from 1157 until his death.
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1188
1341
Ottoman politician, 32nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born ?)
Hadım Sinan Pasha was a Bosnian-Ottoman nobleman, politician and statesman. He served as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 to 1517. He was a eunuch.
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1517
German religious leader (born 1495)
Bernhard Knipperdolling was a German leader of the Münster Anabaptists. He was also known as Bernd or Berndt Knipperdollinck or Knypperdollynck or Bertrand Knipperdoling; his birth name was van Stockem. He was executed…
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1536
Anabaptist leader from the Dutch city of Leiden (born 1509)
John of Leiden was a Dutch Anabaptist leader. In 1533 he moved to Münster, capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, where he became an influential prophet, turned the city into a millenarian Anabaptist theocracy, and…
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1536
1st Duke of Somerset, English general and politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (born 1500)
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp was an English nobleman and politician who served as Lord Protector of England from 1547 to 1549 during the minority of his nephew King…
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1552
1560
Duke of Châtellerault (born 1516)
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Châtellerault, 2nd Earl of Arran, was a Scottish nobleman and Regent of Scotland during the minority of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1543 to 1554. At first pro-English and Protestant, he…
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1575
Italian organist and composer (born 1547)
Cristofano Malvezzi was an Italian organist and composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers in the city of Florence during a time of transition to the Baroque style.
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1599
Mughal emperor (born 1592)
Shah Jahan I, also called Shah Jahan the Magnificent, was the fifth Mughal Emperor from 1628 until his deposition in 1658. His reign marked the zenith of Mughal architectural and cultural achievements.
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1666
Bavarian politician (born 1675)
Franz Xaver Josef Baron von Unertl was a Bavarian politician.
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1750
2nd Earl Granville, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1690)
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark, commonly known by his earlier title Lord Carteret, was a British statesman and Lord President of the Council from 1751 to 1763 and worked closely with the Prime…
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1763
German meteorologist and geologist (born 1719)
Johann Gottlob Lehmann was a German mineralogist and geologist noted for his work and research contributions to the geologic record leading to the development of stratigraphy.
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1767
English surveyor and astronomer (born 1733)
Jeremiah Dixon was an English surveyor and astronomer best known for surveying the Mason–Dixon line with Charles Mason from 1763 to 1767. The line came to mark the borders between Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.…
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1779
American guerrilla leader (born 1736)
Claudius Smith was a Loyalist guerrilla leader during the American Revolution. He led a band of irregulars who were known locally as the 'cowboys'.
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1779
American judge and politician (born 1726)
Lewis Morris was an American Founding Father, landowner, and developer from Morrisania, New York, presently part of Bronx County. He signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Continental Congress…
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1798
German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (born 1752)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German medical doctor, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. He has…
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1840
Italian missionary and saint (born 1795)
Vincent Pallotti, SAC was an Italian Catholic cleric and the founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, later known as the Pious Society of Missions. The original name was restored in 1947. He is buried in the…
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1850
Irish colonel (born 1830)
Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony William Durnford was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers who served in the Anglo-Zulu War. Breveted colonel effective 31 December 1878, Durnford is mainly known for his defeat by the…
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1879
English colonel (born 1838)
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Burmester Pulleine was an administrator and commander in the British Army in the Cape Frontier and Anglo-Zulu Wars. He is most notable as a commander of British forces at the disastrous Battle…
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1879
American lawyer and jurist (born 1813)
Joseph Philo Bradley was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870 to 1892. He was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876…
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1892
Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (born 1831)
David Edward Hughes, was a Welsh-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London…
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1900
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted…
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1901
English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor (born 1817)
George Jacob Holyoake was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secularist paper, The Reasoner, from 1846 to June 1861, and a…
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1906
German chemist and academic (born 1825)
Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer, known simply as Emil Erlenmeyer, was a German chemist known for contributing to the early development of the theory of chemical structure and formulating the Erlenmeyer rule. He also…
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1909
American captain and businessman (born 1837)
George Wellington "Cap" Streeter was an American who became infamous in Chicago for his real estate schemes and oftentimes bizarre eccentricity. From 1886 to 1921, Streeter, often through forgery and other…
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1921
Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1837)
Fredrik Bajer was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 together with Klas Pontus Arnoldson.
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1922
Pope Benedict XV was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe.
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1922
French mathematician and academic (born 1838)
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his textbook Cours d'analyse de l'École polytechnique.
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1922
American geographer and mountain climber (born 1859)
Fanny Bullock Workman was an American mountaineer, explorer, cartographer, and travel writer known for her expeditions in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. One of the first women to pursue mountaineering as a…
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1925
American historian and author (born 1848)
James Ford Rhodes, was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio. After earning a fortune in the iron, coal, and steel industries by 1885, he retired from business to devote time to historical…
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1927
English journalist, author, and politician (born 1856)
Rudolph Chambers Lehmann was an English writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch…
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1929
American businessman and conservationist, co-founded the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company (born 1867)
Stephen Tyng Mather was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service. As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire. Along…
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1930
Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (born 1870)
László, 7th Prince Batthyany-Strattmann was a Hungarian aristocrat and physician. Until 1914, he was known as László Batthyány. A devout Catholic, he became known as the "doctor of the poor" and was beatified by the…
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1931
German poet and playwright (born 1869)
Else Lasker-Schüler was a German poet and playwright. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler, who was Jewish, fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in…
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1945
American author, poet, and playwright (born 1891)
William Thomas Walsh, was an American historian, educator and author; he was also a violinist.
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1949
1950
Danish mathematician and footballer (born 1887)
Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel…
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1951
Scottish-American sprinter and high jumper (born 1883)
Lawson "Robbie" N. Robertson was considered one of the more accomplished American track coaches of the first half of the twentieth century. From 1904-1936, he was with the American team at every Olympics with the…
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1951
American philosopher and academic (born 1876)
Ralph Barton Perry was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently with ethical, scientific, and metaphysical truth." Perry's…
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1957
English racing driver (born 1929)
John Michael Hawthorn was a British racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1958. Hawthorn won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1958 with Ferrari, and won three Grands Prix across seven…
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1959
American pianist and composer (born 1905)
Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works…
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1964
English actor (born 1890)
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall was an English actor of stage, screen, and radio. He starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the United…
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1966
American swimmer and water polo player (born 1890)
Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku was a Hawaiian competition swimmer, lifeguard, and popularizer of the sport of surfing. A Native Hawaiian, he was born three years before the overthrow of the Hawaiian…
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1968
American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (born 1890)
Harry Frank Guggenheim was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman.
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1971
American lieutenant and politician, 36th President of the United States (born 1908)
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in 1963, when he assumed…
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1973
Saudi Arabian diplomat (born 1916)
Sheikh Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel was a Saudi Arabian statesman, diplomat, and military officer who served as the Saudi Arabian minister of foreign affairs from 1960 to 1962. Appointed…
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1977
English general (born 1894)
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet, was a senior British Army officer who saw distinguished active service during both the world wars. He commanded XXX Corps in North Africa and Sicily,…
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1978
English cricketer and soldier (born 1894)
Herbert Sutcliffe was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two world wars.…
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1978
Palestinian rebel leader (born 1940)
Ali Hassan Salameh was a Palestinian militant who was the chief of operations for Black September and founder of Force 17. He was assassinated in January 1979 as part of an assassination campaign by Mossad.
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1979
German-Israeli historian and academic (born 1888)
Yitzhak (Fritz) Baer was a German-Israeli historian and an expert on medieval Spanish Jewish history.
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1980
Pakistani historian and academic (born 1903)
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi popularly known as I.H. Qureshi, SP, HI, was a Pakistani nationalist historian and playwright. He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi from 1961 till 1971.
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1981
Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (born 1911)
Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and the 28th…
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1982
English historian and journalist (born 1899)
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, was an English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man of affairs. His books included studies of Samuel Pepys, accounts of English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century…
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1985
American educator and politician, 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania (born 1939)
Robert Budd Dwyer was an American politician who served as the 70th Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1981 until his suicide in 1987. He had previously served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania…
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1987
Sri Lankan author and academic (born 1924)
Suppiramaniam Vithiananthan was a Sri Lankan writer, academic and the first vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
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1989
Canadian author, poet and diplomat (born 1905)
Robert Guy Choquette was a Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat.
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1991
1993
French actor and director (born 1910)
Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage.
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1994
American actor (born 1922)
Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas was an American actor. Noted for his bald head and deep, resonant voice, he is perhaps best known for portraying Lt. Theo Kojak on the crime drama series Kojak (1973–1978) and James Bond…
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1994
Polish-Israeli philosopher and author (born 1910)
Israel Eldad was an Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher and member of the Jewish underground group Lehi in Mandatory Palestine.
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1996
Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1957)
William MacArthur Mackenzie was a Scottish singer and songwriter, known for his distinctive high tenor voice. He was the co-founder and lead vocalist of the post-punk and pop band the Associates. He also had a brief…
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1997
Australian-Indian missionary and translator (born 1941)
Graham Stuart Staines was an Australian Christian missionary who, along with his two sons, Philip and Timothy, was burnt to death in India by members of the Bajrang Dal, a militant Hindutva organisation. In 2003,…
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1999
American journalist, author, and critic (born 1920)
Craig Claiborne was an American restaurant critic, food journalist, and book author. A long-time food editor and restaurant critic for The New York Times, he was also the author of numerous cookbooks and an…
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2000
Canadian author and poet (born 1916)
Anne Hébert, was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
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2000
American baseball player (born 1942)
Tommie Lee Agee was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1962 through 1973, most notably as a member of the New York Mets team that became known as the…
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2001
2001
American soldier and cartoonist (born 1921)
William Henry Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal…
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2003
2004
2004
American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1923)
Ann Miller was an American actress and dancer. She is best remembered for her work in the classical Hollywood cinema musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Her early film work included roles in Room Service with the Marx…
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2004
Venezuelan baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1943)
César Dario Gutiérrez [goo-te-er'-rez], also nicknamed "Cocoa", was a Venezuelan professional baseball player. He played as a shortstop in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants in the 1967 and 1969 seasons,…
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2005
Italian soldier (born 1894)
Carlo Orelli was, at age 110, the last surviving Italian World War I veteran who joined the army at the onset of the war. Born in Perugia, although he lived in Rome for most of his life, Orelli came from a military…
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2005
Mexican pianist and songwriter (born 1924)
Consuelo Velázquez Torres, also popularly known as Consuelito Velázquez, was a Mexican concert pianist and composer. She was the composer of famous Mexican ballads such as "Bésame mucho", "Amar y vivir", and "Cachito".
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2005
Turkish academic and politician, Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security (born 1941)
Aydın Güven Gürkan was a Turkish academic and politician.
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2006
Vietnamese general (born 1929)
Ngô Quang Trưởng was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Trưởng gained his commission in the Vietnamese National Army in 1954 and moved up the ranks over the next decade, mostly in the Airborne…
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2007
French priest and activist (born 1912)
Abbé Pierre was a French Catholic priest. He was a member of the Resistance during World War II and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement. In 1949, he founded the Emmaus movement, with the goal of helping poor and…
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2007
2007
Australian actor and director (born 1979)
Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor. Known for his versatility across independent and major studio films, his work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres. He received numerous accolades, including an…
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2008
Polish Holocaust survivor and activist (born 1920)
Miles Lerman was an American activist who helped plan and create both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the memorial at the Bełżec extermination camp. Lerman, a Holocaust survivor…
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2008
American baseball player (born 1908)
William Murray Werber was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox (1933–1936), Philadelphia Athletics (1937–1938), Cincinnati Reds…
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2009
American historian and author (born 1922)
Louis Rudolph Harlan was an American academic historian who wrote a two-volume biography of the African-American educator and social leader Booker T. Washington and edited several volumes of Washington materials. He won…
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2010
English-American actress (born 1929)
Jean Merilyn Simmons was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World…
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2010
English photographer and author (born 1948)
Sir Simon Neville Llewelyn Marsden, 4th Baronet was an English photographer and author. He is known best for his uncommon black-and-white photographs of allegedly haunted houses and places throughout Europe. He…
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2012
American football player and coach (born 1926)
Joseph Vincent Paterno, sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 victories,…
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2012
Canadian painter and environmentalist (born 1913)
Clarence Tillenius, LL. D. was a Canadian artist, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wildlife and wilderness.
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2012
American actor (born 1926)
Richard Norton Tufeld was an American actor, announcer, narrator, and voice actor from the late 1940s until the early 21st century. He worked constantly and continuously throughout this lengthy career and was one of the…
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2012
French historian and academic (born 1929)
Robert Bonnaud was a French anti-colonialist historian and professor of history at the Paris Diderot University.
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2013
American businessman and politician (born 1938)
Hinton Mitchem was a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 9th District from 1979 to January 1987 and then again from June 1987 to January 2011.
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2013
Iranian cinematographer (born 1933)
Maziar Partow was one of the first Iranian cinematographers and had worked as a cameraman on numerous Iranian films. He directed a few movies and edited several more, and was most well known by his title as Director of…
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2014
Italian engineer and academic, co-designed the Rande Bridge (born 1926)
Fabrizio de Miranda was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.
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2015
American lieutenant and politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (born 1924)
Wendell Hampton Ford was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 53rd governor of Kentucky from 1971 to 1974, and as a member of the United States Senate from 1974 to…
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2015
Canadian author and illustrator (born 1920)
Margaret Bloy Graham was a Canadian creator of children's books, primarily as an illustrator of picture books. She is best known for her work on Harry the Dirty Dog (1956) and other books in the same series written by…
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2015
Iranian footballer and coach (born 1942)
Homayoun Behzadi was an Iranian footballer and coach. He usually played as a striker.
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2016
English politician (born 1931)
Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, was a British Conservative Party politician and cabinet minister. A chartered accountant by training, he entered Parliament in November 1970, and was appointed a minister in…
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2016
Australian actress (born 1922)
Lois June Ramsey also billed as Lois Ramsay, was an Australian actress, best known for her regular roles on television series The Box and Prisoner. She often played quirky, eccentric old ladies on television soap operas.
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2016
Turkish politician (born 1940)
Kamer Genç was a Turkish politician, elected a member of parliament for the Republican People's Party in the 1987 and 1991 elections, for the True Path Party in the 1995 and 1999 elections, as an independent candidate…
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2016
Japanese businessman (born 1925)
Masaya Nakamura was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Namco. He was the company's president up until 2002, where he took a ceremonial role in its management. Following the formation of Bandai Namco Holdings,…
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2017
Dominican baseball player (born 1991)
Yordano Ventura Hernández was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Ventura made his MLB debut on September 17, 2013. Known as a power pitcher, his fastball…
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2017
American sci-fi and fantasy novelist (born 1929)
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first…
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2018
American art historian (born 1940)
William Bryan Jordan Jr. was an American art historian who facilitated acquisitions, curated exhibitions, and authored publications on Spanish artists and still life paintings, particularly from the Golden Age.
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2018
American baseball player (born 1934)
Henry Louis Aaron, nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976. Considered one of the greatest…
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2021
Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, and founder of the Plum Village Tradition (born 1926)
Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism.…
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2022
American disc jockey (born 1954)
Lin Brehmer was an American disc jockey and radio personality at WXRT in Chicago. Brehmer hosted mornings on WXRT from 1991 to 2020, and middays from early 2020 until taking a leave of absence to undergo chemotherapy in…
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2023
Japanese professional shogi player (born 1940)
Hifumi Katō was a Japanese professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 9-dan. During his career, he won the Meijin, Tenth Dan, Ōi, Kiō and Ōshō major titles. He also held the record for being the youngest to…
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2026
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Jonni Myyrä — Finnish athletics competitor (1892–1955)
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Death year1955
Known forIn 1912, he finished eighth in the javelin throw
Deaths on this date113 (239 – 2026)
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