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Louis Blues, Hall set a record with 502 consecutive games played as a goaltender
Notable Deaths on January 7
92 people
312 – 2026
January 7 has seen 92 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 312 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2026 — Glenn Hall
Canadian ice hockey goaltender (born 1931)
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He won the Vezina Trophy three times, was voted the first team All-Star goaltender seven times, and was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as best rookie in 1956
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He also won the Stanley Cup with the Black Hawks in 1961
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During his National Hockey League career, which lasted from 1952 to 1971 with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, and St
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Goalie", he was the first goaltender to use the butterfly style
Christian martyr, saint, and theologian (born 240)
Saint Lucian of Antioch, known as Lucian the Martyr, was a Christian presbyter, theologian, and martyr. He was noted for both his scholarship and ascetic piety.
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312
Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate
Bābak Khorramdin was one of the main Iranian revolutionary leaders of the Iranian Khorram-Dinān, which was a local freedom movement fighting the Abbasid Caliphate. Khorramdin appears to be a compound analogous to…
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838
856
Danish prince and saint (born 1096)
Saint Knud, also known as Canute Lavard was a Danish prince. Later he was the first Duke of Schleswig and the first border prince who was both a Danish and a German vassal, a position leading towards the historical…
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1131
Charles I, commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was King of Sicily from 1266 to 1285. He was a member of the Capetian dynasty and the founder of the House of Anjou-Sicily. Between 1246 and 1285, he was…
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1285
Denis, called the Farmer King and the Poet King, was King of Portugal from 1279 until his death in 1325.
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1325
Castilian noblewoman (born 1325)
Inês de Castro was a Galician noblewoman and courtier, best known as the lover and posthumously recognized wife of King Pedro I of Portugal. The dramatic circumstances of her relationship with Pedro, which was forbidden…
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1355
3rd Earl of Salisbury, English Earl (born 1350)
John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and 5th and 2nd Baron Montagu, KG was an English nobleman, one of the few who remained loyal to Richard II after Henry IV became king.
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1400
Duke of Savoy a.k.a. Antipope Felix V (born 1383)
Amadeus VIII, nicknamed the Peaceful, was Count of Savoy from 1391 to 1416 and Duke of Savoy from 1416 to 1440. He was the first to hold the ducal title, granted by Emperor Sigismund. Known for his diplomatic…
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1451
German sculptor (born 1455)
Peter Vischer the Elder was a German sculptor, the son of Hermann Vischer, and the most notable member of the Vischer Family of Nuremberg.
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1529
Catherine of Aragon was Queen of England as the first wife of Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until its annulment on 23 May 1533. She had previously been Princess of Wales as the wife of Henry's elder…
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1536
Flemish monk and author (born 1506)
Louis de Blois was a Flemish monk and mystical writer, generally known under the name of Blosius.
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1566
English painter and goldsmith (born 1547)
Nicholas Hilliard was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England. He mostly painted small oval miniatures, but also some larger…
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1619
Italian composer and author (born 1560)
Ruggiero Giovannelli was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a member of the Roman School, and succeeded Palestrina at St. Peter's.
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1625
Pope Innocent X, born Giovanni Battista Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655.
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1655
American farmer and politician, 1st Governor of the New Haven Colony (born 1590)
Theophilus Eaton was a New England colonist, politician, merchant and financier, who took part in organizing and financing the Great Puritan Migration to America. He was a founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a…
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1658
1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (born 1618)
Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, PC was an English aristocrat, soldier and courtier. He fought as a Royalist during the English Civil War, before spending a period in exile under the Commonwealth. After…
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1694
1700
French archbishop, theologian, and poet (born 1651)
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, P.S.S., more commonly known as François Fénelon, was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of…
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1715
Scottish poet and playwright (born 1686)
Allan Ramsay was a Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh. Ramsay's influence extended to England, foreshadowing the reaction that followed the publication of…
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1758
American minister and academic (born 1703)
Thomas Clap or Thomas Clapp was an American academic and educator, a Congregational minister, and college administrator. He was both the fifth rector and the earliest official to be called "president" of Yale College…
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1767
Swedish politician and diplomat (born 1695)
Count Carl Gustaf Tessin was a Swedish count and politician and son of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock. He was one of the most brilliant personages of his day, and the most prominent…
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1770
American journalist and author (born 1768)
Joseph Dennie was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essays entitled The Lay Preacher and as the…
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1812
Irish-Australian public servant and politician (born 1770)
John Thomas Campbell (1770–1830) was a public servant and politician in the New South Wales Legislative Council during the early Australian colonial period.
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1830
English painter and educator (born 1769)
Sir Thomas Lawrence was an English painter who served as the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear…
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1830
Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1800)
Mustafa Reşid Pasha was an Ottoman Turkish statesman and diplomat, known best as the chief architect behind the imperial Ottoman government reforms known as Tanzimat.
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1858
American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (born 1808)
Caleb Blood Smith was a United States representative from Indiana, the 6th U.S. secretary of the interior and a district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana.
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1864
Bengali landlord and philanthropist (born 1824)
Mia Golam Ali Chowdhury Sahib, also known as Chowdhuri Golam Ali, was a 19th-century Bengali Muslim zamindar and philanthropist from Faridpur in eastern Bengal.
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1888
Egyptian ruler (born 1852)
Mohamed Tewfik Pasha, also known as Tawfiq of Egypt, was khedive of Egypt and the Sudan between 1879 and 1892 and the sixth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty. He inherited a state suffering under the financial and…
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1892
Slovenian physicist and mathematician (born 1835)
Josef Stefan was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire.
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1893
English physician and feminist (born 1840)
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when she began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869.…
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1912
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (born 1843)
Henry Ware Eliot was an American industrialist and philanthropist who lived in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the father of poet T. S. Eliot.
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1919
Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (born 1849)
Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton was an Australian politician, barrister and jurist who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903. He held office as the leader of the Protectionist Party, before…
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1920
Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1851)
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos was a Greek politician and briefly Prime Minister of Greece.
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1927
American historian and author (born 1856)
Edward Perkins Channing was an American historian and an author of a monumental History of the United States in six volumes, for which he won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. His thorough research in printed sources…
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1931
French sergeant and politician (born 1877)
André Maginot was a French civil servant, soldier and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his advocacy of the string of forts known as the Maginot Line.
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1932
French pianist and composer (born 1858)
Guy d'Hardelot was the pen name of Helen Rhodes, a French composer, pianist and teacher.
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1936
English journalist and author (born 1869)
Charles Joseph Finger was a British born American writer. He also directed an orchestra and taught piano.
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1941
Serbian-American inventor and engineer (born 1856)
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
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1943
French-Egyptian philosopher and author (born 1886)
René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon, also known as Abdalwahid Yahia, was a French-Egyptian intellectual who wrote on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science" and "traditional studies" to symbolism and initiation.
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1951
English tennis player and coach (born 1878)
Dorothea Lambert Chambers was a British tennis player. She won seven Wimbledon women's singles titles and a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
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1960
New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (born 1876)
Arthur Edward Moore was an Australian politician. He was the Country and Progressive National Party Premier of Queensland, from 1929 to 1932. He was the only Queensland Premier not to come from the ranks of the Labor…
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1963
English racing driver and manager (born 1911)
Reginald Parnell was a racing driver and team manager from Derby, England. He participated in seven Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium, and scoring a total of nine championship points.
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1964
American author and screenwriter (born 1917)
David Loeb Goodis was an American writer of crime fiction noted for his output of short stories and novels in the noir fiction genre. Born in Philadelphia, Goodis alternately resided there and in New York City and…
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1967
1967
South African chemist and academic (born 1897)
James Leonard Brierley Smith was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long extinct.
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1968
American poet and scholar (born 1914)
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry. His 77…
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1972
English journalist and radio announcer (born 1908)
Tord Alvar Quan Lidell was an English radio announcer and newsreader for the BBC and compere. He joined BBC Birmingham as chief announcer in 1932 before moving to London the following year. Lidell was made deputy chief…
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1981
Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Australian Minister for Finance (born 1926)
Eric Laidlaw Robinson was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and held ministerial office in the Fraser government, serving as Minister for the Capital Territory (1975–1976), Post and…
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1981
German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
Alfred Kastler was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He is known for the development of optical pumping.
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1984
Mexican author, screenwriter, and photographer (born 1917)
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo, was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, and the collection of…
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1986
American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (born 1919)
Zara Cisco Brough, also called Princess White Flower, served as the Chief of the Nipmuc Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Massachusetts, from 1962 until 1987. She is best known for her work to preserve Nipmuc heritage.
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1988
English actor (born 1913)
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was an English stage and screen actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved leading man star status in the film Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949), portraying…
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1988
1989
Canadian-American football player and wrestler (born 1908)
Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski was a Canadian-American professional football player who was a fullback and defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). Renowned for his strength and size, Nagurski was considered…
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1990
American puppeteer and voice actor (born 1951)
Richard Hunt was an American puppeteer, best known as a Muppet performer on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and other projects for The Jim Henson Company. His roles on The Muppet Show included Scooter,…
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1992
American economist, historian, and theorist (born 1926)
Murray Newton Rothbard was an American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Rothbard was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement,…
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1995
Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1930)
Károly Grósz was a Hungarian communist politician, who served as the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party from 1988 to 1989.
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1996
American record producer (born 1915)
William Owen Bradley was an American musician, bandleader and record producer who, along with Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson, Bill Porter, and Don Law, was a chief architect of the 1950s and 60s Nashville sound in country…
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1998
Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
Vladimir Prelog was a Croatian-Swiss organic chemist who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. Prelog was born, and spent his infancy,…
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1998
American wrestler (born 1963)
Gary Mitchell Albright was an American professional wrestler best known for his work in Japan, first with UWF International (UWFi), and later All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). In AJPW, Albright was a two-time World Tag…
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2000
American singer (born 1942)
James Edward Carr was an American R&B and soul singer, described as "one of the greatest pure vocalists that deep Southern soul ever produced".
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2001
American comedian and actor (born 1935)
Avery Lawrence Schreiber was an American actor and comedian. He was a veteran of stage, television, and movies who came to prominence in the 1960s in a comedy duo with Jack Burns. He acted in an array of roles mostly on…
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2002
Swedish actress (born 1926)
Ingrid Lilian Thulin was a Swedish actress and director who collaborated with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She was often cast as harrowing and desperate characters, and earned acclaim from both Swedish and international…
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2004
2005
Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and author (born 1912)
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and an SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the…
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2006
American race car driver and businessman (born 1957)
Charles Robert Hamilton Sr. was an American stock car racing driver and racing team owner. A driver and owner in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series circuit and the winner of the 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series…
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2007
Icelandic journalist, author, and academic (born 1929)
Magnus Magnusson was an Icelandic-born Scottish journalist, translator, writer and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, although he never took British citizenship. He…
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2007
South African academic and politician, Vice State President of South Africa (born 1917)
Alwyn Louis Schlebusch was a South African politician, the only holder of the title Vice State President of South Africa from 1 January 1981 to 14 September 1984. He was an Afrikaner with a surname of German origin. He…
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2008
British-born American child actor, journalist and pundit (born 1948)
Anthony David Blankley was an American political analyst who served as press secretary for Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and as a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. He later became an executive vice…
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2012
Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (born 1907)
Sir Run Run Shaw, also known as Shao Yifu and Siu Yat-fu, was a Hong Kong businessman, filmmaker, and philanthropist. He was one of the foremost influential movie moguls in the East Asian and Hong Kong entertainment…
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2014
Botswana general and politician, Vice-President of Botswana (born 1936)
Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe was a Motswana politician who was Vice-President of Botswana from 2008 to 2012. He was a retired Lieutenant-General and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 2008.
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2015
Australian-American actor and screenwriter (born 1930)
Rodney Sturt Taylor was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973), and A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975).
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2015
Tunisian-French cartoonist (born 1934)
Georges David Wolinski was a French cartoonist and comics writer. He was killed on 7 January 2015 in the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
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2015
American basketball player and coach (born 1929)
William Edwin Foster was the head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University, University of Utah, Duke University, University of South Carolina, and Northwestern University. He is best known for guiding Duke to the…
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2016
American basketball player (born 1947)
John Howard Getty "J. J." Johnson was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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2016
American singer (born 1921)
Katie "Kitty" Kallen was an American singer whose career spanned from the 1930s to the 1960s, including the Swing era of the Big Band years, the post-World War II pop scene, and the early years of rock 'n roll. Kallen…
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2016
American lawyer and jurist (born 1938)
Judith Ann Kaye was an American lawyer, jurist and the longtime Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, serving in that position from 1993 to 2008.
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2016
Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (born 1936)
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir twice from November 2002 to November 2005 and from March 2015 until his death on January 7, 2016. He held various…
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2016
Portuguese politician; 16th President of Portugal (born 1924)
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares was a Portuguese statesman who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985 and subsequently as the president of Portugal from 1986 to 1996. He was the…
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2017
Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (born 1938)
James Patrick Anderton was a New Zealand politician who led a succession of left-wing parties after leaving the Labour Party in 1989.
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2018
French singer (born 1947)
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé and pop singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Poupée de…
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2018
Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (born 1952)
Neil Ellwood Peart was a Canadian musician and author, who was the drummer, percussionist, and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. He was nicknamed "the Professor", after the Gilligan's Island character of the same…
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2020
American screenwriter and television producer (born 1974)
Silvio Horta was an American screenwriter and television producer widely noted for adapting the hit Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea into the ABC series Ugly Betty. Horta served as head writer and executive…
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2020
author and feminist (born 1967)
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was an American writer, journalist, and lawyer known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation, which she published at the age of 27. Her work often focused on chronicling her personal struggles…
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2020
English filmmaker (born 1941)
Michael David Apted was an English television and film director and producer.
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2021
American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1927)
Thomas Charles Lasorda was an American professional baseball pitcher and manager. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1976 through 1996. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall…
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2021
Swiss cardinal (born 1932)
Henri Schwery was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Sion from 1977 to 1995. He was raised to the rank of cardinal in 1991.
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2021
German footballer and manager (born 1945)
Franz Anton Beckenbauer was a German professional football player, manager, and official. Nicknamed der Kaiser, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players of all time. Beckenbauer was a…
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2024
French intelligence officer and politician (born 1928)
Jean Louis Marie Le Pen was a French politician. He founded the far-right National Front party and served as the party's president from 1972 to 2011 and as its honorary president from 2011 to 2015.
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2025
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1938)
Peter Yarrow was an American singer and songwriter who found fame as a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary along with Paul Stookey and Mary Travers.
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2025
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Glenn Hall — Canadian ice hockey player (1931–2026)
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Death year2026
Known forDuring his National Hockey League career, which lasted from 1952 to 1971 with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, and St
Deaths on this date92 (312 – 2026)
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