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Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is one of the most widely recorded opera singers in history
Notable Deaths on January 8
107 people
307 – 2025
January 8 has seen 107 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 307 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2017 — Nicolai Gedda
Swedish operatic tenor (born 1925)
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Debuting in 1951, Gedda had a long and successful career in opera until the age of 77 in June 2003, when he made his final operatic recording
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In January 1958, he created the role of Anatol in the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Vanessa at the Metropolitan Opera
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Harry Gustaf Nikolai Gädda, better known as Nicolai Gedda, was a Swedish operatic tenor
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Skilled at languages, he performed operas in French, Russian, German, Italian, English, Czech and Swedish, as well as one in Latin
Chinese emperor (born 259)
Emperor Hui of Jin, personal name Sima Zhong (司馬衷), courtesy name Zhengdu (正度), was the second emperor of the Western Jin dynasty. Emperor Hui was a developmentally disabled ruler, and throughout his reign, there was…
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307
Italian apostle and saint
Severinus of Noricum is a saint, known as the "Apostle to Noricum". It has been speculated that he was born in either Southern Italy or in the Roman province of Africa. Severinus himself refused to discuss his personal…
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482
871
926
countess of Flanders (born 1009)
Adela of France, known also as Adela the Holy or Adela of Messines; was, by marriage, Duchess of Normandy, and Countess of Flanders (1035–1067).
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1079
1107
pope of the Catholic Church (born 1106)
Pope Celestine III, born Giacinto Bobone, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 30 March or 10 April 1191 to his death in 1198. He had a tense relationship with several monarchs,…
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1198
Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (born 1266)
Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the…
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1337
French nobleman (born 1327)
Charles de la Cerda, commonly known as Charles of Spain, was a Franco-Castilian nobleman and soldier, the son of Alfonso de la Cerda of Spain and Isabelle d'Antoing, and grandson of Alfonso de la Cerda the disinherited…
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1354
archbishop of Patras
Stephen Zaccaria was the youngest brother of the last Prince of Achaea, Centurione II Zaccaria, and Latin Archbishop of Patras from 1404 until his death in 1424.
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1424
Italian bishop and saint (born 1381)
Lawrence Justinian was a Venetian Catholic priest and bishop who became the first Patriarch of Venice. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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1456
duchess of Savoy (born 1504)
Infanta Beatrice of Portugal was a Portuguese princess by birth and a Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Charles III, Duke of Savoy. She was the ruling countess of Asti from 1531 to 1538.
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1538
margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (born 1522)
Albert II was the margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (Brandenburg-Bayreuth) from 1527 to 1553. He was a member of the Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. Because of his bellicose nature, Albert was given the…
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1557
French sculptor and architect, designed the Château d'Anet (born 1510)
Philibert de l'Orme was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of French Renaissance architecture. His surname is also written De l'Orme, de L'Orme, or Delorme.
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1570
Elector of Brandenburg (born 1525)
John George of Brandenburg was a prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1571–1598).
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1598
Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (born 1564)
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born in the city of Pisa, then part of the…
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1642
1st Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and politician, Scottish Secretary of State (born 1648)
John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair PC was a Scottish politician and lawyer. As Joint Secretary of State in Scotland 1691–1695, he played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1689 and was forced to resign in…
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1707
Italian violinist and composer (born 1653)
Arcangelo Corelli was an Italian composer, musician, and violinist of the middle Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of the…
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1713
English printer and type designer (born 1706)
John Baskerville was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer. He was also responsible for inventing "wove paper", which was…
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1775
English boxer (born 1703)
John Broughton was an English bare-knuckle boxer. He was the first person to codify a set of boxing rules; prior to this the "rules" that existed were very loosely defined and tended to vary from contest to contest. His…
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1789
German lawyer and jurist (born 1720)
Justus Möser was a German jurist, social theorist, and conservative commentator best known for his innovative history of Osnabrück which stressed social and cultural themes. Möser is generally seen as the founder of…
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1794
Anglo-Irish general and politician (born 1778)
Major-General Sir Edward Michael Pakenham, was a British Army officer and politician. He was the son of the Baron Longford and the brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington, with whom he served in the Peninsular War.…
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1815
American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (born 1765)
Eli Whitney Jr. was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention…
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1825
1st Viscount Beresford, English field marshal and politician, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance (born 1768)
William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, was a British army officer and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular…
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1854
1865
French historian and archaeologist (born 1814)
Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian, archaeologist, and Catholic priest. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies, travelling extensively in the region. …
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1874
Russian poet and critic (born 1821)
Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of…
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1878
English-American businessman (born 1811)
Joshua Abraham Norton was a resident of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 declared himself "Emperor of these United States" in a proclamation that he signed "Norton I., Emperor of the United States". Commonly known…
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1880
Slovene-Hungarian poet (born 1825)
Miska Magyarics, official name Mihály Magyarics, was a Hungarian Slovene poet.
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1883
American banker and politician, 5th Governor of Minnesota (born 1825)
William Rainey Marshall was an American politician. He was the fifth governor of Minnesota from January 8, 1866, to January 9, 1870, and was a member of the Republican party. He served as the Colonel of the 7th…
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1896
French poet and writer (born 1844)
Paul Marie Verlaine was a French poet, writer and critic associated with the Symbolist, Parnassianist and Decadent movements. He is considered one of the paramount exponents of the fin de siècle in French and…
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1896
American general and 30th Governor of Kentucky (born 1823)
Simon Bolivar Buckner was an American soldier, Confederate military officer, and politician. He fought in the United States Army in the Mexican–American War. He later fought in the Confederate States Army during the…
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1914
Italian sculptor (born 1884)
Rembrandt Bugatti was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects. During World War I, he volunteered for paramedical work at a military hospital in Antwerp, an experience that…
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1916
1916
American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (born 1827)
Ellis Henry Roberts was an American politician who served as a Representative from New York and 20th Treasurer of the United States.
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1918
Polish-born singer and actor (born 1852)
Josef Ichhäuser (1852–1920), known by the stage name Josef Josephi (also spelled Joseffy), was an Austrian Empire-born singer (tenor-baritone) and actor.
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1920
American painter (born 1882)
George Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. He became, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his…
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1925
Russian novelist, poet, and critic (born 1880)
Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely, was a Russian and Soviet novelist, Symbolist poet, theorist and literary critic. He was a committed anthroposophist and follower of Rudolf…
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1934
Ukrainian-French financier (born 1886)
Serge Alexandre Stavisky was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair.
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1934
American author and illustrator (born 1880)
John Barton Gruelle was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book and comics author, illustrator, and storyteller. He is best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls and as the…
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1938
1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general and founder of the Scout movement (born 1857)
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell,, was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with his sister Agnes,…
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1941
Czechoslovak lawyer (born 1899)
Vladimír Mandl was a Czech lawyer and university lecturer. In 1932, he authored Das Weltraum-Recht: Ein Problem der Raumfahrt, the first stand-alone treatise on space law, which preceded the launch of Sputnik 1 by 25…
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1941
American lawyer and religious leader (born 1869)
Joseph Franklin Rutherford, also known as Judge Rutherford, was an American religious leader and the second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. He played a primary role in the organization…
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1942
Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (born 1879)
Andres Larka VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence and a politician.
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1943
American lieutenant and sailor (born 1878)
William Kissam Vanderbilt II was an American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.
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1944
Swiss astrologer and author (born 1900)
Karl Ernst Krafft was a Swiss astrologer, born in Basel. He worked in the fields of astrology and graphology.
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1945
German painter and graphic designer (born 1887)
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937.
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1948
Czech-American economist and academic (born 1883)
Joseph Alois Schumpeter was an Austrian political economist. He served briefly as Finance Minister of Austria in 1919. In 1932, he emigrated to the United States to become a professor at Harvard University, where he…
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1950
American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1866)
Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury was an American astronomer who was the first to detect and calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary. She published an important early catalog of stellar spectra using her own…
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1952
English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (born 1883)
Admiral Sir Thomas Hugh Binney, was a senior officer in the Royal Navy and the 16th Governor of Tasmania from 1945 to 1951.
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1953
Estonian-French painter and illustrator (born 1898)
Eduard Wiiralt was an Estonian graphic artist. In art history, Wiiralt is considered as the most remarkable master of Estonian graphic art in the first half of his century. The best-known of his works include "Inferno",…
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1954
American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (born 1869)
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was an American architect and designer. She was one of the very few female American architects in her day. She was the designer of many landmark buildings and spaces for the Fred Harvey…
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1958
American baseball player and coach (born 1910)
Lynwood Thomas "Schoolboy" Rowe was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, primarily for the Detroit Tigers (1932–42) and Philadelphia Phillies. He was a three-time All-Star and a member of three…
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1961
1963
American operatic tenor (born 1913)
Richard Tucker was an American operatic tenor and cantor. Long associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Tucker's career was primarily centered in the United States.
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1975
Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1898)
Zhou Enlai was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from October 1949 until his death in January 1976. Zhou served under Chairman Mao Zedong…
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1976
American physicist and academic (born 1907)
John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial…
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1980
Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (born 1908)
Grégoire Aslan was a Swiss-Armenian actor and musician.
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1982
German general and pilot (born 1919)
Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn was a German military aviator who was a renowned wing commander in the Luftwaffe during World War II. As a fighter ace, he was the second most successful fighter pilot of all time after fellow…
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1983
French cellist and educator (born 1906)
Pierre Léon Marie Fournier was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists" on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound.
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1986
American illustrator (born 1919)
Bernard Krigstein was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics. His artwork usually displayed the signature B.…
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1990
English actor and comedian (born 1911)
Terry-Thomas was an English character actor and comedian who became internationally known through his films during the 1950s and 1960s. He often portrayed disreputable members of the upper classes, especially cads,…
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1990
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1960)
Stephen Maynard Clark was an English musician. He was a guitarist and songwriter for the hard rock band Def Leppard until his death in 1991. In 2007, Clark was ranked No. 11 on Classic Rock Magazine's "100 Wildest…
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1991
American actor and comedian (born 1915)
Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram was an American character actor. He was known for playing the sidekick of Gene Autry and for playing the character of Mr. Haney in the television series Green Acres. He is primarily…
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1994
American baseball player and coach (born 1925)
Harvey Haddix Jr. was an American professional baseball pitcher and pitching coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals (1952–1956), Philadelphia Phillies (1956–57), Cincinnati Redlegs…
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1994
Turkish photographer and journalist (born 1968)
Metin Göktepe was a Kurdish photojournalist who was tortured and murdered in police custody in Istanbul on January 8, 1996.
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1996
French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France (born 1916)
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995. He was the longest holder of that position in the history of France and the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under…
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1996
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research on the carbon dioxide…
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1997
English composer and conductor (born 1905)
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the…
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1998
American sailor (born 1925)
Hilary Hurlburt Smart was an American sailor and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he received a gold medal in the star class with the boat Hilarius, together with his father,…
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2000
Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist and researcher whose work focused on quantum electronics. His most famous and well-known works were on optics and electromagnetic…
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2002
American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (born 1932)
Rex David Thomas was an American businessman, philanthropist, and fast-food tycoon who was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. In this role,…
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2002
English composer and conductor (born 1925)
Ronald Alfred Goodwin was an English composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain,…
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2003
Baron Stratford, Northern Irish broadcaster and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (born 1942)
Anthony Louis Banks, Baron Stratford was a British politician who served as Minister for Sport from 1997 to 1999. A member of the Labour Party, he was a member of Parliament from 1983 to 2005 and subsequently as a…
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2006
American lawyer and judge (born 1908)
Jane Matilda Bolin was an American attorney and judge. She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first to join the New York City Law…
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2007
Baron Cockfield, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (born 1916)
Francis Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield PC, was by turns a civil servant, a company director, a Conservative Party politician, and a European Commissioner. He served as Minister of State at the Treasury from 1979 to…
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2007
Canadian-American actress and singer (born 1922)
Margaret Yvonne Middleton, known professionally as Yvonne De Carlo, was a Canadian-American actress, dancer and singer. She became a Hollywood film star and sex symbol in the 1940s and 1950s, made several musical…
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2007
Northern Irish politician and activist (born 1953)
David Ervine was a Northern Irish Ulster Loyalist and politician who served as leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) from 2002 to 2007 and was also a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast…
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2007
American animator, director, and producer (born 1925)
Iwao Takamoto was an American animator, character designer, television producer, and film director. After his family had been sent to the California internment camps in the early 1940s, Takamoto learned to draw,…
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2007
Australian jockey and trainer (born 1923)
George Thomas Donald Moore OBE was an Australian jockey and Thoroughbred horse trainer. He began his career in racing in 1939 in Brisbane where he quickly became one of the top apprentice jockeys and where in 1943 he…
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2008
Sri Lankan journalist (born 1958)
Lasantha Manilal Wickrematunge was a high-profile Sri Lankan journalist, politician, broadcaster, and human rights activist who was assassinated in January 2009.
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2009
American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Arthur Charles Clokey was an American animator, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor. He was a pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby…
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2010
Czech journalist and politician (born 1937)
Jiří Dienstbier was a Czech politician and journalist.
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2011
Norwegian footballer (born 1924)
Ole Thorbjørn Svenssen was a Norwegian footballer, who played a then record 104 international games for Norway, and captained the side 93 times. He was one of the first footballers who played 100 international games for…
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2011
American singer and pianist (born 1938)
Dave Alexander, also known as Omar Sharriff, Omar Shariff, Omar Hakim Khayam, was an American West Coast blues singer and pianist.
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2012
English haematologist and academic (born 1943)
Terence John Hamblin was a British academic and scientist who was professor of immunohaematology at the University of Southampton from 1987 until his death.
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2012
Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (born 1929)
Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg was a Bulgarian-born French pianist.
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2012
Canadian sculptor and illustrator (born 1927)
Kenojuak Ashevak, was a Canadian Inuk artist. Born at Camp Kerrasak on southern Baffin Island, she later died in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Known primarily for her drawings as a graphic artist, she had a diverse artistic…
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2013
American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (born 1920)
Jeanne Sobelson Manford was an American schoolteacher and activist. She co-founded the support group organization, PFLAG, for which she was awarded the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal.
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2013
Indian-English director and producer (born 1930)
Alasdair David Gordon Milne was a British television producer and executive. He had a long career at the BBC, where he was eventually promoted to Director-General, and was described by The Independent as "one of the…
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2013
Dutch-Australian swimmer (born 1925)
Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands who won two medals at the Summer Olympics. After having claimed the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in London (1948), she won the…
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2014
Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1939)
Antonino Pascual Roman Jr. was a Filipino politician from Bataan. A member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, he represented the 1st District of Bataan from 1998 until 2007, when his wife, Herminia…
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2014
American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (born 1942)
Andraé Edward Crouch was an American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, record producer and pastor. Referred to as "the father of modern gospel music" by contemporary Christian and gospel music professionals, Crouch…
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2015
Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (born 1926)
Keppel Earl Enderby was an Australian politician and judge. Enderby was a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Australian Labor Party between 1970 and 1975 and became a senior cabinet minister in the…
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2015
American actress and singer (born 1921)
Virginia "Patsy" Garrett was an American actress and singer. Beginning her career as a radio performer at the age of seven, Garrett is best known for her seven years on Fred Waring's Pleasure Time radio show during the…
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2015
Italian racing driver (born 1926)
Maria Teresa de Filippis was an Italian racing driver, and the first woman to race in Formula One. She participated in five World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1958, but scored no championship points.…
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2016
Filipino television host, actor, comedian and talent manager (born 1933)
German Molina Moreno, also known as Kuya Germs and dubbed as "The Master Showman", was a Filipino television host, presenter, actor, comedian, talent manager, producer, writer, and director.
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2016
Seychellois politician, President 1976-77 (born 1939)
Sir James Richard Marie Mancham KBE was a Seychellois politician who founded the Seychelles Democratic Party and was the first President of Seychelles from 1976 to 1977.
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2017
Iranian politician (born 1934)
Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who was the fourth president of Iran from 1989 to 1997. One of the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Rafsanjani was the…
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2017
Indian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
Peter Eardley Sarstedt was a British singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He was the brother of singers Eden Kane, a teenage pop idol, and Clive Sarstedt, with both of whom he also recorded and performed as The…
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2017
Australian footballer (born 1942)
Patrick James Dalton was an Australian rules footballer who played 217 games for Perth in the WANFL from 1960-71. He was named on the interchange bench in Perth's official "Team of the Century". A regular for Perth…
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2020
American actor, screenwriter, and director (born 1930)
Buck Henry was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. Henry's contributions to film included his work as a co-writer for Mike Nichols's The Graduate (1967) for which he received a nomination for the Academy…
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2020
Romanian Holocaust survivor (born 1922)
Iancu Țucărman was a Romanian Jewish agricultural engineer and survivor of the Holocaust and the Iași pogrom. He was the penultimate survivor of the "Death's Train" that was used to deport Jews from the Iași railway…
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2021
American concert promoter and producer (born 1944)
Michael Scott Lang was an American concert promoter, producer, and artistic manager who was best known as a co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969. Lang was the organizer of the event, as well as the…
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2022
Mexican actor (born 1981)
Adan Canto was a Mexican actor. He portrayed Sunspot in the 2014 superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past, Paul Torres on the Fox drama series The Following, and A.J. Menendez in the ABC prime-time series Blood & Oil.…
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2024
Laotian prince (born 1938)
Prince Mangkra Souvanna Phouma was a royal in the Kingdom of Laos and the son of Prince Souvanna Phouma.
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2025
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Nicolai Gedda — Swedish operatic tenor (1925–2017)
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Death year2017
Known forDebuting in 1951, Gedda had a long and successful career in opera until the age of 77 in June 2003, when he made his final operatic recording
Deaths on this date107 (307 – 2025)
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