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In a playing career that lasted from 1951 to 1973, Delvecchio played in 1,549 games and recorded 1,281 points
Notable Deaths on July 1
116 people
552 – 2025
July 1 has seen 116 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 552 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2025 — Alex Delvecchio
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)
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Upon retiring in 1973, Delvecchio was named head coach of the Red Wings and was also named the team's general manager in 1974; he served in both roles until 1977
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Delvecchio was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1977, and in 2017 was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.
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He is one of three NHL players to spend their entire career with one franchise and play at least 1,500 games with that team
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Alexander Peter "Fats" Delvecchio was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, and general manager who spent his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Detroit Red Wings
552
992
king of León and Castile (born 1040)
Alfonso VI, nicknamed the Brave or the Valiant, was king of León (1065–1109), Galicia (1071–1109), and Castile (1072–1109).
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1109
regent of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan (born 1163)
Hōjō Yoshitoki was the second Hōjō shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate and head of the Hōjō clan. He was the second son of Hōjō Tokimasa. He was shikken from the abdication of his father Tokimasa in 1205 until…
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1224
Mongol ruler (born 1183)
Chagatai Khan was a son of Genghis Khan, a prominent figure in the early Mongol Empire, and the first khan of the Chagatai Khanate. The second son of Genghis's wife Börte, Chagatai was renowned for his masterful…
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1242
1277
Burmese king (born 1238)
Narathihapate was the last king of the Pagan Empire who reigned from 1256 to 1287. The king is known in Burmese history as the "Taruk-Pyay Min" for his flight from Pagan (Bagan) to Lower Myanmar in 1285 during the first…
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1287
queen of Castile and León
María Alfonso Téllez de Meneses, known as María de Molina, was queen consort of Castile and León from 1284 to 1295 by marriage to Sancho IV of Castile, and served as regent for her minor son Ferdinand IV and later her…
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1321
1348
English reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's (born 1510)
John Bradford (1510–1555) was an English Reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's, and martyr. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for alleged crimes against Queen Mary I. He was burned at the stake on 1 July 1555.
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1555
Japanese concubine (born 1552)
Lady Saigō, also known as Oai, was one of the concubines of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the samurai lord who unified Japan at the end of the sixteenth century and then ruled as shōgun. She was also the mother of the second…
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1589
Italian composer and educator (born 1535)
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was born in Verona and died in Cremona. Even though he spent most of his life working in northern Italy, because of his stylistic similarity to…
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1592
French philologist and scholar (born 1559)
Isaac Casaubon was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England.
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1614
4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (born 1575)
William Parker, 13th Baron Morley, 4th Baron Monteagle, was an English peer, best known for his role in the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. In 1605 Parker was due to attend the opening of Parliament. He was a member of…
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1622
Irish archbishop and saint (born 1629)
Oliver Plunkett, also spelled Plunket Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681), was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified…
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1681
1736
Welsh mathematician and academic (born 1675)
William Jones, FRS was a Welsh mathematician best known for his use of the symbol π to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. He was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund…
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1749
1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1705)
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC was an English peer and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War from 1746 to 1755. He also held the offices of Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1755 to 1756…
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1774
2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1730)
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, styled The Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1739, Viscount Higham between 1739 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750, and the Marquess of…
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1782
German composer (born 1710)
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. Despite his acknowledged genius as an improviser and…
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1784
French marshal (born 1715)
Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise was a French Royal Army officer and courtier who served during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI. He was the last male of his branch of the House of Rohan, and was…
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1787
American evangelist (born 1752)
The Public Universal Friend was an American preacher born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, to Quaker parents. After suffering a severe illness in 1776, the Friend claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless…
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1819
a Muscogee war orphan adopted by Andrew Jackson
Lyncoya Jackson, also known as Lincoyer or Lincoya, was an Indigenous American from a family that was a part of the Upper Creek tribal-geographical grouping and more than likely affiliated with Red Stick political…
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1828
1839
American chemist and engineer (born 1800)
Charles Goodyear was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
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1860
American general (born 1820)
John Fulton Reynolds was a career United States Army officer and a general in the American Civil War. One of the Union Army's most respected senior commanders, he played a key role in committing the Army of the Potomac…
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1863
Scottish-American detective and spy (born 1819)
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed the plot in 1861 to…
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1884
Leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848, Commander of the Irish Brigade in the US Civil War (born 1823)
Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. After being convicted of sedition, he was first sentenced to death but received transportation for life to Van…
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1887
American author and activist (born 1811)
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by…
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1896
American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (born 1838)
John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary for Abraham Lincoln, he became a diplomat. He served as United…
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1905
American pilot and screenwriter (born 1875)
Harriet Quimby was an American pioneering aviator, journalist, and film screenwriter. In 1911, she became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license and in 1912 the first woman to fly solo across…
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1912
French pianist and composer (born 1866)
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but was undistinguished and did not obtain…
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1925
German paramilitary commander, co-founder and leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA) (born 1887)
Ernst Julius Günther Röhm was a German military officer, politician, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. A close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler, Röhm was the co-founder and leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA),…
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1934
Irish writer (born 1857)
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, known as Cú Uladh, was an Irish language writer during the Gaelic revival. He wrote stories based on Irish folklore, some of the first Irish-language plays, and regular articles in most of…
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1942
Dutch artist, author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter (born 1894)
Willem Johan Cornelis Arondéus was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the…
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1943
Austrian-English screenwriter (born 1894)
Carl Mayer was an Austrian screenwriter. Mayer wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans…
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1944
Russian author (born 1930)
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva, was a Soviet Russian teenage diarist who wrote a diary for several months, whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the…
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1944
Italian race car driver (born 1904)
Achille Varzi was an Italian racing driver. He is remembered as the winner of the 1933 Monaco Grand Prix, as well as the winner of the first Formula One Grand Prix at the 1946 Turin Grand Prix, and as the chief rival of…
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1948
Swiss composer and educator (born 1865)
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcroze eurhythmics influenced Carl Orff's…
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1950
Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (born 1873)
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating in 1923, the United States. He was the…
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1950
Polish poet, novelist and journalist (born 1922)
Tadeusz Borowski was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature.
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1951
French physician and author (born 1894)
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but…
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1961
Indian lawyer and politician (born 1882)
Purushottam Das Tandon was a freedom fighter from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is widely remembered for his opposition to the partition of India, as well as efforts in achieving the Official Language of India…
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1962
Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1882)
Bidhan Chandra Roy was an Indian physician and politician who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1950 until his death in 1962. He played a key role in the founding of several institutions and cities like Salt…
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1962
French-American viola player and conductor (born 1875)
Pierre Benjamin Monteux was a French conductor. After violin and viola studies, and a decade as an orchestral player and occasional conductor, he began to receive regular conducting engagements in 1907. He came to…
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1964
English cricketer (born 1903)
Walter Reginald Hammond was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional, he later became an amateur and was appointed captain of…
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1965
American journalist and author (born 1915)
Robert Ruark was an American author, syndicated columnist, and big game hunter.
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1965
American runner (born 1883)
William Franklyn "Bill" Verner was an American athlete and middle-distance runner who competed in the early twentieth century.
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1966
German historian and academic (born 1888)
Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a German historian who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied under Professor Hermann Oncken. A Lutheran, he first became well…
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1967
German judge and politician (born 1903)
Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, and in bringing about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
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1968
Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)
Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the…
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1971
Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (born 1901)
Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine was a Trinidadian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK's first black peer. He…
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1971
Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895)
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 to 1974. He was the only Argentine…
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1974
German general and pilot (born 1890)
Kurt Arthur Benno Student was a German general in the Luftwaffe during World War II. An early pioneer of airborne forces, Student was in overall command of developing a paratrooper force to be known as the…
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1978
Portuguese author and poet (born 1921)
Carlos de Oliveira, GOSE, was a Portuguese poet and novelist.
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1981
American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (born 1895)
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30…
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1983
Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1904)
Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais was an Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais method.
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1984
Dutch sculptor, designer and educator (born 1926)
Jurriaan Willem Schrofer was a Dutch sculptor, graphic designer, type designer, and art school educator.
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1990
American actor, director and producer (born 1936)
Michael Landon Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983), and Jonathan Smith in…
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1991
Italian screenwriter and producer (born 1924)
Franco Cristaldi was an Italian film producer, credited with producing feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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1992
American author (born 1908)
Merriam Modell was an American writer of short stories, suspense and pulp fiction, who wrote primarily under the pen name Evelyn Piper. Many had a common theme: the domestic conflicts faced by American families.
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1994
American radio host (born 1938)
Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack, was an American disc jockey active for over three decades. He was famous for his gravelly voice, and credited it with his success, saying, "It's kept meat and potatoes on the…
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1995
English guitarist (Be-Bop Deluxe) (born 1950)
Ian Richard Parkin was an English musician who played rhythm guitar with the first incarnation of Bill Nelson's Be-Bop Deluxe.
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1995
American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (born 1904)
William Thomas Cahill was an American politician, lawyer, and academic who served as the 46th governor of New Jersey from 1970 to 1974. A Republican, Cahill previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly and U.S.…
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1996
American model and actress (born 1954)
Margaux Louise Hemingway was an American fashion model and actress. The granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, she gained independent fame as a supermodel in the 1970s, appearing on the covers of magazines including…
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1996
Serbian-American author and screenwriter (born 1942)
Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the film Breaking Away.
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1996
American actor (born 1917)
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American actor and singer. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He received a star on the…
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1997
American cartoonist (born 1909)
Charles George Werner was an American editorial cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939 and later worked 47 years for the Indianapolis Star.
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1997
Canadian-American director and producer (born 1908)
Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947). In 1947, he was named as one of the…
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1999
American businessman, creator of M&M's and the Mars chocolate bar (born 1904)
Forrest Edward Mars Sr. was an American billionaire businessman and the driving force of the candy company Mars Inc. until 1973.
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1999
American actress (born 1910)
Sylvia Sidney was an American stage, screen, and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best…
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1999
Chilean human rights activist (born 1935)
Sola Sierra Henríquez was a Chilean human rights activist. She was director of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared organization, and campaigned to find out the truth about the people who were violently disappeared…
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1999
American actor (born 1920)
Walter John Matthau was an American actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters. He starred in 10 films alongside his real-life friend Jack Lemmon, including The Odd Couple (1968) and…
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2000
Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was a Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics…
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2001
French race car driver (born 1925)
Louis Rosier Jr., professionally known as Jean-Louis Rosier was the son of Louis Rosier. Together they won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1950, of which all except for 2 laps were driven by Louis Rosier. The Charade Circuit…
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2001
American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930)
Herbert Jay Solomon, known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet, but Mann was…
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2003
English playwright and screenwriter (born 1931)
Peter Barnes was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His best known work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination.
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2004
American actor and director (born 1924)
Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential performers in the history of cinema, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe…
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2004
Macedonian composer and conductor (born 1909)
Todor Skalovski was a Macedonian composer, chorus and orchestra conductor who wrote the music to North Macedonia's national anthem "Denes nad Makedonija". He is regarded as one of the most distinguished composers there.…
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2004
American singer-songwriter (Four Tops) (born 1936)
Renaldo "Obie" Benson was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was best known as a founding member and the bass singer of Motown group the Four Tops, which he joined in 1953 and continued to perform with…
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2005
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1923)
August Bodnar was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who was the Calder Memorial Trophy winner as the National Hockey League's rookie of the year for the 1943–44 season. He played 12 seasons in the NHL from 1943…
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2005
American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (born 1951)
Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer. Over his career, he achieved eleven consecutive RIAA-certified platinum albums and sold over 25 million records…
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2005
Japanese politician, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937)
Ryutaro Hashimoto was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1996 to 1998.
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2006
Estonian race car driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (born 1952)
Robert Lepikson was an Estonian politician, businessman and rally driver/co-driver.
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2006
English cricketer and sportscaster (born 1931)
Frederick Sewards Trueman, was an English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. He had professional status and later became an author and broadcaster.
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2006
English guitarist (born 1948)
Melville John Galley was an English guitarist, best known for his work with Whitesnake, Trapeze, Finders Keepers and Phenomena.
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2008
American actor (born 1912)
Karl Malden was an American stage, movie and television actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in 1946 and…
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2009
Finnish soldier and author (born 1917)
Onni Palaste, born Onni Bovellan was a Finnish Winter War veteran and writer.
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2009
English actress (born 1922)
Isabel Mary Sugden, known professionally as Mollie Sugden was an English actress and comedienne. She was best known for being an original cast member in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972–1985) as senior…
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2009
American football player and coach (born 1924)
Donald David Coryell was an American football coach. He coached in high school, college, and the professional ranks; his most notable NCAA post was with the San Diego State Aztecs for 12 seasons from 1961 to 1972 before…
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2010
American painter and illustrator (born 1913)
Arnold Friberg was an American illustrator and painter noted for his religious and patriotic works. He is perhaps best known for his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge, a depiction of George Washington praying at…
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2010
American actress and singer (born 1929)
Jacqueline Ruth Woods, better known as Ilene Woods, was an American actress and singer. Woods was best known as the original voice of the title character of Walt Disney animated film Cinderella, for which she was named…
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2010
American priest and author (born 1938)
Peter Edward Gillquist was an American archpriest in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and retired chairman of the archdiocese's department of missions and evangelism. He was chairman of…
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2012
Jamaican-American keyboard player and producer (born 1950)
Oswald "Ossie" Hibbert was a Jamaican organist, keyboard player and record producer.
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2012
American operatic soprano (born 1926)
Evelyn Shulman Lear was an American operatic soprano. Between 1959 and 1992, she appeared in more than forty operatic roles, appeared with every major opera company in the United States and won a Grammy Award in 1966.…
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2012
American captain, pilot and astronaut (born 1961)
Alan Goodwin Poindexter was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131.
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2012
American author and playwright (born 1934)
Jack Carter Richardson was an American writer born in Manhattan, though his birthplace erroneously has been reported as Bristol, Virginia. He was known for his existentialist dramas of the early 1960s.
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2012
American general (born 1926)
Sidney Bryan Berry was a United States Army Lieutenant General, Superintendent of West Point (1974–1977), and Commissioner of Public Safety for the state of Mississippi (1980–1984).
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2013
American game designer, co-creator of Twister (born 1930)
Charles Foley was the co-inventor of the game Twister, with Neil W. Rabens.
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2013
American minister and politician (born 1941)
William Herbert Gray III was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1979 to 1991. He also served as chairman of the House Committee on…
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2013
Canadian economist, lawyer and politician (born 1938)
Jean Garon was a politician, lawyer, academic and economist in Quebec, Canada.
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2014
American activist, co-founder of The Farm (born 1935)
Stephen Gaskin was an American counterculture Hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding "The Farm", a spiritual commune in 1970. He was a…
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2014
2014
Ukrainian-Russian general (born 1942)
General Anatoly Mikhailovich Kornukov was a general in the Russian Air Force and the former fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Defence Forces. From 1998 until 2002, he served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air…
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2014
American author and poet (born 1937)
Walter Dean Myers was an American writer best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and raised in Harlem, New York City. A difficult childhood inspired him to write, and his…
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2014
Irish singer and television host (born 1927)
Michael Valentine 'Val' Doonican was an Irish singer of traditional pop, easy listening and novelty songs, noted for his warm and relaxed vocal style.
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2015
Polish mathematician and academic (born 1931)
Czesław Olech was a Polish mathematician. He was a representative of the Kraków school of mathematics, especially the differential equations school of Tadeusz Ważewski.
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2015
English lieutenant and humanitarian (born 1909)
Sir Nicholas George Winton was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had…
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2015
English author and film director (born 1929)
Robin St. Clair Rimington Hardy was an English author and film director. His most famous directorial work is The Wicker Man, and his last project was a film adaptation of his novel Cowboys for Christ, which was retitled…
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2016
Polish composer (born 1929)
Bogusław Julian Schaeffer was a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, a member of the avant-garde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others.
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2019
Dutch composer (born 1939)
Louis Joseph Andriessen was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although his…
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2021
Dutch race car driver (born 2004)
Dilano van 't Hoff was a Dutch racing driver who competed in the Formula Regional European Championship from 2021 to 2023.
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2023
Albanian novelist (born 1936)
Ismail Kadare was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual, focusing on poetry until the publication of his first novel, The…
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2024
American screenwriter (born 1934)
Robert Towne was an American screenwriter and director. He started writing films for Roger Corman, including The Tomb of Ligeia in 1964, and was later part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
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2024
American pastor and television host (born 1935)
Jimmy Lee Swaggart was an American Pentecostal televangelist, pastor, media mogul, author and gospel music artist.
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2025
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