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His first game in the major leagues was on June 19, 1930, and his last game was October 1, 1933
Notable Deaths on July 22
101 people
698 – 2025
July 22 has seen 101 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 698 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2007 — Rollie Stiles
American baseball player (born 1906)
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Born in Ratcliff, Arkansas, he batted and threw right-handed, and was 9–14 with an earned run average of 5.92 in his three seasons
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Rolland Mays Stiles was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St
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Rollie attended Southeastern State Teachers College
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Stiles' nicknames when playing baseball were "Leapin' Lena", "Lena", and "Rollie", all typical of how he signed autographs for baseball fans.
nephew of Chinese sovereign Wu Zetian
Wu Chengsi, courtesy name Fengxian, formally Prince Xuan of Wei (魏宣王), was a nephew of the Chinese sovereign Wu Zetian and an imperial prince of the Wu Zhou dynasty. He participated in her planning in taking the throne…
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698
Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (born c. 1200)
Meinhard III, a member of the House of Gorizia, was Count of Gorizia from 1231 and Count of Tyrol from 1253 until his death.
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1258
Count of Champagne and Brie and King of Navarre
Henry the Fat was King of Navarre and Count of Champagne and Brie from 1270 until his death.
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1274
Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
Sir John de Graham of Dundaff was a 13th-century Scottish noble. He was killed during the Battle of Falkirk.
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1298
1362
Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1310)
Simon Langham was an English clergyman who was Archbishop of Canterbury and a cardinal.
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1376
Flemish politician (born 1330)
Frans Ackerman, Latinised as Franciscus Agricola, was one of the most famous Flemish statesmen and military leaders of the 14th century.
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1387
Charles VII, called the Victorious or the Well-Served, was King of France from 1422 to his death in 1461. His reign saw the end of the Hundred Years' War and a de facto end of the English claims to the French throne.
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1461
English courtier and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1426)
Sir Richard Wingfield KG of Kimbolton Castle was an influential courtier and diplomat in the early years of the Tudor dynasty of England which included being England's Ambassador to France.
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1525
Hungarian king (born 1487)
John Zápolya or Szapolyai, was King of Hungary from 1526 to 1540. His rule was disputed by Archduke Ferdinand I, who also claimed the title King of Hungary. He was Voivode of Transylvania before his coronation, from…
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1540
Duke of Coimbra (born 1481)
Jorge de Lencastre was a Portuguese prince, illegitimate son of King John II of Portugal and Ana de Mendonça, a lady-in-waiting to Joanna la Beltraneja. He was created the second Duke of Coimbra in 1509. He was also…
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1550
English bishop (born 1500)
Richard Cox was an English clergyman, who was Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Ely.
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1581
Italian priest and saint (born 1559)
Lawrence of Brindisi, OFM Cap., born Giulio Cesare Russo, was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian and member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. An accomplished linguist, in addition to his native Italian,…
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1619
Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (born 1587)
Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Duke of Sanlúcar, 3rd Count of Olivares,, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares, was a Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister. He was appointed as Grandee on 10 April 1621, a…
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1645
Pope Clement X, born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 April 1670 to his death on 22 July 1676.
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1676
English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
Colonel Hugh Drysdale was a governor of colonial Virginia. He was educated at Kilkenny College and Trinity College Dublin. More officially, his title was Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony and…
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1726
1st Baron King, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1669)
Peter King, 1st Baron King,, commonly referred to as Lord King, was an English lawyer and politician, who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
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1734
French politician, Controller-General of Finances (born 1715)
Joseph-François Foullon de Doué was a French politician and a Controller-General of Finances under Louis XVI.
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1789
French anatomist and physiologist (born 1771)
Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the…
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1802
English admiral
Vice-Admiral Thomas Macnamara Russell was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Russell is best remembered for his command of a squadron in the…
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1824
Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1746)
Giuseppe Piazzi was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S. Vaiana. He is…
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1826
French emperor (born 1811)
Napoleon II was the disputed Emperor of the French for 2 days in 1815. He was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Marie Louise, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria.
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1832
Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (born 1757)
Joseph-Nicolas-Blaise Forlenze, was an Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon, considered one of the most important ophthalmologists between the 18th and the 19th century. He was mostly known in France under the French…
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1833
American general (born 1828)
James Birdseye McPherson (/məkˈfərsən/) was a career United States Army officer who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. McPherson was on the general staff of Henry Halleck and later of…
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1864
German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (born 1806)
John Augustus Roebling was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and a…
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1869
Polish cardinal (born 1822)
Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski was a Polish Roman Catholic cardinal-priest. He was born in Górki in Russian-controlled Congress Poland to Count Josef Ledóchowski and Maria Zakrzewska. He was uncle to Saint Ursula…
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1902
American publisher, lawyer, and politician, United States Ambassador to Russia (born 1810)
Cassius Marcellus Clay was an American planter, politician, military officer and abolitionist who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 1863 to 1869.
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1903
English actor and playwright (born 1846)
Wilson Barrett was an English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance…
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1904
Canadian minister and academic (born 1827)
William Snodgrass was a Canadian Presbyterian minister and the sixth Principal of Queen's College, now Queen's University.
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1906
English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1828)
Sir William Randal Cremer usually known by his middle name "Randal", was a British Liberal Member of Parliament, a pacifist, and a leading advocate for international arbitration. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in…
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1908
Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (born 1827)
Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of…
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1915
American poet and author (born 1849)
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Childrens' Poet" for his dialect works and his poetry for children. His poems tend…
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1916
Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (born 1898)
Indra Lal Roy was the sole Indian World War I flying ace. While serving in the Royal Flying Corps and its successor, the Royal Air Force, he claimed ten aerial victories; five aircraft destroyed, and five 'down out of…
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1918
American businessman and horse breeder (born 1849)
William Kissam Vanderbilt I was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist, and horse breeder. Born into the Vanderbilt family, he managed his family's railroad investments.
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1920
Japanese-American chemist and academic (born 1854)
Jokichi Takamine was a Japanese chemist. He is known for being the first to isolate adrenaline in 1901.
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1922
English author and poet (born 1858)
John Meade Falkner was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel Moonfleet. An extremely successful businessman, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth during World War I.
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1932
Canadian inventor and academic (born 1866)
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936.
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1932
Italian activist and author (born 1853)
Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarchist, theorist and revolutionary socialist. He edited several radical newspapers and spent much of his life exiled and imprisoned, having been jailed and expelled from Italy,…
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1932
American actor and producer (born 1867)
Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He also produced the musical Show…
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1932
American gangster (born 1903)
John Herbert Dillinger was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He commanded the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing twenty-four banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several…
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1934
Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1891)
Edgar Arthur "Ted" McDonald was a cricketer who played for Tasmania, Victoria, Lancashire and Australia, as well as being an Australian rules footballer who played with Launceston Football Club, Essendon Football Club,…
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1937
Australian politician, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (born 1861)
Sir George Warburton Fuller was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd Premier of New South Wales, in office from 1922 to 1925 and for one day in December 1921. He previously served in the federal House of…
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1940
American boxer and promoter (born 1877)
Albert Young was an American welterweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a gold medal in boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics.
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1940
Latvian basketball player (born 1909)
Rūdolfs Jurciņš was a Latvian basketball player. He played as a center.
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1948
Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1874)
William Lyon Mackenzie King was the prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant politician in Canada from the early 1920s to…
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1950
Ukrainian-Russian soldier and author (born 1895)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko was a Soviet and Russian writer and satirist.
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1958
American poet and historian (born 1878)
Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely…
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1967
Italian journalist and cartoonist (born 1908)
Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo.
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1968
Australian journalist and author (born 1912)
George Henry Johnston OBE was an Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist, best known for My Brother Jack. He was the husband and literary collaborator of Charmian Clift.
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1970
American lawyer and politician (born 1900)
Wayne Lyman Morse was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon. Morse is well known for opposing the Democratic Party’s leadership and for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds.
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1974
American football player (born 1951)
James Victor Cain, Jr. was an American football tight end who played for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes and was selected by the…
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1979
Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1929)
Sándor Péter Kocsis was a Hungarian footballer who played for Ferencvárosi TC, Budapest Honvéd, Young Fellows Zürich, FC Barcelona and Hungary as a striker. During the 1950s, along with Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor,…
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1979
American author and illustrator (born 1905)
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, which he worked on from 1930 until his retirement in 1975. His contribution to Mickey Mouse comics is…
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1986
1986
Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (born 1900)
Fahrettin Kerim Gökay was a Turkish politician, civil servant, professor ordinarius and physician. He served as government minister, and is well known for his long-term position as governor of Istanbul.
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1987
Argentinian author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1932)
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which…
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1990
Soviet footballer (born 1937)
Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov was a Soviet footballer who played as a forward for Torpedo Moscow and the Soviet national team during the 1950s and 1960s. A powerful and skilful attacking player, he scored the…
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1990
American painter, photographer, and activist (born 1954)
David Michael Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorporated personal…
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1992
English-Australian cricketer (born 1904)
Harold Larwood was a cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team between 1924 and 1938. A right-arm fast bowler who combined extreme speeds with great accuracy, he was considered by…
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1995
English keyboard player (born 1956)
Robert James Collins was an English musician best known as the original keyboardist of The Charlatans.
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1996
German footballer and coach (born 1909)
Friedrich Hermann "Fritz" Buchloh was a German football manager and footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Buchloh was the last surviving member of Germany's 1934 World Cup…
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1998
English-born Canadian actor (born 1916)
Eric Cuthbert Christmas was an English actor, with over 40 films and numerous television roles to his credit. He is probably best known for his role as Mr. Carter, the principal of Angel Beach High School, in the 1981…
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2000
Spanish author, poet, and playwright (born 1925)
Carmen Martín Gaite was a Spanish author who wrote many novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays across multiple genres. Her work has received significant recognition: in 1957, she was awarded the Premio Nadal for…
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2000
Canadian chemist and academic (born 1920)
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered many discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucrose. His contributions include the…
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2000
French director and screenwriter (born 1924)
Claude Sautet was a French film director and screenwriter.
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2000
Italian journalist and historian (born 1909)
Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli was an Italian journalist, historian, and writer.
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2001
French singer and guitarist (born 1933)
Alexandre "Sacha" Distel was a French musician and singer who had hits with a cover version of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" in 1970, which reached No. 10 on the UK charts, "Scoubidou", and "The Good Life". He was…
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2004
American saxophonist and composer (born 1922)
Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, best remembered for his solo on "Flying Home", critically recognized as the first R&B saxophone solo. He is also known as one of the writers of the…
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2004
American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1940)
Eugene Booker Record was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. He was best known as the lead vocalist of the Chicago-based vocal group The Chi-Lites. He had international hits with "Oh Girl,"…
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2005
American composer, singer-songwriter, and pianist (born 1923)
Dika Newlin was a composer, pianist, professor, musicologist, and punk rock singer. She received a Ph.D. from Columbia University at the age of 22. She was one of the last living students of Arnold Schoenberg and was a…
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2006
Venezuelan mountaineer (born 1965)
José Antonio Delgado Sucre was the first Venezuelan mountaineer to reach the summit of five eight-thousanders and one of the most experienced climbers in Latin America. Known as el indio, Delgado led the first…
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2006
American baseball player and coach (born 1972)
Michael Robert Coolbaugh was an American baseball player and coach. Born in Binghamton, New York, he was the brother of major leaguer Scott Coolbaugh. Coolbaugh died after being hit by a line drive while working as a…
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2007
New Zealand rugby player (born 1968)
Jarrod Cunningham was a New Zealand rugby union fullback. Born in Hawke's Bay, Cunningham played for his home town rugby club from 1990 to 1997, during which time he was trialed for the All Blacks in 1993, but was kept…
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2007
Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (born 1933)
László Kovács ASC was a Hungarian-American cinematographer, known for his influential work in the development of the American New Wave of films in the 1970s, he collaborated with many known directors, especially Peter…
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2007
American actress (born 1923)
Estelle Gettleman, known professionally as Estelle Getty, was an American actress and comedian. She was best known for her portrayal of Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (1985–1992), for which she won a Golden Globe…
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2008
American lawyer and judge (born 1921)
Richard Martin Givan served as the 96th Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 6, 1969, until his retirement December 31, 1994. He served as chief justice from 1974 until March 1987.
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2009
German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1947)
Peter Krieg, born as Wilhelm Walter Gladitz was a German documentary filmmaker, producer and writer. He initially enrolled in business and economics courses at Hamburg University but abandoned his studies to travel and…
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2009
American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (born 1936)
Kenneth Carroll Guinn was an American businessman, academic administrator, and politician who served as the 27th Governor of Nevada from 1999 to 2007. He previously served as interim president of the University of…
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2010
Mexican-American actress (born 1923)
Linda Christian was a Mexican film actress who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film Tarzan and the…
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2011
Dutch footballer (born 1945)
Cees de Wolf was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a left winger.
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2011
Chinese engineer and politician (born 1929)
Ding Guangen was a Chinese politician who served in senior leadership roles in the Chinese Communist Party during the 1990s. He was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party between 1992 and 2002, a…
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2012
American psychologist and academic (born 1920)
George Armitage Miller was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science. He also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics. Miller wrote…
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2012
American director and screenwriter (born 1925)
Frank Romer Pierson was an American screenwriter and film director.
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2012
American architect, co-designed the Lever House (born 1921)
Natalie Griffin de Blois was an American architect. Entering the field in 1944, she became one of the earliest prominent women in the male-dominated profession. She was a partner for many years in the firm of Skidmore,…
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2013
American policeman and actor (born 1944)
Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina was an American actor and Chicago police detective. Known for his roles as mobsters or police officers, his involvement in the entertainment industry began through his association with…
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2013
Scottish footballer (born 1928)
Lawrance Reilly was a Scottish footballer. He was one of the "Famous Five", the Hibernian forward line during the late 1940s and early 1950s, along with Bobby Johnstone, Gordon Smith, Eddie Turnbull, and Willie Ormond.…
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2013
American lawyer and judge (born 1924)
Sara Rosalie Wahl was an American feminist, lawyer, public defender, clinical law professor, and judge. She was the first woman to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court, which she did for some seventeen years. Governor…
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2013
German SS officer (born 1925)
Johann Breyer was a Czech-American tool and die maker and onetime SS-Totenkopfverbände concentration and death camp guard whom the United States Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations (OSI)…
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2014
Irish director and producer (born 1933)
Louis Lentin was a theatre, film and television director. He was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1933 and worked for over forty years in the arts in Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1956 with a…
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2014
Israeli footballer and manager (born 1971)
Nitzan Shirazi was an Israeli association football player and manager.
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2014
American canoeist (born 1924)
Frank Benjamin Havens was an American sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. He was born in Arlington, Virginia. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals: in the C-1 10000 m…
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2018
English association football supporter (born 1939)
Maria Petri was an English Arsenal supporter. She had been attending Arsenal and Arsenal Women matches constantly since 1950 until her death on 22 July 2022 and had been recognised within English football for her unique…
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2022
American golfer and radio commentator (born 1960)
Mark Kevin Carnevale was an American professional golfer and commentator for Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio. He won once on the PGA Tour, also being awarded Rookie of the Year in 1992.
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2024
American singer (born 1935)
Abdul Kareem "Duke" Fakir was an American singer. He co-founded the Motown quartet the Four Tops and performed in an ensemble under that name from 1953 until shortly before his death. He was the group's last surviving…
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2024
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1933)
John Brumwell Mayall was an English blues and rock musician, songwriter and producer. In the 1960s, he formed John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and…
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2024
Scottish footballer (born 1940)
John Fallon was a Scottish professional football goalkeeper and member of the Celtic squad that won the European Cup in 1967, which came to be known as the Lisbon Lions.
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2025
Dutch musician (born 1948)
George Jan Kooymans was a Dutch guitarist and vocalist. He was best known as the founder of the Dutch rock group Golden Earring. Kooymans wrote "Twilight Zone", the group's only top 10 entry on the U.S. Billboard Hot…
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2025
English musician and media personality (born 1948)
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne was an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. Dubbed the "Prince of Darkness", he is widely credited as a pioneer of heavy metal music. He co-founded the band Black Sabbath in…
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2025
American musician (born 1940)
Charles Frank Mangione was an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter, actor, and composer. He came to prominence as a member of Art Blakey's band in the 1960s, and later co-led the Jazz Brothers with his brother, Gap,…
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2025
American quilt collector, historian, and advocate (born 1941)
Rochelle Zegart was an American quilt collector, historian, and advocate. She was involved in the establishment of several quilting organizations and is best known for her work promoting quilting as an art form and…
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2025
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Who died on July 22?
Rollie Stiles — American baseball player (1906-2007)
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Death year2007
Known forLouis Browns from 1930 to 1933
Deaths on this date101 (698 – 2025)
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2019
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