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Notable Deaths on July 3
93 people
458 – 2025
July 3 has seen 93 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 458 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1994 — Lew Hoad
Australian tennis player and coach (born 1934)
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He won the Kooyong Tournament of Champions in 1958 and the Forest Hills Tournament of Champions in 1959
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He won the Ampol Open Trophy world series of tournaments in 1959, which included the Kooyong tournament that concluded in early January 1960
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Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur
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Lewis Alan Hoad was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973
Byzantine patriarch and saint (born 449)
Anatolius of Constantinople was a Patriarch of Constantinople. He is regarded as a saint, by both the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.
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458
Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, personal name Li Xian, and at other times Li Zhe or Wu Xian, was the fourth and seventh emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling briefly in 684 and again from 705 to 710. During the first…
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710
Chinese warlord
Dong Chang was a warlord of the late Tang dynasty in China. He began his career as the leader of a local militia at Hang Prefecture and gradually increased in power to control most of modern Zhejiang. Not satisfied with…
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896
964
1090
English-born Irish cleric and politician
Stephen de Fulbourn was an English-born cleric and politician in thirteenth-century Ireland: he was Justiciar of Ireland, and Archbishop of Tuam 1286–88. He was a member of the Order of Knights Hospitallers.
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1288
Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes (born 1423)
Pierre d'Aubusson was a Grand Master of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, and a zealous opponent of the Ottoman Empire.
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1503
Italian academic and reformer (born 1500)
Aonio Paleario or Aonius Palearius was an Italian Christian termed a reformer.
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1570
French queen consort and regent (born 1573)
Marie de' Medici was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV. Marie served as regent of France between 1610 and 1617 during the minority of her son Louis XIII. Her mandate as regent legally…
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1642
English ornithologist and ichthyologist (born 1635)
Francis Willughby FRS was an English ornithologist, ichthyologist and mathematician, and an early student of linguistics and games.
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1672
French geologist and mineralogist (born 1736)
Jean-Baptiste Louis Romé de l'Isle was a French mineralogist, considered one of the creators of modern crystallography.
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1790
French scholar and author (born 1714)
Louis-Georges-Oudard-Feudrix de Bréquigny, was a French scholar. He was born in Granville in Normandy.
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1795
Spanish general, astronomer, and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Louisiana (born 1716)
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral was a Spanish Navy officer. He spent much of his career in the Americas, where he carried out important scientific work that earned him a reputation as one of the major figures of…
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1795
French-Canadian composer and playwright (born 1746)
Joseph Quesnel was a French Canadian composer, poet and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Colinette and Lucas et Cécile; the former is considered to be the first Canadian opera and probably of North…
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1809
American general (born 1826)
George Hull Ward was a soldier and Union officer in the American Civil War.
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1863
American tribal leader (born 1810)
Little Crow III was a Wahpekute Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862.
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1863
Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1811)
Hoxhë Hasan Tahsini or simply Hoxha Tahsim was an Albanian alim, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. He was the first rector of Istanbul University and one of the founders of the Central Committee for Defending…
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1881
American rancher (born 1841)
Robert A. Clay Allison, also known as Clay Allison was a cattle rancher, cattle broker, and sometimes gunfighter of the American Old West. He fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Allison had a reputation for…
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1887
Vietnamese poet and author (born 1822)
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was a Vietnamese poet who was known for his nationalist and anti-colonial writings against the French colonization of Cochinchina, the European name for the southern part of Vietnam.
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1888
Canadian giant and strongman (born 1881)
Édouard Beaupré, better known by his nickname "The Willow Bunch Giant" was a Canadian circus and freak show giant, professional wrestler, strongman, and star of Barnum and Bailey's circus. He was one of the tallest men…
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1904
Austrian journalist, playwright, and father of modern political Zionism (born 1860)
Theodor Herzl was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine, which, in the late 19th…
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1904
American journalist and author (born 1845)
Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years,…
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1908
American businesswoman and financier (born 1834)
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the "Queen of…
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1916
1918
Irish-American weight thrower (born 1864)
James Sarsfield Mitchel was an Irish-born American field athlete who competed in the 1904 Olympics. He was one of a group of Irish-American athletes known as the "Irish Whales."
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1921
French race car driver
Smaragd Marie Charles Henry Jullien "Gérard" de Courcelles was a French racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the French Lorraine-Dietrich automobile company, along with teammate André Rossignol.
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1927
Argentinian educator and politician, 19th President of Argentina (born 1852)
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928 until his overthrow in 1930. He was…
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1933
French engineer and businessman, founded the Citroën Company (born 1878)
André-Gustave Citroën was a French industrialist and the founder of French automaker Citroën. He is also remembered for his application of double helical gears.
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1935
American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (born 1877)
Jacob Schick was an American military officer, inventor, and entrepreneur who patented an early electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. He is the father of electric razors.
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1937
Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (born 1871)
Friedrich Karl Akel was an Estonian diplomat and politician who served as State Elder of Estonia in 1924.
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1941
German physician and general (born 1895)
Siegfried Adolf Handloser was a German physician and war criminal, convicted for overseeing medical atrocities at concentration camps.
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1954
French-American painter, illustrator, and academic (born 1898)
Reginald Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and…
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1954
Cuban baseball player and manager (born 1890)
Adolfo Domingo De Guzmán Luque was a Cuban starting pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1914 to 1935. He spent 12 seasons of his career (1918–1929) with the Cincinnati Reds. Luque was not only the first Latin…
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1957
German composer and Kapellmeister (born 1904)
Richard Mohaupt was a German composer and Kapellmeister.
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1957
1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1867)
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, was a British Conservative politician and colonial governor. He was Governor-General of New Zealand from 1930 to 1935.
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1958
English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1942)
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing backing vocals and play a wide variety of instruments…
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1969
American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
James Douglas Morrison was an American singer-songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his charismatic persona, poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, and…
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1971
American poet and critic (born 1888)
John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon College,…
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1974
Russian mathematician and author (born 1891)
Alexander Melentyevich Volkov was a Soviet novelist, playwright, university lecturer. He was an author of novels, short stories, plays and poems for children, mostly remembered for the Magic Land series of books, based…
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1977
American actor (born 1918)
James Firman Daly was an American actor. Recognized for his work on stage and screen, he is perhaps best known for his role as Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series Medical Center, in which he played Chad Everett's…
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1978
French pianist and composer (born 1888)
Louis Edmond Durey was a French composer. He was among the Les Six group of composers.
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1979
American actor and director (born 1920)
Ross Martin was an American radio, voice, stage, film, and television actor. Martin was best known for portraying Artemus Gordon on the CBS Western series The Wild Wild West, which aired from 1965 to 1969. He was the…
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1981
Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1893)
Francis Joseph Aloysius Selke was a Canadian professional ice hockey executive in the National Hockey League. He was a nine-time Stanley Cup champion with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens and a Hockey Hall…
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1985
American singer, saxophonist, and actor (born 1901)
Hubert Prior Vallée, known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.
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1986
American actor and voice artist (born 1913)
James Gilmore Backus was an American actor. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, the father of James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause, the voice of the…
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1989
American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1936)
Donald Scott Drysdale, nicknamed "Big D", was an American professional baseball pitcher and broadcaster who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent his entire 14-year career with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles…
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1993
American tennis player (born 1928)
Ricardo Alonso "Pancho" González, known sometimes as Richard Gonzales, was an American tennis player. He won 15 major singles titles, including two U.S. National Championships in 1948 and 1949, and 13 Professional…
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1995
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929)
Edward Joseph "Spider" Mazur was a Canadian ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks between 1951 and 1956. The rest of his career, which lasted…
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1995
American game designer and programmer (born 1949)
Danielle Bunten Berry, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E., one of the first influential multiplayer video games, and 1984's The Seven Cities of Gold.
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1998
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1952)
Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer. Sandman possessed a distinctive, deep bass-baritone voice and a mysterious demeanour. He was an indie…
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1999
Russian mathematician (born 1899)
Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina was a Soviet and Russian applied mathematician, known for her work on fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics, particularly, the application of Fuchsian equations, as well in the…
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1999
Canadian author and screenwriter (born 1931)
Mordecai Richler was a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for his novels set in Montreal's Jewish community; including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His…
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2001
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1940)
John Bright Russell was an American country music singer, songwriter, and comedian best known for his song "Act Naturally", which was made famous by Buck Owens, who recorded it in 1963, and The Beatles in 1965. His…
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2001
Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1929)
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and because of it is considered the first Turkic…
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2004
Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1914)
Mario Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.
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2005
American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (born 1916)
Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American politician and environmentalist from Wisconsin who served as a United States senator and governor. He was a member of the Democratic Party and the founder of Earth Day, which…
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2005
American computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language (born 1941)
Joseph Amadee Goguen was an American computer scientist. He was professor of Computer Science at the University of California and University of Oxford, and held research positions at IBM and SRI International.
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2006
American saxophonist (born 1927)
Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III was an American musician. His 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax" became the signature tune of The Benny Hill Show. Randolph was a prolific session musician and member of the Nashville…
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2007
English actor and drummer (born 1944)
Clive William Hornby was an English actor and musician, best known for his role as Jack Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He first appeared in the programme in 1980, and remained in the role for 28 years.
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2008
Canadian fiddler, composer, and producer (born 1956)
Oliver Schroer was a Canadian fiddler, composer, and music producer.
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2008
Bangladeshi author and poet (born 1932)
Alauddin Al-Azad was a modern Bangladeshi author, novelist, and poet.
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2009
2009
2010
2011
Vietnamese general and politician (born 1925)
Nguyễn Hữu Có was a South Vietnamese soldier and politician who served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, rising to the rank of lieutenant general. He was prominent in several coups and juntas in the 1960s.
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2012
American actor, singer, and producer (born 1926)
Andy Samuel Griffith was an American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television. Known for his Southern drawl, his characters with a…
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2012
American educator and politician (born 1934)
Yvonne Bond Miller was a Virginia educator and American politician who became the first African-American woman to serve in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. A Democrat, in 1983 Miller became the first…
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2012
Italian engineer and politician (born 1926)
Sergio Pininfarina was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life.
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2012
American lawyer and politician (born 1935)
Richard Alvin Tonry was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 1st congressional district for a partial term in 1977.
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2012
Slovenian footballer and manager (born 1964)
Roman Bengez was a Slovenian footballer and manager.
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2013
American author (born 1944)
Francis Ray was a New York Times and USA Today bestselling African-American writer of romance novels. Her literary fiction series – Taggart and Falcon, the Invincible Women, Grayson Family of New Mexico, and Grayson…
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2013
Canadian actress and screenwriter (born 1951)
PJ Torokvei was a Canadian screenwriter and actor. A trans woman, her professional credits are generally under her former name.
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2013
Romanian historian and politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1942)
Radu Vasile was a Romanian politician, historian, academic/professor, and poet.
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2013
French trumpet player and composer (born 1934)
Bernard Vitet was a French trumpeter, multi-instrumentist and composer, co-founder of the first free jazz band in France (1964) together with François Tusques, Michel Portal Unit (1972) and Un Drame Musical Instantané…
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2013
English playwright and screenwriter (born 1948)
Andrew James Wilson, better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as Blow-Job (1971) were overtly political, often combining harsh social comment with comedy.…
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2013
American photographer (born 1917)
Jini Dellaccio was an American photographer best known for her images of rock and pop acts of the 1960s, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Her photographs of the Sonics, the Wailers, Merrilee Rush, the Daily Flash…
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2014
2014
German footballer (born 1948)
Volkmar Groß was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent seven seasons in the Bundesliga with Hertha BSC, Tennis Borussia Berlin and FC Schalke 04. He represented West Germany once in a…
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2014
American politician (born 1943)
Ira Ruskin was an American politician from Redwood City, California. A Democrat, he is a former member of the California State Assembly and of Redwood City Council. He and his wife Cheryl resided in Redwood City,…
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2014
Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (born 1924)
Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, commonly called "Reb Zalman", was an American Rabbi, writer, and activist, and one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an innovator in ecumenical dialogue.
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2014
British-American actress (born 1923)
Diana Love Webster, known professionally as Diana Douglas, was a Bermudian-American actress who was married to actor Kirk Douglas from 1943 until their divorce in 1951. She was the mother of Michael and Joel Douglas.
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2015
American religious leader and educator (born 1924)
Boyd Kenneth Packer was an American religious leader and educator who served as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2008 until his death. He also served…
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2015
American farmer and politician (born 1926)
W. Wayne Townsend was an American politician from the U.S. state of Indiana. A Democrat, he was his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1984. Townsend was defeated by the incumbent Republican governor Robert D. Orr.
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2015
Australian footballer and coach (born 1960)
Phillip Walsh was an Australian rules footballer and coach. Walsh played for Collingwood, Richmond and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1983 and 1990. Upon ending his playing career,…
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2015
Indian dance choreographer (born 1948)
Saroj Khan was an Indian dance choreographer in Hindi cinema. She was best known for the dance form mujra and the first woman choreographer in Bollywood. With a career spanning over forty years, she choreographed over…
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2020
Spanish motorcycle rider (born 2005)
Borja Gómez Rus was a Spanish motorcycle racer. He competed in the Supersport World Championship in 2021 and 2024, the Moto2 World Championship between 2022 and 2023, and the FIM Stock European Championship at the time…
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2025
Portuguese footballer (born 1996)
Diogo José Teixeira da Silva, commonly known as Diogo Jota, was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a forward and winger. He was known for his finishing, pace, dribbling ability, and work rate.
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2025
South African politician, 8th Deputy President of South Africa (born 1960)
David Dabede Mabuza, also known as DD Mabuza, was a South African politician who served as deputy president of South Africa from February 2018 to February 2023. He was the deputy president of the African National…
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2025
American actor (born 1957)
Michael Søren Madsen was an American actor. He was widely known for starring in Quentin Tarantino's films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and The Hateful Eight (2015). His other film roles…
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2025
Nigerian footballer (born 1963)
Peter Rufai was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Having begun his career with Stationery Stores, he competed professionally abroad in Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain in a…
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2025
Portuguese footballer (born 2000)
André Filipe Teixeira da Silva was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and a left winger.
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2025
Filipino talent manager, columnist and talk show host (born 1947)
Maria Lolita Arguelles "Lolit" Solis was a Filipino talk show host, entertainment news writer and talent manager.
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2025
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Lew Hoad — Australian tennis player
FeaturedLew Hoad
Death year1994
Known forHoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur
Deaths on this date93 (458 – 2025)
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