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Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914
Notable Deaths on July 30
104 people
578 – 2025
July 30 has seen 104 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 578 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1918 — Joyce Kilmer
American soldier, journalist, and poet (born 1886)
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Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
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He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment in 1917
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He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31
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Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor
Greek bishop
Jacob Baradaeus, also known as Jacob bar Addai or Jacob bar Theophilus, was the Bishop of Edessa from 543/544 until his death in 578. He is venerated as a saint in the Oriental Orthodox Churches and his feast day is 31…
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578
Pope Benedict I was the bishop of Rome from 2 June 575 to his death on 30 July 579.
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579
734
general of the Tang Dynasty
Shi Xiancheng was a general of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who ruled Weibo Circuit semi-independently from the imperial government.
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829
Syrian scholar and historian (born 1226)
Gregory Barhebraeus or Bar Hebraeus, also known as Abu al-Faraj and in Latin, Abulpharagius, was the maphrian Catholicos of the East of the Catholicate of the East under the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1264 until his…
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1286
Lord of Ferrara and Modena (born 1347)
Albert (V) d'Este was Lord of Ferrara and Modena from 1388 until his death.
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1393
1516
English priest and martyr (born 1497)
Thomas Abel was an English priest who was martyred during the reign of Henry VIII. The place and date of his birth are unknown.
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1540
1540
1st Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (born 1505)
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, was an English peer, secretary of state, Lord Chancellor and Lord High Admiral. A naturally skilled but unscrupulous and devious politician who changed with the times,…
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1550
French doctor (born 1507)
Guillaume Rondelet, also known as Rondeletus/Rondeletius, was Regius professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France and Chancellor of the University between 1556 and his death in 1566. He…
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1566
1st Earl of Tyrconnell, last King of Tyrconnell (born 1575)
Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish earl and soldier.
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1608
3rd Duke of Lennox, British nobleman (born 1579)
Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, KG, 7th Seigneur d'Aubigny, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a Scottish nobleman and through his paternal lines was a second cousin of King James VI of Scotland and I of England.…
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1624
Duke of Nemours (born 1624)
Charles Amadeus of Savoy, Duke of Nemours was a French military leader and magnate. He was the father of the penultimate Duchess of Savoy and of a Queen of Portugal.
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1652
6th Earl of Ossory, Irish admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1634)
Vice-Admiral Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory was an Irish soldier and politician. He was the eldest son of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond but predeceased his father and therefore never succeeded as duke.
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1680
Maria Theresa of Spain was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. She was born an Infanta of Spain and Portugal as the daughter of King Philip IV and Elisabeth of France, and was also an…
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1683
German scholar and academic (born 1639)
Daniel Georg Morhof was a German writer and scholar.
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1691
Duke of Gloucester, English royal (born 1689)
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, was the son of Princess Anne and her husband, Prince George of Denmark. He was their only child to survive infancy. Styled Duke of Gloucester, he was viewed by contemporaries as a…
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1700
English businessman and philosopher, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (born 1644)
William Penn was an English writer, theologian, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania. An advocate of democracy and religious freedom, Penn was known for his amicable…
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1718
English poet (born 1716)
Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country…
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1771
Mexican priest and soldier (born 1753)
Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor, commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo, was a Mexican Catholic priest and prominent leader of the…
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1811
Vietnamese general, mandarin (born 1763–4)
Lê Văn Duyệt was a Vietnamese general who helped Nguyễn Ánh—the future Emperor Gia Long—put down the Tây Sơn wars, unify Vietnam and establish the Nguyễn dynasty. After the Nguyễn came to power in 1802, Duyệt became a…
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1832
Norwegian poet and journalist (born 1818)
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål.
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1870
American general (born 1825)
George Edward Pickett was an American military officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for being one of the commanders at Pickett's Charge,…
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1875
England cricketer (born 1846)
Charles Alfred Absolom was an English amateur cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Kent County Cricket Club and England in the period from 1866 to 1879.
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1889
German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (born 1815)
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as its first chancellor from 1871 to 1890.…
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1898
1900
Emperor Meiji was Emperor of Japan from 30 January 1867 until his death in 1912. The Meiji Restoration proclaimed the Empire of Japan in 1868, beginning the Meiji era. During his reign, Japan transformed from a feudal…
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1912
Swedish executioner (born 1848)
Albert Gustaf Dahlman was a Swedish executioner. He was the last executioner in Sweden, as well as the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden, the last by means of beheading by hand, and the last to execute a…
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1920
Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (born 1877)
Hans Max Gamper-Haessig, commonly known as Joan Gamper, was a Swiss-born football executive and versatile athlete. He founded football clubs in Switzerland and Spain, most notably Barcelona.
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1930
English swimmer and water polo player (born 1878)
John Henry "Rob" Derbyshire was an English freestyle swimmer and water polo player from Chorlton, Lancashire, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics (maybe), 1906 Intercalated Games, 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912…
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1938
Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (born 1877)
Hugo Celmiņš was a Latvian politician, a public employee, agronomist, twice the Prime Minister of Latvia. Arrested and deported to the USSR after the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, imprisoned in Moscow's Lefortovo…
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1941
English-Australian miner and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1860)
Sir Joseph Cook was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the sixth prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party, having previously been leader of…
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1947
Japanese author and playwright (born 1886)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work range from shocking depictions of sexuality and…
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1965
Scottish-Australian academic (born 1874)
Sir Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch, was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit. He was a founding professor of English and former Chancellor of the University of Western Australia…
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1970
Hungarian-American conductor and composer (born 1897)
George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Széll, or Georg Szell, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor, composer and pianist. Considered one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, he was…
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1970
Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (born 1906)
Thomas Tuke Hollway was the 36th Premier of Victoria, and the first to be born in the 20th century. He held office from 1947 to 1950, and again for a short period in 1952. He was originally a member and the leader of…
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1971
American author and critic (born 1921)
James Benjamin "Jimmy" Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His…
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1975
American scholar, author, and educator (born 1885)
Rufus Emory Holloway was an American literary scholar-educator most known for his books and studies of Walt Whitman. His Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (1926) was the first biography of a literary figure to win…
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1977
American songwriter and publicist (born 1896)
Howard Dietz was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist, best remembered for his songwriting collaboration with Arthur Schwartz. According to historian Stanley Green, Dietz and Schwartz were "most closely…
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1983
English actress (born 1887)
Lynn Fontanne was an English actress. After early success in supporting roles in the West End and United States, she married the American actor Alfred Lunt in 1922, with whom she co-starred in Broadway and West End…
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1983
American mathematician and theorist (born 1919)
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician noted for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory—most notably in decision problems. Her work on Hilbert's…
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1985
American professional bull rider (born 1963)
Lane Clyde Frost was an American professional rodeo cowboy who specialized in bull riding, and competed in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). He was the 1987 PRCA World Champion bull rider. He was also…
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1989
British Member of Parliament who was assassinated by the IRA (born 1937)
Ian Reginald Edward Gow was a British politician and solicitor. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne from 1974, until his assassination in 1990 by the Provisional…
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1990
Filipino-American actress and singer (born 1915)
Brenda Marshall was an American film actress.
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1992
Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (born 1914)
Joseph Shuster was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1.
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1992
German-American film producer and advertising executive (born 1920)
Konstantin Kalser was a German-American film producer and advertising executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1957 with Crashing the Water Barrier.
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1994
French-American actress (born 1903)
Claudette Colbert, also known as Lily Claudette Chauchoin ; was an American stage and film actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of…
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1996
American television host (born 1917)
Robert Emil Schmidt, nicknamed Buffalo Bob, was an American radio and television personality and presenter; he was well known as the host of the children's show Howdy Doody.
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1998
German engineer (born 1924)
Anton Schwarzkopf was a German engineer who founded Schwarzkopf Industries GmbH, a German manufacturer of roller coasters and other amusement rides that were sold to amusement parks and travelling funfairs around the…
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2001
Scottish motorcycle racer (born 1962)
Robert Steven Hislop was a Scottish motorcycle racer. Hislop won at the Isle of Man TT eleven times, was the British 250cc Champion (1990) and lifted the British Superbike championship on two occasions.
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2003
American record producer, founded Sun Records (born 1923)
Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an American disc jockey, songwriter and record producer. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison,…
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2003
American baseball player (born 1905)
Raymond Lee Cunningham was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1931 and 1932. He batted and threw right-handed. A native of Mesquite, Texas,…
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2005
Sudanese colonel and politician, 6th President of South Sudan (born 1945)
John Garang De Mabior was a Sudanese politician and revolutionary leader. From 1983 to 2005, he led the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement as a commander in chief during the Second Sudanese Civil War. He served as…
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2005
Turkish journalist and author(born 1946)
Duygu Asena was a Turkish journalist, best-selling author and activist for women's rights.
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2006
Canadian golfer (born 1924)
Allan George Balding was a Canadian professional golfer, who won four events on the PGA Tour. In 1955, he became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in the United States; Canadians Ken Black, Jules Huot and Pat…
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2006
American philosopher and author (born 1921)
Murray Bookchin was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. Influenced by the works of G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Peter Kropotkin, he was a pioneer in the environmental…
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2006
American accordion player and composer (born 1904)
Anthony Galla-Rini was an American accordionist, arranger, composer, conductor, author, and teacher, and is considered by many to be the first American accordionist to promote the accordion as a legitimate concert…
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2006
Iranian activist (born 1972)
Akbar Mohammadi was an Iranian student at Tehran University involved in the 18th of Tir crisis, also known as the July 1999 Iran student protests, Iran's biggest pro-democracy demonstrations since the 1979 Islamic…
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2006
Italian director and screenwriter (born 1912)
Michelangelo Antonioni was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for a trio of films often dubbed the "alienation trilogy": L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962); the…
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2007
Romanian patriarch (born 1915)
Teoctist was the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2007.
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2007
Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1918)
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, most notably as a prominent figure of both…
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2007
American football player and coach (born 1931)
William Ernest Walsh was an American professional and college football coach. He served as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense. After…
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2007
American businesswoman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (born 1927)
Anne Legendre Armstrong was a United States diplomat and politician. She was the first woman to serve as Counselor to the President and as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, serving in those capacities…
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2008
Nigerian militant leader, founded Boko Haram (born 1970)
Mohammed Yusuf, also known by his nom de guerre Abu Yusuf al-Barnawi, was a Nigerian militant who founded the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in 2002. He was its leader until he was killed during the 2009 Boko Haram…
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2009
German director and screenwriter (born 1926)
Peter Zadek was a German director of theatre, opera and film, a translator and a screenwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest directors in German-speaking theater.
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2009
American basketball player (born 1932)
Robert Peterson was an American basketball player. He played three seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), from 1953 to 1956.
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2011
Irish author, playwright, and journalist (born 1939)
Anne Maeve Binchy Snell was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker. Her novels were characterised by a sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small-town life in Ireland, and…
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2012
2012
Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923)
Stig Ossian Ericson was a Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter.
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2012
2012
New Zealand-Australian actor and screenwriter (born 1940)
Jonathan Hardy was a New Zealand-Australian film and television actor, writer and director.
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2012
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1960)
William Percy Kitchen was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 41 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs between 1982 and 1985. He was born in Schomberg,…
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2012
American colonel (born 1911)
Mary Louise Milligan Rasmuson was an American army officer, and fifth director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC).
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2012
American architect, designed the State of Georgia Building (born 1918)
Cecil Abraham Alexander, Jr. was an American architect, principally a designer of commercial architecture, best known for his work in Atlanta, Georgia. He worked with the firm FABRAP, which, in 1985, became Rosser…
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2013
German businessman (born 1913)
Berthold Beitz was a German industrialist. He was the head of the Krupp steel conglomerate beginning in the 1950s. He was credited with helping to lead the re-industrialization of the Ruhr Valley and rebuilding Germany…
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2013
American sociologist and author (born 1927)
Robert Neelly Bellah was an American sociologist and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was internationally known for his work related to the sociology of religion.
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2013
American lieutenant, publisher, and politician (born 1914)
Harry Flood Byrd Jr. was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia and then represented Virginia in the United States Senate, succeeding his father, Harry F. Byrd Sr. His public…
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2013
Spanish footballer and manager (born 1924)
Antoni Ramallets Simón was a Spanish football goalkeeper and manager.
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2013
American basketball player (born 1919)
Oscar Benjamin "Ossie" Schectman was an American professional basketball player. He is credited with having scored the first basket in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which would later become the National…
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2013
Indian-English author, poet, and playwright (born 1913)
Benjamin Walker was the truncated pen name of George Benjamin Walker, who also wrote under the pseudonym Jivan Bhakar. He was a British citizen, an Indian-born author on religion and philosophy, and an authority on…
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2013
American director and producer (born 1924)
Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker known as one of the pioneers—and sometimes called father—of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States. Two of his films, Primary and Crisis: Behind a…
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2014
German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)
Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film.
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2014
Argentinian businessman (born 1931)
Julio Humberto Grondona was an Argentine football executive. He served as president of the Argentine Football Association from 1979 until his death in 2014. He also served as Senior Vice-President of FIFA.
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2014
English geographer, author, and academic (born 1932)
Sir Peter Geoffrey Hall was an English town planner, urbanist and geographer. He was the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and president of both the Town and…
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2014
American make-up artist (born 1922)
Richard Emerson Smith was an American special make-up effects artist and author, known for his work on such films as Little Big Man (1970), The Godfather (1972), The Exorcist (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Scanners (1981)…
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2014
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)
Richard Allen Wagner was an American rock guitarist, songwriter and author best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, and Kiss. He also fronted his own Michigan-based bands, the Frost and the Bossmen.
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2014
American singer (born 1947)
Lynn René Anderson was an American country singer and television personality. Her crossover signature recording, "Rose Garden", was a number one hit internationally. She also charted five number one and 18 top-ten…
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2015
English businessman (born 1988)
Stuart Baggs, also known by his self-styled sobriquet as Stuart Baggs "The Brand", was an English businessman and entrepreneur from Plymouth, Devon. He founded and ran BlueWave Communications, a broadband company in the…
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2015
Estonian physicist (born 1930)
Endel Lippmaa was an Estonian scientist, academician, politician, and twice government minister in 1990–1991 and 1995–1996.
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2015
American historian and academic (born 1921)
Francis Paul Prucha was an American historian, professor emeritus of history at Marquette University, and specialist in the relationship between the United States and Native Americans. His work, The Great Father: The…
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2015
Czech figure skater (born 1931)
Alena "Ája" Vrzáňová was a Czech figure skater who represented Czechoslovakia in competition. Vrzáňová is the 1949 & 1950 World champion and 1950 European champion.
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2015
American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1925)
Gloria Mildred DeHaven was an American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
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2016
American author, former government official and military officer (born 1955)
Michael A. Sheehan was an American author and former government official and military officer. He was a Distinguished Chair at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York and a terrorism analyst for NBC News.
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2018
Taiwanese politician, President (1988–2000), Vice President (1984–1988) and mayor of Taipei (1978–1981) (born 1923)
Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese statesman, economist, and agronomist who served as the fourth president of the Republic of China and chairman of the Kuomintang from 1988 to 2000. He was the first president to be born in…
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2020
American businessman and political activist (born 1945)
Herman Cain was an American businessman and Tea Party movement activist in the Republican Party.
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2020
Botswana-born, South African actor and executive producer (born 1974)
Aaron Arthur Ferguson, professionally known as Shona Ferguson, was a Motswana actor based in South Africa, executive producer and co-founder of Ferguson Films, alongside his wife, Connie Ferguson.
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2021
American actress and comedian (born 1927)
Patricia Ann Carroll was an American actress and comedian. She is best known for providing the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid. She made guest appearances in many popular television series including The Mary Tyler…
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2022
American actress, singer and dancer (born 1932)
Grace Dell "Nichelle" Nichols was an American actress, singer and dancer whose portrayal of Uhura in Star Trek and its film sequels was groundbreaking for African American actresses on American television. From 1977 to…
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2022
American actor and comedian (born 1952)
Paul Reubens was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman.
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2023
Nigerian singer, actress and politician (born 1952)
Onyeka Onwenu was a Nigerian singer-songwriter, actress, human rights and social activist, journalist, politician, and X Factor series judge. Dubbed the "Elegant Stallion" due to her significant impact on African…
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2024
Australian actor (born 1959)
David J. Argue was an Australian actor. He was best known for his role as Snowy in Gallipoli, as Whitey in BMX Bandits (1983), Dicko in Razorback (1984), and in the leading role of Brad McBain in Hercules Returns (1993).
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2025
American politician, 17th and 22nd Governor of Oklahoma (born 1927)
George Patterson Nigh was an American politician and civic leader from the state of Oklahoma. Nigh served as the 17th and the 22nd governor of Oklahoma and as the eighth and tenth lieutenant governor of Oklahoma. He was…
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2025
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Joyce Kilmer — American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier (1886–1918)
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Death year1918
Known forThough a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor
Deaths on this date104 (578 – 2025)
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