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Notable Deaths on June 11
101 people
573 – 2025
June 11 has seen 101 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 573 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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American journalist (born 1948)
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Iberic saint (born 472)
Saint Aemilian (; is an Iberic saint, widely revered throughout Spain, who lived during the age of Visigothic rule.
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573
anti-Abbasid rebel leader
Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-ʿĀbid ibn Hasan al-Mu'thallath ibn Hasan al-Mu'thannā ibn Hasan ibn Ali was an Alid who rebelled at Medina against the Abbasid caliph al-Hadi. His grandfather Hasan al-Mu'thallath is the grandson…
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786
840
general of the Tang Dynasty
Shi Jingcun (史敬存), known as Shi Jingsi (史敬思) in Chinese historiography likely for naming taboo reasons, was a minor general in imperial China under the Shatuo military leader Li Keyong near the end of the Tang dynasty.…
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884
888
Henry the Young King was the eldest son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine to survive childhood. In 1170, he became titular King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou and of Maine. Henry the Young…
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1183
emperor of the Latin Empire (born c. 1174)
Henry of Flanders was Latin emperor of Constantinople from 1206 until his death in 1216. He was one of the leaders of the Fourth Crusade in which the Byzantine Empire was conquered and Latin Empire formed.
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1216
Japanese samurai
Adachi Kagemori was a Japanese warrior. He was part of the Adachi clan, and then he joined the Hojo clan. He was the son of Adachi Morinaga, who was a close advisor to Minamoto no Yoritomo. Kagemori played a significant…
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1248
1253
Yolanda of Poland or Yolanda of Hungary, also Blessed Yolanda was the daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. She was the sister of Margaret of Hungary and Kinga of Poland (Cunegunda). One of her…
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1298
French lawyer and bishop (born 1250)
Berengar Fredol or Bérenger Frédol was a French canon lawyer and Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati.
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1323
chief minister of the Byzantine Empire
Alexios Apokaukos, also Latinized as Alexius Apocaucus, was a chief minister and head of the navy in the Byzantine Empire, during the reigns of emperors Andronikos III Palaiologos and John V Palaiologos. Although he…
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1345
Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters (born 1260)
Bartholomew of San Concordio was an Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters. He was the author of the Summa de casibus conscientiae (1338) and of the Ammaestramenti degli antichi.
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1347
1st Duke of Warwick (born 1425)
Henry Beauchamp, 14th Earl and 1st Duke of Warwick, was an English nobleman.
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1446
hermit and saint (born 1419)
John of Sahagún, OESA, was a Spanish Augustinian friar and priest. He was a leading preacher of his day, and was known as a peacemaker and reconciler of enemies among the nobles and factions of Salamanca. He was…
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1479
James III was King of Scots from 1460 until his death at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488. He inherited the throne as a child following the death of his father, King James II, at the siege of Roxburgh Castle. James…
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1488
John III, nicknamed The Pious, was the King of Portugal and the Algarve from 1521 until he died in 1557. He was the son of King Manuel I and Maria of Aragon, the third daughter of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain,…
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1557
queen of James V of Scotland (born 1515)
Mary of Guise, also called Mary of Lorraine, was Queen of Scotland from 1538 until 1542, as the second wife of King James V. She was a French noblewoman of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine and…
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1560
a leader of the Russian Old Believers, beheaded (born unknown)
Nikita Pustosvyat was one of the leaders of the Russian Old Believers during Raskol.
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1683
French historian and author (born 1619)
André Félibien, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, was a French chronicler of the arts and official court historian to King Louis XIV.
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1695
Duke of Vendôme (born 1654)
Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, often simply called Vendôme was a French general and Marshal of France. He was one of Louis XIV's most successful commanders in the War of the Grand Alliance and War of the…
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1712
George I was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the…
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1727
Italian painter (born 1667)
Felice Torelli was an Italian Baroque painter active mainly in Bologna, Papal States.
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1748
English brewer and politician, founded the Whitbread Company (born 1720)
Samuel Whitbread was a British brewer and politician. In 1742, he established a brewery that in 1799 became Whitbread & Co Ltd.
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1796
English admiral and politician (born 1786)
Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through…
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1847
Russian painter (born 1799)
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Romantic period, remembered among the greatest visual artists in the history of Russian art.
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1852
German-Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (born 1773)
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a German statesman and diplomat in the service of the Austrian Empire. A…
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1859
1879
French bishop (born 1804)
Louis-Désiré Maigret, SS.CC., served as the first vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands, now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. Born in Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, France, Maigret was…
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1882
Argentinian colonel (born 1810)
Matías Ramos Mejía was an Argentine colonel. He joined the 1828 coup of Juan Lavalle against Manuel Dorrego, and the 1839 rebellion of the Freemen of the South. He took part in the move of Lavalle's corpse to Potosí. He…
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1885
English-Australian politician, 8th Premier of South Australia (born 1821)
Sir Henry Ayers was the eighth Premier of South Australia, serving a record five times between 1863 and 1873.
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1897
Russian mathematician and philosopher (born 1837)
Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev was a Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely.
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1903
Alexander I reigned as the king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Draga Mašin, were assassinated by a group of Royal Serbian Army officers, led by Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević.
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1903
Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (born 1864)
Draginja "Draga" Obrenović, née Lunjevica (Луњевица) and formerly Mašin (Машин), was Queen of Serbia as the wife of King Aleksandar Obrenović. She was formerly a lady-in-waiting to Aleksandar's mother, Queen Natalija.
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1903
American physician and missionary (born 1815)
James Curtis Hepburn was an American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet,…
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1911
Ottoman general and politician, 279th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1856)
Mahmud Shevket Pasha was an Ottoman military commander and statesman.
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1913
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1848)
Adolphus Frederick V was reigning grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1904 to 1914.
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1914
Sr., American captain (born 1853)
William Frederick Halsey was a United States naval officer. He is the father of William Halsey Jr., one of only four American naval officers to obtain the five-star rank of Fleet Admiral.
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1920
French organist, composer, and educator (born 1837)
Clément François Théodore Dubois was a French Romantic composer, organist and pedagogue.
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1924
English cricketer (born 1861)
William Attewell was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and England. Attewell was a medium pace bowler who was renowned for his extraordinary accuracy and economy. On the many sticky or…
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1927
Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (born 1896)
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Russian and Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his early…
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1934
American author and poet (born 1906)
Robert Ervin Howard was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
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1936
English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (born 1895)
Reginald Joseph Mitchell was a British aircraft designer who worked for the Southampton aviation company Supermarine from 1916 until 1936. He is best known for designing racing seaplanes, such as the Supermarine S.6B,…
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1937
American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (born 1850)
Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, Georgist and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
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1941
French race car driver (born 1905)
Pierre Eugène Alfred Bouillin was a French sportsman and racing driver. He took the racing name Pierre Levegh in memory of his uncle Alfred Velghe, a pioneering driver who died in 1904. Levegh died in the 1955 Le Mans…
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1955
Indian actor and director (born 1900)
Chhabi Biswas was an Indian actor, primarily known for his performances in Tapan Sinha's Kabuliwala and Satyajit Ray's films Jalsaghar, Devi and Kanchenjungha (1962).
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1962
Vietnamese monk and martyr (born 1897)
Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese…
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1963
Belgian chemist and academic (born 1908)
Paul Bernard Joseph Marie Coremans was a Belgian scientist who advanced the fields of cultural heritage management and cultural heritage curation. He was the founder and first director of the Royal Institute for…
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1965
Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (born 1883)
José Mendes Cabeçadas Júnior, OTE, ComA, MPCE, commonly known as Mendes Cabeçadas, was a Portuguese Navy officer, Freemason and republican, having a major role in the preparation of the revolutionary movements that…
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1965
American missionary and mystic (born 1884)
Frank Charles Laubach, from Benton, Pennsylvania was a Congregational Christian missionary educated at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and a mystic known as "The Apostle to the Illiterates." In 1915,…
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1970
Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (born 1883)
Eurico Gaspar Dutra was a Brazilian military leader and politician who served as the president of Brazil from 1946 to 1951. He was the first president of the Fourth Brazilian Republic, which followed the Vargas Regime.
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1974
Italian philosopher and author (born 1898)
Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola was an Italian far-right philosopher and writer. Evola regarded his values as traditionalist, aristocratic, martial and imperialist. An esoteric thinker in Fascist Italy, he also had…
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1974
American baseball player (born 1917)
Casimir James Konstanty was an American professional baseball relief pitcher in Major League Baseball and National League Most Valuable Player of 1950. He played for the Cincinnati Reds (1944), Boston Braves (1946),…
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1976
Trinidadian-American author and publisher (born 1893)
Alice Dalgliesh was a naturalized American writer and publisher who wrote more than 40 fiction and non-fiction books, mainly for children. She has been called "a pioneer in the field of children's historical fiction".…
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1979
American actor, director, and producer (born 1907)
Marion Robert Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne, was an American actor. Nicknamed "Duke", he became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age,…
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1979
American entomologist (born 1906)
Howard Radclyffe Roberts Jr. was an American entomologist known for his work on grasshoppers. His 1941 University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. dissertation was an early work highlighting the role phallic structures could play…
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1982
Indian businessman and politician (born 1894)
Ghanshyam Das Birla was an Indian businessman and member of the Birla Family.
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1983
Italian politician (born 1922)
Enrico Berlinguer was an Italian politician and statesman who was the most popular leader of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). He led the PCI as the national secretary from 1972 until his death during a tense period of…
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1984
American painter and illustrator (born 1888)
Chesley Knight Bonestell Jr. was an American painter, designer, and illustrator, best known for his realistic-looking paintings of space exploration, including future spacecraft and scenes set on moons and planets in…
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1986
South African composer (born 1925)
Cromwell Everson was primarily known as a composer during his lifetime. He was brought up as an Afrikaner by his mother, Maria De Wit and father, Robert Everson. He continued this tradition and all his children were…
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1991
Colombian singer (born 1954)
Rafael José Orozco Maestre was a Colombian singer of vallenato music. He was one of the major representatives of Colombian popular folk music and was lead singer and co-founder, alongside fellow accordionist Israel…
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1992
American actor (born 1952)
Raymond Sharkey Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. His most notable film role was Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The Idolmaker, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion…
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1993
Sri Lankan engineer and academic (born 1934)
Alagiah Thurairajah was a Sri Lankan academic and vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
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1994
German-Swiss actress (born 1908)
Brigitte Helm was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.
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1996
English author (born 1906)
Dame Catherine Ann Cookson was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while she retained a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity…
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1998
American actor and screenwriter (born 1920)
Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer. He was known for his roles in film and television Westerns and achieved international fame as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS…
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1999
American terrorist (born 1968)
Timothy James McVeigh was an American mass murderer and domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing itself killed 167 or 168 people, injured 684 people,…
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2001
Mexican singer and actress (born 1923)
Amalia Mendoza García, nicknamed as La Tariácuri, was a Mexican singer and actress. "Échame a mi la culpa" and "Amarga navidad" were some of her greatest hits. Her best friend since her youth was Martha de Miranda…
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2001
American journalist and author (born 1920)
David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
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2003
Swiss fashion designer (born 1946)
Prince Egon von Fürstenberg was a socialite, banker, fashion and interior designer, and a member of the former German princely family of Fürstenberg.
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2004
Portuguese general and politician, 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1922)
General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves GOL OA was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution and later served as Prime Minister from 18 July 1974 to 19 September 1975.
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2005
Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher (born 1951)
Anne-Marie Alonzo, was a Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher.
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2005
New Zealand archer (born 1944)
Neroli Susan Fairhall was a New Zealand athlete, who was the first paraplegic competitor in the Olympic Games.
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2006
2007
Swedish race car driver (born 1938)
Ove Andersson, nicknamed Påven, was a Swedish rally driver and the first head of Toyota's F1 programme.
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2008
Vietnamese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1922)
Võ Văn Kiệt whose real name is Phan Văn Hòa, was a Vietnamese politician and economic reformer who served as the Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1991 to 1997. A well regarded Vietnamese revolutionary and political…
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2008
Israeli physicist and engineer (born 1947)
Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt was an Israeli business management guru. He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the Thinking Processes, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain…
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2011
Canadian-American actress (born 1917)
Therese Ann Rutherford was a Canadian-born American actress in film, radio and television. She had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict in 12 of the 16 MGM "Andy Hardy" films between…
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2012
Cuban boxer and engineer (born 1952)
Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence was a Cuban amateur boxer who competed from 1966 to 1986.
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2012
American golfer (born 1931)
Miller Westford Barber Jr. was an American professional golfer. He enjoyed significant success on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s, and a greater degree of success on the Senior PGA Tour in the 1980s.
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2013
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American…
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2013
Latvian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Kristiāns Pelšs was a Latvian ice hockey player. He was the son of poet and translator Einārs Pelšs. At the time of his death, he played for the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League (AHL) as a prospect of…
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2013
Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (born 1929)
Vidya Charan Shukla was an Indian politician whose political career spanned six decades. He was predominantly a member of the Indian National Congress, but also had spells in Jan Morcha, Janata Dal, Samajwadi Janata…
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2013
2014
Spanish conductor and composer (born 1933)
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos was a Spanish conductor and composer. Frühbeck was born in Burgos, Spain to a family of German ancestry. He first took up conducting while on military service in the Spanish Army before…
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2014
American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (born 1955)
Susan Beth Horwitz was an American computer scientist noted for her research on
programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and
dataflow-analysis. She had several best paper…
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2014
Tibetan lama and educator (born 1952)
Mipham Chokyi Lodro, also known as Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, was the fourteenth Shamarpa of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Shamarpa is the second-most important teacher of the Karma Kagyu school, after…
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2014
South African businessman (born 1973)
Leetile Benjamin Mophatlane was a South African business magnate, and former Chief Executive Officer of Business Connexion Group. He died on 11 June 2014 after suffering cardiac arrest while in a meeting in Rosebank in…
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2014
American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (born 1930)
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A…
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2015
Scottish footballer and manager (born 1941)
Ian Hector McKechnie was a Scottish footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.
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2015
2015
American wrestler (born 1945)
Virgil Riley Runnels Jr., better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who worked for the National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wrestling Federation,…
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2015
German track and road racing cyclist (born 1937)
Rudi Altig was a German professional track and road racing cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. After his retirement from sports he worked as a television commentator.
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2016
Irish republican and founding member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1921)
Billy McKee was an Irish republican and a founding member and leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
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2019
children's author (born 1921)
Stella Pevsner was an American author of children's books and works of young adult literature published since the late 1960s.
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2020
English businesswoman, television presenter (born 1957)
Hilary Lorraine Devey CBE was an English businesswoman and television personality best known for her role on the BBC Two programme Dragons' Den until she left to present the Channel 4 series The Intern.
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2022
2024
French singer-songwriter and actress (born 1944)
Françoise Madeleine Hardy was a French singer-songwriter, actress, and author. She was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure in French yé-yé…
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2024
Palestinian long-distance runner and football player (born 1963)
Majed Abu Maraheel was a Palestinian long-distance runner, football player, security officer, and athletics coach, who was the first Palestinian to compete at the Olympic Games. Born into a refugee family in the…
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2024
American singer and songwriter, co-founder of the Beach Boys (born 1942)
Brian Douglas Wilson was an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and significant musical figures of his era, he was…
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2025
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