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They were sentenced to 190 years and 252 years in prison, respectively.
Notable Deaths on June 18
124 people
741 – 2024
June 18 has seen 124 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 741 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1984 — Alan Berg
American lawyer and radio host (born 1934)
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Alan Harrison Berg was a Jewish-American talk radio show host in Denver, Colorado
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Berg was assassinated by members of the white supremacist group The Order, which believed in killing all Jews and sending all black people to Africa
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Those involved in the killing were part of a group planning to kill prominent Jews such as Berg
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Two of Berg's killers, David Lane and Bruce Pierce, were convicted on charges of federal civil rights violations for killing him
Byzantine emperor (born 685)
Leo III the Isaurian, also known as the Syrian, was the first Byzantine emperor of the Isaurian dynasty from 717 until his death in 741. He put an end to the Twenty Years' Anarchy, a period of great instability in the…
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Sophia of Hungary, a member of the royal Árpád dynasty, was a Margravine of Istria and Carniola from about 1062 until 1070, by her first marriage with Margrave Ulric I, as well as Duchess of Saxony from 1072 until her…
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1095
German Benedictine visionary (born c. 1129)
Elisabeth of Schönau was a German Benedictine visionary. She was an abbess at the Schönau Abbey in the Duchy of Nassau, and reportedly experienced numerous religious visions, for which she became widely sought after by…
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1164
Emperor Chūkyō was the 85th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned only two months in 1221, and he was not officially listed amongst the emperors until 1870 because of…
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1234
Queen of León
Theresa of Portugal was Queen of Léon as the first wife of her first cousin King Alfonso IX of León. When her marriage was annulled because of consanguinity, she retired to a convent. She was beatified in 1705.
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1250
Alfonso III, called the Liberal and the Free, was king of Aragon and Valencia, and count of Barcelona from 1285 until his death. He conquered the Kingdom of Majorca between his succession and 1287.
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1291
1333
Flemish painter (born 1400)
Rogier van der Weyden, initially known as Roger de la Pasture, was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits.…
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1464
English minister and poet (born 1517)
Robert Crowley, was a stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman among Marian exiles at Frankfurt. He seems to have been a Henrician Evangelical in favour of a more reformed Protestantism than the king and the…
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1588
Dutch admiral (born 1577)
Piet Pieterszoon Hein was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. Hein was the first and the last to capture a large part of a Spanish treasure fleet which transported huge…
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1629
German priest, physicist, and astronomer (born 1575)
Christoph Scheiner was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt.
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1650
French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (born 1606)
Jeanne Mance was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospital, the…
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1673
1704
French organist and composer (born 1657)
Michel Richard Delalande [de Lalande] was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV. He was one of the most important composers of grands motets. He also wrote orchestral suites…
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1726
English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1670)
John Aislabie, of Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire, was a British politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 to 1721. He was of an independent mind, and did not stick regularly to the…
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1742
English poet and politician (born 1674)
Ambrose Philips was an English poet and politician. He feuded with other poets of his time, resulting in Henry Carey bestowing the nickname "Namby-Pamby" upon him, which came to mean affected, weak, and maudlin speech…
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1749
German jurist and scholar (born 1706)
Johann Ulrich von Cramer was an eminent German judge, legal scholar, and Enlightenment philosopher.
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1772
Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (born 1700)
Gerard van Swieten was a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and transformed the Austrian health service and medical university education. He was the father…
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1772
French lawyer and politician (born 1760)
François Nicolas Léonard Buzot was a French politician and leader of the French Revolution.
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1794
Scottish-English general and politician, 20th Governor of the Province of Quebec (born 1721)
General James Murray was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Quebec from 1760 to 1768 and governor of Minorca from 1778 to 1782. Born in Ballencrieff, East Lothian, Murray…
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1794
Duchess of Parma (born 1746)
Maria Amalia was duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla by marriage to Ferdinand I, Duke of Parma. She was born an archduchess of Austria as the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. Upon her…
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1804
Welsh-English general and politician (born 1758)
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars and died at Waterloo. According to the historian Alessandro Barbero, Picton was "respected for…
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1815
American minister, missionary, and academic (born 1771)
Robert Hett Chapman was a Presbyterian minister and missionary and the second president of the University of North Carolina.
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1833
English farmer and journalist (born 1763)
William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign…
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1835
German army officer and writer (born 1783)
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck was a German lieutenant general, diplomat and military writer. He wrote several major military-political works and military histories, which were very pro-Napoleon.
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1860
Queen Victoria, the British monarch from 1837 to 1901, and Prince Albert had 9 children, 42 grandchildren, and 87 great-grandchildren. Their descendants married into many European royal houses, leading to Victoria being…
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1866
English novelist, satirist, and critic (born 1835)
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their…
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1902
Italian soldier (born 1830)
Carmine Crocco, known as Donatello or sometimes Donatelli, was an Italian brigand. Initially a soldier for the Bourbons, he later fought in the service of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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1905
German lieutenant and pilot (born 1890)
Max Immelmann PLM was a German World War I flying ace. He was a pioneer in fighter aviation and is often mistakenly credited with the first aerial victory using a synchronized gun, which was in fact achieved on 1 July…
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1916
Romanian critic and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (born 1840)
Titu Liviu Maiorescu was a Romanian literary critic, politician and founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.
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1917
Indian Islamic scholar and author (born 1867)
ʿAbd al-Awwal Jaunpūrī was an Indian Muslim scholar, religious preacher, educationist, poet and author. Described by Muhammad Mojlum Khan as one of the "most gifted and outstanding" of Karamat Ali Jaunpuri's many…
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1921
Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1851)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two…
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1922
Queen consort of the Hellenes (born 1851)
Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.
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1926
Norwegian pilot and explorer (born 1872)
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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1928
Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1868)
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an…
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1936
French politician, 13th President of France (born 1863)
Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue was a French politician who served as President of France from 1924 to 1931.
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1937
American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (born 1870)
Arthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. He was a prolific composer of band music, his best-known composition being "The Whistler and His Dog". In later life, he became…
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1942
Greek commander (born 1912)
Ilias Degiannis was a Greek navy officer Resistance leader during the Axis occupation of Greece.
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1943
American geologist and educator (born 1862)
Florence Bascom was a pioneer American woman geologist and educator. Bascom was the second woman to earn a PhD in geology in the United States. She received her PhD in 1893 from Johns Hopkins University and was the…
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1945
American general (born 1886)
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. As commanding general of Alaska Defense Command, Buckner commanded American-Canadian…
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1945
Japanese admiral (born 1898)
Shigematsu Sakaibara was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Japanese garrison commander on Wake Island during World War II, and a convicted war criminal. He was responsible for ordering the Wake Island…
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1947
English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (born 1891)
William Edward Brooker was a Labor Party politician. He became the interim Premier of Tasmania on 19 December 1947 while Robert Cosgrove was facing corruption charges. He died on 18 June 1948, shortly after returning…
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1948
American actress (born 1879)
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady of the…
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1959
Mexican-American actor (born 1912)
Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings was a Mexican and American actor. With the actresses Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s. He won the Ariel…
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1963
Italian painter (born 1890)
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes.
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1964
1967
1967
1971
Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and British chemist Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.
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1971
Brazilian mathematician and academic (born 1896)
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, was a Brazilian writer and mathematics teacher. He was well known in Brazil and abroad for his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan…
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1974
Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (born 1896)
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as deputy…
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1974
German-Israeli philosopher and author (born 1883)
Hugo Bergmann was an Israeli philosopher, born in Prague.
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1975
American physician and author (born 1884)
Walter Clement Alvarez was an American physician of Spanish descent. He authored several dozen books on medicine, and wrote introductions and forewords for many others.
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1978
English director and screenwriter (born 1904)
Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films.
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1980
French cyclist (born 1904)
André Leducq was a French cyclist who won the 1930 and 1932 Tours de France. He also won a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the team road race event and the 1928 Paris–Roubaix.
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1980
American novelist, journalist, and playwright (born 1892)
Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
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1982
American novelist and short story writer (born 1912)
John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New…
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1982
German-Austrian actor and director (born 1915)
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was best known for playing Ernst Udet in Des Teufels General.…
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1982
French illustrator (born 1892)
Paul Colin born in Nancy, France, died in Nogent-sur-Marne. Colin was a prolific master illustrator of Decorative Arts posters. Alexandre-Marie Colin was a relative.
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1985
American journalist (born 1921)
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She graduated from Vassar College and worked for The Washington…
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1986
American journalist and author (born 1907)
Isidor Feinstein Stone was an American investigative journalist, writer, and author.
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1989
the first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria (born 1910)
Chief Kofoworola Abeni Pratt Hon. FRCN was a Nigerian nurse who was one of the first notable black nurses to work in Britain's National Health Service. She subsequently became vice-president of the International Council…
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1992
Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1944)
Peter Allen was an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer, known for his flamboyant stage persona, energetic performances, and lavish costumes. Allen's songs were made popular by many recording artists,…
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1992
1992
American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (born 1940)
Craig L. Rodwell was an American gay rights activist known for founding the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on November 24, 1967 - the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors - and as the prime mover for the…
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1993
Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (born 1909)
Endel Karlovich Puusepp was a Soviet bomber pilot of Estonian origin who completed over 30 nighttime strategic bombing campaigns during World War II. He was a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award for flying a…
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1996
Ukrainian-German author and academic (born 1912)
Lev Zalmanovich (Zinovyevich) Kopelev was a Soviet author and dissident.
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1997
American actor and tenor (born 1908)
William Felix Knight, was an American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher, best known for his role as Tom-Tom in the 1934 Laurel and Hardy holiday musical film Babes in Toyland.
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1998
American actress (born 1928)
Nancy Lou Marchand was an American actress. She began her career in theater. She was most famous for portraying Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant – for which she won four Emmy Awards – and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos, for…
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2000
American baseball player and manager (born 1923)
Lawrence Eugene Doby was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's color barrier and the first black player in the…
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2003
Indian cricketer (born 1914)
Syed Mushtaq Ali was an Indian cricketer, a right-handed opening batsman who holds the distinction of scoring the first overseas Test century by an Indian player when he scored 112 against England at Old Trafford in…
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2005
Argentinian mathematician and academic (born 1914)
Manuel Sadosky was an Argentine mathematician, civil servant and author who was born in Buenos Aires to Jewish Russian immigrants who had fled the pogroms in Europe.
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2005
American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)
Vincent Sherman was an American director and actor who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington (1944), Nora Prentiss (1947), and The Young Philadelphians (1959).
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2006
Martinique-French author (born 1915)
Joseph Zobel is the Martinican author of several novels and short-stories in which social issues are at the forefront. Although his most famous novel, La Rue Cases-Nègres, was published some twenty years after the great…
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2006
English comedian and actor (born 1930)
Bernard John Manning was an English comedian and nightclub owner. He gained a high profile on British television during the 1970s, appearing on shows such as The Comedians and The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.…
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2007
American singer and producer (born 1938)
Henry "Hank" Medress was an American singer and record producer, best known for his taking part in the American band The Tokens.
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2007
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1951)
Georges Thurston was a Quebec singer, author and composer and radio show host. He was known as Boule Noire since 1975 and worked in the music industry as a solo artist for nearly 30 years and as part of musical groups…
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2007
French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)
Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
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2008
American author and illustrator (born 1915)
Tasha Tudor was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.
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2008
German sculptor (born 1928)
Hans Theodor Steinbrenner was a German painter and sculptor based in Frankfurt who focused on abstract figures in wood and stone. Many of his works are in public space.
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2008
American wrestler (born 1980)
Michael Verdi, best known by his ring name Trent Acid, was an American professional wrestler.
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2010
Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once…
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2010
Turkish composer (born 1942)
Okan Demiriş was a Turkish composer. He was married to the soprano Leyla Demiris.
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2010
Russian activist (born 1923)
Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist, activist and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was…
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2011
Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (born 1943)
Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba was a Zambian politician who was the second president of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presidential election in 1991 as the…
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2011
American saxophonist (born 1942)
Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr., also known as The Big Man, was an American saxophonist. From 1972 until his death in 2011, he was the saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band.
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2011
Argentinian photographer and director (born 1906)
Horacio Coppola was an Argentine photographer and filmmaker, and the husband of the German photographer Grete Stern.
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2012
2012
Welsh cricketer (born 1989)
Thomas Lloyd Maynard was a Welsh professional cricketer who played for Glamorgan and Surrey, and was selected for the England Lions tour to Bangladesh. On the night of his death, he was stopped by police in Wimbledon…
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2012
Peruvian general and politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (born 1919)
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín was a Peruvian politician who was Prime Minister of Peru from January 31, 1973 to February 1, 1975. He was Foreign Minister. He served in both positions during the military dictatorship of…
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2012
Greek footballer and manager (born 1934)
Alketas 'Alkis' Panagoulias was a Greek association football player and manager. He managed the national teams of both Greece and the United States. He also managed several clubs, including Aris, his birthplace team,…
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2012
American businessman and politician (born 1939)
William Van Regenmorter was a Republican politician from Ottawa County, Michigan. He served as the representative of Michigan's 55th district from 1982 to 1990 and the 74th district from 2002 to 2006. Between those…
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2012
American engineer and politician (born 1932)
Brent F. Anderson was an American politician and electrical engineer who served as the fourth mayor of West Valley City, Utah, from 1987 until 1994.
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2013
Scottish bass player (born 1955)
Alastair Donaldson was a Scottish multi-instrumentalist, and was the bassist for the Scottish punk/pop band the Rezillos, for whom he played under the stage name of William Mysterious.
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2013
Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (born 1924)
Garde Basil Gardom, was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and the 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
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2013
American journalist and author (born 1980)
Michael Mahon Hastings was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and reporter for BuzzFeed. He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and he attended New York University. Hastings…
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2013
English ballet dancer (born 1946)
David Richard Wall CBE was an English ballet dancer of The Royal Ballet, where he was promoted to the rank of principal at the age of 21, the youngest in company history at the time.
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2013
American chemist and engineer (born 1923)
Stephanie Louise Kwolek was an American chemist known for inventing Kevlar. Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years.
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2014
American singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1928)
John Russell Mann was an American arranger, composer, conductor, entertainer, singer, and recording artist.
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2014
Canadian author (born 1914)
Claire Martin, was the pseudonym of the Canadian writer Claire Montreuil. She wrote mainly in French. Her novels often have themes of women's liberation and erotic relationships. Martin frequently revealed her devotions…
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2014
Russian general (born 1957)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin was a Russian statesman and military figure. He was a commander of the Russian Space Forces, then First Deputy Defense Minister of Russia, then General Director of the Russian Federal…
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2014
American pianist and composer (born 1928)
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
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2014
American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1941)
Philip Baine Austin was an American comedian and writer, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre.
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2015
American businessman, co-founded Comcast (born 1920)
Ralph Joel Roberts was an American businessman who was the founder of Comcast, serving as its CEO for 46 years and as its chairman emeritus until his death in 2015.
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2015
American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (born 1937)
Daniel Dario Villanueva was an American football player and a television and Major League Soccer (MLS) executive. Villanueva played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) as a placekicker and punter for…
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2015
American historian and academic (born 1937)
Allen Weinstein was an American historian, educator, and federal official who served in several different offices. Under the Reagan administration, he was cofounder of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in 1983.…
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2015
Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (born 1931)
Dr. Jeppiaar, also known as Jeppiaar Jesuadimai and J. P. R., was an Indian politician, educationist, and industrialist. He was born in Muttom near Nagercoil, Travancore Cochin Presidency, now the Kanyakumari District,…
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2016
American rapper (born 1998)
Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, professionally known as XXXTentacion, was an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Though a controversial figure due to his widely publicized legal troubles, XXXTentacion…
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2018
Leon Allen White, better known by his ring names Big Van Vader or simply Vader, was an American professional wrestler and professional football player. During his career, he performed for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW),…
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2018
American rapper (born 1997)
Travon DaShawn Frank Smart, better known by his stage name Jimmy Wopo, was an American rapper.
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2018
English singer who was the "Forces' Sweetheart" in World War II (born 1917)
Dame Vera Margaret Lewis, known professionally as Vera Lynn, was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were popular during World War II. She is honorifically known as the "Forces'…
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2020
Danish politician, minister of foreign affairs (born 1941)
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen was a Danish politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark in the Conservative-led Poul Schlüter Administration from 1982 to 1993. He was leader of the Danish Liberal Party…
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2022
Malaysian actress, singer, master of ceremonies (born 1970)
Adibah Noor Mohamed Omar was a Malaysian singer, actress and master of ceremonies. She made her start in the entertainment industry in 1995 and had gone on to star in films such as Sepet and Gubra.
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2022
Shahzada Dawood was a Pakistani businessman and philanthropist.
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2023
George Hamish Livingston Harding was a British businessman, pilot and adventurer based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was the founder of Action Group and was chairman of Action Aviation, an international aircraft…
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2023
Paul-Henri Nargeolet was a French deep sea explorer and Titanic expert. Known as "Mr. Titanic", Nargeolet was one of five people who died aboard the submersible Titan when it imploded on 18 June 2023 near the wreck of…
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2023
Richard Stockton Rush III was an American businessman who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of OceanGate, a deep-sea exploration company.
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2023
American musician (born 1953)
James Chance, also known as James White, was an American saxophonist, keyboard player, and singer.
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2024
French actress (born 1932)
Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, known professionally as Anouk Aimée or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019. Having begun her film career at age 14, she studied acting and…
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2024
Filipino basketball player (born 1946)
Rosalio Dy Martires, also known as Yoyong Martirez, was a Filipino basketball player, actor, politician and comedian. He was the 6th Vice Mayor of Pasig.
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2024
American baseball player (born 1931)
Willie Howard Mays Jr., nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time,…
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2024
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Alan Berg — American talk radio show host (1934–1984)
FeaturedAlan Berg
Death year1984
Known forHe had outspoken atheistic and liberal views and a confrontational interview style
Deaths on this date124 (741 – 2024)
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Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, imploded while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board including OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush in the North Atlantic Ocean. Wikipedia →
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