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Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's "escort doctor" (Begleitarzt) in August 1934
Notable Deaths on June 2
114 people
657 – 2024
June 2 has seen 114 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 657 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1948 — Karl Brandt
German SS officer (born 1904)
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A member of Hitler's inner circle at the Berghof, he was selected by Philipp Bouhler, the head of Hitler's Chancellery, to administer the Aktion T4 euthanasia program
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Accused of involvement in human experimentation and other war crimes, Brandt was indicted in late 1946 and faced trial before a U.S
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military tribunal along with 22 others in the Doctors' Trial
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He was found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed on 2 June 1948.
Pope Eugene I was the bishop of Rome from 10 August 654 to his death on 2 June 657. He was chosen to become Pope after the deposition and banishment of Martin I by Emperor Constans II over the dispute about…
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657
Abbasid general (born 842)
Abu Ahmad Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muwaffaq bi'Llah, better known by his laqab as Al-Muwaffaq Billah, was an Abbasid prince and military leader, who acted as the de facto regent of the Abbasid…
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891
Richilde of Provence was the second wife of the Frankish emperor Charles the Bald. By her marriage, she became queen and later empress. She ruled as regent in 877.
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910
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1258
Welsh nobleman and rebel leader
Rhys ap Maredudd was a senior member of the Welsh royal house of Deheubarth, a principality of Medieval Wales. He was the great grandson of The Lord Rhys, prince of south Wales, and the last ruler of a united…
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1292
queen of Henry III of Castile
Catherine of Lancaster was Queen of Castile by marriage to King Henry III of Castile. She governed Castile as regent from 1406 until 1418 during the minority of her son.
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1418
Duke of Trujillo, Constable of Castile
Álvaro de Luna y Fernández de Jarava, was a Castilian statesman, favourite of John II of Castile. He served as Constable of Castile and as Grand Master of the Order of Santiago. He earned great influence in the Crown's…
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1453
head of the O'Neill dynasty in Ireland (born 1530)
Shane O'Neill was an Irish chieftain of the O'Neill dynasty of Ulster in the mid-16th century. Shane O'Neill's career was marked by his ambition to be the O'Neill—sovereign of the dominant O'Neill family of Tír Eoghain.…
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1567
4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1536)
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk,, was an English Roman Catholic nobleman and politician. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and held many high offices during the earlier part of her reign.
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1572
4th Earl of Morton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1525)
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton was a Scottish nobleman. He played a leading role in the murders of Queen Mary's confidant, David Rizzio, and king consort Henry Darnley. He was the last of the four regents of Scotland…
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1581
Roman Catholic priest (born 1575)
Bernard of Wąbrzeźno was a Catholic priest and a Benedictine monk from the Benedictine Abbey in Lubiń, Poland. He has been named as a candidate for beatification several times, beginning in the 1730s and most recently…
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1603
English soldier and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1621)
Sir John Wildman was an English politician, republican activist and soldier. A prominent Leveller during the English Civil War, he helped draft the Agreement of the People and later engaged in political intrigue under…
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1693
French author (born 1607)
Madeleine de Scudéry, often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer.
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1701
Japanese painter and educator (born 1658)
Ogata Kōrin was a Japanese landscape illustrator, lacquerer, painter, and textile designer of the Rinpa School.
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1716
Scottish minister and theologian (born 1680)
Ebenezer Erskine was a Scottish minister whose actions led to the establishment of the Secession Church.
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1754
Swedish businessman (born 1685)
Jonas Alströmer was a pioneer of agriculture and industry in Sweden.
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1761
French mathematician and academic (born 1713)
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical geometry in which he applied it, without the aid of differential calculus, to find the tangents, asymptotes, and various…
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1785
English painter (born 1747)
William Tate was an English portrait painter who was a pupil and friend of Joseph Wright of Derby.
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1806
21st Baron Dacre, English general (born 1777)
General Henry Otway Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, CB was a peer and British Army officer.
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1853
American judge and politician (born 1783)
Ner Middleswarth was an American politician from New Jersey who served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district from 1853 to 1855. He served as a member of the…
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1865
Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (born 1806)
Józef Kremer was a Polish historian of art, philosopher, aesthetician and psychologist.
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1875
French lexicographer and philosopher (born 1801)
Émile Maximilien Paul Littré was a French lexicographer, freemason and philosopher, best known for his Dictionnaire de la langue française, commonly called le Littré.
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1881
Italian general and politician (born 1807)
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to be one of Italy's…
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1882
Canadian missionary and author (born 1844)
George Leslie Mackay was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary. He was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Taiwan, serving with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. Mackay is among the best known and most…
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1901
Turkish painter (born 1886)
Hüseyin Avni Lifij was a Turkish impressionist painter of Circassian origin. He is known for landscapes with architectural features.
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1927
Mexican general (born 1889)
Enrique Gorostieta Velarde was a Mexican soldier best known for his leadership as a general during the Cristero War.
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1929
American runner and triple jumper (born 1878)
Frank Washington Jarvis was an American sprinter, the 1900 Olympic 100 m champion, and a triple jumper.
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1933
French organist and composer (born 1870)
Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death. As a composer, much of his output was organ music, including six symphonies and four…
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1937
American baseball player (born 1903)
Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his…
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1941
American singer and trumpet player (born 1908)
Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who rose to fame during the swing era. Although he composed some jazz instrumentals such as "Chicken and Waffles" and "Blues", Berigan was…
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1942
1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (born 1867)
John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, was a British businessman and Conservative politician. Gretton won two gold medals in the 1900 Olympic Games. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 46 years, representing three…
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1947
German physician (born 1904)
Viktor Hermann Brack was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the…
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1948
German physician (born 1897)
Karl Franz Gebhardt was a German physician and a war criminal. Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. These…
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1948
German physician (born 1903)
Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many concentration camp prisoners, and as one…
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1948
German SS officer (born 1905)
Wolfram Sievers was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director of the Ahnenerbe from 1935–1945. He was convicted of war crimes in the Doctors' Trial in 1947 and…
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1948
Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall (born 1880)
Naum Torbov was a Bulgarian architect.
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1952
Danish-American actor and director (born 1886)
Jean Pierre Carl Buron, known professionally as Jean Hersholt, was a Danish-American actor. He is most famous for starring on the CBS radio series Dr. Christian from 1937–1954, reprising the role in a film series from…
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1956
Italian actress (born 1884)
Lyda Cini, Countess of Monselice was an Italian actress of cinema and theatre. Her career in theatre started when she was a child, acting on stage with Paola Pezzaglia in the French drama I due derelitti.
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1959
American director, producer, and playwright (born 1889)
George Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals for the Marx Brothers and others. He…
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1961
English author and poet (born 1892)
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
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1962
German student and activist (born 1940)
Benno Ohnesorg was a West German university student who was fatally shot in the back of the head by policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras during a demonstration in West Berlin. His death spurred the growth of the left-wing West…
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1967
Canadian pianist and composer (born 1929)
André Mathieu was a Canadian pianist and composer.
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1968
American actor (born 1917)
Leo Bernard Gorcey was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of street-wise city toughs known variously as the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids, and as adults, The Bowery Boys.…
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1969
Turkish author (born 1914)
Orhan Kemal is the pen name of Turkish novelist Mehmet Reşit Öğütçü. He is known for his realist novels that describe the life of the poor in Turkey.
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1970
French director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Albert Lamorisse was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer of short films which he began making in the late 1940s.
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1970
New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (born 1937)
Bruce Leslie McLaren was a New Zealand racing driver, automotive designer, engineer, and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1970. He won four Grands Prix across 13 seasons and was runner-up in…
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1970
Italian soldier, journalist, and academic (born 1888)
Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experimental…
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1970
Spanish anarchist feminist (born 1895)
Lucía Sánchez Saornil, was a Spanish poet and anarcha-feminist activist, best known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organisation together with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. Born into a working-class…
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1970
Japanese race car driver (born 1949)
Hiroshi Kazato was a Japanese racecar driver. Kazato started his career at age 19. He took part in the 1971 Can-Am season, finishing 10th in the championship driving a Lola T222-Chevrolet. He participated at Formula…
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1974
English soldier and geographer (born 1887)
Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Mason MC was a British soldier and explorer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work surveying the Himalayas was rewarded in 1927 with a…
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1976
Bolivian general and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (born 1920)
Juan José Torres González was a Bolivian socialist politician and military leader who served as the 50th president of Bolivia from 1970 to 1971, when he was ousted in a coup that resulted in the dictatorship of Hugo…
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1976
German footballer (born 1952)
Albert Bittlmayer was a German footballer who made a combined total of 142 league appearances for 1. FC Nürnberg and Tennis Borussia Berlin until he died of cancer at the age of 24.
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1977
Northern Irish-born American actor (born 1931)
William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland. He emerged as a leading man during the late 1950s with his role as the villainous Messala in Ben-Hur (1959), a role that…
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1977
Spanish footballer and coach (born 1895)
Santiago Bernabéu de Yeste was a Spanish football player, coach, and administrator who played for Real Madrid as a forward, later serving as the club's manager and then president. He is widely regarded as one of the…
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1978
American actor (born 1934)
Dana Scott James Hutton was an American actor in film and television best remembered for his role as Ellery Queen in the 1970s TV series of the same name, and his screen partnership with Paula Prentiss in four films,…
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1979
Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (born 1904)
Fazal Elahi Chaudhry was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fifth president of Pakistan from 1973 until his resignation in 1978, due to Zia-ul-Haq's martial law following the 1977 coup…
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1982
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (born 1894)
Shah Abdul Wahhab was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, educator, jurist, and spiritual leader. He served as the second rector of Darul Uloom Hathazari, primarily participating in administrative and educational…
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1982
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1949)
Stanley Allison Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter who sang traditional-sounding songs frequently inspired by Canadian history and the working people's daily lives, especially from the fishing villages…
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1983
1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1901)
Aurèle Émile Joliat, nicknamed the "Mighty Atom" and "Little Giant", was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens.
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1986
Indian-American priest and psychotherapist (born 1931)
Anthony de Mello, also known as Tony de Mello, was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A teacher and public speaker, de Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted numerous spiritual retreats and…
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1987
American bandleader and songwriter (born 1910)
Sammy Kaye was an American bandleader and songwriter, whose tag line, "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye", became one of the most famous of the Big Band Era. The expression springs from his first hit single in 1937, "Swing…
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1987
Spanish guitarist (born 1893)
Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña, was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist. Many professional classical guitarists were either students of Segovia or students of Segovia's students.
Segovia's…
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1987
Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1924)
Ranbir Raj Kapoor was an Indian actor, film director, and producer, who worked in Hindi cinema. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors and filmmakers in the history of Indian cinema. He…
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1988
Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1907)
Edward Lambert à Beckett was an Australian cricketer who played in four Test matches between 1928 and 1931. He played in 47 first-class matches for Victoria.
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1989
English actor (born 1908)
Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without…
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1990
1991
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1908)
Philip Ives Dunne was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox. He crafted well regarded romantic and…
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1992
American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1913)
John Robert Mize, nicknamed "Big Jawn" and "the Big Cat", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and New…
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1993
Algerian journalist, writer and poet (born 1954)
Tahar Djaout was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group.
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1993
Australian philosopher, author, and academic (born 1927)
David Charles Stove was an Australian philosopher whose writings often challenged prevailing academic orthodoxy. He was known for his critiques of postmodernism, feminism, and multiculturalism.
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1994
Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (born 1901)
John Alton was an American cinematographer of Hungarian-German origin. Alton photographed some of the most famous films noir of the classic period and won an Academy Award for the cinematography of An American in Paris…
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1996
English author (born 1921)
Leon Garfield FRSL was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for…
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1996
1996
American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (born 1905)
Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham, was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. He is also the grandfather of musician Theo Croker.
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1997
American tennis champion (born 1908)
Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.
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1997
Jamaican singer (born 1949)
Franklin Delano Alexander "Junior" Braithwaite was a reggae musician from Kingston, Jamaica and the youngest member of the vocal group, The Wailing Wailers.
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1999
Russian ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (born 1927)
Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov was a Russian ophthalmologist, politician, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He is considered to be a pioneer of…
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2000
American golfer (born 1939)
John H. Schlee was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s.
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2000
English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (born 1912)
Gerald James Whitrow was a British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.
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2000
American actress and comedian (born 1908)
Imogene Coca was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows. Starting out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, she studied ballet and pursued a serious career in music and…
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2001
American boxer (born 1922)
Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli was an American professional boxer. He was the World Light Heavyweight Champion from 1950 to 1952. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine…
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2001
Dutch director and photographer (born 1937)
Hugo Arndt Rodolf, Baron van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer.
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2002
American wrestler and manager (born 1918)
Frederick Kenneth Blassie was an American professional wrestler and manager, known by the ring name "Classy" Freddie Blassie. His achievements in the ring included holding the Los Angeles-based World Wrestling…
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2003
Canadian broadcaster and philanthropist (born 1906)
Alma Ricard, née Vézina was a Canadian broadcaster and philanthropist. A partner with her husband F. Baxter Ricard in his broadcasting holdings, including Northern Cable and Mid-Canada Communications, after her…
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2003
Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1916)
Lucien Cliche was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Abitibi-Est in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and then the Quebec National Assembly from 1960 to 1970 as a Liberal. Cliche was Speaker of the…
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2005
Norwegian skier (born 1930)
Gunder Gundersen was a Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official. He was born in Asker.
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2005
Lebanese journalist and educator (born 1950)
Samir Kassir was a Lebanese-Syrian-Palestinian journalist of An-Nahar and professor of history at Saint-Joseph University, who was an advocate of democracy and prominent opponent of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. He…
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2005
English civil servant and spy (born 1912)
Melita Stedman Norwood was a British civil servant, Communist Party of Great Britain member and KGB spy.
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2005
English rugby player and coach (born 1952)
Keith Smith was an English dual-code international rugby footballer who played in the 1970s. He played representative rugby union (RU) as a centre, for England, England (Under-23s), Yorkshire, and Yorkshire (Colts), and…
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2006
Japanese pianist and composer (born 1949)
Kentarō Haneda was a Japanese pianist, composer and arranger. He composed for popular anime series, movies and video games. His popular name was Haneken.
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2007
Chinese engineer and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1938)
Huang Ju was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was one of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP, China's top decision-making body, between…
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2007
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1928)
Ellas Otha Bates, known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy…
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2008
American actor (born 1917)
Melchor Gastón Ferrer was an American actor, director, and producer, active in film, theatre, and television. He achieved prominence on Broadway before scoring notable film hits with Scaramouche (1952), Lili (1953), and…
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2008
American author (born 1931)
David Carroll Eddings was an American fantasy writer. With his wife Leigh, he authored several best-selling epic fantasy novel series, including The Belgariad (1982–84), The Malloreon (1987–91), The Elenium (1989–91),…
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2009
Nicaraguan businessman and political activist (born 1931)
Adolfo Calero Portocarrero was a Nicaraguan businessman and the leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group of the Contras, opposing the Sandinista government.
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2012
English-American soldier, actor, television personality, and game show host (born 1932)
Richard Dawson was an English actor, comedian, game-show host, and panelist. He was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan's Heroes, as a regular panelist on Match Game (1973–1978), and as the original…
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2012
2012
American actress (born 1939)
Kathryn Joosten was an American actress. Her best known roles include Delores Landingham on NBC's The West Wing from 1999 to 2002 and Karen McCluskey on ABC's Desperate Housewives from 2005 to 2012, for which she won…
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2012
Canadian pianist and conductor (born 1930)
Mario Bernardi, was a Canadian conductor and pianist. He conducted 75 different operas and over 450 other works with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.
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2013
Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (born 1930)
Chen Xitong was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and the Mayor of Beijing until he was removed from office on charges of corruption in 1995.
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2013
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1956)
Mandawuy Djarrtjuntjun Yunupingu, formerly Tom Djambayang Bakamana Yunupingu, and also known as Dr Yunupingu, was a teacher and musician, and frontman of the Aboriginal rock group Yothu Yindi from 1986. He was an…
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2013
Serbian footballer and manager (born 1941)
Ivan "Ivica" Brzić was a Yugoslav and Serbian football manager and player.
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2014
2014
American pharmacologist and chemist (born 1925)
Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin was an American biochemist, broad researcher of synthetic psychoactive compounds, and author of works regarding these, who independently explored the organic chemistry and pharmacology…
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2014
East Timorese politician, President of East Timor (born 1963)
Fernando de Araújo, also known as Lasama was an East Timorese activist and politician. He was a clandestine activist for the independence of East Timor, and then founded the Democratic Party after independence. He was…
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2015
American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
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2015
English actor (born 1921)
Peter Sallis was an English actor. He was the original voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until the…
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2017
American football player (born 1971)
Larry Christopher Allen Jr. was an American professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football for the Butte…
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2024
English rugby league footballer (born 1982)
Robert Geoffrey Burrow was an English professional rugby league footballer who played as a scrum-half or hooker. Burrow spent his entire professional career with the Leeds Rhinos, making nearly 500 appearances as well…
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2024
Israeli politician (born 1937)
David Levy was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1969 and 2006. Levy's ascent to political prominence demonstrated the growing influence of Mizrahi Jews in Israel. He played a crucial…
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2024
American actress and singer (born 1922)
Janis Paige was an American actress and singer. With a career spanning nearly 60 years, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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2024
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Karl Brandt — German physician and Nazi criminal (1904–1948)
FeaturedKarl Brandt
Death year1948
Known forTrained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's "escort doctor" (Begleitarzt) in August 1934
Deaths on this date114 (657 – 2024)
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2022
Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changed the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye". Wikipedia →
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