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Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews was the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James (1957), E
Notable Deaths on June 21
113 people
532 – 2024
June 21 has seen 113 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 532 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2024 — Frederick Crews
American essayist and literary critic (born 1933)
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Forster: The Perils of Humanism (1962), and The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes (1966), a discussion of the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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He received popular attention for The Pooh Perplex (1963), a book of satirical essays parodying various schools of literary criticism
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Crews was a prominent participant in the "Freud wars" of the 1980s and 1990s, a debate over the reputation, scholarship, and impact on the 20th century of Freud, who founded psychoanalysis
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In 2017, he published Freud: The Making of an Illusion.
former Northern Wei emperor
Emperor Jiemin of Northern Wei ( 魏節閔帝), also known as Emperor Qianfei (前廢帝), at times referred to by pre-ascension title Prince of Guangling (廣陵王), personal name Yuan Gong (元恭), courtesy name Xiuye (脩業), was an emperor…
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866
the tenth Imam of Shia Islam (born 829)
Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hadi was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the tenth Imam in Twelver Shia, succeeding his father, Muhammad al-Jawad. Born in Medina in 828, Ali is known with the titles al-Hādī and…
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868
Muslim caliph
Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muhtadī bi-ʾLlāh, better known by his regnal name al-Muhtadī bi-ʾLlāh, was the Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from July 869 to June 870, during the "Anarchy at…
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870
947
1040
French-English monk (born 1103)
Walter de Luci, Abbot of Battle Abbey, was the brother of Richard de Luci, who was Chief Justiciar of England.
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1171
Philip of Swabia February/March 1177 – 21 June 1208), styled Philip II in his charters, was a member of the House of Hohenstaufen and King of Germany from 1198 until his assassination.
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1208
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia was King of Bohemia (1278–1305), Duke of Cracow (1291–1305), and King of Poland (1296–1305).
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1305
king of Sweden (born 1339)
Erik Magnusson, sometimes known as Erik XII, was a Swedish prince who was formally elected King of Sweden in 1344. He held no real power before 1356, when he led a rebellion against his father, King Magnus Eriksson,…
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1359
Edward III, also known as Edward of Windsor before accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous…
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1377
French general (born 1366)
Jean II Le Maingre, also known as Boucicaut, was a French knight and military leader. Renowned for his military skill and embodiment of chivalry, he was made a Marshal of France.
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1421
Italian historian and author (born 1469)
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written around 1513 but…
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1527
English poet and educator (born 1460)
John Skelton, also known as John Shelton was an English poet, playwright, priest, and tutor to King Henry VIII of England. Writing in a period of linguistic transition between Middle English and Early Modern English,…
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1529
Italian painter and educator (born 1485)
Sebastiano del Piombo was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods, famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained…
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1547
Italian general (born 1510)
Piero Strozzi was an Italian military leader. He was a member of the rich Florentine family of the Strozzi.
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1558
Japanese warlord (born 1534)
Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese samurai and daimyō and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the Tenka-bito and regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. He is sometimes…
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1582
8th Earl of Northumberland (born 1532)
Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland, 2nd Baron Percy was an English nobleman and conspirator.
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1585
Italian saint (born 1568)
Aloysius de Gonzaga, SJ was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious epidemic. He was…
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1591
French agronomist and physician (born 1535)
Jean Liébault was a doctor and agronomist, born in Dijon.
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1596
1621
Czech soldier and composer (born 1564)
Kryštof Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice was a nobleman, traveler, humanist, soldier, writer and composer from Bohemia. He joined the Protestant Bohemian Revolt in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown against the House of…
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1621
German theologian (born 1551)
Salomon Schweigger was a German Lutheran theologian, minister, anthropologist and orientalist of the 16th century. He provided insights during his travels in the Balkans, Constantinople and the Middle East, and…
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1622
English admiral and explorer (born 1580)
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, admiral of New England, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. Following his return to…
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1631
English architect, designed the Queen's House and Wilton House (born 1573)
Inigo Jones was an English architect who was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
As the most notable…
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1652
Italian painter (born 1599)
Andrea Sacchi was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors…
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1661
French author, critic, and jurist (born 1664)
Mathieu Marais was a French jurist and lawyer at the Parlement of Paris. He is later known by the edition of his Journal and Memoirs by Mathurin de Lescures.
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1737
2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1674)
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, was a British Whig statesman. From 1714 to 1717, and again from 1721 to 1730, he served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department. He directed British foreign policy in…
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1738
1765
American soldier and engineer (born 1710)
Richard Gridley was a soldier and engineer who served for the British Army during the French and Indian Wars and for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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1796
French playwright and translator (born 1773)
Étienne Aignan was a French translator, political writer, librettist and playwright. In 1814 he was made a member of the Académie française, succeeding Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in Seat 27. He died on 21 June 1824 aged…
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1824
American wife of William H. Seward (born 1824)
Frances Adeline Seward was the First Lady of New York and the wife of William Henry Seward, a senator in the New York legislature, Governor of New York, a senator from New York and United States Secretary of State under…
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1865
Swedish physicist and astronomer (born 1814)
Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
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1874
Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (born 1794)
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, often known as Santa Anna, was a Mexican general, politician, and caudillo who served as the eighth president of Mexico on multiple occasions…
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1876
American general (born 1804)
Lieutenant-General Theophilus Hunter Holmes was an American soldier who served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army and commanded infantry in the Eastern and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American…
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1880
American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (born 1824)
Amasa Leland Stanford was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented…
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1893
Russian composer and educator (born 1844)
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the…
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1908
Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was a Bohemian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first…
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1914
English sociologist, journalist, and academic (born 1864)
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, FBA was an English liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous…
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1929
American author (born 1892)
James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, frequent…
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1934
American general, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1881)
Smedley Darlington Butler was an American major general in the United States Marine Corps. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, World…
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1940
French painter (born 1868)
Jean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure…
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1940
American astronomer (born 1867)
Charles Dillon Perrine was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argentine National Observatory (1909-1936).…
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1951
French gymnast (born 1872)
Silvaine Gustave Sandras was a French gymnast who competed in the early 20th century. He participated in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, and won the equivalent of a gold medal in the only gymnastic event to…
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1951
Finnish politician (born 1877)
Vilhelm Kiviniemi was a Finnish farmer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Lapland between November 1917 and September…
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1951
1952
Swedish-American engineer, developed the zipper (born 1880)
Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundbäck was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who is most commonly associated with his work in the development of the zipper.
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1954
French captain and author (born 1876)
Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone, was a French Navy officer and writer. Many of his novels are based in exotic locations such as Istanbul, Saigon, or Nagasaki.
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1957
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
Johannes Stark was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919 for his discovery of the Stark effect.
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1957
American civil rights activist (born 1943)
James Earl Chaney was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. The others were Andrew Goodman…
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1964
American civil rights activist (born 1943)
Andrew Goodman was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. Goodman was a volunteer for the Freedom…
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1964
American civil rights activist (born 1939)
Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three civil rights workers murdered in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Schwerner and two…
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1964
American professor of the history of art (born 1892)
Theodore Sizer was an American professor of the history of art at Yale University and a director of the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. He was named the first Pursuivant of Arms for Yale…
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1967
South African botanist (born 1883)
Constance Georgina Adams, also known as Constance Georgina Tardrew, was a South African housewife and collector of botanical specimens. Known by the nicknames Connie and Daisy, Adams was born in Cape Town and spent her…
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1968
American tennis player (born 1934)
Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker, known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, the winner of nine major singles titles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she became the first woman to win a Grand Slam. She is also…
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1969
1970
English race car driver (born 1942)
Piers Raymond Courage was a British racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1967 to 1970.
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1970
American librarian (born 1902)
Margaret Florence Herrick, also known professionally as Margaret Gledhill, was an American librarian and the executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1971, the academy's library was…
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1976
German conductor and composer (born 1923)
Bert Kaempfert was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-orientated records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs,…
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1980
American illustrator and animator (born 1909)
Don Figlozzi was an American animator and cartoonist. A veteran of Fleischer Studios and member of the National Cartoonists Society, he spent the first half of his career in animation and the second half at the New York…
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1981
Italian-American chef and businessman, founded Chef Boyardee (born 1897)
Ettore Boiardi, also known as Hector Boyardee, was an Italian-American chef and entrepreneur, famous for his brand of food products, named Chef Boyardee.
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1985
Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (born 1901)
Tage Fritjof Erlander was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1946 to 1969. During his record-long premiership, Erlander was an…
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1985
Lebanese singer-songwriter and producer (born 1923)
Assi Rahbani was a Lebanese composer, musician, conductor and producer. He was part of the Rahbani Brothers, with his brother Mansour Rahbani. He married Lebanese singer Nouhad Haddad, more famous by her stage name,…
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1986
American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (born 1914)
Earl William "Madman" Muntz was an American businessman and engineer who sold and promoted cars and consumer electronics in the United States from the 1930s until his death in 1987. He was a pioneer in television…
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1987
American football coach (born 1908)
Robert Lee Dodd was an American college football player and coach, college baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Georgia Tech from 1945 to 1966, compiling a record…
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1988
English journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (born 1904)
Cedric Henning Belfrage was an English film critic, journalist, writer and political activist. He is best remembered as a co-founder of the radical US weekly National Guardian. Later Belfrage was referenced as a Soviet…
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1990
American singer (born 1925)
June Christy was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a solo career from 1954 and is…
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1990
Australian rugby league player (born 1971)
Ben Alexander, also known by the nickname "Boods", was an Australian rugby league footballer who played as a halfback or hooker for the Penrith Panthers in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. He was the…
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1992
Australian hobby shop proprietor (born 1922)
Arthur Dingwall Gorrie was an Australian hobbyist. He ran a small hobby shop in Woolloongabba and was involved with model aeronautical clubs including the Model Aeronautical Association of Australia and the Queensland…
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1992
Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (born 1956)
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah was a Bangladeshi poet noted for his revolutionary and romantic poetry. He is considered one of the leading Bengali poets of the 1970s. He received Munir Chaudhury Memorial Award in 1980 and…
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1992
Chinese captain and politician, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China (born 1909)
Li Xiannian was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of China from 1983 to 1988 under paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and then chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference…
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1992
American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1906)
William Wilson Morgan was an American astronomer and astrophysicist. The principal theme in Morgan's work was stellar and galaxy classification. He is also known for helping prove the existence of spiral arms in our…
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1994
Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (born 1931)
Shintaro Katsu was a Japanese actor, singer, and filmmaker. He is known for starring in the Akumyo series, the Hoodlum Soldier series, the Hanzo the Razor series, and the Zatoichi series.
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1997
Mexican trade union leader (born 1900)
Fidel Velázquez Sánchez was the preeminent Mexican union leader of the 20th century. In 1936 he was one of the original founders, along with Vicente Lombardo Toledano, of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), the…
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1997
English historian (born 1917)
Harry Cranbrook Allen was a British historian of the United States.
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1998
Italian cardinal (born 1913)
Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, religious name Anastasio del Santissimo Rosario, was an Italian cardinal and member of the Discalced Carmelites who served as the Archbishop of Turin from 1977 until his resignation in…
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1998
American baseball player and manager (born 1916)
Alexander Sebastian Campanis was an American executive in Major League Baseball (MLB). He had a brief major league playing career, as a second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943; he was the first Greek player in…
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1998
1999
Armenian-American pianist and composer (born 1911)
Alan Hovhaness was an American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies and 434 opus numbers. The true tally is well over 500…
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2000
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1917)
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit.…
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2001
Egyptian actress and singer (born 1942)
Soad Mohammad Kamal Hosny was an Egyptian actress. She was known as the "Cinderella of the Screen" and one of the most influential actresses in the Middle East and the Arab world. She is generally regarded as one of…
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2001
American actor and producer (born 1924)
John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979)…
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2001
Canadian author and playwright (born 1930)
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.
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2002
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1934)
Roger Paul Neilson was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, most notably in the NHL, where he served with eight teams. Known as "Captain Video" because of his technological contributions to the game, he is a member…
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2003
2003
Brazilian engineer and politician, Governor of Rio de Janeiro (born 1922)
Leonel de Moura Brizola was a Brazilian politician. Launched into politics by Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas in the 1930–1950s, Brizola was the only politician to serve as elected governor of two Brazilian states.…
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2004
American businesswoman (born 1916)
Ruth Leach Amonette was an American businesswoman, author, and educator. She was appointed as the first female executive and vice president at IBM in 1943, becoming one of only a few women in high-ranking corporate…
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2004
2005
American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1975)
Jared Christopher Monti was a soldier in the United States Army who received the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the War in Afghanistan.
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2006
2007
American race car driver (born 1962)
Scott D. Kalitta was an American drag racer who competed in the Funny Car and Top Fuel classes in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. He had 17 career Top Fuel wins and one career…
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2008
English author (born 1946)
Russell Ash was the British author of the Top 10 of Everything series of books, as well as Great Wonders of the World, Incredible Comparisons and many other reference, art and humour titles, most notably his series of…
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2010
Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1956)
Irwin Barker was a Canadian comedian and writer. He wrote for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer Report, and was nominated for four Gemini Awards as a writer and one as stand-up performer for his 2005…
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2010
Turkish lawyer, journalist, and author (born 1925)
İlhan Selçuk was a Turkish lawyer, journalist, author, novelist and editor.
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2010
Canadian author and poet (born 1927)
Robert Paul Kroetsch was a Canadian novelist, poet and nonfiction writer. In his fiction and critical essays, as well as in the journal he co-founded, boundary 2, he was an influential figure in Canada in introducing…
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2011
American composer and producer (born 1921)
Richard Adler was an American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows. He is best known for his work with Jerry Ross on the musicals The Pajama Game (1954) and Damn Yankees (1955).
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2012
Indian economist and diplomat, Indian Ambassador to the United States (born 1926)
Abid Hussain was an Indian economist, civil servant and diplomat. He was India's ambassador to the United States of America from 1990 to 1992 and a member of the Planning Commission from 1985 to 1990.
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2012
Indian photographer and journalist (born 1918)
Sunil Janah was an Indian-American photojournalist and documentary photographer who worked in India in the 1940s. Janah documented India's independence movement, its peasant and labour movements, famines and riots,…
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2012
American economist and author (born 1915)
Anna Jacobson Schwartz was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and a writer for The New York Times. Paul Krugman has said that Schwartz is "one of the world's…
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2012
American physicist and academic (born 1928)
James Power Gordon was an American physicist known for his work in the fields of optics and quantum electronics. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first maser in 1954 as a doctoral…
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2013
American actor and screenwriter (born 1920)
Edgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid was an American actor.
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2013
Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense (born 1925)
Yozo Ishikawa was a Japanese lawmaker and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He served as director general of the now-defunct defense agency of Japan in 1990.
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2014
Austrian-Liechtenstein politician, 7th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (born 1931)
Walter Kieber was a lawyer and politician from Liechtenstein who served as Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1974 to 1978. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1970 to 1974 and again from…
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2014
Malaysian lawyer and politician (born 1959)
Wong Ho Leng was a Malaysian politician. He was the opposition leader of the Sarawak State Assembly from May 2006 to June 2013. He was also the state chairman of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) from 2001 until 10 June…
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2014
American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1964)
Darryl Quinn Hamilton was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1988 and 2001 for the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies,…
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2015
Finnish author and poet (born 1928)
Veijo Väinö Valvo Meri was a Finnish writer. Much of his work focuses on war and its absurdity. The work is anti-war and has dark humor.
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2015
Italian actor, playwright, and poet (born 1924)
Remo Remotti was an Italian actor, playwright, artist and poet.
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2015
German soldier and politician (born 1932)
Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski was a politician and trader in the German Democratic Republic. He was director of a main department ('Hauptverwaltungsleiter') in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and German Domestic Trade…
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2015
American horn player, composer, and conductor (born 1925)
Gunther Alexander Schuller was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.
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2015
Canadian television host and singer (born 1941)
Pierre Lalonde was a Canadian singer and television host, who was sometimes also billed as Peter Martin in the United States.
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2016
American columnist and conservative political commentator (born 1950)
Charles Krauthammer was an American political columnist. A moderate liberal who turned independent conservative as a political pundit, Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for his columns in The Washington Post in 1987.…
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2018
Scottish politician (born 1929)
Winifred Margaret Ewing was a Scottish lawyer and politician who figured prominently in the Scottish National Party.
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2023
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