Notable Deaths on June 22

June 22 has 79 recorded notable deaths across history, from 207 BC to 2025. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

Ted Gärdestad

1997 — Ted Gärdestad

Swedish singer-songwriter (born 1956)

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Notable Deaths 79 source records 207 BC – 2025

Major events on June 22

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1793 Haitian Revolution: The Battle of Cap-Français ends with French Republican troops and black slave insurgents capturing the city. Source
  2. 1984 Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark. Source

Did you know about Ted Gärdestad

Assigned with in-house producers Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, Gärdestad released his first single, "Hela världen runt," in late 1971 and worked closely with the four members of ABBA to create his debut album Undringar (1972).

Did you know about Paulinus of Nola

Later, probably after Therasia's death, he became bishop of Nola in Campania.

Did you know about Francis Lubbock

A South Carolina native, he was a key player in Texas politics, serving as the 6th lieutenant governor of Texas and later the 9th governor of Texas during the Civil War.

Did you know about Howard Staunton

Howard Staunton was the principal organiser of the first international chess tournament in 1851, which made England the world's leading chess centre and caused Adolf Anderssen to be recognised as the world's strongest player.

Did you know about Leonardo Loredan

As a wartime ruler, he was one of the most important doges in the history of Venice.

More major people who died on June 22

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

431 Paulinus of Nola

Paulinus of Nola

Christian bishop and poet (born 354)
Paulinus of Nola born Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus, was a Roman poet, writer, senator, and bishop. He attained the ranks of suffect consul and governor of Campania, but, prompted by the counsels of his Hispanic wife Therasia of Nola and by the assassination of the emperor Gratian, abandoned his career and was baptized as a Christian. Later, probably after Therasia's death, he became bishop of Nola in Campania. While there, he wrote poems in honor of his predecessor Saint Felix and corresponded with other Christian leaders throughout the empire. He is credited with the introduction of bells to Christian worship and helped resolve the disputed election of Pope Boniface I.
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1905 Francis Lubbock

Francis Lubbock

American colonel and politician, 9th governor of Texas (born 1815)
Francis Richard Lubbock was a businessman, slaveholder, and politician from the American South who played a significant role in Texas history. A South Carolina native, he was a key player in Texas politics, serving as the 6th lieutenant governor of Texas and later the 9th governor of Texas during the Civil War. As governor, Lubbock was a fervent supporter of the Confederacy and instrumental in Texas' secession from the Union. After the war, he continued in public service as the Texas state treasurer. He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom both Lubbock County and the city of Lubbock are named.
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1874 Howard Staunton

Howard Staunton

English chess player (born 1810)
Howard Staunton was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shape – the Staunton pattern promulgated by Nathaniel Cooke – that is still the style required for competitions. He was the principal organiser of the first international chess tournament in 1851, which made England the world's leading chess centre and caused Adolf Anderssen to be recognised as the world's strongest player.
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1521 Leonardo Loredan

Leonardo Loredan

Italian politician, 76th Doge of Venice (born 1436)
Leonardo Loredan was a Venetian nobleman and statesman who reigned as the 75th Doge of Venice from 1501 until his death in 1521. As a wartime ruler, he was one of the most important doges in the history of Venice. In the dramatic events of the early 16th century, Loredan's Machiavellian plots and cunning political manoeuvres against the League of Cambrai, the Ottomans, the Mamluks, the Pope, the Republic of Genoa, the Holy Roman Empire, the French, the Egyptians and the Portuguese saved Venice from downfall.
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1940 Monty Noble

Monty Noble

Australian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1873)
Montague Alfred Noble was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. A right-hand batsman, right-handed bowler who could deliver both medium pace and off-break bowling, capable fieldsman and tactically sound captain, Noble is considered one of the great Australian all-rounders. He scored 13,975 first class runs between 1893 and 1920 and took 624 wickets. He made 37 centuries – including a best of 284 in 1902 – and set several partnership and individual high-score records for his State team.
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1974 Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud

French composer and educator (born 1892)
Darius Milhaud was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. Milhaud is considered one of the key modernist composers. He taught many future jazz and classical composers, including Burt Bacharach, Dave Brubeck, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, György Kurtág, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis among others.
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1938 C. J. Dennis

C. J. Dennis

Australian poet and author (born 1876)
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title "the laureate of the larrikin". He was Australia's most popular and prolific poet, selling more than 700,000 books and publishing more than 4,000 poems.
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1965 David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick

American screenwriter and producer (born 1902)
David Oliver Selznick was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture. He also won the Irving Thalberg Award at the 12th Academy Awards, Hollywood's top honor for a producer, in recognition of his shepherding Gone with the Wind through a long and troubled production and into a record-breaking blockbuster.
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1868 Heber C. Kimball

Heber C. Kimball

American religious leader (born 1801)
Heber Chase Kimball was an American religious leader who was a pioneer in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church of the Latter Day Saints, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than two decades, from 1847 until his death.
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2018 Vinnie Paul

Vinnie Paul

American musician (born 1964)
Vincent Paul Abbott was an American musician best known for being the drummer and co-founder of the heavy metal band Pantera. He also co-founded Damageplan in 2003 with his younger brother, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, and was a member of Hellyeah for 12 years from 2006 until his death in 2018. Several outlets have ranked Abbott as among the greatest metal drummers of all time.
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2014 Rama Narayanan

Rama Narayanan

Indian director and producer (born 1949)
Rama Narayanan was an Indian film director, producer and politician. In the 1980s, he was known as a director who specialized in shooting commercial films in which animals played vital roles, while in the 1990s, several of his films were based on Hindu devotional subjects. Having directed over 100 films, he was renowned for his quick completion of films well within budget constraints.
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2025 Arnaldo Pomodoro

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Italian sculptor (born 1926)
Arnaldo Pomodoro was an Italian sculptor based in Milan. His signature works are Sphere Within Sphere, bronze spheres with smooth exterior and broken interiors. They are displayed in public spaces such as the United Nations Headquarters, the University of California, Berkeley, Trinity College Dublin, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Tel Aviv University in Israel and at the Vatican Museums.
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2004 Mattie Stepanek

Mattie Stepanek

American poet and author (born 1990)
Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek, known as Mattie J.T. Stepanek, was an American author and motivational speaker. He published seven books of poetry and essays on peace, several of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list before his death at the age of 13. He wanted to be remembered as "a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played."
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1664 Katherine Philips

Katherine Philips

Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1631)
Katherine or Catherine Philips, also known as "The Matchless Orinda", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace, and for her editions of poetry after her death. She was highly regarded by many notable later writers, including John Dryden and John Keats, as being influential.
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1987 Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

American actor and dancer (born 1899)
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time". His accolades include an Honorary Academy Award, as well as three Golden Globe Awards, three Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award.
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1990 Ilya Frank

Ilya Frank

Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Cherenkov and Igor Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971.
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1925 Felix Klein

Felix Klein

German mathematician and academic (born 1849)
Felix Christian Klein was a German mathematician, mathematics educator and historian of mathematics, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen program classified geometries by their basic symmetry groups and was an influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the time.
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2022 Yves Coppens

Yves Coppens

French anthropologist (born 1934)
Yves Coppens was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. In October 2014, Coppens was named an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis.
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1945 Mitsuru Ushijima

Mitsuru Ushijima

Japanese general (born 1887)
Mitsuru Ushijima was a Japanese general who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. He was the commanding general of the 32nd Army, which fought in the Battle of Okinawa during the final stages of the war. Ushijima's troops were defeated, and at the end of the battle he committed suicide.
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1969 Judy Garland

Judy Garland

American actress and singer (born 1922)
Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, and vaudevillian whose career spanned four decades. She is known for her artistic range and strong contralto voice, working in a variety of genres including musicals, comedies, and dramas. Her career and personal life, marked by both public fascination and private struggle, made her a cultural icon.
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1984 Joseph Losey

Joseph Losey

American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)
Joseph Walton Losey III was an American film and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s, he moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom.
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2003 Vasil Bykaŭ

Vasil Bykaŭ

Belarusian war novelist (born 1924)
Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought, his work earned him endorsements for the Nobel Prize nomination from, among others, Nobel Prize laureates Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz.
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2008 George Carlin

George Carlin

American comedian, actor, and author (born 1937)
George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American comedian, satirist, social critic, actor and author. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians of all time, he was known for his stand-up routines, blending dark comedy and commentary on topics such as contemporary politics, the English language, psychology, and religion.
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1872 Rudecindo Alvarado

Rudecindo Alvarado

Argentinian general (born 1792)
Rudecindo Alvarado was an Argentine general. He fought in the military campaigns of Manuel Belgrano, and in the Army of the Andes. He was governor of Mendoza. He left the country during the rule of Juan Manuel de Rosas, and returned in 1852 after Rosas' defeat at the battle of Caseros.
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2008 Dody Goodman

Dody Goodman

American actress and dancer (born 1914)
Dody Goodman was an American character actress. She played the mother of the title character in the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, her distinctive high-pitched voice announcing the show's title at the beginning of each episode. She was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show in the 1950s.
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2017 Quett Masire

Quett Masire

Botswanan politician (born 1926)
Ketumile Quett Joni Masire GCMG was a Motswana politician and statesman who was the second and longest-serving president of Botswana, in office from 1980 to 1998. He was given an honorary knighthood of the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George by Queen Elizabeth II (GCMG) in 1991.
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1993 Pat Nixon

Pat Nixon

American educator, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1912)
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S. president. From 1953 to 1961, she had been the second lady of the United States when her husband was Dwight D. Eisenhower's vice president.
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1970 Đặng Thùy Trâm

Đặng Thùy Trâm

Vietnamese surgeon and author (born 1942)
Đặng Thùy Trâm was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a battlefield surgeon for the People's Army of Vietnam and Vietcong during the Vietnam War. Her wartime diaries, which chronicle the last two years of her life, attracted international attention following their publication in 2005.
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1714 Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

Welsh minister and author (born 1662)
Matthew Henry was a British Nonconformist and Presbyterian minister and author who was born in Wales but spent much of his life in England. He is best known for the six-volume biblical commentary Exposition of the Old and New Testaments.
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1928 A. B. Frost

A. B. Frost

American illustrator and painter (born 1851)
Arthur Burdett Frost, usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Br'er Rabbit and other characters in the Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus books.
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1535 John Fisher

John Fisher

English bishop and saint (born 1469)
John Fisher was an English Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to 1535 and as chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church.
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1942 August Froehlich

August Froehlich

German priest and activist (born 1891)
August Froehlich was an Upper Silesian Roman Catholic priest. In his pastoral activity he opposed National Socialism. He campaigned in the name of German Catholics and of Polish forced labourers. He died in Dachau concentration camp.
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1977 Jacqueline Audry

Jacqueline Audry

French director and screenwriter (born 1908)
Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations that centered women. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war France.
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1699 Josiah Child

Josiah Child

English merchant, economist, and politician (born 1630)
Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet, was an English economist, merchant and politician. He was an economist proponent of mercantilism and governor of the East India Company. He led the company in the Anglo-Mughal War.
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2015 James Horner

James Horner

American composer and conductor (born 1953)
James Roy Horner was an American film composer and conductor. He is known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.
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1945 Isamu Chō

Isamu Chō

Japanese general (born 1895)
Isamu Chō was a Japanese officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan.
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1936 Moritz Schlick

Moritz Schlick

German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1882)
Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936.
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1988 Dennis Day

Dennis Day

American singer and actor (born 1916)
Dennis Day was an American tenor singer, actor, and comedian. He was of Irish descent and best-known for his longtime stint as the singer-in-residence in Jack Benny's radio and television shows.
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-207 Hasdrubal Barca

Hasdrubal Barca

Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War (born 245 BC)
Hasdrubal Barca, a latinization of the Punic ʿAzrubaʿal, son of Hamilcar Barca, was a Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War. He was the brother of Hannibal and Mago Barca.
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1276 Innocent V

Innocent V

pope of the Catholic Church (born 1225)
Pope Innocent V, born Pierre de Tarentaise, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 21 January until his death on 22 June 1276.
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2013 Allan Simonsen

Allan Simonsen

Danish race car driver (born 1978)
Allan Weel Simonsen was a Danish racing driver, born in Odense. He died after a crash during the third lap of the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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1634 Johann von Aldringen

Johann von Aldringen

Austrian field marshal (born 1588)
Johann Reichsgraf von Aldringen was a Luxemburger who served in the armies of the Spanish Habsburgs and later the Austrian Habsburgs, especially during the Thirty Years' War.
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1101 Roger I of Sicily

Roger I of Sicily

Norman nobleman (born 1031)
Roger I, nicknamed "Roger Bosso" and "Grand Count Roger", was a Norman nobleman who became the first Grand Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101.
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1995 Al Hansen

Al Hansen

American sculptor and author (born 1927)
Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen was an American artist. He was a member of Fluxus, a movement that originated on an artists' collective around George Maciunas.
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1995 Leonid Derbenyov

Leonid Derbenyov

Russian poet and songwriter (born 1931)
Leonid Petrovich Derbenyov was a Russian poet and lyricist widely regarded as one of the stalwarts of the 20th century Soviet and Russian pop music.
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1956

Walter de la Mare

English poet, short story writer and novelist (born 1873)
Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt", "The Green Room" and "All Hallows". In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.
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2022

Bruton Smith

American racetrack promoter (born 1927)
Ollen Bruton Smith was an American motorsports executive and businessman. He was best known as the owner of two public companies, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) and Sonic Automotive. Smith held the positions of vice president and general manager of the Charlotte Motor Speedway and later was the chief executive officer (CEO) of both Speedway Motorsports and Sonic Automotive. He was an entrepreneur, race promoter, and businessman during the rise of stock car racing that began in the 1950s.
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1964 Havank

Havank

Dutch journalist and author (born 1904)
Havank, pseudonym of Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen, was a Dutch writer, journalist and translator. He published over 30 crime novels and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Dutch detective genre.
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1766

Carlo Zimech

Maltese priest and painter (born 1696)
Don Carlo Zimech was a Maltese priest and painter. He was born within a well-off family in Żebbuġ on mainland Malta. In his later life, he retired to Nadur, Gozo, possibly because of health problems. He died in his residence on 22 June 1766, and was buried in the Nadur parish church.
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1997

Gérard Pelletier

Canadian journalist and politician (born 1919)
Gérard Pelletier was a Canadian politician, diplomat and journalist from Quebec, best known for his association with Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau that started decades before their entries to the political arena. A long time personal confidant of Trudeau, Pelletier served in Trudeau's cabinet and then in two key diplomatic postings.
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2008

Natalia Bekhtereva

Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (born 1924)
Natalia Petrovna Bekhtereva was a Soviet and Russian neuroscientist and psychologist who developed neurophysiological approaches to psychology, such as measuring the impulse activity of human neurons. She was a participant in the documentaries The Call of the Abyss and Storm of Consciousness, which aroused wide public interest.
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1966

Thaddeus Shideler

American hurdler (born 1883)
Thaddeus Rutter Shideler was an American hurdler who competed in the early twentieth century. He competed in athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the 110 meters hurdles. Fred Schule won the gold medal.
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947

Qian Hongzuo

king of Wuyue (born 928)
Qian Hongzuo, courtesy name Yuanyou (元祐), also known by his temple name as King Chengzong of Wuyue (吳越成宗), was the third king of Wuyue during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of China.
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1980

Joseph Cohen

British solicitor, property developer, cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (born 1889)
Joseph Cohen (1889–1980) was a solicitor and property developer in Birmingham, England, and was chairman and managing director of the Jacey Cinemas chain. He was also a prominent figure in Birmingham's Jewish community.
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910

Gebhard

Frankish nobleman
Gebhard of Lahngau, of the Conradine dynasty, son of Odo, count of Lahngau, and Judith, was himself count of Wetterau (909–910) and Rheingau (897–906) and then duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
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2023

Harry Markowitz

American Nobel economist (born 1927)
Harry Max Markowitz was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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1017

Leo Passianos

Byzantine general
Leo Passianos was the Byzantine general sent by the Catapan of Italy Leo Tornikios Kontoleon to fight the Lombard rebel Melus of Bari in 1017. He is not to be confused with the other Passianos killed in Melus' first rebellion while fighting the Saracens under Ishmael of Montepeloso.
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910

Gerhard I

Frankish nobleman
Gerhard I of Metz was count of Metz. He was the son of Adalhard, count of Metz, himself son of Adalard the Seneschal and a daughter of Matfried, count of Eifel.
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1343

Aimone

Count of Savoy (born 1291)
Aymon (1291–1343), also known as Aymon the Peaceful, was the count of Savoy from 1329 until his death in 1343.
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1429 Jamshīd al-Kāshī

Jamshīd al-Kāshī

Persian astronomer and mathematician (born 1380)
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd al-Kāshī was a Persian astronomer and mathematician during the reign of Tamerlane.
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1632 James Whitelocke

James Whitelocke

English judge and politician, Chief Justice of Chester (born 1570)
Sir James Whitelocke SL was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1622.
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1828

Lars Ingier

Norwegian road manager, land owner, and mill owner (born 1760)
Lars Ingier was a Norwegian military officer, road manager, land owner and mill owner.
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1892 Pierre Ossian Bonnet

Pierre Ossian Bonnet

French mathematician and academic (born 1819)
Pierre Ossian Bonnet was a French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss–Bonnet theorem.
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1894 Alexandre-Antonin Taché

Alexandre-Antonin Taché

Canadian archbishop and missionary (born 1823)
Alexandre-Antonin Taché was a Canadian Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author, and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, Canada.
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1913 Ștefan Octavian Iosif

Ștefan Octavian Iosif

Romanian poet and translator (born 1875)
Ștefan Octavian Iosif was a Romanian poet and translator.
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1931 Armand Fallières

Armand Fallières

French politician, 9th President of France (born 1841)
Clément Armand Fallières was a French statesman who was President of France from 1906 to 1913.
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1933 Tim Birkin

Tim Birkin

English racing driver and lieutenant (born 1896)
Sir Henry Ralph Stanley Birkin, 3rd Baronet, known as Tim Birkin, was a British racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.
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1935 Szymon Askenazy

Szymon Askenazy

Polish historian and diplomat (born 1866)
Szymon Askenazy was a Jewish-Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school.
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1959 Hermann Brill

Hermann Brill

German educator and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (born 1895)
Dr. Hermann Louis Brill was a German resistance fighter, doctor of law and politician (SPD).
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1977 Peter Laughner

Peter Laughner

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)
Peter Laughner was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.
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1979 Louis Chiron

Louis Chiron

Monégasque race car driver (born 1899)
Louis Alexandre Chiron was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in rallies, sports car races, and Grands Prix.
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2004 Bob Bemer

Bob Bemer

American computer scientist and engineer (born 1920)
Robert William Bemer was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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2007

Erik Parlevliet

Dutch field hockey player (born 1964)
Erik Robert Parlevliet was a Dutch field hockey player, who earned a total number of 155 caps, scoring 47 goals.
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2011 Coşkun Özarı

Coşkun Özarı

Turkish footballer and coach (born 1931)
Coşkun Özarı was a Turkish football player and coach.
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2012 Juan Luis Galiardo

Juan Luis Galiardo

Spanish actor and producer (born 1922)
Juan Luis Galiardo Comes was a Spanish television, theater and film actor.
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2013 Henning Larsen

Henning Larsen

Danish architect, designed the Copenhagen Opera House (born 1925)
Henning Larsen was a Danish architect. He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House.
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2014 Fouad Ajami

Fouad Ajami

Lebanese-American author and academic (born 1945)
Fouad A. Ajami was a Lebanese-born American professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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2017 Mao Kobayashi

Mao Kobayashi

Japanese newscaster and actress (born 1982)
Mao Kobayashi was a Japanese freelance newscaster and actress. She was also one of Fuji TV's weathercasters.
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