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Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century
Notable Deaths on June 25
121 people
635 – 2024
June 25 has seen 121 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 635 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2009 — Michael Jackson
American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (born 1958)
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist
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Over a four-decade career, his musical achievements broke American racial barriers and made him a dominant figure worldwide
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Through his songs, concerts, and fashion, he proliferated visual performance for artists in popular music, popularizing street dance moves such as the moonwalk, the robot, and the anti-gravity lean
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Jackson is often deemed the greatest entertainer of all time.
635
841
Frankish nobleman
Ricwin, Ricuin, Richwin, or Richovin was the Count of Nantes from 831 to 841. A Rihwinus comes witnessed the will of Charlemagne in 811.
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841
891
Chinese general
An Chonghui was the chief of staff (Shumishi) and chief advisor to Li Siyuan of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Tang.
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931
son of Æthelred the Unready
Æthelstan Ætheling was the eldest son of King Æthelred the Unready by his first wife Ælfgifu, and was the heir apparent to the kingdom until his death. He is first mentioned as a witness to a charter of his father in…
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1014
Chinese emperor (born 972)
Emperor Shengzong of Liao, personal name Wenshunu, sinicised name Yelü Longxu, was the sixth emperor of the Khitan-led Chinese Liao dynasty and its longest reigning monarch.
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1031
1134
5th Earl of Leicester, French politician, Lord High Steward (born 1160)
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, known as Simon IV de Montfort and as Simon de Montfort the Elder, was a French nobleman and knight of the early 13th century. He is widely regarded as one of the great military…
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1218
queen of England (born 1223)
Eleanor of Provence was a Provençal noblewoman who became Queen of England as the wife of King Henry III from 1236 until his death in 1272. She served as regent of England during the absence of her spouse in France in…
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1291
king of Sicily (born 1272)
Frederick III ; 13 December 1272 – 25 June 1337) was the regent of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1291 until 1295 and subsequently King of Sicily from 1295 until his death. He was the third son of Peter III of Aragon and…
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1337
German hermitess (born 1347)
Dorothea of Montau was an anchoress and visionary of 14th century Prussia. After centuries of veneration in Central Europe, she was beatified in 1976.
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1394
2nd Earl Rivers, English courtier and translator (born 1440)
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, courtier, bibliophile and writer. He was the brother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville who married King Edward IV. He was one of the leading members of the…
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1483
half brother of Edward V of England (born 1458)
Sir Richard Grey was an English knight and the half-brother of King Edward V of England.
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1483
Italian composer and theorist (born 1451)
Franchinus Gaffurius was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance.
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1522
queen of France (born 1496)
Mary Tudor was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis XII. Louis was more than 30 years her senior. Mary was the fifth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York,…
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1533
Japanese warlord (born 1541)
Hatano Hideharu was the eldest son of Hatano Harumichi and the head of Hatano clan.
He was a son of Harumichi, but for an unknown reason, he was adopted as a son by Hatano Motohide.
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1579
Italian physician and archaeologist (born 1541)
Michele Mercati was a physician who was superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden under Popes Pius V, Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, and Clement VIII. He was one of the first scholars to recognise prehistoric stone tools…
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1593
English poet and playwright (born 1576)
John Marston was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure…
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1634
Spanish author, poet, and playwright (born 1602)
Juan Pérez de Montalbán was a Spanish Catholic priest, dramatist, poet and novelist.
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1638
archduke of Austria (born 1630)
Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Further Austria was the ruler of Further Austria including Tyrol from 1662 to 1665.
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1665
duke of Beaufort (born 1616)
François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort was the son of César, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise de Lorraine. He was a prominent figure in the Fronde, and later went on to fight in the Mediterranean. He is sometimes called…
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1669
Italian priest and astronomer (born 1598)
Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126…
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1671
French captain (born 1611)
Charles de Batz de Castelmore, also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan, was a French soldier who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastricht in the…
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1673
Russian painter and educator (born 1626)
Simon (Pimen) Fyodorovich Ushakov was a Russian icon painter.
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1686
French admiral and politician (born 1646)
Lieutenant général des armées navales Jean-Baptiste du Casse was a French Navy officer, privateer, slave trader and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of Saint-Domingue from 1691 to 1700. Born on 2…
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1715
German composer and theorist (born 1681)
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to…
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1767
English cartographer, painter, and architect (born 1721)
Thomas Sandby was an English draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect and teacher. In 1743 he was appointed private secretary to the Duke of Cumberland, who later appointed him Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park,…
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1798
German composer, critic, and jurist (born 1776)
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His short story "The Sandman" is seen as a pioneering work of horror fiction, while…
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1822
American educator (born 1746)
Ebenezer Pemberton was an American educator and 2nd Principal of Phillips Academy Andover from 1786 to 1793. Refusing to follow his uncle's wishes to become a clergyman, Pemberton pursued a teaching career that would…
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1835
French general and engineer (born 1774)
François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo was a French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Haxo became famous in the Siege of Antwerp in 1832. He is the nephew of revolution era…
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1838
Ottoman sultan (born 1823)
Abdul Mejid I was the 31st sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839.
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1861
Finnish biologist and paleontologist (born 1803)
Alexander von Nordmann was a Finnish biologist, who contributed to zoology, parasitology, botany and paleontology.
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1866
Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (born 1811)
Carlo Matteucci was an Italian physicist and neurophysiologist who was a pioneer in the study of bioelectricity.
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1868
American lawyer and politician (born 1823)
David Heaton was an American attorney and politician, a U.S. representative from North Carolina. He earlier was elected to the state senates of Ohio and Minnesota.
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1870
French sculptor (born 1796)
Antoine-Louis Barye was a Romantic French sculptor most famous for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals. His son and student was the sculptor Alfred Barye.
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1875
American lieutenant (born 1845)
James Calhoun was a soldier in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Black Hills War. He was the brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer and was killed along with Custer in the Battle of the…
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1876
American civilian army contractor (born 1848)
Boston Custer was the youngest brother of U.S. Army Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and two-time Medal of Honor recipient Captain Thomas Custer. He was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn along with his two…
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1876
American general (born 1839)
George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
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1876
American officer, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1845)
Thomas Ward Custer was a United States Army officer and two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor for bravery during the American Civil War. A younger brother of George Armstrong Custer, he served as his aide at the…
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1876
Irish-American officer (born 1840)
Myles Walter Keogh was an Irish soldier. He served in the armies of the Papal States during the war for Italian unification in 1860, and was recruited into the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as a…
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1876
1882
1884
Canadian businessman and politician, 11th Mayor of Montreal (born 1809)
Jean-Louis Beaudry was a Canadian entrepreneur and politician. Beaudry served as mayor of Montreal three times, from 1862 to 1866, from 1877 to 1879, and from 1881 to 1885 for a total time served as mayor of ten years.
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1886
French engineer and politician, 5th President of France (born 1837)
Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
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1894
American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch (born 1853)
Stanford White was an American architect and a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms at the turn of the 20th century. White designed many houses for the…
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1906
Dutch-British painter (born 1836)
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of…
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1912
American painter, photographer, and sculptor (born 1844)
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
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1916
Hungarian soldier and poet (born 1884)
Géza Gyóni was a Hungarian war poet. He died in a Russian prisoner of war camp during the First World War. His many verse contributions to Hungarian literature are considered to be both immortal and the Hungarian…
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1917
American baseball player and coach (born 1867)
Jacob Peter Beckley, nicknamed "Eagle Eye", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Pittsburgh Burghers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York…
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1918
Indian poet and author (born 1882)
Satyendranath Dutta was a Bengali poet and is considered the "wizard of rhymes". Satyendranath Dutta was an expert in many disciplines of intellectual enquiry including medieval Indian history, culture, and mythology.
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1922
British actor (born 1900)
Colin Glenn Clive was a British theatre and film actor. Known for portraying individualistic, tumultuous characters which often mirrored his personal life, he is most famous for his role as Dr. Henry Frankenstein in the…
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1937
English race car driver (born 1913)
Richard John Beattie Seaman was a British racing driver. He drove for the Mercedes-Benz team from 1937 to 1939 in the Mercedes-Benz W125 and W154 cars, winning the 1938 German Grand Prix. He died of his injuries after…
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1939
German Jewish left-wing activist (c. 1887)
Arthur Goldstein was a German journalist and communist politician.
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1943
Hungarian jurist and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1871)
Dénes Berinkey was a Hungarian jurist and politician who served as 21st Prime Minister of Hungary in the regime of Mihály Károlyi for two months in 1919.
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1944
Mexican singer and actress (born 1906)
María de Luz Flores Aceves, known by her stage name Lucha Reyes, was a Mexican singer and actress. Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, she was popular in the 1930s and 1940s and was called the "Queen of Ranchera".
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1944
American boxer (born 1924)
James Emerson Delaney, known professionally as Jimmy Doyle, was a welterweight boxer who died after a boxing match with Sugar Ray Robinson.
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1947
American general (born 1895)
Major General William Carey Lee was a senior United States Army officer who fought in World War I and World War II, during which he commanded the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed the "Screaming Eagles". Lee is often…
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1948
American baseball player (born 1871)
John Frank "Buck" Freeman was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball at the turn of the 20th century. Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 169 lb (77 kg), he both batted and threw left-handed. Freeman was one of…
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1949
American water polo player (born 1876)
James J. Steen was an American water polo player who competed with the New York Athletic Club and won a team gold medal in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. He later lived in New Rochelle, New York and worked as an insurance…
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1949
Irish police officer and author (born 1904)
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, anglicised as Maurice O'Sullivan, was an Irish author famous for his Irish language memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island and in Dingle, County Kerry, off the western coast of Ireland.…
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1950
English author, poet, and playwright (born 1880)
Alfred Noyes CBE was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.
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1958
American spree killer (born 1938)
Charles Raymond Starkweather was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. He killed ten of his victims between…
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1959
American baseball player and manager (born 1869)
Thomas William Corcoran was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1890 to 1907 for the Pittsburgh Burghers (1890), Philadelphia Athletics (1891), Brooklyn…
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1960
English comedian and actor (born 1924)
Anthony John Hancock was an English comedian and actor.
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1968
1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1880)
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr,, styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel…
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1971
Czech-American painter and illustrator (born 1890)
Jan Matulka was a Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style ranged from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day. He has directly influenced artists like Dorothy…
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1972
Hungarian mathematician and physicist (born 1893)
Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos was a Hungarian, American, and later Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of the Martians, a group of Hungarian scientific luminaries who immigrated to the…
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1974
American singer-songwriter, co-founded Capitol Records (born 1909)
John Herndon Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs.
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1976
British Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting leader (born 1889)
Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell.
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1977
1977
American animator, director, and producer (born 1894)
Dave Fleischer was an American film director and producer who co-owned Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer.
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1979
Latvian-American photographer (born 1906)
Philippe Halsman was an American portrait photographer. He was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City.
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1979
Peruvian painter and political activist (born 1888)
Felipe Cossío del Pomar was a Peruvian painter and left-wing political activist. While in exile from Peru he founded an art school in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico in 1938. The school failed, but on his return in 1950…
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1981
Argentinian pianist and composer (born 1916)
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the Americas.
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1983
French historian and philosopher (born 1926)
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power,…
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1984
Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (born 1962)
Hillel Slovak was an Israeli-American musician, best known as an early guitarist of the Los Angeles rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded two albums. His guitar work was rooted in funk and hard…
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1988
American sergeant and murderer (born 1940)
Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. was an American spree killer and former military serviceman who murdered 16 people, including 14 members of his own family, over a week in December 1987 in Arkansas. The killings, considered the…
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1990
American football player (born 1965)
Willie Jerome Brown III was an American professional football defensive tackle who played for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire five-year NFL career with the Eagles from…
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1992
Fifteenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1907)
Warren Earl Burger was an American attorney who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
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1995
Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, commonly abbreviated as E. T. S. Walton, was an Irish experimental physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of…
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1995
English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to South Africa (born 1914)
Sir Arthur Wendell Snelling was a senior British civil servant and diplomat.
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1996
French oceanographer and explorer (born 1910)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which…
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1997
American real estate developer and businessman (born 1905)
Frederick Christ Trump was an American businessman, philanthropist, and real estate developer. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, along with four other children.
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1999
Canadian politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (born 1934)
Jean Corbeil, was a Canadian politician.
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2002
American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (born 1915)
Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
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2003
New Zealand inventor (born 1904)
Morton William Coutts was a New Zealand inventor who revolutionised the science of brewing beer. He is best known for the continuous fermentation method.
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2004
American actor and voice artist (born 1925)
John Donald Fiedler was an American actor. Recognizable for his distinctive voice, Fiedler's career lasted more than 55 years in stage, film, television and radio.
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2005
Turkish singer-songwriter and activist (born 1971)
Kâzım Koyuncu was a Turkish singer-songwriter and activist of Laz origin.
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2005
Dutch-American humanitarian (born 1918)
Jaap Penraat was a Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War.
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2006
American journalist and educator (born 1933)
J. Fred Duckett was an American sports journalist and writer.
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2007
2007
South African anthropologist and ethologist (born 1939)
Lyall Watson was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of…
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2008
American actress and producer (born 1947)
Farrah Fawcett was an American actress. A four-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she played a starring role in the first season of the…
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2009
2009
English playwright and screenwriter (born 1935)
Alan Frederick Plater was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. He is best known for the sitcom Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt and the comedy drama…
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2010
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1915)
Richard Beverland Sellars was an American business executive who served as chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson as part of 40 years with the healthcare product firm. Sellars played a pivotal role in keeping the…
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2010
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1933)
Annie Jean Easley was an African American computer scientist who contributed significantly to the beginning iterations of NASA's rocket technologies.
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2011
English composer and conductor (born 1944)
Goff Richards, sometimes credited as Godfrey Richards, was a prominent Cornish brass band arranger and composer. He was born in Cornwall, studying at the Royal College of Music and Reading University. Between 1976 and…
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2011
English actress (born 1931)
Margaret Maud Tyzack was an English actress. Her television roles included The Forsyte Saga (1967) I, Claudius (1976), and George Lucas's Young Indiana Jones (1992–1993). She won the 1970 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress…
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2011
Japanese academic and jurist (born 1913)
Shigemitsu Dandō was a professor of the department of Social and Political sciences at the University of Tokyo, an academic researcher of criminology, and a Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.
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2012
Scottish jockey (born 1990)
Campbell Gillies was a Scottish National Hunt jockey most notable for his victory on Brindisi Breeze in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle at the 2012 Cheltenham Festival. In total, he rode 131 winners in his career,…
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2012
Jr., American businessman (born 1927)
George Randolph Hearst Jr. was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Hearst family. He served as the chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation from 1996 through to his death in 2012, succeeding his…
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2012
American baseball player (born 1921)
Lucella MacLean [Ross] was a former utility who played from 1943 through 1944 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). She batted and threw right handed.
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2012
American boxer (born 1949)
Edgar "Mad Dog" Ross was an American professional boxer who competed from 1972 and 1979. As an amateur, he won the Alabama Golden Gloves as a light heavyweight.
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2012
American screenwriter and producer (born 1923)
George Henry Burditt was an American television writer and producer who wrote sketches for television variety shows and other programs such as Three's Company, for which he was also an executive producer in its last few…
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2013
Scottish swimmer (born 1931)
Catherine Gibson, later known by her married name Catherine Brown, was a Scottish swimmer. During a 16-year career she won three European Championships medals and a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, Britain's…
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2013
American photographer and journalist (born 1916)
Robert E. Gilka was an American photojournalist best known for being an editor and director of photography at National Geographic for 27 years (1958–1985).
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2013
American rower and coach (born 1935)
Harry Lambert Parker was the head coach of the Harvard varsity rowing program (1963–2013). He also represented the United States in the single scull at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
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2013
American journalist (born 1918)
Mildred Ladner Thompson was an American journalist, writer, and columnist with The Wall Street Journal, where she became one of its first female reporters. She also worked as a reporter and columnist for the Associated…
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2013
American soldier and judge (born 1923)
Green Wix Unthank was an American attorney and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, from 1980 to 1988, when he took senior status. A veteran of World War…
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2013
English journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1931)
Nigel David McKail Ritchie-Calder was a British science writer and climate change skeptic.
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2014
Spanish author and academic (born 1925)
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre,…
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2014
Ukrainian agronomist and politician (born 1941)
Ivan Stepanovych Plyushch was a Ukrainian politician. He thrice served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, from 9 July to 23 July 1990 (acting), from 5 December 1991 to 11 May 1994, and from 1 February 2000 to 14 May…
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2014
English actor (born 1922)
Daniel Patrick Macnee was a British-American actor best known for his breakthrough role as secret agent John Steed in the television series The Avengers (1961–1969). Starting out as the assistant to David Keel, he…
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2015
Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (born 1940)
Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni was the patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church from 1999 until his death in 2015.
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2015
South African writer of apartheid-period (born 1936)
Adam Small was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and…
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2016
Australian trade union leader and politician (born 1949)
Simon Findlay Crean was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 2001 to 2003. He represented the seat of Hotham in the House…
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2023
American Samoan professional wrestler (born 1945)
Leati Sika Amituana'i Anoa'i, better known by the ring name Sika, was a Samoan-American professional wrestler. He is best known as one-half of the tag team the Wild Samoans with his older brother Afa, holding the WWF…
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2024
American actor (born 1934)
Wilbert Francisco Cobbs was an American actor, known for such film roles as Louisiana Slim in The Hitter (1979), Walter in The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Reginald in Night at the Museum (2006) and Master Tinker…
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2024
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Deaths on this date121 (635 – 2024)
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