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Notable Deaths on March 22
101 people
235 – 2026
March 22 has seen 101 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 235 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1996 — Robert F. Overmyer
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1936)
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Overmyer was selected by the Air Force as an astronaut for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory in 1966
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In 1976, he was assigned to the Space Shuttle program and flew as pilot on STS-5 in 1982 and as commander on STS-51-B in 1985
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He was selected as a lead investigator into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, retiring from NASA that same year
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A decade later, Overmyer died while testing the Cirrus VK-30 homebuilt aircraft.
Roman emperor (born 208)
Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235. He was the last emperor from the Severan dynasty and was the youngest sole emperor of the united Roman Empire.
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235
Frankish king
Carloman was a Frankish king of the Carolingian dynasty. He was the eldest son of Louis the German, king of East Francia, and Hemma, daughter of a Bavarian count. His father appointed him governor of Carantania in 856,…
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880
child murder victim
William of Norwich was an apprentice who lived in the English city of Norwich, and who was murdered during Easter 1144. The city's French-speaking Jewish community was blamed by some for his death, but the crime was…
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1144
2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England (born 1278)
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster was an English nobleman of the first House of Lancaster, a cadet branch of the royal Plantagenet dynasty. He held the titles of Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby from 1296 until his…
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1322
German bishop and historian (born 1345)
Dietrich of Nieheim, medieval historian, was born at Nieheim, a small town subject to the see of Paderborn.
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1418
1st Duke of Clarence, English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of England (born 1388)
Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence was a medieval English prince and soldier, the second son of Henry IV of England, brother of Henry V, and heir to the throne in the event of his brother's death. He acted as…
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1421
1454
George of Kunštát and Poděbrady, also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad, was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled in 1458–1471. He was a leader of the Hussites, but moderate and tolerant toward the Catholic faith. His…
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1471
Swedish archbishop and theologian (born 1488)
Johannes Magnus was the last functioning Catholic Archbishop in Sweden, and also a theologian, genealogist, and historian.
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1544
Italian painter and educator (born 1557)
Agostino Carracci was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of the Accademia degli…
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1602
Nagahito , posthumously honored as Emperor Go-Sai , also known as Emperor Go-Saiin , was the 111th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
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1685
Italian-French composer and conductor (born 1632)
Jean-Baptiste Lully was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of…
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1687
English minister, theologian, and philosopher (born 1703)
Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians. Edwards's…
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1758
American commander (born 1779)
Stephen Decatur Jr. was a United States Navy officer. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in Worcester County. His father, Stephen Decatur Sr., was a commodore in the Continental Navy during the American…
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1820
German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (born 1749)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and…
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1832
French mathematician and academic (born 1798)
Étienne Bobillier was a French mathematician.
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1840
writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (born 1838)
Konstanty Kalinowski, or Wincenty Konstanty Kalinowski, was a Polish writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary. He was one of the leaders of the 1863 January Uprising on the lands of the former Polish–Lithuanian…
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1864
English businessman (born 1793)
Samuel Courtauld was an American-born British industrialist who developed his family firm, Courtaulds, to become eventually the world's largest textile company.
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1881
English lawyer and politician (born 1822)
Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a…
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1896
Chinese educator and politician (born 1882)
Song Jiaoren was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). Song Jiaoren led the KMT to electoral victories in China's first democratic election. He based his appeal on…
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1913
Italian physiologist and anatomist (born 1864)
Ruggero Oddi was an Italian physiologist and anatomist who was a native of Perugia. He is most well known for the sphincter of Oddi, which was named after him.
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1913
Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (born 1848)
Sir William Macewen was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery, considered the father of neurosurgery and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treatment of hernia and…
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1924
1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (born 1851)
James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy,, was an Irish lawyer, politician in the British Parliament and later in the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State. He was also Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
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1931
English cricketer (born 1875)
A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.
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1942
English captain and cricketer (born 1875)
William Stephens Donne was an English cricket player, and former president of the Rugby Football Union, and was a member of the cricket team that won a gold medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
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1942
Uruguayan journalist and activist (born 1884)
María Collazo was a Uruguayan educator and journalist. She was active in Buenos Aires and she was repatriated to Uruguay in 1907.
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1942
1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1883)
Don Stephen Senanayake was a Ceylonese statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon, having emerged as the leader of the Sri Lankan independence movement that led to the establishment of self-rule in Ceylon. He…
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1952
Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1892)
Ivan Šubašić was a Croat politician, best known as the last Ban of Croatia and Prime Minister of the royalist Yugoslav Government in exile during the Second World War.
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1955
1958
Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (born 1904)
José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube was a Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive defense advisor during…
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1960
American mountaineer and pilot (born 1935)
John Elvis Harlin II was an American alpinist and US Air Force pilot who was killed while making an ascent of the north face of the Eiger at age 30.
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1966
Estonian-American runner (born 1893)
Johannes Leopold Villemson was an Estonian runner who competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated in the first round of the 800 m and 1500 m events.
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1971
American actress and vaudevillian (born 1886)
Nella Walker was an American actress and vaudeville performer of the 1920s through the 1950s.
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1971
American race car driver (born 1939)
Peter Jeffrey Revlon Revson was an American racing driver, who competed in Formula One between 1964 and 1974. Revson won two Formula One Grands Prix across five seasons.
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1974
Italian automobile designer (born 1910)
Orazio Satta Puliga was an Italian automobile designer of Sardinian ancestry known for several Alfa Romeo designs.
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1974
American painter (born 1898)
John Dwyer McLaughlin was an American abstract painter. Based primarily in California, he was a pioneer in minimalism and hard-edge painting. Considered one of the most significant Californian postwar artists,…
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1976
Indian educator and politician (born 1904)
Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar, popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist politician. He was one of 16 Communist Party of India members elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1952. Later he became…
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1977
German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (born 1905)
Karl Wallenda was a German-American high wire artist. He was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, a daredevil circus troupe whose members performed dangerous stunts far above the ground, often without a safety net.
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1978
1979
American runner and coach (born 1915)
James F. "Jumbo" Elliott was an American track and field coach, often considered to be one of the greatest of all time. His achievements include producing five Olympic gold medal winners between 1956 and 1968.
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1981
Filipino businessman and politician, 13th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1907)
Gil Juco Puyat Sr. was a Filipino politician and businessman who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1951 until 1972, when President Ferdinand Marcos shut Congress down and declared Martial Law, and as Senate…
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1981
French painter, sculptor, photographer, and engraver (born 1910)
Raoul Ubac was a French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver.
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1985
Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer (born 1903)
Spyros Vassiliou was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy. The recipient…
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1985
American actress (born 1918)
Olive Deering was an American actress of film, television, and stage, active from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. She was a life member of The Actors Studio, as was her elder brother, Alfred Ryder.
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1986
Greek general and politician (born 1912)
Odysseas Angelis was a Greek artillery officer. He reached the rank of four star General and served as Chief of the Greek Armed Forces and Vice President of the Hellenic Republic. He supported the military regime that…
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1987
English cricketer (born 1912)
Mary Isabella "Peta" Taylor, married name Mary Jager, was an English cricketer who played as a right-arm medium bowler. She appeared in seven Test matches for England between 1934 and 1937, including the first ever…
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1989
Canadian engineer and academic (born 1928)
Gerald Vincent Bull was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the…
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1990
Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1917)
Léon Balcer, was a Canadian politician.
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1991
American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (born 1908)
Paul Hamilton Engle, was an American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as co-founder of the International…
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1991
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1934)
Donald David Guard was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of the Kingston Trio.
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1991
English-American actress (born 1908)
Gloria Anna Holden was an American film actress, best known for her role as Dracula's Daughter. She often portrayed cold society women.
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1991
American baseball player (born 1965)
Steven Robert Olin was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four seasons in the American League with the Cleveland Indians. Olin was a right-handed submarining relief pitcher for the…
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1993
American singer-songwriter, and producer (born 1950)
Daniel Earl Hartman was an American pop rock musician. Among songs he wrote and recorded were "Free Ride" as a member of the Edgar Winter Group, and the solo hits "Relight My Fire", "Instant Replay", "I Can Dream About…
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1994
American animator, director, and producer (born 1899)
Walter Benjamin Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.
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1994
American drummer (born 1945)
Donald Ray Murray was an American drummer and Hanna-Barbera animator, best known for his work with the Turtles. After leaving the group, Murray played with Paul Williams's psychedelic folk group the Holy Mackerel. In…
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1996
American guitarist (born 1925)
William F. Williamson was the American steel guitar player for Bill Haley and His Saddlemen, and its successor group Bill Haley & His Comets, from 1949 to 1963.
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1996
Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (born 1913)
Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, was a British historian and Conservative peer. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal of the University College of Buckingham, now the University of Buckingham.
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1999
American actor (born 1969)
David Gordon Strickland, Jr. was an American actor. He was best known for playing the boyish rock music reporter Todd Stites in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.
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1999
Italian footballer and manager (born 1921)
Carlo Parola, was an Italian football player and coach who played as a defender. Throughout his career, he won domestic titles with Italian club Juventus, both as a player and as a manager. At international level, he…
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2000
Lithuanian basketball player and coach (born 1925)
Stepas Butautas was a Soviet and Lithuanian professional basketball player and coach. He trained at the VSS Žalgiris, in Kaunas. He played with the Soviet Union men's national basketball team at the 1952 Summer Olympic…
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2001
Turkish soldier and pilot (born 1913)
Sabiha Gökçen was a Turkish aviator. During her flight career, she flew around 8,000 hours and participated in 32 different military operations. She became the world's first female fighter pilot, at age 23. As an…
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2001
American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (born 1910)
William Denby Hanna was an American animator, voice actor, and musician. Hanna and Joseph Barbera co-created Tom and Jerry and founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera, with Hanna providing the…
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2001
Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (born 1910)
Robert Fletcher Shaw was a Canadian businessman, academic, civil servant and deputy commissioner general of the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967.
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2001
Swiss violinist and conductor (born 1917)
Rudolf Baumgartner was a Swiss conductor, violinist and music educator. In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings chamber orchestra together with Wolfgang Schneiderhan.
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2002
English journalist (born 1952)
Terence Ellis "Terry" Lloyd was an English television journalist who reported extensively from the Middle East. He was killed by the U.S. military while covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN. An inquest jury in the…
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2003
Turkish-American astronomer and academic (born 1943)
Janet Hanula Mattei was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004.
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2004
Co-founded Hamas (born 1937)
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas, an Islamist political and military organization. He also served as the first chairman of the Hamas Shura Council and de facto…
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2004
Indian lawyer and civil rights activist (born 1909)
Vithal Mahadeo Tarkunde was a prominent Indian lawyer, civil rights activist, and humanist leader and has been referred to as the "Father of the Civil Liberties movement" in India and a former judge of the Bombay High…
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2004
2005
Indian film actor (born 1920)
Ramasamy Ganesan, better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. He was referred as Kaadhal Mannan for his romantic roles in films. Ganesan was one of the "three…
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2005
Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (born 1913)
Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He…
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2005
French soldier, pilot, and politician (born 1921)
Pierre-Henri Clostermann was a World War II French ace fighter pilot.
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2006
2006
Austrian-Australian journalist and author (born 1937)
Kurt von Trojan was an Australian journalist and science fiction author. He also worked as a psychiatric nurse and a cinema projectionist.
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2006
Indian-Italian philosopher and educator (born 1918)
Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti was an Indian "anti-guru" who questioned the search for enlightenment. Having pursued a religious path in his youth and eventually rejecting it, U.G. clarified that he had experienced a…
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2007
Cuban-American bassist and composer (born 1918)
Israel López Valdés, better known as Cachao, was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga. Throughout his career he also performed and…
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2008
Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
Sir James Whyte Black was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational…
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2010
Turkish basketball player and businessman (born 1943)
Özhan Canaydın was a businessman, basketballer and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.
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2010
Portuguese journalist (born 1920)
Artur Fernandes Agostinho was a Portuguese journalist, radio host, actor, publicist and writer, recipient of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword.
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2011
Canadian pianist and composer (born 1926)
Victor Bouchard OC CQ was a Canadian pianist and composer.
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2011
American football player and wrestler (born 1928)
Joseph Edgar Blanchard was an American football player, professional wrestler, and professional wrestling promoter. From 1978 to 1985, he operated the Southwest Championship Wrestling promotion in San Antonio, Texas.
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2012
American computer scientist and academic (born 1943)
David Leigh Waltz was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively…
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2012
English anthropologist and author (born 1956)
Neil L. Whitehead was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism, post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the…
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2012
Czech actor and politician (born 1951)
Vladimír Čech was a Czech actor, presenter and politician.
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2013
Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (born 1918)
Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro, better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, especially due to his big band…
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2013
Indian author (born 1928)
Yashwant Vithoba Chittal was a Kannada fiction writer. G. S. Amur said: "His short stories, many of them were outstanding, and came with his distinct touch.The kind of experimentation he did with language, style and…
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2014
Polish-English boxer and manager (born 1929)
Mickey Duff, was a Polish-born British boxer, matchmaker, manager and promoter.
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2014
Norwegian soldier and politician (born 1938)
Thor Listau was a Norwegian military technician and politician for the Conservative Party. He was a three-term MP and served as Minister of Fisheries from 1981 to 1985. Later he served as director of Statkorn from 1991…
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2014
Cypriot politician, Cypriot Minister of Defence (born 1965)
Tasos Mitsopoulos was a Cypriot politician. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2006 until 2013 for Democratic Rally. He then joined the cabinet of Nicos Anastasiades as Minister of…
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2014
Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (born 1933)
Arkady Mikhailovich Arkanov was a Russian writer, doctor, playwright and stand-up comedian.
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2015
German footballer and manager (born 1923)
Horst Buhtz was a German football manager and former football player who played as a midfielder.
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2015
American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)
Norman Orville Scribner was an American conductor, composer, pianist, and organist. He was most widely known as the founder of the Choral Arts Society of Washington, where he served as artistic director for over…
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2015
Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (born 1969)
Robert Bruce Ford was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014. Before and after his term as mayor, Ford was a city councillor; first being elected to Toronto City…
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2016
2016
Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (born 1911)
Johan Willem van Hulst was a Dutch school director, university professor, author, politician, chess player and centenarian. In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of…
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2018
British-American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
Noel Scott Engel, better known by his stage name Scott Walker, was an American-British singer-songwriter and record producer who resided in England. Walker was known for his emotive voice and his unorthodox stylistic…
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2019
French author and illustrator (born 1925)
Laurent de Brunhoff was a French author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar the Elephant series of children's books that was created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff.
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2024
American lawyer (born 1981)
Jessica Diane Aber was an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) from 2021 to 2025. She was known for prosecuting high-profile cases involving organized…
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2025
English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator (born 1948)
Robert Andrew Peebles was an English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator.
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2025
French civil servant and politician, 165th Prime Minister of France (born 1937)
Lionel Robert Jospin was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
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2026
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Robert F. Overmyer — American astronaut (1936–1996)
FeaturedRobert F. Overmyer
Death year1996
Known forOvermyer was selected by the Air Force as an astronaut for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory in 1966
Deaths on this date101 (235 – 2026)
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2026
Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Two fatalities were reported, both being the captain and the co-pilot. This marked the first fatal accident involving a CRJ-900. Wikipedia →
2024
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