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Notable Deaths on March 24
107 people
809 – 2026
March 24 has seen 107 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 809 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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832 — Wulfred
archbishop of Canterbury
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The dispute about control of the monasteries was not fully settled until 838, after Wulfred's death
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Wulfred was the first archbishop to place his portrait on the coinage he struck.
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He was elected archbishop in 805 and spent his time in office reforming the clergy of his cathedral
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Wulfred was an Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England
Arab caliph (born 763)
Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rashīd, or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī, famously known as Hārūn al-Rashīd, was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809.…
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809
Hugh III, also called Hugh of Antioch-Lusignan and the Great, was the king of Cyprus from 1267 and king of Jerusalem from 1268. Born into the family of the princes of Antioch, he effectively ruled as regent for underage…
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1284
Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
Odo de Pins, also known as Eudes de Pin or Odon de Pins, was the twenty-third Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, serving from 1294 until his death in 1296, succeeding Jean de Villiers. He moved the headquarters of…
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1296
Swedish saint (born 1332)
Catherine of Sweden, Katarina av Vadstena, Catherine of Vadstena or Katarina Ulfsdotter was a Swedish noblewoman. She is venerated as a saint in the Evangelical Lutheran Churches and in the Roman Catholic Church. Her…
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1381
English mystic and saint (born 1340)
Walter Hilton, Can. Reg. was an English Augustinian mystic, whose works gained influence in 15th-century England and Wales. He is commemorated by the Church of England and by the Episcopal Church in the United States.
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1396
1399
7th Earl of Douglas (born 1371)
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, 1st Earl of Avondale, latterly known as James the Gross, and prior to his ennoblement as James of Balvenie, was a late mediaeval Scottish magnate. He was the second son of Archibald…
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1443
Pope Nicholas V, born Tommaso Parentucelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 March 1447 until his death in March 1455. Pope Eugene IV made him a cardinal in 1446 after successful…
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1455
2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1470)
Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire KB was an English nobleman.
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1499
Japanese daimyō (born 1514)[citation needed]
Hosokawa Harumoto was a Japanese daimyō of the Muromachi and Sengoku periods, and the head of the Hosokawa clan. Harumoto's childhood name was Sōmei-maru (聡明丸). He was born to Hosokawa Sumimoto, another renowned…
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1563
Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (born 1488)
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro, was a prominent Sephardic Jewish rabbi renowned as the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Beit Yosef, and its popular analogue, the…
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1575
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture,…
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1603
German organist and composer (born 1587)
Samuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.
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1653
Dutch painter (born 1629)
Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch, was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his…
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1684
English woman convicted of poisoning her husband
Elizabeth Ridgeway was an English woman convicted of poisoning her husband. While awaiting execution by burning at the stake, she confessed to previously poisoning her mother, a fellow servant, and a lover.
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1684
4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (born 1694)
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield was a British politician, diplomat and writer.
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1773
English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (born 1693)
John Harrison was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea.
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1776
French lawyer (born 1753)
Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux was a deputy to the National Convention during the French Revolution. He later served as a prominent leader of the French Directory.
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1824
English floriculturist and Tory politician (born 1748/49)
Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet was a British floriculturist and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1818.
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1838
Queen of France (born 1782)
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was Queen of the French by marriage to Louis Philippe I, King of the French. She was the last Queen of the French.
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1866
French-Russian general (born 1779)
Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss-French military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomini was largely…
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1869
French geologist and mineralogist (born 1817)
Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse was a French geologist and mineralogist. He is credited for inventing the Delesse principle in stereology.
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1881
American poet and educator (born 1807)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante…
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1882
Russian painter and critic (born 1837)
Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi was a Russian Realist painter and art critic. One of the most prominent artisans during Tsar Alexander II's reign, he is remembered as co-founding member and public frontman of the…
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1887
Russian author (born 1855)
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian author of short stories.
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1888
French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1828)
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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1905
Irish playwright and poet (born 1871)
Edmund John Millington Synge, popularly known as J. M. Synge, was an Irish playwright, poet, writer and collector of folklores. As a key figure of the Irish Literary Revival during the early 20th century, he is widely…
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1909
Anglo-Irish astronomer (born 1848)
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins was an Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer. With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-wrote the Atlas of Representative…
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1915
Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (born 1846)
Karol Stanisław Olszewski was a Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist. Together with Zygmunt Wróblewski, in 1883 he was the first scientist in the world to liquify oxygen and nitrogen.
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1915
Spanish pianist and composer (born 1867)
Enric Granados i Campiña, born Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Joaquin Malats and other pianists, he was part of the modern Catalan…
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1916
Vietnamese activist (born 1872)
Phan Châu Trinh, courtesy name Tử Cán (梓幹), pen name Tây Hồ (西湖) or Hi Mã (希馬), was an early 20th-century Vietnamese nationalist and reformer. He sought to end France's colonial occupation of Vietnam. His method of…
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1926
French rugby player and hurdler (born 1871)
François Étienne "Frantz" Reichel was a French sports administrator, athlete, cyclist and journalist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens as a runner and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris as a rugby…
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1932
Mongolian politician (born 1870)
Yondonwangchug was an Inner Mongolian nobleman of Ulanqab League and politician under the Qing Dynasty, Republic of China and Mengjiang governments.
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1938
French physicist and academic (born 1844)
Édouard Eugène Désiré Branly was a French physicist and inventor known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the coherer in 1890.
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1940
Indian-English general (born 1903)
Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, was a senior British Army officer known for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.
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1944
Russian chess player (born 1892)
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.
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1946
German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (born 1869)
Carl August Berthold Schuhmann was a German athlete who won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, becoming the most successful athlete at the inaugural Olympics of the…
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1946
Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1885)
Sigrid Maria Hjertén was a Swedish modernist painter. Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernism. Periodically she was highly productive and participated in 106 exhibitions. She worked as an artist for…
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1948
American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1865)
James Rudolph Garfield was an American lawyer and politician. Garfield was a son of President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. He served as Secretary of the Interior during President Theodore…
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1950
Australian educator and educational psychologist (born 1887)
Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson was an Australian educator and educational psychologist who worked with intellectually disabled children. She was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Education degree from Harvard University.…
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1951
Queen of the United Kingdom (born 1867)
Mary of Teck was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King George V.
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1953
British mathematician and physicist (born 1873)
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early 20th century who contributed widely to applied mathematics and was…
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1956
French-American pianist and bandleader (born 1899)
John Jean Goldkette was a jazz pianist and bandleader.
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1962
Swiss physicist and explorer (born 1884)
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the…
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1962
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1873)
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably…
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1968
Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (born 1902)
Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural functionalism and for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple well-designed chairs.
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1971
Australian public servant (born 1895)
Arthur John Metcalfe was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as Director-General of the Department of Health.
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1971
Australian accountant and politician, 25th premier of New South Wales (born 1889)
Sir Bertram Sydney Barnsdale Stevens, also referred to as B. S. B. Stevens, was an Australian politician who served as the 25th Premier of New South Wales, in office from 1932 to 1939 as leader of the United Australia…
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1973
1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (born 1887)
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,, nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.
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1976
influential Korean poet and academic (born 1916)
Pak Mok-wol was an influential Korean poet and academic.
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1978
Salvadoran archbishop (born 1917)
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago de María, and…
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1980
1984
Turkish academic and politician, 27th deputy prime minister of Turkey (born 1922)
Turhan Feyzioğlu was a Turkish academic and a politician.
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1988
American comedian and radio host (born 1922)
Raymond Walter Goulding was an American comedian, who, together with Bob Elliott formed the comedy duo of Bob and Ray.
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1990
Australian lawyer and politician, 18th governor-general of Australia (born 1914)
Sir John Robert Kerr was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvement in the 1975 constitutional crisis,…
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1991
Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (born 1905)
Albert Arlen AM was a Turkish Australian pianist, composer, actor and playwright. He is best known for his musical The Sentimental Bloke, the "Alamein Concerto", and his setting of Banjo Paterson's Clancy of the…
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1993
American journalist and author (born 1914)
John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction…
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1993
English historian and academic (born 1900)
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication…
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1995
German politician (born 1902)
Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, born Treusch, later known under the alias Maria Stuckebrock, was a German official and member of the Nazi Party best known as the leader of the National Socialist Women's League, a position…
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1999
American baseball player and manager (born 1912)
George Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts was an American professional baseball player, manager, scout and front office executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox and…
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1999
English television host and producer (born 1928)
Muriel Young was an English television continuity announcer, presenter, producer and actress.
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2001
Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
César Milstein, CH, FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the…
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2002
2002
Austrian cardinal (born 1919)
Hans Hermann Wilhelm Groër, OSB was an Austrian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1986 to 1995 and became a cardinal in 1988. Pope John Paul II replaced him as archbishop after he became the…
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2003
Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (born 1926)
Rudra Srichandra Rajasingham was a Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat. He was the Inspector General of Police and Sri Lankan Ambassador to Indonesia.
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2006
Indian Marathi novelist (born 1913)[citation needed]
Shripad Narayan Pendse was a Marathi writer.
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2007
American guitarist (born 1955)
Chalmers Edward "Spanky" Alford was an American gospel, jazz, and neo-soul guitarist. Alford was born in Philadelphia. He was well known for his playing style, utilizing chord embellishments. He had an illustrious…
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2008
Welsh-English record producer and manager (born 1941)
Neil Stanley Aspinall was a British music industry executive. A school friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he went on to head the Beatles' company Apple Corps.
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2008
Spanish author and screenwriter (born 1926)
Rafael Azcona Fernández was a Spanish screenwriter and novelist who worked with some of the best Spanish and international filmmakers. Azcona won five Goya Awards during his career, including a lifetime achievement…
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2008
American actor (born 1914)
Richard Weedt Widmark was an American actor and film producer. For his debut film role as the villainous Tommy Udo in the film noir Kiss of Death (1947), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor…
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2008
2008
American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1922)
George Clyde Kell was an American professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a third baseman from 1943 to 1957, most prominently as a member of the Detroit…
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2009
German racing driver (born 1919)
Hans Klenk was a racing driver from Germany. He participated in one World Championship Grand Prix on 3 August 1952 and did not score any championship points. Klenk won the 1952 edition of La Carrera Panamericana in a…
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2009
Hungarian ice hockey player (born 1975)
Gábor Ocskay Jr. was a Hungarian ice hockey player. As the center of the first line, he played a huge part in his national team's promotion to the 2009 World Championship. He died of a heart attack weeks before the…
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2009
American actor (born 1930)
Robert Martin Culp was an American actor and screenwriter widely known for his work in television. Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy (1965–1968), the espionage television…
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2010
American photographer (born 1936)
James Joseph Marshall was an American photographer and photojournalist who photographed musicians of the 1960s and 1970s. Earning the trust of his subjects, he had extended access to them both on and off-stage. Marshall…
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2010
New Zealand physicist and academic (born 1947)
Sir Paul Terence Callaghan was a New Zealand physicist who, as the founding director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Victoria University of Wellington, held the position of Alan…
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2012
American singer-songwriter (born 1926)
Nick Noble was an American pop singer, who was best known for his recordings of "The Tip of My Fingers" and "Moonlight Swim".
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2012
New Zealand author (born 1926)
Barbara Lillias Romaine Anderson, Lady Anderson was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognised and a best-selling author after her first book was published in her sixties.
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2013
Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (born 1938)
Inge Johan Lønning was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian and politician for the Conservative Party of Norway. As an academic, he was Professor of Theology and Rector of the University of Oslo during the term 1985–1992. As…
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2013
Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1925)
Gury Ivanovich Marchuk was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Academician ; the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986–1991. Among his…
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2013
Italian footballer (born 1972)
Paolo Ponzo was an Italian footballer who last played as a midfielder for Liguria club Imperia.
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2013
Egyptian dentist and politician (born 1974)
Mohamed Yousri Salama was an Egyptian politician, writer and activist.
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2013
8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (born 1912)
Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, was a British diplomat. He was the last surviving former British colonial governor of The Bahamas.
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2013
Ukrainian activist (born 1962)
Oleksandr Ivanovych Muzychko was a Ukrainian political activist, a member of UNA-UNSO and coordinator of Right Sector in Western Ukraine.
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2014
English author and scholar (born 1922)
John Rowe Townsend was a British children's writer and children's literature scholar. His best-known children's novel is The Intruder, which won a 1971 Edgar Award. His best-known academic work is a reference series,…
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2014
American illustrator (born 1954)
David A. Trampier was an artist and writer whose artwork for TSR, Inc. illustrated some of the earliest editions of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Many of his illustrations, such as the cover of the original…
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2014
English-Israeli diplomat (born 1928)
Yehuda Avner was an Israeli prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author. He served as Speechwriter and Secretary to Israeli Prime Ministers Golda Meir and Levi Eshkol, and as Advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers…
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2015
Oleg Bryjak was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. From 1996 until…
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2015
Maria Friderike Radner was a German contralto who performed internationally in opera and in concerts. She studied at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. She was described as an "extremely talented interpreter…
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2015
Dutch footballer (born 1947)
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff, or Johan Cruyff, was a Dutch professional football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest players in history and as the greatest Dutch footballer ever, he won the Ballon d'Or three…
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2016
American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1949)
Garry Emmanuel Shandling was an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer.
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2016
Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (born 1924)
Rosa Mina Schärer, known by her stage name Lys Assia, was a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. Assia was born in Rupperswil, Aargau, and began her stage career as a dancer, but changed to…
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2018
2018
American film and voice actor (born 1949)
Joseph Pilato was an American film and voice actor. He was perhaps best known for his performance as Captain Henry Rhodes in the 1985 film Day of the Dead.
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2019
French comic book artist (born 1927)
Alberto Aleandro Uderzo, better known as Albert Uderzo, was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the Astérix series in collaboration with René Goscinny. He…
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2020
Cameroonian musician and songwriter (born 1933)
Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member…
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2020
American actress and voice artist (born 1941)
Jessica Ann Walter was an American actress who appeared in more than 170 film, stage, and television productions.
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2021
Swedish blogger and influencer (born 1912)
Dagny Valborg Carlsson was a Swedish blogger and influencer.
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2022
American businessman, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation (born 1929)
Gordon Earle Moore was an American businessman, scientist, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law, which makes the observation that the number of transistors in…
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2023
Indian writer and director (born 1955)
Pradeep Sarkar was an Indian director and screenwriter, best known for directing Parineeta (2005). He was a recipient of the Abby Award, Rapa Award, and the National Film Award. His body of work spans movies, music…
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2023
American mountaineer, mountain guide, and businessman (born 1929)
Louis Winslow Whittaker was an American mountaineer, mountain guide, and businessman. He and his twin brother, Jim Whittaker, also a renowned mountaineer and guide, were born and raised in Seattle.
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2024
American journalist and diplomat (born 1941)
Richard Warner Carlson was an American journalist, diplomat and lobbyist who was the director of the Voice of America from 1986 to 1991. Carlson also was a newspaper and wire service reporter, magazine writer,…
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2025
Canadian primatologist and conservationist (born 1946)
Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas or Biruté Mary Galdikas was a Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and author. She was a professor at Simon Fraser University. In the field of primatology,…
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2026
American writer (born 1945)
John Tracy Kidder was an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. Kidder received praise…
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2026
Australian TV personality and coach (born 1972)
Melanie Jane Brisbane-Schilling was an Australian television personality, psychologist and relationship coach, best known for appearing as one of the dating experts on the Nine Network reality series Married at First…
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2026
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Wulfred — Archbishop of Canterbury from 805 to 832
FeaturedWulfred
Death year832
Known forNothing is known of his life prior to 803, when he attended a church council, but he was probably a nobleman from Middlesex
Deaths on this date107 (809 – 2026)
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