Notable people who died on May 18 include: Pope John I, Stephen I of Constantinople (born 867), Ma Shaohong, Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty, Frederick I.

Notable Deaths on May 18

Q: What is George Meredith known for?

George Meredith, English novelist and poet (born 1828)

104 people 526 – 2024

May 18 has seen 104 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 526 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1909 — George Meredith

English novelist and poet (born 1828)

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Of his later novels, the most enduring is The Egoist (1879), though in his lifetime his greatest success was Diana of the Crossways (1885)

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At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist

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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) briefly scandalised Victorian literary circles

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George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era

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His style, in both poetry and prose, was noted for its syntactic complexity; Oscar Wilde likened it to "chaos illumined by brilliant flashes of lightning"

Pope John I

Pope John I was the bishop of Rome from 13 August 523 to his death on 18 May 526. He was a native of Siena, in Italy. He was sent on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople by the Ostrogoth King Theoderic to negotiate…

526

Stephen I of Constantinople (born 867)

Stephen I of Constantinople, called the Macedonian, was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 886 to 893.

893

Ma Shaohong

general of Later Tang

Ma Shaohong, known during the reign of Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang as Li Shaohong (李紹宏), was a powerful eunuch official/general during the early Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, who served Emperor…

932

Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty

Emperor Taizong of Liao, personal name Yaogu, sinicised name Yelü Deguang, courtesy name Dejin, was the second emperor of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty of China.

947

Frederick I

duke of Upper Lorraine

Frederick I was the count of Bar and duke of Upper Lorraine. He was a son of Wigeric, count of Bidgau, also count palatine of Lorraine, and Cunigunda, and thus a sixth-generation descendant of Charlemagne.

978

Frederick

Duke of Lower Lorraine (born c. 1003)

Frederick of Lower Lorraine was a younger son of Frederick, Lord of Gleiberg.

1065

Minna of Worms

Jewish martyr killed during the Worms massacre (1096)

Minna of Worms was a Jewish businesswoman and martyr, killed by antisemitic Christians. She was an influential Jewish person, being a significant moneylender with clients and friends among the Christian nobility. Minna…

1096

Eric Jedvardsson (King Eric IX) of Sweden (since 1156); (born circa 1120)

Saint Erik, also called Eric IX or Erik Jedvardsson was King of Sweden from c. 1156 until his death in 1160. The Roman Martyrology of the Catholic Church names him as a saint memorialized on 18 May. He was the founder…

1160

Nicholas Longespee

Bishop of Salisbury

Nicholas Longespee was a medieval Bishop of Salisbury.

1297

Vladislaus II of Opole (born 1332)

Vladislaus II of Opole, nicknamed Naderspan, was Duke of Opole from 1356, Count palatine of Hungary (1367–1372), Duke of Wieluń (1370–1392), Governor of Ruthenia (1372–1378), Count palatine of Poland (1378) as well as…

1401

Rupert of Germany

Count Palatine of the Rhine (born 1352)

Rupert of the Palatinate, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was Elector Palatine from 1398 and King of the Romans from 1400 until his death.

1410

Jean

Cardinal of Lorraine (born 1498)

Jean de Lorraine was the third son of the ruling Duke of Lorraine, and a French cardinal, who was archbishop of Reims (1532–1538), Lyon (1537–1539), and Narbonne (1524–1550), bishop of Metz, and Administrator of the…

1550

Domenico di Pace Beccafumi

Italian painter (born 1486)

Domenico di Pace Beccafumi was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena. He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting.

1551

Stanisław Lubieniecki

Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (born 1623)

Stanisław Lubieniecki was a Polish Socinian theologist, historian, astronomer, and writer. He is the eponym of the lunar crater Lubiniezky.

1675

Jacques Marquette

French-American missionary and explorer (born 1637)

Jacques Marquette, sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. In 1673,…

1675

Elias Ashmole

English astrologer and politician (born 1617)

Elias Ashmole was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer, freemason and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, serving in the artillery of Lord…

1692

Maria Barbara Carillo

victim of the Spanish Inquisition (born1625)

Maria Barbara Carillo was burned at the stake for heresy during the Spanish Inquisition. She was executed at the age of 95 or 96 and is the oldest person known to have been executed at the instigation of the Spanish…

1721

Georg Böhm

German organist and composer (born 1661)

Georg Böhm was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita and for his influence on the young J. S. Bach.

1733

Charles Hardy

English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (born 1714)

Admiral Sir Charles Hardy was a Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1764 and 1780. He served as governor of New York from 1755 to 1757.

1780

Túpac Amaru II

Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (born 1742)

Túpac Amaru II was an Indigenous cacique who led a large Andean rebellion against the Spanish in Peru as self-proclaimed Sapa Inca of the new Inca Empire. He was later elevated to a mythical status in the Peruvian…

1781

Levy Solomons

Canadian merchant and fur trader (born 1730)

Lucius Levy Solomons was a Jewish Canadian merchant and fur trader.

1792

Robert Rogers

English colonel (born 1731)

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Province of Massachusetts Bay, he fought in King George's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.…

1795

Pierre Beaumarchais

French playwright and publisher (born 1732)

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright and diplomat of the Age of Enlightenment. Best known for his three Figaro plays, at various times in his life he was also a watchmaker, inventor, musician,…

1799

Alexander Suvorov

Russian general (born 1729)

Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.

1800

John Douglas

Scottish bishop and scholar (born 1721)

John Douglas was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop.

1807

Elijah Craig

American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (born 1738)

Elijah Craig was an American Baptist preacher, who became an educator and capitalist entrepreneur in the area of Virginia that later became the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He has sometimes, although rather dubiously, been…

1808

Richard McCarty

American lawyer and politician (born 1780)

Richard McCarty was an American politician from New York.

1844

Lionel Kieseritzky

Estonian-French chess player (born 1806)

Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky was a Baltic German chess master and theoretician, known for his contributions to chess theory, as well for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, known as the "Immortal…

1853

Clarkson Stanfield

English painter (born 1793)

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield was an English artist best known for his large-scale paintings of marine art and landscapes. A former sailor he became celebrated for his Romantic seascapes. Like his friend and colleague…

1867

Isabella Glyn

Scottish-English actress (born 1823)

Isabella Glyn was a well-known Victorian-era Shakespearean actress.

1889

Félix Ravaisson-Mollien

French archaeologist and philosopher (born 1813)

Jean Gaspard Félix Lacher Ravaisson-Mollien was a French philosopher, 'perhaps France's most influential philosopher in the second half of the nineteenth century'. He was originally and remains more commonly known as…

1900

Louis-Napoléon Casault

Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1823)

Sir Louis-Napoléon Casault was a Quebec lawyer, judge, professor and political figure. He represented Bellechasse in the 1st Canadian Parliament from 1867 to 1870 as a Conservative member.

1908

Isaac Albéniz

Spanish pianist and composer (born 1860)

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries…

1909

Eliza Orzeszkowa

Polish author and publisher (born 1841)

Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in…

1910

Pauline Viardot

French soprano and composer (born 1821)

Pauline Viardot was a French dramatic mezzo-soprano, composer and pedagogue of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García, she came from a musical family and took up music at a young age. She began…

1910

Gustav Mahler

Austrian composer and conductor (born 1860)

Gustav Mahler was a Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his…

1911

Chen Qimei

Chinese revolutionary (born 1878)

Chen Qimei, courtesy name Yingshi (英士) was a Chinese revolutionary activist and key figure of the Green Gang, close political ally of Sun Yat-sen, and an early mentor of Chiang Kai-shek. He was one of the founders of…

1916

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and…

1922

Werner Sombart

German economist and sociologist (born 1863)

Werner Sombart was a German economist, historian and sociologist. Head of the "Youngest Historical School," he was one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century.…

1941

Ōnishiki Daigorō

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (born 1883)

Ōnishiki Daigorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 28th yokozuna.

1943

Hal Chase

American baseball player and manager (born 1883)

Harold Homer Chase, nicknamed "Prince Hal", was an American professional baseball first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball, widely viewed as the best fielder at his position. During his career, he played for…

1947

Mary McLeod Bethune

American educator and activist (born 1875)

Mary McLeod Bethune was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and proceeded to establish the Aframerican…

1955

Maurice Tate

English cricketer (born 1895)

Maurice William Tate was an English cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s and the leader of England's Test bowling attack for a long time during this period. He was also the first Sussex cricketer to take a wicket with his…

1956

Jacob Fichman

Israeli poet and critic (born 1881)

Jacob Fichman, also transliterated as Yakov Fichman, was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.

1958

Ernie Davis

American football player, coach, and manager (born 1939)

Ernest R. Davis was an American college football player who was a halfback for the Syracuse Orangemen and won the Heisman Trophy in 1961. He was the award's first black recipient. Davis was selected first overall by the…

1963

Frank Walsh

Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (born 1897)

Francis Henry Walsh was an Australian politician who was the 34th Premier of South Australia from 1965 to 1967, representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party.

1968

Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh

Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1908)

Aleksandr Gennadyevich Kurosh was a Soviet mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He is credited with writing The Theory of Groups, the first modern and high-level text on group theory, published in 1944.

1971

Jeannette Rankin

American social worker and politician (born 1880)

Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a…

1973

Harry Ricardo

English engine designer and researcher (born 1885)

Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo was an English engineer who was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine.

1974

Leroy Anderson

American composer and conductor (born 1908)

Leroy Anderson was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Williams described him as "one of the great…

1975

Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:

Reid Turner Blackburn was an American photographer killed in the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. A photojournalist covering the eruption for a local newspaper—the Vancouver, Washington The Columbian—as well…

1980

Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:

David Alexander Johnston was an American United States Geological Survey (USGS) volcanologist who was killed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the U.S. state of Washington. A principal scientist on the USGS…

1980

Ian Curtis

English singer-songwriter (born 1956)

Ian Kevin Curtis was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead vocalist, songwriter, and occasional guitarist of the band Joy Division, with whom he released the albums Unknown Pleasures (1979) and…

1980

Arthur O'Connell

American actor (born 1908)

Arthur Joseph O'Connell was an American stage, film and television actor, who achieved prominence in character roles in the 1950s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both Picnic (1955)…

1981

William Saroyan

American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (born 1908)

William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The…

1981

Mahdi Amel

Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (born 1936)

Hassan Abdullah Hamdan, more commonly known by his pseudonym Mahdi Amel, was a Lebanese Marxist philosopher, historian and militant in the second half of the 20th century.

1987

Dorothy Ruth

American horse breeder and author (born 1921)

Dorothy Ruth Pirone was the adopted daughter of the American baseball player George H. (Babe) Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings. She was adopted by Babe and his first wife Helen Woodford Ruth of Boston,…

1989

Jill Ireland

English actress (born 1936)

Jill Dorothy Ireland was an English actress and singer.

1990

Elisha Cook

Jr., American actor (born 1903)

Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr. was an American character actor famed for his work in film noir. He played cheerful, brainy collegiates until he was cast against type as the bug-eyed baby-faced killer Wilmer Cook in the 1941…

1995

Alexander Godunov

Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (born 1949)

Alexander Borisovich Godunov was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor. A member of the Bolshoi Ballet, he became the troupe's Premier danseur. In 1979, he defected to the United States. While continuing to…

1995

Brinsley Trench

8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (born 1911)

William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 7th Marquess of Heusden, was a prominent ufologist. He was an Irish peer, as well as a nobleman in the Dutch nobility.

1995

Elizabeth Montgomery

American actress (born 1933)

Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American actress whose career spanned five decades in film, stage and television. She portrayed the good witch Samantha Stephens on the popular television series Bewitched, which…

1995

Obaidullah Aleem

Indian-Pakistani poet and author (born 1939)

Obaidullah Aleem was a Pakistani poet of Urdu language.

1998

Augustus Pablo

Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (born 1954)

Horace Michael Swaby, also known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub composer, performer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was active from the 1970s until his death. He was known for…

1999

Betty Robinson

American runner (born 1911)

Elizabeth R. Schwartz was an American athlete and winner of the first Olympic 100 metres for women.

1999

Stephen M. Wolownik

Russian-American composer and musicologist (born 1946)

Stephen M. "Steve" Wolownik was a pioneer in the Russian and Eastern European music community in the United States. He was a co-founder of the Balalaika and Domra Association of America.

2000

Irene Hunt

American author and illustrator (born 1907)

Irene Hunt was an American children's writer known best for historical novels. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal for her first book, Across Five Aprils, and won the medal for her second, Up a Road Slowly. For…

2001

Davey Boy Smith

English professional wrestler (born 1962)

David Smith was an English professional wrestler best known for his appearances in the United States with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring names Davey Boy Smith and The British Bulldog.

2002

Elvin Jones

American drummer and bandleader (born 1927)

Elvin Ray Jones was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. Most famously a member of John Coltrane's quartet, with whom he recorded from late 1960 to late 1965, Jones appeared on such albums as My Favorite…

2004

Jaan Eilart

Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (born 1933)

Jaan Eilart was an Estonian phytogeographer, landscape ecologist, cultural historian and conservationist.

2006

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.

2007

Joseph Pevney

American actor and director (born 1911)

Joseph Pevney was an American film and television director.

2008

Roberto García-Calvo Montiel

Spanish judge (born 1942)

Roberto García-Calvo Montiel was a Spanish judge. Since 2001, he was a member of the Constitutional Court of Spain, sponsored by the conservative People's Party. In the last year of the Francoist State, García-Calvo…

2008

Dolla

American rapper (born 1987)

Roderick Anthony Burton II better known by his stage name Dolla, was an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. Burton embarked on his music career in 2003, with hip hop group Da Razkalz Cru, under the pseudonym…

2009

Wayne Allwine

American voice actor, sound effects editor and Foley artist (born 1947)

Wayne Anthony Allwine was an American voice actor, sound effects editor, and foley artist. He was best remembered as the third official voice of Mickey Mouse and the first official casting following the establishment of…

2009

Velupillai Prabhakaran

Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (born 1954)

Velupillai Prabhakaran was an Eelam Tamil guerrilla and a major figure of Tamil nationalism, being the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE was a militant organization that sought…

2009

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

German opera singer and conductor (born 1925)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music. One of the most famous Lieder performers of the post-war period, he is best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder,…

2012

Peter Jones

English-Australian drummer and songwriter (born 1967)

Peter Robert Jones was an English-born Australian musician. He replaced Paul Hester on drums for Crowded House in mid-1994. After the band split up in June 1996, he played in Deadstar with Caroline Kennedy and Nick…

2012

Alan Oakley

English bicycle designer, designed the Raleigh Chopper (born 1927)

Alan Oakley was a British bicycle designer from Nottingham who worked for the Raleigh Bicycle Company.

2012

Aleksei Balabanov

Russian director and screenwriter (born 1959)

Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov was a Russian filmmaker. A member of the European Film Academy, he began his career by creating mostly arthouse pictures and music videos but gained significant mainstream popularity in…

2013

Jo Benkow

Norwegian soldier and politician (born 1924)

Jo Benkow was a Norwegian politician and writer, notable for being an important person in the Conservative Party of Norway, and the President of the Parliament 1985–1993. He was also President of the Nordic Council in…

2013

Steve Forrest

American actor (born 1925)

Steve Forrest was an American actor who was well known for his role as Lt. Hondo Harrelson in the hit television series S.W.A.T., which was broadcast on ABC from 1975 to 1976. He was also known for his performance in…

2013

David McMillan

American football player (born 1981)

David McMillan was an American professional football defensive end. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL draft. He played college football for the Kansas Jayhawks.

2013

Lothar Schmid

German chess player (born 1928)

Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid was a German chess grandmaster. He was born in Radebeul in Saxony into a family who were the co-owners of the Karl May Press, which published the German Karl May adventure novels.

2013

Dobrica Ćosić

Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1921)

Dobrica Ćosić was a Yugoslav and Serbian writer, politician and political theorist.

2014

Hans-Peter Dürr

German physicist and academic (born 1929)

Hans-Peter Dürr was a German physicist. He worked on nuclear and quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemology, and philosophy, and he advocated responsible scientific and energy policies. In 1987,…

2014

Kaiketsu Masateru

Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1948)

Kaiketsu Masateru was a Japanese sumo wrestler, who reached the second highest rank of ōzeki on two occasions. He also won two top division tournament championships. After his retirement in 1979 he became a coach under…

2014

Chukwuedu Nwokolo

Nigerian physician and academic (born 1921)

Chukwuedu Nathaniel II Nwokolo was a Nigerian physician specialist in tropical diseases. He was recognised for discovering and mapping out the area of paragonimiasis lung disease in Eastern Nigeria, with a study of the…

2014

Wubbo Ockels

Dutch physicist and astronaut (born 1946)

Wubbo Johannes Ockels was a Dutch physicist and astronaut with the European Space Agency who, in 1985, became the first Dutch citizen in space when he flew on STS-61-A as a payload specialist. He later became professor…

2014

Halldór Ásgrímsson

Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1947)

Halldór Ásgrímsson was an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 September 2004 to 15 June 2006 and was the leader of the Progressive Party from 1994 to 2006.

2015

Raymond Gosling

English physicist and academic (born 1926)

Raymond George Gosling was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. The crystallographic experiments of Franklin and…

2015

Jean-François Théodore

French businessman (born 1946)

Jean-François Théodore was a French businessman, President, chairman and CEO of Euronext N.V., deputy CEO and Head of Strategy of NYSE Euronext Inc. for Euronext N.V and chairman of its Managing Board.

2015

Roger Ailes

American businessman (born 1940)

Roger Eugene Ailes was an American television executive and media consultant. He was the chairman and CEO of Fox News, Fox Television Stations and 20th Television. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents…

2017

Chris Cornell

American singer (born 1964)

Christopher John Cornell was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and the primary lyricist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. He also had a solo career and contributed to…

2017

Jacque Fresco

American engineer and academic (born 1916)

Jacque Fresco was an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Self-taught, he worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design.

2017

Austin Eubanks

American addiction recovery advocate, survivor of the Columbine shooting (born 1981)

Stephen Austin Eubanks was an American motivational speaker on addiction and recovery. He was one of the best known survivors of the Columbine High School massacre, both in its immediate aftermath and in post-event…

2019

Ken Osmond

American actor and police officer (born 1943)

Kenneth Charles Osmond was an American actor and police officer. Beginning a career as a child actor at the age of four, Osmond played the role of Eddie Haskell on the late 1950s to early 1960s television situation…

2020

Charles Grodin

American actor and talk show host (born 1935)

Charles Sidney Grodin was an American actor, comedian, author, and television talk show host. Known for his deadpan delivery and often cast as a put-upon straight man, Grodin became familiar as a supporting actor in…

2021

Yolanda Tortolero

Venezuelan politician

Yolanda Tortolero Martínez was a Venezuelan physician and politician, alternate deputy of the National Assembly for the Carabobo state and the A New Era party.

2021

Jim Brown

American football player, civil rights activist, and actor (born 1936)

James Nathaniel Brown was an American professional football player, civil rights activist, and actor. He played as a fullback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 to 1965. Widely…

2023

Bruce Nordstrom

American businessman (born 1933)

Bruce Allen Nordstrom was an American billionaire businessman, and the chairman of the retailer Nordstrom, a company founded by his grandfather John W. Nordstrom. He ran the company from 1968 until 1995 and resumed his…

2024

Tony O'Reilly

Irish rugby player and businessman (born 1936)

Sir Anthony John Francis O'Reilly was an Irish businessman and international rugby union player. He was known for his try scoring in rugby, his involvement in the Independent News & Media Group, which he led from 1973…

2024

Alice Stewart

American political commentator (born 1966)

Alice Elizabeth Stewart was an American communications director who worked on five Republican presidential campaigns before joining CNN as a commentator.

2024

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George Meredith — British novelist and poet (1828–1909)

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Known forAt first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist

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