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John William Warner III was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009
Notable Deaths on May 25
103 people
675 – 2024
May 25 has seen 103 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 675 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2021 — John Warner
American attorney and politician (born 1927)
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He served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1999 to 2001, and from 2003 to 2007
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Warner also served as the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee from 1995 to 1999.
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A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the U.S
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Warner is both the longest serving Republican Senator from Virginia, and the second longest serving Senator from Virginia behind Democrat Harry F
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709
English bishop
Higbald of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 780 or 781 until his death on 25 May 803. Little is known about his life except that he was a regular communicator with Alcuin of York; it is in his letters to…
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912
king of Meath
Flann mac Máel Sechnaill, better known as Flann Sinna, was the son of Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid of Clann Cholmáin, the leading branch of the Southern Uí Néill. He was King of Mide from 877 onwards and a High King…
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916
general of Chu
Yao Yanzhang, courtesy name Jihui (繼徽), was a key general serving under Ma Yin of the Ma Chu dynasty.
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939
986
Mieszko I was Duke of Poland from 960 until his death in 992 and the founder of the first unified Polish state, the Civitas Schinesghe. A member of the Piast dynasty, he was the first Christian ruler of Poland and…
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992
Pope Gregory VII, born Hildebrand of Sovana, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 April 1073 to his death in 1085. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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1085
Pope Alexander IV was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 December 1254 to his death in 1261.
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1261
English archbishop and politician
John Stafford was a medieval English prelate and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor (1432–1450) and as Archbishop of Canterbury (1443–1452).
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1452
Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer (born 1508)
Gemma Frisius was a Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day and applied mathematics in new ways to…
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1555
Henry II, nicknamed Sangüesino because he was born in Sangüesa, was the King of Navarre from 1517. The kingdom had been reduced to a small territory north of the Pyrenees mountains by the Spanish conquest of 1512. Henry…
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1555
Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (born 1510)
Elisabeth of Brandenburg was a Duchess consort of Brunswick-Göttingen-Calenberg by marriage to Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Regent of the Duchy of Brunswick-Göttingen-Calenberg during the minority of her son,…
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1558
German poet and critic (born 1567)
Valens Acidalius, also known as Valtin Havekenthal, was a German critic and poet writing in the Latin language.
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1595
Italian Carmelite nun and mystic (born 1566)
Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, OCarm, was an Italian Carmelite nun and mystic. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
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1607
Austrian mathematician and philosopher (born 1572)
Adam Tanner was an Austrian Jesuit theologian.
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1632
Finnish-Swedish politician, 5th Lord High Treasurer of Sweden (born 1620)
Baron Gustaf Bonde was a Swedish statesman. He was a persistent advocate of a pacifist policy at a time when war on the slightest provocation was the watchword of every Swedish politician.
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1667
Spanish poet and playwright (born 1600)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished poets and writers of the Spanish Golden Age,…
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1681
German bishop and theologian (born 1660)
Daniel Ernst Jablonski was
a German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.
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1741
Dom Peter III, nicknamed the Builder, was King of Portugal from 24 February 1777 to his death in 1786, by marriage to his niece Queen Dona Maria I.
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1786
Swedish botanist and physician (born 1751)
Anders Dahl was a Swedish botanist and student of Carl Linnaeus. The dahlia flower is named after him.
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1789
4th Baron Howard de Walden, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (born 1719)
Field Marshal John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, KB, was a British Army officer, politician and peer. He served as a junior officer with the Pragmatic Army in the Dutch Republic and Germany during the War…
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1797
English priest and philosopher (born 1743)
William Paley was an English Anglican clergyman, philosopher, and utilitarian. He was at times referred to as a Christian apologist by his critics. He is best known for his natural theology exposition of the…
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1805
English general and politician, Governor of British Guiana (born 1777)
Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban was a British general and colonial administrator, who is best known for his frontier policy when he was the Governor in the Cape Colony. Durban, the third-largest city in South…
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1849
Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (born 1822)
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha was an Ottoman scholar, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator, and historian who was a prominent figure in the Tanzimat reforms of the Ottoman Empire. He was the head of the Mecelle commission that…
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1895
French painter and sculptor (born 1822)
Rosa Bonheur was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and…
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1899
American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (born 1860)
Austin Lane Crothers, was an American politician and a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 46th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1908 to 1912.
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1912
Belarusian poet and critic (born 1891)
Maksim Adamavich Bahdanovich was a Belarusian poet, journalist, translator, literary critic and historian of literature. He is considered one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literature.
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1917
American archer (born 1840)
Lida Peyton "Eliza" Pollock was an American archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won two bronze medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri in the double national and Columbia rounds and…
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1919
American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (born 1867)
Madam C. J. Walker, Mrs. Charles Joseph Walker upon her third marriage, was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. Walker is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in…
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1919
Russian painter and illustrator (born 1889)
Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova was a Russian-Soviet avant-garde artist, painter and designer.
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1924
Ukrainian journalist and politician (born 1879)
Symon Vasyliovych Petliura was a Ukrainian revolutionary, politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian War of…
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1926
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1876)
William Payne Whitney was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. He inherited a fortune and enlarged it through business dealings, then devoted much of his money and efforts to a wide…
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1927
Scottish-English archbishop (born 1848)
Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, was an Anglican bishop who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1903 to 1928. He was the longest-serving holder of the office since the Reformation, and the first to…
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1930
English trombonist, composer, and educator (born 1874)
Gustav Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success. His…
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1934
American-French painter and illustrator (born 1859)
Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the…
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1937
English astronomer and academic (born 1868)
Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal. He is remembered today largely for introducing the Greenwich time signal to BBC radio, and for the role he played in…
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1939
Ukrainian-American cellist and educator (born 1902)
Emanuel Feuermann was an internationally celebrated cellist in the first half of the 20th century.
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1942
Swedish painter (born 1888)
Nils Elias Kristofer von Dardel, sometimes known as Nils de Dardel, was a 20th-century Swedish Post-Impressionist painter and grandson of the famous Swedish painter Fritz von Dardel.
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1943
Polish officer and Resistance leader (born 1901)
Witold Pilecki, known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold, was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
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1948
Croatian poet and author (born 1887)
Paula Preradović, known professionally as Paula von Preradović or by her married name as Paula Molden, was an Austrian writer and poet of Croatian and Serbian descent.
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1951
Hungarian photographer and journalist (born 1913)
Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
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1954
American swimmer, diver, and water polo player (born 1883)
Leo Joseph "Bud" Goodwin was an American swimmer, diver, and water polo player who competed for the New York Athletic Club. He participated for the U.S. in the 1904 and 1908 Summer Olympics and won two gold and two…
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1957
German field marshal (born 1881)
Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. He commanded the 18th Army and Army Group North…
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1968
Dutch-American psychoanalyst (born 1909)
Elisabeth Rozetta Geleerd Loewenstein was a Dutch-American psychoanalyst. Born to an upper-middle-class family in Rotterdam, Geleerd studied psychoanalysis in Vienna, then London, under Anna Freud. Building a career in…
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1969
1970
Russian author (born 1904)
Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.
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1977
Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (born 1923)
Itzhak "Ben" Bentov was a Czechoslovakia-born Israeli-American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter, helped pioneer the biomedical engineering industry.…
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1979
Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (born 1899)
Amedeo "Amédée" Gordini was an Italian-born race car driver and sports car manufacturer in France.
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1979
American murderer (born 1949)
John Arthur Spenkelink was an American convicted murderer. He was executed in 1979, the first convicted criminal to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, and the second in the United…
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1979
Australian physicist and astronomer (born 1912)
Ruby Violet Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy.
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1981
English author and publisher (born 1898)
Fredric John Warburg was a British publisher, who in 1935 founded the company Secker & Warburg. He is best known for his association with the author George Orwell. During a career spanning a large part of the 20th…
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1981
Turkish author, poet, and playwright (born 1904)
Ahmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, Islamist ideologue, and conspiracy theorist. He is also known simply by his initials NFK. He was noticed by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, who…
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1983
Idris was King of Libya from 24 December 1951 until his ousting in the 1 September 1969 coup d'état. He ruled over the United Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1963, after which the country became known as simply the…
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1983
Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1917)
John Sherratt Stewart was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 12 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks. He won two Stanley Cup championships with the…
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1983
American journalist and politician, 22nd Under Secretary of State (born 1901)
Chester Bliss Bowles was an American diplomat and ambassador, governor of Connecticut, congressman and co-founder of a major advertising agency, Benton & Bowles, now part of Publicis Groupe. Bowles is best known for his…
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1986
American actor (born 1930)
Victor Tayback was an American actor. He was best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples on the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), as well as his multiple guest appearances on The Love Boat (1977–1987). The…
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1990
French racing driver (born 1914)
Élie Marcel Bayol was a French racing driver who raced in Formula One for the O.S.C.A. and Gordini teams. Bayol also raced sports cars, mostly driving DB-Panhards for the Deutsch Bonnet works team including winning the…
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1995
Croatian basketball player and coach, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer 1996 (born 1948)
Krešimir "Krešo" Ćosić was a Croatian professional basketball player and coach. He was a collegiate All-American at Brigham Young University. He was the first basketball player in the world to play all five positions.
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1995
French actress (born 1927)
Dany Robin was a French actress of the 1950s and the 1960s. Nicknamed ‘la petite fiancée de la France’ in the post-war years, she became one of the leading female stars of the 1950s, moving from the role of ‘ingénue’ to…
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1995
Italian historian and author (born 1929)
Renzo De Felice was an Italian historian who specialized in the Fascist era. Among other works, he authored a 6000-page biography of Mussolini. He argued that Mussolini was a revolutionary modernizer in domestic issues…
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1996
American author and poet (born 1920)
Sloan Wilson was an American writer who published works such as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
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2003
Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishing Company (born 1917)
Roger Williams Straus Jr. was an American publisher who was co-founder and chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a New York book publishing company, and member of the Guggenheim family.
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2004
Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (born 1929)
Sunil Dutt was an Indian actor, film producer, director, and politician known for his work in Hindi cinema. He acted in more than 80 films over a career spanning five decades and was the recipient of three Filmfare…
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2005
English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (born 1938)
Robert Jankel was a British designer of limousines, armoured cars, and other speciality vehicles. He also founded the automotive company Panther Westwinds.
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2005
Australian television host and actor (born 1934)
Graham Cyril Kennedy AO was an Australian entertainer, comedian and variety performer, radio and television host as well as a personality and actor of theatre, television and film. He was often referred to as "The King…
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2005
Indian-born film producer and director (born 1936)
Ismail Merchant was an Indian film producer. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included film director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Together they…
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2005
Slovene painter and illustrator (born 1909)
Zoran Mušič, baptised as Anton Zoran Musič, was a Slovene painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He was the only painter of Slovene descent who managed to establish himself in the elite cultural circles of Italy and…
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2005
American actor, comedian, and director (born 1931)
Charles Nelson Reilly was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher. He performed in the original Broadway casts of Bye Bye Birdie; Hello, Dolly!; and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, for…
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2007
Belarusian blogger, web designer and website creator (born 1976)
Uładzimir Łeanidavič Katkoŭski was a Belarusian blogger, web designer, Wikipedian and website creator.
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2007
American businessman, founded Simplot (born 1909)
John Richard Simplot was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho–based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products. In 2007, he was…
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2008
Finnish actor and theater councilor (born 1921)
Veikko Johannes Uusimäki was a Finnish actor and theater councilor. During his life, he acted in a total of 25 films, in connection with which he also served as director of Yleisradio's theater services between 1973 and…
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2008
Norwegian politician (born 1905)
Haakon Steen Lie was a Norwegian politician who served as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1969. Coming from humble origins, he became involved in the labour movement at an early age, and…
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2009
Ukrainian basketball player (born 1959)
Alexander Mikhaylovich Belostenny was a Ukrainian professional basketball player. He was a member of the senior Soviet national team, from 1977 to 1992, except for an absence during a single competition, EuroBasket…
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2010
American businessman (born 1936)
Michael H. Jordan was an American businessman. He served as the chief executive officer of PepsiCo Worldwide Foods (1986–1990), Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1993–1998), CBS Corporation (1995–1998), and Electronic…
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2010
Australian footballer and coach (born 1925)
Alan David Hickinbotham AM was an Australian businessman and Australian rules football player and coach.
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2010
Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1915)
Gabriel Vargas Bernal was a Mexican cartoonist, whose comic strip La Familia Burrón was created in 1937. This cartoon has been described as one of the most important in Mexican popular culture. Vargas won the National…
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2010
American football player and coach (born 1965)
Jarvis Eric Williams, Sr. was an American professional football player who was a defensive back for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1980s and 1990s. Williams played college football for…
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2010
Australian cricketer and coach (born 1944)
Terrence James Jenner was an Australian cricketer who played nine Tests and one ODI from 1970 to 1975. He was primarily a leg-spin bowler and was known for his attacking, loopy style of bowling, but he was also a handy…
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2011
American author and screenwriter (born 1931)
William Hanley was an American playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter, born in Lorain, Ohio. Hanley wrote plays for the theatre, radio and television and published three novels in the 1970s. He was related to the…
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2012
American author and critic (born 1958)
Peter D. Sieruta was an American writer and book critic. He was best known for his reviews for The Horn Book Magazine, his short story collection Heartbeats and Other Stories, and his blog, Collecting Children's…
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2012
American basketball player and coach (born 1924)
Louis C. Watson was an American basketball player and coach for Indiana University. The 6'-5" Watson played for Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Indiana, graduating in 1943. He was a four-year letterman,…
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2012
Indian politician (born 1950)
Mahendra Karma was an Indian political leader belonging to Indian National Congress from Chhattisgarh. He was the leader of the opposition in the Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha from 2004 to 2008. In 2005, he played a top…
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2013
Indian politician (born 1953)
Nand Kumar Patel was an Indian National Congress politician from the province of Chhattisgarh. He was elected to the Kharsia Assembly Constituency five times in a row.
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2013
English cricketer (born 1935)
David Arthur Allen was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire between 1953 and 1972. He also played 39 Test matches for England between 1960 and 1966.
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2014
Canadian economist and politician (born 1942)
Marcel Côté was a Canadian economist and politician. He was a founding partner of SECOR, a strategic management consulting firm. On July 3, 2013, he announced his candidacy for Mayor of Montreal in the 2013 Montreal…
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2014
Polish general and politician, 1st President of Poland (born 1923)
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski was a Polish military general, politician and de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989, and a military dictator from 13 December 1981 until 22 July 1983. He was the…
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2014
American singer and actor (born 1913)
Herb Jeffries was an American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone voice.
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2014
Tuvaluan educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Tuvalu (born 1928)
Sir Toaripi Lauti was a Tuvaluan politician who served as chief minister of the Colony of Tuvalu (1975–78), as the first prime minister following Tuvalu's independence (1978–1981) and governor-general of Tuvalu…
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2014
American boxer and trainer (born 1954)
Matthew Saad Muhammad was an American professional boxer who was the WBC Light Heavyweight Champion of the World for two-and-a-half years.
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2014
Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of the Northwest Territories (born 1949)
George Braden was a Canadian politician from the Northwest Territories, Canada. Elected as "Government Leader", Braden would retroactively become the second premier of the Northwest Territories, after a motion was…
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2015
2015
Indian politician and Veera Vanniyar caste leader (born 1961)
J. Guru, also known as Kaduvetti Guru, was an Indian politician who was twice elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Tamil Nadu. He was the president of the Vanniyar Sangam, a caste-based organization that…
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2018
Danish-British socialite (born 1926)
Claus von Bülow was a British lawyer, consultant and socialite. In 1982, he was convicted of attempting to murder his wife Sunny von Bülow in 1979, which had left her in a temporary coma, and in 1980, when an alleged…
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2019
African American man murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin (born 1973)
George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar…
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2020
American author and illustrator (born 1934)
Lois Jane Ehlert was an American author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for Color Zoo in 1990. Some of her other popular works included Chicka Chicka…
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2021
American literary agent (born 1930)
Morton Lloyd Janklow was an American literary agent, the primary partner in Janklow & Nesbit Associates, a New York–based literary agency. His clients included Barbara Taylor Bradford, Thomas Harris, Judith Krantz, Pope…
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2022
American professional golfer (born 1993)
Grayson Colby Murray was an American professional golfer. He won two PGA Tour events: the 2017 Barbasol Championship and the 2024 Sony Open in Hawaii.
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2024
Canadian film producer (born 1930)
Albert Stotland Ruddy was a Canadian-born American producer and screenwriter of film and television. He was known for producing the film The Godfather (1972) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), both of which won the Academy…
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2024
American songwriter (born 1928)
Richard Morton Sherman was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Robert B. Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers, "The Sherman…
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2024
American actor (born 1986)
John William Wactor III was an American actor known for playing Brando Corbin on the series General Hospital and Johnny on the NBC series Siberia. He also had roles in the series Army Wives and the films USS…
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2024
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Deaths on this date103 (675 – 2024)
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