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Regarded as one of the most distinguished hajduks of his time, he is praised in Serbian epic poetry.
Notable Deaths on May 7
88 people
721 – 2024
May 7 has seen 88 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 721 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1685 — Bajo Pivljanin (born 1630)
Bajo Pivljanin (born 1630)
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Mentioned in 1654 as a brigand during the Venetian–Ottoman war, he entered the service of the Republic of Venice in 1656
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Between 1671 and 1684 Pivljanin, along with other hajduks and their families, were refugees in Dalmatia
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Upon renewed conflict, he was returned to the Bay of Kotor and placed in charge of defending the frontier; in 1685 he and his band fell in battle against the advancing Ottoman governor of Scutari
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Between 1665 and 1668 he quickly rose through the ranks to the level of harambaša
bishop of York
John of Beverley was an English bishop active in the kingdom of Northumbria. He was the bishop of Hexham and then the bishop of York, which was the most important religious designation in the area. He went on to found…
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721
Egyptian Muslim historian
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī, known simply as Ibn Hisham, was a 9th-century Abbasid historian and scholar. He grew up in Basra, in modern-day Iraq and later moved to Egypt.
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833
973
1st King of Georgia (born 960)
Bagrat III, also known as Bagrat the Unifier, of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king (mepe) of the Kingdom of Abkhazia from 978 and king of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1008 until his death in 1014. Through dynastic…
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1014
English monk and bishop
Remigius de Fécamp was an 11th-century religious leader. He was a Benedictine monk who was a supporter of William the Conqueror and was appointed Bishop of Dorchester and Bishop of Lincoln.
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1092
William I, called the Bad or the Wicked, was the second king of Sicily, ruling from his father's death in 1154 to his own in 1166. He was the fourth son of Roger II and Elvira of Castile.
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1166
Earl of Surrey
Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, was an Anglo-Angevin nobleman, being an elder half-brother of the first Plantagenet English monarch King Henry II.
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1202
Ladislaus III was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1204 and 1205. He was the only child of King Emeric. Ladislaus was crowned king upon the orders of his ill father, who wanted to secure his infant son's succession.…
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1205
1234
5th Earl of Arundel
Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel was the last in the Aubigny male line to hold Arundel Castle.
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1243
5th Baron De La Warr, English priest (born 1352)
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1427
1494
German knight (born 1481)
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1523
Italian printer (born 1466)
Ottaviano Petrucci was an Italian printer. His Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, a collection of chansons printed in 1501, is commonly misidentified as the first book of sheet music printed from movable type. Actually, that…
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1539
German astronomer and theologian (born 1564)
David Fabricius was a Frisian pastor who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius (1587–1615).
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1617
German organist and composer (born 1616)
Johann Jakob Froberger was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. Among the most famous composers of the era, he was influential in developing the musical form of the suite of dances in his keyboard…
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1667
Feodor III or Fyodor III Alekseyevich was Tsar of all Russia from 1676 until his death in 1682. Despite poor health from childhood, he managed to pass reforms on improving meritocracy within the civil and military state…
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1682
Mary of Modena was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James VII and II. A devout Roman Catholic, Mary married the widower James, who was then the younger brother and heir presumptive of Charles…
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1718
Italian violinist and composer (born 1722)
Pietro Nardini was an Italian composer and violinist, a transitional musician who worked in both the Baroque and Classical era traditions.
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1793
Italian composer (born 1728)
Niccolò Piccinni was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera. Although he is somewhat obscure today, Piccinni was one of the most popular composers of opera—particularly the Neapolitan…
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1800
2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1737)
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home…
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1805
American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (born 1739)
Jabez Bowen Sr. was an American shipper, slave trader and politician. He was a militia colonel during the American Revolutionary War, and served as Deputy Governor of Rhode Island and chief justice of the Rhode Island…
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1815
Italian composer and conductor (born 1750)
Antonio Salieri was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg monarchy.
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1825
German painter and educator (born 1774)
Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional…
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1840
1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1778)
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 1832 and Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
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1868
American carpenter and politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
Alexander Loyd served one term as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1840 until 1841 for the Democratic Party.
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1872
American clergyman, historian, and author (born 1795)
William Buell Sprague was an American Congregational and Presbyterian clergyman and compiler of Annals of the American Pulpit, a comprehensive biographical dictionary of the leading American Protestant Christian…
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1876
German-American religious leader and theologian (born 1811)
Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was a German-American Lutheran minister. He was the first president of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) and one of its most influential theologians. He is commemorated by that…
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1887
American serial killer (born 1861)
Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execution in 1896, Holmes had engaged in a…
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1896
Italian priest and saint (born 1818)
Agostino Roscelli, also known as Augustine Roscelli, and Augustin Roscelli, was an Italian priest who inspired social change in Genoa, Italy for children and disadvantaged women. He was canonized a saint in the Catholic…
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1902
English fighter pilot (born 1896)
Albert Ball, was a British fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was the United Kingdom's leading flying ace, with 44 victories, and remained its fourth-highest scorer behind Edward…
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1917
Czech anarchist and cook (born 1840)
Eva Schiroky, nicknamed Eva Chirowska, was a Czech anarchist and cook. She is best known for having been suspected of being a member of the Ortiz gang, an illegalist group named after her eldest son, Léon Ortiz.
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1919
German pianist and composer (born 1857)
Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht was a German composer of organ and piano music.
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1922
Indian activist (born 1897/1898)
Alluri Sitarama Raju was an Indian revolutionary who waged an armed rebellion against the British colonial rule in India. He engaged in guerilla campaigns against the British forces across the border regions of…
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1924
1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (born 1851)
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Educated at a small private school until the age of nine, then at church schools, he joined his father's…
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1925
German captain and author (born 1886)
Captain Ernst August Lehmann was a German Zeppelin captain. He was one of the most famous and experienced figures in German airship travel. The Pittsburgh Press called Lehmann the best airship pilot in the world;…
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1937
Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (born 1881)
Octavian Goga was a Romanian far-right politician, poet, and writer who served as Prime Minister of Romania.
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1938
English journalist and politician (born 1859)
George Lansbury was a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Apart from a brief period of ministerial office during the Labour government of 1929–31, he spent his political…
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1940
Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (born 1854)
Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
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1941
Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1863)
Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.
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1942
Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1880)
Ali Fethi Okyar was a Turkish diplomat and politician, who also served as a military officer and diplomat during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. He was also the second Prime Minister of Turkey (1924–1925) and the…
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1943
Nigerian journalist and politician (born 1864)
Olayinka Herbert Samuel Heelas Badmus Macaulay was a Nigerian nationalist, politician, surveyor, engineer, architect, journalist, and musician. Macaulay is considered by many as founder of Nigerian nationalism.
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1946
American actor (born 1889)
Warner Leroy Baxter was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film In Old Arizona, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd…
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1951
Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (born 1880)
Mihkel Lüdig was an Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor. As a composer, he particularly worked on a cappella choral songs. Lüdig is considered one of the major organisers of large-scale musical events in…
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1958
American writer and poet (born 1899)
Margaret Larkin was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist.
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1967
English children's book writer (born 1884)
Alison Jane Uttley was an English writer of over 100 books. She is best known for a children's series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for children, A…
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1976
American journalist and author (born 1915)
Mortimer Weisinger was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s, in the Silver Age of comic books. He also co-created such features as Aquaman,…
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1978
Turkish playwright and author (born 1915)
Haldun Taner was a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.
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1986
Northern Irish actor (born 1930)
Colin George Edward Blakely was a Northern Irish stage and screen actor. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Sidney Lumet's Equus (1977), and was nominated twice…
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1987
American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (born 1941)
Paul Graham Popham was an American gay rights activist who was a founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) and served as its president from 1981 until 1985. He also helped found and was chairman of the AIDS Action…
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1987
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Samuel Pennington Thavarasa Tambimuttu was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
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1990
American art critic (born 1909)
Clement Greenberg, occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist…
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1994
American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (born 1910)
Ray McKinley was an American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader. He played drums and later led the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra in Europe. He also led the new Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1956.
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1995
South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African and American physicist, academic, and Nobel Laureate. He was Professor of Physics at Tufts University and won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on…
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1998
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
Edward Thomas Rabbitt was an American country music singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis…
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1998
Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (born 1909)
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. was an American actor, producer, and United States Navy officer. He was a leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, notably in adventure and swashbuckling roles like in The Prisoner of…
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2000
French author and politician (born 1912)
Jacques de Bourbon, Count of Busset was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of Bourbon-Busset.
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2001
Polish journalist (born 1956)
Waldemar Milewicz was a Polish journalist and war correspondent.
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2004
American author and activist (born 1971)
Tristan Egolf was an American novelist, author, and political activist.
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2005
American captain and politician (born 1909)
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1989. A liberal Democrat, he represented parts of Newark, New Jersey and surrounding Essex…
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2005
Ecuadorian footballer (born 1980)
Otilino George Tenorio Bastidas was an Ecuadorian professional footballer who played as a forward.
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2005
Australian journalist (born 1943)
Richard George Carleton was a multiple Logie Award–winning Australian television journalist.
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2006
American singer and philanthropist (born 1918)
Joan Cavill Edwards was a New Orleans jazz singer and well-known West Virginia-based philanthropist.
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2006
English magazine editor (born 1958)
Isabella Blow was an English magazine editor. She was mentor to Philip Treacy, and is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl, and fashion designer Alexander McQueen, beginning when she…
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2007
American boxer (born 1977)
Diego "Chico" Corrales Jr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2007. He was a multiple-time world champion in two weight divisions, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super…
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2007
Romanian journalist and politician (born 1926)
Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.
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2007
American cult leader, founded the Nation of Yahweh (born 1935)
Yahweh ben Yahweh was an American religious leader and founder of the black separatist and black supremacist Nation of Yahweh, a new religious movement headquartered in Florida that, at its peak, had thousands of black…
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2007
English designer (born 1930)
David Rogerson Mellor was an English designer, manufacturer, craftsman and retailer.
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2009
American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1923)
Daniel Leonard Ozark was an American professional coach and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB).
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2009
American actress, singer and dancer (born 1923)
Adele Mara was an American actress, singer, and dancer, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s and on television in the 1950s and 1960s.
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2010
American politician, Governor of Alaska and Secretary of the Interior (born 1919)
Walter Joseph Hickel was an American businessman, real estate developer, and politician who served as the second governor of Alaska from 1966 to 1969 and 1990 to 1994, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1969…
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2010
Spanish golfer (born 1957)
Severiano Ballesteros Sota was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. A member of a gifted golfing family, he won 90 international…
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2011
Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device.
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2011
English songwriter, producer, and radio host (born 1957)
George Webley, better known by the stage name Big George, was a British musician, composer, bandleader and broadcaster who has been described as one of Britain's most successful theme music writers.
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2011
Soviet historian (born 1929)
Victor Ivanovich Nosach was a Soviet and Russian historian, Doctor of Historian Sciences, Member of the Academy of Humanitarian Sciences, Honored Scientist of Russian Federation.
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2011
Scottish trade union leader (born 1931)
Samuel Alexander Barr was a British shipyard worker, trade unionist and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) work-in veteran. Barr was an "inspiring speaker" and organiser who was a "widely respected shop steward" of the…
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2012
Hungarian economist and politician (born 1943)
Ferenc Bartha was a Hungarian economist who served as the last governor of the Hungarian National Bank during the Communist regime.
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2012
American captain and pilot (born 1942)
United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport in…
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2012
Italian footballer and manager (born 1948)
Ferruccio Mazzola was an Italian former professional footballer and manager, who played as a midfielder. He was the son of former footballer Valentino Mazzola, and the younger brother of retired footballer Sandro…
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2013
Jr., American football player (born 1943)
George Henry Sauer Jr. was an American professional football player and coach who was a wide receiver for six seasons with the American Football League (AFL)'s New York Jets, and later played in the World Football…
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2013
Australian air marshal (born 1923)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Neville Patrick McNamara, was a senior commander of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He served as Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), the RAAF's highest-ranking position, from 1979 until 1982, and…
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2014
English astronomer, chemist, and academic (born 1943)
Colin Trevor Pillinger, was an English planetary scientist. He was a founding member of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at The Open University in Milton Keynes; he was also the principal investigator…
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2014
American baseball player (born 1927)
Richard John Welteroth was an American right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played from 1948 to 1950 for the Washington Senators.
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2014
American businessman (born 1956)
Frank DiPascali Jr. was an American fraudster and financier who was a key lieutenant of Bernie Madoff for three decades. He referred to himself as the company's "director of options trading" and as "chief financial…
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2015
Australian-American author and illustrator (born 1929)
John Dixon was an Australian comic book artist and writer, best known for his comic strip creation, Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors.
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2015
Norwegian writer (born 1930)
Aase Foss Abrahamsen was a Norwegian writer. She primarily wrote for children and young adults, but also books for adults.
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2023
American musician, record producer, audio engineer, and music journalist (born 1962)
Steven Frank Albini was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989), and Shellac (1992–2024), and…
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2024
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Notable deaths
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Bajo Pivljanin (born 1630) — Serbian military leader
FeaturedBajo Pivljanin (born 1630)
Death year1685
Known forBorn in Piva, a Serbian Herzegovinian tribe, at the time part of the Ottoman Empire, he was an oxen trader who allegedly left his village after experiencing Ottoman injustice
Deaths on this date88 (721 – 2024)
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