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In 1972, he made his first bid for governor, placing third in the Democratic primary, but attaining name recognition and the nickname "Walking Joe"
Notable Deaths on May 8
127 people
535 – 2025
May 8 has seen 127 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 535 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2014 — Joseph P. Teasdale
American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (born 1936)
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A Democrat, he served as the 48th Governor of Missouri from 1977 to 1981
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In 1980, Teasdale beat back a primary challenge from State Treasurer Jim Spainhower, but was defeated by Bond in a rematch
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Joseph Patrick Teasdale was an American politician
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Teasdale was formerly a prosecutor for Jackson County, Missouri
Pope John II, born Mercurius, was the Bishop of Rome from 2 January 533 to his death on 8 May 535. As a priest at St. Clement's Basilica, he endowed that church with gifts and commissioned stone carvings for it.…
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535
Pope Boniface IV was the bishop of Rome from 608 to his death on 8 May 615. He was a member of the Benedictine order. Boniface had served as a deacon under Pope Gregory I, and like his mentor, he ran the Lateran Palace…
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615
Pope Benedict II was the bishop of Rome from 26 June 684 to his death on 8 May 685. Pope Benedict II's feast day is 7 May.
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685
997
Seljuk sultan (born 1086)
Ahmad Sanjar was the Seljuq ruler of Khorasan from 1097 until 1118, when he became the Sultan of the Seljuq Empire, which he ruled until his death in 1157.
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1157
duke of Styria (born 1163)
Ottokar IV, a member of the Otakar dynasty, was Margrave of Styria from 1164 and Duke from 1180, when Styria, previously a margraviate subordinated to the stem duchy of Bavaria, was raised to the status of an…
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1192
queen of Sweden
Rikissa of Denmark was Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Erik Knutsson, and the mother of King Erik Eriksson.
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1220
1278
1319
1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (born 1420)
John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire KG, KB was an English nobleman, the youngest son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. In 1461 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath.
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1473
English bishop and academic (born 1496)
Edward Foxe was an English churchman, Bishop of Hereford. He played a major role in Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and he assisted in drafting the Ten Articles of 1536.
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1538
queen of Poland (born 1520)
Barbara Radziwiłł was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund II Augustus, the last male monarch of the Jagiellon dynasty. Barbara, already widowed and considered a great beauty,…
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1551
French-Canadian nun and saint (born 1632)
Mary Catherine of St. Augustine, OSA was a French canoness regular who was instrumental in the development of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in the colony of New France. She has been beatified by the Catholic Church.
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1668
English minister and author (born 1693)
Samuel Chandler was an English Nonconformist minister and pamphleteer. He has been called the "uncrowned patriarch of Dissent" in the latter part of the reign of George II of Great Britain.
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1766
Egyptian sultan (born 1728)
Ali Bey al-Kabir was a mamluk who served as shaykh al-balad of Ottoman Egypt in 1760–1766 and 1767–1772. He was effectively the strongman of Egypt and in 1769 practically pursued independence from the Ottomans, minting…
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1773
English priest and poet (born 1715)
Richard Jago was an English clergyman poet and minor landscape gardener from Warwickshire. Although his writing was not highly regarded by contemporaries, some of it was sufficiently novel to have several imitators.
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1781
1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1699)
D. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oeiras, known as the Marquis of Pombal, was a Portuguese statesman and diplomat who despotically ruled the Portuguese Empire from 1750 to 1777…
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1782
duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1719)
Lieutenant-General Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul, KOHS, OGF was a French Royal Army officer, diplomat and statesman. From 1758 to 1761 and again from 1766 to 1770, he served as Foreign Minister of…
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1785
Italian painter (born 1701)
Pietro Longhi was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life.
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1785
Italian physician and botanist (born 1723)
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian medical doctor and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
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1788
French chemist and biologist (born 1743)
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the…
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1794
king of the Hawaiian Islands (born 1738)
Kamehameha I, also known as Kamehameha the Great, was the conqueror and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The state of Hawaii gave a statue of him to the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C., as one…
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1819
American general (born 1728)
John Stark was an American military officer who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. A major general, he became known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Battle of…
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1822
Italian guitarist, cellist, and composer (born 1781)
Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani was an Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer. He was a leading guitar virtuoso of the early 19th century. One of his best known works is his Grand Overture, which has…
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1828
Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (born 1770)
Alexander Dmitriyevich Balashov was a Russian general and statesman.
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1837
French admiral and explorer (born 1790)
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his name to…
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1842
Dutch priest, 21st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born 1785)
Jan Philipp Roothaan, SJ was a Dutch Jesuit, elected twenty-first Superior-General of the Society of Jesus. Roothaan was a decisive figure in the reestablishment of the order after the Suppression of the Society of…
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1853
French novelist (born 1821)
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and…
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1880
Russian-English mystic and author (born 1831)
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and writer who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the primary founder of…
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1891
English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (born 1816)
Sir John Robertson was a London-born Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales on five occasions. Robertson is best remembered for land reform and in particular the Robertson Land Acts of 1861, which sought…
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1891
Mexican general and president, 1880–1884 (born 1833)
José Manuel del Refugio González Flores was a Mexican general and liberal politician who served as the 35th President of Mexico from 1880 to 1884.
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1893
French painter and sculptor (born 1848)
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential…
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1903
American soldier and politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico Territory (born 1826)
Edmund Gibson Ross was an American politician who represented Kansas after the American Civil War and was later the governor of New Mexico Territory. His vote against convicting President Andrew Johnson of "high crimes…
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1907
Irish polo player (born 1847)
John Graham Hope Horsley de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies PC, styled The Hon. John Beresford until 1910, was an Anglo-Irish army officer, civil servant, and polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
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1925
German historian and philosopher (born 1880)
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known…
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1936
1941
Swedish actor and director (born 1858)
Olof Teodor "Tore" Svennberg was a Swedish actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than five decades.
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1941
Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War (born 1890)
Nikolai Reek VR I/2, VR II/2, VR II/3 was the Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence.
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1942
Polish commander (born 1919)
Mordechai Anielewicz was the Polish leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. Anielewicz inspired further rebellions…
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1943
Greek high jumper (born 1882)
Themistoklis Diakidis was a Greek track and field athlete who competed in the high jump.
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1944
British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (born 1854)
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Edward Bourne OBE DCM was a decorated British soldier and the last living survivor of the defence of Rorke's Drift during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. He also served during World War I.
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1945
German footballer (born 1892)
Julius Hirsch was a German international footballer. A Jew, he was executed at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. He helped the Karlsruher FV win the 1910 German football championship, and also played…
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1945
German SS officer (born 1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Rediess was a German Nazi official who served as the SS and police leader during the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War. He was also the commander of all SS troops stationed in…
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1945
German lieutenant and politician (born 1883)
Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level…
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1945
German lieutenant and politician (born 1898)
Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Essen and the Reichskommissar for Norway during the German occupation.
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1945
American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (born 1858)
Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. The early years of his leadership led to his becoming one of the wealthiest and most respected retail…
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1947
1948
Brazilian physician and immunologist (born 1865)
Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha, known as Vital Brazil, was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and immunologist, known for the discovery of the polyvalent anti-ophidic serum used to treat bites of venomous…
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1950
Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres (born 1879)
Vilmos Fried, known professionally as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s. Although he lost…
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1952
1959
Indian-English mathematician and academic (born 1904)
John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS, known as "Henry", was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai, in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960.
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1960
English cricketer and footballer (born 1886)
Harold Thomas William Hardinge, known as Wally Hardinge, was an English professional sportsman who played both cricket and association football for England. His professional cricket career lasted from 1902 to 1933…
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1965
American zoologist and paleontologist (born 1892)
Arthur Remington Kellogg was an American naturalist and a director of the United States National Museum. His work focused on marine mammals.
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1969
Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (born 1880)
Pandurang Vaman Kane was an Indian academic, historian, lawyer, Indologist, and Sanskrit scholar. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 1963.
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1972
Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (born 1921)
Beatrice Helen Worsley, better known as "Trixie" Worsely, was a Canadian computer scientist, the first woman in the country to work in that profession. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge with…
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1972
American businessman and art collector (born 1887)
Avery Brundage was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving from 1952 to 1972, the only American and first non-European to attain that position. Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of…
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1975
English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (born 1920)
Field Marshal Sir Geoffrey Harding Baker, was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, from 1968 to 1971. He served in the Second World War and became Director of Operations and Chief of…
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1980
Israeli poet and journalist (born 1896)
Uri Zvi Greenberg was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.
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1981
American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (born 1943)
Neil E. Bogart was an American record executive. He was the founder of Casablanca Records, which later became Casablanca Record and Filmworks.
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1982
Canadian race car driver (born 1950)
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve was a Canadian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1977 to 1982. Villeneuve was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1979 with Ferrari, and won six…
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1982
American author and screenwriter (born 1909)
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era…
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1983
American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (born 1890)
Lila Bell Wallace was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist. She co-founded Reader's Digest with her husband Dewitt Wallace, publishing the first issue in 1922.
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1984
Italian-Brazilian race car driver (born 1916)
Luigi Emilio Rodolfo Bertetti Bianco, better known as Gino Bianco was a racing driver from Brazil. Born in Milan, Italy, he emigrated to Brazil as a child and started racing there. He raced a Maserati A6GCM for the…
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1984
American yachtsman (born 1908)
Robert Sherman "Bob" Halperin, nicknamed "Buck", was an American business executive, decorated WWII naval officer and Star class yacht racer, who became an Olympic bronze medalist and Pan American Games gold medalist in…
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1985
1985
American author and critic (born 1918)
Theodore Sturgeon was an American author of primarily fantasy, science fiction, and horror, as well as a critic. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels, and two scripts for Star…
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1985
American actor (born 1920)
Adolphus Jean Sweet was an American actor credited with nearly 60 television and film roles and more than 50 roles in stage productions, including performances on Broadway. He often played policemen throughout his…
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1985
English historian and author (born 1922)
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford was a noted 20th-century British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics. He was also an authority on antique jewellery and was the founder editor of the Antique…
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1986
English psychic and author (born 1920)
Doris May Fisher Stokes, born Doris Sutton, was a British spiritualist, professional medium, and author. Her public performances, television appearances, and memoirs made her a household name in Britain. While some…
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1987
American science fiction writer and screenwriter (born 1907)
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction…
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1988
Italian composer and educator (born 1924)
Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.
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1990
French pianist and composer (born 1907)
Jean François-Hyacinthe Langlais III was a French composer of modern classical music, organist, and improviser. He described himself as "Breton, de foi Catholique".
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1991
Czech-Austrian pianist and educator (born 1903)
Rudolf Serkin was a Bohemian-born Austrian-American pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the 20th century.
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1991
American baseball player (born 1933)
Joyce Ricketts was a right fielder who played from 1953 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). She batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
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1992
American soldier and author (born 1923)
Avram Davidson was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards…
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1993
American actor and producer (born 1928)
George Peppard was an American actor. He secured a major role as struggling writer Paul Varjak when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard…
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1994
Taiwanese singer (born 1953)
Teng Li-Chun, also known as Teresa Teng, was a Taiwanese singer, television personality, musician, and philanthropist. Widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures in the Chinese-speaking world of…
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1995
English cyclist (born 1937)
Beryl Burton OBE was an English racing cyclist who dominated the women's sport, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles, and setting numerous national records. In 1967, she set a world record…
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1996
Spanish bullfighter (born 1926)
Luis Miguel González Lucas, better known as Luis Miguel Dominguín, was a Spanish bullfighter. The son of the noteworthy bullfighter Domingo Dominguín, he adopted his father's pseudonymic last name to gain popularity.
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1996
American poet, author, and critic (born 1946)
Larry Patrick Levis was an American poet and teacher who published five books of poetry during his lifetime. Two more volumes of previously unpublished poems appeared posthumously, and received general acclaim.
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1996
American illustrator (born 1912)
Garth Montgomery Williams was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children's books. Many of the books he illustrated have become classics of American children's…
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1996
Estonian wrestler (born 1915)
Johannes Kotkas was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Estonia who won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He held the European title in 1938, 1939 and 1947 and placed second at the 1953 world championships.
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1998
American banker and businessman (born 1912)
Charles Gregory "Bebe" Rebozo was an American Florida-based banker and businessman who was a close friend and confidant of President Richard Nixon.
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1998
English actor and screenwriter (born 1921)
Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from…
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1999
American actor (born 1931)
Ed Gilbert was an American actor, with extensive credits in both live-action roles and voice work in animation, although he was better known for the latter. He is also credited, under his birth name, with research in…
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1999
American actress (born 1964)
Dana Michelle Plato was an American actress. She rose to fame for playing Kimberly Drummond on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986), which established her as a teen idol of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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1999
1999
2000
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1962)
André "Dédé" Fortin was a founding member, frontman, and guitarist of the Québécois band Les Colocs, formed in 1990.
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2000
American activist (born 1973)
Henry Joseph Nicols was an American HIV/AIDS activist who became the first American student to intentionally disclose his HIV infection to his community in March 1991.
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2000
Brazilian vedette, singer, and artist (born 1920)
Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer, and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and…
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2003
2005
Argentinian race car driver (born 1981)
Nicolás Vuyovich was a sportscar driver from Argentina.
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2005
Scottish photographer and author (born 1938)
Iain Stewart Macmillan was the Scottish photographer famous for taking the cover photograph for the Beatles' album Abbey Road in 1969. He grew up in Scotland, then moved to London to become a professional photographer.…
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2006
American author and poet (born 1933)
Philip R. Craig was a writer known for his Martha's Vineyard mysteries.
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2007
American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (born 1945)
James Carson Whitsett was an American keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer.
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2007
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1918)
Richard Edward Arnold was an American country music singer. He was a Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more…
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2008
Belgian footballer (born 1982)
François Sterchele was a Belgian professional footballer who played for Germinal Beerschot and Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006–07. Sterchele died in a single-person car accident…
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2008
American baseball player (born 1917)
Dominic Paul DiMaggio, nicknamed "the Little Professor", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. He played his entire 11-year baseball career for the Boston Red Sox (1940–1953). DiMaggio was the youngest…
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2009
Australian boxer (born 1948)
Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian professional boxer who competed from 1964 to 1976. He held the undisputed WBA, WBC, and The Ring bantamweight titles from 1968 to 1969, becoming the first Indigenous Australian…
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2011
American author and illustrator (born 1928)
Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American author and illustrator of children's books. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was impacted by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak…
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2012
Thai criminal (born 1948)
Ampon Tangnoppakul, commonly known in Thai as Ah Kong or in English as Uncle SMS, was a Thai national accused of sending four Short Message Service (SMS) messages from his cell phones to Somkiat Khrongwatthanasuk,…
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2012
Polish-American violinist and educator (born 1911)
Roman Totenberg was a Polish-American violinist and educator. A child prodigy, he lived in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, before formally immigrating to the U.S. in 1938, at age 27. He performed and taught…
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2012
American actress (born 1928)
Wilma Jeanne Cooper was an American actress, best known for her role as Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless (1973–2013). At the time of her death, she had played Katherine for nearly 40…
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2013
English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1926)
Bryan Forbes was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man" and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".
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2013
Argentinian businessman (born 1950)
Juan José Muñoz was an Argentine businessman. He was an advisor to the current Minister of Interior, Mr. Aníbal Fernández, during the period when the latter was a federal senator. Afterwards, he worked for the trade…
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2013
American philosopher and theorist (born 1945)
Hugh J. Silverman was an American philosopher and cultural theorist whose writing, lecturing, teaching, editing, and international conferencing participated in the development of a postmodern network. He was executive…
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2013
American scientist, co-invented the GPS (born 1921)
Roger Lee Easton Sr. was an American physicist and state representative who was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System, along with Ivan A. Getting and Bradford Parkinson.
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2014
American actress, director, and producer (born 1935)
Nancy Malone was an American television actress from the 1950s to 1970s, who later moved into producing and directing in the 1980s and 1990s.
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2014
Brazilian singer (born 1939)
Jair Rodrigues de Oliveira was a Brazilian musician and singer. He is the father of Luciana Mello and Jair Oliveira, who also followed in his footsteps and became musicians.
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2014
Turkish actor and director (born 1943)
Zeki Alasya was a Turkish actor and film director. Alasya was of Turkish Cypriot descent and was related to Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha.
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2015
Congolese footballer (born 1949)
Joseph Mwepu Ilunga was a football defender from Zaire. His name is also written as Alunga Mwepu.
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2015
Hungarian-Chilean footballer and manager (born 1921)
Juan Schwanner, János Schwanner was a Hungarian–Chilean football player and manager.
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2015
Bulgarian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Bulgaria (born 1924)
Atanas Georgiev Semerdzhiev was a Bulgarian general, statesman and politician. He was a veteran of World War II, as he participated in the Partisan Movement in Bulgaria during 1942–1944. During the same period he became…
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2015
American actor; president (1979–81) of the Screen Actors Guild (born 1922)
William Joseph Schallert was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films over a career spanning more than 60 years. He is known for his roles on Richard Diamond, Private Detective…
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2016
American professional wrestler (born 1954)
Nicholas Busick was an American professional wrestler and police officer, better known by his ring name Big Bully Busick. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1991, where he…
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2018
British film editor (Lawrence of Arabia, The Elephant Man, Erin Brockovich), Oscar winner (1963) (born 1925)
Anne Voase Coates was a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career.
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2018
President of Nauru from 2011 to 2013 (born 1972)
Sprent Arumogo Dabwido was a Nauruan politician who served as President of Nauru between 2011 and 2013, and was also a weightlifter. The son of a parliamentarian, Dabwido was originally elected to the Meneng…
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2019
German-American architect (born 1940)
Helmut Jahn was a German and American architect, known for projects such as the The Center Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago; One Liberty…
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2021
British wildlife artist and illustrator (born 1936)
Robert Allen Fitzwilliam Gillmor MBE was a British ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author, and editor. He was a co-founder of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) and was its secretary, chairman and president. He…
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2022
English actor and singer (born 1948)
Dennis Waterman was an English actor and singer. He was best known for his tough-guy leading roles in television series including The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks, singing the theme tunes of the latter two.
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2022
American politician (born 1950)
Christopher Black Cannon was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, for the Republican Party, representing the third district of Utah from 1997 to 2009.
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2024
American football player (born 1938)
James Earl Johnson was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1961 to 1976. He was named to the first team on the NFL 1970s…
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2024
American politician (born 1927)
Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr. was an American politician who represented San Mateo County, California, as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983.
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2024
Panamanian novelist and lawyer (born 1952)
Ramón Fonseca Mora was a Panamanian novelist, lawyer and co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, a former law firm based in Panama with more than 40 offices worldwide. He was minister-counselor of Panamanian President Juan…
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2024
British military officer and mercenary (born 1952)
Simon Francis Mann was a British officer in the Special Air Service (SAS), and later a mercenary. He trained to be an officer at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Scots Guards. He later became a member of the SAS,…
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2025
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Joseph P. Teasdale — American politician (1936–2014)
FeaturedJoseph P. Teasdale
Death year2014
Known forA Democrat, he served as the 48th Governor of Missouri from 1977 to 1981
Deaths on this date127 (535 – 2025)
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