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He was also the author of Knowledge for What? The Place of the Social Sciences in American Culture (1939)
Notable Deaths on November 1
94 people
934 – 2025
November 1 has seen 94 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 934 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1970 — Robert Staughton Lynd
American sociologist and academic (born 1892)
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In addition to writing and research, Lynd taught at Columbia from 1931 to 1960
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Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City
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government committees and advisory boards, including President Herbert Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends and President Franklin D
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Roosevelt's Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration
English bishop
Beornstan was an English Bishop of Winchester. He was consecrated in May 931. He died on 1 November 934. After his death, he was revered as a saint.
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934
German bishop
Boso of Merseburg was the first Bishop of Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt, and "Apostle of the Wends."
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970
1038
French bishop and theologian (born 1230)
Guillaume Durand, or William Durand, also known as Durandus, Duranti or Durantis, from the Italian form of Durandi filius, as he sometimes signed himself, was a French canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende.
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1296
Italian condottieri (born c. 1250)
Uguccione della Faggiuola was an Italian condottiero, and Ghibelline magistrate of Pisa, Lucca and Forlì.
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1319
Bishop of Carlisle
John de Halton, also called John de Halghton, was an English priest and Bishop of Carlisle from 1292 to 1324.
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1324
Count of Savoy (born 1360)
Amadeus VII, known as the Red Count, was Count of Savoy from 1383 to 1391.
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1391
1399
1406
Byzantine diplomat (probable date)
Nicholas Eudaimonoioannes was a senior Byzantine official of the early 15th century, most notable as ambassador to the Papacy during the Council of Constance and to the Republic of Venice on several occasions.
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1423
David Megas Komnenos was the last Emperor of Trebizond from 1460 to 1461. He was the third son of Emperor Alexios IV of Trebizond and Theodora Kantakouzene. Following the fall of Trebizond to the Ottoman Empire, he was…
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1461
Italian humanist writer (born 1437)
Filippo Buonaccorsi, called Callimachus, Callimaco, Bonacurarius, Caeculus, Geminianensis was an Italian humanist, writer and diplomat active in Poland.
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1496
Italian painter and architect (born 1499)
Giulio Pippi, known as Giulio Romano ( JOOL-yoh rə-MAH-noh and sometimes known in French as Jules Romain, was an Italian painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations from High…
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1546
French poet and scholar (born 1508)
Jean Daurat was a French poet, scholar and a member of a group known as The Pléiade.
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1588
French lawyer and scholar (born 1539)
Pierre Pithou was a French lawyer and scholar. He is also known as Petrus Pithoeus.
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1596
Dutch painter (born 1588)
Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen was a Dutch painter of genre scenes and religious subjects. He was one of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio – the so-called Utrecht Caravaggisti. Along with Gerrit van Hondhorst and Dirck van…
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1629
French-Canadian explorer (born 1598)
Jean Nicolet (Nicollet), Sieur de Belleborne was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island, Green Bay, and being the first European to set foot in what is now the U.S. state of…
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1642
Dutch minister and theologian (born 1589)
Gisbertus Voetius was a Dutch Calvinist theologian, pastor, and professor.
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1676
American judge and politician, 1st Governor of Rhode Island (born 1601)
William Coddington was an early magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and later of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He served as the judge of Portsmouth and Newport in that colony, governor of…
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1678
Charles II was king of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg that had ruled Spain since 1516, his death without children resulted in the 1701 to 1714 War of the Spanish Succession.
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1700
Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (born 1744)
Count Alexander Nikolayevich Samoylov was a Russian general and statesman. He distinguished himself in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 and was the prosecutor general of the Russian Empire. He was a relative of…
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1814
Russian geographer and explorer (born 1838)
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky was a Russian geographer and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia. Although he never reached his ultimate goal, the city of Lhasa in Tibet, he still travelled through regions…
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1888
Alexander III was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly reactionary in domestic affairs and reversed some of the liberal reforms of his…
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1894
German archaeologist, journalist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1817)
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. He received…
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1903
French author and playwright (born 1873)
Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the…
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1907
executed Irish Republican (born 1902)
Kevin Gerard Barry was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier and medical student who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon…
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1920
French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian (born 1883)
Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle, known professionally as Max Linder, was a French actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and comedian of the silent film era. His onscreen persona "Max" was one of the first recognizable…
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1925
American businessman (born 1874)
Charles Henry Weeghman was an American restaurant entrepreneur and sports executive. Beginning in 1901, he began opening quick-service lunch counters throughout downtown Chicago. After failing to acquire the St. Louis…
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1938
German organist, composer, and conductor (born 1908)
August Hugo Distler was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.
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1942
1952
American author and educator (born 1888)
Dale Carnegie was an American writer and teacher of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of…
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1955
Turkish poet, author, and diplomat (born 1884)
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, known by the pen name Yahya Kemal, was a Turkish poet, author, politician and diplomat.
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1958
Venezuelan communist (born 1941)
Livia Margarita Gouverneur Camero was a Venezuelan student who was killed during a protest in support of the Cuban Revolution and against the presence in Venezuela of allies of Fulgencio Batista. Her death has become a…
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1961
Mexican race car driver (born 1942)
Ricardo Valentín Rodríguez de la Vega was the first Mexican driver ever to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix, competing in the 1961 and 1962 Formula One seasons.
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1962
Greek economist and politician, 134th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1888)
Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as the prime minister of Greece. He was also deputy prime minister from 1950 to 1952, in the governments…
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1968
Swedish author (born 1902)
Per Waldemar Hammenhög was a Swedish writer and novelist. The trivial, petty bourgeois urban environment forms the basis of many of his early realistic novels, whereas his later works turned towards religious and moral…
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1972
Canadian-American ecologist and academic (born 1930)
Robert Helmer MacArthur was a Canadian-born American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology. He is considered to be one of the founders of ecology.
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1972
American poet and critic (born 1885)
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes…
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1972
American actor and director (born 1927)
James Joseph Broderick III was an American actor. He is known for his role as Doug Lawrence in the television series Family, which ran from 1976 to 1980, and he played a pivotal role in the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
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1982
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1894)
King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His 67-year career spanned the silent and sound eras, with works distinguished by a sympathetic depiction of contemporary social issues.…
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1982
Dutch-Swiss musicologist and author (born 1887)
Anthony van Hoboken was a Dutch musical collector, bibliographer, and musicologist. He became especially well known for his scholarship on the music of Joseph Haydn and in particular for being the creator of the…
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1983
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)
Norman Krasna was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director who penned screwball comedies centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna directed three films during a forty-year career in…
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1984
Estonian-English footballer (born 1902)
Arnold Pihlak was an Estonian footballer. After joining Austria Vienna in 1928, he became the first-ever Estonian professional footballer.
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1985
American actor and comedian (born 1911)
Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". His career as a professional entertainer spanned nearly 60 years. He achieved major popularity when he starred in The Phil…
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1985
Canadian composer and conductor (born 1929)
Albert Antonio Serge Garant, was a Canadian composer, conductor, music critic, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of Musique de notre siècle on Radio-Canada. In 1966, with Jean…
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1986
Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (born 1922)
René Lévesque was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the 23rd premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985. He was the first Québécois political leader since Confederation to seek, through a referendum, a mandate…
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1987
Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological…
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1993
English historian and scholar (born 1911)
Adrian Nicholas Sherwin-White, FBA was a British academic and ancient historian. He was a fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford and President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. His most…
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1993
Jr., American actor (born 1913)
Noah Lindsey Beery was an American actor often specializing in warm, friendly character roles similar to many portrayed by his Oscar-winning uncle, Wallace Beery. Unlike his more famous uncle, however, Beery Jr. seldom…
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1994
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (born 1906)
Junius Richard Jayewardene, commonly referred to by his initials JR, was a Sri Lankan lawyer, public official and statesman who served as prime minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the second president of Sri…
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1996
American physicist and spy (born 1925)
Theodore Alvin Hall was an American physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union, who, during his work on United States efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II, gave a detailed…
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1999
American football player and race car driver (born 1954)
Walter Jerry Payton was an American professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears. Nicknamed "Sweetness", he is widely regarded as one of the…
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1999
English footballer and manager (born 1944)
George "Geordie" Armstrong was an English football player and coach, who was mostly associated with Arsenal. A winger, Armstrong made his Arsenal debut in 1962 at the age of 17 and went on to make 621 appearances –…
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2000
American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (born 1970)
Andre Louis Hicks, known professionally as Mac Dre, was an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer from Vallejo, California. He was an instrumental figure in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the…
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2004
American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1943)
Terry Knight was an American rock and roll music producer, promoter, singer, songwriter and radio personality, who enjoyed some success in radio, modest success as a singer, but considerable success as the original…
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2004
American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)
Lyle Russel "Skitch" Henderson was an American pianist, conductor, and composer. His nickname "Skitch" came from his ability to "re-sketch" a song in a different key. Bing Crosby suggested that he should use the name…
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2005
American screenwriter and producer (born 1948)
Michael Piller was an American television scriptwriter and producer, who was best known for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise.
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2005
American actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1966)
Adrienne Shelly was an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She gained recognition for her roles in independent films, particularly Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990). She later…
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2006
American novelist and essayist (born 1925)
William Clark Styron Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner.
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2006
Indian director and screenwriter (born 1922)
S. Ali Raza was an Indian film screenwriter and director associated with writing the script for hit films such as Aan (1952), Andaz (1949), Mother India (1957), Reshma Aur Shera (1971), Raja Jani (1972) and Dus Numbri…
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2007
American general (born 1915)
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay when it dropped a Little Boy, the first…
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2007
Swiss oceanographer and engineer (born 1922)
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed submarines for studying ocean currents. In the Challenger Deep, he and Lieutenant Don Walsh of the United States Navy were the first…
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2008
American record producer (born 1974)
Shakir Stewart, a native of Oakland, California, was an American record producer and record executive in a number of companies, the latest being Def Jam. At the time of his death he was the Senior Vice President of…
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2008
2008
Lithuanian-American author (born 1930)
Esther R. Hautzig was a Polish-born American writer, best known for her award-winning book The Endless Steppe (1968).
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2009
Estonian scientist and academic (born 1915)
Endel Laas was an Estonian forest scientist and professor.
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2009
American violinist and composer (born 1922)
Robert Harvey Rines was an American lawyer, inventor, musician, and composer. He is perhaps best known for his efforts to find and identify the Loch Ness Monster.
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2009
American actress (born 1999)
Shannon Skye Tavarez was an American child actress and singer. She played young Nala in the Broadway theatre production of The Lion King by Walt Disney Theatrical.
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2010
Duchess of Wellington (born 1922)
Diana Ruth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, was the wife of Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, and a British intelligence officer during World War II.
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2010
Turkish engineer and politician, Turkish Minister of Industry and Commerce (born 1927)
Hüseyin Cahit Aral was a Turkish engineer, politician and former government minister.
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2011
Spanish poet, playwright, and philosopher (born 1926)
Agustín García Calvo was a Spanish philologist, philosopher, poet, and playwright.
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2012
American singer (born 1984)
Mitchell Adam Lucker was an American musician best known as the lead vocalist for the deathcore band Suicide Silence.
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2012
Dominican baseball player (born 1957)
Pascual Gross Pérez was a Dominican professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, Montreal Expos, and New York Yankees from 1980 to 1991. He was an…
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2012
American lieutenant and politician (born 1921)
John Yetter McCollister was an American Republican politician.
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2013
Dutch economist and academic (born 1952)
Pieter (Piet) Rietveld was a Dutch economist and Professor in Transport Economics at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. He was among the top researchers in economic geography…
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2013
Baron Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (born 1923)
Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, was a Labour Party politician. As Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the late 1970s, he devised the Barnett Formula that allocates public spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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2014
Australian runner and coach (born 1967)
Jacquilyn Louise "Jackie" Fairweather was an Australian world champion triathlete, long-distance runner, coach and Australian Institute of Sport high-performance administrator.
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2014
South African footballer (born 1950)
Abednigo Valdez "Shaka" Ngcobo was a South African association football player who played in South Africa for Peñarol, Minnesota Kicks, Denver Dynamos and Kaizer Chiefs.
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2014
Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (born 1920)
Jean-Pierre Roy was a Canadian pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in three games during the 1946 season for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was born in Montreal, Quebec.
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2014
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1965)
Wayne Richard Wells, known professionally as Wayne Static, was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, and primary lyricist for the industrial metal band Static-X, of which…
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2014
American lawyer and judge (born 1941)
Thomas Robert Fitzgerald was a chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. Amid the impeachment of governor Rod Blagojevich, Fitzgerald became the first Illinois chief justice to preside over a gubernatorial…
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2015
American sprinter (born 1957)
Houston McTear was an American sprinter, who emerged from desperate poverty in the Florida Panhandle to become an international track star in the mid-1970s.
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2015
American entomologist and academic (born 1918)
Charles Duncan Michener was an American entomologist born in Pasadena, California. He was a leading expert on bees, his magnum opus being The Bees of the World published in 2000.
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2015
German journalist and politician (born 1929)
Günter Schabowski was a German politician who served as an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the ruling party during most of the existence of East Germany. After climbing up the party ladder, he became…
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2015
American actor, lawyer, and politician (born 1942)
Freddie Dalton Thompson was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003.…
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2015
American historian expert on Romanian history (born 1931)
Keith Arnold Hitchins was an American historian and a professor of Eastern European history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Romania and its history.
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2020
British party planner, writer and socialite (born 1941)
Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Shakerley was a British party planner, writer and socialite from the Anson family. She was a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II and sister of Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield.
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2020
Canadian horse jockey (born 1936)
Hugo Dittfach was a Canadian jockey. Dittfach survived three years as a boy in a Soviet internment camp in Poland during and after World War II and went on to become a National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey in…
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2021
2022
English cricketer (born 1940)
Brian Maurice Brain was an English first-class cricketer whose career with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire stretched over more than two decades. He was capped by Worcestershire in 1966 and by Gloucestershire in 1977.
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2023
American politician, 56th Governor of Kentucky (born 1936)
Martha Layne Collins was an American businesswoman and politician from Kentucky; she served as the state's 56th governor from 1983 to 1987, the first woman to hold the office and the only one to date. Prior to that, she…
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2025
Australian rugby league player (born 1957)
John Wayne Farragher was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s. He played for the Penrith Panthers as a prop.
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2025
Mexican politician (born 1985)
Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez was a Mexican politician known for his outspoken stance against organized crime groups in Mexico. In 2024, he successfully ran as an independent for the office of municipal president…
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2025
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Robert Staughton Lynd — American sociologist
FeaturedRobert Staughton Lynd
Death year1970
Known forHe is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, Helen Lynd; as the co-author of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937); and a pioneer in the use of social surveys
Deaths on this date94 (934 – 2025)
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