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When François, his childhood friend, ascended to the throne in 1515 he advanced as governor of the Bastille and Novara, then in 1522 was made a Marshal of France
Notable Deaths on November 12
99 people
607 – 2024
November 12 has seen 99 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 607 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1567 — Anne de Montmorency
French general and diplomat (born 1493)
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Quickly freed, he then worked to free first the king and then the king's sons
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In 1526, he was made Grand Maître, granting him authority over the king's household
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He aided in the marriage negotiations for the king's son, the duc d'Orléans to Catherine de' Medici in 1533
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In the mid 1530s he found himself opposed to the war party at court led by Admiral Chabot and therefore retired
Pope Boniface III was the bishop of Rome from 19 February 607 to his death on 12 November of the same year. Despite his short pontificate, he made a significant contribution to the Catholic Church.
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607
657
Frankish nobleman (born c.915)
Burchard III, a member of the Hunfriding dynasty, was the count of Thurgau and Zürichgau, perhaps of Rhaetia, and then Duke of Swabia from 954 to his death.
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973
Swiss painter
Notker Physicus was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall, active as a physician, painter, composer and poet. He is best known for his medical prowess, and may have been physician to the Holy Roman Emperors Otto…
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975
Danish-English king (born c.995)
Cnut, also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rule are…
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1035
1087
Donnchad mac Máel Coluim was King of Alba. He was son of Malcolm III and his first wife Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, earl of Orkney.
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1094
Canute VI was King of Denmark from 1182 to 1202.
Contemporary sources describe Canute as an earnest, strongly religious man.
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1202
Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born 1165)
Philippe du Plessis was the 13th Grand Master of the Knights Templar. He was born in the fortress of Plessis-Macé, Anjou, France. In 1189 he joined the Third Crusade as a simple knight, and discovered the Order of the…
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1209
Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff
Henry de Abergavenny was Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff, both in South Wales.
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1218
Austrian chronicler and political advisor (born c.1270)
John of Viktring was a late medieval chronicler and political advisor to Duke Henry of Carinthia.
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1347
Margrave of Moravia (born 1322)
John Henry of Luxembourg, a member of the House of Luxembourg, was Count of Tyrol from 1335 to 1341 and Margrave of Moravia from 1349 until his death.
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1375
Louis III was a claimant to the Kingdom of Naples from 1417 to 1426, as well as count of Provence, Forcalquier, Piedmont, and Maine and duke of Anjou from 1417 to 1434. As the heir designate to the throne of Naples, he…
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1434
English bishop and politician, English Secretary of State (born 1497)
Stephen Gardiner was an English Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I.
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1555
Ming dynasty official and Confucian martyr
Yang Jisheng was a Chinese court official of the Ming dynasty who held multiple posts during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor. He is remembered as a political opponent of Yan Song, on whose initiative he was arrested…
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1555
Ming Chinese general
Zhang Jing, going by the name Cai Jing (蔡經) for much of his life, was a Chinese official who served the Ming dynasty. As he climbed the ladder of Chinese bureaucracy, he became in charge of several provinces as supreme…
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1555
Italian theologian (born 1500)
Peter Martyr Vermigli was an Italian-born Reformed theologian. His early work as a reformer in Catholic Italy and his decision to flee for Protestant northern Europe influenced some other Italians to convert and flee as…
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1562
1572
English admiral and shipbuilder (born 1532)
Admiral Sir John Hawkins was an English naval commander, naval administrator, privateer and slave trader.
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1595
Lithuanian archbishop (born c. 1582)
Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM was a Basilian hieromonk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Polotsk from 1618 to 1623. On 12 November 1623, he was beaten to death with an axe…
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1623
1667
English general and politician (born 1612)
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an English army officer and politician who commanded the New Model Army from 1645 to 1650 during the English Civil War. Because of his dark hair, he was known as "Black…
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1671
German physician and chemist (born 1660)
Friedrich Hoffmann or Hofmann was a German physician and chemist. He is also sometimes known in English as Frederick Hoffmann.
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1742
French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (born 1736)
Jean Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to…
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1793
English politician (born 1751)
Lord George Gordon was a British nobleman and politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780. An eccentric and flighty personality, he was born into the Scottish nobility and sat in the House of…
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1793
Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (born 1773)
Juan Ramón González de Balcarce was an Argentine military leader and politician.
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1836
Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (born 1789)
William Christopher Zeise was a Danish organic chemist. He is best known for synthesising one of the first organometallic compounds, named Zeise's salt in his honour. He also performed pioneering studies in organosulfur…
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1847
English author (born 1810)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor.…
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1865
Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (born 1843)
Joseph James Cheeseman was the 12th president of Liberia. Born at Edina in Grand Bassa County, he was elected three times on the True Whig ticket. Cheeseman was educated at Liberia College.
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1896
English engineer (born 1812)
William Henry Barlow was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects. Barlow was involved in many engineering enterprises. He was engineer for the Midland…
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1902
American astronomer, mathematician, and author (born 1855)
Percival Lowell was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System. He founded the…
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1916
1933
American photographer and publisher (born 1864)
Fred Holland Day was an American photographer and publisher. He was prominent in literary and photography circles in the late nineteenth century and was a leading Pictorialist. He was an early and vocal advocate for…
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1933
Canadian physician and humanitarian (born 1890)
Henry Norman Bethune was a Canadian thoracic surgeon, early advocate of universal health care, and member of the Communist Party of Canada. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline…
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1939
executed Irish Republican
Maurice O'Neill (1917-1942) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) Captain, captured in 1942 after a shoot out with Irish police, and promptly tried and executed, one of only two people executed in independent Ireland for…
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1942
American golfer and pilot (born 1875)
Albert Bond Lambert was an American businessman. He was the president of Lambert Pharmacal Company, marketer of Listerine, for over 25 years. Lambert was also a keen amateur golfer and prominent St. Louis aviator and…
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1946
Indian academic and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (born 1861)
Madan Mohan Malaviya was an Indian scholar, educational reformer, and activist notable for his role in the Indian independence movement. He was president of the Indian National Congress four times and the founder of…
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1946
Italian composer (born 1867)
Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. His best-known work in that genre was Andrea Chenier (1896).
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1948
American hurdler (born 1883)
Lesley Ashburner was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 metre hurdles.
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1950
English-American actress (born 1865)
Julia Marlowe was an English-born American actress, known for her interpretations of William Shakespeare's plays.
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1950
Hungarian swimmer and architect, designed the Grand Hotel Aranybika (born 1878)
Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer, football (soccer) player, referee, manager, and career architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary. Formerly excelling in…
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1955
Croatian poet and translator (born 1891)
Augustin Josip "Tin" Ujević was a Croatian poet, considered by many to be the greatest poet in 20th-century Croatian literature.
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1955
American political scientist, world authority on plebiscites (born 1882)
Sarah Wambaugh was an American political scientist.
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1955
Swedish shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (born 1865)
Gustaf Fredrik "Jotte" Söderström was a Swedish athlete and tug of war competitor.
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1958
Mexican general and acting president (1915) (born 1885)
Roque Victoriano González Garza was a Mexican general and politician who served as acting President of Mexico from January to June 1915. He was appointed by the Convention of Aguascalientes during the Mexican…
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1962
French painter (born 1873)
Emmanuel Michel Benner, known as Many Benner, was a French painter. The son of Jean Benner, Many was the nephew of his father's twin brother, also named Emmanuel Benner. All four Benners were painters.
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1965
Indian spiritual leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (born 1888)
Syedna Taher Saifuddin, also known as Taher Saifuddin, was the 51st and longest serving Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras. Saifuddin adapted the modernisation in Western and European ideas, and established its…
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1965
Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China (born 1898)
Liu Shaoqi was a Chinese revolutionary and politician. He was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1954 to 1959, first-ranking vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
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1969
German mathematician (born 1914)
Johanna (Hanna) Neumann was a German-born mathematician who worked on group theory.
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1971
Czech-American pianist and composer (born 1879)
Charles Rudolf Friml was a Czech-born composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United…
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1972
English racing driver and journalist (born 1906)
Thomas Henry Wisdom was a British motoring correspondent for the Daily Herald. He was also a racing driver who took part in numerous races and rallies.
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1972
Russian engineer, co-founded Mikoyan (born 1893)
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and…
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1976
American composer and academic (born 1894)
Walter Hamor Piston, Jr., was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.
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1976
American actor (born 1918)
William Franklin Holden was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead…
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1981
American lawyer and activist (born 1916)
Minoru Yasui was an American lawyer from Oregon. Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon. He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the…
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1986
1990
Italian actor (born 1932)
Gabriele Tinti was an Italian actor who was married to actress and model Laura Gemser.
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1991
American diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (born 1926)
Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman was an American political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and his consequent involvement in the Watergate scandal.
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1993
American sprinter and educator (born 1940)
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the…
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1994
Spanish-American composer and conductor (born 1915)
Carlos Suriñach i Wrokona was a Spanish-born composer and conductor.
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1997
English footballer (born 1925)
Roy Walter Hollis was a footballer and is a member of the Norwich City Hall of Fame.
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1998
American mathematician and engineer (born 1938)
Sally hashim Shlaer was an American mathematician, software engineer and software methodologist, known as co-developer of the 1980s Shlaer–Mellor method for software development.
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1998
French conductor and composer (born 1913)
Franck Pourcel was a French composer, arranger, and conductor of popular and classical music.
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2000
German-American actor and composer (born 1920)
Albert Hague was a German–born American songwriter and actor.
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2001
English chess player and theoretician (born 1955)
Anthony John Miles was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title.
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2001
American actor (born 1976)
Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an American actor. Beginning his career as a child model, Brandis moved on to acting in commercials and subsequently won television and film roles. Brandis made his acting debut in 1982 as…
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2003
New Zealand director and screenwriter (born 1986)
Cameron Troy Duncan was a filmmaker from New Zealand.
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2003
American actress (born 1908)
Penny Singleton was an American actress and labor leader. During her six decade career on stage, screen, radio and television, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion…
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2003
American drummer (born 1954)
Anthony Theodore Thompson was an American session drummer best known as the drummer of the Power Station and a member of Chic.
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2003
Indian cricketer (born 1919)
Khanmohammad Cassumbhoy Ibrahim was an Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in the 1948–49 season.
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2007
2007
American educator and politician, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1930)
Catherine Baker Knoll was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. She was the 30th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, serving under Governor Ed Rendell from 2003 to 2008, when she died in office.…
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2008
English drummer (born 1947)
John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell was an English rock and jazz drummer, best known for his contributions in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. He was inducted…
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2008
Polish composer (born 1933)
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. He became a leading figure of the…
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2010
Swedish photographer (born 1925)
Hans Arvid Hammarskiöld was a Swedish professional photographer. He was active in most genres—for many years he worked as an industrial photographer, but was especially noted for his portraits.
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2012
Cuban-American bodybuilder (born 1941)
Sergio Oliva, often known by his epithet 'The Myth' for his physique and performance, was a Cuban American bodybuilder and three-time Mr. Olympia winner.
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2012
American psychologist and theorist (born 1934)
Daniel N. Stern was a prominent American developmental psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, specializing in infant development, on which he had written a number of books — most notably The Interpersonal World of the Infant…
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2012
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1947)
Stephen Glen Rexe was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, the first-ever draft pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL) and second overall pick in the 1967 NHL Amateur Draft.
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2013
Polish astronomer and academic (born 1926)
Konrad Rudnicki was a Polish astronomer, professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and a priest of the Old Catholic Mariavite Church.
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2013
Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1944)
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov was a Soviet cosmonaut. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1967), and was selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978. He retired on 10 May 1995. He was…
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2013
English composer and educator (born 1944)
Sir John Kenneth Tavener was an English composer of choral religious works. Among his works are The Lamb (1982), The Protecting Veil (1988), and Song for Athene (1993).
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2013
Danish painter and sculptor (born 1943)
Kurt Trampedach was a Danish painter and sculptor.
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2013
Indian director and producer (born 1946)
Ravi Chopra was an Indian filmmaker, best known for directing the television show Mahabharat (1988–1990).
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2014
English actor, director, and producer (born 1947)
Warren Clarke was an English actor. He appeared in many films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). His television appearances included Dalziel and Pascoe, The Manageress and…
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2014
American educator and politician (born 1929)
Margaret "Marge" Ellen Roukema was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2003.
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2014
Russian mathematician and academic (born 1945)
Valery Senderov was a Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism.
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2014
Hungarian footballer (born 1983)
Márton Fülöp was a Hungarian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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2015
terrorist (born 1988)
Mohammed Emwazi, commonly referred to as Jihadi John, was a British militant of Kuwaiti origin seen in several videos produced by the Islamist extremist group Islamic State (IS) showing the beheadings of a number of…
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2015
Mexican-American actress (born 1910)
Guadalupe Natalia Tovar Sullivan, known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Drácula. It was filmed in Los Angeles by…
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2016
Egyptian actor (born 1946)
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz was an Egyptian film and television actor. He became famous for several famous roles in Egyptian cinema, before becoming famous in his native Egypt and the whole region for his Egyptian patriotic role…
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2016
2018
wood scientist (born 1935)
Chung-Yun Hse was a Taiwanese American research scientist in wood utilization, who was an elected fellow (FIAWS) of the International Academy of Wood Science. He served at the USDA Forest Service Southern Research…
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2021
2023
American drummer and composer (born 1925)
Roy Owen Haynes was an American jazz drummer. In the 1950s, he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle" for his distinctive snare drum sound and musical vocabulary. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a…
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2024
Canadian politician and diplomat, 36th Premier of British Columbia (born 1959)
John Joseph Horgan was a Canadian politician and diplomat who served as the 36th premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022 and the ambassador of Canada to Germany from 2023 to 2024. He led the British Columbia New…
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2024
South Korean actor and model (born 1985)
Song Jae-rim, also known as Song Jae-lim, was a South Korean actor and model. Starting in modelling, Song had a career as an actor in Korean dramas.
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2024
American computer scientist and educator (born 1928)
Thomas Eugene Kurtz was an American computer scientist and educator. A Dartmouth professor of mathematics, he and colleague John G. Kemeny are best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language and the…
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2024
English actor (born 1934)
Timothy Lancaster West was an English actor with a long and varied career across theatre, film, and television. He began acting in repertory theatres in the 1950s before making his London stage debut in 1959 moving on…
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2024
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Who died on November 12?
Anne de Montmorency — French soldier, statesman and diplomat (1493–1567)
FeaturedAnne de Montmorency
Death year1567
Known forHe served under five French kings
Deaths on this date99 (607 – 2024)
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