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Notable Deaths on November 17
118 people
375 – 2024
November 17 has seen 118 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 375 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2006 — Ferenc Puskás
Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1927)
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Ferenc Puskás was a Hungarian footballer and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar
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A forward and an attacking midfielder, he scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary and later played four international matches for Spain as well
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He is the European all-time top assist provider in international football (53)
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Known as the "Galloping Major", in 1995, he was recognized as the greatest top division scorer of the 20th century by the IFFHS
Roman emperor (born 321)
Valentinian I, sometimes known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375. He is the second-last emperor to govern the empire as a whole, albeit he only did so from February 26th to March 28th of 364,…
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375
Roman bishop and saint (born 538)
Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history".
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594
Emperor Jomei was the 34th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
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641
Liutgard of Saxony was the queen of East Francia from 876 until 882 by her marriage with King Louis the Younger.
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885
empress of Min (born 893)
Chen Jinfeng (陳金鳳) was the third known wife of Wang Yanjun, a ruler of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Min state. Wang Yanjun, while not the first ruler of Min, was the first to claim imperial title,…
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935
emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms)
Wang Yanjun, known as Wang Lin from 933 to 935, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Huizong of Min (閩惠宗), used the name of Xuanxi (玄錫) while briefly being a Taoist monk, was the third monarch of Min during the…
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935
Byzantine general (born 1045)
Nikephoros Melissenos, Latinized as Nicephorus Melissenus, was a Byzantine general and aristocrat. Of distinguished lineage, he served as a governor and general in the Balkans and Asia Minor in the 1060s. In the…
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1104
Arab chronicler (born 1095)
Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni al-Kalbī or Ibn Munqidh was a medieval Arab Muslim poet, author, faris (knight), and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria. His…
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1188
Elizabeth of Hungary, also known as Elisabeth of Thuringia, was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary and the landgravine of Thuringia.
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1231
1307
1307
9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (born 1285)
Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman prominent in the conflict between King Edward II and his barons. His father, Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel, died in 1302, while Edmund was still a…
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1326
Ottoman general (born 1288)
Evrenos or Evrenuz was an Ottoman military commander and frontier lord
active during the expansion of Ottoman power into the Balkans in the second half of the 14th century.
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1417
1492
Italian philosopher and author (born 1463)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when, at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural…
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1494
queen of João II of Portugal (born 1458)
Dona Eleanor of Avis, also known as Leonor de Lencastre or Eleanor of Viseu, was a Portuguese infanta (princess) and queen consort of Portugal. She was the wife of King John II of Portugal and the sister of King Manuel…
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1525
Mary I was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She made vigorous attempts to reverse the English Reformation, which had…
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1558
English cardinal and academic (born 1500)
Reginald Pole was an English cardinal and the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558 during the Marian Restoration of Catholicism.
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1558
English composer (born 1485)
Hugh Aston was an English composer of the early Tudor period. While little of his music survives, he is notable for his innovative keyboard and church music writing. He was also politically active, a mayor, Member of…
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1558
Antoine, sometimes called Antoine of Bourbon, was King of Navarre from 1555 until his death in 1562 as the husband and co-ruler of Queen Jeanne III. He was the first monarch of the House of Bourbon, of which he became…
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1562
John III was King of Sweden from 1569 until his death. He attained the Swedish throne after a rebellion against his half-brother Erik XIV. He is mainly remembered for his attempts to close the gap between the newly…
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1592
Japanese commander (born 1542)
Kuki Yoshitaka was a naval commander during Japan's Sengoku period, under Oda Nobunaga, and later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was also the ninth headmaster of the Kuki family's school of martial arts, Kukishin-ryū.
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1600
German mystic (born 1575)
Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly…
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1624
Bavarian field marshal (born 1594)
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim was a German field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War. A supporter of the Catholic League, he was mortally wounded during the Battle of Lützen fighting the…
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1632
Comte de Guébriant, French general (born 1602)
Jean-Baptiste Budes, comte de Guébriant was marshal of France.
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1643
English viol player, composer, and poet (born 1580)
Thomas Ford was an English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet.
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1648
English bishop (born 1601)
John Earle was an English cleric, author and translator, who was chaplain to Charles II. Towards the end of his life he was Bishop of Worcester and then Salisbury.
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1665
English pastor and author (born 1634)
Joseph Alleine was an English Nonconformist pastor and author of many religious works.
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1668
duc de Montausier, French general and politician (born 1610)
Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, was a French soldier and, from 1668 to 1680, the governor of the Dauphin, the eldest son and heir of Louis XIV, King of France.
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1690
German-Dutch painter (born 1631)
Ludolf Bakhuizen was a German-born Dutch painter, draughtsman, calligrapher and printmaker. He was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger left for England in 1672.…
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1708
South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1653)
Abraham van Riebeeck was a merchant with the Dutch East India Company and the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1709 to 1713.
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1713
French author and playwright (born 1668)
Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735).
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1747
1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1693)
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne was an English Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, and whose official life extended throughout the Whig…
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1768
Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (born 1710)
James Ferguson was a Scottish astronomer. He is known as the inventor and improver of astronomical and other scientific apparatus, as a striking instance of self education and as an itinerant lecturer.
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1776
Italian painter and illustrator (born 1720)
Bernardo Bellotto, was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the…
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1780
of Russia (born 1729)
Catherine II, commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after a coup d'etat against her husband, Peter III. Her long reign helped Russia thrive under a golden…
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1796
Czech-American pastor and missionary (born 1721)
David Zeisberger was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native American tribes who resided in the Thirteen Colonies. He established communities of Munsee (Lenape) converts to Christianity in the valley of the…
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1808
English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (born 1738/1739)
John Walter was an English newspaper publisher and founder of The Times newspaper, which he launched on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register. He was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors' School,…
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1812
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and…
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1818
French painter and lithographer (born 1758)
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, better known as Carle Vernet, was a French painter, the youngest child of painter Claude-Joseph Vernet and the father of painter Horace Vernet.
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1835
American physician and author (born 1813)
James McCune Smith was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist and author. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree. His M.D. was awarded by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland,…
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1865
American pastor and theologian (born 1820)
George Hendric Houghton was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman.
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1897
Welsh theologian and educator (born 1847)
Hugh Price Hughes was a Welsh Methodist clergyman and religious reformer. He served in multiple leadership roles in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. He organised the West London Methodist Mission, a key Methodist…
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1902
1905
American pilot (born 1886)
Ralph Greenley Johnstone was the first American person to die while piloting an airplane that crashed. He and Archibald Hoxsey were known as the "heavenly twins" for their attempts to break altitude records.
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1910
French sculptor and illustrator (born 1840)
François Auguste René Rodin was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to…
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1917
Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1847)
Robert Comtesse was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912).
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1922
Estonian author (born 1862)
Eduard Brunberg, known by the pen name Eduard Bornhöhe, was an Estonian writer.
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1923
Gregory VII of Constantinople was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1923 until 1924. He was the Metropolis of Chalcedon before being elevated to the patriarchal throne. He imported the New Style Calendar to…
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1924
Indian author and politician (born 1865)
Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian revolutionary, politician, and author, popularly known as Punjab Kesari. He was one of the three members of the Lal Bal Pal trio. He died of heart attack on October 1928 after containing…
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1928
American statistician and businessman (born 1860)
Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His…
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1929
German-American singer (born 1861)
Ernestine Schumann-Heink was a Bohemian-born Austrian-American operatic dramatic contralto of German Bohemian descent. She was noted for the flexibility and wide range of her voice. Heink and Schumann were her two…
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1936
Australian footballer, cricketer, and coach (born 1860)
John Worrall was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the VFA, and a Test cricketer. He was also a prominent coach in both sports and a journalist.
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1937
Croatian lawyer and politician, 20th Mayor of Split (born 1864)
Ante Trumbić was a Yugoslav and Croatian lawyer and politician in the early 20th century.
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1938
1940
American biologist and academic (born 1879)
Raymond Pearl was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Pearl was a prolific writer of academic books, papers and…
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1940
Russian historian and author (born 1890)
Victor Serge was a Belgian-born Russian revolutionary, novelist, poet, historian, journalist, and translator. Serge was a key eyewitness to and participant in the revolutionary movements of the 20th century and the…
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1947
Russian-Israeli poet and journalist (born 1899)
Yitzhak Lamdan was a Russian-born Israeli Hebrew-language poet, translator, editor and columnist.
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1954
American pianist and composer (born 1894)
James Price Johnson was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the…
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1955
American baseball player (born 1913)
Morton Cecil Cooper was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, New York Giants, and Chicago Cubs. A four-time MLB…
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1958
Brazilian guitarist and composer (born 1887)
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has globally become…
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1959
daughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal
Olivia Twenty Dahl was the oldest child of the author Roald Dahl and the American actress Patricia Neal. She died at the age of seven from encephalitis caused by measles, before a vaccine against the disease had been…
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1962
English poet, author, and illustrator (born 1911)
Mervyn Laurence Peake was a British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle,…
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1968
1968
English actress (born 1888)
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.
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1971
French-Indian spiritual leader (born 1878)
Mirra Alfassa, known to her followers as The Mother or La Mère, was a French-Indian spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him…
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1973
Bangladeshi scholar and politician (born 1880)
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, also known reverentially as Maulana Bhashani, was a Bangladeshi politician and statesman who was one of the founders of the Awami League, the oldest political party in Bangladesh that played a…
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1976
English singer and bass player (born 1951)
John Glascock was a British musician. He was the bassist and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band Carmen from 1972 to 1975; and the bass guitarist for progressive rock band Jethro Tull from 1976 until his death in…
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1979
Estonian composer and conductor (born 1905)
Eduard Tubin was an Estonian composer, conductor, and choreographer.
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1982
French businessman (born 1927)
Georges Besse was a French businessman who helped lead several large state-controlled companies. He was assassinated outside his Paris home in front of one of his children by the armed group Action Directe while he was…
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1986
American baseball player (born 1906)
Samuel Paul Derringer was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three National League teams from 1931 to 1945, primarily the Cincinnati Reds.
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1987
English-American actress, author, and journalist (born 1904)
Sheilah Graham was a British-born, internationally syndicated American gossip columnist during Hollywood's "Golden Age". In her youth, she had been a showgirl and a freelance writer for Fleet Street in London. These…
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1988
American criminal (born 1960)
Costabile "Gus" Farace, Jr. was an Italian American criminal and mobster, an associate of the Bonanno crime family. Born in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Farace is known for murdering a teenage male prostitute and a federal Drug…
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1989
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning…
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1990
American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (born 1934)
Audre Lorde was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" who dedicated…
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1992
Canadian lawyer and politician, fifth Deputy Premier of Quebec (born 1926)
Gérard D. Levesque was a longtime Quebec politician and Cabinet minister, who twice served as interim leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.
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1993
1995
Dutch tennis player (born 1903)
Cornelia "Kea" Tiedemann-Bouman was a tennis player from the Netherlands. She won the singles title at the 1927 French Championships, beating Irene Bowder Peacock of South Africa in the final. Bouman was the first and,…
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1998
American actress (born 1920)
Esther Elizabeth Rolle was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series Good Times, for which she was…
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1998
French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
Louis Eugène Félix Néel was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his studies of the magnetic properties of solids.
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2000
German guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)
Michael Karoli was a German guitarist, violinist, and sound-mixer. He was a founding member of the krautrock band Can.
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2001
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (born 1919)
Harrison Arlington "Pete" Williams Jr. was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Democrat who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives (1953–1957) and the United States Senate…
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2001
2002
American painter and illustrator (born 1924)
Frank McCarthy was an American artist and realist painter known for advertisements, magazine artwork, paperback covers, film posters, and paintings of the American West.
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2002
Indian singer (born 1962)
Surjit Bains Bindrakhia was a singer from Punjab, India. He was recognized for his distinctive voice and hekh, a singing technique where a note is held continuously in one breath. His biggest tracks include Meri Nath…
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2003
American-Dutch singer-songwriter (born 1946)
Arthur Lee Conley, also known in later years as Lee Roberts, was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music".
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2003
Swedish wrestler and manager (born 1970)
Mikael Ljungberg was a Swedish wrestler from Gothenburg. He competed for Örgryte IS's wrestling section.
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2004
Russian ice hockey player (born 1941)
Alexander Pavlovich Ragulin was a Russian ice hockey player widely regarded as one of the greatest defensemen in Soviet hockey history. Over his illustrious career, he captured three Olympic gold medals and ten World…
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2004
Polish actor and director (born 1942)
Marek Perepeczko was a popular Polish movie and theatrical actor.
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2005
American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1928)
Ruth Alston Brown was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the "Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in…
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2006
American football player and coach (born 1929)
Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler Jr. was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Miami University from 1963 to 1968 and at the University of…
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2006
Estonian chess player (born 1940)
Aarne Hermlin was an Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the title of International Correspondence Chess Master in 1986 and of FIDE Master in 1992.
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2007
American admiral (born 1919)
George Stephen Morrison was a United States Navy rear admiral and naval aviator. Morrison held significant commands of United States naval forces during the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead…
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2008
American basketball player and coach (born 1915)
Peter Francis Newell was an American college men's basketball coach and basketball instructional coach. He coached for 15 years at the University of San Francisco, Michigan State University, and the University of…
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2008
American basketball player and coach (born 1961)
Kurt John Budke was an American college basketball coach. Budke was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. His final coaching job was as the head coach for the Oklahoma State Cowgirls basketball…
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2011
Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1957)
Gurdeep Singh Chadha, also known as Ponty Chadha, was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who owned the Wave Group. Chadha was noted for his success in the alcohol industry, particularly for having alcohol…
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2012
2012
Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the Gottex Company (born 1918)
Lea Gottlieb was an Israeli fashion designer and businesswoman. She immigrated to Israel from Hungary after World War II, and founded the Gottex company.
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2012
American baseball player (born 1916)
Frederick Albert Schmidt was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three different National League teams between 1944 and 1947. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Listed at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m),…
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2012
American singer-songwriter (born 1942)
Billy Scott was an American R&B singer, who was lead vocalist for the group The Prophets, later known as "The Georgia Prophets", and eventually "Billy Scott & The Party Prophets". He was known for Beach music hits such…
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2012
Indian cartoonist and politician (born 1926)
Bal Keshav Thackeray, also known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian cartoonist and politician who founded the original Shiv Sena, a right-wing Marathi regionalist and a Hindu nationalist party, active mainly in the…
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2012
English author (born 1924)
Margaret Beda Nicholson, known professionally as Margaret Yorke, was an English crime fiction writer.
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2012
American baseball player (born 1930)
John "Zeke" Bella was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who appeared in 52 total games for the New York Yankees in 1957 and the Kansas City Athletics in 1959.
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2013
English colonel and lawyer (born 1915)
Sir Alfred Lapthorn Blake, was a British solicitor, Royal Marines officer and councillor. He was Lord Mayor of Portsmouth City Council from 1958 to 1959 and director of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme from 1966 to…
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2013
2013
British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
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2013
Portuguese footballer (born 1993)
This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents.
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2013
American baseball player (born 1925)
Mary Nesbitt Wisham was an American baseball pitcher and first basewoman who played from 1943 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m), 155 lb., Nesbitt…
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2013
American CIA agent and judge (born 1930)
John Thomas Downey or Jack Downey was an American judge and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As a CIA operative, he was shot down over China during the Korean War and was held prisoner for over twenty years.…
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2014
American lieutenant and politician (born 1928)
William Eldridge Frenzel was an American politician and businessman who represented Minnesota's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1991. A member of the Republican…
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2014
American baseball player (born 1940)
Raymond Michael Sadecki was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He is best remembered as the left-handed complement to Bob Gibson, who in 1964, won 20 games to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to their first World…
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2014
American psychologist and philosopher (born 1922)
Patrick Colonel Suppes was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology and…
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2014
English lawyer and diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia (born 1928)
Sir John Henry Gladstone Leahy, was a senior British diplomat. He was Ambassador to South Africa from 1979 to 1982, and High Commissioner to Australia from 1984 to 1988. He later became Chairman of Lonrho.
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2015
Iranian poet and songwriter (born 1926)
Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi was an Iranian poet and lyricist. He is one of the pioneering songwriters in the history of Persian traditional music.
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2015
Brazilian race car driver (born 1982)
Christiano "Tuka" Chiaradia Alcoba Rocha was a Brazilian race car driver. He won numerous karting championships in Brazil from 1996 to 2000. Then moved up to South American Formula 3 Lights. In 2002 he moved to Europe…
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2019
American rapper (born 1985)
Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., known professionally as Young Dolph, was an American rapper, songwriter, and record executive. He first garnered mainstream attention for his guest appearance on O.T. Genasis' 2015 single…
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2021
Japanese manga artist (born 1934)
Macoto Takahashi was a Japanese painter, illustrator, and manga artist. His works of shōjo manga are noted for significantly influencing the aesthetic styles of that demographics.
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2024
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Ferenc Puskás — Hungarian footballer (1927–2006)
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Death year2006
Known forA forward and an attacking midfielder, he scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary and later played four international matches for Spain as well
Deaths on this date118 (375 – 2024)
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