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She is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883
Notable Deaths on November 19
125 people
496 – 2024
November 19 has seen 125 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 496 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1887 — Emma Lazarus
American poet (born 1849)
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Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty
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The last lines of the sonnet were set to music by Irving Berlin as the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" for the 1949 musical Miss Liberty, which was based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty
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The latter part of the sonnet was also set by Lee Hoiby in his song "The Lady of the Harbor" written in 1985 as part of his song cycle "Three Women".
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Emma Lazarus was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes
Pope Gelasius I was the bishop of Rome from 1 March 492 to his death on 21 November 496. Gelasius was a prolific author whose style placed him on the cusp between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Some scholars…
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496
Pope Anastasius II was the bishop of Rome from 24 November 496 to his death on 19 November 498. He was an important figure in trying to end the Acacian schism, but his efforts resulted in the Laurentian schism, which…
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498
930
Margrave of Lower Lusatia (born c. 990)
Dietrich II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia was the first Margrave of Lower Lusatia from the House of Wettin, ruling from 1032 until his death.
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1034
Seljuk Sultan (born 1055)
Malik-Shah I was the third sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1072 to 1092, under whom the sultanate reached the zenith of its power and influence.
During his youth, he spent his time participating in the campaigns of his…
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1092
Franciscan scholar
Pedro González Pérez, known as Pedro Gallego, was a Franciscan scholar and prelate. He was the first bishop of Cartagena from the diocese's restoration in 1248 until his death, and played a prominent role in organizing…
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1267
1288
1298
Count of Eu (born 1315)
Raoul II of Brienne was the son of Raoul I of Brienne, Count of Eu and Guînes and Jeanne de Mello. He succeeded his father in 1344 as Count of Eu and Guînes, as well as in his post as Constable of France.
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1350
8th Countess of Norfolk (born 1472)
Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, later also Duchess of York and Duchess of Norfolk was an English noblewoman and the sole heiress of the Mowbray family. She became the child bride of Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke…
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1481
Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old (born 1494)
Bona Sforza was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano by her own right. She was a surviving member of the powerful House of Sforza, which…
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1557
Japanese daimyō (born 1508)
Matsunaga Danjō Hisahide was a Japanese samurai and daimyō and head of the Yamato Matsunaga clan in Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century.
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1577
Ivan Ivanovich was the second son of Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible by his first wife Anastasia Romanovna. He was the tsarevich until he suddenly died; historians generally believe that his father killed him in a fit of…
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1581
German scholar and author (born 1576)
Caspar Schoppe was a German Catholic polemicist, philosopher and scholar.
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1649
French-Italian painter (born 1594)
Nicolas Poussin was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of…
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1665
English bishop and philosopher (born 1614)
John Wilkins was an English Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death.
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1672
Massachusetts governor (born 1592)
Roger Conant was a New England colonist and drysalter credited for establishing the communities of Salem, Peabody, Beverly and Danvers, Massachusetts.
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1679
English poet and playwright (born 1642)
Thomas Shadwell was an English poet and playwright who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1689.
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1692
French prisoner
The Man in the Iron Mask was an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of Louis XIV of France (1643–1715). The strict measures taken to keep his imprisonment secret resulted in a long-lasting legend about his…
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1703
French courtier and soldier (born 1632)
Antonin Nompar de Caumont, 1st Duke of Lauzun was a French courtier and soldier. He was the only love interest of the "greatest heiress in Europe", Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, cousin of Louis…
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1723
American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1711)
William Nelson was an American merchant, planter and politician from Yorktown, Virginia. Having served more than two decades on the Virginia Council of State, he became the colony's acting governor between the death of…
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1772
1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (born 1722)
Lieutenant-General James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, PC (Ire), styled Lord Offaly until 1743 and known as The Earl of Kildare between 1743 and 1761 and as The Marquess of Kildare between 1761 and 1766, was a…
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1773
French harpsichord player and composer (born 1720)
Bernard de Bury or Buri was a French musician and court composer of the late Baroque era.
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1785
Irish general (born 1763)
Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone, was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence and is an iconic figure for Irish republicanism. Convinced that if his fellow Protestants feared to make common…
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1798
Italian composer (born 1728)
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi was an Italian opera composer of the classical period.
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1804
French dancer and choreographer (born 1727)
Jean-Georges Noverre was a French dancer and ballet master, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. His birthday is now observed as…
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1810
German mathematician and physicist (born 1763)
Johann Georg Tralles was a German mathematician and physicist.
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1822
Austrian pianist and composer (born 1797)
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre of more than 1,000 compositions, including over 600 Lieder and…
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1828
1831
American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 9th Vice President of the United States (born 1780)
Richard Mentor Johnson was an American lawyer, military officer and politician who served as the ninth vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 under President Martin Van Buren. He is the only vice…
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1850
American army officer (born 1833)
William Price Sanders was an officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War who died at the Siege of Knoxville.
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1863
American missionary to the Hawaiian Kingdom (born 1780)
Lydia Brown was an American missionary to the Hawaiian Kingdom. At the age of 54, Brown was sent to Hawaii by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to teach textiles to native Hawaiian women. She…
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1865
Georgian general (born 1798)
Prince Ivane Andronikashvili was a Georgian nobleman who served as a general in the Russian Imperial Army. He reached the peak of his military career during the Crimean War, commanding an army of Georgian cavalrymen who…
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1868
German-English engineer (born 1823)
Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens, anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. He was born on April 4, 1823, in the Kingdom of Hanover and died on 19 November 1883 at the age…
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1883
American historian and academic (born 1810)
William Seymour Tyler was the Amherst College, Massachusetts, historian during his tenure as professor of Latin, Greek, and Greek literature from 1832 to 1893.
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1897
German chemist (born 1835)
Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig was a German chemist. He discovered the pinacol coupling reaction, mesitylene, diacetyl and biphenyl. Fittig studied the action of sodium on ketones and hydrocarbons. He discovered the Fittig…
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1910
1915
American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1838)
Joseph Fielding Smith Sr. was an American religious leader who served as the sixth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a nephew of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement,…
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1918
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1880)
Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent era filmmaker and media proprietor.
Ince was known as the "Father of the Western" and was responsible for making over 800 films.
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1924
French actress (born 1864)
Jeanne Bérangère was a French stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly forty years on the stage and in films during the silent film era.
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1928
1931
Ukrainian-Russian philosopher and theologian (born 1866)
Lev Isaakovich Shestov, born Yeguda Lev Shvartsman, was a Russian existentialist and religious philosopher. He is best known for his critiques of both philosophical rationalism and positivism. His work advocated a…
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1938
Polish painter and critic (born 1892)
Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer, artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy of…
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1942
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (born 1895)
Miyagiyama Fukumatsu was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture. He was the sport's 29th yokozuna, and the last yokozuna in Osaka sumo.
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1943
Belgian painter (born 1860)
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
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1949
1950
English footballer and manager (born 1870)
Walter Bartley Wilson was an English lithographic artist and the founder of Cardiff City Football Club. Born in Bristol, he moved to Cardiff in 1897 where he became involved with Riverside Cricket Club. Encouraged by…
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1954
American journalist and author (born 1891)
Marquis James was an American author and journalist, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his works The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.
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1955
English-American actor (born 1903)
Francis Loftus Sullivan was an English film and stage actor.
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1956
Canadian archbishop (born 1892)
Joseph Charbonneau was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Montreal from 1940 to 1950.
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1959
American actress (born 1899)
Phyllis Maude Haver was an American actress of the silent film era.
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1960
Georgian author, poet, and playwright (born 1880)
Grigol Robakidze was a Georgian writer, publicist, and public figure primarily known for his prose and anti-Soviet émigré activities.
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1962
1963
American archer (born 1889)
Henry Barber Richardson was an American archer. He won two Olympic bronze medals. Richardson was the first archer to win medals at two different editions of the Olympic Games as well as the youngest medallist at the…
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1963
American priest and soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1927)
Charles Joseph Watters was a chaplain (major) in the United States Army and Roman Catholic priest. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery exhibited while rescuing wounded men in the Vietnam War's…
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1967
Australian theatre producer and director (born 1895)
May Hollinworth was an Australian theatre producer and director, former radio actress, and founder of the Metropolitan Theatre in Sydney. The daughter of a theatrical producer, she was introduced to the theatre at a…
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1968
American actor (born 1903)
Lewis Sargent was an American film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1917 and 1949.
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1970
1970
American trombonist (born 1902)
George Clarence Brunies, a.k.a. Georg Brunis, was an American jazz trombonist, who was part of the dixieland revival. He was known as "The King of the Tailgate Trombone".
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1974
American author and illustrator (born 1928)
Louise Perkins Fitzhugh was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Fitzhugh is best known for her 1964 novel Harriet The Spy, about an adolescent girl who to keeps a journal recording the foibles of her…
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1974
American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (born 1902)
Roger Douglas Branigin was an American politician who was the 42nd governor of Indiana, serving from January 11, 1965, to January 13, 1969. A World War II veteran and well-known public speaker, Branigin took office with…
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1975
German writer in Low German (born 1887)
Rudolf Kinau, also known as Rudi Kinau was a Low German writer.
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1975
English novelist, (born 1912)
Elizabeth Taylor was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century". Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of…
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1975
Indian-Scottish architect and academic, designed the Coventry Cathedral (born 1907)
Sir Basil Urwin Spence, was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist…
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1976
1983
American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1902)
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, better known by his stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first black actor to…
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1985
Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (born 1900)
Juan Nepomuceno Arvizu Santelices, was an acclaimed lyric tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of the Latin American bolero and tango on the international concert stage, on the radio and in film. He was widely noted…
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1985
American-Greek businesswoman (born 1950)
Christina Onassis was a Greek-Argentine businesswoman, socialite and heiress to the Onassis fortune. She was the only daughter of Aristotle Onassis and Athina Mary "Tina" Livanos.
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1988
American author (born 1927)
Margaret Cecile "Peggy" Parish was an American writer known best for the children's book series and fictional character Amelia Bedelia. Parish was born in Manning, South Carolina, attended the University of South…
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1988
American race car driver (born 1950)
Herbert Grant Adcox was an American stock car driver who died in a single-car accident in the 1989 Atlanta Journal 500 in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.
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1989
Chinese general and politician (born 1900)
Sun Li-jen was a Chinese National Revolutionary Army general best known for his leadership in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. His military achievements earned him the laudatory nickname "Rommel…
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1990
Austrian-American actor (born 1907)
Reggie Nalder was a prolific Austrian film and television character actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive features—partially the result of disfiguring burns—together with a haunting style and…
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1991
American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
Bobby Russell was an American singer and songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he had five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, including the crossover pop hit "Saturday Morning Confusion". Russell was married to…
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1992
American actress (born 1938)
Diane Marie Antonia Varsi was an American film actress best known for her performances in Peyton Place – her film debut, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award – and the cult film Wild in the Streets. She left…
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1992
Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (born 1920)
Tetsuya Theodore Fujita was a Japanese and American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather. His research at the University of Chicago on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and…
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1998
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)
Alan Jay Pakula was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Associated with the New Hollywood movement, his best-known works include his critically acclaimed "paranoia trilogy": the neo-noir mystery Klute…
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1998
English director and producer (born 1926)
Bernard Thompson was a British television producer and director most famous for his work on Last of the Summer Wine and Are You Being Served?. Thompson served as producer and director during Last of the Summer Wine's…
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1998
Russian-American artist and publisher (born 1912)
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications.
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1999
Canadian painter and stained glass artist (born 1924)
Marcelle Ferron was a Canadian painter and stained glass artist, was one of the original 16 signatories of Paul-Émile Borduas's Refus global manifesto, and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene, associated…
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2001
Australian race car driver (born 1939)
Ian Anthony "Pete" Geoghegan, was an Australian race car driver, known for a quick wit and natural driving skills. Sometimes referred to as "Pete" Geoghegan, he was one of the iconic characters of the 1960s and 1970s…
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2003
Filipino journalist and composer (born 1934)
George Masangkay Canseco was a Filipino composer and former politician. He composed numerous popular Filipino songs.
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2004
Dutch sculptor and academic (born 1914)
Vincent Pieter Semeyn Esser known as Piet Esser was a Dutch sculptor.
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2004
German actor and director (born 1932)
Helmut Griem was a German film, television and stage actor, and director.
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2004
American author and illustrator (born 1939)
Trina Schart Hyman was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends. She won the 1985 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration,…
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2004
American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1942)
Terrence Paul Melcher was an American record producer, singer, and songwriter who was instrumental in shaping the mid-to-late 1960s California sound and folk rock movements. His best-known contributions were producing…
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2004
English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
Sir John Robert Vane was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel…
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2004
Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924)
Erik Balling was a Danish TV and film director. He created two of Denmark's most popular TV series, Matador and Huset på Christianshavn.
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2005
American football player, coach and scout (born 1919)
Stephen Nickolas Belichick was an American football player, coach, and scout. He played college football at Western Reserve University, now part of Case Western Reserve University, from 1938 to 1940 and then in the…
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2005
American singer-songwriter (born 1955)
Kevin Mark DuBrow was an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until 1987, and again from 1993 until his death in 2007.
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2007
English rugby player and coach (born 1964)
Michael Keith Gregory was an English professional rugby league footballer and coach. As a player, Gregory played either as a second-row or loose forward, and spent most of his club career at Warrington, making over 200…
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2007
Filipino actor (born 1948)
Juan Marasigan Feleo, known professionally as Johnny Delgado, was a Filipino television and movie actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his television work on the TV gag show Goin' Bananas. Other roles…
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2009
2010
Turkish director and screenwriter (born 1916)
Lütfi Ömer Akad was a Turkish film director, screenwriter, and academic, who directed movies from 1948 to 1990. In 1949, he debuted as a film director with Vurun Kahpeye an adaptation of Halide Edib Adıvar's book of the…
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2011
English actor (born 1925)
John Reginald Neville CM OBE was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than sixty years. He was renowned for his roles on both stage and screen in genres ranging from classical theatre to…
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2011
American poet and author (born 1915)
Ruth Stone was an American poet. She was published widely in periodicals throughout her career and was the author of thirteen collections, as well as a teacher at many schools before finding stable tenure at Binghamton…
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2011
Welsh director and producer (born 1941)
John Hefin MBE was a Welsh television producer and director who served as head of drama at BBC Wales. He began working for the BBC in 1960, and his career at the corporation included devising the long-running Welsh…
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2012
Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1943)
Shiro Miya was a Japanese enka singer, lyricist and composer. His band Shiro Miya and the Pinkara Trio's 1972 song "Onna no Michi", became the second best-selling single in Japanese Oricon charts history, selling over…
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2012
American lawyer and politician (born 1930)
Warren Bruce Rudman was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from New Hampshire from 1980 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he was known as a moderate centrist, to such an…
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2012
Russian author (born 1933)
The brothers Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky were Soviet and Russian science-fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.
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2012
American baseball player (born 1928)
Werner Joseph Birrer was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. Listed at 6' 0", 195 lb., Birrer batted and threw right handed. He was born in Buffalo, New York. Graduated from Kensington High School in Buffalo,…
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2013
American pilot and academic (born 1921)
Dora Jean Dougherty Strother was an American aviator best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.S. military pilot, human factors engineer with Bell…
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2013
English journalist, author, and activist (born 1939)
Raymond Arthur Gosling was an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and gay rights activist.
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2013
English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.
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2013
American author and poet (born 1915)
Charlotte Zolotow was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children. She wrote about 70 picture book texts.
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2013
English philosopher and academic (born 1944)
Ram Roy Bhaskar was an English philosopher of science who is best known as the initiator of the philosophical movement of critical realism (CR). Bhaskar argued that the task of science is "the production of the…
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2014
Irish-Australian bishop (born 1933)
Jeremiah Joseph Coffey was the seventh Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sale, Australia, serving from 1989 until his retirement in 2008. On retirement, he was styled Bishop Emeritus of Sale.
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2014
American businessman (born 1919)
Leon Weston "Pete" Harman was an American businessman best known for having struck a deal with Colonel Harland Sanders to open the first KFC franchise. Located in Salt Lake County, Utah, Harman's location opened for…
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2014
American theologian, author, and academic (born 1934)
Richard Alvin Jensen was an American theologian who served as the Carlson Professor of Homiletics Emeritus at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
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2014
Iranian footballer and manager (born 1950)
Gholamhossein Mazloumi, nicknamed Sar Talaei, was an Iranian football player, coach and football administrator.
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2014
German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1931)
Mike Nichols was an American film and theatre director and comedian. He worked across a range of genres and had an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. He is one of 28 people to…
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2014
2015
American lawyer and politician (born 1937)
Allen Edward Ertel was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 1977 to 1983.
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2015
2015
Indonesian author, poet, and critic (born 1953)
Korrie Layun Rampan was an Indonesian novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, journalist, and politician.
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2015
American runner and diplomat (born 1924)
Malvin Greston Whitfield was an American athlete, goodwill ambassador, and airman. Nicknamed Marvelous Mal, he was the Olympic champion in the 800 meters at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics, and a member of the 1948…
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2015
American cult leader and mass murderer (born 1934)
Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people…
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2017
American singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1938)
Warren Thomas "Pete" Moore was an American singer-songwriter and record producer, notable as the bass singer for Motown group the Miracles from 1955 onwards, and was one of the group's original members. He is also a…
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2017
Czech tennis player (born 1968)
Jana Novotná was a Czech professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved in July 1997, and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 67 weeks.…
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2017
American singer and actress (born 1931)
Della Reese was an American singer, actress, television personality, author and ordained minister. As a singer, she recorded blues, gospel, jazz and pop. Several of her singles made the US Hot 100, including the number…
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2017
American singer and songwriter (born 1932)
Lonnie Melvin Tillis was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the outlaw country movement, with a long…
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2017
American actor and mixed martial artist (born 1973)
Jason David Frank was an American actor and mixed martial artist, best known for his role as Tommy Oliver in the Power Rangers television franchise.
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2022
American mental health activist, First Lady of the United States (1977–1981), and of Georgia (1971–1975) (born 1927)
Eleanor Rosalynn Carter was an American activist and humanitarian who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as the wife of President Jimmy Carter, from their marriage from 1946 until her death…
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2023
Scottish poet and publisher (born 1935)
Edward Sean Linden was a Scottish-Irish poet, literary magazine editor, and political activist. From 1969 to 2002, he published and edited the poetry magazine Aquarius, which The Irish Post said made him "one of the…
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2023
American sociologist and pastor (born 1935)
Anthony Campolo Jr. was an American sociologist, Baptist pastor, author, public speaker, and spiritual advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton. Campolo was an influential leader in the evangelical left. Campolo was a…
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2024
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Emma Lazarus — American poet (1849–1887)
FeaturedEmma Lazarus
Death year1887
Known forShe is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883
Deaths on this date125 (496 – 2024)
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