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He won the world light heavyweight title from Dick Tiger in 1968 via fourth-round knockout, and went on to defend the title fourteen times against thirteen different fighters in total from 1968 to 1974
Notable Deaths on November 21
117 people
615 – 2024
November 21 has seen 117 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 615 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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American boxer and police officer (born 1938)
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He was named to Ring's list of 100 Greatest Punchers of all time
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He was also named to Ring's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years, ranking at No
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He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1990.
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Robert Wayne Foster was an American professional boxer who fought as a light heavyweight and heavyweight
Irish missionary and saint (born 543)
Columbanus was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.
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1011
English archbishop (born 1070)
William de Corbeil or William of Corbeil was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury. Very little is known of William's early life or his family, except that he was born at Corbeil, south-east of Paris, and that he had two…
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1136
García Ramírez, sometimes García IV, V, VI or VII, called the Restorer, was the King of Navarre (Pamplona) from 1134. The election of García Ramírez restored the independence of the Navarrese kingdom after 58 years of…
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1150
Prince of Moscow and Vladimir
Yury (Georgy) Danilovich was Prince of Moscow from 1303 to 1325 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1318 to 1322. He contested the title of Grand Prince of Vladimir with his uncle Mikhail of Tver. As Yury's father had…
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1325
1361
German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (born 1490)
Georgius Agricola was a German Renaissance humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was broadly educated, but took a…
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1555
Italian poet and author (born 1507)
Fra' Annibale Caro, K.M., was an Italian writer and poet.
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1566
English merchant and financier (born 1519)
Sir Thomas Gresham the Elder was an English merchant and financier who acted on behalf of King Edward VI (1547–1553) and Edward's half-sisters, queens Mary I (1553–1558) and Elizabeth I (1558–1603). In 1565 Gresham…
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1579
8th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (born 1583)
Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire was Earl of Kent from 1623 to his death.
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1639
Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (born 1585)
Jan Brożek or Johannes Broscius was the most prominent Polish mathematician of his era and an early biographer of Copernicus. He held numerous ecclesiastical offices in the Catholic Church and was associated with the…
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1652
English organist and composer (born 1659)
Henry Purcell was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, having composed more than 100 songs, a tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and wrote incidental music to a version of…
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1695
Italian organist and composer (born 1637)
Bernardo Pasquini was an Italian composer of operas, oratorios, cantatas and keyboard music. A renowned virtuoso keyboard player, he was one of the most important Italian composers for harpsichord between Girolamo…
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1710
1775
French engineer (born 1709)
Jacques de Vaucanson was a French inventor and artist who built the first all-metal lathe. This invention was crucial for the Industrial Revolution. The lathe is known as the mother of machine tools, as it was the first…
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1782
German poet and author (born 1777)
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays The Prince of Homburg, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug,…
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1811
Russian poet and playwright (born 1769)
Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors. Formerly a dramatist and journalist, he only discovered his true genre at the age of 40. While many of…
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1844
Japanese academic and politician (born 1830)
Yoshida Shōin , commonly named Torajirō (寅次郎), was one of Japan's most distinguished intellectuals in the late years of the Tokugawa shogunate. He devoted himself to nurturing many ishin shishi who in turn made major…
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1859
French priest and activist (born 1802)
Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, OP, often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French Catholic priest, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in…
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1861
Czech historian and poet (born 1811)
Karel Jaromír Erben was a Czech folklorist. He is best known for his collection Kytice, which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes. He also wrote Písně národní v Čechách which contains 500 songs and…
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1870
Spanish painter (born 1838)
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal was a Spanish painter known for works focusing on Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, and military painting of Spanish imperial expansion.
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1874
1881
American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (born 1844)
Garret Augustus Hobart was the 24th vice president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his death in 1899, under President William McKinley. A member of the Republican Party, Hobart was an influential New…
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1899
Australian cricketer (born 1847)
Henry Frederick Boyle was a leading Australian cricketer of the 1870s and 1880s.
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1907
German painter (born 1876)
Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German Expressionist painter and draftswoman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is noted for the many self-portraits, including nudes. She is considered one of the most important…
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1907
German-Russian geologist and botanist (born 1832)
Carl Friedrich Schmidt was a Baltic German geologist and botanist in the Russian Empire. He is acknowledged as the founder of Estonian geology. In the mid-19th century, he researched Estonian oil shale, kukersite, and…
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1908
Norwegian-Danish painter (born 1851)
Peder Severin Krøyer, also known as P. S. Krøyer, was a Danish painter.
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1909
Emperor of Austria (born 1830)
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916. In the early part of his reign, his…
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1916
Mexican journalist and activist (born 1874)
Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón was a Mexican anarchist and social reform activist. His brothers Enrique and Jesús were also active in politics. Followers of the Flores Magón brothers were known as Magonistas. He has been…
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1922
American golfer (born 1886)
Edward McClellan Cummins was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904 he was part of the American team which won the gold medal. He finished 25th in this competition. In the individual…
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1926
Prince Reuss Younger Line (born 1858)
Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line was the last reigning Prince Reuss Younger Line from 1913 to 1918. Then he became Head of the House of Reuss Younger Line from 1918 to 1928.
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1928
Australian politician, 10th Premier of Western Australia (born 1876)
John Scaddan, CMG, popularly known as "Happy Jack", was Premier of Western Australia from 7 October 1911 until 27 July 1916.
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1934
Polish-American pianist and composer (born 1870)
Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. was a virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher, born in what is now Lithuania to Jewish parents, who became an American citizen in 1891. He was one of the most highly regarded performers…
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1938
American actress and playwright (born 1860)
Henrietta Vinton Davis was an elocutionist, dramatist, and impersonator. In addition to being "the premier actress of all nineteenth-century black performers on the dramatic stage", Davis was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey…
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1941
Austrian-Hungarian politician, Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (born 1863)
Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Josef Korsinus Ferdinand Graf Berchtold von und zu Ungarschitz, Frättling und Püllütz was an Austro-Hungarian politician, diplomat and statesman who served as Imperial Foreign Minister at…
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1942
South African general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1866)
General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, better known as Barry Hertzog or J. B. M. Hertzog, was a South African politician and soldier. He was a Boer general during the Second Boer War who served as the third prime minister…
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1942
Irish suffragist, trade unionist, and Irish republican (born 1887)
Maria Winifred "Winnie" Carney, was an Irish republican, a participant in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin and, as a trade union secretary, women's suffragist, and socialist party member, a lifelong social and political…
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1943
American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor (born 1889)
Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist, newspaper columnist and actor. From his beginnings at The Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for…
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1945
1945
American author (born 1873)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong…
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1945
American general (born 1889)
Alexander McCarrell Patch was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both world wars, rising to rank of general. During World War II, he commanded U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces during the Guadalcanal…
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1945
Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Queensland (born 1879)
William McCormack was Premier of Queensland, Australia, from 1925 to 1929.
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1947
French soldier who died during the Indochina War
Jean Jules Émile Trescases, also known as Jean Trescases, was a French Army Chief warrant officer who fought in various conflicts. Born on April 5, 1916, in Palalda, in the present-day commune of Amélie-les-Bains in the…
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1951
Italian race car driver (born 1903)
Felice Bonetto was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 16 Grands Prix from 1950 to 1953. Nicknamed "il Pirata", Bonetto won the Targa Florio in 1952 with Lancia.
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1953
Portuguese polygraph (born 1868)
D. António Tomás da Guarda Cabreira de Faria e Alvelos Drago da Ponte was a Portuguese mathematician, polygraph and publicist. A member of the aristocratic Cabreira family, António Cabreira was a claimant to the…
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1953
American clarinet player and composer (born 1893)
Lawrence James Shields was an early American dixieland jazz clarinetist. He was a member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz band to record commercially.
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1953
American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (born 1873)
Francis Burton Harrison was an American-Filipino statesman who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives between 1903 and 1913 and was appointed governor-general of the Philippines by President of…
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1957
1958
1959
Canadian canoeist (born 1904)
Francis Amyot was a Canadian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1930s. He won Canada's only gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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1962
Estonian composer and educator (born 1885)
Artur Lemba was an Estonian composer and piano teacher, and one of the most important figures in Estonian classical music. Artur and his older brother Theodor (1876–1962) were the first professional pianists in Estonia…
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1963
American ornithologist and author (born 1890)
Robert Franklin Stroud, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner, and author who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States. During his time…
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1963
American architect and public housing advocate (born 1905)
Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster was an American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners. A leading member of the "housers," a group of planners who advocated affordable housing for…
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1964
Jr., American author (born 1896)
Clifford Martin Eddy Jr. was an American writer known for his horror, mystery and supernatural short stories. He is best remembered for his work in Weird Tales magazine and his friendship with H. P. Lovecraft.
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1967
Canadian lacrosse and ice hockey player (born 1887)
Édouard Cyrille "Newsy" Lalonde was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League (NHL) and a professional lacrosse player. Lalonde is regarded as one of hockey's and lacrosse's greatest…
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1970
Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a…
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1970
American lawyer and politician (born 1902)
Thomas Minor Pelly was an American politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from the state of Washington between 1953 and 1973.
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1973
American radio host (born 1897)
John Bradley Gambling was an American radio personality. He was a member of the Gambling family, 3 generations of whom—John B., John A. and John R.—were hosts of WOR Radio's morning show Rambling with Gambling over the…
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1974
Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (born 1890)
Frank Théodore Martin was a Swiss composer who spent much of his life in the Netherlands.
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1974
Icelandic author (born 1889)
Gunnar Gunnarsson was an Icelandic author who wrote mainly in Danish. He grew up, in considerable poverty, on Valþjófsstaður in Fljótsdalur valley and on Ljótsstaðir in Vopnafjörður. During the first half of 20th…
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1975
Mexican actress (born 1895)
Sara Rita de la Luz García was a Mexican actress and comedian who made her biggest mark during the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema". During the 1940s and 1950s, she often played the part of a no-nonsense but lovable…
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1980
American actor and comedian (born 1906)
Harry Rudolph Von Zell was an American announcer of radio programs, and an actor in films and television shows. He is best remembered for his work on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.
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1981
English activist and author (born 1894)
John Gordon Hargrave, , was a prominent youth leader and politician in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, Head Man of the Kibbo Kift, described in his obituary as an 'author, cartoonist, inventor, lexicographer, artist…
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1982
American basketball player (born 1967)
Benjamin Wilson Jr. was an American high school basketball player from Chicago, Illinois. Wilson, a Neal F. Simeon Vocational High School basketball player, was regarded as the top high school player in the U.S. by…
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1984
American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1904)
Gerardo Luigi Colonna was an American musician, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter and trombonist who played the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks in Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s. He also…
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1986
American politician and 42nd Governor of Alabama (born 1908)
James Elisha "Big Jim" Folsom Sr. was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of Alabama, having served from 1947 to 1951, and again from 1955 to 1959. He was the first governor of Alabama born in the…
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1987
American baseball player and scout (born 1903)
Carl Owen Hubbell, nicknamed "the Meal Ticket" and "King Carl", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player. He was a pitcher for the New York Giants of the National League (NL) from 1928 to 1943, and remained on…
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1988
Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)
Harvey Hart was a Canadian television and film director and a television producer.
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1989
American author and illustrator (born 1931)
Margot Zemach was an American illustrator of more than forty children's books, some of which she also wrote. Many were adaptations of folk tales from around the world, especially Yiddish and other Eastern European…
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1989
1990
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1907)
David Abraham "Sonny" Werblin was a prominent entertainment industry executive and sports impresario who was an owner of the New York Jets and served as chairman of Madison Square Garden, and who built and managed the…
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1991
Laotian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Laos (born 1920)
Kaysone Phomvihane was the first leader of the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 until his death in 1992. After the Communists seized power in the wake of the Laotian Civil War, he was the de facto…
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1992
American singer-songwriter and drummer (born 1956)
Ricky Williams, also known as Ricky Tractor, was an American musician based in San Francisco. He is best known as a vocalist and lyricist, but also played drums and guitar. He was the second drummer for Crime…
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1992
American actor (born 1934)
Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III was an American actor and television director. His career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television series. He is known for his roles…
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1993
Dutch-American astronomer and academic (born 1899)
Willem Jacob Luyten was a Dutch-American astronomer.
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1994
English actor and manager (born 1935)
Peter Grant was an English music manager, best known as the manager of Led Zeppelin from their creation in 1968 to their breakup in 1980. With his intimidating size and weight, confrontational manner, knowledge and…
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1995
Indian-English diplomat, British ambassador to Kazakhstan (born 1940)
Noel Andrew Stephen Jones was an Indian-born British diplomat, British ambassador to Kazakhstan from 1993 to 1995. He was the first British ambassador to have come from an ethnic minority.
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1995
English organist and composer (b 1916)
Bernard William George Rose was a British organist, soldier, composer, and academic.
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1996
Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
Mohammad Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow "for their contributions to the theory of the unified…
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1996
English actor, author, and illustrator (born 1908)
Quentin Crisp was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of her life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, she was an artist's model, hence the title of Crisp's most…
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1999
Spanish economist and politician (born 1937)
Ernest Lluch Martín, OC3, OCS, was a Spanish economist and politician, member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC). He was Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs from 1982 to 1986 in the first Spanish Socialist…
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2000
Czech runner (born 1922)
Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner who won three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He came first in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres runs before he decided at the last minute to compete…
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2000
American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1916)
Hadda Brooks was an American pianist, vocalist and composer, who occasionally appeared playing the piano in film. Billed as "Queen of the Boogie", she was Inducted in the Rhythm and Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1993.
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2002
Scottish soldier (born 1896)
Alfred Anderson was a Scottish joiner and veteran of the First World War. He was the last known holder of the 1914 Star, the last known combatant to participate in the 1914 World War I Christmas truce, Scotland's last…
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2005
American journalist and academic (born 1927)
Hugh Swanson Sidey was an Iowa State University educated American journalist who worked for Life magazine starting in 1955, then moved on to Time magazine in 1957.
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2005
Somalian-Djiboutian politician, 1st President of Djibouti (born 1916)
Hassan Gouled Aptidon was a Djiboutian politician who served as the first President of Djibouti from 1977 to 1999.
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2006
Lebanese lawyer and politician (born 1972)
Pierre Amine Gemayel was a Lebanese politician in the Kataeb Party, also known as the Phalange Party in English.
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2006
Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Fernando Fernández Gómez, better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific in all these fields, he was elected member of the…
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2007
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1928)
Thomas Christian "Tomcat" Johnson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive. As a player, he played for the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League. He later served as the…
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2007
New Zealand cricketer (born 1931)
Spencer Noel McGregor was a Test cricketer who played 25 Test matches for New Zealand between 1954–55 and 1964–65. He was the New Zealand Cricket Almanack Player of the Year in 1968.
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2007
Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1926)
Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov, was Russian engineer and a cosmonaut in the former Soviet space program.
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2009
American author (born 1949)
Norris Church Mailer was an American novelist, actress, artist, and model. Norris published two novels, Windchill Summer and Cheap Diamonds, and a memoir, A Ticket to the Circus, which focuses on her nearly thirty-year…
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2010
American activist and politician (born 1943)
David Fraser Nolan was an American activist and politician. He was one of the founders of the Libertarian Party of the United States, having hosted the meeting in 1971 at which the Party was founded. Nolan subsequently…
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2010
American painter and author, co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History (born 1917)
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, also known as Margaret Taylor Goss, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs or Margaret T G Burroughs, was an American visual artist, writer, poet, educator, and arts organizer. She co-founded the…
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2010
American science fiction and fantasy author (born 1926)
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White…
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2011
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1941)
Emily Squires was an American television producer and director best known for her Emmy Award-winning work on Sesame Street.
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2012
American pianist (born 1990)
Austin Peralta was an American jazz pianist and composer from Los Angeles, California. He was the son of film director and Z-Boys skateboarder Stacy Peralta.
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2012
American journalist and author (born 1935)
John Egerton was an American journalist and author known for his writing on the civil rights movement, Southern food, history of the South, and Southern culture.
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2013
Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist, founded The Kavli Foundation (born 1927)
Fred Kavli was a Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist. He was born on a small farm in Eresfjord, Norway. He founded the Kavlico Corporation, located in Moorpark, California. Under his leadership, the…
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2013
American astronomer and author (born 1939)
Dimitri Manuel Mihalas was a laboratory fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the field of astronomy, astrophysics, and stellar atmospheres. He was born in Los Angeles, California and was of Greek origin.
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2013
American basketball player and coach (born 1928)
Arild Verner Agerskov Mikkelsen was an American professional basketball player. One of the National Basketball Association's first power forwards in the 1950s, he was known for his tenacious defense and durability,…
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2013
French composer (born 1927)
Bernard Parmegiani was a French composer best known for his electronic or acousmatic music.
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2013
Vietnamese general (born 1926)
Lieutenant General Tôn Thất Đính was an officer who served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). He is best known as one of the key figures in the November 1963 coup that led to the arrest and assassination of…
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2013
Canadian-American wrestler (born 1929)
Joseph Maurice Régis Vachon was a Canadian professional wrestler, best known by his ring name Mad Dog Vachon. He was the older brother of wrestlers Paul and Vivian Vachon, and the uncle of wrestler Luna Vachon.
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2013
American soldier and politician (born 1920)
John Horting Land was Mayor of Apopka, Florida for a total of 61 years, from 1950 to 1968 and again from 1971 to 2014. He was the longest-serving mayor in the history of Florida and one of the longest-serving mayors in…
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2014
English general (born 1929)
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Francis Richardson was a British Army officer. Among other posts, he commanded a battalion and a brigade during the Troubles before becoming General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland…
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2014
Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1950)
Gilbert Joseph "Gil" Cardinal was a Canadian filmmaker of Métis descent. Born in Edmonton in 1950, and placed in a foster home at the age of two, Cardinal only discovered his Métis roots while making his documentary…
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2015
Indian-Pakistani poet and politician (born 1939)
Makhdoom Muhammad Ameen Faheem was a Pakistani populist left-wing political figure and poet. He was the senior vice-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party, chairman of Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians and former…
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2015
English screenwriter and producer (born 1935)
Anthony Read was an English television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author. He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, which included a period as a script editor and…
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2015
American violinist and conductor (born 1932)
Joseph Harry Silverstein was an American violinist and conductor.
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2015
Pakistani mountaineer and adventurer (born 1963)
Hassan Sadpara PP was a Pakistani mountaineer and adventurer from Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. He is the first Pakistani to have climbed six eight-thousanders including Mount Everest (8848m), K2 (8611m),…
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2016
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
David Bruce Cassidy was an American actor and musician. While he was best known in the United States for his role as Keith Partridge in the 1970s musical-sitcom The Partridge Family, he was an international success in…
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2017
American actor (born 1930)
Lou Cutell was an American actor, who was perhaps best known for his appearance as Amazing Larry in the 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure and as Dr. Howard Cooperman in the 1995 Seinfeld episode "The Fusilli Jerry".
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2021
French Trappist monk and survivor of the Thibirine monks (born 1924)
Jean-Pierre Schumacher, OCSO was a French Trappist monk and prior who was one of the two survivors of the deadly terrorist attack on the Algerian Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in 1996.
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2021
American artist, author and restauranteur (born 1941)
Alice May Brock was an American artist, author and restauranteur. A resident of Massachusetts for her entire adult life, Brock owned and operated three restaurants in the Berkshires—The Back Room, Take-Out Alice, and…
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2024
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Bob Foster — American boxer
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Death year2015
Known forHe won the world light heavyweight title from Dick Tiger in 1968 via fourth-round knockout, and went on to defend the title fourteen times against thirteen different fighters in total from 1968 to 1974
Deaths on this date117 (615 – 2024)
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