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In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party
Notable Deaths on November 27
118 people
8 BC – 2024
November 27 has seen 118 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 8 BC – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1943 — Ivo Lola Ribar
Croatian soldier and politician (born 1916)
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In 1936, Ribar became secretary of the Central Committee of SKOJ
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He was killed by a German bomb in 1943 near Glamoč while boarding an airplane for Cairo, where he was to become the first representative of Communist Yugoslavia to the Middle East Command.
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In 1942, Ribar was among the founders of the Unified League of Anti-Fascist Youth of Yugoslavia (USAOJ)
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Ivan Ribar, known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav Croat communist politician and military leader
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395
Roman Empress (born 392)
Galla Placidia, daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I, was a mother, tutor, and advisor to emperor Valentinian III. She was queen consort to Ataulf, King of the Visigoths, from 414 until his death in 415, briefly…
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1198
Blanche of Castile was Queen of France by marriage to Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX: during his minority from 1226 until 1234, and during his absence from 1248 until 1252.
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1252
Gregory of Sinai, or in Serbian and Bulgarian Grigorije Sinaita, was a Greek Christian monk and writer from Smyrna. He was instrumental in the emergence of hesychasm on Mount Athos in the early 14th century.
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1346
Flemish patriot (born 1340)
Philip van Artevelde was a Flemish patriot, the son of Jacob van Artevelde. Because of his father's prominence he was godson of English queen Philippa of Hainault, who held him in her arms during his baptism.
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1382
French composer and music theorist (born 1397)
Guillaume Du Fay was a composer and music theorist of early Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered the leading European composer of his time, his music was widely performed…
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1474
Italian sculptor and architect (born 1486)
Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance architecture.…
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1570
Japanese commander (born 1568)
Nakagawa Hidemasa was a samurai commander in the Azuchi–Momoyama period.
He was the eldest son of Nakagawa Kiyohide.
His young brother was Nakagawa Hidenari.
His wife was Tsuruhime who was the daughter of Oda Nobunaga.
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1592
1620
English politician (born 1592)
Sir John Eliot was an English statesman who was serially imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he eventually died, by King Charles I for advocating the rights and privileges of Parliament.
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1632
English painter and engineer (born 1644)
Henry Winstanley was an English painter, engineer, and merchant who constructed the first Eddystone Lighthouse after losing two of his ships on the Eddystone rocks. He died while working on the project during the Great…
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1703
French-English mathematician and theorist (born 1667)
Abraham de Moivre was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula, a formula that links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory.
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1754
Scottish engineer, designed the threshing machine (born 1719)
Andrew Meikle was a Scottish mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine, a device used to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat. He also had a hand in assisting Firbeck in the invention of…
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1811
Irish-born American merchant sea captain, an officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.
Gustavus Conyngham was an Irish-born American merchant sea captain, an officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer. As a commissioned captain fighting the British in the American Revolutionary War, he captured 24…
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1819
Belgian-American architect (born 1780)
André Joseph Ghislain Parmentier, also known as Andrew Parmentier is one of a generation of American landscape designers who arrived from Europe in the early years after Independence. Many of these designers, including…
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1830
English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1815)
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical…
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1852
English astronomer and educator (born 1826)
Richard Christopher Carrington was an English astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae;…
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1875
German flute player and composer (born 1794)
Theobald Böhm was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and Clarinet and its fingering system. He was a Bavarian court musician, a virtuoso flautist and a renowned…
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1881
Austrian ballerina (born 1810)
Fanny Elssler was an Austrian ballerina of the Romantic Period.
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1884
Indian Activist (born 1827)
Jyotirao Phule, also known as Jyotiba Phule, was an Indian social activist, businessman, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra.
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1890
fils, French novelist and playwright (born 1824)
Alexandre Dumas fils was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias, published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata, as well as numerous…
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1895
Swiss academic and politician, 10th President of the Swiss Council of States (born 1819)
Constant Fornerod was a Swiss politician, originally from Avenches, and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1855–1867).
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1899
American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (born 1831)
Clement Studebaker was an American wagon and carriage manufacturer. With his brother Henry, he co-founded the H & C Studebaker Company, precursor of the Studebaker Corporation, which built Pennsylvania-German Conestoga…
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1901
French geologist and palaeontologist (born 1827)
Jean Albert Gaudry was a French geologist and palaeontologist. He was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the Catholic Collège Stanislas de Paris. He was a notable proponent of theistic evolution.
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1908
Belgian poet and playwright (born 1855)
Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language. He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six…
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1916
Panamanian pharmacist and politician (born 1857)
Manuel Espinosa Batista was a Colombian pharmacist turned politician who campaigned for a separate Panama state and became one of "Founders of the Republic". He is known for his philanthropy.
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1919
Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and author (born 1853)
Alexius Meinong von Handschuchsheim was an Austrian philosopher, a realist known for his unique ontology and theory of objects. He also made contributions to philosophy of mind and theory of value.
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1920
Canadian contractor and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (born 1854)
Sir Douglas Colin Cameron KCMG was a Canadian politician. He served in the Ontario Legislature from 1902 to 1905, and was the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1911 to 1916.
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1921
Australian zoo owner (born 1841)
Mary Grant Roberts was an Australian zoo owner. Roberts owned Hobart Zoo from when it opened in 1895 until her death in 1921. The zoo was closed in 1937.
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1921
Potawatomi political activist (born 1851)
Simon Kahquados, born Kakanisaiga, was a leader of the Potawatomi people in Wisconsin, United States, and played a pivotal role in creating the federally recognized Forest County Potawatomi Community.
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1930
Slovak-American actress (born 1899)
Lya de Putti was a Hungarian film actress during the silent era. She was noted for her portrayals of vamp characters.
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1931
American criminal (born 1908)
Lester Joseph Gillis, also known as George Nelson and Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber who became a criminal partner of John Dillinger when he helped Dillinger escape from prison in Crown Point, Indiana.…
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1934
Greek-French businessman and philanthropist (born 1849)
Basil Zaharoff was a Greek arms dealer and industrialist. One of the richest men in the world during his lifetime, Zaharoff was described as both a "merchant of death" and a "mystery man of Europe". His success was…
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1936
Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1871)
Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, albanologist, poet and playwright. Co-founder of the Democratic Nationalist Party (PND), he served as a member of Parliament, President of…
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1940
Russian physicist and academic (born 1879)
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam or Mandelshtam was a Soviet physicist.
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1944
American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Sr. was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and…
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1953
French-Swiss composer and academic (born 1892)
Oscar-Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher is "more even than Le Roi David or…
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1955
Bulgarian politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (born 1892)
Georgi Purvanov Damyanov was a Bulgarian communist politician.
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1958
Polish-American conductor (born 1892)
Artur Rodziński was a Polish and American conductor of orchestral music and opera. He began his career after World War I in Poland, where he was discovered by Leopold Stokowski, who invited him to be his assistant with…
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1958
Irish-English cricketer (born 1875)
Frederick Luther Fane, played cricket for the England cricket team in 14 Test matches. He also played for Essex, Oxford University and London County.
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1960
Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1870)
Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer was a Dutch politician of the Christian Historical Union. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 8 March 1926 until 10 August 1929, and from 10 August 1939 until 3 September…
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1960
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1967
1969
American swimmer and nurse (born 1913)
Helene Emma Madison was an American swimmer. She was a 1932 Olympic gold medalist in the 100-meter, 400-meter and 4x100-meter freestyle relay, and a former world record-holder.
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1970
American trumpet player (born 1887)
Frank Joseph Christian was an American early jazz trumpeter.
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1973
Italian automotive engineer (born 1895)
Alberto Massimino was an Italian automotive engineer.
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1975
English author and activist, co-founded the Guinness Book of Records (born 1925)
Alan Ross McWhirter was, with his twin brother, Norris, the cofounder of the 1955 Guinness Book of Records and a contributor to the television programme Record Breakers. He was assassinated by the Provisional Irish…
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1975
1977
American lieutenant and politician (born 1930)
Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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1978
American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (born 1929)
George Richard Moscone was an American attorney and politician who served as the 37th mayor of San Francisco from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978.
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1978
American architect, designed the Villa Vizcaya (born 1882)
F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr. was an American architect, best known for his work for James Deering at Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida.
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1980
Austrian singer and actress (born 1898)
Lotte Lenya was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first…
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1981
Indonesian actor (born 1920)
Raden Soekarno, better known as Rendra Karno, was an Indonesian actor. Born in Kutoarjo, Central Java, Soekarno entered the film industry in 1941, making his debut appearance in Union Films' Soeara Berbisa. Over the…
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1985
American actor (b, 1952)
Steve Tracy was an American film, television and stage actor. Tracy is best known for his role on Little House on the Prairie as Percival Dalton.
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1986
American actor (born 1906)
John Carradine was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, known for his roles in horror…
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1988
Dutch chess player and author (born 1927)
Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He was born in The Hague. His father Jan Donner was a prominent Dutch politician and judge. Donner won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and…
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1988
Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1908)
Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquess of Arias Navarro, was the Prime Minister of Spain during the final years of the Francoist dictatorship and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.
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1989
American actor (born 1916)
David White was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for playing Darrin Stephens's boss Larry Tate from 1964 to 1972 on the ABC situation comedy Bewitched.
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1990
Greek physicist and academic (born 1951)
Basilis C. Xanthopoulos was a Greek theoretical physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his contributions to the study of colliding plane waves.
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1990
Croatian painter (born 1914)
Ivan Generalić was a Croatian painter in the naïve tradition.
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1992
Portuguese composer and conductor (born 1906)
Fernando Lopes-Graça was a Portuguese composer, conductor and musicologist.
Lopes-Graça was born in Tomar, and was influenced by Portuguese popular music, which he also studied, continuing the work of the composer and…
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1994
American baseball player and educator (born 1907)
Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard was an American first baseman in Negro league baseball and in the Mexican League. After growing up in North Carolina, he played for the Homestead Grays between 1934 and 1950, batting fourth…
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1997
American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
Barbara Jean Acklin was an American soul singer and songwriter, who was most successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her biggest hit as a singer was "Love Makes a Woman" (1968). As a songwriter, she is best known for…
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1998
Spanish poet and author of children's literature (born 1917)
Gloria Fuertes García was a Spanish poet, author of children's literature, and regular participant in children's television shows. She was part of the post-war literary movement of postismo, and a member of the…
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1998
Japanese-American wrestler and trainer (born 1937)
Yasuhiro Kojima , best known by his ring name Hiro Matsuda , was a Japanese professional wrestler, trainer, and booker.
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1999
French scholar and politician, French Minister of Justice (born 1925)
Alain Peyrefitte was a French scholar and politician. He was a confidant of Charles de Gaulle and had a long career in public service, serving as a diplomat in Germany and Poland. Peyrefitte is remembered for his…
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1999
American author and librarian (born 1902)
Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining was an American professional librarian and author who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was crown prince. She was also a noted author, whose children's book Adam of the…
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1999
English author and academic (born 1932)
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, was an English author and academic.
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2000
2000
English footballer and journalist (born 1922)
Leonard Francis Shackleton was an English footballer. Known as the "Clown Prince of Football", he is generally regarded as one of English football's finest ever entertainers. He also played cricket in the Minor Counties…
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2000
American actress (born 1908)
Billie Bird Sellen, better known professionally as Billie Bird, was an American character actress and comedian. She played Margie in Dear John (1988–1992).
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2002
Indian poet and academic (born 1915)
Shivmangal Singh "Suman" was an Indian poet and academician who wrote in Hindi.
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2002
American actress (born 1919)
Jocelyn Brando was an American actress, best known for her role as Katie Bannion in the film noir The Big Heat (1953). She was the sister of Marlon Brando.
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2005
2005
American tuba player (born 1923)
Don Kiethly Butterfield was an American jazz and classical tuba player.
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2006
American author and educator (born 1950)
Bebe Moore Campbell was an American author, journalist, and teacher. Campbell was the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also…
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2006
American sportscaster (born 1951)
Kenneth R. "Casey" Coleman Jr. was a sportscaster and radio personality in the Cleveland area for nearly 30 years.
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2006
Australian activist (born 1946)
Bernard Douglas Banton AM was an Australian builder and, later, social justice campaigner for asbestos-related diseases. He was the widely recognised face of the legal and political campaign to achieve compensation for…
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2007
American physician and academic, co-invented Gatorade (born 1927)
James Robert Cade was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his bachelor and medical degrees at the University of Texas, and became a professor of…
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2007
American football player (born 1983)
Sean Michael Maurice Taylor was an American professional football player who was a safety for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected fifth overall in the 2004 NFL draft by the…
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2007
American football player and coach (born 1921)
William Karnet Willis was an American professional football middle guard and guard who played for eight seasons with the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the National Football League…
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2007
Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (born 1931)
Vishwanath Pratap Singh was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the Raja Bahadur of Manda.
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2008
American singer-songwriter (born 1922)
Al Alberts was an American popular singer and composer.
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2009
American actor, director, and producer (born 1923)
Irvin Kershner was an American director for film and television. Early in his career as a filmmaker he directed quirky, independent drama films, while working as a lecturer at the University of Southern California.…
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2010
English photographer and director (born 1928)
Leonard Alfred Fulford was a British commercial photographer and director, with a specialty for photography of still life. He was one of the founding members of BFCS. With studios in London, New York, Los Angeles and…
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2011
English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1927)
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell was a British film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films were mainly liberal adaptations of existing texts,…
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2011
Welsh footballer and manager (born 1969)
Gary Andrew Speed was a Welsh professional footballer and manager. As manager of Wales, he is often credited as being the catalyst for the change in fortunes of the national team and as setting the pathway to future…
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2011
American guitarist (born 1925)
MacHouston "Mickey" Baker was an American musician, best known for his work as a studio musician and as part of the recording duo Mickey & Sylvia.
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2012
2012
French journalist and author (born 1954)
Érik Izraelewicz was a French journalist and author, specialised in economics and finance. From February 2011 he was director and editorial executive of the daily Le Monde, after having held the same position at the…
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2012
American businessman and union leader (born 1917)
Marvin Julian Miller was an American labor union leader and baseball executive who served as the first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966 to 1982. Miller led MLBPA…
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2012
American photographer and businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub (born 1958)
Jack Wishna was an American businessman and photographer. He was the president and CEO of CPAmerica, a consulting firm for gambling, hotel, and leisure organizations, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was also a founder of…
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2012
English-American actor (born 1946)
Lewis Collins was an English actor, best known for his career-defining role playing 'Bodie' in the late 1970s – early 1980s British television series The Professionals.
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2013
American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Rhode Island (born 1929)
Herbert F. DeSimone was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island. He served as the 64th Attorney General of Rhode Island and as President Nixon's Assistant Secretary of Transportation for the Environment and…
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2013
German physiologist and biologist (born 1941)
Volker Roemheld was a German agricultural scientist, plant physiologist and soil biologist at Hohenheim University.
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2013
Brazilian footballer (born 1925)
Nílton dos Santos was a Brazilian footballer who primarily played as a wingback. At international level, he was a member of the Brazil squads that won the 1958 and 1962 World Cups.
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2013
Filipino colonel (born 1919)
Manuel Felimon Segura was a colonel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines with assigned serial number 0-3547 AFP. He was G-1 and adjutant general in the General Headquarters of the Cebuano guerrillas during World War…
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2013
Polish physician and missionary (born 1911)
Wanda Błeńska, also spelled Wanda Blenska, was a Polish leprosy expert, AK officer, and a Catholic lay missionary who succeeded to develop the Buluba Hospital in Uganda into an internationally recognized centre for…
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2014
Australian cricketer (born 1988)
Phillip Joel Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons…
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2014
English author (born 1920)
Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police…
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2014
2014
Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1922)
Fernance Bento Perry,, was a Portuguese-Bermudian entrepreneur and business leader, who had a prominent role in the economy of Bermuda from the mid-20th century to the time of his death in 2014. Originally from the…
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2014
2015
Canadian businessman and diplomat (born 1929)
Maurice Frederick Strong was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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2015
American figure skater and coach (born 1971)
Garrett Preston Russell Swasey (November 16, 1971 – November 27, 2015) was an American competitive ice skater, figure skating coach, and police officer. As an ice dancer, he won the U.S. junior ice dance title at the…
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2015
Belgian tennis player and golfer (born 1924)
Philippe Washer was a Belgian tennis player. He competed in the Davis Cup a number of times, from 1946 to 1961. He was ranked world No. 8 in 1957.
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2015
Greek statesman (born 1923)
Ioannis Grivas was a Greek judge, who served as President of the Court of Cassation and served as the Prime Minister of Greece at the head of a non-party caretaker government in 1989.
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2016
Iranian nuclear scientist (born 1958)
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi was an Iranian nuclear physicist and scientist. He was regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program.
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2020
2021
American motorcycle racer (born 1936)
Mary Bernice McGee was an American motorsport racing pioneer. She was the first woman to compete in motorcycle road racing and motocross events in the United States. Starting out as a sports car racer, she competed in…
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2024
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Ivo Lola Ribar — Yugoslav communist politician and military leader
FeaturedIvo Lola Ribar
Death year1943
Known forIn the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party
Deaths on this date118 (8 BC – 2024)
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