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His treatise De polypo cordis (1666) was important for understanding blood composition, as well as how blood clots
Notable Deaths on November 30
114 people
1016 – 2024
November 30 has seen 114 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 1016 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1694 — Marcello Malpighi
Italian physician and biologist (born 1628)
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Marcello Malpighi was an Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "founder of microscopical anatomy, histology and father of physiology and embryology"
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Malpighi's name is borne by several physiological features related to the biological excretory system, such as the Malpighian corpuscles and Malpighian pyramids of the kidneys and the Malpighian tubule system of insects
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Malpighi was one of the earliest people to observe red blood cells under a microscope, after Jan Swammerdam
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In it, Malpighi described how the form of a blood clot differed in the right against the left sides of the heart.
English king (born 993)
Edmund Ironside was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. Edmund's reign was spent fighting against a Danish invasion led by Cnut.
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1204
Japanese member of the Hōjō clan (born 1224)
Kanezawa Sanetoki , also called Hōjō Sanetoki was the founder of the Kanazawa Bunko. He was a member of the Kanezawa branch of the Hōjō clan. He may have been married to Mugai Nyodai.
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1276
Master General of the Dominican Order (born c. 1205)
John of Vercelli was the sixth Master General of the Dominican Order (1264-1283).
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1283
English verderer and landowner
Andrew Stratford, also known as Andrew de Stratford and Andrew de Strelford, was a medieval English landowner and verderer of the House of Stratford.
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1378
French poet (born c. 1460)
Guillaume Cretin was a French coterie poet and chronicler who is considered to belong to the network of the Grands Rhétoriqueurs ("rhetoricians"). He is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Guillaume Dubois, but this is…
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1525
Italian captain (born 1498)
Ludovico de' Medici, also known as Giovanni delle Bande Nere was an Italian condottiero. He is known for leading the Black Bands and serving valiantly in military combat under his third cousins, Pope Leo X and Pope…
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1526
English playwright and composer (born 1530)
Richard Farrant was an English composer, musical dramatist, theatre founder, and Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. The first acknowledgment of him is in a list of the Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal in 1552.…
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1580
Burmese king (born 1535)
Nanda Bayin, also known as Ngah Hsuu Daayakaa, was king of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1581 to 1599. He presided over the collapse of the First Toungoo Empire.
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1600
English scientist (born 1544)
William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching.…
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1603
English organist and composer (born 1576)
Thomas Weelkes was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigals, anthems and services.
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1623
Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1598)
Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate. He is known for his work on the problems of optics and motion, work on indivisibles, the precursors of infinitesimal calculus, and the…
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1647
Italian painter (born 1582)
Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian Baroque painter. He was a distinguished artist of the Bolognese school, deeply influenced by Annibale Carracci's’ classicism.
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1647
English jurist and scholar (born 1584)
John Selden was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in…
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1654
2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (born 1605)
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore was an English politician and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland. Born in Kent, England in 1605, he inherited the proprietorship of overseas colonies in Avalon…
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1675
French organist and composer (born 1672)
Nicolas de Grigny was a French organist and composer. He died young and left behind a single collection of organ music, and an Ouverture for harpsichord.
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1703
Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII or Carolus Rex, was King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of the House of Wittelsbach. Charles was the only surviving son of…
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1718
German actress (born 1697)
Friederike Caroline Neuber, was a German actress and theatre director. She is considered one of the most famous actresses and actor-managers in the history of the German theatre, "influential in the development of…
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1760
English optician and astronomer (born 1706)
John Dollond was an English optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets.
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1761
Scottish merchant and explorer (born 1725)
George Glas was a Scottish seaman and merchant adventurer in West Africa.
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1765
Hawaiian King (born 1834)
Kamehameha IV, reigned as the fourth monarch of Hawaii under the title Ke Aliʻi o ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻAina of the Kingdom of Hawaii from January 11, 1855, to November 30, 1863.
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1863
Irish-American general (born 1828)
Major-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was a senior officer in the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
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1864
Greek judge and politician, 69th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1814)
Dimitrios Valvis was a Greek politician and judge, who served briefly as Prime Minister of Greece in May 1886.
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1892
Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (born 1854)
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in…
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1900
English explorer and politician, Governor of Jamaica (born 1815)
Edward John Eyre was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand's New Munster province, and Governor of Jamaica.
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1901
German architect (born 1854)
Ludwig Levy was a German Jewish architect of the Historicist school. He designed a number of synagogues, amongst which was the huge Neue Synagoge in Strasbourg, as well as official buildings such as the ministries of…
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1907
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (born 1855)
Nishinoumi Kajirō I was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Sendai, Satsuma Province. He was the sport's 16th yokozuna, and the first to be officially listed as such on the banzuke ranking sheets, an act which…
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1908
Russian general (born 1867)
Vladimir Zenonovich May-Mayevsky KCMG was a Russian military leader who was a general in the Imperial Russian Army and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War.
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1920
Scottish educator and revolutionary socialist activist (born 1879)
John Maclean was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist of the Red Clydeside era. He was notable for his outspoken opposition to World War I, which caused his arrest under the Defence of the Realm Act and…
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1923
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 3rd Solicitor General of Sri Lanka (born 1851)
Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan, was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician who served as Solicitor-General of Ceylon.
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1930
American Labor organizer (born 1837)
Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an American labor organizer, schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped…
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1930
American art collector and philanthropist (born 1848)
Henry Walters was noted as an art collector and philanthropist, a founder of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, which he donated to the city in his 1931 will for the benefit of the public. From the late…
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1931
Canadian general (born 1875)
General Sir Arthur William Currie, was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who fought during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia…
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1933
French pilot (born 1908)
Hélène Boucher was a well-known French pilot in the early 1930s, when she set several women's world speed records and the all-comers record for 1,000 km in 1934. She was killed in an accident in the same year.
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1934
Portuguese poet, philosopher, and critic (born 1888)
Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of…
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1935
American journalist and author (born 1893)
Anthony Melville Rud was an American writer and pulp magazine editor. Some of his works were published under the pen names R. Anthony, Ray McGillivary, and Anson Piper.
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1942
Dutch author (born 1914)
Esther "Etty" Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943,…
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1943
French cyclist (born 1876)
Paul Michel Pierre Adrien Masson was a French cyclist who raced at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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1944
Australian politician, 25th Premier of Queensland (born 1872)
Frank Arthur Cooper was Premier of Queensland from 1942 to 1946 for the Labor Party.
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1949
French painter and poet (born 1879)
Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist closely associated with Dada.
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1953
German conductor and composer (born 1886)
Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor and composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. He was a major influence for many later…
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1954
Croatian composer and educator (born 1896)
Josip Štolcer-Slavenski was a Croatian composer and professor at the Music Academy in Belgrade.
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1955
Australian pilot, ornithologist, geographer, and explorer (born 1888)
Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar, commonly referred to as Captain Wilkins, was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer, and photographer. He was awarded the Military Cross after he…
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1958
Jordanian lawyer and politician (born 1914)
Salah al-Din Attallah Suheimat MP was a Member of the Parliament of Jordan on the banner of the city Al Karak. Born in 1914, the son of Sheikh Attallah Suheimat, a national leader, who was a member of the first…
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1966
Irish poet and author (born 1904)
Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to…
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1967
English-Scottish actor, author, and academic (born 1883)
Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders…
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1972
English playwright and screenwriter (born 1911)
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was a British dramatist and screenwriter. He was one of England's most popular mid-20th-century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote The…
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1977
1979
American actor and comedian (born 1901)
Herbert Manfred "Zeppo" Marx was an American comedic actor and businessman. He was the youngest, and last survivor, of the five Marx Brothers. He appeared with his brothers on Broadway during the 1920s and in the first…
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1979
Dutch journalist and author (born 1913)
Simon Carmiggelt was a Dutch writer, journalist, and poet who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances.
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1987
English-American singer-songwriter (born 1913)
Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter was a British-born jazz patron, photographer and writer. A leading patron of bebop, she was a member of the Rothschild family.
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1988
Cameroonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Cameroon (born 1924)
Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo was a Cameroonian politician who was the first president of Cameroon from 1960 until 1982. He was previously the first Prime Minister from the country's independence in January 1960 until May of…
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1989
German banker (born 1930)
Alfred Herrhausen was a German banker and the Chairman of Deutsche Bank who was born in Essen and assassinated in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in 1989. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group and…
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1989
German-American illustrator and arts educator (born 1901)
Fritz Eichenberg was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice and nonviolence.
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1990
American painter and sculptor (born 1906)
Peter Blume was an American painter and sculptor. His work contained elements of folk art, Precisionism, Parisian Purism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
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1992
American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
Charles David Houston was an American country music singer. His peak in popularity came between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s.
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1993
French theorist and author (born 1931)
Guy-Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International. He…
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1994
American actor (born 1908)
Lionel Jay Stander was an American actor, activist, and a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. He had an extensive career in theatre, film, radio, and television that spanned nearly 70 years, from 1928 until…
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1994
1995
1996
American author, poet, and playwright (born 1947)
Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with complex themes…
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1997
American novelist and poet (born 1899)
Janet Loxley Lewis was an American novelist, poet, and librettist. She was considered one of the finest American literary figures of the 20th century.
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1998
American author and poet (born 1915)
Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the…
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1998
American author (born 1915)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw was an American author of children's books and young adult novels.
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2000
Canadian bass player (born 1955)
Donald Scott Smith was a Canadian musician and the bassist for Canadian rock band Loverboy, a band that sold millions of records and scored several hit songs in the 1980s before a break up and reunion in the 1990s.
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2000
American swimmer (born 1905)
Gertrude Caroline Ederle was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Among other…
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2003
Canadian journalist and author (born 1920)
Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont. was a Canadian historian, writer, journalist and broadcaster. Berton wrote 50 best-selling books, mainly about Canadiana, Canadian history and popular culture. He also wrote…
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2004
South Korean spiritual leader, founded the Kwan Um School of Zen (born 1927)
Seungsahn Haengwon, born Duk-In Lee, was a Korean Seon master of the Jogye Order and founder of the international Kwan Um School of Zen. He was the seventy-eighth Patriarch in his lineage. As one of the early Korean Zen…
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2004
American actress (born 1915)
Jean Parker was an American film and stage actress. A native of Montana, indigent during the Great Depression, she was adopted by a family in Pasadena, California, at age ten. She initially aspired to be an illustrator…
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2005
Sudanese poet and songwriter (born 1927)
Elhadi Adam Elhadi, or Elhadi Adam Elhadi, was a Sudanese poet and songwriter most famously known for writing "Aghadan alqak" famously sung by Om Kalthoum.
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2006
Filipino banker (born 1938)
Rafael Carlos Baltazar Buenaventura was a prominent banker in the Philippines who served as the second Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ; he served under two Philippine presidents during one of the most…
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2006
American composer and conductor (born 1945)
Shirley Anne Walker was an American film and television composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in Hollywood during her career. Walker was one of the first female composers to…
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2006
Turkish physicist and academic (born 1948)
Engin Arık was a Turkish particle physicist and professor at Boğaziçi University. She led the Turkish participation in a number of experiments at CERN. Arık was a prominent supporter of Turkey's membership to CERN and…
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2007
American motorcycle rider and stuntman (born 1938)
Robert Craig Knievel, known professionally as Evel Knievel, was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Throughout his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps. Knievel was inducted into the…
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2007
Japanese drummer and producer (born 1958)
Munetaka Higuchi was a Japanese musician and record producer. He is best known as the original drummer of the heavy metal band Loudness, but first rose to prominence as a member of Lazy in the 1970s. In 2018, readers…
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2008
Indian author and activist (born 1967)
Rajiv Dixit was an Indian social activist who founded the Azadi Bachao Andolan. His organisation promoted a message of swadeshi-economics that opposed globalisation and neo-liberalism. In alliance with Ramdev, he formed…
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2010
American photographer (born 1937)
Garry Gross was an American fashion photographer who went on to specialize in dog portraiture.
He faced serious controversy regarding photographs taken for a Playboy publication, which included nude images of a…
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2010
Cuban-American baseball player (born 1938)
Rogelio Álvarez Hernández was a Cuban professional baseball player whose career spanned 18 seasons, including parts of two in Major League Baseball with the Cincinnati Reds. Over his career in the majors, Álvarez batted…
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2012
Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of India (born 1919)
Inder Kumar Gujral was an Indian diplomat, politician, and independence activist, who served as prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998.
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2012
Pakistani cricketer (born 1931)
Munir Malik was a Pakistani cricketer who played three Test matches for Pakistan between 1959 and 1962. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he took nine wickets in Test cricket at an average of 39.77, including a…
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2012
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Western Province (born 1930)
Susil Moonesinghe was a Sri Lankan lawyer, politician, diplomat and former chairman of State Trading Wholesale Company Ltd. A former chief minister of the Western Provincial Council and a member of parliament, he was…
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2012
American football player and businessman (born 1922)
Mervin Pregulman was an American football player, businessman, and philanthropist. He played college football as a tackle and center for the Michigan Wolverines from 1941 to 1943 and was selected as a first-team…
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2012
American cardiologist and academic (born 1922)
Homer Richards Warner was an American cardiologist who was an early proponent of medical informatics who pioneered many aspects of computer applications to medicine. Author of the book, Computer-Assisted Medical…
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2012
English footballer (born 1985)
Mitchell James Cole was an English footballer who played as a winger. He retired from professional football in 2011 after being diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that made it unsafe for him…
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2012
American broadcaster, co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network (born 1934)
Paul Franklin Crouch (; was an American televangelist and the co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Founded in 1973 with his wife, Jan Crouch, TBN grew to become the world's largest religious television…
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2013
2013
Congolese-Belgian singer-songwriter (born 1937)
Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu, better known as Tabu Ley Rochereau, was a Congolese rumba singer and musician. He was the leader of Orchestre Afrisa International, as well as one of Africa's most influential vocalists…
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2013
Italian motorcycle racer (born 1968)
Doriano Romboni was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
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2013
American actor (born 1973)
Paul William Walker IV was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious franchise.
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2013
Bangladeshi painter and academic (born 1932)
Qayyum Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi painter. Along with Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan and Safiuddin Ahmed, he is considered as a first generation artist of Bangladesh. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 1984 and the…
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2014
Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (born 1961)
Jarbom Gamlin was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress political party in Arunachal Pradesh and briefly served as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.
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2014
American rafter and environmentalist (born 1917)
Clyde Martin Litton was a Grand Canyon river runner and a longtime conservationist, best known as a staunch opponent of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam and other dams on the Colorado River.
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2014
American CIA officer and diplomat (born 1924)
Anthony Dryden Marshall was an American theatrical producer and C.I.A. intelligence officer and ambassador. After being convicted of financially exploiting his mother Brooke Astor, Marshall was sentenced to prison, and…
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2014
2014
American novelist (born 1943)
Alan Kent Haruf was an American writer born and raised in the US state of Colorado. He wrote six novels and several short stories set on the High Plains, mostly in the fictional town of Holt.
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2014
Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1928)
Pío Caro Baroja was a Spanish film and television director, screenwriter, and author.
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2015
Greek actor and screenwriter (born 1948)
Minas Hatzisavvas was a Greek actor. He appeared in many films, television series and theatre plays with great success. He initially studied in France and later at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School in Athens.…
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2015
Polish-Israeli physician and biologist (born 1918)
Avraham Marek Klingberg, known as Marcus Klingberg, was a Polish-born Israeli epidemiologist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever uncovered in Israel. Klingberg made major contributions in the fields of infectious…
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2015
Moroccan sociologist and author (born 1940)
Fatema Mernissi was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
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2015
Japanese author and illustrator (born 1922)
Shigeru Mura , best known by his pen name Shigeru Mizuki , was a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and folklorist. He is best known for popularizing and reviving interest in yōkai, supernatural creatures from Japanese…
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2015
Russian director and screenwriter (born 1927)
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout…
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2015
British travel writer and wine critic (born 1924)
Nigel Edward Buxton was a British travel writer and wine critic, also known for appearing as BaaadDad in the Channel 4 comedy series The Adam and Joe Show.
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2015
American actor and comedian (born 1930)
James Thurston Nabors was an American actor, singer, and comedian, widely known for his signature character, Gomer Pyle.
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2017
Thai politician and diplomat (born 1949)
Surin Abdul Halim bin Ismail Pitsuwan was a Thai diplomat and politician of Malay descent who served as the 12th secretary-general of ASEAN between 2008 and 2012.
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2017
Soviet pilot, engineer and military officer (born 1931)
Marina Lavrentyevna Zhikhoreva was a Soviet Air Forces colonel, engineer, and decorated Soviet test pilot. In 1964, she became the third woman and the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier. Known as "Madame…
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2017
British actor (born 1930)
Alfie Curtis was a British actor. He appeared in a number of television and film roles and was best known for playing Dr. Cornelius Evazan in Star Wars (1977).
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2017
American politician, 41st President of the United States and 43rd Vice President of the United States (born 1924)
George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Bush was Ronald Reagan's vice president from 1981 to 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of…
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2018
Russian art historian (born 1922)
Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova was a Soviet and Russian art historian who served as a Director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for 52 years, from 1961 to 2013, making her the oldest and the longest serving director of a…
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2020
Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (born 1926)
Jiang Zemin was a Chinese politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as the chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as the president…
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2022
English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1943)
Christine Anne McVie was an English musician. She was the keyboardist and one of the vocalists and songwriters of the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
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2022
British Politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1953)
Alistair Maclean Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish, was a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under prime minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was a member…
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2023
Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues (born 1957)
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan was an English-born Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and poet. Best known as the original lead vocalist and primary lyricist of Celtic punk band the Pogues, MacGowan was an acclaimed…
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2023
American basketball player and coach (born 1925)
Luigi P. Carnesecca was an American men's college basketball coach at St. John's University. Carnesecca also coached at the professional level, leading the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association (ABA) for…
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2024
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Marcello Malpighi — Italian biologist and physician
FeaturedMarcello Malpighi
Death year1694
Known forMalpighi's name is borne by several physiological features related to the biological excretory system, such as the Malpighian corpuscles and Malpighian pyramids of the kidneys and the Malpighian tubule system of insects
Deaths on this date114 (1016 – 2024)
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