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When he retired in 1962, he had played in the most Tests (59), scored the most Test runs (3,631), and recorded the most Test centuries (12) of any Indian player
Notable Deaths on November 7
113 people
691 – 2024
November 7 has seen 113 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 691 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2006 — Polly Umrigar
Indian cricketer and manager (born 1926)
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He captained India in eight Test matches from 1955 to 1958
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Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar was an Indian cricketer
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Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour the Indian cricket board can bestow on a former player.
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Umrigar played mainly as a middle-order batsman but also bowled occasional medium pace and off spin
official of the Tang dynasty
Cen Changqian, briefly known as Wu Changqian (武長倩) during the reign of Wu Zetian, formally the Duke of Deng (鄧公), was a Chinese military general and politician of the Tang and Wu Zhou dynasties of China, serving as…
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691
691
general of Later Tang
Zhu Shouyin (朱守殷), nickname Hui'er (會兒), was a Chinese military general and politician of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Later Tang. He was a close associate of Later Tang's first emperor Li Cunxu,…
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927
Korean monarch of the Goryeo dynasty (born 1127)
Uijong, personal name Wang Hyŏn, was the 18th king of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea.
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1173
German archbishop and saint (born 1186)
Count Engelbert II of Berg, also known as Saint Engelbert, Engelbert of Cologne, Engelbert I, Archbishop of Cologne or Engelbert I of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne was archbishop of Cologne and a saint; he was notoriously…
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1225
1497
Icelandic bishop and poet (born 1484)
Jón Arason was an Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, who was executed in his struggle against the Reformation in Iceland.
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1550
Swiss nun and writer (born 1503)
Jeanne de Jussie was a Genevan Roman Catholic nun and writer. She documented the role of the Protestant Reformation in the Poor Clares convent in Geneva.
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1561
Rao of Marwar (born 1511)
Rao Maldeo Rathore was a king of the Rathore dynasty, who ruled the kingdom of Marwar in present day state of Rajasthan. Maldeo ascended the throne in 1532, inheriting a small ancestral principality of Rathores but…
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1562
Polish rabbi and educator (born 1510)
Shlomo Luria was one of the great Ashkenazi Jewish poskim and teachers of the sixteenth century. He is known for his work of Halakha titled Yam Shel Shlomo and his Talmud commentary Chochmat Shlomo. Luria is often…
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1574
1581
Italian surgeon and educator (born 1546)
Gaspare Tagliacozzi was an Italian surgeon, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
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1599
1627
Dutch inventor (born 1572)
Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was a Dutch engineer and inventor. He was the builder of the first operational submarine in 1620 and an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, optics…
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1633
1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician (born 1560)
Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, and Margaret Willoughby, the daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, and…
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1639
1st Earl of Manchester, English judge and politician, Lord High Treasurer of The United Kingdom (born 1563)
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester was an English judge, politician and peer. He is mainly remembered today as the judge who sentenced Sir Walter Raleigh to death.
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1642
German count, officer in the Dutch Army, diplomat for the Dutch Republic (born 1611)
Count Henry of Nassau-Siegen, German: Heinrich Graf von Nassau-Siegen, official titles: Graf zu Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden und Diez, Herr zu Beilstein, was a count from the House of Nassau-Siegen, a cadet branch of…
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1652
English actress (born 1658)
Elizabeth Barry was an English actress of the Restoration period.
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1713
English painter and cartographer (born 1725)
Paul Sandby, was an English mapmaker and painter who specialised in landscape art. Along with his older brother Thomas Sandby, he was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
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1809
American minister and journalist (born 1809)
Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. After his murder by a mob, he became a martyr to the abolitionist cause opposing slavery in the United States.…
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1837
Mughal emperor (born 1775)
Bahadur Shah II, also known by his poetic title Bahadur Shah Zafar, was the twentieth and last Mughal emperor and an Urdu poet. He was a titular Emperor with his authority limited to the Walled City of Delhi, but was…
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1862
German mathematician and academic (born 1833)
Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Berlin. He…
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1872
Irish archbishop (born 1791)
John MacHale was the Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, and Irish nationalist.
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1881
German engineer and poet (born 1842)
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Seidel was a German engineer, poet and writer.
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1906
Mexican railroad brakeman (born 1881)
Jesús García Corona was a Mexican railroad brakeman who died while preventing a train loaded with dynamite from exploding near Nacozari, Sonora, in 1907. As "el héroe de Nacozari", he is revered as a national hero and…
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1907
Welsh-English biologist and geographer (born 1823)
Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the…
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1913
American painter and academic (born 1858)
Henry Ward Ranger was an American artist. Born in western New York State, he was a prominent landscape and marine painter, an important Tonalist, and the leader of the Old Lyme Art Colony. Ranger became a National…
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1916
German lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1863)
Hugo Haase was a German socialist politician, jurist and pacifist. With Friedrich Ebert, he co-chaired of the Council of the People's Deputies during the German Revolution of 1918–19.
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1919
American baseball player (born 1860)
Samuel Luther Thompson, nicknamed "Big Sam", was an American professional baseball player from 1884 to 1898 and with a brief comeback in 1906. At 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m), the Indiana native was one of the larger…
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1922
Indian educator and philanthropist (born 1856)
Ashwini Kumar Dutta was an Indian educationist, philanthropist, social reformer and an Indian independence activist.
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1923
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (born 1878)
Ōkido Moriemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 23rd yokozuna. He was the second yokozuna to be recognised from Osaka sumo, and the only yokozuna who spent his whole active career in this…
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1930
American golfer and architect (born 1882)
Harold Weber was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
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1933
English lawyer and businessman (born 1878)
Frank Pick Hon. RIBA was a British transport administrator. After qualifying as a solicitor in 1902, he worked at the North Eastern Railway, before moving to the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) in…
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1941
Azerbaijani-German journalist and spy (born 1895)
Richard Gustavovich Sorge was a German-Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the…
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1944
Hungarian-Israeli soldier and poet (born 1921)
Hannah Szenes was a Jewish, Hungarian-born poet, playwright, and resistance operative trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). In 1944, she was one of 37 Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine…
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1944
Indian-Sri Lankan journalist and politician (born 1887)
Kothandarama Natesa Iyer or S. K. Natesa Iyer was a Sri Lankan journalist, trade union leader and politician of Indian Tamil origin, had pioneered the labour movement in the plantations in the early 1930s.
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1947
English-American boxer and actor (born 1883)
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was a British-American actor and boxer. His film career spanned from the early 1920s through the 1950s, initially as a leading man, though he was better known for his character…
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1959
American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States (born 1884)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933…
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1962
German-Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1863)
Hans Karl August Simon Euler-Chelpin, since 28 July 1884 von Euler-Chelpin, was a German-born Swedish biochemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Arthur Harden for their investigations on the…
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1964
American baseball player (born 1894)
Raymond Bloom "Rube" Bressler was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1914 to 1916 and Cincinnati Reds from 1917 to 1920, before being converted to an outfielder…
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1966
American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (born 1868)
John Nance Garner III, known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was the 32nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A member of the Democratic…
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1967
Australian footballer and coach (born 1901)
Gordon Richard James Coventry was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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1968
Russian mathematician, cryptographer, and academic (born 1906)
Alexander Osipovich Gelfond was a Soviet mathematician. Gelfond's theorem, also known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem, is named after him.
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1968
Welsh-Scottish author and academic (born 1899)
Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the…
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1974
Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver (born 1899)
Piero Dusio was an Italian footballer, businessman, racing driver and racing car manufacturer.
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1975
Indian surgeon and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Gujarat (born 1887)
Jivraj Narayan Mehta was an Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Gujarat. He also served as the first "Dewan" of the erstwhile Baroda state, and Indian high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1963 to…
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1978
American boxer and actor (born 1897)
James Joseph Tunney was an Irish-American professional boxer who competed from 1915 to 1928. He held the world heavyweight title from 1926 to 1928, and the American light heavyweight title twice between 1922 and 1923.
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1978
American actor, rancher, and painter
Charles Francis O'Connor was an American actor, painter, and rancher and the husband of novelist Ayn Rand. Frank O'Connor performed in several films, typically as an extra, during the silent and early sound eras. While…
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1979
Turkish publisher (born 1944)
İlhan Erdost was a Turkish publisher. He was one of the leftist figures who were killed after the military coup in 1980.
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1980
American actor and producer (born 1930)
Terrence Stephen McQueen was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of 1960s counterculture, made him a top box office draw for his films of the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. He was…
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1980
American historian and philosopher (born 1885)
William James Durant was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations. It was…
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1981
French pianist and composer (born 1892)
Marcelle Germaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six.
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1983
1986
American cartoonist (born 1926)
William Pierce Hoest was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the cartoon series The Lockhorns, distributed by King Features Syndicate to 500 newspapers in 23 countries, and Laugh Parade for Parade. He…
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1988
British novelist, poet, dramatist, (born 1912)
Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
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1990
Irish singer and actor, (born 1924)
Thomas Joseph Clancy was a member of the Irish folk group the Clancy Brothers. He had the most powerful voice of the brothers and had previously been an actor in numerous stage productions, appearing with Orson Welles…
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1990
Finnish illustrator (born 1920)
Touko Valio Laaksonen, known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized erotic art featuring suggestively hypermasculine male characters. He worked primarily in pencil, producing drawings on…
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1991
Iraqi psychologist and philosopher of education, (born 1914)
Nuri Ja'far Ali al-Chalabi, better known as Nuri Ja'far, was an Iraqi psychologist, philosopher of education, and author. He wrote more than fifty works on pedagogy, psychology, history, philosophy, thought and…
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1991
Slovak soldier and politician (born 1921)
Alexander Dubček was a Slovak statesman who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) from January 1968 to April 1969 and as Chairman of the…
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1992
American actor and politician (born 1927)
John Augustus Kelly Jr. was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of Bart Maverick in the television series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962.
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1992
American-English singer, actress, and dancer (born 1901)
Adelaide Louise Hall was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she…
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1993
American stage, film, and television actor (born 1925)
Charles Leonard Aidman was an American stage, film and television actor.
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1993
American trumpet player and composer (born 1924)
Milton "Shorty" Rogers was an American jazz musician, one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz. He played trumpet and flugelhorn and was in demand for his skills as an arranger.
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1994
American anthropologist and academic (born 1942)
Stanley Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. Born in Wichita, Kansas, she studied at the East–West Center and at the University of…
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1995
Nigerian political scientist and academic (born 1939)
Claude Ake was a Nigerian political scientist from Omoku, in Rivers State, Nigeria. Ake was considered "one of Africa's foremost political philosophers." He specialized in political economy, political theory, and…
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1996
Nigerian lawyer and politician, Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1918)
Jaja Anucha Ndubuisi Wachuku was a Pan-Africanist and a Nigerian statesman, lawyer, politician, diplomat and humanitarian. He was the first Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives; as well as the first Nigerian…
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1996
Ingrid of Sweden was Queen of Denmark from 20 April 1947 to 14 January 1972 as the wife of King Frederik IX.
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2000
Sri Lankan educator and politician (born 1950)
Ashley Nimalanayagam Soundaranayagam was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.
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2000
Indian publisher and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (born 1910)
Chidambaram Subramaniam was an Indian politician and independence activist. He served as Minister of Finance and Minister of Defence in the union cabinet. He later served as the Governor of Maharashtra. As the Minister…
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2000
Filipino actress (born 1936)
Nida Blanca was a Filipino actress whose career spanned five decades. She was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and rose to stardom with roles in romantic comedies and musical films with frequent…
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2001
English author and playwright (born 1926)
Anthony Joshua Shaffer was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister, and advertising executive. He is best remembered for his Tony Award winning play Sleuth, and its acclaimed 1972 film adaptation. His…
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2001
German journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (born 1923)
Rudolf Karl Augstein was a German journalist, editor, publicist, and politician. He was one of the most influential German journalists, founder and part-owner of Der Spiegel magazine. As a politician, he was a member of…
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2002
British drag queen and nightclub owner (born 1937)
Francis Joseph Pearson was a British drag queen and nightclub owner known professionally as Foo Foo Lammar. The Times called him "One of the North of England's most popular female impersonators", whilst the BBC…
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2003
American actor and singer (born 1919)
Harold Clifford Keel, professionally Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer known for his rich bass-baritone singing voice. He starred in a number of MGM musicals in the 1950s, including Show Boat (1951). He…
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2004
English author, screenwriter, and producer (born 1960)
Harry William Thompson was an English radio and television producer, comedy writer, novelist and biographer. He was the creator of the dark humour television series Monkey Dust, screened between 2003 and 2005.
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2005
2006
American football player (born 1984)
Bryan Sidney Pata was an American college football player who was a defensive lineman for the Miami Hurricanes. Pata was murdered after leaving a football practice during his fourth year at the school. While no…
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2006
American baseball player and coach (born 1917)
John Franklin Sain was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who was best known for teaming with left-hander Warren Spahn on the Boston Braves teams from 1946 to 1951. He was the runner-up for the…
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2006
French journalist and politician, co-founded L'Express (born 1924)
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS, was a French journalist and politician. He co-founded L'Express in 1953 with Françoise Giroud, and then went on to become president of the Radical Party in 1971.…
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2006
American activist and politician (born 1932)
Earl Farwell Dodge Jr. was an American politician who served as the Prohibition Party's chairman and presidential candidate from the 1984 to 2000 presidential elections and later ran with the nomination of his own…
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2007
American screenwriter and producer (born 1920)
George Warren George was an American theater, Broadway and film producer. His credits included the film My Dinner with Andre (1981) and several hit Broadway productions.
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2007
American politician (born 1941)
Juanita Lou Helms was an American politician who served as a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly for five years, and then as the first female borough mayor of Fairbanks from 1985 to 1991. During Helms's…
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2009
American boxer (born 1944)
Joseph William Frazier was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981. Nicknamed "Smokin'", he was known for his strength, durability, formidable left hand, and relentless pressure fighting style. In…
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2011
Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1952)
Takanosato Toshihide , real name Toshihide Takaya , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Namioka, Aomori. He was the sport's 59th yokozuna from 1983 to 1986 and won four top division tournament championships.…
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2011
American boxer (born 1927)
Carmen Basilio was an American professional boxer who was a two-time Undisputed Welterweight Champion and Undisputed Middleweight champion, beating Sugar Ray Robinson for the latter title. An iron-chinned pressure…
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2012
Jr., American author (born 1950)
Kevin O'Donnell Jr. was an American science fiction author. He was the son of Kevin O'Donnell, who served as director of the Peace Corps in 1971–72.
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2012
New Zealand cricketer (born 1940)
Glenys Lynne Page was a New Zealand cricketer who played as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. She appeared in two One Day Internationals for New Zealand, both at the 1973 World Cup. She played domestic cricket for…
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2012
Australian general (born 1918)
Major General Cedric Maudsley Ingram "Sandy" Pearson, was an Australian Army officer. He was a Commander of Australian Forces during the Vietnam War, Commandant of the Royal Military College, Duntroon and Director of…
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2012
American football player and coach (born 1924)
Darrell K Royal was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi State University from 1954 to 1955, the University of Washington in 1956,…
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2012
American lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Arthur Kress Snyder was an American lawyer, politician, and restaurateur. He served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1967 and 1985 and later engaged in a private law practice.
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2012
2013
Australian basketball player and coach (born 1956)
Ian Davies was an Australian basketball player who played 252 games in Australia's National Basketball League (NBL) for the Launceston Casino City (1980-1981), Newcastle Falcons (1982-1985), Geelong Supercats…
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2013
English footballer and manager (born 1914)
Ron Dellow was an English footballer and coach. As a player, he was a right-winger who began his professional career at Blackburn Rovers, and later played for Mansfield Town, Manchester City and Tranmere Rovers in the…
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2013
American publisher, founded Modern Tales (born 1965)
Joey Manley was an American LGBT fiction author, web designer, and webcomics publisher. He was the founder and publisher of the Modern Tales family of webcomics websites, which included Modern Tales, Serializer,…
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2013
American photographer and author (born 1925)
Jack Mitchell was an American photographer. He photographed American artists, dancers, film and theatre performers, musicians and writers. His portraiture, lighting skill, and ability to capture dancers in what he…
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2013
German lawyer and politician (born 1928)
Manfred Rommel was a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served as mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996. Rommel's policies were described as tolerant and liberal, and he was one…
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2013
American general (born 1928)
Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer was United States Air Force officer who served as director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service from 1981 to 1985.
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2014
Slovenian journalist and poet (born 1931)
Kajetan Kovič was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, and journalist. In 1978, he received the Prešeren Award, the highest artistic award in Slovenia, for his poetry collection Labrador.
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2014
American baseball player (born 1952)
Allen Stevens Ripley was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three different teams between the 1978 and 1982 seasons. Listed at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), 190 pounds (86 kg), Ripley batted and threw…
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2014
Indian director and poet (born 1970)
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay was an Indian film director and poet.
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2015
2015
Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (born 1934)
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and…
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2016
American lawyer and government official; Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001) (born 1938)
Janet Wood Reno was an American lawyer and public official who served as the 78th United States attorney general from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, Reno was the…
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2016
British singer and radio personality (born 1921)
Sir Leslie Ronald Young, known professionally as Jimmy Young, was an English singer, disc jockey and radio personality. Early in his career in the 1950s he had two number ones, "Unchained Melody" and "The Man from…
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2016
American baseball player (born 1977)
Harry Leroy Halladay III was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies between 1998 and 2013. His nickname, "Doc", coined by…
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2017
Welsh Assembly minister (born 1968)
Carl Sargeant was a Welsh politician who was the Cabinet secretaries and ministers Secretary for Communities and Children in the Welsh Government. He represented the constituency of Alyn and Deeside in the National…
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2017
American naval officer and engineer, 5th Director of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (born 1936)
James Robert Thompson Jr., known as J.R. Thompson, was the fifth director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama. He served as director from September 29, 1986, to July 6, 1989. Thompson…
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2017
American physician, author, and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (born 1930)
Janette Dexter Sherman was a physician, toxicologist, author, and activist in the U.S. She researched pesticides, nuclear radiation, birth defects, breast cancer, and illnesses caused by toxins in homes and was a…
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2019
former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth and member of the House of Lords (born 1948)
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks was an English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author. Sacks served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. As the…
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2020
American actor (born 1936)
Robert Dean Stockwell was an American actor, whose career in film and television spanned seven decades. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he appeared in Anchors Aweigh (1945), Song of the Thin Man…
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2021
American astronaut (born 1928)
Frank Frederick Borman II was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman. He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the…
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2023
American writer (born 1945)
Bruce Degen was an American illustrator and writer, known for illustrating The Magic School Bus, a picture book series written by Joanna Cole. He collaborated with writers Nancy White Carlstrom, on the Jesse Bear books,…
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2024
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Polly Umrigar — Indian cricketer
FeaturedPolly Umrigar
Death year2006
Known forHe played in the Indian cricket team and played first-class cricket for Bombay and Gujarat
Deaths on this date113 (691 – 2024)
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