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In recognition of this work, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953, the only Army general ever to receive the honor.
Notable Deaths on October 16
134 people
385 – 2024
October 16 has seen 134 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 385 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1959 — George Marshall
American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1880)
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Truman, then served as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under Truman
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Winston Churchill lauded Marshall as the "organizer of victory" for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II
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During the subsequent year, he unsuccessfully tried to prevent the continuation of the Chinese Civil War
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As Secretary of State, Marshall advocated for a U.S
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786
Umayyad caliph (born 915)
Al-Hakam II, also known as Abū al-ʿĀṣ al-Mustanṣir bi-Llāh al-Hakam b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, was the Caliph of Córdoba. He was the second Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba in Al-Andalus, and son of Abd-al-Rahman III and Murjan. He…
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976
Japanese empress (born 994)
Fujiwara no Kenshi , also known as Empress Dowager Biwadono (枇杷殿皇太后), was an empress consort of the Japanese Emperor Sanjō.
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1027
Castilian magnate
Pedro González de Lara was a Castilian magnate. He served Alfonso VI as a young man, and later became the lover of Alfonso's heiress, Queen Urraca. He may have joined the First Crusade in the following of Raymond IV of…
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1130
Persian statesman, vizier and minister of finance of the Ilkhanate
Shams al-Din Juvayni was a Persian statesman and member of the Juvayni family. He was an influential figure in early Ilkhanate politics, serving as sahib-i divan under four Mongol Ilkhans – Hulagu, Abaqa, Tekuder and…
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1284
1323
antipope of Rome (born 1260)
Nicholas V, born Pietro Rainalducci was an antipope in Italy from 12 May 1328 to 25 July 1330 during the pontificate of Pope John XXII (1316–1334) at Avignon. He was the last antipope set up by a Holy Roman Emperor.
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1333
king of Sicily (born 1338)
Louis the Child was King of Sicily from 15 September 1342 until his death. He was a minor upon his succession, and was under a regency until 1354. His actual rule was short, for he died in an outbreak of plague the next…
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1355
English noblewoman (born 1383)
Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford was the eldest daughter and eventually sole heiress of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, by his wife Eleanor de Bohun, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of…
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1438
Italian painter (born c.1450)
Luca Signorelli was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona, in Tuscany, who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening. His massive frescos of the Last Judgment (1499–1503)…
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1523
German painter and engraver (born 1472)
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German…
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1553
English bishop and saint (born 1487)
Hugh Latimer was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary I he was burned at the…
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1555
English bishop and martyr (born 1500)
Nicholas Ridley was an English Bishop of London. Ridley was one of the Oxford Martyrs burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions, for his teachings and his support of Lady Jane Grey. He is remembered with a…
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1555
pope of the Catholic Church (born 1535)
Pope Gregory XIV, born Niccolò Sfondrato or Sfondrati, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 December 1590 to his death, in October 1591.
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1591
English cardinal (born 1532)
William Allen, also known as Guilielmus Alanus or Gulielmus Alanus, was an English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was an ordained priest, but was never a bishop. His main role was setting up colleges to train…
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1594
Dutch organist and composer (born 1562)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and…
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1621
French poet and critic (born 1555)
François de Malherbe was a French poet, critic, and translator.
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1628
Swiss clock-maker (born 1605)
Johann Rudolf Stadler was a Swiss Protestant clockmaker. He is mostly known for his life in Safavid Iran, where he worked as a prosperous watchmaker. He eventually fell victim to intrigue in relation to the death of a…
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1637
Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1621)
Isaac van Ostade was a Dutch genre and landscape painter.
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1649
Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (born 1591)
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, also known as Yashar Mi-Qandia, was a rabbi, author, physician, mathematician, and music theorist.
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1655
English politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (born 1608)
John Cook or Cooke was the first Solicitor General of the English Commonwealth and led the prosecution of Charles I. Following The Restoration, Cook was convicted of regicide and hanged, drawn and quartered on 16…
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1660
1st Earl of Orrery, Irish-English soldier and politician (born 1621)
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, 25 April 1621 to 16 October 1679, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A younger son of the Earl of Cork, the largest landowner in Munster, like many Irish Protestants he supported…
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1679
Italian-Austrian field marshal (born 1609)
Raimondo Montecuccoli was an Italian-born professional soldier, military theorist, and diplomat, who served the Habsburg monarchy. His military exploits over his five-decade career earned him a reputation as one of the…
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1680
sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, 3rd French Governor of Louisiana (born 1658)
Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer, military officer, and colonial administrator in New France.
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1730
Greek politician, 139th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1666)
Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha served as Grand Vizier for Sultan Ahmed III of the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip period. He was also the head of a ruling family which had great influence in the court of Ahmed III.
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1730
German lute player and composer (born 1687)
Silvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist. He was born in Silesia to the lutenist Johann Jacob Weiss, who taught the lute to his children. Weiss was a child prodigy and played for Leopold I, Holy Roman…
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1750
Italian saint (born 1725)
Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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1755
Scottish poet (born 1750)
Robert Fergusson was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson led a bohemian life in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as…
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1774
Russian general and politician (born 1739)
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Iași, which ended a war with…
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1791
Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI of France (born 1755)
Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1792. She was beheaded in 1793, during the Reign of Terror, a period of political violence in the…
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1793
Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (born 1728)
John Hunter was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific methods in medicine. He was a teacher of, and…
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1793
Victor Amadeus III was King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 20 February 1773 to his death in 1796. Although he was politically conservative, he carried out numerous administrative reforms until he…
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1796
Veerapandiya Kattabomman was an 18th-century Palayakarrar and king of Panchalankurichi in present-day Tamil Nadu, India. He fought the British East India Company and was captured by the British with the help of the…
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1799
Ukrainian religious leader, founded the Breslov Hasidic group (born 1772)
Nachman of Breslov, also known as Rabbi Nachman of Breslev, Rabbi Nachman miBreslev, Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Reb Nachman Breslover, and Nachman from Uman, was the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement. He was…
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1810
Austrian-English dancer (born 1724)
Eva Marie Veigel was a dancer and the wife of actor David Garrick.
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1822
1877
American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (born 1815)
John Wentworth, was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, publisher of an extensive Wentworth family genealogy, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives.
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1888
Russian heroine (born 1882)
Haritina Evstafievna Korotkevich was a Russian soldier who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War. Volunteering to serve disguised as a man under the pseudonym Khariton Korotkevich, she soon…
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1904
English monk (born 1837)
Joseph Leycester Lyne, known by his religious name as Father Ignatius of Jesus, was an Anglican Benedictine monk. He commenced a movement to reintroduce monasticism into the Church of England.
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1908
German poet and playwright (born 1856)
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, also known as Łužičan, Jakub Bart Kukowski, was a Sorbian poet, writer and playwright, translator of Czech, Polish, Italian and German literature. He produced his works in Upper Sorbian. He is also…
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1909
American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (born 1885)
Ralph Waldo Rose was an American track and field athlete. He was born in Healdsburg, California. With six Olympic medals, Rose is one of the most successful track and field Olympians of all time.
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1913
British writer (born 1859)
Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson was a British novelist, better known under the pen names Effie Adelaide Rowlands, E. Maria Albanesi and Madame Albanesi. She was the author of more than 100 romance novels, and…
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1936
French poet and playwright (born 1899)
Jean de Brunhoff was a French writer and illustrator remembered best for creating the Babar series of children's books concerning a fictional elephant, the first of which was published in 1931.
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1937
Hans Michael Frank was a German Nazi politician, lawyer and convicted war criminal who served as the head of the General Government, an entity created by Germany on part of the German-occupied Polish lands during the…
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1946
Wilhelm Frick was a German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and convicted war criminal. He served as Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943 and as the last governor of the Protectorate…
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1946
Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl was a German military officer and convicted war criminal who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout…
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1946
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian high-ranking SS official during the Nazi era, major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period…
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1946
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War II. He signed a number…
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1946
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg was a Baltic German Nazi theorist, theologian, ideologue and convicted war criminal. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart, and he held several important posts in the…
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1946
Ernst Friedrich Christoph Sauckel was a German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal. As General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War, he…
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1946
Arthur Seyss-Inquart was an Austrian Nazi politician and convicted war criminal who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days before the Anschluss. His positions in Nazi Germany included deputy governor to…
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1946
Julius Sebastian Streicher was a German publicist, politician, and convicted war criminal. A member of the Nazi Party, he served as the Gauleiter of Franconia and a member of the Reichstag, the national legislature. He…
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1946
Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was a German politician, diplomat, and war criminal who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.
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1946
German peace activist (born 1868)
Anna Bernhardine Eckstein was a German champion of world peace, who trained as a teacher and campaigned for peace across the world. She gathered six million signatures on a petition and, in 1913, was nominated for the…
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1947
Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1895)
Liaquat Ali Khan was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. He played a key role in consolidating the state of…
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1951
French businessman (born 1873)
Jules Rimet was a French football administrator who was the 3rd president of FIFA, serving from 1921 to 1954. He is FIFA's longest-serving president, in office for 33 years. He also served as the president of the French…
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1956
English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (born 1887)
John Anthony Sydney Ritson DSO & Bar, was an English mines inspector and engineer who became professor of mining at Leeds University and at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London. In his early life he was a…
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1957
American anthropologist of Mexico (born 1897)
Robert Redfield was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist, whose ethnographic work in Tepoztlán, Mexico, is considered a landmark of Latin American ethnography. He was associated with the University of Chicago…
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1958
American drummer (born 1897)
Minor Hall, better known as Ram Hall, was an American jazz drummer active on the New Orleans jazz scene. He was the younger brother of Tubby Hall.
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1959
French poet and philosopher (born 1884)
Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and…
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1962
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1906)
Francis Charles Winslow "Patsy" Callighen was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 36 regular season and nine playoff games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers during the 1927–28…
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1964
American actor and screenwriter (born 1899)
George O'Hara was an American motion picture actor and screenwriter of the silent film era.
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1966
American baseball player (born 1914)
Ellis Raymond "Old Folks" Kinder was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago White Sox between 1946 and 1957. Kinder batted and threw…
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1968
Australian architect and educator, designed the Domain Park Flats (born 1919)
Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd was an Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator. He, along with Harry Seidler, stands as one of the foremost proponents for the International Modern Movement in Australian…
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1971
American lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Nicholas Joseph Begich Sr. was an American politician, school counselor, and school administrator. He served in the Alaska state senate for eight years before being elected in 1970 as a member of the United States House…
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1972
American lawyer and politician (born 1914)
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. was a liberal American Democratic Party politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the House majority leader and a member of the Warren…
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1972
English-American actor (born 1886)
Leo Grattan Carroll was an English actor. In a career of more than 40 years, he appeared in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest and in three television series, Topper,…
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1972
American drummer, composer, and actor (born 1909)
Eugene Bertram Krupa was an American jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer. Krupa is widely regarded as one of the most influential drummers in the history of popular music. His drum solo on Benny Goodman's 1937…
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1973
Italian conductor and composer (born 1885)
Vittorio Gui was an Italian conductor, composer, musicologist and critic.
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1975
American actor, singer, dancer, and director (born 1913)
Daniel James Dailey Jr. was an American actor and dancer. He is best remembered for a series of popular musicals he made at 20th Century Fox such as Mother Wore Tights (1947).
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1978
Norwegian author and critic (born 1903)
Johan Collett Müller Borgen was a Norwegian writer, journalist and critic. His best-known work is the novel Lillelord for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1955. He was nominated for the…
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1979
Israeli general and politician, 5th Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (born 1915)
Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Sinai War,…
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1981
Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist (born 1906)
Eugene "Gene" Eisenmann was an American and Panamanian lawyer and amateur ornithologist of German-Jewish ancestry. He had a long association with the Linnaean Society of New York (LSNY) as well as with the American…
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1981
1982
Croatian composer and conductor (born 1895)
Jakov Gotovac was a Croatian composer and conductor of classical music. His comedic opera, Ero s onoga svijeta, Croatia's best-known opera, was first performed in Zagreb in 1935.
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1983
Belgian violinist and pianist (born 1921)
Baron Arthur Grumiaux was a Belgian violinist, considered by some to have been "one of the few truly great violin virtuosi of the twentieth century". He has been noted for having a "consistently beautiful tone and…
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1986
American author and educator (born 1915)
Walter Farley was an American author, primarily of horse stories for children. His first and most famous work was The Black Stallion (1941), the success of which led to many sequels over decades; the series has been…
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1989
American journalist and author (born 1898)
Scott O'Dell was an American writer of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books. He wrote historical fiction, primarily, including several children's novels about…
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1989
American actor (born 1912)
Cornelius Louis Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker. His acting career began on Broadway in 1935, followed by small, uncredited appearances in films. By the 1940s he had signed a contract with 20th…
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1989
American drummer and bandleader (born 1919)
Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
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1990
Cuban-American pianist and educator (born 1914)
Jorge Bolet was a Cuban-born American concert pianist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter a renowned pupil of Franz Liszt.
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1990
American actress and singer (born 1898)
Shirley Booth was an American actress. One of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, Booth was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards.
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1992
1996
English author (born 1910)
Eric Lawson Malpass was an English novelist noted for witty descriptions of rural family life, notably of his creation, the extended Pentecost family. He also wrote historical fiction ranging from the late Middle Ages…
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1996
American actress (born 1918)
Audra Lindley was an American actress, most famous for her role as landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off The Ropers.
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1997
American author and philanthropist (born 1907)
James Albert Michener was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating…
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1997
American computer scientist and academic (born 1943)
Jonathan Bruce Postel was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the editor…
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1998
American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Jean Parker Shepherd Jr. was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated…
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1999
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (born 1934)
Melvin Eugene Carnahan was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 51st governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in 2000. Carnahan was a Democrat and held various positions in government.
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2000
American actor (born 1923)
Rick Jason was an American actor. He is most remembered for starring in the ABC television drama Combat! (1962–1967).
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2000
American singer-songwriter (born 1928)
Etta Jones was an American jazz singer. Her best-known recordings are "Don't Go to Strangers" and "Save Your Love for Me". She worked with Buddy Johnson, Oliver Nelson, Earl Hines, Barney Bigard, Gene Ammons, Kenny…
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2001
2003
2003
Hungarian boxer (born 1926)
László Papp was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest. He was left-handed and won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in…
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2003
American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (born 1925)
Pierre Emil George Salinger was an American journalist, author and politician. He served as the ninth White House Press Secretary for United States presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a…
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2004
Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (born 1916)
John Victor Murra was a Ukrainian-born Jewish American professor of anthropology and a researcher of the Inca Empire.
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2006
Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (born 1936)
Valentín Toribio Demetrio Agustin Paniagua Corazao was a Peruvian lawyer and politician who briefly served as President of Peru from 2000 to 2001. Elected President of Congress on 16 November 2000, he ascended to the…
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2006
Scottish actress (born 1921)
Deborah Jane Trimmer, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a Scottish actress. Kerr rose to fame for her portrayals of proper, ladylike women, who often navigated societal expectations and stereotypes. Kerr…
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2007
Macedonian singer-songwriter (born 1981)
Todor "Toše" Proeski was a Macedonian singer and songwriter. Considered a top act of the local Macedonian and Balkan music scene, Proeski's music was popular across multiple countries in Southeast Europe. Proeski has…
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2007
Estonian author and translator (born 1921)
Dagmar Normet was an Estonian literary author and translator.
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2008
2010
American actress (born 1915)
Barbara Billingsley was an American actress. She began her career with uncredited roles in Three Guys Named Mike (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Invaders from Mars (1953) and was featured in the 1957 film…
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2010
English race car driver (born 1978)
Daniel Clive Wheldon was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series for Andretti Green Racing (AGR). He won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011, and was co-winner of the 2006 24 Hours of Daytona…
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2011
American scholar and academic (born 1921)
Frank Moore Cross Jr. was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, notable for his work in the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, his 1973 magnum opus Canaanite Myth and…
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2012
American lawyer and politician (born 1936)
John Anthony Durkin was an American politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1975 until 1980.
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2012
Jr., American firefighter and politician (born 1950)
Mario Valentin Gallegos Jr.
was an American Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Texas. He was the senator from District 6 in the Texas Senate, which serves a portion of Harris County.
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2012
Hungarian handball player and coach (born 1923)
Bódog Török was a Hungarian handball player, coach and sports official. He was the longest serving and the most successful coach in the history of the Hungarian women's national team.
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2012
American baseball player and coach (born 1926)
Edward Frederick Joseph Yost was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career as a third baseman for the Washington Senators, then played two seasons each…
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2012
Indian playwright and academic (born 1938)
Govind Purushottam Deshpande popularly known as GPD or Gopu, was a Marathi playwright and a scholar of modern Indian theatre, China studies, Sanskrit, and Marathi, as well as an academic of history, politics, and…
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2013
Greek archaeologist and academic (born 1932)
George Hourmouziadis was a Greek archaeologist and professor emeritus of prehistoric archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He led excavations in many prehistoric settlements in Thessaly and Macedonia…
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2013
2013
Australian ballerina and choreographer (born 1916)
Laurel Martyn was an Australian ballerina.
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2013
American colonel (born 1925)
Robert Bradley Rheault was an American soldier in the U.S. Army Special Forces who served as commander of the First Special Forces Group in Okinawa, and the Fifth Special Forces Group in Vietnam from May to July 1969.
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2013
Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (born 1944)
Saghir "Saggy" Tahir was an American politician who was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. In the 2006 elections, he was re-elected for a fourth term to represent Ward 2, District 9 in his home town…
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2013
Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)
Ioannis Charalambopoulos was a Greek Army officer and socialist politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of National Defence of Greece.
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2014
American musicologist and theorist (born 1926)
Allen Forte was an American music theorist and musicologist. He was Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music at Yale University and specialized in 20th-century atonal music and music analysis.
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2014
Finnish basketball player and coach (born 1934)
Seppo Kuusela was a Finnish basketball player, basketball coach, and handball player. At 182 cm tall, he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions, as a basketball player. He was twice voted the Finnish…
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2014
11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (born 1926)
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough was a British peer. He was the elder son of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and his wife, the Hon. Alexandra Mary Hilda Cadogan. He was known as…
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2014
American lawyer and judge (born 1925)
Richard Joseph Cardamone was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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2015
American psychologist and academic (born 1940)
James William Fowler III (1940–2015) was an American theologian who was Professor of Theology and Human Development at Emory University. He served as director of both the Center for Research on Faith and Moral…
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2015
Australian general and physician (born 1930)
Major General William Brian "Digger" James was an Australian soldier and military physician who served in the Australian Army during the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
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2015
American author and illustrator (born 1927)
Vera Baker Williams was an American children's writer and illustrator. Her best known work, A Chair for My Mother, has won multiple awards and was featured on the children's television show Reading Rainbow.
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2015
2015
Canadian professor and computer scientist (born 1921)
Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, was a Canadian professor and computer scientist who has been called the "Father of Computing" in Canada. He was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
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2016
Maltese journalist and blogger (born 1964)
Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese writer, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist who reported on political events in Malta. She was known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers and…
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2017
British actor (born 1923)
Roy Dotrice was a British stage and screen actor. He played the antiquarian John Aubrey in the solo play Brief Lives. He won a Tony Award for his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten,…
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2017
Canadian actor (born 1946)
John Francis Dunsworth was a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He was best known for playing trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey, the antagonist on the comedy series Trailer Park Boys (2001–2018). His other roles included the…
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2017
British-born Irish stand-up comedian (born 1965)
Sean Hughes was a British-born Irish comedian, writer and actor. He starred in his own Channel 4 television show Sean's Show and was one of the regular team captains on the BBC Two musical panel game Never Mind the…
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2017
former President of Finland and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1937)
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari was a Finnish politician and diplomat who was the president of Finland from 1994 to 2000. He was Finland's Ambassador to Tanzania from 1973 to 1977 and United Nations Commissioner for…
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2023
Australian musician, composer and sound designer (born 1958)
Ollie Jngbert Christian Olsen was an Australian multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound designer and pioneer of electronic music in the Southern Hemisphere. From the mid-1970s until his later years, he performed,…
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2024
English singer-songwriter from One Direction (born 1993)
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leader of Hamas (born 1962)
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George Marshall — American general and statesman (1880–1959)
FeaturedGeorge Marshall
Death year1959
Known forwas an American army officer and statesman
Deaths on this date134 (385 – 2024)
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2017
Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss. Wikipedia →
2013
Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people. Wikipedia →
2002
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria. Wikipedia →
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