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including novels, epics, plays, essays, his most popular being the 10-part religious book on Hinduism, Arthamulla Indhu Matham
Notable Deaths on October 17
117 people
33 – 2024
October 17 has seen 117 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 33 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1981 — Kannadasan Indian author
poet, and songwriter (born 1927)
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He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Cheraman Kathali in the year 1980 and was the first to receive the National Film Award for Best Lyrics, given in 1969 for the film Kuzhanthaikkaga
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Muthiah Sathappan Chettiar, better known as Kannadasan, was a poet, film song lyricist, producer, actor, script-writer, editor, philanthropist, and is heralded as one of the greatest and most important lyricists in India
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With over 5,000 lyrics, 6,000 poems, and 232 books, Kannadasan is widely known by the sobriquet "Kaviarasu" and he is also considered to be the greatest modern Tamil poet after Subramania Bharati
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Like many great poets he also suffered from cyclothymia, which comes under the bipolar disorder spectrum.
Roman wife of Germanicus (born 14 BC)
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532
Abbasid caliph (born 836)
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866
Icelandic aristocrat and poet
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1271
German queen consort (born c. 1254)
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1277
3rd Earl of Moray
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1346
Earl of Strathearn
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1346
French composer (born 1375)
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1456
Warden of the Cinque Ports
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1485
Spanish conquistador, first Jew executed in the New World
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1528
German Protestant theologian (born 1498)
Andreas Osiander was a German Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.
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1552
Spanish cardinal (born 1511)
Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta was a Spanish cardinal of the 16th century. He was a relative of the famous Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.
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1575
English courtier, poet, and general (born 1554)
Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.
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1586
Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1541)
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1587
English priest and scholar (born 1560)
John Pitts was an English Roman Catholic scholar and writer.
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1616
English colonel and politician (born 1601)
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1660
1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (born 1630)
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1673
French mystic (born 1647)
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1690
English politician (born 1619)
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1696
French entomologist and academic (born 1683)
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1757
French-English theologian and author (born 1681)
Pierre François le Courayer was a French Catholic theological writer, for many years an expatriate in England.
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1776
English pharmacist and minister (born 1705)
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1780
1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (born 1705)
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1781
Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1723)
Johann Ludwig Aberli was a Swiss painter and etcher.
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1786
Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (born 1758)
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1806
Russian painter (born 1782)
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1827), which prompted the poet to remark that "the mirror…
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1836
Austrian pianist and composer (born 1778)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and Joseph Haydn.…
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1837
Polish pianist and composer (born 1810)
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose "poetic genius was…
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1849
Canadian war heroine (born 1775)
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1868
German physicist and chemist (born 1824)
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1887
Russian philosopher and critic (born 1828)
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1889
Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (born 1808)
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1893
American poet and songwriter (born 1819)
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1910
Egyptian poet and author (born 1886)
Malak Hifni Nasif was an Egyptian feminist who contributed greatly to the intellectual and political discourse on the advancement of Egyptian women in the early 20th century.
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1918
Michael Fitzgerald also known as Mick Fitzgerald, was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was among the first members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and played a significant role in organising it. He rose…
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1920
English painter and illustrator (born 1853)
Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable…
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1928
German neurologist and academic (born 1884)
Alfons Maria Jakob was a German neurologist who worked in the field of neuropathology.
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1931
English businessman (born 1862)
Joseph Bruce Ismay was an English businessman and shipowner who was the chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, and President of the International Mercantile Marine Company. He was the highest-ranking…
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1937
Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (born 1854)
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1938
American art critic (born 1869)
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1948
Greek banker and politician (born 1873)
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1955
1956
Scottish suffragist and feminist (born 1884)
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1957
American photographer (born 1896)
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1958
English cricketer and lawyer (born 1876)
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1958
Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (born 1882)
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1962
French mathematician and academic (born 1865)
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1963
1965
American runner and soldier (born 1883)
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1966
German director and manager (born 1917)
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1966
1967
Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1921)
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1970
1970
American political scientist and academic (born 1890)
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1970
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1914)
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1972
1972
Austrian author and poet (born 1926)
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1973
1978
Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (born 1887)
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1978
American humorist and screenwriter (born 1904)
Sidney Joseph Perelman was an American humorist and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for several other magazines, including Judge, as…
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1979
Scottish-English actor (born 1898)
John Stuart was a Scottish actor, and was a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He successfully made the transition to talking pictures in the 1930s and his film career went on to span almost…
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1979
Venezuelan business tycoon (born 1909)
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1979
Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (born 1895)
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1981
Greek politician (born 1887)
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1981
French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (born 1905)
Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.
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1983
Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (born 1925)
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1987
American singer and actor (born 1919)
Ernest Jennings Ford, known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American singer and television host who enjoyed success in the country and western, pop, and gospel musical genres. Noted for his rich…
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1991
Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (born 1912)
Herman Johannes was an Indonesian professor, scientist, politician and National Hero. Johannes was the rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta (1961–1966), Coordinator for Higher Education from 1966 to 1979, a…
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1992
Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)
Orestis Laskos was a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 55 films between 1931 and 1971. He also wrote scripts for 24 films between 1929 and 1971.
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1992
American guitarist and songwriter (born 1963)
Christopher Michael Oliva was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and co-founder of the heavy metal band Savatage. During his lifetime, he released seven studio albums and one EP with the band.
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1993
English musician and drummer of Lush (born 1966)
Christopher John Dyke Acland was an English drummer and songwriter. He was the drummer of the London-based alternative rock band Lush.
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1996
American magician and author (born 1933)
Larry Jennings was an American magician, best known for his card techniques. He has nine books published by, or written about him. He is also known for being close friends with fellow magician Dai Vernon.
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1997
English actress (born 1906)
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1998
Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (born 1920)
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1998
Greek-American mathematician and physicist (born 1915)
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was a Greek-American physicist.
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1999
Italian-American football player and wrestler (born 1924)
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2000
Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (born 1964)
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2000
American singer-songwriter (born 1915)
Jay Livingston was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans, with whom he specialized in composing film scores and original soundtrack songs. Livingston composed the music…
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2001
French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (born 1922)
Micheline Ostermeyer was a French athlete and concert pianist. She won three medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in shot put, discus throw, and high jump. After retiring from sports in 1950, she became a full-time…
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2001
Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (born 1926)
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2001
Irish harpist and composer (born 1935)
George Derek Fleetwood Bell, MBE was a Northern Irish harpist, pianist, oboist, musicologist and composer who was best known for his accompaniment work on various instruments with The Chieftains.
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2002
Israeli singer-songwriter (born 1952)
Uzi Hitman was an Israeli singer-songwriter, composer, actor, director and television personality.
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2004
Chilean-French actor (born 1924)
Daniel Emilfork Berenstein, known professionally as Daniel Emilfork, was a Chilean stage and film actor who made his career in France.
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2006
American journalist (born 1938)
Joseph Christopher Glenn was an American radio and television news journalist who worked in broadcasting for over 45 years and spent the final 35 years of his career at CBS, retiring on February 23, 2006 at the age of…
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2006
American actor and talk show host (born 1918)
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2007
American singer (born 1931)
Teresa Brewer was an American singer whose style incorporated pop, country, jazz, R&B, rock 'n roll, musicals, and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording…
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2007
American scholar and academic (born 1939)
Suzy Covey (Shaw) was an American comics scholar, whose work examined intersections of comics, technology, and sound, including Internet studies and studies of the Comic Book Markup Language. In honor of her work with…
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2007
2008
American singer (born 1936)
Levi Stubbs was an American baritone singer, widely known as the lead vocalist of the R&B group the Four Tops, that released a variety of Motown hit records during the 1960s and 1970s. He was noted for his powerful,…
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2008
Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (born 1923)
Benjamin Weider, was a Canadian soldier, author, historian, fitness proponent, benefactor of the arts, and entrepreneur. He co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) alongside his brother Joe…
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2008
American author and educator (born 1931)
Norma Fox Mazer was an American author and teacher, best known for her books for children and young adults. Her novels featured credible young characters confronting difficult situations such as family separation and…
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2009
2009
Jr., American businessman (born 1919)
Carl Henry Lindner Jr. was an American businessman from Norwood, Ohio, a member of the Lindner family, and one of the world's richest people. According to the 2010 issue of Forbes Billionaires List, Lindner was worth an…
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2011
English-South African footballer (born 1951)
Milija Anthony Aleksic was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, making 138 appearances in the Football League.
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2012
French skier (born 1912)
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2012
German-American historian and author (born 1930)
Henry Egon Friedlander was a German-American Jewish historian of the Holocaust who was noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust.
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2012
American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (born 1922)
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2012
Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1936)
Kōji Wakamatsu was a Japanese film director who directed such pink films as Ecstasy of the Angels and Go, Go, Second Time Virgin . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses (1976).…
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2012
American-Mexican nun and activist (born 1926)
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2013
English rugby player and coach (born 1944)
Terence "Terry" H. Fogerty was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1980s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, Lancashire, and…
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2013
Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (born 1926)
Arthur Maxwell House, was a Canadian neurologist and the tenth lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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2013
American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (born 1928)
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2013
Canadian-American tennis player (born 1966)
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2013
American farmer and politician (born 1937)
Erle Edwards Barham was a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate. He first won the Senate seat in December 1975 beating L. B. Loftin by just 89 votes.
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2014
Japanese author and activist (born 1943)
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2014
2014
German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (born 1919)
Berndt Robert Alexander Michael von Staden was a German diplomat who was the West German Ambassador to the United States from 1973 until 1979.
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2014
French actress and producer (born 1926)
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2015
English footballer and manager (born 1946)
Howard Kendall was an English footballer and manager.
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2015
Belgian lawyer and politician (born 1949)
Anne-Marie Lizin-Vanderspeeten was a Belgian politician, who served as the President of the Senate of Belgium from 2004 to 2007.
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2015
2015
Canadian musician (born 1964)
Gordon Edgar Downie was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer, poet, and activist. He was the singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from its formation in 1984…
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2017
American politician and civil rights advocate (born 1951)
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2019
American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1931)
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2024
Japanese actor (born 1947)
Toshiyuki Nishida was a Japanese actor. He won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for The Silk Road (1988) and Tsuribaka Nisshi 6 (1993). He also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for Get Up! and…
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2024
Polish-American endocrinologist (born 1926)
Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally was a Polish-American endocrinologist who was a co-recipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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2024
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Kannadasan Indian author — Tamil poet and lyricist (1927–1981)
FeaturedKannadasan Indian author
Death year1981
Known forWith over 5,000 lyrics, 6,000 poems, and 232 books, Kannadasan is widely known by the sobriquet "Kaviarasu" and he is also considered to be the greatest modern Tamil poet after Subramania Bharati
Deaths on this date117 (33 – 2024)
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