Notable Deaths on October 23

Q: Who died on October 23?

Notable people who died on October 23 include: Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Ignatios of Constantinople, Yazaman al-Khadim, Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Daigo.

Q: What is Bishan Singh Bedi known for?

Bishan Singh Bedi, Indian cricketer (born 1946)

2023 — Bishan Singh Bedi

Indian cricketer (born 1946)

October 23 has seen 108 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 42 BC – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · October 23 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 108 people 42 BC – 2025

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He played Test cricket for India from 1966 to 1979 and formed part of the famous Indian spin quartet

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He played a total of 67 Tests and took 266 wickets

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He also captained the national side in 22 Test matches

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He was awarded the Padma Shri award in 1970 and the C

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Bishan Singh Bedi was an Indian cricketer who was primarily a slow left-arm orthodox bowler

Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

Roman general and politician (born 85 BC)

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, which was retained as his…

-42

Ignatios of Constantinople

Byzantine patriarch (born 797)

Ignatius of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 847 to 858 and from 867 to 877. Ignatius lived during a complex time for the Byzantine Empire. The Iconoclast Controversy was ongoing, Boris…

877

Yazaman al-Khadim

Abbasid general and politician

Yazaman or Yazman, surnamed al-Khadim was the governor of Tarsus for the Abbasids and chief military leader in the Muslim borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia from 882 to his death in 891. He is celebrated…

891

Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya

Aghlabid emir (born 850)

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II ibn Ahmad was the Emir of Ifriqiya. He ruled from 875 until his abdication in 902. After the demise of his brother, Ibrahim was endorsed as emir where he took steps to improve safety in his domain…

902

Daigo

Japanese emperor (born 885)

Emperor Daigo was the 60th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

930

Hyejong of Goryeo

Korean king (born 912)

Hyejong, personal name Wang Mu, was the second king of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea. He was preceded by King Taejo and succeeded by King Jeongjong.

945

Yōzei

Japanese emperor (born 869)

Emperor Yōzei was the 57th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Yōzei's reign spanned the years from 876 through 884.Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name…

949

Abu al-Salt

Andalusian polymath

Abū aṣ-Ṣalt Umayya ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī aṣ-Ṣalt ad-Dānī al-Andalusī, known in Latin as Albuzale, was an Andalusian-Arab polymath who wrote about pharmacology, geometry, Aristotelian physics, and astronomy. His…

1134

Sweyn III

Danish king (born c. 1125)

Sweyn III Grathe was the king of Denmark between 1146 and 1157, in shifting alliances with Canute V and his own cousin Valdemar I. In 1157, the three agreed to a tripartition of Denmark. Sweyn attempted to kill his…

1157

John of Capistrano

Italian priest and saint (born 1386)

John of Capistrano, OFM was an Italian Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the town of Capestrano, Abruzzo. Famous as a preacher, theologian, and inquisitor, he earned himself the nickname "the Soldier Saint" when…

1456

Tiedemann Giese

Polish bishop (born 1480)

Tiedemann Giese, was Bishop of Kulm (Chełmno) first canon, later Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Ermland) whose interest in mathematics, astronomy, and theology led him to mentor a number of important young scholars, including…

1550

Michael Neander

German mathematician and astronomer (born 1529)

Michael Neander was a German teacher, mathematician, medical academic, and astronomer.

1581

Leonhard Hutter

German theologian and academic (born 1563)

Leonhard Hutter was a German Lutheran theologian.

1616

Charles du Fresne

sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (born 1610)

Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, also known simply as Charles Dufresne, was a French philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium.

1688

Anne Oldfield

English actress (born 1683)

Anne Oldfield was an English actress and one of the highest paid actresses of her time.

1730

Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc

Comte Dubois de la Motte, French admiral (born 1683)

Vice-Admiral Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, comte Dubois de la Motte was a French Navy officer.

1764

Michel Benoist

French missionary and astronomer (born 1715)

Michel Benoist was a Jesuit scientist who served for thirty years in the court of the Qianlong Emperor during the Qing dynasty, known for his architectural and landscape designs of the Old Summer Palace. Along with…

1774

Georg August Wallin

Finnish explorer, orientalist, and professor (born 1811)

Georg August Wallin, also known as Abd al-Wali, was a Finland Swede orientalist, explorer and professor at the University of Helsinki, remembered for his journeys across the Arabian Peninsula in the 1840s. He was the…

1852

Franz Bopp

German linguist and academic (born 1791)

Franz Bopp was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages.

1867

Edward Smith-Stanley

14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1799)

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, known as Lord Stanley from 1834 to 1851, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To…

1869

Théophile Gautier

French journalist, author, and poet (born 1811)

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.

1872

Charles S. West

American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (born 1829)

Charles Shannon West was an American jurist and politician in the state of Texas, serving as a state representative, the Texas Secretary of State, and an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.

1885

Alexander of Battenberg (born 1857)

Alexander Joseph, known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince (knyaz) of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria from 1879 until his abdication in 1886.

1893

Chulalongkorn

Thai king (born 1853)

Chulalongkorn, posthumously honoured as King Chulalongkorn the Great, was the fifth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama V. Chulalongkorn's reign from 1868 until his death in 1910 was characterised by the…

1910

W. G. Grace

English cricketer and physician (born 1848)

William Gilbert Grace was an English cricketer who is widely held to have been one of the sport's all-time greatest players. Always known by his initials as "WG", his first-class career spanned a record-equalling 44…

1915

Richard McFadden

Scottish footballer and soldier (born 1889)

Richard McFadden was a Scottish footballer who was Clapton Orient's top scorer for four consecutive seasons between 1911 and 1915.

1916

Eugène Grasset

Swiss illustrator (born 1845)

Eugène Samuel Grasset was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Époque. He is considered a pioneer in Art Nouveau design.

1917

John Boyd Dunlop

Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (born 1840)

John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the practical pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle and…

1921

Charles Demuth

American painter and educator (born 1883)

Charles Henry Buckius Demuth was an American painter who specialized in watercolors and turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.

1935

Zane Grey

American dentist and author (born 1872)

Zane Grey was an American author. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage…

1939

Ralph Rainger

American pianist and composer (born 1901)

Ralph Rainger was an American composer of popular music principally for films.

1942

Wakashima Gonshirō

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (born 1876)

Wakashima Gonshirō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. He was the sport's 21st yokozuna and the first official yokozuna from the Osaka Sumo Association.

1943

Charles Glover Barkla

English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)

Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his discovery of characteristic X-rays.

1944

Hana Brady

Czech holocaust victim (born 1931)

Hana "Hanička" Brady was a Czechoslovak Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers of the German concentration camp at Auschwitz, located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaust. She is the subject of…

1944

Al Jolson

Lithuanian-American actor and singer (born 1886)

Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian.

1950

Adrien de Noailles

French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (born 1869)

Adrien Maurice Victurnien Mathieu de Noailles, 8th Duke of Noailles, was a French aristocrat and Olympian.

1953

George Bouzianis

Greek painter (born 1885)

George Bouzianis was a major Greek expressionist painter.

1959

Gerda Lundequist

Swedish actress (born 1871)

Gerda Carola Cecilia Lundequist was a Swedish stage actress, an Ibsen and Strindberg-thespian that in her time was known throughout Scandinavia as "The Swedish Sarah Bernhardt".

1959

Frank Luther Mott

American historian and journalist (born 1886)

Frank Luther Mott was an American academic, historian and journalist, who won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History for Volumes II and III of his series, A History of American Magazines.

1964

Tommy Edwards

American singer-songwriter (born 1922)

Thomas Jefferson Edwards was an American singer and songwriter. His most successful record was the multi-million-selling song "It's All in the Game", becoming the first African-American to reach No. 1 on the Billboard…

1969

Marjorie Maynard British artist and farmer (born 1891)

Marjorie Josephine Maynard, Lady Garbett was a British artist and farmer who designed some of the first set of postage stamps issued in Iraq. In later life, she brought and lost a high-profile court case after being…

1975

Maybelle Carter

American singer and autoharp player (Carter Family) (born 1909)

"Mother" Maybelle Carter was an American country musician and "among the first" to use the Carter scratch, with which she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument." It was named after her. She was a member of…

1978

Tibor Rosenbaum

Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (born 1923)

Pinchas Tibor Rosenbaum was a Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman. One of the heads of the Jewish community in Switzerland, he saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. After the war, he was involved in…

1980

Jessica Savitch

American journalist (born 1947)

Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savitch was one of the first women to…

1983

Oskar Werner

Austrian-German actor (born 1922)

Oskar Werner was an Austrian stage and cinema actor who reached international fame. His most prominent roles include two 1965 films, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Ship of Fools. For the former, Werner won a…

1984

Edward Adelbert Doisy

American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)

Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K and its chemical structure.

1986

Asashio Tarō III

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (born 1929)

Asashio Tarō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tokunoshima in the Amami Islands. He was the sport's 46th yokozuna. He was also a sumo coach and head of Takasago stable.

1988

Armida

Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1911)

Armida Vendrell was a Mexican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian.

1989

Thomas Williams

American author and academic (born 1926)

Thomas Williams was an American novelist. He won one U.S. National Book Award for Fiction—The Hair of Harold Roux split the 1975 award with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers—and his last published novel, The Moon Pinnace…

1990

Robert Lansing

American actor (born 1928)

Robert Lansing was an American stage, film, and television actor.

1994

Bob Grim

American baseball player (born 1930)

Robert Anton Grim was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball.

1996

Bert Haanstra

Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1916)

Albert Haanstra was a Dutch director of films and documentaries. His documentary Glass (1958) won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. His feature film Fanfare (1958) was the most visited Dutch film…

1997

Barnett Slepian

American physician (born 1946)

Barnett Abba Slepian was an American physician and abortion provider who was assassinated in his home by James Charles Kopp, a militant member of the US anti-abortion movement.

1998

Eric Ambler

English author, screenwriter, and producer (born 1909)

Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books written with Charles Rodda. Ambler is notable for his…

1998

Eric Reece

Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Tasmania (born 1909)

Eric Elliott Reece, AC was Premier of Tasmania on two occasions: from 26 August 1958 to 26 May 1969, and from 3 May 1972 to 31 March 1975. His 13 years as premier remains the second longest in Tasmania's history, second…

1999

Yokozuna

American wrestler (born 1966)

Rodney Agatupu Anoaʻi was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna. He was also known for his…

2000

Josh Kirby

English illustrator (born 1928)

Ronald William "Josh" Kirby was a British commercial artist. Over a career spanning 60 years, he was the artist for the covers of many science fiction books including Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

2001

Daniel Wildenstein

French art dealer and historian (born 1917)

Daniel Leopold Wildenstein was a French art dealer, historian and owner-breeder of thoroughbred and standardbred race horses. He was the third member of the family to preside over Wildenstein & Co., one of the most…

2001

Adolph Green

American playwright and songwriter (born 1915)

Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright, who with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for musicals on Broadway and in Hollywood. Although they were not a romantic couple,…

2002

Tony Capstick

English actor and singer (born 1944)

Joseph Anthony Capstick was an English comedian, actor, musician and broadcaster.

2003

Soong Mei-ling

Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek, 2nd First Lady of the Republic of China (born 1898)

Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang, was a Chinese politician and socialite. The youngest of the Soong sisters, she married Chiang Kai-shek and played a prominent role in Chinese politics and foreign relations…

2003

Robert Merrill

American actor and singer (born 1919)

Robert Merrill was an American operatic baritone and actor, who was also active in the musical theatre circuit. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1993.

2004

Bill Nicholson

English footballer, coach, and manager (born 1919)

William Edward Nicholson was an English football player, coach, manager and scout who had a 55-year association with Tottenham Hotspur. He is considered one of the most important figures in the club's history, winning…

2004

William Hootkins

American actor (born 1948)

William Michael Hootkins was an American actor, long based in the United Kingdom. He was known to film audiences for his supporting roles in several blockbusters of the 1970s and 1980s, notably as Jek Porkins / Red Six…

2005

John Muth

American economist and academic (born 1930)

John Fraser Muth was an American economist. He is "the father of the rational expectations revolution in economics", primarily due to his article "Rational Expectations and the Theory of Price Movements" from 1961.

2005

Stella Obasanjo

Nigerian wife of Olusegun Obasanjo, 10th First Lady of Nigeria (born 1945)

Stella Obasanjo was the First Lady of Nigeria from 1999 until her death. She was the wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, although she was not the First Lady in 1976, when Obasanjo was military head of state. She…

2005

Lebo Mathosa

South African singer (Boom Shaka) (born 1977)

Lebohang Precious Mathosa was a South African kwaito singer. Mathosa started her career as a founding member of the popular South African band Boom Shaka in 1994 at the age of 17, after she caught the eye of music…

2006

John Ilhan

Turkish-Australian businessman, founded Crazy John's (born 1965)

John Ilhan was an Australian businessman. He was the founder of Crazy John's mobile phone retail chain and, in 2003, was the richest Australian under 40 years of age.

2007

Lim Goh Tong

Malaysian-Chinese businessman (born 1918)

Lim Goh Tong was a prominent wealthy Malaysian Chinese businessman and entrepreneur. He was the founder of Genting Highlands and renowned for transforming the resort from an unexplored hilltop into one of the world's…

2007

Kevin Finnegan

English boxer (born 1948)

Kevin Finnegan was an English boxer.

2008

Lou Jacobi

Canadian-American actor (born 1913)

Lou Jacobi was a Canadian character actor. Jacobi came to prominence for his role as Mr. Van Daan in the 1955 Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank which he reprised in the 1959 film version. He also acted in…

2009

Fran Crippen

American swimmer (born 1984)

Francis Crippen was an American long-distance swimmer. After being a pool swimmer for most of his career, Crippen made the transition to open water swimming in 2006. In international competitions, Crippen won seven…

2010

Stanley Tanger

American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (born 1923)

Stanley K. Tanger was an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the outlet shopping industry, Tanger founded Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, which began with a single location in Burlington, North…

2010

Herbert A. Hauptman

American chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)

Herbert Aaron Hauptman was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination…

2011

Marco Simoncelli

Italian motorcycle racer (born 1987)

Marco Simoncelli, nicknamed Sic was an Italian professional motorcycle racer. He competed in the MotoGP World Championship for 10 years from 2002 to 2011. He started in the 125cc class before moving up to the 250cc…

2011

William Joel Blass

American lawyer and politician (born 1917)

William Joel Blass was an American war veteran, jurist, attorney, educator, and politician.

2012

Wilhelm Brasse

Polish photographer (born 1917)

Wilhelm Brasse was a Polish professional photographer and a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II. He became known as the "famous photographer of Auschwitz concentration camp". His life and work were the subject of…

2012

Roland de la Poype

French soldier and pilot (born 1920)

Roland Paulze d'Ivoy de la Poype was a Second World War fighter ace and a member of the Normandie-Niemen fighter group that fought on the Soviet front attributed with 16 confirmed victories.

2012

Sunil Gangopadhyay

Indian author and poet (born 1934)

Sunil Gangopadhyay was an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, and critic. He played a key role in modernizing Bengali poetry and co-founded the 1953 avant-garde poetry magazine Krittibas. He has been called the…

2012

Michael Marra

Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1952)

Michael Marra was a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician from Dundee, Scotland. Known as the Bard of Dundee, Marra was a solo performer who toured the UK and performed in arts centres, theatres, folk clubs and…

2012

Wes Bialosuknia

American basketball player (born 1945)

Wesley John Bialosuknia was an American basketball player. He was a 6-foot-2-inch (1.88 m) 185 pounds (84 kg) guard, and played in college for the University of Connecticut Huskies. An accurate and prolific medium- and…

2013

Anthony Caro

English sculptor and academic (born 1924)

Sir Anthony Alfred Caro was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' and industrial objects. He began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with Henry…

2013

Niall Donohue

Irish hurler (born 1990)

Niall Donohue was an Irish hurler who played at senior level for the Galway senior team.

2013

Gypie Mayo

English guitarist and songwriter (Dr. Feelgood and The Yardbirds) (born 1951)

John "Gypie" Mayo was a British guitarist and songwriter, playing in Dr. Feelgood from 1977 to 1981, and from 1996 to 2004 in the reborn Yardbirds with Alan Glen.

2013

Bill Mazer

Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (born 1920)

Bill Mazer was an American television and radio personality. He won numerous awards and citations, including three National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's Sportscaster of the Year awards for New York from…

2013

Ghulam Azam

Bangladeshi politician (born 1922)

Ghulam Azam was a Bangladeshi writer and politician who headed the far-right Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI).

2014

John Bramlett

American football player (born 1941)

John "Bull" Bramlett was an American professional football linebacker who played from 1965 to 1971 on four teams, the Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, and Boston Patriots in the American Football League (AFL) and the…

2014

Bernard Mayes

English-American journalist and academic (born 1929)

Anthony Bernard Duncan Mayes was a British broadcaster, university dean and author. In the United States, he founded KQED-FM, was Executive Vice President of KQED TV, then co-founded and became first working chairman of…

2014

Joan Quigley

American astrologer and author (born 1927)

Joan Ceciel Quigley of San Francisco, California, was an astrologer best known for her astrological advice to the Reagan White House in the 1980s. Quigley was born in Kansas City, Missouri.

2014

Tullio Regge

Italian physicist and academic (born 1931)

Tullio Eugenio Regge was an Italian theoretical physicist.

2014

Alvin Stardust

English singer and actor (born 1942)

Bernard William Jewry, known professionally as Shane Fenton and later as Alvin Stardust, was an English rock singer and stage actor. Performing first as Shane Fenton in the 1960s, Jewry had a moderately successful…

2014

Leon Bibb

American-Canadian singer (born 1922)

Leon Bibb was an American-Canadian folk singer and actor. His a cappella vocals blend his classical, spiritual and blues influences. He is the father of the New York-based acoustic blues singer/songwriter Eric Bibb, and…

2015

Roger De Clerck

Belgian businessman (born 1924)

Roger De Clerck was a Belgian entrepreneur and CEO of the Beaulieu textile group. An international business man, his family was ranked 15th place in a list of "richest Belgians". During his lifetime he was controversial…

2015

Jim Roberts

Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1940)

James Wilfred Roberts, known as Jim Roberts or Jimmy Roberts, was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and forward.

2015

Fred Sands

American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art (born 1938)

Fred Charles Sands was an American business executive and real estate investor. He served as the Chairman of Vintage Capital Group.

2015

Jack Chick

American cartoonist and publisher (born 1924)

Jack Thomas Chick was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Baptist "Chick tracts". He expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morality plays.

2016

Wim van der Voort

Dutch speed skater (born 1923)

Willem "Wim" van der Voort was a Dutch speed skater. At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo Van der Voort was the silver medalist in the men's 1500 meters, finishing 0.2 seconds behind Hjalmar Andersen of Norway. He received a…

2016

Pete Burns

English singer-songwriter (born 1959)

Peter Jozzeppi Burns was an English singer, songwriter and television personality.

2016

Walter Lassally

German cinematographer (born 1926)

Walter Lassally was a German-born British cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1965 for the film Zorba the Greek.

2017

Todd Reid

Australian tennis player (born 1984)

Todd Reid was an Australian professional tennis player. He excelled as a junior and peaked in the Men's Tour in September 2004, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 105.

2018

Jerry Jeff Walker

American singer-songwriter (born 1942)

Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement. He is best known for writing the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles".

2020

Adriano Moreira

Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS – People's Party (born 1922)

Adriano José Alves Moreira, ComC GCC GOIH GCSE was a Portuguese lawyer, professor and a leading political figure in Portugal throughout the second half of the 20th century.

2022

Aira Samulin

Finnish entrepreneur and dance teacher (born 1927)

Aira Laila Suvio-Samulin was a Finnish dance teacher and businesswoman.

2023

Geoff Capes

British shot putter and strongman (born 1949)

Geoffrey Lewis Humberg Capes JP was a British shot putter, strongman, and Highland Games competitor.

2024

Gary Indiana

American writer, playwright and poet (born 1950)

Gary Hoisington, known as Gary Indiana, was an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his…

2024

Jack Jones

American singer and actor (born 1938)

John Allan Jones was an American singer and actor. He was primarily a straight-pop singer whose forays into jazz were mostly of the big-band/swing music variety. He won two Grammy Awards and received five additional…

2024

June Lockhart

American actress (b. 1925)

June Kathleen Lockhart was an American actress, beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in films such as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St. Louis. She appeared primarily in 1950s and 1960s television and with…

2025

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Known forHe played Test cricket for India from 1966 to 1979 and formed part of the famous Indian spin quartet

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