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Notable Deaths on October 28
113 people
312 – 2024
October 28 has seen 113 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 312 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2006 — Red Auerbach
American basketball player and coach (born 1917)
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On retiring in 1966, he held an NBA coaching record of 938 wins
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As head coach, he led the Boston Celtics to eight consecutive NBA championships between 1959 to 1966
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He served as general manager of the Celtics from 1966 to 1984, and later as President and Vice-Chairman of the Board
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He served as president of the Celtics until his death in 2006 at the age of 89.
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Syrian bishop
Ibas of Edessa was bishop of Edessa and was born in Syria. His name is the Syriac equivalent of "Donatus". He is frequently associated with the growth of Nestorianism, although this assertion is contentious and has been…
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Bolesław III Wrymouth, also known as Boleslaus the Wry-mouthed, was the duke of Lesser Poland, Silesia and Sandomierz between 1102 and 1107 and over the whole of Poland between 1107 and 1138. He was the only child of…
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Arsenije Sremac was the second Archbishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church (1233–1263) and a disciple of Saint Sava of Serbia.
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1266
Athanasius I of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two terms, from 1289 to 1293 and from 1303 to 1309. He was born in Adrianople and died in Constantinople. Chosen by the emperor…
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1310
Queen of Germany (born 1262)
Elisabeth of Carinthia, was a Duchess of Austria from 1282 and Queen of Germany from 1298 until 1308, by marriage to King Albert I of the House of Habsburg.
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1312
Margaret I was queen regnant of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from the late 1380s until her death, and the founder of the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian kingdoms together for over a century. She had been queen…
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1412
Duchess of Milan (born 1425)
Bianca Maria Visconti, also known as Bianca Maria Sforza or Blanca Maria, was Duchess of Milan from 1450 to 1468 by marriage to Francesco I Sforza.
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1468
Japanese shōgun (born 1539)
Ashikaga Yoshihide was the 14th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate, who held nominal power for a few months in 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan. He became shōgun three years after the death of his cousin, the…
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1568
Flemish diplomat
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, was a 16th-century Flemish writer, herbalist and diplomat in the employ of three generations of Austrian monarchs. He served as ambassador to the Ottoman…
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1592
Japanese general (born 1532)
Ōkubo Tadayo was a Japanese samurai and general who served Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Azuchi–Momoyama period. He was daimyo of Odawara Domain from 1590 to 1594.
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1594
1627
Italian composer and educator (born 1587)
Stefano Landi was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject: Il Sant'Alessio (1632).
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1639
English painter (born 1610)
William Dobson was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting. One of the first significant English painters, he was praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has…
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1646
Spanish priest and playwright (born 1618)
Agustín Moreto y Cavana, was a Spanish Catholic priest and dramatist.
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1661
French author, poet, and playwright (born 1595)
Jean Desmarets, Sieur de Saint-Sorlin was a French writer and dramatist. He was a founding member, and the first to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1634.
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1676
English mathematician and cryptographer (born 1616)
John Wallis was an English clergyman and mathematician, who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus.
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1703
English physician and philosopher (born 1632)
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". His important works include A Letter…
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1704
Prince George of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland, was the husband of Anne, Queen of Great Britain. He was the consort of the British monarch from Anne's accession on 8 March 1702 until his death in 1708.
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1708
English politician (born 1627)
Sir Stephen Fox of Farley in Wiltshire, of Redlynch Park in Somerset, of Chiswick, Middlesex and of Whitehall, was a royal administrator and courtier to King Charles II, and a politician, who rose from humble origins to…
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1716
Anna Ioannovna, also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. Much…
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1740
German poet (born 1708)
Friedrich von Hagedorn was a German Rococo poet. He was born in Hamburg, where his father, a man of scientific and literary taste, was the Danish ambassador. His younger brother, Christian Ludwig, was a well known art…
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1754
French composer (born 1689)
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was a French baroque composer of chamber music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a royal licence for…
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1755
German general and politician (born 1700)
Heinrich, Count von Brühl, was a Polish-Saxon statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and a member of the powerful German von Brühl family. The incumbency of this ambitious politician…
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1763
French flute player and composer (born 1700)
Michel Blavet was a French composer and flute virtuoso. Although Blavet taught himself to play almost every instrument, he specialized in the bassoon and the flute which he held to the left, the opposite of how most…
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1768
German author (born 1735)
Johann Karl August Musäus was a German author. He was one of the first collectors of German folk stories, most celebrated for his Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1782–1787), a collection of German fairy tales retold as…
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1787
German physician, botanist, and zoologist (born 1710)
Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring was a German physician, botanist and zoologist.
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1792
English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (born 1724)
John Smeaton was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent scholar, who introduced various scientific…
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1792
American general and politician (born 1727)
Artemas Ward was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts. He was considered an effective political leader, President John Adams describing him as "universally…
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1800
English poet and author (born 1749)
Charlotte Smith was an English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose Elegiac Sonnets (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England. She also helped to set conventions for Gothic fiction and…
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1806
American writer and second First Lady of the United States (born 1744)
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. She is widely considered to be an…
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1818
Swedish chemist and academic (born 1792)
Johan August Arfwedson was a Swedish chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.
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1841
French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (born 1802)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac was a French general and politician who served as head of the executive power of France from June to December 1848, during the French Second Republic.
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1857
English ornithologist and entomologist (born 1835)
Robert Swinhoe FRS was an English diplomat and naturalist who served as a consul in Qing-era Taiwan. He catalogued many East Asian birds, and several, such as Swinhoe's pheasant, are named after him.
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1877
French economist and politician (born 1799)
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud was a French writer, political economist and politician. He was born in Marseille.
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1879
German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (born 1854)
Ottmar Mergenthaler was a German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses. This machine revolutionized…
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1899
German philologist and orientalist (born 1823)
Friedrich Max Müller was a German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist. He was one of the founders of the Western academic disciplines of Indology and religious studies. Müller wrote both scholarly and…
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1900
French artist (born 1836)
Jean Benner was a French artist. He was twin to fellow artist, Emmanuel Benner, and the father of Emmanuel M. Benner, another artist.
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1906
Austrian composer and critic (born 1850)
Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger was an Austrian composer of operas and operettas, a music critic, and teacher.
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1914
American meteorologist and academic (born 1838)
Cleveland Abbe was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones.
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1916
German WWI flying ace (born 1891)
Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke was a German professional soldier and pioneering flying ace credited with 40 aerial victories during World War I. Boelcke is honored as the father of the German fighter air force, and of air…
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1916
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein was a German prince who became a member of the British royal family through his marriage to Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, the fifth child and third daughter of Queen…
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1917
Greek lawyer and politician (born 1841)
Dimitrios Votsis was a Greek politician and served as the mayor of Patras. His family hailed from Paramythia in Thesprotia, Epirus. Son of Athanasios and Eleni Votsi, who were among the first settlers of the city after…
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1917
Italian mathematician and politician (born 1845)
Ulisse Dini was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contributions to real analysis, partly collected in his book "Fondamenti per la teorica delle funzioni di variabili reali".
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1918
German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1849)
Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow was a German politician who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1900 to 1909. A fervent supporter of Weltpolitik,…
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1929
Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (born 1870)
Major General Sir Newton James Moore, was an Australian politician, businessman and army officer. He served as the eighth Premier of Western Australia from 1906 to 1910 and, following service in the First World War, was…
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1936
American actress (born 1892)
Alice Brady was an American actress of stage and film. She began her career in the theatre in 1911, and her first important success came on Broadway in 1912 when she created the role of Meg March in the original…
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1939
Soviet politician (born 1876)
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin, born Shaya Itsikovich Goloshchyokin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and party functionary.
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1941
Japanese general (born 1881)
Kesago Nakajima was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese forces under Nakajima's command committed the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.
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1945
English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1862)
William Morris Hughes was an Australian politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923. He led the nation during World War I, and his influence on national politics spanned several…
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1952
German-American physician and gynecologist (born 1881)
Ernst Gräfenberg was a German-born physician and scientist. He developed the intrauterine device (IUD), and studied the role of the woman's urethra in orgasm. The G-spot is named after him.
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1957
Cuban soldier (born 1932)
Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán was a Cuban revolutionary. One of the major figures of the Cuban Revolution, he was considered second only to Fidel Castro among the revolutionary leadership.
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1959
1963
Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (born 1882)
Thomas Graham Brown FRS was a Scottish mountaineer and physiologist, most famous for finding three new routes up the east face of Mont Blanc.
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1965
American model and actress (born 1920)
Constance Dowling was an American model turned actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
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1969
1970
Egyptian historian, author, and academic (born 1889)
Taha Hussein was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world. His sobriquet was "The Dean of…
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1973
Italian actor, director, and playwright (born 1883)
Sergio Tòfano was an Italian actor, theatre director, playwright, scene designer and illustrator. As a comics artist, he is best-known for creating Signor Bonaventura.
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1973
French boxer and actor (born 1894)
Georges Carpentier was a French boxer, actor and World War I pilot.
A precocious pugilist, Carpentier fought in numerous categories. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908…
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1975
American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (born 1932)
Oliver Edward Nelson was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) is regarded as one of the most significant…
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1975
Finnish army captain (born 1904)
Aarne Edward Juutilainen, nicknamed "Marokon kauhu", was a Finnish army captain who served in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco between 1930 and 1935. After returning to Finland, he served in the Finnish army and…
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1976
Sri Lankan singer and actress (born 1923)
Daisy Rasammah Daniels, known popularly as Rukmani Devi was a Sri Lankan film actress and singer who was often acclaimed as "The Nightingale of Sri Lanka". She made it to the silver screen via the stage and had acted in…
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1978
American animator and screenwriter (born 1892)
Otto James Messmer was an American animator known for his work on the Felix the Cat cartoons and comic strip produced by the Pat Sullivan studio.
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1983
English author (born 1922)
John Gerard Braine was an English novelist. Braine is usually listed among the angry young men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s.
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1986
French soldier and painter (born 1896)
André-Aimé-René Masson was a French artist. He was a leading figure in the Surrealist movement and an influence on Abstract Expressionism. He served in the French Army from 1914 to 1919. During his exile in the United…
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1987
English bandleader, composer, and actor (born 1898)
Henry Robert Hall was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, through to the 1960s.
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1989
Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (born 1922)
Juri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu. He was elected a member of the British Academy (1977), the Norwegian…
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1993
American screenwriter and producer (born 1915)
Paul Jarrico was an Oscar-nominated American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the era of McCarthyism.
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1997
English poet and playwright (born 1930)
Edward James Hughes was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed…
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1998
1999
Dominican baseball player (born 1969)
Andújar Cedeño Donastorg was a Dominican Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop who played from 1990 to 1996. Born in La Romana, Dominican Republic, he played for the Houston Astros from 1990 to 1994, the San Diego…
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2000
Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (born 1910)
Gerard Hengeveld was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist. He is especially known for his compositions of study material for piano. Other compositions include two piano concertos, a violin…
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2001
American screenwriter and producer (born 1898)
Margaret Booth was an American film editor. In a career lasting seven decades, Booth was most associated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
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2002
Swedish businessman, founded H&M (born 1917)
Erling Persson was the founder of H&M. He got the idea following a post-World War II trip to the United States: he was impressed by the country's efficient, high-volume stores.
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2002
Scottish social sciences professor (born 1940)
Sally Baldwin was a University of York social sciences professor and author.
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2003
American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison (born 1926)
Lieutenant Colonel Eugene K. Bird was US Commandant of the Spandau Allied Prison from 1964 to 1972 where, together with six others, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess was incarcerated.
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2004
2005
French photographer (born 1926)
Raymond Hains was a French visual artist and a founder of the Nouveau réalisme movement. In 1960, he signed, along with Arman, François Dufrêne, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé and Pierre Restany, the…
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2005
American basketball player (born 1942)
Tony B. Jackson was an American professional basketball player.
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2005
Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1922)
Fernando Aguilar Quejas was a singer and a songwriter of Cape Verde.
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2005
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943)
Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at…
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2005
Serbian actor and screenwriter (born 1929)
Ljubomir "Ljuba" Tadić was a Yugoslav actor who enjoyed a reputation as one of the greatest names in the history of former Yugoslav cinema.
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2005
Jamaican-Canadian boxer (born 1954)
Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 2000. He won the WBC heavyweight title in 1986 by defeating Pinklon Thomas, then lost it in his first defense in the same year to Mike Tyson.…
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2006
American guitarist and songwriter (born 1920)
Marijohn Wilkin was an American songwriter, famous in country music for writing a number of hits such as "One Day At a Time" and "The Long Black Veil". Wilkin won numerous awards over the years and was referred to as…
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2006
Japanese lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Takao Fujinami was a Japanese politician who served as the Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1983 to 1985. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1993, and again from 1996 to 2003.
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2007
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1927)
Porter Wayne Wagoner was an American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour.
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2007
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1990)
Taylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow, known by her stage name Taylor Mitchell, was a Canadian country folk singer and songwriter from Toronto. Her debut and sole studio album, For Your Consideration (2009), received…
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2009
Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (born 1932)
Liang Congjie was a Chinese historian best known for his work as an environmental activist who established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization to be officially…
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2010
American actor (born 1937)
James Gordon MacArthur was an American actor and recording artist.
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2010
Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (born 1938)
Jonathan Jakob Jørgen Otto Motzfeldt was a Greenlandic priest and politician. He is considered one of the leading figures in the establishment of Greenland Home Rule. Jonathan Motzfeldt was the first prime minister of…
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2010
Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator (born 1934)
Ehud Netzer was an Israeli architect, archaeologist and educator, known for his extensive excavations at Herodium, where in 2007 he found and identified the tomb of Herod the Great; and the discovery of a structure…
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2010
English soldier (born 1919)
Raymond Thomas Casamajor Addington was a British Army soldier who won the Military Cross in the Netherlands in 1944/45 for his bravery as a battery captain with the 13th Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), Royal Horse…
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2011
Australian dentist and politician (born 1939)
Gordon Neil Bilney was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Kingston from 1983 to 1996.
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2012
Australian footballer and coach (born 1936)
Dr. John Theodore Francis Cheffers was the second Director of the Australian Institute of Sport. He succeeded Don Talbot as AIS Director in 1984 and stayed in the role until 1986. Ronald Harvey took over the…
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2012
English businessman (born 1923)
Jack Dellal was a British property investor, nicknamed "Black Jack". His company, the property group Allied Commercial Holdings, financed the purchase of Shell Mex House in 2002 and sold it in 2007. Dellal had a net…
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2012
Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1920)
Tetsuharu Kawakami was a Japanese baseball player and manager, known for his red bat, and his nickname dageki no kamisama .
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2013
Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (born 1927)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, having held the…
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2013
Serbian journalist (born 1949)
Aleksandar Tijanić was a Serbian journalist and director-general of the country's public broadcaster Radio-Television of Serbia from 2004 to 2013. During his career he was a star columnist for leading newspapers and…
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2013
Indian author (born 1929)
Rajendra Yadav was a Hindi fiction writer, and a pioneer of the 'Nayi Kahani' movement of Hindi literature.
He edited the literary magazine HANS, which was founded by Munshi Premchand in 1930 but ceased publication in…
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2013
American poet and academic (born 1927)
Galway Mills Kinnell was an American poet. His dark poetry emphasized scenes and experiences in threatening, ego-less natural environments. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, Selected Poems…
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2014
Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (born 1937)
Michael Charles Chilufya Sata was a Zambian politician who served as the fifth president of Zambia from 2011 until his death in 2014. A social democrat, he led the Patriotic Front (PF), a major political party in…
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2014
Australian rules footballer (born 1985)
Colin Martin Sylvia was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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2018
American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1935)
Jerry Lee Lewis was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock 'n' roll's first great wild man". A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first…
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2022
American-Canadian actor (born 1969)
Matthew Langford Perry was an American and Canadian actor. He gained international fame for starring as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom Friends (1994–2004). Perry also appeared on Ally McBeal (2002) and…
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2023
American ice hockey player (born 1994)
Adam Robert Johnson was an American professional ice hockey forward. He played 13 games in the National Hockey League with the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons. He also played in Europe with…
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2023
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1932)
Renato Raffaele Martino was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Created a cardinal in 2003, Martino became the longest serving cardinal deacon, the cardinal protodeacon, from June 2014. He served for more…
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2024
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938)
Paul Joseph Morrissey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was best known for his long association with Andy Warhol and the Factory scene during the 1960s and early 1970s.
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2024
German-American affiliate of Kingdom Assembly of Iran (born 1955)
Jamshid Sharmahd was a German national and software engineer, based in Los Angeles, California. A permanent resident of the United States from 2003, Sharmahd had been targeted by the Iranian government for his…
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2024
Japanese manga artist (born 1936)
Kazuo Umezu or Kazuo Umezz was a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. Starting his career in the 1950s, he is among the most famous artists of horror manga and has been vital for its development, considered the…
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2024
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Red Auerbach — American basketball coach and executive (1917–2006)
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Death year2006
Known forAs head coach, he led the Boston Celtics to eight consecutive NBA championships between 1959 to 1966
Deaths on this date113 (312 – 2024)
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2025
Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, killing over 30 people, as well as tying the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfall in the North Atlantic. Wikipedia →
2023
The 2023 Rugby World Cup final is held at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. It saw South Africa defeat New Zealand 12 to 11, claiming their fourth Webb Ellis Cup, becoming the first nation to do so. Wikipedia →
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Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president. Wikipedia →
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