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Notable Deaths on October 5
103 people
659 BC – 2024
October 5 has seen 103 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 659 BC – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2015 — Joker Arroyo
Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1927)
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was a Filipino statesman and key figure in the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos
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He was a Congressman for Makati from 1992 to 2001 and Senator from 2001 to 2013
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100 enacted in the 8th Congress citing his invaluable service to the Filipino people
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In 2018, Arroyo was identified by the Human Rights Victims' Claims Board as a Motu proprio human rights violations victim of the Martial Law Era.
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French monk, historian, and author (born 1030)
Sigebert or Sigibert of Gembloux was a medieval author, known mainly as a pro-Imperial historian of a universal chronicle, opposed to the expansive papacy of Gregory VII and Pascal II. Early in his life he became a monk…
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1112
king of Castile and Toledo (born 1155)
Alfonso VIII, called the Noble or the one of Las Navas, was King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo. After having suffered a great defeat with his own army at Alarcos against the Almohads in 1195, he…
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1214
1225
king of France (born 1245)
Philip III, called the Bold, was King of France from 1270 until his death in 1285. His father, Louis IX, died in Tunis during the Eighth Crusade. Philip, who was accompanying him, returned to France and was anointed…
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1285
Italian cardinal (born 1290)
Giovanni Visconti (1290–1354) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, who was co-ruler in Milan and lord of other Italian cities. He also was a military leader who fought against Florence, and used force to capture and…
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1354
queen of France (born 1330)
Blanche of Navarre was a Navarrese infanta who was briefly Queen of France as the second wife of King Philip VI from 29 January until 22 August 1350.
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1398
Italian priest and Master General (born c. 1330)
Raymond of Capua, was a leading member of the Dominican Order and served as its Master General from 1380 until his death. First as Prior Provincial of Lombardy and then as Master General of the Order, Raymond undertook…
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1399
Flemish landscape painter (born c. 1480)
Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier, was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects. He was born in Wallonia, but in his mature career worked in Antwerp, then the centre of the art market in the…
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1524
English bishop and academic (born 1448)
Richard Foxe was an English churchman, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, and became also Lord Privy Seal.
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1528
German poet and educator (born 1488)
Helius Eobanus Hessus was a German Latin poet and later a Lutheran humanist. He was born at Halgehausen in Hesse-Kassel.
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1540
Flemish composer and educator (born 1510)
Pierre de Manchicourt was a Renaissance composer of the Franco-Flemish School.
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1564
Italian mathematician and academic (born 1522)
Lodovico de Ferrari was an Italian mathematician best known today for solving the quartic equation.
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1565
1606
Jesuit hagiographer (born 1569)
Heribert Rosweyde was a Jesuit hagiographer. His work, quite unfinished, was taken up by Jean Bolland who systematized it, while broadening its perspective. This is the beginning of the association of the Bollandists.
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1629
Japanese botanist and philosopher (born 1630)
Kaibara Ekken or Ekiken, also known as Atsunobu (篤信), was a Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist.
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1714
German astronomer and scholar (born 1721)
Jean-Philippe Baratier was a German scholar. A noted child prodigy of the 18th century, he published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscripts.
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1740
Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (born 1704)
Johann Andreas von Segner was a Hungarian scientist of German descent. He was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, in the former Hungarian capital city of Pozsony, or Pressburg.
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1777
Haitian freedom fighter (born 1781)
Suzanne Bélair, called Sanité Bélair,, was a Haitian revolutionary and lieutenant in the army of Toussaint Louverture.
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1802
1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1738)
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the leading British general…
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1805
1813
2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (born 1761)
William Townsend Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
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1827
Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (born 1781)
Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg was an Austrian and German statesman and historian.
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1848
Polish archbishop (born 1778)
Antoni Melchior Optat Fijałkowski was a Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Warsaw from 1856 to 1861. He previously served as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Płock and titular bishop of Hermopolis from 1842 to…
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1861
German-French cellist and composer (born 1819)
Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful…
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1880
American railroad tycoon (born 1820)
Thomas Clark Durant was an American physician, businessman, and financier. He was vice-president of the Union Pacific Rail Road (UP) in 1869 when it met with the Central Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah…
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1885
English priest (born 1826)
Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache-Tollemache JP was an English priest in the Church of England. He is best known for the unusual and increasingly eccentric names that he chose for his numerous children.
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1895
1913
Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (born 1876)
Albert Edgar Solomon was an Australian lawyer and politician. He served as premier of Tasmania from 1912 to 1914, as leader of the Liberal Party. He died of tuberculosis a few months after leaving office as premier, at…
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1914
French soldier and pilot (born 1888)
Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot. Garros began a career in aviation in 1909 and performed many early feats such as the first-ever airplane crossing of the Mediterranean…
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1918
Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (born 1869)
John Storey was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales from 12 April 1920 until his sudden death in Sydney. His leadership enabled the New South Wales Labor Party to recover after the split over…
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1921
Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (born 1887)
Samuel Louis Warner was an American film producer who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of Warner Bros. He established the studio along with his brothers Harry, Albert, and Jack L. Warner. Sam Warner is…
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1927
Indian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (born 1876)
Varghese Payyappilly was an Indian Syro-Malabar priest from Kerala and the founder of the congregation of Sisters of the Destitute. He was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 14 April 2018.
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1929
1st Baron Thomson, Indian-English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Air (born 1875)
Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, was a British Army officer who went on to serve as a Labour minister and peer. He served as Secretary of State for Air under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and between 1929 and…
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1930
French-American actress (born 1898)
Renée Adorée was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is best known for portraying the role of Melisande, the love interest of John Gilbert in the melodramatic…
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1933
Russian general (born 1862)
Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich was a commander of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I. He was a leader of the anti-communist White movement in northwestern Russia during the Civil War.
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1933
Dutch poet and author (born 1898)
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Dutch poet and novelist. He is considered one of the most important Dutch language writers.
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1936
Polish nun and saint (born 1905)
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled Faustina in English, had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic…
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1938
Swedish actor and director (born 1858)
Albert Adam Ranft was a Swedish theatre director and actor.
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1938
English-American activist, co-founded the Volunteers of America (born 1857)
Ballington Booth was a British-born American Christian minister who co-founded Volunteers of America, a Christian charitable organization, and became its first General (1896-1940). He was a former officer in The…
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1940
American rancher and politician (born 1859)
Lincoln Loy McCandless was a United States cattle rancher, industrialist and politician for the Territory of Hawaii. McCandless served in the United States Congress as a territorial delegate. A former member of the…
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1940
Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1889)
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez was a Mexican classical music composer, a violinist, and conductor.
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1940
American lawyer and jurist (born 1856)
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. Brandeis was a leading figure in the antitrust movement at the turn of the 20th century,…
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1941
American astronomer (born 1861)
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts was an American astronomer. She was the Director of the Bureau of Measurements at the Paris Observatory and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, or a Knight of the National Order of the…
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1942
American clarinet player and composer (born 1902)
Leon Joseph Roppolo was an American early jazz clarinetist, best known for his playing with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. He also played saxophone and guitar.
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1943
German-American neurologist and academic (born 1885)
Friedrich "Fritz" Heinrich Lewy, known in his later years as Frederic Henry Lewey, was a German-born American neurologist. He is best known for the discovery of Lewy bodies, which are a characteristic indicator of…
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1950
Austrian racing driver (born 1884)
Joseph William Jagersberger was an American racing driver and mechanical engineer.
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1952
American astronaut (born 1932)
Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went into space. The…
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1967
American actress (born 1928)
Barbara Marie Nickerauer, known professionally as Barbara Nichols, was an American actress who often played brassy or comic roles in films in the 1950s and 1960s.
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1976
Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Lars Onsager was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.
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1976
American actress (born 1923)
Gloria Grahame was an American actress. She began her acting career in theater, and in 1944 made her first film for MGM. Many biographies indicate she was born Gloria Grahame Hallward, but she adopted the surname…
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1981
Brazilian director and screenwriter (born 1897)
Humberto Duarte Mauro was a Brazilian film director. His best known work is Ganga Bruta. He is often considered the greatest director of early Brazilian cinema.
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1983
American inventor and businessman, founded the Tupperware Corporation (born 1907)
Earl Silas Tupper was an American businessman and inventor, best known as the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food, and for founding the related home products company that bears his…
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1983
Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (born 1902)
Karl Menger was an Austrian-born American mathematician, the son of the economist Carl Menger. In mathematics, Menger studied the theory of algebras and the dimension theory of low-regularity ("rough") curves and…
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1985
Australian racing driver and accountant (born 1947)
Michael Trevor Burgmann was a Sydney accountant and racing car driver who was involved in a fatal accident at the 1986 James Hardie 1000 race held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales. At the time…
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1986
American film producer (born 1898)
Harold B. Wallis was an American film producer. He is best known for producing Casablanca (1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and True Grit (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring…
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1986
English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1919)
James Hardy Wilkinson FRS was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. In 1970 he won the…
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1986
American singer-songwriter (born 1939)
Edward James Kendrick, better known as Eddie Kendricks, was an American tenor singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group the Temptations, and…
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1992
American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (born 1925)
Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray…
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1996
American football player and wrestler (born 1962)
Brian William Pillman was an American professional wrestler and professional football player best known for his appearances in Stampede Wrestling in the 1980s and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship…
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1997
Brazilian agronomist (born 1924)
Johanna Liesbeth Kubelka Döbereiner was a Brazilian agronomist and pioneer in soil biology.
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2000
Romanian footballer (born 1976)
Cătălin George Hîldan was a Romanian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
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2000
American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (born 1903)
Michael Joseph Mansfield was an American Democratic Party politician and diplomat who represented Montana in the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953 and United States Senate from 1953 to 1977. As…
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2001
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1920)
Claude Earl "Chuck" Rayner, nicknamed "Bonnie Prince Charlie", was a Canadian professional hockey goaltender who played nine seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Americans and New York Rangers. He is a…
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2002
Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1978)
Daniel Joseph Snyder was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played as a centre in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Thrashers. Following a single-vehicle accident in which he was a passenger,…
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2003
American environmentalist, director, and producer (born 1957)
Timothy Treadwell was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of the bear-protection organization Grizzly People. He lived among coastal brown bears in Katmai National Park,…
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2003
American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Jack Roy, better known by the stage name Rodney Dangerfield, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He was known for his self-deprecating one-liner humor, his catchphrase "I don't get no…
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2004
American biologist and academic (born 1941)
Dr. Bill Dobelle was a biomedical researcher who developed experimental technologies that restored limited sight to blind patients, and also known for the impact he and his company had on the breathing pacemaker…
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2004
New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of…
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2004
Mexican wrestling promoter, founded Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (born 1953)
Antonio Hipolito Peña Herrada was a Mexican professional wrestling promoter who founded the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion in 1992. Peña's promotion reached its height of popularity in the early…
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2006
French journalist and author (born 1923)
Bernard Charles Henri Clavel was a French writer.
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2010
American model and actress, Miss USA 1957 (born 1939)
Mary Leona Gage was an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1957, the first from Maryland to capture the Miss USA crown. She was stripped of her title when it was revealed that…
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2010
2010
American academic and scholar (born 1930)
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was an American lawyer, legal scholar, and civil rights activist. Bell first worked for the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he supervised over 300 school…
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2011
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)
Herbert Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded…
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2011
American businessman, co-founder of Apple Inc. (born 1955)
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as…
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2011
American actor and singer (born 1936)
Charles Lewis Napier was an American actor who was known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, soldiers, or authority figures, many of…
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2011
American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (born 1922)
Freddie Lee Shuttlesworth was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist who led fights against segregation and other forms of racism, during the civil rights movement. He often worked with Martin Luther…
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2011
Turkish photographer and journalist (born 1926)
Gökşin Sipahioğlu was a Turkish photographer and journalist who founded the Paris-based photo agency Sipa Press. He spent most of his life in Paris where the French media dubbed him "le Grand Turc". He also helped found…
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2011
English biologist and academic (born 1954)
Keith Henry Stockman Campbell was a British biologist who was a member of the team at Roslin Institute that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary…
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2012
Croatian-Serbian lawyer and activist (born 1932)
Vojin Dimitrijević was a law professor, public intellectual, and a prominent Serbian human rights activist and international law expert.
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2012
American dentist and politician (born 1926)
James W. Holley III was an American politician and dental surgeon. Holley became the first Black mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia, and ultimately the city's longest serving mayor, although both his mayoral terms ended with…
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2012
Georgian-Armenian composer and educator (born 1921)
Edvard Mik'aeli Mirzoyan was an Armenian composer.
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2012
French director and screenwriter (born 1925)
Claude Pinoteau was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87. His sister was the actress Arlette Merry, and his…
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2012
American chemist and academic (born 1916)
Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito was an American physical chemist and inventor known for her impactful work related to the textile industry. She notably contributed to the development of wash-and-wear cotton fabrics using a…
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2013
Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Carlo Lizzani was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.
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2013
Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1976)
Yasuo Saitō , also known by the stage name Yakkun Sakurazuka , was a Japanese comedian, singer, and voice actor.
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2013
English-American CIA officer and author (born 1924)
David Chavchavadze was a British-born American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian-Russian origin.
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2014
Italian racing driver (born 1959)
Andrea de Cesaris was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1994.
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2014
Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (born 1930)
Geoffrey Lamont Holder was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, director, choreographer, and artist. He was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, before his film career began in 1957 with an…
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2014
Russian actor and director (born 1917)
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre…
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2014
Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (born 1950)
Chantal Anne Akerman was a Belgian filmmaker, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York (2011–2015).
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2015
American philosopher, author, and activist (born 1915)
Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s…
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2015
Swedish author and playwright (born 1948)
Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays…
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2015
American journalist and author (born 1933)
Brock Yates was a prominent American journalist, TV commentator, TV reporter, screenwriter, and author. He was the longtime executive editor at Car and Driver magazine—and contributed to The Washington Post, Playboy,…
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2016
Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (born 1955)
Eberhard Edzard van der Laan was a Dutch politician who served as Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration from 2008 to 2010 and Mayor of Amsterdam from 2010 until his death in 2017. He was a member of the…
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2017
American novelist (born 1932)
Robert Lowell Coover was an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. He became…
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2024
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Joker Arroyo — Filipino politician (1927–2015)
FeaturedJoker Arroyo
Death year2015
Known forwas a Filipino statesman and key figure in the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos
Deaths on this date103 (659 BC – 2024)
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