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In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu"
Notable Deaths on October 6
117 people
23 – 2024
October 6 has seen 117 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 23 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1892 — Alfred
Lord Tennyson, English poet (born 1809)
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He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830
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"Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet
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Some critics described Tennyson as overly sentimental
23
Byzantine empress
Year 404 (CDIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Aristaenetus. The denomination 404 for this year has been used since the…
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404
Byzantine general
Saint Nicetas the Patrician was a Byzantine monk and a fervent opponent of Byzantine Iconoclasm. He is usually identified with Nicetas Monomachos, a eunuch official and general from Paphlagonia active at the turn of…
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836
Frankish queen (born 823)
Ermentrude of Orléans was the Queen of the Franks by her marriage to Charles II. She was the daughter of Odo, count of Orleans and Engeltrude de Fézensac.
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869
Holy Roman Emperor (born 823)
Charles the Bald was king of West Francia (843–77), king of Italy (875–77) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–77). After a series of civil wars during the reign of his father, Louis the Pious, Charles succeeded,…
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877
Japanese samurai (born 912)
Minamoto no Mitsunaka was a Japanese samurai and court official of the Heian period. He served as Chinjufu-shōgun and acting governor of Settsu Province. His association with the Fujiwara clan made him one of the…
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997
1014
count of Moselgau (born 965)
Frederick of Luxembourg, Count of Moselgau, was a son of Siegfried of Luxembourg and Hedwig of Nordgau.
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1019
1090
German monk, founded the Carthusian Order
Bruno of Cologne, venerated as Saint Bruno, was the founder of the Carthusians. He personally founded the order's first two communities. He was a celebrated teacher at Reims and a close advisor of his former pupil, Pope…
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1101
1145
margrave of Istria
Engelbert III, a member of the Rhenish Franconian House of Sponheim, was Margrave of Istria from 1124 until his death.
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1173
daughter of Louis X of France (born 1312)
Joan II was Queen of Navarre from 1328 until her death in 1349.
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1349
Korean prime minister (born 1342)
Chŏng Tojŏn, also known by his art name Sambong (삼봉), was a prominent Korean scholar-official during the late Goryeo to the early Joseon periods. Chŏng Tojŏn was an adviser to the Joseon founder Yi Sŏnggye and also the…
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1398
1413
English Protestant Bible translator (born c. 1494)
William Tyndale was an English Biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He translated much of the Bible into English and was…
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1536
Ottoman prince (born 1515)
Şehzade Mustafa was an Ottoman prince, son of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his concubine Mahidevran Hatun. He was Suleiman's oldest survived son, governor of Manisa from 1533 to 1541 and of Amasya from 1541 to…
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1553
1559
1640
Dutch explorer
Matthijs Hendrikszoon Quast, anglicized as Matthys and Matthew Quast, was a Dutch merchant and explorer in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Quast made several voyages on the VOC's behalf to Tokugawa…
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1641
queen of Spain and Portugal (born 1602)
Elisabeth of France, also known as Isabel or Elisabeth of Bourbon was Queen of Spain from 1621 to her death and Queen of Portugal from 1621 to 1640, as the first spouse of King Philip IV & III. She served as regent of…
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1644
French poet and author (born 1610)
Paul Scarron was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris. Though his precise birth date is unknown, he was baptised on 4 July 1610. Scarron was the first husband of Françoise d'Aubigné, who later became…
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1660
Indian 7th Sikh guru (born 1630)
Guru Har Rai revered as the seventh Nanak, was the seventh of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He became the Sikh leader at age 14, on 3 March 1644, after the death of his grandfather and the sixth Sikh leader Guru…
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1661
2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (born 1652)
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle was an English Army officer, politician and colonial administrator who sat in the House of Commons from 1667 to 1670 when he inherited his father's dukedom and sat in the House…
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1688
Italian violinist and composer (born 1684)
Francesco Onofrio Manfredini was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician.
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1762
king of Sardinia (born 1751)
Charles Emmanuel IV was King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 16 October 1796 until 1802, when he abdicated in favour of his brother Victor Emmanuel I.
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1819
French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (born 1769)
Pierre Derbigny was a French born judge and politician who served as the sixth governor of Louisiana. He was an advocate of integrating Louisiana into the United States and played a central role in the establishment of…
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1829
Dutch painter and actor (born 1770)
Johannes Jelgerhuis, was a 19th-century painter and actor from the Netherlands.
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1836
Polish-English geologist and explorer (born 1797)
Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, also known as Paul Edmund de Strzelecki and Sir Paul Strzelecki, was a Polish explorer, geologist, humanitarian, environmentalist, nobleman, scientist, businessman and philanthropist who in…
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1873
1883
Irish politician (born 1846)
Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891, holding the balance of power in…
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1891
Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1829)
Auguste Marie François Beernaert was the prime minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894, and the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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1912
Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1853)
"Damat" Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha, known simply as Damat Ferid Pasha, was an Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the de facto prime minister of the Ottoman Empire, during two periods under the…
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1923
German politician (born 1884)
Siegmund Glücksmann was a German-Jewish socialist politician. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most prominent figures of the German minority socialist movement in Poland, functioned as its 'party ideologue' and…
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1942
German SS officer (born 1900)
Leonardo Conti was the Reich Health Leader and an SS-Obergruppenführer in Nazi Germany. He was involved in the planning and execution of Action T4 that murdered hundreds of thousands of adults and children with severe…
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1945
Finnish composer and critic (born 1887)
Leevi Antti Madetoja was a Finnish composer, music critic, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant Finnish contemporaries of Jean…
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1947
American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (born 1860)
Will Keith Kellogg was an American industrialist in food manufacturing, who founded the Kellogg Company, which produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church…
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1951
German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
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1951
American historian and author (born 1865)
Bernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of…
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1959
American actor, director, screenwriter (born 1880)
Tod Browning was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer. He directed a number of films of various genres between 1915 and 1939, but was…
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1962
English mathematician and physicist (born 1917)
Phyllis Nicolson was a British mathematician and physicist best known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson method together with John Crank.
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1968
American golfer (born 1892)
Walter Charles Hagen was an American professional golfer and a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. His tally of 11 professional majors is third behind Jack Nicklaus (18) and Tiger Woods (15).…
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1969
1969
Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)
Jacyra Martins da Silveira, known by her stage name Cleo de Verberena, was a Brazilian actress and film director. She is widely considered as the first Brazilian woman to direct a film: 1931's O Mistério do Dominó Preto.
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1972
American actor (born 1895)
Sidney Alderman Blackmer was an American Broadway and film actor active between 1914 and 1971, usually in major supporting roles.
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1973
French race car driver (born 1944)
Albert François Cevert was a French racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1969 to 1973. Cevert won the 1971 United States Grand Prix with Tyrrell.
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1973
1973
English actor (born 1915)
Dennistoun John Franklyn Rose Price was an English actor. He played Louis Mazzini in the Ealing Studios film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and the omnicompetent valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G.…
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1973
American missionary and author (born 1882)
Margaret Wilhelmina Wilson was an American novelist. She was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for The Able McLaughlins.
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1973
Austrian race car driver (born 1948)
Helmut Koinigg was an Austrian racing driver who died in a crash in the 1974 United States Grand Prix, in his second Grand Prix start.
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1974
English philosopher and author (born 1900)
Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine". Some of Ryle's ideas in philosophy of mind have been called…
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1976
Australian singer-songwriter (born 1935)
John Michael O'Keefe was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the early 1950s. A pioneer of Rock music in Australia, his hits include "Wild One" (1958), "Shout!" and "She's My Baby". Often referred…
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1978
American poet and short-story writer (born 1911)
Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in…
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1979
English actress and producer (born 1922)
Hattie Jacques was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a prolific…
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1980
French cyclist (born 1921)
Jean Robic was a French road racing cyclist who won the 1947 Tour de France. Robic was a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961. His diminutive stature and appearance was encapsulated in his nickname Biquet (Kid goat).…
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1980
Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the 3rd president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination in 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who…
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1981
American cardinal (born 1921)
Terence James Cardinal Cooke was a senior-ranking American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1968 until his death, quietly battling leukemia throughout his tenure. He was named a cardinal in…
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1983
American composer, conductor, and bandleader (born 1921)
Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many vocalists at Capitol Records, including Frank…
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1985
Russian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1921)
Aleksandr Semyonovich Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, best known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula which he published in 1964. Earlier, he worked on computational solutions of problems…
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1986
American actress (born 1908)
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic…
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1989
Turkish sociologist and politician (born 1919)
Bahriye Üçok was a Turkish academic of theology, left-wing politician, writer, columnist, and women's rights activist whose assassination in 1990 remains unresolved.
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1990
Russian singer-songwriter (born 1956)
Igor Vladimirovich Talkov, was a Russian rock singer-songwriter and film actor. His breakthrough came in 1987 with the David Tukhmanov-composed song Clean Ponds which was an instant hit. Talkov's lyrics are mostly about…
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1991
English actor (born 1922)
Denholm Mitchell Elliott was an English actor. He appeared in numerous productions on stage and screen, receiving BAFTA awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Trading Places (1983), A Private Function (1984) and…
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1992
Australian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1905)
William Joseph O'Reilly was an Australian cricketer, rated as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. Following his retirement from playing, he became a well-respected cricket writer and broadcaster.
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1992
Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczacıbaşı (born 1913)
Mehmet Nejat Ferit Eczacıbaşı was a Turkish chemist, industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was a second-generation member of the Turkish Eczacıbaşı family.
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1993
American truck driver and pilot (born 1949)
On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters made a 45-minute flight in a homemade aerostat made of an ordinary lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. The aircraft rose to an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m),…
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1993
French mountaineer (born 1961)
Benoît Chamoux was a French Alpinist, who claimed to have summited 13 of the Eight-thousanders in the Himalayas.
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1995
American baseball player and manager (born 1914)
John Samuel Vander Meer was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, where he became the only pitcher in…
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1997
American baseball player (born 1944)
Mark Henry Belanger, nicknamed "the Blade", was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1965 through 1982, most notably as a member of the…
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1998
Portuguese singer and actress (born 1920)
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues was a Portuguese fado singer (fadista).
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1999
American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1937)
Robert James "Gino" Marella, better known by his ring name of Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play commentator, and booker.
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1999
American actor and stuntman (born 1920)
Richard William Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award: in 1978 for Best Supporting Actor for Comes a Horseman, and in 2000 for Best Actor in The Straight Story,…
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2000
American director and producer (born 1934)
Arnold H. Harris was the producer/director of WGN-TV's Chicago Cubs television broadcasts for 38 years from 1964 until his death. While he never appeared on camera, he could frequently be heard talking with announcer…
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2001
Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg was Prince of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until his death on 6 October 2002, as the husband of Queen Beatrix.
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2002
2006
Argentinian director and screenwriter (born 1940)
Eduardo Mignogna was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.
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2006
American baseball player and manager (born 1911)
John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil Jr. was an American first baseman and manager in the Negro American League, mostly with the Kansas City Monarchs. After his playing days, he worked as a scout and became the first African…
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2006
American author and critic (born 1914)
Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker was an American author who became well known as a writer of mystery, action adventure, and science fiction under the name Wilson Tucker.
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2006
Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1921)
Babasaheb Anantrao Bhosale was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as Chief Minister of Maharashtra from January 1982 until February 1983.
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2007
Indian scholar, jurist, and politician (born 1931)
Laxmi Mall Singhvi was an Indian jurist, parliamentarian, scholar, writer and diplomat. He was, after V. K. Krishna Menon, the second-longest-serving High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom (1991–97). He was…
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2007
2008
Scottish-Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1922)
Douglas Campbell, CM was a Canadian-based stage actor. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
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2009
South-African-Australian historian and author (born 1937)
Rhys Llywelyn Isaac was a South African-born Australian historian of American history who also worked in the United States.
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2010
Dutch television and film actor, and musician (born 1966)
Anthonie Willem Constantijn Gneomar "Antonie" Kamerling was a Dutch actor and singer. He was member of the original cast of the Dutch soap opera Goede tijden, slechte tijden. He played in the films The Little Blonde…
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2010
Australian actress and author (born 1932)
Elizabeth Diane Cilento was an Australian actress. She is best known for her film roles in Tom Jones (1963), which earned her an Academy Award nomination, Hombre (1967) and The Wicker Man (1973). She also received a…
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2011
Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (born 1929)
Chadli Bendjedid was an Algerian military officer and politician who served as the third President of Algeria. His presidential term of office ran from 9 February 1979 to 11 January 1992.
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2012
English organist and composer (born 1931)
Anthony John Cooke FRCO was a British organist and composer.
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2012
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1977)
Nick Curran was an American blues/rock and roll singer and guitarist. He has been likened to T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, The Sonics, Doug Sahm, Misfits Eddie Cochran
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2012
2012
American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (born 1941)
Joseph Brown Meyer was an American politician from the U.S. state of Wyoming.
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2012
Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (born 1927)
B. Satya Narayan Reddy was a freedom fighter, Socialist politician and a former Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal.
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2012
English-Australian philosopher and academic (born 1920)
John Jamieson Carswell Smart was a British-Australian philosopher who was appointed as an Emeritus Professor by the Australian National University. He worked in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of science,…
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2012
American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1926)
Ulysses "Crazy Legs" Curtis was an American professional football player who was a running back for the Toronto Argonauts of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union from 1950 to 1954. He won two Grey Cups with Toronto…
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2013
American screenwriter and producer (born 1936)
Rift Fournier was an American writer, screenwriter and television producer. Fournier, who lost the ability to walk at 17 years old due to polio, had a long and diverse career in television. He wrote episodes of numerous…
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2013
English actor (born 1917)
Paul Rogers was an English actor of film, stage and television. He was the first winner of the BAFTA TV Award Best Actor in 1955 and won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for The Homecoming…
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2013
Dutch physicist and academic (born 1921)
Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen was a Dutch theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
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2013
American tennis player and coach (born 1929)
Victor Kenneth Braden Jr. was an American tennis player, instructor, sport researcher and television broadcaster for the sport. He earned a PhD in psychology and was married twice. He had 2 children, 1 grandchild and 3…
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2014
German-Polish sculptor (born 1944)
Igor Mitoraj, born Jerzy Makina, was a Polish artist and monumental sculptor. Known for his fragmented sculptures of the human body often created as large-scale installations in public places. His work is…
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2014
Canadian actress, director and choreographer (born 1944)
Diane Nyland Proctor was a Canadian actress, director and choreographer. She is perhaps best known for having portrayed the title role in the 1970-71 CTV television series The Trouble with Tracy.
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2014
American actress (born 1928)
Marian Hall Seldes was an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for Father's Day…
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2014
Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1976)
Serhiy Volodymyrovych Zakarlyuka was a Ukrainian footballer and football manager.
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2014
Turkish football player (born 1933)
Feridun İsmail Buğeker was a Turkish football forward who played for Turkey in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Fenerbahçe S.K. between 1950–55 and 1961–63.
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2014
Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (born 1922)
Árpád Göncz was a Hungarian writer, translator, lawyer and liberal politician who served as President of Hungary from 2 May 1990 to 4 August 2000. Göncz played a role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, for which he…
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2015
Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (born 1926)
Vladimir Emmanuilovich Shlapentokh was a Soviet and American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and university professor, notable for his work on Soviet and Russian society and politics as well as theoretical…
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2015
Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (born 1923)
Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino was a Peruvian historian, jurist and lawyer. A judge and noted jurist, Ugarte del Pino was a member of the legal team which represented Peru before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)…
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2015
American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1972)
Ralph Duren May was an American stand-up comedian and actor, known for his extensive touring and comedy specials on multiple media platforms.
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2017
British architect, designer of the London Eye (born 1952)
David Joseph Marks was a British architect. In partnership with his wife Julia Barfield, he designed the London Eye, the British Airways i360 observation tower in Brighton, and the Treetop Walkway at Kew Gardens, London.
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2017
American actor (born 1942)
William Delano Wilson, known professionally as Scott Wilson, was an American film and television actor.
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2018
Spanish soprano (born 1933)
María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch or Folc, simply known as Montserrat Caballé, was a Spanish operatic soprano. Widely considered to be one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century, she won a…
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2018
English drummer (born 1939)
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker was an English drummer. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz…
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2019
Australian rugby league player (born 1936)
Edmund Lumsden was an Australian professional rugby league footballer. He was a wing with the St. George Dragons during their eleven-year premiership winning run from 1956 to 1966, playing in and winning nine grand…
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2019
American actor and comedian (born 1931)
Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor Jr. was an American actor and comedian, known for his exuberance and flamboyant personality, including his wild moustache, toupee, and his habit of showering himself with confetti. The…
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2019
Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1955)
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen was an American musician. He was the guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist and one of the primary songwriters of the rock band Van Halen, which he founded with his brother Alex Van Halen in…
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2020
American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
John Lester Nash Jr. was an American singer and songwriter, best known in the United States for his 1972 hit "I Can See Clearly Now". Primarily a reggae and pop singer, he was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to…
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2020
American politician (born 1936)
David Lee Hobson was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party who served as a U.S. representative from the seventh congressional district of Ohio from 1991 to 2009.
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2024
Dutch footballer and manager (born 1951)
Johannes Jacobus Neeskens was a Dutch football manager and player. A midfielder, he was an important member of the Netherlands national team that finished as runners-up in the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cups and is…
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2024
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Alfred — British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
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Death year1892
Known forHe was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign
Deaths on this date117 (23 – 2024)
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