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He composed music for many films and TV shows including Ramanand Sagar's epic Ramayan (1987), which became iconic
Notable Deaths on October 9
111 people
680 – 2024
October 9 has seen 111 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 680 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2015 — Ravindra Jain
Indian composer and director (born 1944)
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His notable works include Chor Machaye Shor (1974), Geet Gaata Chal (1975), Chitchor (1976) and Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se (1978), Nadiya Ke Paar (1982), Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) and Vivah (2006)
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He was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India in 2015 for his contribution to arts.
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He started his career in the early 1970s by composing for several hit movies, and continued despite his struggle with blindness
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Ravindra Jain was an Indian music composer, lyricist and playback singer
680
Persian scholar and hadith compiler (born 824)
Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tirmidhi, often referred to as Imām at-Termezī/Tirmidhī, was an Islamic scholar, and collector of hadith from Termez. He wrote al-Jami` as-Sahih, one of the six canonical hadith compilations in Sunni…
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892
Pope Clement II was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1046 until his death in 1047.
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1047
Marquis of Namur (born 1175)
Philip I, called the Noble, was the margrave of Namur from 1195 until his death. He was the second son of Count Baldwin V of Hainault and Countess Margaret I of Flanders. His paternal grandmother was Alice of Namur.
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1212
English bishop and philosopher (born 1175)
Robert Grosseteste, also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents in Suffolk, but the…
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1253
Queen of Germany (born 1227)
Elisabeth of Bavaria was Queen of Germany and Jerusalem from 1246 to 1254 by her marriage to King Conrad IV of Germany.
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1273
1296
John I was King of Castile and León from 1379 until 1390. He was the son of Henry II and Juana Manuel of Castile. John ascended to the throne in 1379, and in 1383, he married Beatrice, the daughter of King Ferdinand I…
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1390
German academic and reformer (born 1493)
Justus Jonas, the Elder, or simply Justus Jonas, was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer. He was a Jurist, Professor and Hymn writer. He is best known for his translations of the writings of Martin Luther and…
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1555
Italian anatomist and physician (born 1523)
Gabriele Falloppio was an Italian Catholic priest and anatomist often known by his Latin name Fallopius. He was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century, giving his name to the…
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1562
Vladimir Andreyevich was the last appanage Russian prince. His complicated relationship with his cousin, Ivan the Terrible, was dramatized in Sergei Eisenstein's 1945 film Ivan the Terrible.
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1569
Spanish missionary and saint (born 1526)
Louis Bertrand, OP was a Spanish Dominican friar who preached in South America during the 16th century, and is known as the "Apostle to the Americas". He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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1581
English poet (born 1562)
Henry Constable was an English poet, known particularly for Diana, one of the first English sonnet sequences. In 1591 he converted to Catholicism, and lived in exile on the continent for some years. He returned to…
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1613
Italian rabbi and merchant (born 1561)
Joseph Pardo was an Italian rabbi and merchant. He was born in Thessaloniki, but went to Venice before 1589, where he served as rabbi to the Levantine community and also engaged in business. Later, he emigrated to the…
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1619
English politician (born 1638)
William Sacheverell was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1670 and 1691.
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1691
English physician and poet (born 1654)
Sir Richard Blackmore, English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an epic poet, but he was also a respected medical doctor and theologian.
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1729
French missionary and linguist (born 1718)
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot was a French Jesuit priest who worked in Qing China, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
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1793
Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (born 1720)
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman,, also known as the Vilna Gaon, was a Lithuanian Jewish talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of misnagdic (non-hasidic) Jewry of the past few centuries.
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1797
American astronomer and surveyor (born 1731)
Benjamin Banneker was an American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer.
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1806
American lawyer and politician (born 1777)
John Claiborne was a son of Thomas Claiborne (1749–1812) and brother of Thomas Claiborne (1780–1856). He was a representative from Virginia; born in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1778; pursued academic studies;…
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1808
Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (born 1776)
Count Ioannis Antoniou Kapodistrias, sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias, was a Greek statesman who was one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of 19th-century Europe.
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1831
English historian and author (born 1785)
George Ormerod was an English antiquary and historian. Among his writings was a major county history of Cheshire, in North West England.
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1873
Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1818)
Jan Heemskerk Abrahamszoon was a Dutch politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1874 to 1877, and again from 1883 to 1888. His son, Theo Heemskerk also served as Chairman of the Council of…
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1897
Austrian composer and conductor (born 1843)
Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family.
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1900
Norwegian school owner and writer (born 1843)
Henriette Wulfsberg was a Norwegian educator, writer and translator.
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1906
American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (born 1849)
Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel was an American distiller and businessman, best known as the founder of the Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.
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1911
Russian author, poet, and critic (born 1873)
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.
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1924
Finnish teacher, agronomist and banker (born 1856)
Evald Kristian Relander was a Finnish teacher and banker who received the title of agricultural councillor (maanviljelysneuvos). His son was Lauri Kristian Relander, the second President of the Republic of Finland.
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1926
King of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander the Unifier (born 1888)
Alexander I Karađorđević, also known as Alexander the Unifier, was King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 16 August 1921 to 3 October 1929 and King of Yugoslavia from 3 October 1929 until his assassination in 1934.…
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1934
French union leader and politician, 78th Prime Minister of France (born 1862)
Jean Louis Barthou was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913. In social policy, his time as prime minister saw the introduction of allowances to…
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1934
Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1868)
Ernest Louis was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918.
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1937
English-American physician and missionary (born 1865)
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland, who wrote books on his work and other topics.
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1940
American singer and actress (born 1900)
Helen Morgan was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s. She starred as Julie LaVerne in the…
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1941
Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch experimental physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
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1943
Italian partisan (born 1927)
Stefanina Moro was an Italian partisan during the occupation of her country by the forces of Nazi Germany. Serving as a courier, she was captured by Nazi forces. Tortured by them for information, she died from her…
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1944
German captain (born 1887)
Gottlieb Hering was an SS commander of Nazi Germany. He served in Action T4 and later as the second and last commandant of Bełżec extermination camp during Operation Reinhard. Hering directly perpetrated the genocide of…
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1945
American football player, baseball player, and coach (born 1877)
Frank Riley Castleman was an American football and baseball player, track athlete, and coach in multiple sports. He competed for the United States in the 200 metre hurdles at the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis,…
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1946
Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (born 1888)
Yukio Sakurauchi was an entrepreneur, politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan. He was the father of prominent post-war politician Yoshio Sakurauchi, and grandfather of controversial politician…
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1947
Canadian ice hockey player and politician (born 1895)
George Henry Hainsworth was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League, and the Saskatoon Crescents in the Western Canada…
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1950
Scottish-American actor (born 1887)
James Henderson Finlayson was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Balding, with a fake moustache, he had many trademark comic mannerisms—including his squinting, outraged double-take…
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1953
Austrian cardinal (born 1875)
Theodor Innitzer was Archbishop of Vienna and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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1955
American actress (born 1882)
Marie Doro was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era.
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1956
Pope Pius XII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958.
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1958
American politician (born 1884)
John Abram Boland Sr. was an American politician and businessman from South Dakota. He was an early supporter of Mount Rushmore and served as treasurer for its construction costs between 1929 and 1938. He served as…
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1958
Japanese general and biologist (born 1892)
Surgeon General Shirō Ishii was a Japanese biological weapons specialist, microbiologist and army medical officer who served as the director of Unit 731, the largest biological warfare and chemical warfare unit of the…
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1959
Slovenian chess player and engineer (born 1885)
Milan Vidmar was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the…
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1962
Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (born 1928)
Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a…
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1967
English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics. His work in reaction mechanisms earned the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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1967
1967
German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (born 1883)
Joseph Hubertus Pilates was a German physical trainer, writer, and inventor. He is credited with inventing and promoting the Pilates method of physical fitness. He patented a total of 26 apparatuses in his lifetime.
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1967
1969
American actress (born 1902)
Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an American actress known for her versatility. She signed with Paramount Pictures in 1930.
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1972
Czech-German businessman (born 1908)
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in German-occupied…
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1974
Pakistani poet (born 1910)
Nazar Muhammad Rashid, commonly known as Noon Meem Rashed or N.M. Rashed, was a Pakistani poet of modern Urdu poetry.
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1975
German general (born 1894)
Walter Warlimont was a German Army staff officer and general during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of the departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Armed Forces High…
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1976
Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1929)
Jacques Romain Georges Brel was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed theatrical songs. He generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, but later throughout the world. He is…
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1978
German historian and physician (born 1893)
Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt was a German internist, art historian, and cultural historian.
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1982
Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (born 1905)
Emílio Garrastazu Médici was a Brazilian military leader and dictator who was the 28th president of Brazil from 1969 to 1974. His authoritarian rule marked the apex of the Brazilian military regime.
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1985
American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1903)
Clare Boothe Luce was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and conservative public intellectual. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings…
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1987
American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
William Parry Murphy Sr. was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating…
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1987
German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (born 1902)
Felix Heinrich Wankel was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Wankel joined various radical antisemitic organizations after World War I and was a prominent member of the…
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1988
Turkish author and playwright (born 1921)
Yusuf Atılgan was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam and Anayurt Oteli. He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel.
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1989
American journalist and author (born 1940)
Penny Lernoux was an American educator, author, and journalist. She wrote critically of United States government and Papal policy toward Latin America.
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1989
British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1903)
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, known as Lord Dunglass from 1918 to 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime…
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1995
American author, composer, and critic (born 1913)
Walter Francis Kerr was an American writer and Broadway theatre critic. He also was the writer, lyricist, and/or director of several Broadway plays and musicals as well as the author of several books, generally on the…
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1996
American vibraphone player and composer (born 1923)
Milton Jackson, nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with hard bop and…
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1999
Pakistani economist and scholar (born 1914)
Akhter Hameed Khan was a Pakistani-Bangladeshi development practitioner and social scientist. He promoted participatory rural development in West Pakistan, East Pakistan and other developing countries, and widely…
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1999
American actor (born 1945)
David Coleman Dukes was an American character actor. He had a long career in films, appearing in 35. Dukes starred in the miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, and he was a frequent television guest star.…
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2000
Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1918)
Colonel Patrick Anthony Porteous VC, who as a Scottish captain in the British commandos, received the Victoria Cross – the British Commonwealth's highest award for valour – for leading a bayonet charge against a German…
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2000
American director, producer, and choreographer (born 1927)
Herbert David Ross was an American choreographer, director, and producer, who was active in both theatre and film. He was known for his work on Broadway as a choreographer for productions for Barbra Streisand, Stephen…
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2001
Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (born 1931)
Sopubek Begaliev was a Soviet-era economist and politician. He was the founder of the Assembly of People of the Kyrgyz Republic, an organization that promotes inter-ethnic harmony, civil peace, and unanimity.
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2002
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924)
Charles Eli Guggenheim was an American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was the most honored documentary filmmaker in the academy history, winning four Oscars from twelve nominations.
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2002
American author and academic (born 1926)
Carolyn Heilbrun was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies. In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she…
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2003
American jazz trombonist (born 1928)
Carl Charles Fontana was an American jazz trombonist. After working in the big bands of Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, and Stan Kenton, he devoted most of his career to playing music in Las Vegas.
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2003
Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1930)
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de…
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2004
2005
French filmmaker (born 1933)
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist…
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2006
English snooker player (born 1978)
Paul Alan Hunter was an English professional snooker player. He was a three-time Masters champion, winning the event in 2001, 2002, and 2004; on all three occasions, he recovered from a deficit in the final to claim the…
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2006
Indian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
Kanshi Ram, also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar, Sahab Kanshiram was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans, the backward or lower caste…
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2006
American businessman, founded hungry i (born 1922)
Enrico Banducci was an American impresario. Banducci operated the Hungry I nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood after purchasing the club from its founder, Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, in 1950.
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2007
American actress and singer (born 1919)
Carol Bruce was an American band singer, Broadway star, and film and television actress. She had the recurring part of Mama Lillian Carlson on TV's WKRP in Cincinnati.
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2007
American author and educator (born 1934)
Stuart M. Kaminsky was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood…
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2009
American Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher (born 1931)
John Daido Loori was a Zen Buddhist rōshi who served as the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and was the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order and CEO of Dharma Communications. Daido Loori received shiho from Taizan…
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2009
German footballer (born 1934)
Horst "Schimmi" Szymaniak was a German footballer who played as a midfielder.
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2009
French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Maurice Félix Charles Allais was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of…
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2010
Russian ski jumper (born 1989)
Pavel Vladimirovich Karelin was a Russian ski jumper from Nizhny Novgorod who competed from 2004 until his death in 2011. He made his World Cup debut on 30 November 2007, finishing 8th in team large hill event at…
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2011
American actress (born 1992)
Sammi Kane Kraft was an American baseball player, musician and actress.
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2012
American basketball player (born 1923)
Kenneth Herman Rollins was an American professional basketball player. He competed at the 1948 London Olympics and was a member of the University of Kentucky's "Fabulous Five" who won the 1948 NCAA tournament. His…
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2012
2012
Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (born 1933)
Chief (Dr.) Solomon Daushep Lar was a Nigerian politician who has held various offices at the National level for over 50 years.
He was a member of the first national parliament when Nigeria gained independence in 1960. …
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2013
2013
Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1936)
Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens was a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 1979 to 1992, except from April to December 1981. A member of the Flemish Christian People's Party, during his…
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2013
Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (born 1925)
Edmund Niziurski was a popular Polish writer, author of numerous humorous novels and stories for children, recipient of the Order of the Smile.
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2013
Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (born 1929)
Boris Buzančić was a Croatian actor and politician who served as the 47th Mayor of Zagreb between 1990 and 1993.
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2014
2014
American poet and academic (born 1925)
Carolyn Ashley Kizer was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
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2014
American soldier and politician (born 1921)
Peter A. Peyser was a United States representative from New York, serving from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat.
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2014
2014
American businessman (born 1930)
Raymond Twomey Duncan known as Ray Duncan was an American entrepreneur and vintner. Originally involved in oil entrepreneurship in Colorado and founder of Duncan Oil, he was the founder along with Justin Meyer of Silver…
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2015
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1931)
Richard Frederick Heck was an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. The…
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2015
Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1926)
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon,, known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British barrister and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1990. A…
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2015
Polish film and theatre director (born 1926)
Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film…
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2016
French actor (born 1930)
Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort was a French actor. He received many accolades during his career, including an Honorary César in 1999.
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2017
British-born Greek international footballer (born 1993)
George Henry Ivor Baldock was an English-Greek professional footballer who played as a right-back or right wing-back. Born in England, he represented Greece at the international level.
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2024
German footballer (born 1950)
Dieter Burdenski was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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2024
Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor (born 1923)
Lily Ebert was a Hungarian-born British writer and Holocaust survivor, who in her later life became notable for her memoir, and social media videos and media appearances documenting her life as a survivor of the…
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2024
Singaporean neurologist (born 1955)
Lee Wei Ling was a Singaporean neurologist. She was the director of the National Neuroscience Institute.
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2024
American politician (born 1934)
Clark Ray Rasmussen was an American politician who represented Polk County in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1965 to 1967 as a member of the Democratic Party.
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2024
Finnish conductor and composer (born 1944)
Leif Selim Segerstam was a Finnish music composer, conductor, violinist, violist, and pianist. He is especially best known for writing over 300 symphonies, along with other works. He held many important positions in…
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2024
Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1937)
Ratan Naval Tata was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He served as the chairman of Tata Group and Tata Sons from 1991 to 2012, and he held the position of interim chairman from October 2016 to February 2017.…
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2024
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Ravindra Jain — Indian composer, lyricist and playback singer
FeaturedRavindra Jain
Death year2015
Known forHe started his career in the early 1970s by composing for several hit movies, and continued despite his struggle with blindness
Deaths on this date111 (680 – 2024)
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