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After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution he moved to Spain where he became a prominent member of the successful FC Barcelona team of the late 1950s
Notable Deaths on September 1
96 people
870 – 2025
September 1 has seen 96 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 870 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1997 — Zoltán Czibor
Hungarian footballer (born 1929)
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During the 1950s he was part of the Magical Magyars, reaching the World Cup final with them in 1954
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After three seasons at Barcelona, he joined their local rivals Español for the 1961–62 season
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Zoltán Czibor was a Hungarian footballer who played for several Hungarian clubs, including Ferencváros and Budapest Honvéd, and the Hungary national team before joining CF Barcelona
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After brief spells at FC Basel, Austria Wien and Primo Hamilton FC, he retired as a professional footballer and returned to Hungary
Persian scholar (born 810)
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī was a 9th-century Muslim muhaddith who is widely regarded as the most important hadith scholar in the history of Sunni Islam. Al-Bukhari's extant works…
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870
1081
Pope Adrian IV was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 4 December 1154 until his death in 1159. He is the only pope to have been born in England and the first pope from an English-speaking…
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1159
1198
Japanese shōgun (born 1218)
Kujō Yoritsune , also known as Fujiwara no Yoritsune , was the fourth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. His father was kanpaku Kujō Michiie and his grandmother was a niece of Minamoto no Yoritomo. His wife was…
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1256
Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
Foulques de Villaret, was the 25th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. He led the successful conquest of Rhodes and survived an assassination attempt by members of his own order.
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1327
1339
Duke of Orléans (born 1336)
Philip of Orléans was a Duke of Orléans, Touraine, and Count of Valois, the fifth son of King Philip VI of France and Joan the Lame.
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1376
6th Baron de Ros, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1369)
William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros, was a medieval English nobleman, politician and soldier. The second son of Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron Ros, and Beatrice Stafford, William inherited his father's feudal barony and estates in…
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1414
1480
French navigator and explorer (born 1491)
Jacques Cartier was a French maritime explorer from Brittany. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "Canada"…
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1557
Sikh 4th of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism (born 1534)
Guru Ram Das, sometimes spelled as Guru Ramdas, was the fourth of the ten Sikh gurus. He was born to a family based in Lahore, who named him Bhai Jetha. He was orphaned at age seven; and thereafter grew up with his…
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1581
Dutch explorer (born 1565)
Cornelis de Houtman was a Dutch merchant seaman who commanded the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies. Although the voyage was difficult and yielded only a modest profit, Houtman showed that the Portuguese…
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1599
French lawyer and jurist (born 1529)
Étienne Pasquier was a French lawyer and man of letters. By his own account he was born in Paris on 7 June 1529, but according to others he was born in 1528. He was called to the Paris bar in 1549.
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1615
English statesman (born 1582)
Sir Francis Windebank was an English politician who was Secretary of State under Charles I.
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1646
French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (born 1588)
Marin Mersenne, OM was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some…
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1648
Flemish painter (born 1601)
Jan Brueghel the Younger was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder, and grandson of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, both prominent painters who contributed respectively to the development of…
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1678
Welsh lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1625)
Sir Leoline Jenkins was a Welsh academic, diplomat involved in the negotiation of international treaties, jurist and politician. He was a clerical lawyer who served as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1668 to…
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1685
English priest and philosopher (born 1614)
Henry More was an English philosopher, Anglican priest, theologian, and poet, associated with the Cambridge Platonists. He sought to reconcile Platonism with Christian theology and responded critically to Cartesian…
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1687
1706
French sculptor (born 1628)
François Girardon was a French sculptor of the Louis XIV style or French Baroque, best known for his statues and busts of Louis XIV and for his statuary in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
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1715
Louis XIV was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. He is a symbol of the Age of Absolutism in Europe for styling himself as "The Sun King", which portrayed him as supreme leader. He presided over a…
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1715
American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (born 1770)
William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Missouri.
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1838
Hungarian theologian and educator (born 1786)
Izidor Guzmics, Hungarian theologian, was born at Vámos-Család in the county of Sopron.
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1839
Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (born 1799)
Count Ferenc Gyulay de Marosnémethi et Nádaska, also known as Ferencz Gyulai, Ferencz Gyulaj, or Franz Gyulai, was a Hungarian nobleman who served as Austrian Governor of Lombardy-Venetia and commanded the losing…
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1868
1914
1922
Georgian Social Democrat politician (born 1883)
Noe Khomeriki was a Georgian politician involved in the Social Democrat movement who was arrested for anti-soviet activity and shot during an uprising against the Soviet state.
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1924
Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (born 1878)
Peeter Siegfried Nikolaus Põld was an Estonian pedagogy specialist, school director, and politician, and the first Estonian Minister of Education. He was born in Puru, Kreis Wierland, Governorate of Estonia. As the…
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1930
Cameroonian ruler (born 1880)
Charles Atangana, also known by his birth name, Ntsama, and his German name, Karl, was the paramount chief of the Ewondo people.
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1943
American soldier and adventurer (born 1861)
Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to…
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1947
Canadian author and suffragist (born 1873)
Nellie Letitia McClung was a Canadian author, politician, and social activist, who is regarded as one of Canada's most prominent suffragists. She began her career in writing with the 1908 book Sowing Seeds in Danny, and…
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1951
English soldier and writer (born 1886)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the…
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1967
American journalist and author (born 1897)
Andrew Russell Pearson was an American columnist, noted for his syndicated newspaper column "Washington Merry-Go-Round". He also had a program on NBC Radio titled Drew Pearson Comments. He was known for his approach…
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1969
French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)
François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the…
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1970
English soldier (born 1909)
Brigadier Alan Ward Brown was a British Army tank officer of the Second World War.
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1971
Estonian dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer (born 1891)
Gerd Neggo was an Estonian dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. She studied the musical response methods of É. Jaques-Dalcroze, trained under Rudolf von Laban in Hamburg, Germany, and in 1924 established her own…
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1974
American singer and actress (born 1896)
Ethel Waters was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her notable recordings…
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1977
American actress (born 1901)
Ann Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress. Harding was a regular on Broadway and on tour in the 1920s. In the 1930s, Harding was one of the first actresses to gain fame in the…
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1981
German architect and author (born 1905)
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close friend and ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted…
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1981
American mathematician and academic (born 1900)
Haskell Brooks Curry was an American mathematician and computer scientist. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic. Although its initial concept was based on a paper by Moses Schönfinkel, Curry did much of…
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1982
Polish activist and politician (born 1905)
Władysław Gomułka was a Polish Communist politician. He was the de facto leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948, and again from 1956 to 1970.
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1982
Brazilian student; honored by the Catholicism (born 1962)
Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos was a Brazilian Catholic laywoman. She served as a Vincentian in her parish, although she never formally joined the movement. In her spare time, she devoted herself to faith. She was often…
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1982
American lawyer and politician (born 1912)
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative (1941–1953) and U.S. senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington. A Cold War liberal and anti-Communist member…
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1983
American physician and politician (born 1935)
Lawrence Patton McDonald was an American physician, politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1975 until he was killed as…
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1983
Duchess of Parma (born 1898)
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Parma and Piacenza was the titular Duchess of Parma and Piacenza and was also Carlist Queen of Spain as the wife of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish…
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1984
German racing driver (born 1957)
Stefan Bellof was a German racing driver. Bellof was the winner of the Drivers' Championship in the 1984 FIA World Endurance Championship, driving for the factory Rothmans Porsche team. His lap record on the…
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1985
American actor (born 1923)
Murray Hamilton was an American stage, screen and television character actor who appeared in such acclaimed films as The Spirit of St. Louis, Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, The Graduate, The Way We Were, Jaws and The…
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1986
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Luis Walter Alvarez was an American physicist and aeronaut who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber. In 2007, the…
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1988
American businessman and academic (born 1938)
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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1989
Polish footballer (born 1947)
Kazimierz Deyna was a Polish professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder in the playmaker role and was one of the most highly regarded players of his generation, due to his excellent vision. Throughout…
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1989
Polish-American engineer (born 1894)
Tadeusz Sendzimir was a Polish engineer and inventor of international renown. He held 120 patents in mining and metallurgy, 73 of which were awarded to him in the United States.
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1989
American scholar and diplomat (born 1910)
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar of the history and culture of Japan and…
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1990
German graphic designer and typographer (born 1922)
Otto "Otl" Aicher was a German graphic designer and typographer. Aicher co-founded and taught at the influential Ulm School of Design. He is known for having led the design team of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich,…
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1991
Polish poet and author (born 1930)
Józef Krupiński was a Polish poet. He spent the last days of his life in Orzesze, Poland. Prizewinner of the Edward Stachura Award and member of the Association of Polish Writers in Katowice.
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1998
American golfer and sportscaster (born 1921)
Emmett Cary Middlecoff was an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour from 1947 to 1961. His 39 Tour wins place him tied for tenth all-time, and he won three major championships. Middlecoff graduated as a dentist,…
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1998
Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924)
Osman Fahir Seden, usually credited as Osman F. Seden, was a Turkish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
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1998
Zambian computer scientist and author (born 1951)
William Richard (Rich) Stevens was a Northern Rhodesia–born American author of computer science books, in particular books on Unix and TCP/IP.
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1999
American actor and producer (born 1918)
Arlington Rand Brooks Jr. was an American film and television actor.
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2003
English painter and academic (born 1915)
Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became…
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2003
Syrian religious leader, Grand Mufti of Syria (born 1915)
Ahmed Muhammad Amin Kuftaro was the Grand Mufti of Syria, the highest officially appointed Sunni Muslim representative of the Fatwa-Administration in the Syrian Ministry of Auqaf in Syria. Kaftaro was a Sunni Muslim of…
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2004
South African businessman (born 1938)
Sir Robert Alastair Newton Morton was Chief Executive of Eurotunnel and Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, industrialist and the last chairman of the British Railways Board.
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2004
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1926)
R. L. Burnside was an American hill country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He played music for most of his life but received little recognition until 1995 when Burnside recorded and toured with Jon Spencer,…
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2005
Hungarian author and poet (born 1910)
György Faludy, sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator.
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2006
2006
American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (born 1944)
Robert E. O'Connor Jr. was an American politician who was the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from January 3, 2006, until his death.
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2006
Welsh painter and educator (born 1918)
Sir John Kyffin Williams, was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll, on the Island of Anglesey. Williams is widely regarded as the defining artist of Wales during the 20th century.
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2006
New Zealand horse racer and philanthropist (born 1922)
Sir Roy Allan McKenzie was a New Zealand horse breeder and racer, and was well known for his philanthropy.
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2007
Czech-Canadian businessman (born 1914)
Tomáš Jan Baťa,, also known as Thomas Bata Jr. and Tomáš Baťa ml., was a Czech-Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 1940s until the 80s.
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2008
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1937)
Jerry Reed Hubbard, known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man",…
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2008
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (born 1928)
Wakanohana Kanji was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 45th yokozuna. He was a popular wrestler and was nicknamed the "Devil of the Dohyō" due to his great fighting spirit and endurance.
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2010
South African saxophonist, flute player, and composer (born 1948)
Sean Bergin was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flautist from South Africa.
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2012
2012
Haitian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (born 1937)
Georges Jean-Jacques Smarck Michel or Smarck Michel was appointed prime minister of Haiti on October 27, 1994, occupying the post from November 8, 1994 to October 16, 1995. Smarck was President Aristide's third prime…
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2012
Swedish politician (born 1988)
William Nils Erich Petzäll was a Swedish politician, former member of the Sweden Democrats and Chairman of the Sweden Democratic Youth. At the 2010 Swedish general election he was elected to be the parliamentary…
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2012
Italian illustrator (born 1927)
Arnaldo Putzu was an Italian artist renowned for his film posters for Italian and British films, such as Get Carter and the Carry On films.
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2012
Spanish footballer and manager (born 1920)
Ignacio Eizaguirre Arregui was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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2013
Australian soldier (born 1917)
Air Commodore Gordon Henry Steege, was a senior officer and pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He became a fighter ace in World War II, credited with eight aerial victories, and led combat formations at…
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2013
American linguist and academic (born 1930)
Margaret Mary Vojtko was an American adjunct professor of French at Duquesne University. Her death caused controversy at Duquesne and prompted conversations about unions and the role of adjunct faculty at American…
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2013
English commander and pilot (born 1916)
Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis was a British aviator, engineer, and inventor. During the Second World War, Wallis served in the Royal Air Force and flew 28 bomber missions over Germany; after the war, he moved on…
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2013
Somali militant leader (born 1977)
Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubair, was a Somali militant leader who served as the second emir of al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant group based in Somalia. Godane, who received training and fought in…
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2014
American baseball player (born 1926)
Roger Hornsby McKee was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1943–44 for the Philadelphia Phillies while still a teenager.
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2014
American chemist and academic, developed spandex (born 1920)
Joseph Clois Shivers Jr. was an American textile chemist who was based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, best known for his role in the structural development of Spandex, a thermoplastic elastomer, in the 1950s, while…
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2014
Armenian general (born 1926)
Gurgen Harutyun Dalibaltayan was an Armenian military commander. He was the Chief of General Staff of Armenian Armed Forces during the 1992 Battle of Shusha, a battle to capture the city from Azerbaijan. He is credited…
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2015
American actor and singer (born 1931)
Dean Carroll Jones was an American actor. He was best known as the Walt Disney Company's main leading man in the 1970s with his roles as Agent Zeke Kelso in That Darn Cat! (1965), Jim Douglas in the Herbie franchise…
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2015
American historian and author (born 1923)
Richard Greening Hewlett was an American public historian best known for his work as the Chief Historian of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
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2015
American sergeant and pilot (born 1917)
Ben Kuroki was the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II. He flew a total of 58 combat missions over Europe, North…
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2015
American jazz pianist and composer (born 1926)
Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection.
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2018
American disc jockey and music producer (born 1971)
Erick Morillo was a Colombian-American disc jockey, music producer, and record label owner. Having produced under a number of pseudonyms, including Ministers de la Funk, the Dronez, RAW, Smooth Touch, RBM, Deep Soul,…
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2020
American writer and journalist (born 1941)
Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist…
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2022
Chinese major general (born 1919)
Yang Yongsong was a Chinese military officer, who was a founding major general in the People's Liberation Army. Born in Baihou in Dabu County, Guangdong, he joined the Communist Youth League of China and served in the…
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2022
American singer-songwriter, musician, author and businessman (born 1946)
James William Buffett was an American singer-songwriter, author, and businessperson. He was known for his tropical music sound blending country, rock, folk, and calypso, and persona, which often portrayed a lifestyle…
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2023
American journalist (born 1943)
Linda Deutsch was an American journalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP) and covered court cases from 1967 until her retirement in 2014, including the high-profile trials of Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, O. J.…
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2024
Hungarian-British boxer and actor (born 1950)
József Kreul Bugner was a Hungarian-born British–Australian professional boxer, who competed in the heavyweight division, and actor. He held triple nationality, originally being a citizen of Hungary and becoming a…
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2025
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Zoltán Czibor — Hungarian footballer (1929–1997)
FeaturedZoltán Czibor
Death year1997
Known forCzibor played as a left-winger or striker and was notable for having a powerful shot, good pace and excellent ball control
Deaths on this date96 (870 – 2025)
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