Notable Deaths on September 12

Q: Who died on September 12?

Notable people who died on September 12 include: Sak Kʼukʼ, Nefingus, Andronikos I Komnenos, Peter II of Aragon (born 1174), Pope Innocent VI (born 1295).

Q: What is Tom Ewell known for?

Tom Ewell, American actor (born 1909)

98 people 640 – 2024

September 12 has seen 98 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 640 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1994 — Tom Ewell

American actor (born 1909)

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His most successful and most identifiable role was that of Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch, a character he played in the Broadway production (1952–1954) and reprised for the 1955 film adaptation

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Although Ewell preferred acting on stage, he accepted several other screen roles in light comedies of the 1950s, most notably The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

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He appeared in the film version of the musical State Fair (1962) and in a small number of additional ones released between the early 1960s and 1980s.

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Tom Ewell was an American film, stage and television actor, and producer

Sak Kʼukʼ

Mayan queen

Sak Kʼukʼ also known as Muwaan Mat, Lady Sak Kʼukʼ and Lady Beastie, was queen of the Maya city-state of Palenque. She acceded to the throne in October, 612 and ruled until 615.

640

Nefingus

bishop of Angers

Nefingus, in French Néfingue, was the bishop of Angers from 966 until his death. His predecessor, Aimo, died on 19 October 966.

973

Andronikos I Komnenos

Byzantine emperor (born 1118)

Andronikos I Komnenos, Latinized as Andronicus I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1183 to 1185. A nephew of John II Komnenos, Andronikos rose to fame in the reign of his cousin Manuel I Komnenos, during which his…

1185

Peter II of Aragon (born 1174)

Peter II the Catholic was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1196 to 1213.

1213

Pope Innocent VI (born 1295)

Pope Innocent VI, born Étienne Aubert, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 18 December 1352 to his death, in September 1362. He was the fifth Avignon pope and the only one with the…

1362

Blanche of Lancaster (born 1345/1347)

Blanche of Lancaster was a member of the English-French royal House of Lancaster and the daughter of the kingdom's wealthiest and most powerful peer, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. She was the first wife of…

1368

Sidi El Houari

Algerian imam (born 1350)

Sidi El Houari was an Algerian imam whose real name was Ben-Amar El Houari. He is the patron saint of the city of Oran in Algeria. The old quarter of Sidi El Houari in Oran is named after him.

1439

Albert III

Duke of Saxony (born 1443)

Albert III was Duke of Saxony from 1464 to 1500. Known as Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous, he founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin. Initially, he ruled jointly with his older brother Ernest,…

1500

Clément Marot

French poet (born 1496)

Clément Marot was a French Renaissance poet. He was influenced by the writers of the late 15th century and paved the way for the Pléiade, and is undoubtedly the most important poet at the court of Francis I. Despite the…

1544

Vasili IV of Russia (born 1552)

Vasili IV Ivanovich Shuisky was Tsar of all Russia from 1606 to 1610, after the murder of False Dmitri I. His rule coincided with the Time of Troubles. He was the only member of House of Shuisky to become tsar and the…

1612

Henri Coiffier de Ruzé

Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born 1620)

Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, Marquis of Cinq-Mars was a favourite of King Louis XIII, who led the last and most nearly successful of many conspiracies against Cardinal Richelieu, the king's powerful first minister.

1642

Jacob Cats

Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (born 1577)

Jacob Cats was a Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books.

1660

Jean Bolland

Belgian priest and hagiographer (born 1596)

Jean Bolland, SJ was a Flemish Jesuit priest, theologian, and prominent hagiographer.

1665

Tanneguy Le Fèvre

French scholar and author (born 1615)

Tanneguy Le Fèvre was a French classical scholar. He wrote many books, and translated numerous classical works. Somewhat unusual in this era, he educated his daughter Anne Dacier in Greek and Latin, and she subsequently…

1672

Nicolaes Tulp

Dutch anatomist and politician (born 1593)

Nicolaes Tulp was a Dutch physician and mayor of Amsterdam. Tulp was well known for his upstanding moral character and as the subject of Rembrandt's famous painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.

1674

Afonso VI of Portugal (born 1643)

Dom Afonso VI, known as "the Victorious", was the second king of Portugal of the House of Braganza from 1656 until his death. He was initially under the regency of his mother, Luisa de Guzmán, until 1662, when he…

1683

Jan van der Heyden

Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1637)

Jan van der Heyden was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der Heyden was one of the first Dutch painters to specialize in townscapes and became one of the leading architectural…

1712

Jean-Philippe Rameau

French composer and theorist (born 1683)

Jean-Philippe Rameau was a French composer and music theorist of the late Baroque era. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as…

1764

Richard Grenville-Temple

2nd Earl Temple, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1711)

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, KG, PC was a British politician and peer who served as Lord Privy Seal from 1757 to 1761. He is best known for his association with his brother-in-law William Pitt, serving…

1779

Sir Francis Baring

1st Baronet, English banker and politician (born 1740)

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet was an English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets.

1810

Robert Ross

Irish general (born 1766)

Major-General Robert Ross was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.

1814

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Prussian general (born 1742)

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall. He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon at the Battle…

1819

Christian Dietrich Grabbe

German playwright (born 1801)

Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist of the Vormärz era. He wrote many historical plays conceiving a disillusioned and pessimistic world view, with some shrill scenes. Heinrich Heine saw him as one of…

1836

Peter Mark Roget

English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (born 1779)

Peter Mark Roget was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a…

1869

Eleanora Atherton

English philanthropist (born 1782)

Eleanora Atherton was an English philanthropist best known for her work in Manchester, England. At the time of her death, she was one of the richest British women in the nineteenth century.

1870

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

American journalist, explorer, and author (born 1836)

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow, was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857).

1870

François Guizot

French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (born 1787)

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics between the Revolution of 1830 and the Revolution of 1848.

1874

Duncan Gillies

Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (born 1834)

Duncan Gillies, was an Australian colonial politician who served as the 14th Premier of Victoria.

1903

Ilia Chavchavadze

Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (born 1837)

Tavadi (Prince) Ilia Chavchavadze was a Georgian journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the second half of the 19th century in the period of Tsarist rule. He…

1907

Pierre-Hector Coullié

French cardinal (born 1829)

Pierre-Hector Coullié was a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1893 to 1912. He was previously Bishop of Orléans from 1878 to 1893 and was made a cardinal in 1897.

1912

George Reid

Australian accountant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1845)

Sir George Houston Reid was a Scottish-born Australian politician, diplomat, and barrister who served as the fourth prime minister of Australia from 1904 to 1905. He held office as the leader of the Free Trade Party,…

1918

Leonid Andreyev

Russian author and playwright (born 1871)

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific…

1919

Jules Violle

French physicist and academic (born 1841)

Jules Louis Gabriel Violle was a French physicist and inventor.

1923

Sarah Frances Whiting

American physicist and astronomer (born 1847)

Sarah Frances Whiting was an American physicist and astronomer. In February 1896 Whiting founded both the physics and astronomy departments; and was the first professor of physics and astronomy at Wellesley College,…

1927

Valentine Baker

Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (born 1888)

Captain Valentine Henry Baker MC AFC, nicknamed "Bake", served in all three of the British Armed Forces during the First World War. After the war he became a civilian flight instructor, and co-founder of the…

1942

Hajime Sugiyama

Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War (born 1880)

Hajime Sugiyama was a Japanese field marshal and one of Japan's military leaders for most of the Second World War.

1945

Erik Adolf von Willebrand

Finnish physician (born 1870)

Erik Adolf von Willebrand was a Finnish physician who made major contributions to hematology. Von Willebrand disease and von Willebrand factor are named after him. He also researched metabolism, obesity and gout, and…

1949

James Hamilton

3rd Duke of Abercorn, English politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (born 1869)

James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, styled Marquess of Hamilton between 1885 and 1913, was a British peer and Unionist politician. He was the first Governor of Northern Ireland, a post he held between…

1953

Hugo Schmeisser

German engineer (born 1884)

Hugo Schmeisser was a German developer of 20th century infantry weapons.

1953

Lewis Stone

American actor (born 1879)

Lewis Shepard Stone was an American film actor, best known for his 29 years as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and for his portrayal of Judge James Hardy in the studio's popular Andy Hardy film series. He was…

1953

Sándor Festetics

Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (born 1882)

Count Sándor Ágost Dénes Festetics de Tolna was a Hungarian nobleman and cabinet minister who later became an advocate of Nazism in Hungary.

1956

Carl Hermann

German physicist and academic (born 1898)

Carl Heinrich Hermann, also spelled Karl Hermann, was a German physicist, crystallographer, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. He is known for his research in crystallographic symmetry, nomenclature, and…

1961

Spot Poles

American baseball player and soldier (born 1887)

Spottswood Poles was an American outfielder in baseball's Negro leagues. One of the fastest players of his era, Poles was sometimes referred to as "the black Ty Cobb."

1962

Rangeya Raghav

Indian author and playwright (born 1923)

Rangeya Raghava was an Indian writer.

1962

Raja Aziz Bhatti

Pakistani Major who received the Nishan-e-Haider in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

Raja Aziz Bhatti NH was a Pakistani military officer and the 4th recipient of Pakistan's highest military honour, the Nishan-e-Haider, which he was posthumously awarded for his brave defence of Lahore during the…

1965

Vladimir Bartol

Italian-Slovene author and playwright (born 1903)

Vladimir Bartol was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous…

1967

Tommy Armour

Scottish-American golfer and journalist (born 1894)

Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-born golfer who played primarily in the United States. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. He was the winner of three of golf's major championships: 1927 U.S. Open, 1930 PGA, and 1931…

1968

Walter Egan

American golfer (born 1881)

Walter Eugene Egan was an American golfer who competed in the late 1890s and early 1900s.

1971

William Boyd

American actor and producer (born 1895)

William Lawrence Boyd was an American actor and film producer, known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in dozens of Western films released during the 1930s and '40s.

1972

Steve Biko

South African activist (born 1946)

Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black…

1977

Robert Lowell

American poet (born 1917)

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His ancestors and contemporary family were important subjects in his…

1977

William Hudson

New Zealand-Australian engineer (born 1896)

Sir William Hudson was a New Zealand-born engineer who headed construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme for hydroelectricity and irrigation in Australia from 1949 to 1967, when he reluctantly retired at 71. The scheme…

1978

Eugenio Montale

Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)

Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human…

1981

Federico Moreno Torroba

Spanish composer and conductor (born 1891)

Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spanish composer, conductor, and theatrical impresario. He is especially remembered for his contributions to the classical guitar repertoire, becoming one of the leading twentieth-century…

1982

Jacques Henri Lartigue

French painter and photographer (born 1894)

Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.

1986

Charlotte Wolff

German-English psychotherapist and physician (born 1897)

Charlotte Wolff was a German-British physician who worked as a psychotherapist and wrote on sexology and hand analysis. Her writings on lesbianism and bisexuality were influential early works in the field.

1986

John Qualen

Canadian-American actor (born 1899)

John Qualen was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles.

1987

Athene Seyler

English actress (born 1889)

Athene Seyler was an English actress.

1990

Bruce Matthews

Canadian general and businessman (born 1909)

Major General Albert Bruce Matthews was a senior Canadian Army officer and businessman. Although not a professional soldier, he nevertheless rose to be the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 2nd Canadian Infantry…

1991

Ruth Nelson

American actress (born 1905)

Ruth Gloria Nelson was an American stage and film actress. She is known for her roles in films such as Wilson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Humoresque, 3 Women, The Late Show and Awakenings. She was the fourth wife of John…

1992

Anthony Perkins

American actor, singer, and director (born 1932)

Anthony Perkins was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, he began his acting career as a teenager in summer stock theatre, and appeared in films prior to his Broadway debut. His first film role was in The Actress…

1992

Raymond Burr

Canadian-American actor and director (born 1917)

Raymond William Stacy Burr was a Canadian actor who had a lengthy Hollywood film career and portrayed the title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.

1993

Boris Yegorov

Russian physician and astronaut (born 1937)

Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet physician and cosmonaut who became the first physician to travel to space. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union and received his medical degree from the Moscow Medical Institute in…

1994

Jeremy Brett

English actor (born 1933)

Peter Jeremy William Huggins, known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes from 1984 to 1994 in 41 episodes of the Granada TV series. He also played…

1995

Yasutomo Nagai

Japanese motorcycle racer (born 1965)

Yasutomo Nagai was a motorcycle road racer, born in Koshigaya, Japan.

1995

Ernesto Geisel

Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (born 1907)

Ernesto Beckmann Geisel was a Brazilian Army officer and politician, who served as the 29th president of Brazil from 1974 to 1979, during the Brazilian military dictatorship.

1996

Judith Merril

American-Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist (born 1923)

Judith Josephine Grossman, who took the pen-name Judith Merril around 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be widely influential in…

1997

Stanley Turrentine

American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1934)

Stanley William Turrentine, nicknamed Mr. T, was an American Grammy nominated jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note…

2000

Johnny Cash

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1932)

John R. Cash was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career. He was known for his deep, calm,…

2003

Arthur Johnson

canoeist (born 1921)

Arthur Leonard Johnson was a Canadian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1950s. He finished eighth in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

2003

Serge Lang

French-American mathematician, author and academic (born 1927)

Serge Lang was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential…

2005

Bobby Byrd

American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1934)

Bobby Howard Byrd was an American rhythm and blues, soul and funk singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, bandleader, pianist and talent dedicated. He played a part in the development of soul and funk music in…

2007

Bob Quinn

Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)

Robert Berrima Quinn MM was a champion Australian rules footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and a decorated soldier of the Second World War.

2008

David Foster Wallace

American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1962)

David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine named one of the 100 best…

2008

Norman Borlaug

American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)

Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for…

2009

Jack Kramer

American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1921)

John Albert Kramer was an American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, and a pioneer promoter who helped drive the sport towards professionalism at the elite level. Kramer also ushered in the serve-and-volley era in…

2009

Willy Ronis

French photographer and author (born 1910)

Willy Ronis was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.

2009

Claude Chabrol

French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard,…

2010

Giulio Zignoli

Italian footballer (born 1946)

Giulio Zignoli was an Italian professional footballer, who played as a defender. He made 108 appearances in Serie A, most notably for Cagliari and Milan, during the late 1960s and 1970s. He died in Cantù, aged 64.

2010

Alexander Galimov

Russian ice hockey player (born 1985)

Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) whose team plane crashed on 7…

2011

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

Russian poet and author (born 1946)

Arkadii Trofimovich Dragomoshchenko was a Russian poet, writer, translator, and lecturer. He is considered the foremost representative of language poetry in contemporary Russian literature.

2012

Jon Finlayson

Australian actor and screenwriter (born 1938)

Jon Douglas Finlayson was an Australian stage and screen character actor, radio performer, writer, director, producer and singer

2012

Tom Sims

American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (born 1950)

Tom Sims was an American athlete, inventor, and entrepreneur. Sims was World Snowboarding Champion (1983), World Champion Skateboarder (1975), and founder of SIMS Snowboards and SIMS Skateboards. He lived in Santa…

2012

Ray Dolby

American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (born 1933)

Ray Milton Dolby was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR, which has been said to have "transformed sound reproduction".

2013

Warren Giese

American football player, coach, and politician (born 1924)

Warren Kenneth Giese was an American state legislator in South Carolina and a college football coach. He served as the head football coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks for five years at the University of South…

2013

Erich Loest

German author and screenwriter (born 1926)

Erich Loest was a German writer born in Mittweida, Saxony. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hans Walldorf, Bernd Diksen and Waldemar Naß.

2013

Candace Pert

American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (born 1946)

Candace Beebe Pert was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opioid receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.

2013

Atef Ebeid

Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1932)

Atef Muhammad Ebeid was an Egyptian politician who served in various capacities in the governments of Egypt. He was the 47th prime minister of Egypt from 1999 to 2004.

2014

John Gustafson

English singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1942)

John Frederick "Johnny" Gustafson was an English bass guitar player and singer, who had a lengthy recording and live performance career. During his career, he was a member of the bands The Big Three, The Merseybeats,…

2014

Ian Paisley

Northern Irish evangelical pastor (Free Presbyterian Church) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1926)

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister…

2014

Joe Sample

American pianist and composer (born 1939)

Joseph Leslie Sample was an American jazz keyboardist and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Jazz Crusaders in 1960, whose name was shortened to "The Crusaders" in 1971. He remained a part of the group…

2014

Claudia Card

American philosopher and academic (born 1940)

Claudia Falconer Card was the Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with teaching affiliations in Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Environmental Studies, and LGBT Studies.

2015

Allan MacEachen

Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (born 1921)

Allan Joseph MacEachen was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as a senator and several times as a Cabinet minister. He was the first deputy prime minister of Canada and served from 1977 to 1979 and 1980 to…

2017

Edith Windsor

American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (born 1929)

Edith Windsor was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. She was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of…

2017

Shen Chun-shan

Taiwanese academic (born 1932)

Shen Chun-shan was a Taiwanese physicist who served as president of National Tsing Hua University from 1994 to 1997. He was known as one of the "four princes of Taiwan" along with Chen Li-an, Fredrick Chien, and Lien…

2018

ʻAkilisi Pōhiva

Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (born 1941)

Samiuela ʻAkilisi Pōhiva was a Tongan pro-democracy activist and politician. A key leader of the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands (DPFI), he served as the Prime Minister of Tonga from 2014 to his death in 2019.…

2019

Sitaram Yechury

Indian politician and leader of CPI(M) (born 1952)

Sitaram Yechury was an Indian Marxist politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who was a member of the Politburo of the CPI(M) from 1992 until his death in September 2024.…

2024

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Tom Ewell — American actor (1909–1994)

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Death year1994

Known forHis most successful and most identifiable role was that of Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch, a character he played in the Broadway production (1952–1954) and reprised for the 1955 film adaptation

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Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four. Wikipedia →

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Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's, T. B. Joshua. Wikipedia →

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NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space. Wikipedia →

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