Notable Deaths on September 16

September 16 has 109 recorded notable deaths across history, from 307 to 2026. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

Robert Redford

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American actor, producer and director (born 1936)

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Notable Deaths 109 source records 307 – 2026

Major events on September 16

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 2021 Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. Source
  2. 1863 Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist. Source

Did you know about Robert Redford

Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards, including a Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994.

Did you know about James II of England (born 1633)

James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from February 1685 until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution.

Did you know about Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex.

Did you know about Maria Callas

Maria Callas was an American and Greek soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

Did you know about Louis XVIII of France (born 1755)

Before his reign, he spent 23 years in exile from France beginning in 1791, during the French Revolution and the First French Empire.

More major people who died on September 16

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1701 James II of England (born 1633)

James II of England (born 1633)

James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from February 1685 until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, his reign was marked by conflicts over religion, absolutism and the divine right of kings; his deposition ended a century of political and civil strife by confirming the primacy of the English Parliament over the Crown.
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1977 Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan

English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)
Marc Bolan was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan is an influence on artists in the genres of glam rock, punk, post-punk, new wave, indie rock, Britpop and alternative rock. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 as a member of T. Rex.
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1977 Maria Callas

Maria Callas

Greek operatic soprano (born 1923)
Maria Callas was an American and Greek soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice, and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini, and Rossini, and further to the works of Verdi and Puccini, and in her early career to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina.
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1824 Louis XVIII of France (born 1755)

Louis XVIII of France (born 1755)

Louis XVIII, known as the Desired, was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. Before his reign, he spent 23 years in exile from France beginning in 1791, during the French Revolution and the First French Empire.
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2003 Sheb Wooley

Sheb Wooley

American singer-songwriter (born 1921)
Shelby Fredrick Wooley was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He recorded a series of novelty songs, including the 1958 hit rock-and-roll comedy single "The Purple People Eater", and under the name Ben Colder, the country hit "Almost Persuaded No. 2". As an actor, he portrayed Cletus Summers, the principal of Hickory High School and assistant coach in the 1986 film Hoosiers; Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller in the film High Noon; Travis Cobb in The Outlaw Josey Wales; and scout Pete Nolan in the television series Rawhide. Wooley is also believed to be the voice actor who provided the Wilhelm scream and all of the other stock sound effects for Thomas J. Valentino's Major record label during the 1940s.
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2009 Mary Travers

Mary Travers

American singer-songwriter (born 1936)
Mary Allin Travers was an American singer who found fame as a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey. Travers grew up amid the burgeoning folk scene in New York City's Greenwich Village, and she released five solo albums. She was a contralto.
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2016 Gabriele Amorth

Gabriele Amorth

Italian priest and exorcist (born 1925)
Gabriele Amorth was an Italian Catholic priest of the Paulines and an exorcist for the Diocese of Rome. Amorth, along with five other priests, founded the International Association of Exorcists.
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1931 Omar Mukhtar

Omar Mukhtar

Libyan theorist and educator (born 1862)
ʿUmar al-Mukhtār Muḥammad bin Farḥāt al-Manifī, called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was a Libyan revolutionary and Imam who led the native resistance in Cyrenaica under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya. A teacher-turned-general, Omar was a prominent figure of the Senussi movement and is considered the national hero of Libya and a symbol of resistance in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Beginning in 1911, he organised and led the Libyan resistance movement against the Italian colonial empire during the First and Second Italo-Senussi Wars. Externally, he also participated in armed opposition against the French in Chad and the British in Egypt. After many attempts, the Italian Armed Forces managed to capture Al-Mukhtar near Slonta when he was wounded in battle by Libyan colonial troops, and hanged him in 1931 after he refused to surrender.
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2007 Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan

American engineer and author (born 1948)
James Oliver Rigney Jr., known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. His The Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel is among the highest-selling book series of all time, with 90 million copies sold.
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1980 Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget

Swiss psychologist and philosopher (born 1896)
Jean William Fritz Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology.
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2002 James Gregory

James Gregory

American actor (born 1911)
James Gregory was an American character actor who played roles such as Schaffer in Al Capone (1959), the McCarthy-like Sen. John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), General Ursus in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), and Inspector Frank Luger in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982).
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2016

Gérard Louis-Dreyfus

French-born American businessman (born 1932)
Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus, also known as William Louis-Dreyfus, was a French-American businessman. His net worth was estimated at $3.4 billion by Forbes in 2006. He was the chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services and the great-grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of Louis Dreyfus Group. He was the father of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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1736 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (born 1686)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. He was born in Poland to a family of German origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic. Fahrenheit significantly improved the design and manufacture of thermometers; his were accurate and consistent enough that different observers, each with their own Fahrenheit thermometers, could reliably compare temperature measurements with each other. Fahrenheit is also credited with producing the first successful mercury-in-glass thermometers, which were more accurate than the spirit-filled thermometers of his time and of a generally superior design. The popularity of his thermometers also led to the widespread adoption of his Fahrenheit scale, with which they were provided.
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1380 Charles V of France (born 1338)

Charles V of France (born 1338)

Charles V, called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380. His reign marked an early high point for France during the Hundred Years' War as his armies recovered much of the territory held by the English and successfully reversed the military losses of his predecessors.
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2021 Jane Powell

Jane Powell

American actress (born 1929)
Jane Powell was an American actress, singer, and dancer who appeared in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals in the 1940s and 50s. With her soprano voice and girl-next-door image, Powell appeared in films, television and on the stage, performing in the musicals A Date with Judy (1948), Royal Wedding (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), and Hit the Deck (1955).
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2016 Edward Albee

Edward Albee

American director and playwright (born 1928)
Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.
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1498 Tomás de Torquemada

Tomás de Torquemada

Spanish friar (born 1420)
Tomás de Torquemada, anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. In that role, he led a group of ecclesiastical prelates created in 1478 to uphold Catholic religious orthodoxy within the newly formed union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, presently known as the Kingdom of Spain.
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2026 Randy Pedersen

Randy Pedersen

American bowler and sportscaster (born 1962)
Randy Pedersen was an American sportscaster and professional bowler as a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He earned 13 PBA Tour titles during his playing career. He then became the full-time color analyst for PBA Tour broadcasts on ESPN, Fox and CBS Sports Network from 2001 to 2025, as well as handling webcasts on PBA Xtra Frame, FloBowling and the BowlTV YouTube channel. This made him the longest-tenured bowling color commentator in PBA history, two years longer than Nelson Burton Jr. served in that capacity on ABC Sports. During the 2025 PBA Tour, he worked alongside play-by-play announcers Rob Stone, Dave Ryan, John Fanta and Dave LaMont, having previously worked with Lon McEachern and Mike Jakubowski.
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2017 Arjan Singh

Arjan Singh

Marshal of the Indian Air Force (born 1919)
Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, was a senior air officer of the Indian Air Force. He served as the 3rd Chief of the Air Staff from 1964 to 1969, leading the Air Force through the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was the first and only officer of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to be promoted to five-star rank as Marshal of the Indian Air Force, equal to the army rank of field marshal.
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1973 Víctor Jara

Víctor Jara

Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (born 1932)
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist. A committed Communist, he directed a wide range of theatrical works, from locally produced plays to world classics and experimental drama by writers such as Ann Jellicoe, and became one of the leading figures of the neo-folkloric movement that established the Nueva canción chilena. That movement fueled a resurgence of politically engaged popular music during the presidency of Salvador Allende.
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1932 Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle

Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle

British stage and screen actress (born 1908)
Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle was a British stage and screen actress. She began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions. She appeared in only one film, Thirteen Women (1932), which was released posthumously. Entwistle gained notoriety after she jumped to her death from atop the 'H' on the Hollywoodland Sign in September 1932, at the age of 24.
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2013

Patsy Swayze

American dancer and choreographer (born 1927)
Yvonne Helen "Patsy" Swayze was an American film choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor, and the mother of actors Patrick Swayze and Don Swayze. Her credits include choreography for Urban Cowboy, Liar's Moon and Hope Floats.
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1984

Richard Brautigan

American novelist, poet, and short story writer (born 1935)
Richard Gary Brautigan was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. He wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and ten books of poetry. Brautigan's work has been published both in the United States and internationally throughout Europe, Japan, and China. He is best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America (1967), In Watermelon Sugar (1968), and The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971).
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1965 Fred Quimby

Fred Quimby

American animator and producer (born 1886)
Frederick Clinton "Fred" Quimby was an American animation producer best known for producing the Tom and Jerry cartoon series, for which he won seven Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Films. He was the executive in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which included, among others and at various times, animators and directors Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, Tex Avery, Michael Lah, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of Tom and Jerry. MGM's cartoon characters included Droopy, Butch Dog, Barney Bear, and others, and they also released multiple one-shot cartoons.
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2020 Maxim Martsinkevich

Maxim Martsinkevich

Russian social activist and media personality (born 1984)
Maxim Sergeyevich Martsinkevich, better known as Tesak, was a Russian neo-Nazi activist, media personality, vlogger, and the leader and co-founder of the Restruct movement which manifested in post-Soviet countries.
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1996 McGeorge Bundy

McGeorge Bundy

American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (born 1919)
McGeorge "Mac" Bundy was an American academic who served as the U.S. National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 through 1966. He is primarily remembered as one of the chief architects of the United States' escalation of the Vietnam War. He was president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979.
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2021 Clive Sinclair

Clive Sinclair

English entrepreneur and inventor (born 1940)
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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1955 Leo Amery

Leo Amery

Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1873)
Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, also known as L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. During his career, he was known for his interest in military preparedness, British India, and the British Empire, and his opposition to appeasement. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies (1924–29), opposed the National Government of the 1930s, and served as Secretary of State for India during the Second World War (1940–45). He was also a prolific writer whose output included a multi-volume history of the Second Boer War and several volumes of memoirs and diaries.
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1987 Christopher Soames

Christopher Soames

English soldier and politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (born 1920)
Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966. He held several government posts and attained Cabinet rank.
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1932 Ronald Ross

Ronald Ross

Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it". His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease.
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2016 W. P. Kinsella

W. P. Kinsella

Canadian novelist (born 1935)
William Patrick Kinsella was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and Canadian culture.
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1984 Louis Réard

Louis Réard

French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (born 1897)
Louis Réard was a French automobile engineer and fashion designer who introduced the modern two-piece bikini in July 1946. He ran a swimsuit store in Paris where he sold bikinis for 40 years.
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1672 Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

English poet (born 1612)
Anne Bradstreet was among the most prominent of early English poets of North America and the first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously.
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2016 Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920)
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was an Italian politician, statesman and banker who was the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006 and prime minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994.
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655 Pope Martin I

Pope Martin I

Pope Martin I, also known as Martin the Confessor, was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 649 to 653 or 654. He had served as Pope Theodore I's ambassador to Constantinople, and was elected to succeed him as pope. He was the only pope when Constantinople controlled the papacy whose election had not awaited imperial mandate. For his strong opposition to Monothelitism, Pope Martin I was arrested by Emperor Constans II, carried off to Constantinople, and ultimately banished to Cherson. He is considered a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as the last pope recognised as a martyr.
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1581

Peter Niers

notorious German bandit (date of birth unknown)
Peter Niers was an alleged German serial killer and bandit who was executed on 16 September 1581 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, some 40 km from Nuremberg. Based on confessions extracted from him and his accomplices under torture, Niers was convicted of 544 murders, including 24 fetuses cut out of pregnant women—allegedly, the fetal remains were to be used in magical rituals and for acts of cannibalism.
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2008

Norman Whitfield

American songwriter and producer (born 1940)
Norman Jesse Whitfield was an American songwriter, composer, and producer, who worked with Berry Gordy's Motown labels during the 1960s. He has been credited as one of the creators of the Motown Sound and of the late-1960s subgenre of psychedelic soul.
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1911 Edward Whymper

Edward Whymper

English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (born 1840)
Edward Whymper FRSE was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for his 1865 first ascent of the Matterhorn. Four members of his climbing party were killed during the descent. Whymper also made important first ascents on the Mont Blanc massif and in the Pennine Alps, Chimborazo in South America, and the Canadian Rockies. His exploration of Greenland contributed an important advance to Arctic exploration. Whymper wrote several books on mountaineering, including Scrambles Amongst the Alps.
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307 Flavius Valerius Severus

Flavius Valerius Severus

Roman emperor
Flavius Valerius Severus, also called Severus II, was a Roman emperor from 306 to 307, and a member of the Tetrarchy. He shared control of the western half of the empire with Constantine I, but spent most of his short reign in a civil war against the usurper Maxentius, who later killed him and took over Italy.
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1607 Mary Stuart

Mary Stuart

English-Scottish princess (born 1605)
Mary Stuart was the third daughter and sixth child of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark. Her birth was much anticipated. She developed pneumonia at 17 months and died the following year.
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1993 Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Australian poet and activist (born 1920)
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, earlier known as Kath Walker, was an Aboriginal Australian political activist, artist and educator, who campaigned for Aboriginal rights. Noonuccal was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse. Her first book of poetry, We Are Going, was published in 1964.
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2024 Song Binbin

Song Binbin

Chinese revolutionary (born 1947)
Song Binbin, also known as Song Yaowu, was a Chinese woman who, as a 19-year old, began engaging in violence that led to her role as a senior leader in the Chinese Red Guards during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. Although Song denied involvement, she was presumed present when a 50-year-old teacher, Bian Zhongyun, was beaten to death by the female students of her school, reportedly the Cultural Revolution's first killing.
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1898 Ramón Emeterio Betances

Ramón Emeterio Betances

Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (born 1827)
Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán was a Puerto Rican independence leader, abolitionist and medical doctor. He led the nation's independence movement and was the primary instigator of the Grito de Lares revolt and designer of the Lares flag. Betances is considered to be the father of the Puerto Rican revolutionary movement and El Padre de la Patria . His charitable deeds for people in need, earned him the moniker of El Médico de los Pobres .
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1394 Antipope Clement VII (born 1342)

Antipope Clement VII (born 1342)

Robert of Geneva was elected to the papacy as Clement VII by the cardinals who opposed Urban VI and was the first antipope residing in Avignon, France. His election led to the Western Schism.
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1925 Alexander Friedmann

Alexander Friedmann

Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1888)
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician. He originated the pioneering theory that the universe is expanding, governed by a set of equations he developed known as the Friedmann equations.
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1583 Catherine Jagiellon

Catherine Jagiellon

queen of John III of Sweden (born 1526)
Catherine Jagiellon was a princess of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Queen of Sweden from 1569 as the wife of King John III. Catherine had significant influence over state affairs during the reign of her spouse. She negotiated with the pope to introduce Counter-Reformation in Sweden. She was the mother of Sigismund III Vasa.
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1945 John McCormack

John McCormack

Irish tenor and actor (born 1884)
Count John Francis McCormack, was an Irish lyric tenor celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control. He was also a Papal Count. McCormack became a naturalised American citizen before returning to live in Ireland.
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1087 Pope Victor III (born 1026)

Pope Victor III (born 1026)

Pope Victor III, born Dauferio Epifani Del Zotto, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 May 1086 to his death. He was the successor of Pope Gregory VII. Prior to becoming pope he had held the important post of abbot of the great monastery of Montecassino, under his monastic name of Desiderius and during those years played a historically important role.
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1792 Nguyễn Huệ

Nguyễn Huệ

Vietnamese emperor (born 1753)
Emperor Quang Trung or Nguyễn Huệ, also known as Nguyễn Quang Bình, or Hồ Thơm was the second emperor of the Tây Sơn dynasty, reigning from 1788 until 1792. He was also one of the most successful military commanders in Vietnam's history. Nguyễn Huệ and his brothers, Nguyễn Nhạc and Nguyễn Lữ, together known as the Tây Sơn brothers, were the leaders of the Tây Sơn rebellion. As rebels, they conquered Vietnam, overthrowing the imperial Later Lê dynasty and the two rival feudal houses of the Nguyễn in the south and the Trịnh in the north.
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1944 Gustav Bauer

Gustav Bauer

German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (born 1870)
Gustav Adolf Bauer was a German Social Democratic Party leader and the chancellor of Germany from June 1919 to March 1920. Prior to that, he was minister of labour in the last cabinet of the German Empire and during most of the German Revolution that preceded the formal establishment of the Weimar Republic.
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2018 James Burdette Thayer

James Burdette Thayer

American brigadier general (born 1920)
James Burdette Thayer was an American brigadier general who served on active duty during World War II. On May 4, 1945, Thayer and his platoon discovered and liberated 15,000 people held at a concentration camp near Wels, Austria. Following the war, he continued his service in the United States Army Reserve. In his civilian life, Thayer founded a successful business supply company in Beaverton, Oregon. He was later appointed Oregon's civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army and then re-activated as commander of the Oregon State Defense Force. The Oregon Military Museum at Camp Withycombe is named in his honor.
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1976 Bertha Lutz

Bertha Lutz

Brazilian feminist and scientist (born 1894)
Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement. She was instrumental in gaining women's suffrage in Brazil and represented her country at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, signing her name to the United Nations Charter and championing the inclusion of Article 8 in the Charter. In addition to her political work, she was a naturalist at the National Museum of Brazil, specializing in poison dart frogs. She has four frog species and two lizard species named after her.
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1992 Millicent Fenwick

Millicent Fenwick

American journalist and politician (born 1910)
Millicent Vernon Fenwick was an American fashion model, Vogue magazine editor, socialite, Republican Party politician, and diplomat who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983. She also served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1970 to 1972 and as the first United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 1983 to 1987. She was famous for her energy and colorful enthusiasm and regarded as a political moderate or progressive within her party. She was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement.
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1919 Maria Nikiforova

Maria Nikiforova

Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader (born 1885)
Maria Hryhorivna Nikiforova was a Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader who led the Black Guards during the Ukrainian War of Independence, becoming widely renowned as an atamansha. A self-described terrorist from the age of 16, she was imprisoned for her activities in Russia before managing to escape to western Europe. With the outbreak of World War I, she took up the defencist line and joined the French Foreign Legion on the Macedonian front before returning to Ukraine with the outbreak of the 1917 Revolution.
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1845 Thomas Davis

Thomas Davis

Irish poet and publisher (born 1814)
Thomas Osborne Davis was an Irish writer; with Charles Gavan Duffy and John Blake Dillon, a founding editor of The Nation, the weekly organ of what came to be known as the Young Ireland movement. While embracing the common cause of a representative, national government for Ireland, Davis took issue with the nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell by arguing for the common ("mixed") education of Catholics and Protestants and by advocating for Irish as the national language.
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1406 Cyprian

Cyprian

Metropolitan of Moscow (born 1336)
Cyprian was a prelate of Bulgarian origin, who served as the Metropolitan of Kiev, Rus' and Lithuania and the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. During both periods, he was opposed by rival hierarchs and by the grand prince of Moscow. He was known as a bright opinion writer, editor, translator, and book copyist. He is commemorated by the Russian Orthodox Church on May 27 and September 16 (O.S.).
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1965 Ahn Eak-tai

Ahn Eak-tai

North Korean composer and conductor (born 1906)
Ahn Eak-tai was a Korean classical composer and conductor. He conducted numerous major orchestras across Europe, including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra. Ahn composed "Aegukga", a song best known as the national anthem of South Korea, Korean Dance, Nongae, and the Symphonic Fantasy Korea. His unpublished works, some of which have been discovered recently, include Poema Synfonic 'Mallorca, Lo Pi Formentor, and The Death of Emperor Gojong.
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1946 James Hopwood Jeans

James Hopwood Jeans

English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1877)
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, and won its Gold Medal.
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2005 Gordon Gould

Gordon Gould

American physicist and academic, invented the laser (born 1920)
Richard Gordon Gould was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier.. Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the laser and related technologies. He also fought with laser manufacturers in court battles to enforce the patents he subsequently did obtain.
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1896 Antônio Carlos Gomes

Antônio Carlos Gomes

Brazilian composer (born 1836)
Antônio Carlos Gomes was a Brazilian composer notable for being the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe. He was the only non-European who was successful as an opera composer in Italy, during the "golden age of opera" contemporary to Verdi and Puccini, and the first composer of non-European lineage to be accepted into the classic tradition of music.
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1933 George Gore

George Gore

American baseball player and manager (born 1857)
George F. Gore, nicknamed "Piano Legs", was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for 14 seasons, eight for the Chicago White Stockings, five for the New York Giants, one for the St. Louis Browns (1892) of the National League (NL), and the New York Giants of the Players' League (1890).
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1936 Jean-Baptiste Charcot

Jean-Baptiste Charcot

French physician and explorer (born 1867)
Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). As a sportsman, he was French rugby XV champion in 1896 and also won a double silver medal in sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
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2019 H. S. Dillon

H. S. Dillon

Indonesian politician and human rights defender (born 1945)
Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon was an Indonesian Sikh who occupied a variety of positions in Indonesian political life, including assistant to the Minister of Agriculture, and Commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights). His positions included executive director of Partnership Governance Reform in Indonesia. He was an outspoken critic of corruption in Indonesia.
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2009 Myles Brand

Myles Brand

American philosopher and academic (born 1942)
Myles Neal Brand (May 17, 1942 – September 16, 2009) was a philosopher and university administrator who served as the 14th president of the University of Oregon, the 16th president of Indiana University, and the fourth president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) of the United States.
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1803 Nicolas Baudin

Nicolas Baudin

French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (born 1754)
Nicolas Thomas Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer best known for his explorations of Australia and the southern Pacific Ocean. He carried a few corms of Gros Michel banana from Southeast Asia, depositing them at a botanical garden on the French colony of Martinique.
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2010 George N. Parks

George N. Parks

American educator and bandleader (born 1953)
George N. Parks was the director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band at University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1977 until 2010. He also led the George N. Parks Drum Major Academy, a summer workshop program for high school drum majors that he founded in 1978.
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1865 Christian de Meza

Christian de Meza

Danish general (born 1792)
Christian Julius de Meza was the commander of the Danish Army during the 1864 Second Schleswig War. De Meza was responsible for the withdrawal of the Danish army from the Danevirke, an event which shocked the Danish public and resulted in the loss of his command.
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1896 Pavlos Kalligas

Pavlos Kalligas

Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (born 1814)
Pavlos Kalligas was a Greek jurist, writer and politician. He served as a professor at the University of Athens; as Member and Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament; as cabinet minister for Foreign Affairs, Education, Finance and Justice; and chairman of the National Bank of Greece.
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1819 John Jeffries

John Jeffries

American physician and surgeon (born 1744)
John Jeffries was an American medical doctor, scientist, and military surgeon with the British Army in Nova Scotia and New York during the American Revolution. He is best known for accompanying French inventor Jean-Pierre Blanchard on his 1785 balloon flight across the English Channel.
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1887 Sakaigawa Namiemon

Sakaigawa Namiemon

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (born 1841)
Sakaigawa Namiemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Katsushika District, Shimōsa Province. He was the sport's 14th yokozuna. Nicknamed "Tanikaze of the Meiji era", he's the only officially recognized yokozuna of the "yokozuna abuse era" following the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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1914 C. X. Larrabee

C. X. Larrabee

American businessman (born 1843)
Charles Xavier Larrabee was an American businessman and a co-founder of the town of Fairhaven, Washington. Later in life, Larrabee and his wife Frances donated much land for civic purposes, including schools and parks, and were considered stewards of the city of Bellingham.
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2012 Friedrich Zimmermann

Friedrich Zimmermann

German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (born 1925)
Friedrich Zimmermann was a German politician and a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). From 1982 to 1989, he was the federal minister of interior. From 1989 to 1991 he held the position of federal minister for transport.
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1343 Philip III of Navarre (born 1306)

Philip III of Navarre (born 1306)

Philip III, called the Noble, the Wise, and of Évreux, was the king of Navarre with his wife Joan II from 1328 until his death in 1343. He was also the count of Évreux in France from 1319.
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1940 Charles Cochrane-Baillie

Charles Cochrane-Baillie

2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (born 1860)
Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington,, was a British politician and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, and Governor of Bombay from 1903 to 1907.
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2011 Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and drummer (born 1936)
Willie Lee "Big Eyes" Smith was an American electric blues vocalist, harmonica player, and drummer. He was best known for several stints with the Muddy Waters band beginning in the early 1960s.
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1843 Ezekiel Hart

Ezekiel Hart

Canadian businessman and politician (born 1770)
Ezekiel Hart was an entrepreneur and politician in British North America. He is often said to be the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire.
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2006 Zsuzsa Körmöczy

Zsuzsa Körmöczy

Hungarian tennis player and coach (born 1924)
Zsuzsa Körmöczy was a Hungarian tennis player. She reached a career high of World No. 2 in women's tennis, and won the 1958 French Open at the age of 33.
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1961 Hasan Polatkan

Hasan Polatkan

Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (born 1915)
Hasan Polatkan was a Turkish politician and Minister of Labor and Finance, who was executed by hanging after the 1960 Turkish coup d'état along with two other cabinet members.
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1345 John IV

John IV

Duke of Brittany (born 1295)
John IV the Conqueror KG, was Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort from 1345 until his death and 7th Earl of Richmond from 1372 until his death.
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1226 Pandulf Verraccio

Pandulf Verraccio

Roman ecclesiastical politician
Pandulf Verraccio, whose first name may also be spelled Pandolph or Pandulph, was a Roman ecclesiastical politician, papal legate to England and bishop of Norwich.
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1961 Fatin Rüştü Zorlu

Fatin Rüştü Zorlu

Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1910)
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other politicians.
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2012 Julien J. LeBourgeois

Julien J. LeBourgeois

American admiral (born 1923)
Julien Johnson LeBourgeois was a vice admiral of the United States Navy. His career included service in World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War, duty aboard and command of cruisers and destroyers, various planning and staff assignments, and a tour as President of the Naval War College.
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2012

Roman Kroitor

Canadian director and producer, co-founded IMAX (born 1926)
Roman Kroitor was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as a pioneer of Cinéma vérité, as the co-founder of IMAX, and as the creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic 3D animation system. He was also the original inspiration for The Force. His prodigious output garnered numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, three Cannes Film Festival awards, and two Oscar nominations.
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2015

Julio Brady

Virgin Islander lawyer, judge, and politician, 5th Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (born 1942)
Julio A. Brady was an American Virgin Islander judge, politician and attorney. Brady served as the fifth lieutenant governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1983 to 1987 during the second term of former Governor Juan Francisco Luis. Prior to his death, Brady served as a U.S. Virgin Islands Superior Court judge since 2006.
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2013

Ratiba El-Hefny

Egyptian soprano and director (born 1931)
Ratiba Hefny was an Egyptian international Opera singer (soprano) who performed in more than 500 opera performances. She was the dean of the Higher Institute of Arabic Music in Cairo, and became the director of the Cairo Opera House in 1988.
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2015

Kurt Oppelt

Austrian figure skater and coach (born 1932)
Kurt Oppelt was an Austrian figure skater who is best known for his career in pair skating. With Sissy Schwarz, he is the 1956 Olympic champion, the 1956 World champion, the 1956 European champion, and a five-time Austrian national champion (1952–56).
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2010

Jim Towers

English footballer (born 1933)
Edwin James Towers was an English professional footballer, best remembered for his time as a centre forward in the Football League with Brentford. He is the club's all-time leading goalscorer and in 2013 was voted the club's greatest ever player.
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2013

Scott Adams

American football player (born 1966)
Scott Alexander Adams was an American professional football player who played guard for a six-season career, in-which he played for the Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Atlanta Falcons.
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2015

Allan Wright

English captain and pilot (born 1920)
Group Captain Allan Richard Wright, was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. He was credited with having destroyed at least fourteen German aircraft.
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1100

Bernold of Constance

German priest and historian (born 1054)
Bernold of Constance was a priest, chronicler, writer of Christian tracts, and a defender of the Church reforms of Pope Gregory VII.
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1122 Vitalis of Savigny

Vitalis of Savigny

Catholic French saint and itinerant preacher (born 1060)
Vitalis of Savigny was the canonized founder of Savigny Abbey in Manche and of the Congregation of Savigny (1112).
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1360 William de Bohun

William de Bohun

1st Earl of Northampton (born 1319)
William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, KG was an English nobleman and military commander.
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1589 Michael Baius

Michael Baius

Belgian theologian and academic (born 1513)
Michael Baius, also known as Michel De Bay, was a Belgian theologian. He formulated the school of thought now known as Baianism.
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1925 Leo Fall

Leo Fall

Czech-Austrian composer (born 1873)
Leopold Fall was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas.
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1950 Pedro de Cordoba

Pedro de Cordoba

American actor (born 1881)
Pedro de Cordoba was an American actor.
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1991 Olga Spessivtseva

Olga Spessivtseva

Russian-American ballerina (born 1895)
Olga Alexandrovna Spessivtseva was a Russian ballerina whose stage career spanned from 1913 to 1939.
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1993 František Jílek

František Jílek

Czech conductor (born 1913)
František Jílek was a Czech conductor, known especially for his interpretation of Leoš Janáček's works.
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1996 Gene Nelson

Gene Nelson

American actor, dancer, and director (born 1920)
Gene Nelson was an American actor, dancer, screenwriter, and director.
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2001 Samuel Z. Arkoff

Samuel Z. Arkoff

American producer (born 1918)
Samuel Zachary Arkoff was an American film producer, known as the co-founder of American International Pictures.
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2004

Michael Donaghy

American-English poet and author (born 1954)
Michael Donaghy was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985.
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2005

Harry Freedman

Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (born 1922)
Harry Freedman, was a Canadian composer, English hornist and teacher.
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2006 Floyd Curry

Floyd Curry

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1925)
Floyd James "Busher" Curry was a Canadian ice hockey right winger.
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2009

Ernst Märzendorfer

Austrian conductor (born 1921)
Ernst Märzendorfer was an Austrian conductor.
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2011

Enamul Haque Chowdhury

Bangladeshi politician (born 1948)
Enamul Haque Chowdhury (1948–2011) was a politician in Sylhet District of Bangladesh who was a Jatiya party leader and Member of Parliament from Sylhet-2.
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2015 Guy Béart

Guy Béart

Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (born 1930)
Guy Béhart-Hasson, known as Guy Béart, was a French singer and songwriter.
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2016 António Mascarenhas Monteiro

António Mascarenhas Monteiro

Cabo Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde (born 1944)
António Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro was the first democratically elected President of Cape Verde from 22 March 1991 to 22 March 2001.
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2016 Tarık Akan

Tarık Akan

Turkish actor, director and activist (born 1949)
Tarık Akan was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in 1965.
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2017 Marcelo Rezende

Marcelo Rezende

Brazilian journalist (born 1951)
Marcelo Luiz Rezende Fernandes was a Brazilian journalist and television presenter.
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