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After his retirement as a player, he served as a head coach and general manager in the CFL; he led his teams to two Grey Cups and currently ranks fourth all-time with 142 regular season wins
Notable Deaths on September 18
103 people
96 – 2024
September 18 has seen 103 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 96 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2008 — Ron Lancaster
American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1938)
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He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1982), Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1985) and the Wittenberg University Athletic Hall of Honour (1985).
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At the time of his retirement, he was the CFL's career leader in passing yards and still ranks sixth overall as of 2016
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He was also a colour commentator on the CFL on CBC from 1981 to 1990
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Ronald Lancaster was an American-Canadian professional football player and coach in the Canadian Football League (CFL)
96
Roman usurper
Year 411 (CDXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Theodosius without colleague. The denomination 411 for this year has been…
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411
869
doge of Venice (born 842)
Pietro I Candiano was briefly the sixteenth Doge of Venice in 887.
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887
Chinese warlord
Zhang Xiong (張雄) was a Chinese military general and politician during the Tang dynasty. He from 886 and on, controlled an army that initially roved in the lower Yangtze River region and became a key player in the power…
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893
958
1137
1180
1261
empress of Trebizond (born c. 1265)
Eudokia Palaiologina was the third daughter of Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos and his wife, Theodora, a grandniece of Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes of Nicaea.
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1302
1345
1361
1385
archbishop of Rouen
Louis of Luxembourg;. Bishop of Therouanne 1415–1436, Archbishop of Rouen, 1436, Bishop of Ely 1437, Cardinal.
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1443
Japanese daimyō (born 1536)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi , otherwise known as Kinoshita Tōkichirō and Hashiba Hideyoshi , was a Japanese samurai and daimyō of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.…
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1598
Austrian cardinal (born 1552)
Melchior Klesl was an Austrian statesman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church during the time of the Counter-Reformation. He was minister-favourite of King and Emperor Matthias (1609-1618) and a leading advocate…
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1630
Duke of Lorraine (born 1604)
Charles IV was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.
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1675
English poet, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (born 1664)
Matthew Prior was an English poet, statesman, and diplomat, who played a crucial role in securing the Treaties of Utrecht, serving as Minister Plenipotentiary to France from 1712 to 1715. He is also known as a…
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1721
French scholar and academic (born 1651)
André Dacier was a French classical scholar and editor of texts. He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus's De verborum significatione, and was the first to produce a "readable" text of the 20-book…
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1722
Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707)
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential…
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1783
English theologian and scholar (born 1718)
Benjamin Kennicott was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar.
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1783
German bishop and theologian (born 1704)
August Gottlieb Spangenberg was a German theologian, minister, and bishop of the Moravian Church. As successor to Nicolaus Zinzendorf as bishop of the Moravian Church, he helped develop and lead international Moravian…
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1792
Ottoman politician, 186th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1743)
Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha was a grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and served from 1794 to 1798.
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1812
English philosopher, painter, and critic (born 1778)
William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language,…
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1830
Polish composer and conductor (born 1785)
Karol Kazimierz Kurpiński was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was a representative of late classicism and a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning. He is also known for having composed the…
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1857
English engineer and politician (born 1805)
Joseph Locke FRSA was an English civil engineer of the nineteenth century, particularly associated with railway projects. Locke ranked alongside Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel as one of the major pioneers…
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1860
American general (born 1803)
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer. He served as a Union general in the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
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1862
Charles XV and IV was King of Sweden and King of Norway, there often referred to as Charles IV, from 8 July 1859 until his death in 1872. Charles was the third Swedish monarch from the House of Bernadotte. He was the…
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1872
The last surviving veteran of the Invasion of Java in 1811 (born 1792)
Sergeant Joseph Higginson was a Sergeant in the Royal Marines and veteran of the Invasion of Java (1811), part of the greater Napoleonic Wars. He served aboard HMS President during the invasion, when British forces…
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1881
Irish-American actor and playwright (born 1820)
Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most…
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1890
French physicist and academic (born 1819)
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau was a French physicist who, in 1849, measured the speed of light to within 5% accuracy. In 1851, he measured the speed of light in moving water in an experiment known as the Fizeau…
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1896
Scottish minister, author, and poet (born 1824)
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy…
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1905
Romanian archaeologist and historian (born 1850)
Grigore George Tocilescu was a Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, and member of the Romanian Academy.
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1909
Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (born 1862)
Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin was a Russian statesman who served as the third prime minister and the interior minister of the Russian Empire from 1906 until his assassination in 1911. Known as the greatest reformer of…
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1911
doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree (born 1865)
Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a…
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1915
English philosopher and author (born 1846)
Francis Herbert Bradley was a British idealist philosopher. His most important work was Appearance and Reality (1893).
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1924
Polish author, painter, and photographer (born 1885)
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period.
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1939
English actor and screenwriter (born 1866)
Frederick John Westcott, best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was an English theatre impresario of the British music hall. As a comedian of slapstick he is credited with popularising the custard-pie-in-the-face gag.…
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1941
American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1915)
Robert George Cole was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Normandy in World War II. Cole, the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment…
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1944
1945
American actor (born 1890)
Francis Phillip Wuppermann, known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916, and then numerous sound films…
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1949
American author and poet (born 1866)
Frank Gelett Burgess was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. He was an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic…
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1951
New Zealand-Australian soprano and actress (born 1879)
Frances Davis Alda was a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised operatic lyric soprano. She achieved fame during the first three decades of the 20th century due to her outstanding singing voice, fine technique and…
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1952
Belgian racing driver (born 1927)
Baron Charles Victor Raymond André Evance de Tornaco was a racing driver from Belgium. He participated in 4 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 22 June 1952. He scored no championship points.
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1953
Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Quebec (born 1892)
Joseph-Adélard Godbout was a Canadian agronomist and politician. He served as the 15th premier of Quebec briefly in 1936, and again from 1939 to 1944, in addition to serving as the leader of the Parti Libéral du Québec…
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1956
Norwegian painter and illustrator (born 1873)
Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson was a Norwegian artist, painter and designer. He is probably best known for his caricatures and illustrations.
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1958
French poet and journalist (born 1899)
Benjamin Péret was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist, and founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism.
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1959
Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2026, he…
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1961
German mystic (born 1898)
Therese Neumann was a German Catholic mystic and stigmatic. Neumann has been considered Servant of God by the Catholic Church since 2005.
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1962
Irish dramatist and memoirist (born 1880)
Seán O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the struggles and experiences of the working class in Dublin.
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1964
English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led to the development of nuclear power and…
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1967
American actor, singer, and producer (born 1905)
Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of his career was known for his…
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1968
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1942)
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of…
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1970
Pakistani classical singer (born 1922)
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan was a Pakistani classical vocalist from the Patiala gharana tradition of music and is widely regarded as one of the finest classical and ghazal singers of all time. Together with his younger…
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1974
American painter and critic (born 1907)
Fairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. He was the brother of photographer Eliot…
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1975
English-Swiss mathematician and philosopher (born 1888)
Paul Isaac Bernays was a Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was an assistant and close collaborator of David Hilbert.
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1977
American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (born 1890)
Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in the United States that year, but her…
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1980
Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (born 1894)
Américo de Deus Rodrigues Tomás was a Portuguese Navy officer and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 1958 to 1974. He was the last president of the authoritarian and corporatist Estado Novo.
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1987
1988
Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (born 1905)
Mohammad Hidayatullah, OBE was an Indian jurist and statesman who served as interim President of India in 1969. He concurrently served as Chief Justice of India from 1968 to 1970 and then as Vice President of India from…
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1992
1997
American singer and guitarist (Inez and Charlie Foxx) (born 1939)
Inez Foxx and her elder brother Charlie Foxx were an American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina. Inez sang lead vocal, while Charlie sang backing vocals and played guitar. Casey Kasem, and…
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1998
American-Canadian television host (born 1927)
Ernest Arthur Coombs, CM was an American-Canadian children's entertainer who starred in the Canadian television series Mr. Dressup (1967–1996).
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2001
2002
Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1930)
Mauro Ramos de Oliveira, known as Mauro Ramos or simply Mauro, was a Brazilian professional association footballer. He played as a central defender for São Paulo FC, Santos FC and the Brazil national team.
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2002
Serbian keyboard player (born 1959)
Margita "Magi" Stefanović was a Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist of a Yugoslav rock band Ekatarina Velika (EKV).
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2002
German rabbi and philosopher (born 1916)
Emil Ludwig Fackenheim was a Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.
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2003
English educator and politician (born 1927)
Richard Charles Mitchell, commonly known as Bob Mitchell, was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. He represented Southampton Test for Labour from 1966 to 1970, and Southampton Itchen for Labour and…
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2003
Canadian-American historian and educator (born 1929)
Norman Frank Cantor was a Canadian-American medievalist. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely read treatments of medieval history in English. He…
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2004
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Russell Albion Meyer was an American filmmaker. He was primarily known for writing and directing a successful series of sexploitation films featuring campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women, which have…
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2004
English racing driver (born 1966)
Michael Steven Park was a rally co-driver from Newent in Gloucestershire. He worked with former world champions Richard Burns and Colin McRae as a gravel note expert while co-driving for both David Higgins and Mark…
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2005
Sr., American cartoonist (born 1914)
Clint Cornelius Wilson Sr. was an African-American editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the most prominent Black owned newspaper in California.
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2005
American football player, lawyer, and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1925)
Edward Joseph King was an American politician who served as the 66th governor of Massachusetts from 1979 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party until 1985, he then became a member of the Republican Party. Elected in…
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2006
Welsh bass player and producer (born 1965)
Tigertailz are a Welsh glam metal band from Cardiff. Their 1990 album Bezerk made the Top 40 on the UK Albums Chart and contained the hit singles "Love Bomb Baby" and "Heaven". The band reformed in 2005.
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2007
Italian actor and director (born 1940)
Leo de Berardinis was an Italian stage actor and theatre director. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre.
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2008
Argentinian-German composer and educator (born 1931)
Mauricio Raúl Kagel was an Argentine-German composer and academic teacher.
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2008
American teenage activist (born 1997)
James T. Rodemeyer was an American teenager from Amherst, New York who was known for his activism against homophobia and his videos on YouTube to help victims of homophobic bullying. Rodemeyer died by suicide on…
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2011
Spanish theorist and politician (born 1915)
Santiago José Carrillo Solares was a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) from 1960 to 1982.
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2012
Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (born 1925)
Haim Hefer was a Polish-born Israeli songwriter, poet, columnist, translator and writer. He wrote for numerous composers and musical artists, as well as for military bands. Several of his songs are considered Israeli…
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2012
American baseball player (born 1935)
John Francis Kralick was an American professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1959 to 1967. He participated in 235 games in the course of an eight-year career that included stints with the…
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2012
American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (born 1942)
Stephen Douglas Sabol was an American filmmaker. He was the president and one of the founders of NFL Films, along with his father Ed. He was also a widely exhibited visual artist.
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2012
Indian politician (born 1928)
Veliyam Bharghavan was a Communist leader from the Kerala, India. He was the state Secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI) from 1998 to 2010. In 2010 he retired from that position due to his health issues. He hails…
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2013
English composer, bassoon and oboe player (born 1951)
Lindsay Cooper was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians.…
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2013
French-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)
Arthur Lamothe, was a French-Canadian film director and film producer.
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2013
American boxer (born 1943)
Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. was an American boxer who competed professionally from 1967 to 1981. He was awarded the WBC world heavyweight championship in 1978, after winning a close split decision over Jimmy Young in a…
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2013
Polish-German author and critic (born 1920)
Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47. He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of…
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2013
American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1930)
Richard Caspar Sarafian was an Armenian-American film director and actor. He compiled a versatile career that spanned over five decades as a director, actor, and writer. Sarafian is best known as the director of the…
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2013
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1936)
Milan Marcetta was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 54 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars between 1967 and 1969. The rest of his career, which…
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2014
2014
2014
Canadian-English trumpet player and composer (born 1930)
Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards.
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2014
Chilean footballer and manager (born 1955)
Eduardo Guillermo Bonvallet Godoy was a Chilean footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and later developed a sportscasting career.
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2015
American astrophysicist and academic (born 1940)
James Richard Houck was the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University.
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2015
Argentinian general and politician (born 1930)
Mario Benjamin Menéndez was the Argentine governor of the Falklands during the 1982 Argentine occupation of the islands. He also served in the Argentine Army. Menéndez surrendered Argentine forces to British armed…
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2015
Pakistani writer, poet, translator and playwright (born 1937)
Muhammad Afzal Ahsan Randhawa was a Pakistani Punjabi language writer, poet, translator, playwright and a politician.
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2017
United States Supreme Court justice (born 1933)
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to…
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2020
South African politician, 97th Mayor of Johannesburg (born 1975)
Jolidee Matongo was a South African politician who served as the mayor of Johannesburg from 10 August 2021 until his death on 18 September 2021. Prior to his election as mayor, he served as the member of the mayoral…
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2021
Danish road bicycle racer (born 1984)
Chris Anker Sørensen was a Danish road bicycle racer who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the Team Designa Køkken, Tinkoff–Saxo, Fortuneo–Vital Concept, and Riwal Platform teams. Sørensen then worked as a…
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2021
American politician, 58th Governor of Kentucky (born 1939)
Brereton Chandler Jones was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1991 to 1995, he was the state's 58th governor, and had served from 1987 to 1991 as the 50th lieutenant governor of Kentucky.…
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2023
Georgian blogger, actress and model (born 1987)
Kesaria Abramidze was a Georgian blogger, actress, and model. She was the first openly transgender person in the country to make an appearance on national television. She is widely considered a trailblazer for Georgia’s…
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2024
American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
Nicholas George Gravenites was an American blues, rock and folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his work with Electric Flag, Janis Joplin, Mike Bloomfield, and several influential bands and individuals…
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2024
Italian footballer (born 1964)
Salvatore Schillaci, also known as Totò Schillaci, was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker. During his club career, he played for Messina (1982–1989), Juventus (1989–1992), Internazionale…
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2024
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Ron Lancaster — Canadian football player and coach (1938–2008)
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Death year2008
Known forAs the starting quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders for 16 seasons, he led the team to its first Grey Cup championship in 1966 and is the franchise's all-time leader in passing yards, attempts, completions, touchdowns, and interceptions
Deaths on this date103 (96 – 2024)
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