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Notable Deaths on September 21
100 people
19 BC – 2024
September 21 has seen 100 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 19 BC – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1235 — Andrew II of Hungary (born 1175)
Andrew II of Hungary (born 1175)
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He ruled the Principality of Halych from 1188 until 1189/1190, and again between 1208/1209 and 1210
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He was the younger son of Béla III of Hungary, who entrusted him with the administration of the newly conquered Principality of Halych in 1188
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Instead, Andrew forced his elder brother, Emeric, King of Hungary, to cede Croatia and Dalmatia as an appanage to him in 1197
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Béla III willed property and money to Andrew, obliging him to lead a crusade to the Holy Land
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Roman general and politician (born 396)
Flavius Aetius was a Roman general and statesman of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire. He was a military commander and the most influential man in the Empire for two decades (433–454). He managed policy in…
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454
Pope Conon was the bishop of Rome from 21 October 686 to his death on 21 September 687. He had been put forward as a compromise candidate, there being a conflict between the two factions resident in Rome — the military…
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687
1026
1217
Caupo of Turaida, Kaupo or Kaupo Lieven, sometimes Kubbe was a leader of the Finnic-speaking Livonian people in the beginning of the 13th century, in what are now parts of Latvia and Estonia by the Gulf of Riga. He is…
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1217
Lord Chancellor of England
William of Kilkenny was a Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Ely.
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1256
Edward II, also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir to the throne following the death of…
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1327
11th Earl of Arundel, English admiral (born 1346)
Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey was an English medieval nobleman and military commander.
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1397
1558
Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (born 1501)
Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, music theorist, writer,…
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1576
French cardinal and diplomat (born 1517)
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, typically known as Cardinal Granvelle in English, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish…
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1586
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1587)
Jan Pieterszoon Coen was a Dutch naval officer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the early 17th century, serving two terms as governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. He was the founder of Batavia, capital of…
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1629
1637
Hong Taiji, sometimes rendered as Huang Taiji and occasionally referred to as Abahai in Western literature, also known by his temple name Emperor Taizong of Qing, was the second khan of the Later Jin dynasty and the…
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1643
Ukrainian statesman, Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (born 1639)
Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1687–1709. His long and stable rule was marked by economical and political recovery from the…
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1709
German historian and academic (born 1647)
Johann Heinrich Acker was a German writer. He sometimes wrote under the name of Melissander.
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1719
Indian king (born 1688)
Sawai Jai Singh II, was the 30th Kachwaha Rajput ruler of the Kingdom of Amber, who later founded the fortified city of Jaipur and made it his capital. He became the ruler of Amber at the age of 11, after the untimely…
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1743
English philosopher and author (born 1686)
John Balguy was an English divine and philosopher.
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1748
French general (born 1769)
François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars.
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1796
American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware (born 1733)
George Read was an American politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, president of Delaware, and…
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1798
German actor and playwright (born 1751)
Emanuel Schikaneder was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Branscombe called him…
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1812
Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1771)
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels (1814–1831), which were, for nearly…
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1832
German philosopher and author (born 1788)
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational…
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1860
French geologist and engineer (born 1798)
Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont was a French geologist. Among his ideas was that mountains were created in a series of episodes over geological time due to the cooling and shrinking of the earth. He…
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1874
Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile (born 1809)
Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres was a Chilean statesman and scholar who was twice elected President of Chile between 1851 and 1861. He was the first civilian to serve a full term as President of Chile.
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1880
American tribal leader (born 1840)
Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest…
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1904
Ukrainian inventor (born 1842)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos was a Russian inventor of Greek descent who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method.
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1905
American conspirator (born 1838)
Samuel Bland Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer involved in a plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He had joined the Confederate Army shortly after the start of the Civil War but was…
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1906
French engineer (born 1857)
Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who extended Ohm's law to the analysis of complex electrical circuits.
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1926
Japanese author and poet (born 1896)
Kenji Miyazawa was a Japanese novelist, poet, and children's literature writer from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, vegetarian,…
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1933
1937
Croatian author and poet (born 1874)
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, also spelled Ivana Berlic-Mazuranic in English, was a Croatian writer. She has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
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1938
Romanian economist and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1893)
Armand Călinescu was a Romanian economist and politician, who served as 39th Prime Minister from March 1939 until his assassination six months later. He was a staunch opponent of the fascist Iron Guard and may have been…
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1939
English cricketer (born 1879)
John Symes was a member of the gold medal–winning Great Britain Olympic cricket team at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, France.
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1942
Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer (born 1875)
Alexander Antonovich Koshetz was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer. Koshetz built a prominent conducting career in Kyiv, before going on to be one of the…
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1944
Romanian general (born 1881)
Artur Gustav Martin Phleps was an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and Nazi German army officer who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS during World War II. An Austro-Hungarian…
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1944
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1878)
Henry DeWitt Carey II was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars, usually cast as a Western hero. One of his best-known performances is as the president of the United States Senate in the drama…
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1947
Turkish publisher and politician, 10th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1890)
Sadık Necmettin Sadak was a Turkish politician, former minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.
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1953
Japanese businessman (born 1858)
Kokichi Mikimoto was a Japanese entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto.
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1954
Scottish footballer and manager (born 1875)
William Struth was a Scottish football manager. He was the second manager of Rangers Football Club, leading the club for 34 years between 1920 and 1954, as well as being the holder of a number of other positions,…
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1956
Haakon VII was King of Norway from 1905 until his death in 1957, having reigned for nearly 52 years.
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1957
English racing driver (born 1914)
Peter Nield Whitehead was a British racing driver. He was born in Menston, Yorkshire and was killed in an accident at Lasalle, France, during the Tour de France endurance race. A cultured, knowledgeable and…
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1958
1962
Spanish author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1899)
Paulino Masip Roca was a Spanish playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Driven into exile in Mexico in 1939 by the events of the Spanish Civil War, he became involved with the nascent Golden age of Mexican cinema and…
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1963
Croatian entomologist (born 1880)
Josef Müller, also known as Giuseppe Müller, was a Croatian entomologist.
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1964
French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (born 1878)
Paul Reynaud was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his economic liberalism and vocal opposition to Nazi Germany.
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1966
Argentinian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist. Houssay was a co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of…
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1971
French essayist, novelist, and dramatist (born 1896)
Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960.
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1972
American actor (born 1894)
Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him the only male or female actor…
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1974
American author and actress (born 1918)
Jacqueline Susann was an American novelist and actress. Her novel Valley of the Dolls (1966) is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, The Love Machine (1969) and Once Is Not…
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1974
Turkish painter and poet (born 1911)
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu was a Turkish painter, mosaic-maker, muralist, writer and poet. His art work was inspired by Anatolian village scenes and folk literature, and included traditional handicraft folk patterns.
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1975
British-American economist, professor, and investor (born 1894)
Benjamin Graham was an English-American financial analyst, economist, accountant, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the discipline's founding texts: Security…
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1976
Chilean economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Chile (born 1932)
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean Marxist and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A member of the Socialist Party of Chile, he fled from the military dictatorship of General Augusto…
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1976
Russian general (born 1897)
Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, born Hovhannes Baghramyan, was a Soviet military commander of Armenian origin who held the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. As commander of the 1st Baltic Front, he orchestrated the…
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1982
Swedish actor (born 1915)
Birgit Tengroth was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in more than 40 films between 1926 and 1950. She was married briefly to Danish politician Jens Otto Krag in 1950.
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1983
1983
1985
American bass player, composer, and producer (born 1951)
John Francis Anthony Pastorius III, also known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz bassist, composer, and producer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bassists of all time, Pastorius…
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1987
Sri Lankan physician and academic (born 1954)
Rajani Thiranagama was a Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist and feminist who was assassinated by the LTTE cadres after she had criticised them for their atrocities. At the time of her assassination, she was the head…
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1989
Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1933)
Takis Kanellopoulos was a Greek film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1960 and 1980.
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1990
English engineer (born 1916)
Gordon Dennis Bashford was a British car design engineer. Bashford played a significant part in the design of most post-war Rover cars, including the Land Rover.
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1991
Indian film producer, founded Rajshri Productions (born 1914)
Tarachand Barjatya was an Indian film producer. He has produced many Hindi films from the 1960s through to the 1980s. He founded Rajshri Productions which continues to produce films even today. His mainstay was…
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1992
American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (born 1928)
Rudolph George Perpich Sr. was an American politician who served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from 1976 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. To date, he is the only…
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1995
American sprinter (born 1959)
Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded, setting world records in the 100m and 200m in 1988. She was married to Al Joyner, a…
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1998
Canadian lawyer and politician, 35th Canadian Minister of Justice (born 1915)
Jacques Flynn was a Canadian lawyer and federal politician, serving in both the House of Commons and Senate.
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2000
Russian physician and surgeon (born 1934)
Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov was a Russian general practitioner and surgeon who took part in the Sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition at Novolazarevskaya Station from September 1960 to October 1962. He is best known for…
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2000
American physicist and science fiction author (born 1932)
Robert Lull Forward was an American physicist and science fiction writer. His literary work was noted for its scientific credibility and use of ideas developed from his career as an aerospace engineer. He also made…
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2002
2006
Norwegian skier (born 1929)
Hallgeir Brenden was a Norwegian cross-country skier and steeplechase runner.
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2007
American actress (born 1923)
Alice Margaret Ghostley was an American actress and singer on stage, film and television. Ghostley was best known for her roles as bumbling witch Esmeralda (1969–72) on Bewitched, as Cousin Alice (1970–71) on Mayberry…
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2007
American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1948)
Robert Winthrop Ginty was an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ginty took interest in the arts at a young age and went on to study acting at Yale University. Ginty worked…
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2009
2011
Cuban-American pianist and manager (born 1917)
José Curbelo was a Cuban-born American pianist and manager. Curbelo was a key figure in Latin jazz in New York City in the 1940s and helped to popularize Mambo and the cha cha dance in the 1950s.
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2012
Israeli historian and philosopher (born 1934)
Yehuda Elkana was a historian and philosopher of science, and a former President and Rector of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
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2012
Danish-German soldier and author (born 1917)
Sven Hassel was the pen name of the Danish-born Børge Willy Redsted Pedersen known for his bestselling novels about German soldiers fighting in World War II. In Denmark he used the pen name Sven Hazel. He is one of the…
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2012
2012
American baseball player and manager (born 1930)
Thomas Mullen Umphlett was an American center and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1953 to 1955 with the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators. His 21-year professional baseball career as a player…
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2012
Ghanaian author, poet, and diplomat (born 1935)
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet, author and diplomat. His work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people with contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. He started…
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2013
Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)
Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of direct cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of…
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2013
Jr., American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1932)
Harl H. Haas Jr. was an American politician and jurist in Oregon. A native of Missouri, he served in both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly as a Democrat before serving as a district attorney and Oregon…
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2013
German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Hesse (born 1932)
Walter Wallmann was a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the Mayor of Frankfurt between 1977 and 1986, and as Minister-president of Hesse from 1987 to 1991.
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2013
Dutch lawyer and politician (born 1933)
Heiko "Ko" Wierenga was a Dutch politician and member of the Labour Party (PvdA). He served as the Mayor of the municipality of Enschede from September 1977 until April 1994. Under Wierenga, artwork by Joop Hekman,…
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2013
Israeli intelligence officer (born 1927)
Michael Harari was an Israeli intelligence officer in the Mossad. He was notably involved in the Lillehammer affair, an attempted revenge killing following the Munich massacre that instead resulted in the murder of an…
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2014
American basketball player and coach (born 1950)
Caldwell "Pops" Jones Jr. was an American professional basketball player.
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2014
American director and playwright (born 1935)
Sheldon Arthur Patinkin was a chair of the Theater Department of Columbia College Chicago, artistic director of the Getz Theater of Columbia College, Artistic Consultant of The Second City and of Steppenwolf Theatre and…
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2014
Polish-Australian director and producer (born 1926)
Yoram Jerzy Gross was a Polish-Australian filmmaker. He founded the animation studio Flying Bark Productions.
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2015
Australian-English saxophonist and flute player (born 1938)
Raymond Kenneth Warleigh was an Australian alto saxophonist and flautist.
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2015
American footballer and coach (born 1941)
Richard Williamson was an American football player and coach. He was the head football coach at Memphis State University—now known as the University of Memphis—from 1975 to 1980. Williamson served as the head coach for…
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2015
President of Vietnam (born 1956)
Trần Đại Quang was a Vietnamese politician and former police general who served as the ninth president of Vietnam from 2016 until his death in 2018. After serving for five years as the Minister of Public Security from…
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2018
Ukrainian Former Prime Minister (born 1928)
Vitaliy Andriyovych Masol was a Soviet-Ukrainian politician who served as leader of the Ukrainian government on two occasions. He held various posts in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, most notably the Head of…
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2018
American scientist and Nobel laureate (born 1922)
Arthur Ashkin was an American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Labs. Ashkin has been considered by many as the father of optical tweezers,
for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 at age…
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2020
American actor (born 1964)
William Garson Paszamant was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 films and more than 300 TV episodes. He was known for playing Stanford Blatch on the series Sex and the City, in the related films Sex and the City…
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2021
Indian comedian, actor and politician (born 1963)
Satya Prakash Srivastav, known professionally as Raju Srivastav and often credited as Gajodhar, was an Indian comedian, actor and politician. He was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and moved to Mumbai in the 1980s to…
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2022
Brazilian volleyball player and Olympic champion (born 1979)
Walewska Moreira de Oliveira was a Brazilian volleyball player in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. She won a bronze medal with the women's national team in Sydney, Australia, and a gold medal in the…
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2023
Guatemalan lawyer and activist, First Lady of Guatemala (born 1943)
Haydee Raquel Blandón Sandoval was a Guatemalan lawyer, activist, and political leader who served as the first lady of Guatemala from 1986 to 1991, as the wife of President Vinicio Cerezo. She was the nominee for the…
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2024
American saxophonist and composer (born 1929)
Benny Golson was an American bebop and hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before…
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2024
2024
American football player (born 1947)
Eugene Edward "Mercury" Morris was an American professional football player who was a running back and kick returner. He played for eight years, primarily for the Miami Dolphins in the American Football League (AFL)…
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2024
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Andrew II of Hungary (born 1175) — King of Hungary and Croatia from 1205 to 1235
FeaturedAndrew II of Hungary (born 1175)
Death year1235
Known forHe ruled the Principality of Halych from 1188 until 1189/1190, and again between 1208/1209 and 1210
Deaths on this date100 (19 BC – 2024)
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