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Notable Deaths on September 30
84 people
420 – 2024
September 30 has seen 84 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 420 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2017 — Monty Hall
American game show host (born 1921)
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Starting in 1963, he was best known as the host, co-creator, and co-producer of Let's Make a Deal
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After working as a radio newsreader and sportscaster, Hall returned to television in the U.S., where his focus was now on hosting game shows
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A conundrum involving game theory and psychology was named after him: the Monty Hall problem
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Behind the scenes, Hall also carried on an active life of philanthropy.
420
Italian archbishop and saint
Honorius was a member of the Gregorian mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism in 597 AD who later became Archbishop of Canterbury. During his archiepiscopate, he consecrated the…
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653
Chinese general
Fan Yanguang (范延光), courtesy name Zihuan (子環) or Zigui (子瓌), formally the Prince of Dongping (東平王), was a general from the state of Later Tang and Later Jin during the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He…
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940
Louis IV, called d'Outremer or Transmarinus, reigned as King of West Francia from 936 to 954. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, he was the only son of king Charles the Simple and his second wife Eadgifu of Wessex,…
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954
1101
Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich, also transliterated as Iaroslav, was Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1238 to 1246. He collaborated with Batu Khan following the Mongol invasion, before he was ultimately poisoned.
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1246
Polish prince, Duke of Łęczyca, Sieradz, Kraków, Sandomierz (born 1241)
Leszek II the Black was a Polish prince of the House of Piast, Duke of Sieradz since 1261, Duke of Łęczyca since 1267, Duke of Inowrocław from 1273 to 1278, Duke of Sandomierz and High Duke of Poland from 1279 until his…
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1288
German countess
Countess Adelaide of Vianden was a countess from the House of Vianden, the cadet branch of the House of Sponheim that ruled the County of Vianden, and through marriage Countess of Nassau-Siegen. She acted as regent of…
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1376
3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, Welsh soldier and politician (born 1362)
Reynold Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthyn, a powerful Welsh marcher lord, succeeded to the title on his father's death in July 1388.
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1440
1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1400)
John Sutton VI, 1st Baron Dudley was an English nobleman, diplomat, and councillor of King Henry VI. He fought in several battles during the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of the Roses, as well as acted as Lord…
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1487
Japanese daimyō (born 1507)
Ōuchi Yoshitaka was the daimyō of Suō Province and the head of the Ōuchi clan, succeeding Ōuchi Yoshioki.
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1551
Spanish theologian (born 1525)
Melchor Cano was a Spanish Scholastic theologian. Cano's most important theological work was his posthumously published De locis theologicis, a major contribution to the New Scholasticism of the Salamanca school.
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1560
4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born 1510)
Francis Borgia, was a Spanish Jesuit priest. The great-grandson of both Pope Alexander VI and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, he was Duke of Gandía and a grandee of Spain. After the death of his wife, Borgia renounced his…
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1572
French diplomat and reformer (born 1518)
Hubert Languet was a French diplomat and reformer. The leading idea of his diplomacy was that of religious and civil liberty for the protection and expansion of Protestantism. He did everything in his power to advance…
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1581
1626
1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1554)
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who served in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage.
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1628
1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1695)
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, was a British diplomat and politician who represented Thirsk and Christchurch in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1727 and 1761.
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1770
English-American priest and theologian (born 1714)
George Whitefield, was an English Anglican priest and preacher who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.
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1770
Italian poet and scholar (born 1800)
Samuel David Luzzatto, also known by the Hebrew acronym Shadal, was an Italian-Austrian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.
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1865
treasurer of Tavastia province, manor host, and paternal grandfather of President of Finland P. E. Svinhufvud (born 1804)
Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad was a Finnish provincial treasurer of Tavastia and the host of the Rapola Manor in Sääksmäki. His grandson was Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, the future third President of the Republic of…
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1866
French general and politician, French Minister of War (born 1837)
Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger, nicknamed Général Revanche, was a French Army officer and politician. An enormously popular public figure during the second decade of the Third Republic, he won multiple elections.…
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1891
French nun and saint (born 1873)
Thérèse of Lisieux, in religion Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known in English as the Little Flower of Jesus, or…
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1897
French mathematician and engineer (born 1838)
Maurice Lévy was a French engineer and member of the Institut de France.
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1910
Lithuanian Jewish anarchist (born 1887)
Fanya Anisimovna Baron was a Russian Jewish anarchist revolutionary. She spent her early life participating in the Chicago workers' movement, but following the Russian Revolution in 1917, she moved to Ukraine and…
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1921
German captain and pilot (born 1919)
Hans-Joachim Marseille was a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II. He is noted for his aerial battles during the North African Campaign and his bohemian lifestyle. One of the most successful…
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1942
German-American sociologist and economist (born 1864)
Franz Oppenheimer was a German-American sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state.
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1943
Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (born 1887)
Takashi Sakai was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, known for his role as Governor of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation.
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1946
American actor (born 1931)
James Byron Dean was an American actor. He became one of the most influential figures in Hollywood in the 1950s, and his impact on cinema and popular culture was profound, although his career lasted only five years. He…
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1955
Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (born 1877)
Sir Henry Newman Barwell KCMG was the 28th premier of South Australia.
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1959
Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1888)
Onésime Gagnon was a Canadian politician who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Québec.
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1961
Canadian photographer and author (born 1902)
Peter Pitseolak (1902–1973) was an Inuk photographer, sculptor, artist and historian. Pitseolak was Baffin Island's first indigenous photographer.
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1973
Chilean general and politician, Chilean Minister of Defense (born 1915)
Carlos Prats González was a Chilean Army officer and politician. He served as a minister in Salvador Allende's government while Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. He resigned in August 1973 amid growing national…
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1974
1977
American actor and ventriloquist (born 1903)
Edgar John Bergen was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer. He was best known for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Bergen pioneered modern-day ventriloquism and…
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1978
American seismologist and physicist (born 1900)
Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. He is the namesake and one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to…
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1985
French actress (born 1921)
Simone Signoret was a French actress. She received various accolades, including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a César Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, in…
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1985
Hungarian-British economist (born 1908)
Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor, born Káldor Miklós, was a Hungarian-born British economist. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939), derived the cobweb…
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1986
American author and screenwriter (born 1913)
Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio screenwriter, magazine editor, and scriptwriter for comics. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including the novel The Demolished Man,…
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1987
American race car driver (born 1946)
Alvah Robert Holbert was an American automobile racing driver who was a five-time champion of the IMSA Camel GT series and the fifth driver to complete the informal triple Crown of endurance racing. He once held the…
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1988
American LGBT rights activist (born 1936)
Drew Shafer was an American gay activist from Kansas City, Missouri, known for his LGBTQ activism.
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1989
American composer and critic (born 1896)
Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer…
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1989
American race car driver (born 1968)
Robert James Moroso was an American NASCAR racing driver who was champion of the NASCAR Busch Series in 1989, and was posthumously awarded the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year award. A promising young driver,…
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1990
Polish-Canadian journalist and author (born 1930)
Alice Parizeau was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist.
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1990
Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist…
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1990
Serbian singer-songwriter (born 1938)
Tomislav "Toma" Zdravković was a Serbian singer-songwriter and recording artist.
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1991
French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
André Michel Lwoff was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate.
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1994
English actor (born 1912)
Marius Re Goring was an English stage and screen actor. He often portrayed urbane and morally-grey characters, and is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in…
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1998
American baseball player and poet (born 1953)
Daniel Raymond Quisenberry, nicknamed "Quiz", was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Kansas City Royals. Notable for his submarine-style pitching delivery and…
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1998
American soldier and author (born 1912)
Robert Lewis Taylor was an American writer who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. His writing has been adapted into a television series, film, and musical.
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1998
Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (born 1966)
Lars Olof Göran Kropp was a Swedish mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support on 23 May 1996, after…
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2002
Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1913)
Hans-Peter Tschudi was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1959–1973) heading the Department of Home Affairs.
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2002
2003
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)
Ronald Monroe Dawson was an American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, nicknamed The Blond Bomber. Although he achieved regional success in the 1950s, his popularity peaked internationally with tours in the…
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2003
American lawyer and businessman (born 1944)
Robert George Kardashian was an American attorney and businessman. He gained national recognition as O. J. Simpson's friend and defense attorney during Simpson's 1995 murder trial.
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2003
Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (born 1936)
Kala Keerthi Sembuge Gamini Shelton Fonseka was a Sri Lankan film actor, film director and politician. Often considered one of the greatest actors in Sinhala cinema, Fonseka dominated the industry in the 1960s and 1970s…
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2004
American director and songwriter (born 1935)
Jacques Levy was an American songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist.
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2004
English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)
Michael Leighton George Relph was an English film producer, art director, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of actor George Relph.
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2004
Singaporean lawyer and politician (born 1926)
Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam was a Singaporean politician and lawyer who served as secretary-general of the opposition Workers' Party from 1971 to 2001 and was the de facto Leader of the Opposition between 1981 and 1986.…
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2008
American screenwriter and producer (born 1941)
Stephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist, actor, and founder of Cannell Entertainment and The Cannell Studios.
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2010
American-Yemeni terrorist (born 1971)
Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki was an American-Yemeni Islamic cleric and lecturer. He was assassinated in Yemen in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki was the first U.S. citizen to…
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2011
Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943)
Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A.…
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2011
Austrian actor and producer (born 1922)
Turhan Bey was an Austrian-born actor of Turkish and Czech-Jewish origins. Active in Hollywood from 1941 to 1953, he was dubbed "The Turkish Delight" by his fans. After his return to Austria, he pursued careers as a…
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2012
American biologist, academic, and politician (born 1917)
Barry Commoner was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was the director of the Center for Biology…
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2012
American wrestler and engineer (born 1948)
Robert Francis Jeaudoin was an American professional wrestler and civil engineer, also known by the ring name of "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers.
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2012
American librarian (born 1913)
Clara Stanton Jones was the first African-American president of the American Library Association, serving as its acting president from April 11 to July 22, 1976, and then its president from July 22, 1976, to 1977. Also,…
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2012
Canadian-American figure skater (born 1928)
Barbara Ann Scott was a Canadian figure skater. She was the 1948 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1947–1948), and a four-time Canadian national champion in ladies' singles. Known as "Canada's Sweetheart",…
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2012
Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (born 1956)
Boris Šprem was a Croatian politician who was the speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 2011 to 2012. He was the first and to date only speaker to die in office since country's independence in 1991.
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2012
Australian educator and politician (born 1942)
Janet Frances Powell was an Australian politician.
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2013
American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
Martin Lewis Perl was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.
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2014
Italian-Swiss physicist and academic (born 1941)
Guido Altarelli was an Italian theoretical physicist.
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2015
French businessman (born 1951)
Claude Dauphin was a French billionaire businessman and executive chairman of Trafigura Beheer BV, a company specialising in commodity trading. He was a founding partner of Trafigura and its CEO for a time. In March…
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2015
Swedish author and critic (born 1947)
Göran Olof Waldemar Hägg was a Swedish author, critic and docent in literature science.
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2015
Russian-American mathematician (born 1966)
Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He…
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2017
Danish rock musician (born 1945)
Kim Mellius Flyvholm Larsen was a Danish singer, songwriter, author, and guitarist. He began his musical career in 1968 after a brief period as an elementary school teacher and became known from 1969 as a member of the…
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2018
British television presenter and actor (born 1942)
Charles Geoffrey Hayes was an English television presenter and actor. He presented Thames Television's children's show Rainbow from 1973 to 1992.
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2018
Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (born 1925)
Sonia Shainwald Orbuch was an American Holocaust educator. During the Second World War, she was a Jewish resistance fighter in eastern Poland.
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2018
British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (born 1967)
Victoria A. Braithwaite was an English scientist who was a Professor of Animal Behaviour and Cognition at Pennsylvania State University. She was the first person to demonstrate that fish feel pain, which impacted animal…
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2019
Japanese composer and orchestrator (born 1931)
Koichi Sugiyama was a Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He was best known for composing for the Dragon Quest franchise, along with several other video games, anime, film, television shows, and pop songs.…
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2021
American actor, singer and songwriter (born 1976)
Gavin James Creel was an American actor, singer, and songwriter best known for his work in musical theater. Over his career he received a Grammy Award, a Tony Award, two Drama Desk Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award.
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2024
Congolese-American basketball player (born 1966)
Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo was a Congolese-American professional basketball player who played center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 18 seasons. Nicknamed "Mount Mutombo"…
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2024
Nicaraguan military leader (born 1947)
Humberto Ortega Saavedra was a Nicaraguan revolutionary, military leader, writer and businessman. One of the nine members of the National Directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), he co-founded the…
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2024
2024
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Monty Hall — Canadian-American game show host (1921–2017)
FeaturedMonty Hall
Death year2017
Known forAfter working as a radio newsreader and sportscaster, Hall returned to television in the U.S., where his focus was now on hosting game shows
Deaths on this date84 (420 – 2024)
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