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His first race that season was the French Grand Prix at Reims, where he scored his one championship point
Notable Deaths on September 8
114 people
394 – 2024
September 8 has seen 114 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 394 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1966 — John Taylor
American race car driver (born 1933)
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His Formula One debut was on 11 July 1964, at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch driving the Formula One/Formula Two hybrid Cooper–Ford T71/T73
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Taylor did not compete in the Formula One World Championship in 1965, but continued to drive in non–championship races
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He returned to Grand Prix racing in 1966, driving a two-litre Brabham–BRM for privateer David Bridges
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He finished fourteenth, 24 laps down, after an extended pit–stop due to a gearbox problem
394
Pope Sergius I was the bishop of Rome from 15 December 687 to his death on 8 September 701, and is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected at a time when two rivals, Paschal and Theodore, were…
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701
Byzantine emperor (born 750)
Leo IV the Khazar was Byzantine emperor from 775 to 780 AD. He was born to Emperor Constantine V and Empress Tzitzak in 750. He was elevated to co-emperor in the next year, in 751, and married to Irene of Athens in 769.…
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780
Muslim vizier
Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Isra'il al-Anbari was a civil officer of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-9th century, serving as vizier during the caliphate of al-Mu'tazz. His career came to a sudden end when he was arrested on…
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869
Guibert or Wibert of Ravenna was an Italian prelate, archbishop of Ravenna, who was elected pope in 1080 in opposition to Pope Gregory VII and took the name Clement III. Gregory was the leader of the movement in the…
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1100
Scottish knight, hung drawn and quartered by the English
Sir Simon Fraser of Oliver and Neidpath was a Scottish knight who fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence, for which he was hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1306.
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1306
1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1355)
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He led the rebellion of the Lords Appellant against his nephew, King Richard…
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1397
Charles III, called the Noble, was King of Navarre from 1387 to his death and Count of Évreux in France from 1387 to 1404, when he exchanged Évreux for the Duchy of Nemours.
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1425
Italian nun (born 1434)
Sveva da Montefeltro was an Italian beatified nun and noblewoman of the House of Montefeltro. She is venerated by the Catholic Church for her life of devotion despite the hardships she encountered.
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1478
English bishop (born 1475)
John Stokesley was an English clergyman who was Bishop of London during the reign of Henry VIII.
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1539
Spanish bishop and saint (born 1488)
Thomas of Villanova, OSA, born Tomás García y Martínez, was a Spanish friar of the Order of Saint Augustine who was a noted preacher, ascetic and religious writer of his day. He became an archbishop who was famous for…
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1555
English noblewoman (born 1536)
Amy, Lady Dudley was the first wife of Robert Dudley, who later became Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. In the variable spelling of the day, her name also was spelled as Amye Duddley. She is…
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1560
Italian lute player and composer (born 1566)
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not…
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1613
English physician, mathematician, and cosmologist (born 1574)
Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus, was a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests. He is remembered as an astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist, and…
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1637
1644
English poet and author (born 1592)
Francis Quarles was an English poet most notable for his emblem book entitled Emblems.
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1644
Spanish poet and politician (born 1580)
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago, was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the…
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1645
English bishop (born 1574)
Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.
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1656
Spanish mathematician and philosopher (born 1606)
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz was a Spanish Catholic scholastic philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician, polyglot, and writer. He is believed to be a great-grandson of Jan Popel y Lobkowicz.
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1682
Czech sculptor (born 1686)
Michael Johann Joseph Brokoff was a sculptor of the Baroque era from Bohemia, working with sandstone.
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1721
American soldier and philanthropist (born 1715)
Ephraim Williams Jr. was an American landowner and militia officer from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, he was the benefactor of Williams…
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1755
French mathematician and engineer (born 1698)
Bernard Forest de Bélidor was a French engineer, significant to the development of the science of hydraulics and ballistics.
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1761
American general (born 1736)
Enoch Poor was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He began his life as an apprentice cabinet maker but rose through competence to become a successful ship builder and…
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1780
1784
German zoologist and botanist (born 1741)
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at various universities in early modern…
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1811
queen consort of Naples and Sicily (born 1752)
Maria Carolina of Austria was Queen of Naples and Sicily as the wife of King Ferdinand IV and III, who later became King of the Two Sicilies. As de facto ruler of her husband's kingdoms, Maria Carolina oversaw the…
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1814
Scottish-American publisher (born 1745)
John Aitken was a Scottish-American music publisher. For a period of over six years, he was the only publisher of sheet music in the United States and may have been the first American publisher of secular music as well.
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1831
French scholar, co-founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (born 1813)
Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam was a French Catholic literary scholar, lawyer, journalist and equal rights advocate. He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de…
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1853
Finnish priest and father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first President of Finland (born 1832)
Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg was a Finnish priest, who worked as a chaplain in Alavieska and as a deputy pastor in Haapajärvi. He is best known as the father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first president of the Republic of Finland.
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1873
French mathematician and academic (born 1809)
Joseph Liouville was a French mathematician who worked on a number of different fields in mathematics, including number theory, complex analysis, and mathematical physics.
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1882
German physician and physicist (born 1821)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. The Helmholtz Association, the largest…
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1894
1895
Irish tennis player (born 1853)
Vere Thomas "St. Leger" Goold was an Irish tennis player who competed for the 1879 Wimbledon All Comers' final. That year he became the first singles champion of the Irish Championships. He quickly faded from the game…
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1909
American motorcycle racer (born 1890)
William Edward Hasha was an American motorcycle racer on board tracks early in the twentieth century. His death contributed to the demise of the board tracks. He was nicknamed the "Texas Cyclone" since he was from Waco,…
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1912
German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1836)
Friedrich August Wilhelm Baumfelder was a German composer of classical music, conductor, and pianist. He started in the Leipzig Conservatory, and went on to become a well-known composer of his time. His many works were…
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1916
1923
Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi was a Hejazi statesman who served as the King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933. A member of the Hashemite family, he was a leader of the Great Arab Revolt…
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1933
American physician (born 1906)
Carl Austin Weiss Sr. was an American physician who is suspected in the assassination of U.S. Senator and former Governor Huey Long at the Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1935.
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1935
Finnish actor (born 1863)
Herman "Hemmo" Kallio was a Finnish stage and film actor and playwright.
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1940
1942
Czech journalist (born 1903)
Julius Fučík was a Czech journalist, critic, writer, and active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. For his part at the forefront of the anti-Nazi resistance during the Second World War, he was imprisoned and…
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1943
Dutch composer and conductor (born 1881)
Jan Pieter Hendrik van Gilse was a Dutch composer and conductor. Among his works are five symphonies and the Dutch-language opera Thijl.
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1944
German composer and manager (born 1864)
Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. A leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era, and a successor to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, he combined,…
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1949
French painter and sculptor (born 1880)
André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder, with Henri Matisse, of Fauvism. His paintings of 1905–1906 are characterized by riotous colourism in the Fauve style. By 1910, however, his work had…
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1954
English engineer and businessman (born 1904)
Maurice Fernand Cary Wilks was an English automotive and aeronautical engineer, and by the time of his death in 1963, was the chairman of the Rover Company. He was the founder of the Land Rover marque and responsible…
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1963
American actress and singer (born 1922)
Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and singer. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954). Dandridge had also performed as a vocalist in…
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1965
German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
Hermann Staudinger was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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1965
American game show host (born 1908)
Bud Collyer was an American radio actor, announcer and game show host who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars. He is best remembered for his work as the first host of the TV game shows Beat…
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1969
Belgian-French explorer and activist (born 1868)
Alexandra David-Néel was a French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over…
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1969
American engineer, invented the microwave oven (born 1894)
Percy LaBaron Spencer was an American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor of the microwave oven. As a boy he was twice orphaned and began work at a young age, never finishing grammar school. During the night…
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1970
French-German tenor (born 1914)
Wolfgang Windgassen was a German heldentenor internationally known for his performances in Wagner operas.
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1974
American actor and comedian (born 1915)
Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel was an American actor, comedian, and singer. Mostel received several accolades including three Tony Awards and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a…
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1977
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology. For his contributions to the team that…
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1980
Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (born 1897)
Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian guru of nonduality, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya.
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1981
American journalist and activist (born 1901)
Roy Ottoway Wilkins was an American civil rights leader from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins's most notable role was his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in which he…
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1981
Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907)
Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."
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1981
French cyclist (born 1904)
Antonin Magne was a French cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1931 and 1934. He raced as a professional from 1927 to 1939 and then became a team manager. The French rider and then journalist, Jean Bobet, described…
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1983
American race car driver (born 1918)
John Woodrow Parsons was an American racing driver in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series. He was the 1949 AAA national champion, and won the 1950 Indianapolis 500.
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1984
American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."
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1985
English author and illustrator (born 1905)
Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was an English naturalist, artist and author under the pen name 'BB'. He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for The Little Grey Men.
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1990
American composer and conductor (born 1910)
Alex North was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He received fifteen Academy Award…
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1991
American actor (born 1949)
Robert Creel Davis, known professionally as Brad Davis, was an American actor. For his debut film role as Billy Hayes in the 1978 film Midnight Express, he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and…
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1991
English journalist and author (born 1932)
Derek Wyn Taylor was a British journalist, writer, publicist and record producer. He is best known for his role as press officer to the Beatles, with whom he worked in 1964 and then from 1968 to 1970, and was one of…
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1997
1999
Canadian entomologist and author (born 1908)
William Edwin Ricker, was a Canadian entomologist and important founder of fisheries science. He is best known for the Ricker model, which he developed in his studies of stock and recruitment in fisheries. The model can…
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2001
Jamaican cricketer (born 1968)
Laurie Rohan Williams was a West Indian cricketer. Williams was 33 years old when he died; a car he was driving crashed into an oncoming bus.
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2002
German actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1902)
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German filmmaker, photographer, and actress. She is considered one of the most controversial personalities in film history. Regarded by many critics as an "innovative…
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2003
American animator, voice actor, and screenwriter (born 1913)
Franklin Rosborough Thomas was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men.
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2004
Irish cricketer, footballer, and manager (born 1932)
Noel Euchuria Cornelius Cantwell was an Irish football player and sometime cricketer.
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2005
Australian journalist, author, and critic (born 1921)
Donald Richmond Horne was an Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellectuals, from the 1960s until his death.
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2005
English-South African author and activist (born 1915)
Hilda Bernstein OLG was a British-born author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women's rights.
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2006
Australian race car driver and sportscaster (born 1945)
Peter Geoffrey Brock, known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian motor racing driver. Brock was most often associated with Holden for over 35 years, although he raced…
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2006
Australian ornithologist, conservationist, and author (born 1916)
Vincent Noel Serventy AM was an Australian author, ornithologist and conservationist.
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2007
American explorer (born 1927)
Ralph Summers Plaisted was an American explorer who, with his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to succeed in a surface traverse…
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2008
Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
Aage Niels Bohr was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion…
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2009
American-Italian television host (born 1924)
Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno was an American Italian television presenter. After a few experiences in the U.S., he started working on RAI in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host in Italy. He…
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2009
Canadian historian and academic (born 1937)
Ronald Hamowy was a Canadian academic, known primarily for his contributions to political and social academic fields. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus of intellectual history at the University of…
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2012
English-American designer, author, and educator, co-founded IDEO (born 1943)
William Grant Moggridge, RDI was an English designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. He was a pioneer in adopting a…
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2012
Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (born 1920)
Thomas Stephen Szasz was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A distinguished…
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2012
American football player (born 1938)
Austin William "Goose" Gonsoulin was an American professional football player who was a safety in the American Football League (AFL) for the Denver Broncos and in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco…
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2013
Canadian painter and photographer (born 1932)
Don Karl Reichert was a Canadian artist. While primarily a painter in the abstract expressionist tradition, he was also notable for his work as a photographer and in digital media.
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2013
French linguist, computer scientist, and blogger (born 1955)
Jean Véronis was a French linguist, computer scientist and blogger, and a research professor at Aix-Marseille University. His research interests included natural language processing, text mining and standardisation. He…
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2013
Montenegrin historian (born 1928)
Radoslav Rotković was a Montenegrin historian, philologist and academician. He is known for his works in Montenegrin history and literature.
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2013
American basketball player (born 1952)
Marvin Jerome "Bad News" Barnes was an American professional basketball player. A forward, he was an All-American at Providence College, and played professionally in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and…
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2014
American businessman, founder of Chick-fil-A (born 1921)
Samuel Truett Cathy was an American businessman, investor, author, and philanthropist who founded the fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A in 1946.
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2014
American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and kick-boxer (born 1971)
Sean Christopher Haire was an American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and kickboxer, better known by his ring name Sean O'Haire.
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2014
Italian soprano (born 1910)
Magda Olivero was an Italian operatic soprano. Her career started in 1932 when she was 22, and spanned five decades, establishing her "as an important link between the era of the verismo composers and the modern opera…
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2014
American trumpet player and composer (born 1918)
Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. He arranged music for Duke Ellington,…
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2014
American baseball player (born 1924)
George Zuverink was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of eight Major League Baseball seasons with the Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Redlegs, Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles.…
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2014
Dominican baseball player (born 1952)
Joaquín Andújar was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, and Oakland Athletics from 1976 through 1988. Andújar was a four-time…
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2015
American political scientist and academic (born 1942)
Andrew Kohut was an American pollster and nonpartisan news commentator about public affairs topics. He was the founding director of the Pew Research Center.
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2015
American football player (born 1988)
Tyler Jordan Sash was an American professional football safety for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Giants in the sixth round of the…
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2015
Dutch author and poet (born 1963)
Johannes Jacobus Willebrordus "Joost" Zwagerman was a Dutch writer, poet and essayist. Among his teachers was the novelist Oek de Jong.
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2015
Austrian race pilot (born 1967)
Hannes Arch was an Austrian pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from 2007 to 2016. Arch won the World Championship in the 2008 season.
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2016
Montenegrin politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1954)
Dragiša Pešić was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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2016
Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1938)
Cecil Bustamente Campbell, known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and…
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2016
French businessman (born 1930)
Pierre Vital Georges Bergé was a French industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), and was a longtime business partner—and onetime significant other—of its namesake designer.
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2017
American actor (born 1982)
Blake Christopher Heron was an American actor. He was best known for his starring role as Marty Preston in the 1996 film Shiloh. He died of an accidental drug overdose, aged 35.
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2017
American author and journalist (born 1933)
Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early…
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2017
Serbian actor and director (born 1936)
Ljubiša Samardžić, nicknamed Smoki, was a Serbian actor and director, best known as Šurda in the Vruć vetar TV series, and Inspector Boško Simić in the comedy crime series Policajac sa Petlovog brda and film of the same…
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2017
American musician (born 1939)
Donald Ray Williams was an American country music singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing 17 number-one country…
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2017
Prime Minister of Abkhazia (born 1948)
Gennadi Leonid-ipa Gagulia was an Abkhazian politician who was three-time prime minister of Abkhazia and the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He served as the first prime minister of Abkhazia after the post…
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2018
American singer and beauty pageant winner (born 1973)
Chelsi Mariam Pearl Smith was an American actress, singer, TV host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss USA 1995 and Miss Universe 1995. Smith was the third Miss USA of African-American origin, after Carole Gist (1990)…
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2018
Indian cinematographer, film director, and actor (born 1957)
S. Rajasekar was an Indian cinematographer, film director, and actor. He collaborated with director Robert under the name Robert–Rajasekar.
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2019
Filipino politician, former congressman and governor of Camarines Sur (born 1935)
Luis Robredo Villafuerte Sr., often referred to by his initials LRV, was a Filipino politician who served as Governor of Camarines Sur for 15 years and as a member of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2013. He…
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2021
Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms (born 1926)
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was the monarch of 15 realms…
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2022
English actress (born 1946)
Gwyneth Leith, known professionally as Gwyneth Powell, was an English actress. She was best known for her portrayal of headmistress Bridget McClusky in the BBC television series Grange Hill for eleven series between…
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2022
Salvadoran police officer (born 1964)
Mauricio Antonio Arriaza Chicas was a Salvadoran police officer who served as the director of the National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador from 2019 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024.
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2024
American baseball player (born 1944)
Edward Emil Kranepool III was an American professional baseball player. He spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the New York Mets. He was predominantly a first baseman, but he also played in the outfield.
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2024
Norwegian actress (born 1936)
Henny Elisabeth Moan was a Norwegian actress. She had a long career in theatre, but is best known for her roles in certain classics of Norwegian cinema, such as the Oscar-nominated Nine Lives (1957) and Lake of the Dead…
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2024
English musician (born 1942)
George Bruno "Zoot" Money was an English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader. He was best known for playing the Hammond organ and for his leadership of the Big Roll Band. Inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles,…
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2024
American voice actor (born 1935)
Peter Renaday was an American actor. During a career spanning some six decades, Renaday worked in television, film, theme parks, radio, and theatre. He is best known for providing the voice of Splinter in the original…
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2024
Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1963)
Emiko Shinohara , known professionally as Emi Shinohara , was a Japanese voice actress from Fukushima Prefecture. At the time of her death, she was affiliated with 81 Produce. She was best known for voicing Sailor…
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2024
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John Taylor — British racing driver (1933–1966)
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Death year1966
Known forHe participated in five World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, and also participated in several non-championship Formula One races
Deaths on this date114 (394 – 2024)
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