Notable Deaths on November 10

November 10 has 590 recorded notable deaths across history, from 461 to 2025. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

Ernest M. McSorley

Died on November 10, 1975 — Ernest M. McSorley

SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.

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Did you know about Ernest M. McSorley

SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men.

Did you know about Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev's tenure as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration.

Did you know about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and statesman who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.

Did you know about Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball.

Did you know about Jack Palance

Jack Palance received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

Major events on November 10

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1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War

Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.

November 10, 1674
Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.
1970 Vietnam War

Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports…

November 10, 1970
Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge…

November 10, 1954
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
1293 Raden Wijaya

Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name…

November 10, 1293
Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.

Who died on November 10?

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1982 Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev

Ukrainian-Russian general and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (born 1906)
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. He also held office as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and later from 1977 to 1982. His tenure as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration.
1938 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

founder of the Republic of Turkey, Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey (born 1881)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and statesman who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He led sweeping reforms, turning Turkey into an industrialising nation. Ideologically a republican, secularist, and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism.
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Atatürk's personality cult and the Kemalist historiography developed around it have had significant and ongoing influences on Turkey's political culture and historical narrative.
1992 Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors

American actor (born 1921)
Kevin Joseph "Chuck" Connors was an American actor and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball. With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his role as Lucas McCain on the ABC series The Rifleman (1958–1963).
2006 Jack Palance

Jack Palance

American boxer and actor (born 1919)
Walter Jack Palance was an American actor. He gained stardom for his masculine portrayals of men in neo-noirs, crime dramas and westerns. He acted on stage and screen earning an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
2007 Laraine Day

Laraine Day

American actress (born 1920)
Laraine Day was an American actress, radio and television commentator, and former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) contract star. As a leading lady, she was paired opposite major film stars, including Robert Mitchum, Joel McCrea, Lana Turner, Cary Grant, Ronald Reagan, Kirk Douglas, and John Wayne. In addition to her numerous film and television roles, she acted on stage, conducted her own radio and television shows, and wrote two books.
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Because of her marriage to Leo Durocher and her involvement with his baseball career, she was known as the "First Lady of Baseball". Her best-known films include Foreign Correspondent; My Son, My Son; Journey for Margaret; Mr. Lucky; The Locket; and the Dr. Kildare series.
2007 Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

American novelist and essayist (born 1923)
Nachem Malech Mailer, known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.
2022 Kevin Conroy

Kevin Conroy

American actor and voice actor, longtime voice of Batman (born 1955)
Kevin Conroy was an American actor. He appeared in a variety of stage performances, television series, and television films. Conroy earned fame for voicing Batman in various animated works, beginning with Batman: The Animated Series in 1992.
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Conroy went on to voice the character for dozens of animated television series, feature films, and video games over the next three decades.
2009 John Allen Muhammad

John Allen Muhammad

American spree killer (born 1960)
John Allen Muhammad was an American spree killer and former U.S. Army sergeant. He and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, carried out a series of shootings across ten states between February through September 2002, killing seven people.
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They later moved their attacks to the Washington metropolitan area, where they conducted the D.C. sniper shootings, which resulted in the deaths of ten more victims before their arrest.
1891 Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

French poet and educator (born 1854)
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.
2010 Dino De Laurentiis

Dino De Laurentiis

Italian-American actor, producer, and production manager (born 1919)
Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis was an Italian and American film producer and businessman. Following a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he moved into film production; alongside Carlo Ponti, he brought Italian cinema to the international scene in the post-World War II period.
2001 Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

American novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1935)
Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
1994 Kuvempu

Kuvempu

Indian author and poet (born 1904)
Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa, popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu, was an Indian poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He is widely regarded as the greatest Kannada poet of the 20th century. He was the first Kannada writer to receive the Jnanapith Award.
2015 André Glucksmann

André Glucksmann

French philosopher and author (born 1937)
André Glucksmann was a French philosopher, activist, and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers. Glucksmann began his career as a Marxist, who went on to reject Marxism–Leninism and "real-existing socialism" in the popular book La Cuisinière et le Mangeur d'Hommes (1975), and later positioned himself on the Chinese side of the Sino-Soviet split, becoming an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russian foreign policy.
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He was a strong supporter of human rights. In later years, he opposed the claim that Islamic terrorism is the product of the clash of civilizations between Islam and the Western world.
2015 Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt

German soldier, economist, and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (born 1918)
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was the longest lived chancellor in German history and had the longest post-chancellorship, at over 33 years. He was also the only chancellor to serve in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
2006 Gerald Levert

Gerald Levert

American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1966)
Gerald Edward Levert was an American singer-songwriter and producer. The son of singer Eddie Levert, he formed the R&B vocal group LeVert alongside his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon. He was also a member of the supergroup LSG, along with Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill.
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Levert is often credited with the discovery of R&B groups The Rude Boys, Men at Large, and 1 of the Girls. He released nine solo albums, and posthumously won a Grammy Award. In 2013, he was a part of the inaugural National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame inductees.
1865 Henry Wirz

Henry Wirz

Swiss-American captain in Confederate army, commandant of Andersonville Prison (born 1823)
Henry Wirz was a Confederate States Army officer and convicted war criminal best known for commanding Andersonville Prison during the American Civil War. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Wirz immigrated to the United States in 1849 after being exiled from the canton of Zurich following a conviction of embezzlement and fraud. He worked in a Massachusetts factory for five years before moving south to Kentucky to begin a career in medicine; specializing in homeopathy, Wirz divided his time between the two states.
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In 1854, he moved to Louisiana with his new wife and her two daughters, working as an overseer on a slave plantation.
1998 Mary Millar

Mary Millar

English actress (born 1936)
Irene Mary Wetton, better known by her stage name Mary Millar, was an English actress and singer best remembered for her role as the second actress to play Rose in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances from 1991 to 1995 and for originating the role of Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera.
1659 Afzal Khan

Afzal Khan

Indian commander
Afzal Khan birth name Abdullah Bhatari was a general of the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur Sultanate in the Deccan of India. He played an important role in the southern expansion of the Bijapur Sultanate by subjugating the Nayaka chiefs who had taken control of the former Vijayanagara territory.
1549 Pope Paul III (born 1468)

Pope Paul III (born 1468)

Pope Paul III was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 October 1534 to his death, in November 1549.
1444 Władysław III of Poland (born 1424)

Władysław III of Poland (born 1424)

Władysław III of Poland, also known as Ladislaus of Varna, was King of Poland and Supreme Duke of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1434, as well as King of Hungary and Croatia as Vladislaus I from 1440 until his presumed death at the Battle of Varna. He was the eldest son of Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) by his fourth wife, Lithuanian noblewoman Sophia of Halshany.
2015 Allen Toussaint

Allen Toussaint

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1938)
Allen Richard Toussaint was an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music's great backroom figures." Many musicians recorded Toussaint's compositions.
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He was a producer for hundreds of recordings: the best known are "Right Place, Wrong Time", by longtime friend Dr. John, and "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle.
2003 Canaan Banana

Canaan Banana

Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (born 1936)
Canaan Sodindo Banana was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987. He was Zimbabwe's first head of state, a ceremonial president, after the Lancaster House Agreement that led to the country's independence. In 1987, he stepped down as president and was succeeded by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, who became the country's executive president.
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In 1997, Banana was accused of being a homosexual, and after a highly publicised trial, was convicted of 11 counts of sodomy and "unnatural acts", serving six months in prison.
474 Leo II

Leo II

Byzantine emperor (born 467)
Leo II, called the Younger, briefly reigned as a child emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire from 473 to 474. He was the son of Zeno, the Isaurian general and future emperor, and Ariadne, a daughter of the emperor Leo I. Leo II was made co-emperor with his grandfather Leo I on 17 November 473, and became sole emperor on 18 January 474 after Leo I died of dysentery.
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His father Zeno was made co-emperor by the Byzantine Senate on 29 January, and they co-ruled for a short time before Leo II died in late 474. He is sometimes surnamed with the epithet "the Small", probably to distinguish him from his grandfather and augustus Leo I.
1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Nigerian author and activist (born 1941)
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist. He was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in the Niger Delta whose homeland, Ogoniland, has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.
1624 Henry Wriothesley

Henry Wriothesley

3rd Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (born 1573)
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,, was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary Browne, daughter of the 1st Viscount Montagu. William Shakespeare's two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, were dedicated to Southampton, who is frequently identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
1991 William Afflis

William Afflis

American football player and wrestler (born 1929)
William Fritz Afflis Jr. was an American professional wrestler, promoter, and National Football League player, better known by his ring name, Dick the Bruiser. During his NFL days he played four seasons with the Green Bay Packers.
2006 Diana Coupland

Diana Coupland

English actress and singer (born 1932)
Diana Betty Miller was an English actress and singer, best remembered for her role, which she played from 1971 to 1976, in the sitcom Bless This House, as Jean Abbott, wife of Sid James's character Sid.
1808 Guy Carleton

Guy Carleton

1st Baron Dorchester, Irish-born English general and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (born 1724)
General Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester,, known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He twice served as governor of the Province of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of the Canadas in that time, and again from 1785 to 1795. The title Baron Dorchester was created on 21 August 1786.
1994 Carmen McRae

Carmen McRae

American singer, pianist, and actress (born 1920)
Carmen Mercedes McRae was an American jazz singer. She is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century and is remembered for her behind-the-beat phrasing and ironic interpretation of lyrics.
2008 Kiyosi Itô

Kiyosi Itô

Japanese mathematician and academic (born 1915)
Kiyosi Itô was a Japanese mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, in particular, the theory of stochastic processes. He invented the concept of stochastic integral and stochastic differential equation, and is known as the founder of so-called Itô calculus. He also pioneered the connections between stochastic calculus and differential geometry, known as stochastic differential geometry.
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He was invited for the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm in 1962. So much were Itô's results useful to financial mathematics that he was sometimes called "the most famous Japanese in Wall Street".
2015 Gene Amdahl

Gene Amdahl

American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation (born 1922)
Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing.
1963 Klára Dán von Neumann

Klára Dán von Neumann

Hungarian-American computer scientist (born 1911)
Klára Dán von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, self-taught engineer and computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first woman to execute modern-style code on a computer. Dán made significant contributions to the world of programming, including work on the Monte Carlo method, ENIAC, and MANIAC I.
1928 Anita Berber

Anita Berber

German dancer (born 1899)
Anita Berber was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the time of the Weimar Republic.
1777 Cornstalk

Cornstalk

American tribal chief (born 1720)
Cornstalk was a Shawnee leader in the Ohio Country in the 1760s and 1770s. His name in the Shawnee language was Hokoleskwa. Little is known about his early life.
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He may have been born in the Province of Pennsylvania. In 1763, he reportedly led a raid against British American colonists in Pontiac's War. He first appears in historical documents in 1764, when he was one of the hostages surrendered to the British as part of the peace negotiations ending Pontiac's War.
1673 Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki

Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki

King of Poland (born 1640)
Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, also known as Michał Tomasz Wiśniowiecki, and under a regal name Michael, was the ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 29 September 1669 until his death in 1673.
2003 Irv Kupcinet

Irv Kupcinet

American journalist and talk show host (born 1912)
Irving Kupcinet was an American newspaper columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, television talk-show host, and radio personality based in Chicago, Illinois. He was popularly known by the nickname "Kup".
2000 Jacques Chaban-Delmas

Jacques Chaban-Delmas

French general and politician, 153rd Prime Minister of France (born 1915)
Jacques Chaban-Delmas was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. He was the Mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 to 1995 and a deputy for the Gironde département between 1946 and 1997.
2020 Saeb Erekat

Saeb Erekat

Chief Palestinian negotiator (born 1955)
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the secretary general of the executive committee of the PLO from 2015 until his death in 2020. He served as chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February 2011. He participated in early negotiations with Israel and remained chief negotiator from 1995 until May 2003, when he resigned in protest from the Palestinian government.
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He reconciled with the party and was reappointed to the post in September 2003. Erekat died in the Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem of complications from COVID-19 on 10 November 2020, at the age of 65.
1869 John E. Wool

John E. Wool

American general (born 1784)
John Ellis Wool was an American military officer in the United States Army during three consecutive American-involved wars: the War of 1812 (1812–1815), the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), and with allegiance to the Union in the American Civil War (1861–1865). He also participated in the American Indian Wars and the Trail of Tears, that resulted in Indian tribes being forcefully marched westward in the 1830s from the Southeast US beyond the Mississippi River into the newly established Indian Territory. By the 1840s, he was widely considered one of the most capable officers in the United States Army and an excellent organizer.
1873 Maria Jane Williams

Maria Jane Williams

Welsh musician and folklorist (born circa 1794)
Maria Jane Williams was a 19th-century Welsh musician and folklorist born at Aberpergwm House, Glynneath in the historic county of Glamorganshire, South Wales. She was the second daughter of Rees Williams of Aberpergwm in the Vale of Neath and Ann Jenkins of Fforest, Ystradfellte and the sister of William Williams, her eldest briother, who was the first to suggest the formation of a Welsh Manuscripts Society. From an early age Williams displayed she displayed an extraordinary talent for music.
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She won several Eisteddfodic prizes. However, perhaps she is most highly regarded for her book The Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg which rescued many Welsh songs from obscurity, including Y Deryn Pur and Y Ferch o'r Sger .
1986 Rogelio de la Rosa

Rogelio de la Rosa

Filipino actor and politician (born 1916)
Regidor Lim de la Rosa, professionally known as Rogelio de la Rosa, was a Filipino actor and politician. He was often named the greatest Filipino matinee idol of all time. He is also remembered for his statesmanship, and in particular, for his accomplishments as a diplomat.
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Elected to the Philippine Senate from 1957 to 1963, he was the first Filipino film actor to parlay his fame into a substantial political career, paving the way for future Filipino entertainers-turned-politicians.
1990 Aurelio Monteagudo

Aurelio Monteagudo

Cuban baseball player and manager (born 1943)
Aurelio Faustino Monteagudo Cintra, nicknamed "Monty", was a Cuban right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for parts of seven seasons with the Kansas City Athletics, Houston Astros, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, and California Angels. He played Minor League Baseball during the course of 14 seasons, played in the Mexican Baseball League from 1974 to 1981, and played winter league baseball in Venezuela for 20 seasons. Monteagudo managed and coached in the minor leagues, principally in the California Angels' farm system, and in the Mexican Baseball League and Venezuelan winter ball.
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He was the son of former MLB player René Monteagudo.
1293 Isabella de Forz

Isabella de Forz

Countess of Devon (born 1237)
Isabel de Forz was the eldest daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon (1217–1245). On the death of her brother Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon, in 1262, without children, she inherited suo jure the earldom and also the feudal barony of Plympton in Devon, and the lordship of the Isle of Wight. After the early death of her husband and her brother, before she was thirty years old, she inherited their estates and became one of the richest women in England, living mainly in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, which she held from the king as tenant-in-chief.
1971 Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

American author and academic (born 1909)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and educator. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century, and was the first inductee into the 'Nevada Writers Hall of Fame' in 1988, together with Robert Laxalt, Clark's mentee and Nevada's other heralded twentieth century author. Two of Clark's novels, The Ox-Bow Incident and The Track of the Cat, were made into films.
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As a writer, Clark taught himself to use the familiar materials of the western saga to explore the human psyche and to raise deep philosophical issues.
2006 Jack Williamson

Jack Williamson

American author, critic, and academic (born 1908)
John Stewart Williamson was an American science fiction writer, one of several called the "Dean of Science Fiction". He is also credited with one of the first uses of the term genetic engineering. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O.
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Sonderlund.
1290 Al-Mansur Qalawun

Al-Mansur Qalawun

Sultan of Egypt (born c. 1222)
Qalāwūn aṣ-Ṣāliḥī was the seventh Turkic Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt; he ruled from 1279 to 1290. He was called al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn. After having risen in power in the Mamluk court and elite circles, Qalawun eventually held the title of "the victorious king" and gained de facto authority over the sultanate.
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He is the founder of the Qalawunid dynasty that ruled Egypt for over a century.
2007 Augustus F. Hawkins

Augustus F. Hawkins

American engineer and politician (born 1907)
Augustus Freeman Hawkins was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served in the California State Assembly from 1935 to 1963 and the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1991. Over the course of his career, Hawkins authored more than 300 state and federal laws, the most famous of which are Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act.
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He was known as the "silent warrior" for his commitment to education and ending unemployment.
2004 Şeref Görkey

Şeref Görkey

Turkish footballer and manager (born 1913)
Şeref Görkey was a Turkish footballer and manager who mainly served Turkish side Beşiktaş throughout his career. Nicknamed Voleci Şeref, literally meaning "Şeref the Volley Scorer", due to his tally of scoring 99 goals of volley shots during his career, Görkey wore number 10 shirt whilst his entire spell at Beşiktaş. He was also part of Turkey's squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.
2011 Ivan Martin Jirous

Ivan Martin Jirous

Czech poet (born 1944)
Ivan Martin Jirous was a Czech poet and dissident, best known as the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe, and later one of the key figures of the Czech underground during the communist regime. He is more frequently known as Magor, which can be roughly translated as "shithead", "loony", or "fool", a nickname given to him by the experimental poet Eugen Brikcius.
2008 Wannes Van de Velde

Wannes Van de Velde

Belgian singer and poet (born 1937)
Wannes Van de Velde, born Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde, in Antwerp, was a Flemish folk singer, guitarist, musician, poet, puppeteer and artist. He is most famous for his songs Ik Wil deze Nacht in de Straten Verdwalen (1973), Mijn Mansarde and De Brug van Willebroek (1990). His work is often categorized as kleinkunst.
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Van de Velde was known for singing in his local dialect.
2012 John Louis Coffey

John Louis Coffey

American lawyer and judge (born 1922)
John Louis Coffey was an American lawyer and jurist from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He served as a judge of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals from 1982 until his death, taking senior status in 2004.
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Prior to his federal appointment, he served four years as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and 16 years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Milwaukee County.
1852 Gideon Mantell

Gideon Mantell

English scientist (born 1790)
Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Mantell's work on the Cretaceous of southern England was also important.
2000 Adamantios Androutsopoulos

Adamantios Androutsopoulos

Greek lawyer and politician, 171st Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)
Adamantios Androutsopoulos was a lawyer and professor. He held various ministerial posts under the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 and was finally appointed interim Prime Minister of Greece from 1973 to 1974 by junta strongman Dimitrios Ioannides. He was the last Prime Minister appointed under the junta before the 1974 general election that marked a return to civilian rule.
948

Zhao Yanshou

Chinese general and governor
Zhao Yanshou, né Liu Yanshou (劉延壽), formally the Prince of Wei (魏王), was a Chinese military general, monarch, poet, and politician. He served as major general of Later Tang of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, as well as the Khitan Liao dynasty. He first became prominent as a son-in-law of Later Tang's second emperor Li Siyuan, but was captured by Liao's Emperor Taizong when Later Tang fell.
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He subsequently served Emperor Taizong, who promised him that he would be made the emperor of China if helped Emperor Taizong destroy Later Tang's successor state Later Jin. Emperor Taizong reneged on the promise after doing so, however, leading to Zhao's attempt to seize Liao's Chinese territory after Emperor Taizong's death. He was, however, arrested by Emperor Taizong's nephew and successor Emperor Shizong and held until his death.
2021 Miroslav Žbirka

Miroslav Žbirka

Slovak singer, songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)
Miroslav "Miro" Žbirka was a Slovak pop and rock singer and songwriter, widely popular in 1980s Czechoslovakia. Born in Bratislava to a Slovak father and an English mother, he sang in Slovak, English, and Czech. He sometimes recorded in London, but lived in Slovakia and since early 1990s in Prague, Czech Republic, where he died.
2014 Wayne Goss

Wayne Goss

Australian lawyer and politician, 34th Premier of Queensland (born 1951)
Wayne Keith Goss was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996, becoming the first Labor Premier of the state in over 32 years. Prior to entering politics, Goss was a solicitor, and after leaving politics he served as chairman of the Queensland Art Gallery and chairman of Deloitte Australia.
1987 Noor Hossain

Noor Hossain

Bangladeshi activist (born 1961)
Noor Hossain was a Bangladeshi activist who was killed by the police on 10 November 1987, while protesting against Ershad administration near Zero Point, Dhaka. Zero Point was later renamed as Noor Hossain Square and the anniversary of his death is officially commemorated each year as the Noor Hossain Day.
2011 Killer Karl Kox

Killer Karl Kox

American professional wrestler (born 1931)
Herbert Alan Gerwig was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Killer Karl Kox. Kox competed in the National Wrestling Alliance as well as international promotions such as All Japan Pro Wrestling, the International Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling during the 1960s and 1970s.
2006 Nadarajah Raviraj

Nadarajah Raviraj

Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1962)
Nadarajah Raviraj was a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Jaffna in 2001 and a Member of Parliament for Jaffna District from 2001 to 2006. A member of the Tamil National Alliance, he was shot dead on 10 November 2006 in Colombo.
1887 Louis Lingg

Louis Lingg

German-American carpenter and activist (born 1864)
Louis Lingg was a German-born American anarchist who was convicted as a member of the criminal conspiracy behind the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing. Lingg was sentenced to die by hanging, but shortly before his execution, he committed suicide in his cell using an explosive.
1984 Xavier Herbert

Xavier Herbert

Australian author (born 1901)
Xavier Herbert was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country (1975). He was considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature. He is also known for short story collections and his autobiography Disturbing Element.
2015 Pat Eddery

Pat Eddery

Irish jockey and trainer (born 1952)
Patrick James John Eddery was an Irish flat racing jockey and trainer. He rode three winners of the Derby and was Champion Jockey on eleven occasions. He rode the winners of 4,632 British flat races, a figure exceeded only by Sir Gordon Richards.
1068 Agnes of Burgundy

Agnes of Burgundy

Duchess of Aquitaine, regent of Aquitaine
Agnes of Burgundy was Duchess of Aquitaine by marriage to Duke William V and Countess of Anjou by marriage to Count Geoffrey II. She served as regent of the Duchy of Aquitaine during the minority of her son from 1039 until 1044.
1187

Guðrøðr Óláfsson

King of the Isles
Guðrøðr Óláfsson, often known in English as Godred Olafsson, was a twelfth-century ruler of the kingdoms of Dublin and the Isles. Guðrøðr was a son of Óláfr Guðrøðarson and Affraic, daughter of Fergus, Lord of Galloway. Throughout his career, Guðrøðr battled rival claimants to the throne, permanently losing about half of his realm to a rival dynasty in the process.
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Although dethroned for nearly a decade, Guðrøðr clawed his way back to regain control of a partitioned kingdom, and proceeded to project power into Ireland. Although originally opposed to the English invasion of Ireland, Guðrøðr adeptly recognised the English ascendancy in the Irish Sea region and aligned himself with the English. All later kings of the Crovan dynasty descended from Guðrøðr.
1728 Fyodor Apraksin

Fyodor Apraksin

Russian admiral (born 1661)
Count Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin was one of the first Russian admirals, governed Estonia and Karelia from 1712 to 1723, was made general admiral (1708), presided over the Russian Admiralty from 1717 to 1728 and commanded the Baltic Fleet from 1723.
2014 Al Renfrew

Al Renfrew

American ice hockey player and coach (born 1924)
Allan McNab Renfrew was a hockey player at the University of Michigan in the late 1940s and a college hockey coach with Michigan Technological University (1951–1956), the University of North Dakota (1956–1957), and the University of Michigan (1957–1973). Renfrew had a storied career as a player, coach and administrator at the University of Michigan, including NCAA championships as both a player and coach. He was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1986.
1986 Gordon Richards

Gordon Richards

English jockey and manager (born 1904)
Sir Gordon Richards was an English jockey who was the champion jockey 26 times. He is often considered one of the world's greatest jockeys. He remains the only flat jockey to have received a knighthood.
1241 Pope Celestine IV

Pope Celestine IV

Pope Celestine IV, born Goffredo da Castiglione or Goffredo Castiglioni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 October 1241 to his death on 10 November 1241.
2011 Peter J. Biondi

Peter J. Biondi

American soldier and politician (born 1942)
Peter J. "Pete" Biondi was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 until his death in 2011, where he represented the 16th Legislative District.
1644 Luis Vélez de Guevara

Luis Vélez de Guevara

Spanish author and playwright (born 1579)
Luis Vélez de Guevara was a Spanish dramatist and novelist of the Spanish Golden Age. He wrote over 400 plays and is best known for his novel El diablo cojuelo (1641).
2013 Vijaydan Detha

Vijaydan Detha

Indian author (born 1926)
Vijaydan Detha, also known as Bijji, was an Indian writer of Rajasthani literature. He was a recipient of several awards including the Padma Shri and the Sahitya Akademi Award.
2012 Piet van Zeil

Piet van Zeil

Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs (born 1927)
Petrus Hendrikus "Piet" van Zeil was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and trade union leader.
1299 John I

John I

Count of Holland (born 1284)
John I was Count of Holland and Zeeland as son of Count Floris V. John inherited the county in 1296 after the murder of his father.
2014 John Hans Krebs

John Hans Krebs

American lawyer and politician (born 1926)
John Hans Krebs was an Israeli-American politician and attorney who served two terms as a U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district from 1975 to 1979.
1941 Carrie Derick

Carrie Derick

Canadian botanist and geneticist (born 1862)
Carrie Matilda Derick was a Canadian botanist and geneticist, the first woman professor in a Canadian university, and the founder of McGill University's genetics department.
1727

Alphonse de Tonty

French-American sailor and explorer (born 1659)
Pierre Alphonse de Tonty, Alfonso de Tonti, or Alphonse de Tonty, Baron de Paludy was an officer who served under the French explorer Cadillac and helped establish the first European settlement at Detroit, Michigan, Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit on the Detroit River in 1701. Several months later, both Cadillac and Tonty brought their wives to the fort, making them the first European women to travel so deep into the new territory.
2004

Katy de la Cruz

Filipino-American singer and actress (born 1907)
Katy de la Cruz was a leading Filipina singer who specialized in jazz vocals and torch songs in a long career that lasted eight decades. Hailed as "The Queen of Filipino Jazz" and as "The Queen of Bodabil", she was, by the age of 18, the highest paid entertainer in the Philippines. De la Cruz also appeared in films and received a FAMAS Best Supporting Actress Award in 1953.
2014

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

American surfer and physician (born 1921)
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz was an American surfer and physician, who gave up practicing medicine for a living and decided to become a professional surfer. In 1972, he founded a surf camp run by his family, where campers could live alongside and surf with members of the Paskowitz family. He and his family have been referred to as the "First Family of Surfing".
1066

John Scotus

bishop of Mecklenburg
John Scotus was a Bishop of Mecklenburg from Scotland. It is likely this John can be identified as the John who was allegedly made Bishop of Glasgow sometime between 1055 and 1060 and possibly the same John allegedly holding the title of Bishop of Orkney.
2013

John Grant

Australian neurosurgeon (born 1922)
John MacDonald Falconar Grant, AO, OBE was an Australian neurosurgeon and disability sport administrator. He was president of the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games Organising Committee. He played a leading role in the development of disability sport in Australia.
1962

Julius Lenhart

Austrian gymnast and engineer (born 1875)
Julius Lenhart was an Austrian gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He won two gold medals and one silver medal, making him the most successful Austrian competitor ever at the Summer Olympic Games.
1982

Helen Sharsmith

American biologist and educator (b. 1905)
Helen Katherine Meyers Sharsmith was an American biologist and educator. She was one of the first women botanists at the University of California and is recognized for her contributions to botanical research there.
2014

Josip Boljkovac

Croatian soldier and politician, 1st Croatia Minister of the Interior (born 1920)
Josip Boljkovac was a Croatian politician who served as the first Minister of Internal Affairs in the Croatian Government, thus being one of the closest associates of former President Franjo Tudjman.
901

Adelaide of Paris (born 850)

Adélaïde of Paris (Aélis) was a Frankish queen. She was the second wife of Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia and mother of Charles the Simple.
1944

Claude Rodier

physicist (born 1903)
Claude Rodier was a physicist, teacher and staff sergeant in the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR), part of the French Resistance in Auvergne, France.
1956

Gordon MacQuarrie

American author and journalist (born 1900)
Gordon MacQuarrie was an American writer and journalist. Born in Superior, Wisconsin, he is best known for his short stories involving hunting and fishing, and for his semi-fictional organization known as The Old Duck Hunters' Association, Inc.( ODHA, Inc.)
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He died unexpectedly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin of a heart attack.
461 Pope Leo I

Pope Leo I

Pope Leo I, also known as Leo the Great, was Bishop of Rome from 29 September 440 until his death on 10 November 461.
1258

William de Bondington

Bishop of Glasgow
William de Bondington was a 13th-century Chancellor of Scotland and a bishop of Glasgow.
1556 Richard Chancellor

Richard Chancellor

English explorer(born c. 1521)
Richard Chancellor was an English explorer and navigator; the first to penetrate to the White Sea and establish relations with the Tsardom of Russia.
1608 Andrew Avellino

Andrew Avellino

Sicilian Theatine priest and saint
Andrew (Andrea) Avellino (1521 – 10 November 1608) was an Italian Theatine priest. He is venerated as the patron saint of Naples and Sicily and invoked especially against a sudden death. He led a life busy in preaching, hearing confessions, and visiting the sick, and writing.
1617

Barnabe Rich

English soldier and author (born 1540)
Barnabe Rich was an English writer and soldier, and a distant relative of Lord Chancellor Rich.
1675 Leopoldo de' Medici

Leopoldo de' Medici

Italian cardinal, scholar, patron of the arts and Governor of Siena (1617-1675)
Leopoldo de' Medici (6 November 1617 – 10 November 1675) was an Italian cardinal, scholar, patron of the arts and Governor of Siena. He was the brother of Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
1683 Robert Morison

Robert Morison

British botanist (1620-1683)
Robert Morison (1620 – 10 November 1683) was a Scottish botanist and taxonomist. A forerunner of John Ray, he elucidated and developed the first systematic classification of plants.
1698 John George II of Saxe-Eisenach

John George II of Saxe-Eisenach

German duke
Johann Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (24 July 1665 – 10 November 1698), ruled as duke of Saxe-Eisenach from 1686 to 1698. Born in Friedewald, he was the second son of Johann Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach and Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein. The death of his older brother, Frederick August, who was killed in battle in 1684, made him the new heir of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.
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Two years later (1686), Johann Georg succeeded his father when he died. In Kirchheim unter Teck on 20 September 1688 Johann Georg married with Sophie Charlotte of Württemberg. This union was childless. When his cousin, the young Duke Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Jena died (1690) Johann Georg inherited a part of his duchy, because he was compelled to make a divisionary treaty with the Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, his other cousin and brother-in-law of the late duke. Johann Georg died suddenly of smallpox in Eisenach, and was succeeded by his brother, Johann Wilhelm.
1705 Justine Siegemund

Justine Siegemund

German midwife who wrote a book on midwifery
Justine Siegemund, or Siegemundin, (born Justine Diettrich; 26 December 1636 – 10 November 1705) was a Silesian midwife. Her obstetrical book, The Court Midwife (1690), was the first German medical text written by a woman.
1707

Joseph I (Chaldean Catholic patriarch)

Chaldean Patriarch
Joseph I was the first incumbent of the Josephite line of Church of the East, thus being considered the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1681 to 1696.
1763 Joseph François Dupleix

Joseph François Dupleix

Governor of French India
Joseph François Dupleix (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf fʁɑ̃swa dyplɛks]; Unknown – 10 November 1763) was Governor-General of French India and rival of Robert Clive.
1772

Pedro Correia Garção

Portuguese poet and author (born 1724)
Pedro António Joaquim Correia da Serra Garção was a Portuguese lyric poet.
1779 Joseph Hewes

Joseph Hewes

signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (1730-1779)
Joseph Hewes (July 9, 1730– November 10, 1779) was an American Founding Father and a signer of the Continental Association and U.S. Declaration of Independence. Hewes was a native of Princeton, New Jersey, where he was born in 1730.
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His parents were members of the Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers. Early biographies of Hewes falsely claim that his parents came from Connecticut. Hewes may have attended the College of New Jersey, known today as Princeton University but there is no record of his attendance. He did, in all probability, attend the grammar school set up by the Stonybrook Quaker Meeting near Princeton.
1789 Richard Caswell

Richard Caswell

1st and 5th governor of North Carolina 1729-1789
Richard Caswell (August 3, 1729 – November 10, 1789) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first and fifth governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780 and from 1785 to 1787. He also served as a senior officer of militia in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. As a delegate to the First Continental Congress, he was a signatory of the 1774 Continental Association.
1793 Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière

Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière

French politician (1734-1793)
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi ʁɔlɑ̃ də la platjɛʁ]; 18 February 1734 – 10 November 1793) was a French inspector of manufactures in Lyon and became a leader of the Girondist faction in the French Revolution, largely influenced in this direction by his wife, Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière. He served as a minister of the interior in King Louis XVI's government in 1792.
1806 Charles William Ferdinand

Charles William Ferdinand

Duke of Brunswick, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Charles William Ferdinand (German: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand; 9 October 1735 – 10 November 1806) was the ruling prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, hereditary duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a military leader. His titles are usually shortened to Duke of Brunswick in English-language sources. He succeeded his father as sovereign prince of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, one of the princely states of the Holy Roman Empire.
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The duke was a cultured and benevolent despot in the model of his uncle, Frederick the Great, and was married to Princess Augusta, the eldest sister of George III of Great Britain. He was also a recognized master of 18th-century warfare, serving as a field marshal in the Prussian Army. He played a notable role in the French Revolutionary Wars by issuing the Brunswick Manifesto. During the Napoleonic Wars, he was mortally wounded by a musket ball at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt in 1806.
1827 St. George Tucker

St. George Tucker

American lawyer and judge (1752-1827)
St. George Tucker (July 10, 1752 – November 10, 1827) was a Bermudian-born American lawyer, military officer and professor who taught law at the College of William & Mary. He strengthened the requirements for a law degree at the college, as he believed lawyers needed deep educations. He served as a judge of the General Court of Virginia and later on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (now the Supreme Court of Virginia).
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Following the American Revolutionary War, Tucker supported the gradual emancipation of slaves, which he proposed to the state legislature in a pamphlet published in 1796. He wrote an American edition of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England that became a valuable reference work for many American lawyers and law students in the early 19th century. President James Madison in 1813 appointed Tucker as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia, later serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Many of his descendants became notable lawyers, professors and politicians.
1839

Charles Bretagne Marie de La Trémoille

9th Duke of Thouars, French noble (1764-1839)
Charles Bretagne Marie de La Trémoille, 9th Duke of Thouars (24 March 1764 – 10 November 1839), 9th Duke of Thouars, 7th Duke of La Trémoïlle, 10th prince de Tarente, 14th prince of Talmond and 14th Count of Laval, was a French aristocrat and soldier; he was the son of Jean Bretagne Charles de La Trémoille and his wife Princess Marie Maximilienne of Salm-Kyrburg.
1850 Phineas Riall

Phineas Riall

British Army general
General Sir Phineas Riall, KCH (15 December 1775 – 10 November 1850) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant governor of Grenada from 1816 until 1823. He is best known for serving in the War of 1812, where Riall was captured at the Battle of Lundy's Lane.
1856 Johann Kaspar Zeuss

Johann Kaspar Zeuss

German linguist (1806–1856)
Johann Kaspar Zeuss (or Zeuß, 22 July 1806 – 10 November 1856) was a German historian and founder of Celtic philology. He is credited with demonstrating that the Celtic languages belong to the Indo-European group.
1861 Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

French zoologist (1805-1861)
Bélanger, Charles (1834). "Section IV. Carnassiers".
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In Bertrand, Arthus (ed.). Voyage aux Indes-orientales, par le nord de l'Europe (in French). A. Bertrand. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (French pronunciation: [izidɔʁ ʒɔfʁwa sɛ̃t‿ilɛʁ]; 16 December 1805 – 10 November 1861) was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. In 1854 he coined the term éthologie (ethology).
1876 Etelka Szapáry

Etelka Szapáry

Hungarian noblewoman (1798–1876)
Countess Etelka (Adelhaid) Szapáry de Szapár, Muraszombat et Széchy-Sziget (26 September 1798 – 10 November 1876) was a Hungarian noblewoman and a landowner.
1887 Gibson Atherton

Gibson Atherton

judge (1831–1887)
Gibson Atherton (January 19, 1831 – November 10, 1887) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1879 to 1883.
1887 Pehr Arvid Säve

Pehr Arvid Säve

Swedish teacher (1811–1887)
Pehr Magnus Arvid Säve (19 April 1811 – 10 November 1887) was a Swedish teacher, cultural historian and artist. He was the initiator of the Gotlands Fornvänner society and Gotland Museum.
1888 George Bingham

George Bingham

3rd Earl of Lucan, British Army officer (1800-1888)
George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, (16 April 1800 – 10 November 1888), styled Lord Bingham before 1839, was an Anglo-Irish peer and military officer. He was one of three men, along with Louis Nolan and Lord Raglan, responsible for the fateful order during the Battle of Balaclava in October 1854 that led to the Light Brigade commander, the Earl of Cardigan, leading the Charge of the Light Brigade. He was subsequently promoted to field marshal.
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He was a ruthless landlord during the Great Famine in Ireland, evicting thousands of his tenants and renting his land to wealthy ranchers. He also came up with a solution that allowed Jews to sit in Parliament.
1900 Armand David

Armand David

French Catholic priest, zoologist, and botanist (1826–1900)
Armand David, CM (7 September 1826, Espelette – 10 November 1900, Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist from the French Basque Country. Several species, such as Père David's deer, are named after him, with Père David being French for Father David.
1904 Rose Montmasson

Rose Montmasson

Italian patriot (1823-1904)
Rose Montmasson (January 12, 1823 – November 10, 1904), also known as Rosalia Montmasson, was an Italian patriot. Born in Savoy, Montmasson contributed to the unification of Italy and was notably the only woman to openly participate in Giuseppe Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand, both as a nurse and as a soldier.
1909 George Essex Evans

George Essex Evans

Australian poet and educator (born 1863)
George Essex Evans was an Australian poet.
1912 Louis Cyr

Louis Cyr

Canadian strength athlete (1863-1912)
Louis Cyr (French pronunciation: [lwi siʁ]; born Cyprien-Noé Cyr; October 10, 1863 – November 10, 1912) was a Canadian strongman. In his career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries he performed feats of strength such as lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with one finger and backlifting 4,337 pounds (1,967 kg), which inspired former International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation chairman Ben Weider to declare in 2000 that Cyr is the strongest man ever. Since his strength was so far above and beyond the ordinary during his time, he and his contemporary Louis 'Apollon' Uni were collectively called the 'Kings of Strength'.
1912 Ramón Corral

Ramón Corral

Vice President of Mexico 1904-1910
Ramón Corral Verdugo (January 10, 1854 – November 10, 1912) was a Mexican politician who served as the Vice President of Mexico under President Porfirio Díaz from 1904 when it was reestablished until their resignations in May 1911, due to mounting pressure from Liberal forces during the Mexican Revolution. He previously served as Governor of the Federal District and Secretary of the Interior.
1915 James Richardson Spensley

James Richardson Spensley

English footballer (1867-1915)
James Richardson Spensley (17 May 1867 – 10 November 1915) was an English medical doctor, footballer, manager, scout leader and medic from Stoke Newington, London. He is considered to be one of the "Fathers of Italian football", due to his association with Genoa CFC and his contribution to the modern day variation of the game in Italy and of Italian scouting.
1924 Lola Rodríguez de Tió

Lola Rodríguez de Tió

Puerto Rican poet and writer (1843-1924)
Lola Rodríguez de Tió (September 14, 1843 – November 10, 1924) was a Puerto Rican woman who established herself a reputation as a great poet throughout all of Latin America. A believer in women's rights, she was also committed to the abolition of slavery and the independence of Puerto Rico.
1931 Charlotte Scott

Charlotte Scott

English mathematician (1858–1931)
Charlotte Angas Scott (8 June 1858 – 10 November 1931) was a British mathematician who made her career in the United States; she was influential in the development of American mathematics, including the mathematical education of women. Scott played an important role in Cambridge changing the rules for its famous Mathematical Tripos exam.
1936 Louis Gustave Binger

Louis Gustave Binger

French general and explorer (born 1856)
Louis-Gustave Binger was a French officer and explorer who claimed the Côte d'Ivoire for France.
1937 Lev Shubnikov

Lev Shubnikov

Russian physicist (1901–1937)
Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov (Russian: Лев Васи́льевич Шу́бников, Ukrainian: Лев Васильович Шубников; 29 September 1901 – 10 November 1937) was a Soviet experimental physicist who worked in the Netherlands and USSR. He has been referred as 'the founding father of Soviet low-temperature physics'. He is known for the discovery of the Shubnikov–de Haas effect and type-II superconductivity.
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He also one of the first to discover antiferromagnetism. In 1937, he was executed during the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute Affair on the basis of falsified charges as part of the Great Purge.
1939 Charlotte Despard

Charlotte Despard

Anglo-Irish suffragist (1844-1939)
Charlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 – 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist. She was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League, the Women's Peace Crusade, and the Irish Women's Franchise League, and an activist in a wide range of political organizations over the course of her life, including among others the Women's Social and Political Union, Humanitarian League, Labour Party, Cumann na mBan, and the Communist Party of Great Britain. Despard was imprisoned four times for her suffragette activism, and she continued campaigning for women's rights, poverty relief and world peace into her 90s.
1943 Eduard Müller (martyr)

Eduard Müller (martyr)

German Catholic priest and Lübeck martyr (1911–1943)
Eduard Müller (20 August 1911 – 10 November 1943) was a German Catholic priest and martyr. He was guillotined in a Hamburg prison by the Nazi authorities in November 1943, along with the three other Lübeck martyrs. Müller was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011.
1944

Barthel Schink

Nazi resister from Germany
Bartholomäus (Barthel) Schink (German: [ˈbaʁtl̩ ˈʃɪŋk] ; November 27, 1927 – November 10, 1944) was a member of the Edelweiss Pirates, active in the Ehrenfeld Group (Ehrenfeld is a district of Cologne) in Cologne, which resisted the Nazi regime. He was among the 13 people who were publicly hanged in Cologne by the Gestapo on 10 November 1944, on special orders from Gestapo leader Heinrich Himmler. Although they were not tried, the group was accused of killing five people and planning an attack on the EL-DE Haus, the local Gestapo headquarters.
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The street where Schink was hanged, next to the Ehrenfeld railway station in the Ehrenfeld suburb of Cologne, used to be called the Hüttenstraße, until it was renamed after Schink in 1991. Yad Vashem recognized Barthel Schink as Righteous Among the Nations for risking his life to hide Jews from the Nazi persecution. There is a memorial plaque honoring the memory of all those killed from the Edelweiss Pirates and the Ehrenfeld Group.
1944 Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg

Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg

German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa (1875–1944)
Friedrich-Werner Erdmann Matthias Johann Bernhard Erich Graf von der Schulenburg (20 November 1875 – 10 November 1944) was a German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, during World War II. He began his diplomatic career before World War I, serving as consul and ambassador in several countries. After a prolonged conflict with the Nazi regime, he turned against the main Nazi Party and joined the conspiracy against Adolf Hitler.
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After the failed 20 July plot in 1944 to assassinate Hitler, Schulenburg was accused of being a co-conspirator and five months later executed. He was a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John, which was regarded with disfavour by the Nazis.
1946

Louis Zutter

Swiss gymnast (born 1856)
Jules Alexis "Louis" Zutter was a Swiss gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
1948 Julius Curtius

Julius Curtius

German politician (1877-1948)
Julius Curtius (7 February 1877 – 10 November 1948) was a German politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs (from January 1926 to December 1929) and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (from October/November 1929 to October 1931).
1954 Giuseppe Bruno (cardinal)

Giuseppe Bruno (cardinal)

Catholic cardinal (1875-1954)
Giuseppe Bruno (30 June 1875 – 10 November 1954) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Council and as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura.
1955 Mariano Latorre

Mariano Latorre

Chilean writer (1886-1955)
Mariano Lautaro Latorre Court (4 January 1886 – 10 November 1955) was a Chilean writer of Basque descent. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1944.
1956

Victor Young

American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor, orchestra leader (1900-1956)
Albert Victor Young (August 8, 1899– November 10, 1956) was an American composer, arranger, violinist, and conductor. He was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for Around the World in 80 Days at the 29th Academy Awards in 1957.
1965

Robert Cottrell-Hill

British Army general (1903–1965)
Major-General Robert Charles Cottrell-Hill (born Robert Charles Hill; 7 November 1903 – 10 November 1965) was Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.
1970 Hellmuth Heye

Hellmuth Heye

German admiral and politician (1895-1970)
Hellmuth Guido Alexander Heye (9 August 1895 – 10 November 1970) was a German admiral in World War II and politician in post-war Germany. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. He was the son of Wilhelm Heye.
1972 Olga Zhizneva

Olga Zhizneva

Soviet theatre and film actress (1899–1972)
Olga Andreyevna Zhizneva (Russian: Ольга Андреевна Жизнева; April 17, 1899 – November 10, 1972) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969).
1974

Günter von Drenkmann

German jurist and judge (1910-1974)
Günter von Drenkmann (November 9, 1910 – November 10, 1974) was a German lawyer. In 1967, he was appointed president of the Berlin district court ("Kammergericht"). The post was one that his grandfather had held between 1890 and 1904.
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He was killed by "2 June Movement" militants during a kidnapping attempt.
1974

Wolfgang Schadewaldt

German classical philologist, literary theorist and translator (1900–1974)
Wolfgang Schadewaldt (15 March 1900 in Berlin – 10 November 1974 in Tübingen) was a German classical philologist working mostly in the field of Greek philology and a translator. He also was a professor of University of Tübingen and University of Freiburg.
1976 Wout Buitenweg

Wout Buitenweg

Dutch footballer (1893-1976)
Wout Buitenweg (24 December 1893 – 10 November 1976) was a Dutch footballer who scored 14 goals in 11 games for the Dutch national side.
1978

Edward James Salisbury

British botanist, ecologist, university lecturer and director of Kew gardens (1886-1978)
Sir Edward James Salisbury CBE FRS (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978) was an English botanist and ecologist. He was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and graduated in botany from University College London in 1905. In 1913, he obtained a D.Sc. with a thesis on fossil seeds and was appointed a senior lecturer at East London College.
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He returned to University College London as a senior lecturer, from 1924 as a reader in plant ecology and from 1929 as Quain Professor of botany. Salisbury was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1943 to 1956. He was responsible for the restoration of the gardens after the Second World War. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 15 March 1933 and won the society's Royal Medal in 1945 for "his notable contributions to plant ecology and to the study of the British flora generally". In 1936, he was awarded The Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in acknowledgement of his book The Living Garden (1935), which was enormously popular. In 1939, he received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1946 he was knighted. At first, his research was focussed on forest ecology, particularly in his native Hertfordshire. Later, he pioneered investigations of seed size and reproductive output of plants in relation to habitat. He also investigated the ecology of garden weeds and of dune plants. He was elected President of the Sussex Wildlife Trust in January 1962, where he remained in office until April 1967.
1978

Theo Lingen

actor, film director, screenwriter (1903–1978)
Theo Lingen (German pronunciation: [ˈteːo ˈlɪŋən] ; 10 June 1903 – 10 November 1978), born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960.
1979 Pedro Geoffroy Rivas

Pedro Geoffroy Rivas

anthropologist, poet, and linguist (1908–1979)
Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (16 September 1908 - 10 November 1979) was an anthropologist, poet, and linguist. His poetic work marked a landmark in Salvadoran poetic development. A rebellious, individualistic poet, Rivas incorporated in his poetry the freedom to express himself openly without fear of ordinariness or anthropocentric turns.
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Rivas and Oswaldo Escobar Velado are known as the founders of the modern protest poetry of El Salvador. Rivas was a member of Mexican Communist Party and Salvadoran Communist Party in the 1930s. His work influenced Pablo Neruda.
1982 Elio Petri

Elio Petri

Italian filmmaker (1929–1982)
Eraclio Petri (29 January 1929 – 10 November 1982), commonly known as Elio Petri, was an Italian film and theatre director, screenwriter and film critic. The Museum of Modern Art described him as "one of the preeminent political and social satirists of 1960s and early 1970s Italian cinema". His film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, and his subsequent film The Working Class Goes to Heaven received the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
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Other noted films by Petri include The 10th Victim (1965), the prize-winning We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) and A Quiet Place in the Country (1968), and the controversially received Todo modo (1976).
1986

Ljubomir Magaš

Serbian criminal (1948–1986)
Ljubomir Magaš (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубомир Магаш; 27 May 1948 – 10 November 1986) was a Serbian amateur boxer, streetfighter and gangster. He was commonly known by his nickname Ljuba Zemunac (Serbian Cyrillic: Љуба Земунац, lit. 'Ljuba from Zemun').
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A three-time convicted rapist in Yugoslavia, Magaš rose to become a Yugoslav mafia crime boss and one of the most influential figures in the Frankfurt underworld during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986, he was murdered by rival gangster Goran Vuković.
1990 Mário Schenberg

Mário Schenberg

Brazilian physicist and academic (born 1914)
Mário Schenberg was a Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer.
1991 Gunnar Gren

Gunnar Gren

Swedish footballer (1920-1991)
Johan Gunnar Gren (pronounced [ˈɡɵ̌nːar ˈɡreːn]; 31 October 1920 – 10 November 1991) was a Swedish professional football player and coach. He is best remembered for playing for IFK Göteborg and AC Milan. A creative forward, known for his technical skill, vision, tactical intelligence, and passing ability as a playmaker, he was part of the famous "Gre-No-Li" trio of forwards at Milan and the Sweden national team.
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He was also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder, as an offensive–minded central midfielder, known as the mezzala role in Italian football jargon, or even as a striker. A full international between 1940 and 1958, he won 57 caps and scored 32 goals for the Sweden men's national team. He was a part of the Sweden team that won gold at the 1948 Summer Olympics, as well as the team that finished second at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. In 1946, he was awarded Guldbollen as Sweden's best footballer of the year. Gren is considered to be one of Sweden's greatest and most prolific football players; a statue has been erected in his honor outside Gamla Ullevi stadium.
1991

Marjorie Abbatt

English toy-maker and businesswoman (born 1899)
Marjorie Abbatt, née Norah Marjorie Cobb, was an English toy-maker and businesswoman.
1993 Alberto Breccia

Alberto Breccia

artist (1919–1993)
Alberto Breccia (April 15, 1919 – November 10, 1993) was a Uruguayan-born Argentine artist and cartoonist. His son Enrique Breccia and daughter Patricia Breccia are also comic book artists. Comic book author Frank Miller considers Breccia as one of his personal mentors, even declaring that (regarding modernity in comics): "it all started with Breccia".
1993 Paul Oßwald

Paul Oßwald

German football player and manager (1905–1993)
Paul Oßwald (4 February 1905 – 10 November 1993) was a German football player and manager. As manager of Eintracht Frankfurt he won the German championship in 1959.
1994 William Higinbotham

William Higinbotham

American physicist (1910–1994)
William Alfred Higinbotham (October 22, 1910 – November 10, 1994) was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. He also has a place in the history of video games for his 1958 creation of Tennis for Two, the first interactive analog computer game and one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.
1997

Annie Dodge Wauneka

Navajo Nation activist
Annie Dodge Wauneka (née Dodge; April 11, 1910 – November 10, 1997) was an influential member of the Navajo Nation as member of the Navajo Nation Council. As a member and three term head of the council's Health and Welfare Committee, she worked to improve the health and education of the Navajo. Wauneka is widely known for her countless efforts to improve health on the Navajo Nation, focusing mostly on the eradication of tuberculosis within her nation.
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She also authored a dictionary, in which translated English medical terms into the Navajo language. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 by Lyndon B. Johnson as well as the Indian Council Fire Achievement Award and the Navajo Medal of Honor. She also received an honorary doctorate in Humanities (public health) from the University of New Mexico. In 2000, Wauneka was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
1997 Ave Ninchi

Ave Ninchi

Italian actress (1915–1997)
Ave Maria Ninchi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaːve maˈriːa ˈniŋki]; 14 December 1914 – 10 November 1997) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included Tomorrow Is Too Late (1949) and Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Lacombe, Lucien (1974). Born in Ancona, Italy, Ninchi worked with some of Italy's top movie stars, including Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, and Gina Lollobrigida; her performances playing in duo with Aldo Fabrizi and Totò are considered particularly memorable. Her television career was at its peak during the 1960s and 1970s when she was appearing in some of Italy's top-rated series.
1997 Leon W. Johnson

Leon W. Johnson

United States Army Air Forces Medal of Honor recipient (1904–1997)
General Leon William Johnson (13 September 1904 – 10 November 1997) was a United States Air Force general who was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading the attack on the Ploesti oil fields during World War II. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Johnson was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry in 1926. He joined the United States Army Air Corps in 1929, and qualified as a pilot.
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He earned a Master of Science degree in meteorology from California Institute of Technology in 1936. During World War II, Johnson was one of the first four flying officers of the Eighth Air Force, and served on it staff during its formative period at Savannah, Georgia. In 1943, he assumed command of the 44th Bombardment Group, which flew the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Johnson led the attack on the German naval installations at Kiel in May 1943 and the attack on the Ploesti oil fields in August 1943, for which the 44th Bombardment Group received Distinguished Unit Citations. He commanded the 14th Combat Bombardment Wing from September 1943 until May 1945. After the war, Johnson commanded the Strategic Air Command's Fifteenth Air Force. He returned to England in 1948 to lead the 3rd Air Division, and then the Third Air Force, as it was redesignated in 1951. Despite his lowly rank of major general, he was able to hold his own in dealings with more senior British officers and officials, and performed his duties with diplomacy and sensitivity. He returned to the United States in 1952 as head of the Continental Air Command. He was air deputy to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, at SHAPE Headquarters from 1958 until he retired in 1961, but later that year he was recalled to active duty to become director of the National Security Council's Net Evaluation Subcommittee Staff at the Pentagon. He finally retired in 1965.
1997

Lloyd Cardwell

American football player and coach (1913-1997)
Lloyd Raymond Cardwell (April 19, 1913 – November 10, 1997) was an American professional football player and coach. He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions for seven seasons. He was drafted in the first round of the 1937 NFL Draft with the seventh overall pick.
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After his playing days, Cardwell was the head football coach at Omaha University—now known as the University of Nebraska Omaha from 1947 to 1959, compiling a record of 57–51. His 1954 team was undefeated and won the Tangerine Bowl. Cardwell also coached track and field at Omaha.
1997

Oliver McGregor

Baron McGregor of Durris, British sociologist and life peer (1921-1997)
Oliver Ross McGregor, Baron McGregor of Durris (25 August 1921 – 10 November 1997) was a British sociologist, social historian and public servant.
1997

Tommy Tedesco

American guitarist (1930–1997)
Thomas Joseph Tedesco (July 3, 1930 – November 10, 1997) was an American guitarist and studio musician in Los Angeles and Hollywood. He was part of the loose collective of the area's leading session musicians later popularly known as the Wrecking Crew, who played on thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits. Tedesco's playing credits include the theme from television's Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Vic Mizzy's theme from Green Acres, M*A*S*H, Batman, and Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special.
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He was shown on-camera in many game shows and comedies. He played ex-con guitarist Tommy Marinucci, a member of Happy Kyne's Mirth-Makers, in Fernwood 2 Night a talk-show spoof (1977–1978) and America 2-Night, a continuation of the series.
1998

Ellis Robinson (cricketer)

English county cricketer (1911-1998)
Ellis Pembroke Robinson (10 August 1911 – 10 November 1998) was an English first-class cricketer who took over 1,000 first-class wickets for Yorkshire from 1934 to 1949, and Somerset from 1950 to 1952.
1998

Gelena Velikanova

Soviet singer, actress, pedagogue (1923–1998)
Gelena Martselievna Velikanova (Russian: Гелена Марцелиевна Великановна, 27 February 1923 – 10 November 1998) was a Soviet traditional pop performer, who popular in the 1950s and 1960s and best remembered for her 1959 hit "Landyshi" (Lily of the Valley). She was honoured with the People's Artist of Russia title in 1992. Velikanova then lost her voice due to incompetent medical treatment and had to stop performing.
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She died in 1998, two hours before her farewell concert in Moscow.
1998

Georg Liebsch

German weightlifter (1911–1998)
Georg Liebsch (5 April 1911 – 10 November 1998) was a German featherweight weightlifter who won the world title in 1937 and 1938 and placed fifth at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He set two ratified world records in the press, in 1935 and 1937.
1998 Hal Newhouser

Hal Newhouser

American baseball player (1921-1998)
Harold Newhouser (May 20, 1921 – November 10, 1998), nicknamed "Prince Hal" and "Hurricane Hal," was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher from 1939 to 1955, most notably for the Detroit Tigers, where he was selected for seven straight All-Star Games from 1942 to 1948. He became the first pitcher to win the Most Valuable Player Award twice in consecutive years, winning in 1944 and 1945.
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Newhouser was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1992 and his number 16 was retired by the Tigers in 1997. Newhouser was highly regarded by Tigers scout Wish Egan, who ended up signing the Detroit native to his hometown club for the 1939 season. Starting in the minor leagues that year, the 18 year-old was called up to the major league squad late in the season and made his first start on September 26, 1939. His initial years were rocky, failing to eclipse nine wins in a season from 1939 to 1943. His breakout year came in 1944, in which the 23 year-old totaled 29 wins, the highest mark for a pitcher since 1931, en route to an MVP award. He continued his stellar play in the 1945 season, in which he won the Pitching Triple Crown, another MVP Award, and was the winning pitcher of Game 7 of that year's World Series against the Chicago Cubs. Newhouser continued to be a consistently solid pitcher in the post-war years, with no pitcher winning more games in the 1940s than his 170. By 1950, problems with his throwing shoulder significantly decreased his effectiveness. He was released from the Tigers during the 1953 season and was headed for retirement until his former teammate, Hank Greenberg, then general manager of the Cleveland Indians, signed him as a relief pitcher during the 1954 season. Newhouser went 7-2 in 26 appearances with a 2.51 ERA for the 111-win (in a 154 game season) American League pennant-winning Indians, then retired at 34 the following year after pitching in just two games. Newhouser then served as a scout for the Baltimore Orioles, with some of his notable player findings including Milt Pappas and Dean Chance. He then worked at a bank for twenty years before returning to scouting for the Houston Astros. He insisted that the Astros should draft future Hall of Fame shortstop Derek Jeter out of high school. When the Astros opted for Phil Nevin instead, he retired from baseball.
1998 Harry Markson

Harry Markson

American boxing promoter (1906–1998)
Harry Markson (March 10, 1906 – November 10, 1998) was an American boxing publicist and promoter who organized fights at Madison Square Garden for nearly 40 years.
1998

Henry James (civil servant)

British civil servant (born 1919)
Henry James (12 December 1919 – 10 November 1998) was a British former civil servant who served as Downing Street Press Secretary to four prime ministers, most notably Margaret Thatcher during the first year of her premiership in 1979.
1998 Jean Leray

Jean Leray

French mathematician (1906-1998)
Jean Leray (French: [ləʁɛ]; 7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology.
1998

Kunitaka Sueoka

Japanese association football player (1917-1998)
Kunitaka Sueoka (末岡 圀孝, Sueoka Kunitaka; February 1, 1917 – November 10, 1998) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
1998

Milton Handler

American lawyer
Milton C. Handler (1903 – November 10, 1998) was an American lawyer and professor of law. He was considered a "leading antitrust expert and drafter of some of the nation's best-known laws."
1998 Nikolai Andronov

Nikolai Andronov

Soviet and Russian painter and muralist (1929–1998)
Nikolai Ivanovich Andronov (Russian: Николай Иванович Андронов; 30 April 1929 – 10 November 1998) was a Soviet and Russian painter, muralist, graphic artist and teacher. He was one of the founders of the severe style (Russian: суровый стиль), the reformist movement in Soviet painting of the late 1950s and 1960s. His Rafters (1960–1961) is usually described as a manifesto of that movement.
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Rafters was among the paintings attacked by Nikita Khrushchev at the Moscow Manege exhibition of December 1962. Andronov was expelled from the Moscow branch of the artists' union and spent several years outside the official exhibition system. From the mid-1960s he worked mainly in and around the village of Ferapontovo in Vologda Oblast. The village provided the subjects for a cycle of paintings that he continued for more than thirty years, and the mineral-bearing stones and clays that he ground into pigments. He also completed more than twenty works of monumental art, among them the mosaic on the facade of the Oktyabr cinema in Moscow (1967) and Man and the Press in the Izvestia building (1978), for which he shared the USSR State Prize in 1979. Andronov was made an Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1978 and a People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 1996, and was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts in 1997.
1999 Carl Heinz Ratschow

Carl Heinz Ratschow

German theologian (1911–1999)
Carl Heinz Ratschow (22 July 1911 – 10 November 1999) was a German Lutheran theologian and philosopher of religion. Ratschow was one of five children of Ernst Ratschow (1865–1937), a businessman, and Clara Hoffschlaeger (1878–1956). Ratschow studied Oriental Studies in Leipzig and Göttingen.
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Under the influence of the Old Testament scholar Albrecht Alt (1883–1956), he later also studied Protestant theology. After moving to the University of Rostock in 1933, he passed his first theological examination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg.
1999

Eric Langton

British speedway rider
Eric Kemp Langton (27 September 1907 – 10 November 1999) was an English motorcycle speedway who won the Star Riders' Championship in 1932, the forerunner to the Speedway World Championship. He earned 44 international caps for the England national speedway team.
1999

Jean Potts

American mystery writer
Jean Catherine Potts (November 17, 1910 – November 10, 1999) was an American award-winning mystery novelist.
1999

Jonathan Segal (actor)

American television actor
Jonathan Martin Segal (July 8, 1953 – November 10, 1999) was an American television actor. He was known for playing the role of Jonathan Brooks in the American drama television series The Paper Chase. He also played the recurring role of laboratory technician Jeff Sellers in the medical drama television series Quincy, M.E.
1999

José Martins (boxer)

Brazilian boxer
José Neves Martins (5 August 1931 – 10 November 1999), also known as Piccinin, was a Brazilian boxer. He competed in the men's flyweight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he lost to Mircea Dobrescu of Romania in the Round of 32.
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Martins died in São Paulo on 10 November 1999, at the age of 68.
1999 Juan Carlos Cobos

Juan Carlos Cobos

musical artist
Lorenzo Joaquín Pires (5 June 1928 – 10 November 1999), better known by his stage name Juan Carlos Cobos, was an Argentine singer, lyricist, and composer, known for his performances with the Orquesta típica Osvaldo Pugliese during the 1950s.
1999

Robert Kramer

American director, actor and screenwriter (1939-1999)
Robert Kramer (June 22, 1939 – November 10, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor who directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999, most of them political cinema made from a left-wing point of view. Born in New York and educated at Swarthmore College and Stanford University, Kramer was a founding member of the filmmaking collective The Newsreel, established in New York City in 1968. Kramer wrote, directed and starred in the 1970 thriller film Ice, and co-directed the 1975 film Milestones with John Douglas.
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After relocating to Europe in 1979, Kramer directed the 1982 French film À toute allure, which was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. In 1999, Kramer died of complications from meningitis in a hospital in Rouen, France. In a retrospective essay, academic David Fresko wrote that Kramer's "unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism and antipathy for Hollywood (and corporate media more generally) dashed any hopes for his commercial integration into the culture industries", and noted that, in Europe, "he is considered second only to Jean-Luc Godard in the pantheon of political modernists."
1999

Stan Pittman

American politician
Stanley Pittman (September 14, 1920 - November 10, 1999) served in the California State Senate for the 6th district from 1963 to 1967, following service on the Oroville City Council and the Butte County Board of Supervisors. During World War II, he also served in the United States Navy.
1999 Stasys Antanas Bačkis

Stasys Antanas Bačkis

Lithuanian diplomat (1906-1999)
Stasys Antanas Bačkis (10 February 1906 – 10 November 1999) was a Lithuanian diplomat and civil servant who served as an assistant in the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1930 until 1938, Head of the Lithuanian Embassy in Paris and later Head of the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service in Washington D.C. from 1983 until 1987. A graduate of the University of Paris, Bačkis became an employee of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1930. In 1938, he was stationed at the Lithuanian embassy in Paris.
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After the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union in June 1940, Lithuanian diplomats did not recognize the new Soviet government and established the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service that functioned in conditions of exile, continued to represent independent Lithuania, and preserved the legal continuity of the state. After the arrest of ambassador Petras Klimas, Bačkis actively headed the unofficial Lithuanian embassy in Paris until 1960 when he relocated to Washington, D.C. After the death of Stasys Lozoraitis, Bačkis was the chief of the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service from 1983 until his return to Paris in 1988. Bačkis was the father of Cardinal Audrys Juozas Bačkis.
1999

Tom McKinney

Northern Irish rugby union and rugby league footballer (1926-1999)
Thomas McKinney (31 December 1926 – 10 November 1999) was a Northern Irish rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Jed-Forest RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Other Nationalities, British Empire XIII, Rugby League XIII and Combined Nationalities, and at club level for Salford (two spells), Warrington and St Helens, as a prop or hooker.
2000

Alfred H. Corbett

Oregon legislator, attorney, and businessman
Alfred Hoyt Corbett (July 22, 1915 – November 10, 2000) was an American attorney, businessman, and politician in the state of Oregon. Born into one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Oregon, he attended Harvard University and then Yale Law School. He served twelve years in the Oregon Legislative Assembly, representing Multnomah County in the Oregon House of Representatives and then the Oregon State Senate.
2000 Art Jackes

Art Jackes

Canadian high jumper
Arthur M. 'Art' Jackes (26 June 1924 – 10 November 2000) was a Canadian high jumper, 1948–1950. Whilst at University of Toronto, he cleared 6 feet (1.8 m) in a high-jump demonstration.
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In the 1948 Summer Olympics at Wembley Stadium, Jackes came sixth in high jump, behind the winner Australian John Winter. In the February 1950 British Empire Games, Jackes was the Canadian individual high jump entry, but finished tenth. He retired around 1950 and later moved to the United States.
2000

Big Moose Meyer

American professional basketball player (1910-2000)
Donald Eugene "Big Moose" Meyer (April 22, 1910 – November 10, 2000) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Kankakee Gallagher Trojans in the National Basketball League for nine games during the 1938–39 season and averaged 3.3 points per game. He is not related to teammate Little Moose Meyer, who happened to play alongside him with the Trojans.
2000

Bob Matthewson

English footballer (1930-2000)
Robert Matthewson (13 April 1930 – 10 November 2000) was an English footballer and FIFA referee. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Matthewson had a spell playing for the Byker Youth Club's football team before he was signed by Bolton Wanderers. After six appearances for Bolton in six seasons, including three appearances in the Football League, Matthewson was allowed to leave the club on a free transfer by manager Bill Ridding.
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He then joined Lincoln City but never played a league game for them. He then entered National Service. Upon his return an engineering colleague persuaded him to take up refereeing back in Bolton in 1958–1959, progressing through local leagues to the Lancashire Combination and Northern Premier League. Matthewson became a Football League linesman in 1966 and two years later joined the list of referees. He made a quick impression and was senior linesman for the 1970 FA Cup final between Chelsea and Leeds. A year later he took charge of the League Cup semi-final between Stoke City and West Ham United and in late 1972 was promoted to the FIFA List of referees. He was in charge of the remarkable 1974 FA Charity Shield match. This was Brian Clough's first major match as manager of Leeds but became better-known for a double sending-off. Matthewson sent Leeds United's Billy Bremner and Liverpool's Kevin Keegan off for fighting, the first time players had been dismissed in a major British club match at Wembley. The following year he was referee for the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough between Birmingham City and Fulham. Matthewson refereed the return leg of the 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final match between Anderlecht and Napoli at the Stade Émile Versé in Belgium. His decision to disallow Walter Speggiorin's second-minute goal for Napoli was criticised. The Italian forward was adjudged by Matthewson to have been in an offside position when he scored. However, after reviewing the replay of the incident, both the Belgian commentary team and Anderlecht's own manager, Raymond Goethals, agreed with Napoli's assessment that Speggiorin was onside, and added that the goal should have stood. His career in England culminated with Manchester United's 2–1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup Final, the result ending Liverpool's hopes of the domestic League and Cup double. In May 1977 he signed on to become an official in the North American Soccer League. On the international stage he only officiated two full international matches: the first was a UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying Group 8 match between Malta and Greece on 23 February 1975 and the second was a friendly between Wales and West Germany on 6 October 1976. He also refereed the 1974–75 UEFA Cup semi-final first leg between Köln and Borussia Mönchengladbach on 8 April 1975. With his wife, Pauline, Matthewson had a daughter Karen, a step-daughter Suzanne and three grandchildren. As well as playing and refereeing football, Matthewson also worked as an engineer for de Havilland in Horwich. Matthewson was portrayed in the 2009 film The Damned United by Peter Quinn, the secretary of Blackburn non-league football club Sporting Athletic.
2000

George Matanzima

South African politician
Chief George Mzimvubu Matanzima, often misspelled as Mathanzima (26 December 1918 – 10 November 2000) was a leader of the Transkei bantustan in South Africa, a young brother of Kaiser and a grandnephew of Nelson Mandela. He and his brother, Kaiser co-founded and led the Transkei National Independence Party. Mathanzima was appointed as Prime Minister of Transkei after his brother became president.
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He served as prime minister from 20 February 1979 to 24 September 1987. Bantu Holomisa forced his resignation and exile in October 1987. Stella Sigcau succeeded him as prime minister, but Holomisa forced her out of office in a coup d'état and took power himself in December 1987.
2000 H. M. Nayak

H. M. Nayak

Indian academic (1931–2000)
Harogadde Manappa Nayak (1931 - 10 November 2000) was an academic, writer and folklorist.
2000

Rafiqul Islam Bakul

Bangladeshi politician
Rafiqul Islam Bakul Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He was elected a member of parliament for Pabna-5 in 1986, February 1996 and June 1996. He was an organizer of the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
2000

Suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley

2000 Canadian student suicide (1986–2000)
Dawn-Marie Wesley (June 5, 1986 – November 10, 2000) was a Canadian student who died by suicide after experiencing a cycle of bullying by psychological torture and verbal threats from three female bullies at her high school. She left behind a note to her family that referred to the bullying to which she had been subjected: "If I try to get help, it will get worse. They are always looking for a new person to beat up and these are the toughest girls.
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If I ratted, they would get expelled from school and there would be no stopping them. I love you all so much." She hanged herself with a dog leash in her bedroom.
2000

Vernon Martin (jazz bassist)

American jazz double bassist
Vernon Shelby Martin (January 5, 1932 – November 10, 2000) was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
2000 Walter P. McConaughy

Walter P. McConaughy

American diplomat (1908-2000)
Walter Patrick McConaughy Jr. (September 11, 1908 – November 10, 2000) was a career American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to a number of countries.
2001

Don Warhurst

American football coach and college athletics administrator
Don Warhurst (c. 1920 – November 10, 2001) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona from 1957 to 1966, compiling record of 56–33–2.
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Warhurst was the athletic director at the school from 1969 to 1980. Warhust was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He was an assistant coach at Santa Ana High School before serving as line coach at San Bernardino Valley College in 1950. From 1951 to 1956, Warhust was the head football coach at Modesto High School. He died at the age of 81, on November 10, 2001, the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in Pomona, California.
2001

Enid McElwee

New Zealand fencer
Frances Enid Milne (formerly McElwee, née Wheeler; 24 March 1914 – 10 November 2001) was a New Zealand fencer, who represented her country at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
2001

Hilbert Van Dijk

Australian fencer
Hilbert Van Dijk (24 September 1918 – 10 November 2001) was a Dutch-born Australian fencer. He was the son of Hilbert "Arie" Van Dijk (1908–1944) of Amsterdam. He captained the team épée at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
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Six-foot tall, and left-handed, Van Dijk was rated as among the six best épée fencers in Holland. Within a few weeks of his arrival in Australia, he joined the Swords Club and won the New South Wales foils and épée championships. On the foundation of the Australian Fencing Association in 1949, he entered the first championships and won the first national titles in foils and épée. He won that title a second time as well as being New South Wales foils champion twice and New South Wales épée champion in five consecutive years from 1949 to 1953. In the 1950s he was a member of the All Nations Fencing Club in Sydney. He became a member of the New South Wales Olympic Council. In August 1953, Van Dijk married Mahdi Browning of Hunters Hill, New South Wales. A niece of the novelist Daphne du Maurier the wedding took place at St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Macquarie Street, Sydney. Mahdi was a direct descendant of the English poet Robert Browning and was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Neil Browning of Hunters Hill. Following the 1956 games Van Dijk joined Richard James Vandyke in the Real Estate company Vandyke and Vandyke at 32-34 The Boulevarde, Strathfield, New South Wales. He used his business partners spelling of his surname for the company rather than his own. He and his wife Mahdi had two children, Marguerite (1958–1992) and Hil, and lived for many years in Strathfield. His son Hil Van Dijk is an artist and is again based in Sydney.
2001

John Jamieson (curler)

Canadian-American male curler (1925-2001)
John Gardner Jamieson (February 14, 1925 – November 10, 2001) was a Canadian-American curler from Lynden, Washington. He was the second on the Granite Curling Club team (from Seattle, Washington, United States) during the World Curling Championships known as the 1961 Scotch Cup, where they won the bronze medal. Jamieson grew up in Winnipeg and Victoria Beach, Manitoba.
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He served as a seaman with the Royal Canadian Navy in World War II. After exiting the Navy, he would work as an inspector with a phone company. In 1957, he moved to Everett, Washington to work for the West Coast Telephone Company. He then worked for Boeing before becoming the owner of the Riverside Tavern in Everett. After that, he became the owner of Wallace Poultry in Bellingham, Washington.
2001 Junji Nishime

Junji Nishime

Japanese politician (1921-2001)
Junji Nishime (西銘 順治, Nishime Junji; 5 November 1921 – 10 November 2001) was a Japanese politician who served as the 4th Governor of Okinawa from 1978 until 1990 and mayor of Naha, the capital of Okinawa. He studied and graduated at the University of Tokyo.
2001

Mariya Havrysh

Olympic swimmer (1931-2001)
Mariya Fedorivna Havrysh (Ukrainian: Марія Федорівна Гавриш; Russian: Мария Федоровна Гавриш; 12 June 1931 – 10 November 2001) was a Ukrainian swimmer. She was the first Soviet swimmer to reach an Olympic finals – at the 1952 Summer Olympics she finished sixth in the 200 m breaststroke. Between 1949 and 1955 she won 11 national titles (1949–1955) and set 19 national records in the 200 m breaststroke and 100 m butterfly events.
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After marriage she changed her last name to Firsova (Ukrainian: Фірсова, Russian: Фирсова). Since 1989, when masters competitions had been introduced in the Soviet Union, she competed in this category and won four national titles, setting two national records (1989–1991) in the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke. After breakup of the Soviet Union, she competed in Ukraine, winning four national titles in 1992–1993.
2001

Noel Wood

Australian painter (1912-2001)
Noel Herbert Wood (1 February 1912 – 10 November 2001) was an Australian painter. Wood was a prolific landscape painter, well known for his island lifestyle. His work is found in numerous public collections in Australia and overseas.
2001 Richard Christiansen (politician)

Richard Christiansen (politician)

American politician (1928–2001)
Richard M. Christiansen (August 21, 1928 – November 10, 2001) was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
2001

Theys Eluay

Indonesian murdered politician (1937–2001)
Dortheys Hiyo Eluay (known as Theys Hiyo Eluay; 3 November 1937 – 10 November 2001) was an Indonesian local politician from Irian Jaya (currently Papua) turned West Papuan independence activist. Known as the former leader of Papua Presidium Council, he was known as the community leader in West Papua region. He was murdered by members of the Indonesian Army special forces command.
2002

Amanullah Khan (Indian politician)

Indian politician of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
Amanullah Khan was an Indian politician in Hyderabad Old City. Khan joined the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in 1960. He contested from the Chandrayangutta Assembly segment for the first time in 1978 and won against the Indian Congress nominee, K.
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Baliah. Khan retained the seat for five terms. He represented Chandrayangutta assembly constituency between 1978 and 1994. Four times he was elected as an AIMIM candidate (1978, 1983, 1985, and 1989) and in 1994 as an MBT candidate. Amanullah Khan retained the seat for five terms. He represented Chandrayangutta constituency between 1978 and 1999. Four times he was elected as an AIMIM candidate and in 1994 as an MBT candidate. In 1999 he ran as an MBT candidate, but lost to AIMIM candidate Akbaruddin Owaisi by margin of (6.2%) 11,920 votes. He was also the founder of Majlis Bachao Tehreek save majlis movement and was its president at the time of his death on 10 November 2002.
2002 Anne-Marie Brunius

Anne-Marie Brunius

Swedish actress (1916-2002)
Anne-Marie Pauline Brunius (24 September 1916 – 10 November 2002) was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Stockholm, and died in Åkersberga, Sweden. She was the daughter of actors and theatre directors John W.
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Brunius and Pauline Brunius and the sister of theatre director Palle Brunius.
2002

Basil Maros

Greek photographer and cinematographer
Vasilis Maros (Greek: Βασίλης Μάρος; 1929 – 10 November 2002) was a Greek photographer, cinematographer, and documentary film director with international collaborations, including work with 20th Century Fox, the BBC, and Italian and German television. He left a significant body of documentary films focused on Greek history, folklore, religious traditions, and the arts.
2002

Émile Ollivier (writer)

Haitian writer (1940-2002)
Émile Ollivier (February 19, 1940 – November 10, 2002) was a Haitian-born educator and writer living in Quebec, Canada. He was considered one of the most important Haitian writers of his time. He was born in Port-au-Prince and, after studying at the Lycée in Port-au-Prince, went on to study philosophy at the École normale supérieure d'Haïti and literature and psychology in France.
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Following the rise to power by François Duvalier, Ollivier left Haiti for France in 1964. In 1965, he came to Quebec, first settling in Amos in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, where he taught school, and later moving to Montreal. Ollivier worked as a coordinator for the Quebec Ministry of Education from 1973 to 1976. From 1977 to 1980, he was an administrator at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He was a professor of andragogy in the Education Sciences department of the Université de Montréal for 25 years. He married Marie-José Glémaud. In 1993, Ollivier was named a Chevalier in the National Order of Quebec. In 2000, he was named a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was named a member of the Académie des lettres du Québec. He died in Montreal at the age of 62. He was entombed at the Sainte-Marguerite-d'Youville Mausoleum at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal. The Prix Émile-Ollivier was established by the Quebec Conseil supérieur de la langue française in 2004 and was awarded until 2014.
2002 Franco Fantasia

Franco Fantasia

Italian film actor (1924-2002)
Franco Fantasia (5 March 1924 – 10 November 2002) was an Italian film actor, stuntman and fencing master. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1951 to 2002. He was the brother of actor Andrea Fantasia.
2002

Gert Westphal

German actor (1920–2002)
Curt Gerhard Westphal, stage name Gert Westphal, (5 October 1920 – 10 November 2002) was a German actor, one of the best-known audiobook narrators and speakers in German, described as "König der Vorleser" (king of reciters) and "der Caruso der Vorleser" (the Caruso of reciters). After his reading of her husband's works, Katia Mann called him "des Dichters oberster Mund" (the poet's principal voice). The literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki said he was probably the best reciter of German.
2002

Johnny Griffith (musician)

American musician
John Ellis Griffith Jr. (July 10, 1936 – November 10, 2002) was an American musician.
2002 Ken Raffensberger

Ken Raffensberger

American baseball player (1917-2002)
Kenneth David Raffensberger (August 8, 1917 – November 10, 2002) was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). From 1939 through 1954, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1939), Chicago Cubs (1940–41), Philadelphia Phillies (1943–47), and Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs (1947–54). Raffensberger batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
2002

Leonard A. Smith

American politician
Leonard A. Smith (July 5, 1915 – November 10, 2002) was an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
2002

Leslie Baxter (umpire)

Umpire (1916-2002)
Leslie Baxter (17 November 1916 – 10 November 2002) was a South African cricket umpire. Making his Test umpiring debut in 1964, he stood in four Test matches, the last of which was in 1966.
2002

Michel Boisrond

French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Michel Jacques Boisrond was a French film director and screenwriter.
2002

Ron Jacobs (rugby union)

English rugby union player and administrator
Charles Ronald Jacobs (28 October 1928 – 10 November 2002) was an English Rugby Union player. He played at prop for Northampton and England. He went to Oakham School in Rutland, where he captained the first XV in 1945.
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He studied agriculture at the University of Nottingham. Jacobs played a club record 470 games for Northampton over a 17-year period and appeared 29 times for England - captaining them for his final two games in 1964. After retiring from playing, Jacobs remained involved in Rugby and became president of the Rugby Football Union in 1983 and was tour manager during the controversial 1984 England rugby union tour of South Africa.
2002

Yevgeni Skomorokhov

Russian footballer (1945-2002)
Yevgeni Vasilyevich Skomorokhov (Russian: Евгений Васильевич Скоморохов; July 11, 1945 – November 10, 2002) was a Russian professional football coach and player.
2003

André Collini

French Catholic priest
André Charles Collini (18 November 1921 – 10 November 2003) was a French Roman Catholic priest. He served as Bishop of Ajaccio from 1966 to 1972 and as Archbishop of Toulouse from 1978 to 1996.
2003

Cyla Wiesenthal

Polish-born Holocaust survivor and wife of Simon Wiesenthal
Cyla Wiesenthal (née Müller; 9 August 1908– 10 November 2003) was a Polish-born Jewish Holocaust survivor during the Second World War. She was the wife of Nazi hunter and writer Simon Wiesenthal.
2003

Czesław Marchewczyk

Polish sportsperson, ice hockey player and handball player (1912–2003)
Czesław Karol Marchewczyk (1 October 1912 – 10 November 2003) was a Polish ice hockey player.
2003

Doug Ferguson (ice hockey)

Canadian ice hockey player
Douglas R. Ferguson (born May 9, 1943) was a Canadian ice hockey Center who was a two-time All-American for Cornell and helped the team win its first NCAA Championship.
2003 Edvard Beyer

Edvard Beyer

Norwegian historian (1920–2003)
Edvard Freydar Beyer (6 October 1920 – 10 November 2003) was a Norwegian literary historian, literary critic, and professor at the University of Oslo from 1958 to 1990.
2003 Hans Hermes

Hans Hermes

German mathematician (1912–2003)
Hans Hermes (German: [ˈhɛʁmɛs]; 12 February 1912 – 10 November 2003) was a German mathematician and logician, who made significant contributions to the foundations of mathematical logic.
2003

Hashmot

Film actor and director
Hashmot was a Bangladeshi film actor and director. He was known for acting in comic roles. He was also known as Haba Hashmot on the magazine television show Ityadi.
2003

Hugo Money-Coutts

8th Baron Latymer, British politician (1926-2003)
Hugo Nevill Money-Coutts, 8th Baron Latymer (1 March 1926 – 10 November 2003) was an English banker and sailor. He inherited the title Baron Latymer from his father, Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 7th Baron Latymer.
2003

June Beebe

golfer (1913-2003)
June Beebe Atwood (March 27, 1913 – November 10, 2003) was an American golfer.
2003

Margaret Armen

American author
Margaret Alberta Armen (September 9, 1921 – November 10, 2003) was an American screenwriter and author.
2003

Vasilije Šijaković

Montenegrin footballer (1929-2003)
Vasilije Šijaković (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Василије Шијаковић; 31 July 1929 – 10 November 2003) was a Montenegrin footballer who played as a defender. He played at two World Cup Finals tournaments for Yugoslavia.
2003

Yuri Nuller

psychiatrist (1929-2003)
Yuri Lvovich Nuller (Russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Ну́ллер) (28 August 1929 – 10 November 2003 in Saint-Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian psychiatrist and professor. He spent many years investigating the problem of anxiety.
2004

Elizabeth Chater

Canadian-American women writer (1910-2004)
Elizabeth Eileen Chater (pen name, Lee Chaytor; August 22, 1910 – November 10, 2004) was a Canadian writer of novels and poetry, and a professor at San Diego State University.
2004 Erna Rosenstein

Erna Rosenstein

Polish artist (1913-2004)
Erna Rosenstein (May 17, 1913 – November 10, 2004) was a Polish-Jewish painter and Holocaust survivor. She was part of the surrealist movement both as a visual artist and a writer. She was associated with the pre-war Kraków Group and helped launch the Second Kraków Group after World War II.
2004

Harry Schwartz (journalist)

economist, journalist (1919-2004)
Harry Schwartz (September 10, 1919 – November 10, 2004) was an editorial writer for The New York Times from 1951 to 1979 and a specialist in Soviet and East European affairs.
2004

John Christopher Mahon

Irish-born priest in Kenya
Bishop John Christopher Mahon, D.C.L, S.P.S. (25 December 1922 – 10 November 2004), was an Irish born priest a member of the Kiltegan Fathers. He served as Bishop of Lodwar, Turkana, Kenya from 1978 until 2000.
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Mahon was born on 25 December 1922 in Killurin, Killeigh, County Offaly, Ireland. He was educated at Tullamore C.B.S., and Knockbeg College, Carlow. He was ordained a priest in 1948. Mahon studied Canon Law in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth earning a doctorate in 1951. He joined the teaching staff of the Saint Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions, Kiltegan. Dr Mahon left Kiltegan in 1959 when he was appointed to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogoja, Nigeria, where he was Head of St. Thomas’ Teacher Training College. After nine years in Nigeria, Rev. Mahon moved to Kenya, after the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War. Mahon was ordained first Bishop of Lodwar on 25 April 1978. He died in Nairobi, Kenya suddenly on 10 November 2004, aged 82, and is buried where he served as bishop in Turkana, Kenya.
2004

Peter Boumphrey

British alpine skier (1919-2004)
Peter Boumphrey (10 April 1919 – 10 November 2004) was a British alpine skier. He competed in the men's downhill at the 1948 Winter Olympics. Boumphrey was an officer in the British Army.
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Boumphrey went on to build the Isola 2000 ski resort in the Southern French Alps in the early 1970s. He died in Fayence on 10 November 2004, at the age of 85.
2004

Ray Manson

Ice Hockey player (1926–2004)
Raymond Clifton Manson (December 3, 1926 – November 10, 2004) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played one game each for the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers on March 17, 1948 and March 20, 1949, respectively. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1947 to 1957, was spent in various minor leagues. As a senior ice hockey player, Manson won the 1958 Allan Cup national championship as a member of the Winnipeg Maroons.
2004

Richard Maresh

American politician (1917–2004)
Richard H. Maresh (September 8, 1917 – November 10, 2004) was a Republican politician from Nebraska who served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 32nd district from 1971 to 1981.
2004

Robert Wilson (cricketer

born 1916), Scottish cricketer
Robert Wilson (8 April 1916 — 10 November 2004) was a Scottish first-class cricketer. Wilson was born at Edinburgh in April 1916 and was educated at the North District School. A club cricketer for Perthshire Cricket Club, Wilson made his debut for Scotland in first-class cricket against Yorkshire at Glasgow in 1952.
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He made a further two first-class appearances for Scotland in that year, against Ireland at Paisley and Worcestershire at Worcester on Scotland's tour of England. Playing as a right-arm fast-medium bowler, he took 8 wickets at an average of 20.87, with best figures of 2 for 16. As a lower order batsman, he scored 5 runs. By profession, he was a sports shop manager. Wilson died at Perth in November 2004.
2004

Steve Enich

American football player (1923-2004)
Steve Enich (1923–2004) was an American sportsman who played guard in the National Football League. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 1945 NFL draft by the Boston Yanks and played that season with the Chicago Cardinals.
2005

A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan

Bangladeshi journalist
Abu Zafar Mohammad Enayetullah Khan (known as Enayetullah Khan; 25 May 1939 – 10 November 2005) was a Bangladeshi journalist and government minister. He founded the weekly newspaper Holiday and the daily newspaper New Age. He served in Ziaur Rahman's cabinet, first as minister of land administration and land reform from December 1977 to June 1978, and then as minister of petroleum and natural resources from July 1978 to October 1978.
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Md. Shaheduzzaman had remarked him as one of the best political writers in South-East Asia. He was president of the Jatiya Press Club and the Dhaka Club.
2005

Bob Reid (Australian footballer)

Australian rules footballer (1924-2005)
Robert Reid (8 June 1924 – 10 November 2005) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Reid died on 10 November 2005, at the age of 81.
2005

Brian Blears

Footballer (1933-2005)
Brian Blears was a footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Chester.
2005

Dave Tomlinson (Canadian football)

Canadian football player
David Holland "Baldy" Tomlinson (July 24, 1926 – November 10, 2005) was a Canadian professional football player who played for the Calgary Stampeders and Montreal Alouettes. He won the Grey Cup with the Stampeders in 1948. He previously played football for the McGill University Redmen.
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He died at the age of 79 on November 10, 2005.
2005

David Rhodes (educator and athlete)

American educator and athlete
David R. Rhodes ((1951-06-04)June 4, 1951 - (2005-11-10)November 10, 2005) was an American educator, collegiate athlete, and basketball coach. As a junior playing for Perry County High School, Rhodes was recognized by the Nashville Tennessean sportswriters as a part of the 1967-1968 All-Midstate team, the only junior to appear on the list.
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In his senior year, he scored a total of 969 points in the 1968-1969 season, averaging 28.5 points per game. This placed him as the fourth leading scorer in Tennessee that year, and he was named to the Associated Press, United Press International, and All-State teams. He ended his high school career with a total of 2,417 points, a 21.5 point per game average. In March 1969 he signed with Ole Miss under coach Cob Jarvis. In 1972, he ended the season as starting guard, leading the SEC in free throw percentage. That season he set the Ole Miss free throw percentage record with 87.7 percent, a record he surpassed the next year with a 90.1 percent average. His record stood until the 2010-2011 season when it was surpassed by Chris Warren. Upon graduation, Rhodes returned to Perry County, Tennessee, where he served as coach for Perry County High School boys and girls basketball teams from 1974 to 1988. During this time, the boys team won the State Championship twice, in 1976 and 1977. In 1988, he was named Superintendent of Perry County Schools, holding this position until his death in 2005 at the age of 54. In 2006, Rhodes was posthumously inducted into the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
2005

Ernest Crichlow

American artist (1914-2005)
Ernest Crichlow (June 19, 1914 – November 10, 2005) was an American social realist artist known for his narrative paintings and illustrations from the Depression-era, which focused on social injustice and the realities faced by African Americans.
2005

Fernando Bujones

American dancer (1955–2005)
Fernando Bujones (March 9, 1955 – November 10, 2005) was an American dancer. Born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents, Bujones, known as ballet's answer to Sir Malcolm Sargent, is regarded as one of the finest male dancers of the 20th century and hailed as one of the greatest American male dancers of his generation.
2005

Janusz Grzemowski

Polish luger
Janusz Grzemowski (20 June 1947 – 10 November 2005) was a Polish luger. He competed in the men's singles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics.
2005 Jorge Jiménez Cantú

Jorge Jiménez Cantú

Mexican politician (1914-2005)
Jorge Jiménez Cantú (October 27, 1914 – November 10, 2005) was a Mexican physician and politician. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he served as Governor of the State of Mexico between 1975 and 1981. He served as Secretary of Health and Welfare from 1970 to 1975 under President Luis Echeverria Alvarez.
2005

Kristian Fredrikson

Australian artist
Kristian Fredrikson (1940 – 10 November 2005) was a New Zealand-born Australian stage and costume designer working in ballet, opera and other performing arts. His work was acclaimed for its sumptuous, jewel-like quality, and a sensuous level of detail.
2005

Saeed-ul Haq Dogar

politician
Sardar Saeed Ul Haq Dogar (Punjabi, Urdu: سردار سعيد الحق ڈوگر) (born 4 December 1946- died 10 November 2005) was a Pakistani politician who served as a Member of the Provincial Assembly from 1997 to 1999 in a Constituency PP-140 Sheikhupura. In 1997, he was elected for Member of Provincial Assembly by a wide margin. He defeated incumbent Rai Ejaz Ahmad Khan who was MPA from this constituency and Minister of Forests from 1993 to 1996, and the brother of Rai Saeed Ahmad Khan who was Advisor to the Chief Minister.
2005

Steve Courson

Player of American football (1955-2005)
Stephen Paul Courson (October 1, 1955 – November 10, 2005) was an American professional football guard for the National Football League (NFL)'s Pittsburgh Steelers.
2005

Ted Wragg

British educator (1938-2005)
Professor Edward Conrad Wragg (26 June 1938 – 10 November 2005) known as Ted Wragg, was a British educationalist and academic known for his advocacy of the cause of education and opposition to political interference in the field. He was Professor of Education at the University of Exeter from 1978 to 2003, serving as Emeritus Professor of Education from 2003 till his death, and a regular columnist in the Times Educational Supplement and The Guardian. In the UK, the Ted Wragg Teaching Award for Lifetime Achievement honours his memory, and is given out annually to educators who are considered to have shown excellent devotion to teaching throughout their careers.
2005

Victor Albert

Belgian politician (1943–2005)
Victor Albert (25 November 1943 – 10 November 2005) was a Belgian politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Representatives.
2006

Benny Andrews

African American artist (1930-2006)
Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 – November 10, 2006) was an African-American artist, activist and educator. Born in Plainview, Georgia, Andrews earned a BFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958, and soon after moved to New York. He is known for his expressive, figurative paintings that often incorporated collaged fabric and other material.
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Andrews helped found the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which agitated for greater representation of African-American artists and curators in New York’s major art museums in the late 1960s and 70s. He also led the group in founding an arts education program in prisons and detention centers. Andrews taught art at Queens College for three decades, and from 1982 to 1984, served as the director of the Visual Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts. He received many awards, including the John Hay Whitney Fellowship (1965–66), the New York State Council on the Arts fellowships (1971–81), and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1974–81).
2006

Chubby Oates

British comedian (1942-2006)
Arthur ("Chubby") Oates (23 December 1942 – 10 November 2006) was a Cockney clubland comic and character actor.
2006

Don Veller

American college football coach, high school football coach (1912-2006)
Donald Arld Veller (May 20, 1912 – November 10, 2006) was an American football player and coach of football and golf. He served as the head football coach at Hanover College in 1946 and at Florida State University from 1948 to 1952, compiling a career college football record of 35–15–1. Veller died at the age of 94 on November 10, 2006, in Tallahassee, Florida.
2006

Fokko du Cloux

Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (born 1954)
Fokko du Cloux was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the Atlas of Lie groups and representations until his death.
2006

Francisco Quina

Portuguese sailor (1930-2006)
Francisco Quina (24 December 1930 – 10 November 2006) was a Portuguese sailor. He competed in the Dragon event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
2006 Hans-Peter Minetti

Hans-Peter Minetti

German actor (1926–2006)
Hans-Peter Minetti (21 April 1926 – 10 November 2006) was a German actor. He studied at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig and appeared in more than sixty films from 1954 to 1996. From 1966 until 1975, he was the president of the Union of Art.
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The actor Bernhard Minetti was his father.
2006 Igor Sergeyev

Igor Sergeyev

Russian military officer (1938–2006)
Igor Dmitriyevich Sergeyev (Russian: Игорь Дмитриевич Сергеев; 20 April 1938 – 10 November 2006) was a Soviet and later Russian military officer who was Minister of Defense of Russia from 22 May 1997 to 28 March 2001. Before that he was the commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces from 26 August 1992 to 22 May 1997. He was the first and, as of 2026, the only Marshal of the Russian Federation.
2006

Misael Tamayo Hernández

Mexican crime journalist and murder victim
Misael Tamayo Hernández (2 March 1952 – 10 November 2006) was a Mexican journalist, editorial director, and founder of El Despertar de la Costa, a family-run newspaper from the state of Guerrero. As a journalist, he was a harsh critic of local corruption, drug trafficking, and the Mexican drug cartels. On 10 November 2006, Tamayo Hernández was abducted and found dead inside a motel room in Guerrero, presumably killed by a lethal injection; the crime is yet to be solved, but there are signs that his death was work-related.
2006

Sipho Binda

South African military commander
Lieutenant-General Sipho Binda (13 July 1952 – 10 November 2006) was a South African military commander who served as Chief of the Joint Operations Division of the South African National Defence Force before his death on 10 November 2006. His military career started in 1977 when he went into exile to join Umkhonto we Sizwe. He returned to South Africa and was arrested and imprisoned on Robben Island until his release in 1990.
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He served as General Officer Commanding Logistics Support Formation and Force Commander for the AU mission in Burundi. He was appointed Chief of Joint Operations on 1 November 2004.
2007

Abdem Ramón Lancini Villalaz

Venezuelan zoologist (1934-2007)
Abdem Ramon Lancini-Villalaz ((1934-08-28)August 28, 1934 – (2007-11-10)November 10, 2007), also cited as Abdem R. Lancini, was a Venezuelan herpetologist who specialized in snakes.
2007

Black Anwar

Bangladeshi actor
Black Anwar (10 July 1941 – 10 November 2007) was a Bangladeshi film and television actor. In 1989 he won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor in Supporting Role for his performance in Byathar Daan.
2007 Donda West

Donda West

American professor and the mother of Kanye West (1949-2007)
Donda Clairann West (née Williams; July 12, 1949 – November 10, 2007) was an American educator and chair of Chicago State University's Department of English, Communications, Media, and Theater. She was best known for being the mother of American rapper Kanye West.
2007

Edith Mill

Austrian actress (1925-2007)
Edith Mill (16 August 1925 – 10 November 2007) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Her real name was Edith Rosalia Martha Müll,
2007 Eugene L. Boudette

Eugene L. Boudette

American geologist
Eugene L. Boudette (August 24, 1926 – November 10, 2007) was an American geologist and professor who served as the State Geologist of New Hampshire between 1986 and 2000. Over the course of his life, Boudette also worked for the New England Division of the Army Corps of Engineers, the United States Geological Survey, NASA's Apollo Field Geology Investigation Team, and was a professor of geology at the University of New Hampshire.
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During his career, he authored or coauthored more than 80 geologic publications. Boudette Peaks in Antarctica were named after him by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for his mapping of the range while in the US Geological Survey.
2007

Jack Bear

costume designer (1920-2007)
Jack Bear (October 19, 1920 – November 10, 2007) was an American costume designer. He was nominated at the 43rd Academy Awards for Best Costumes for the film Darling Lili. The nomination was shared with Donald Brooks.
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He was also known for doing costumes on TV shows such as Dallas. He won an Emmy Award for the costumes on The Julie Andrews Hour.
2007 John H. Noble

John H. Noble

American writer (1923–2007)
John H. Noble (September 4, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American survivor of the Soviet Gulag system, who wrote several books which described his experiences in it after he was permitted to leave the Soviet Union and return to the United States.
2007

John Stanier (British Army officer)

British Army officer (1925-2007)
Field Marshal Sir John Wilfred Stanier, (6 October 1925 – 10 November 2007) was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1982 to 1985. He was the first person after the Second World War to become the professional head of the British Army without having seen active service in that war or any subsequent campaign.
2007

John Todd (conspiracy theorist)

American conspiracy theorist
John Wayne Todd (May 19, 1949 – November 10, 2007), also known as "John Todd Collins", "Lance Collins", "Kris Sarayn Kollyns", and "Christopher Kollyns", was an American speaker and conspiracy theorist. He claimed to be a former occultist who was born into a 'witchcraft family' before converting to Christianity. He was a primary source for many Chick Publications works against Dungeons & Dragons, Catholicism, Neopaganism, and Christian rock.
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In his public appearances, Todd made a variety of claims about witches, Satanists, and the Illuminati, who he alleged were conspiring against Christians. These purported conspiracies often included government officials and leaders of Christian organizations. Investigative reports in magazines and books said there were many inconsistencies in his statements about anti-Christian conspiracies and his own past. In 1988 Todd was convicted in South Carolina on charges of rape and sentenced to 30 years in a prison. In 2004 he was released from prison and placed in a psychiatric facility, where he died in 2007.
2007

Sarah Branch

English actress and model
Sarah Branch (7 January 1938 – 10 November 2007) was an English film actress and model.
2007

Silviu Berejan

Moldovan politician and writer (1927-2007)
Silviu Berejan (30 July 1927 – 10 November 2007) was a Romanian philologist, lexicologist and linguist from Bessarabia, one of the titular members of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, the romance linguistic specialty (especially Romanian) and Slavic (especially Russian), principal scientist at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.
2007

Sinclair Cutcliffe

Canadian politician from Prince Edward Island
John Sinclair Cutcliffe (August 22, 1930 – November 10, 2007) was a Canadian politician, who served in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1966 to 1972. A member of the Liberal Party, he represented the district of 2nd Queens. Born and raised in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, he initially worked at his father's business, the Cutcliffe Funeral Home and eventually became its owner.
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He also served as the president of the provincial Red Cross, the chief of rescue with the Prince Edward Island Emergency Measures Organization, and the president of the International Rescue and First Aid Association. He was first elected to the legislature in the 1966 provincial election, serving as a backbench MLA. Reelected in the 1970 provincial election, he served as deputy speaker of the legislature. He resigned his provincial seat in 1972 to run as a Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Malpeque in the 1972 federal election, but was defeated by Angus MacLean. He died on November 10, 2007, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown.
2007

Tom Kopp

American baseball player and football coach (1938–2007)
Thomas Warren Kopp (September 18, 1938 – November 10, 2007) was an American minor league baseball player and college football coach. He also played minor league football player in the Atlantic Coast Football League. He served as the head football coach at Colby College from 1979 to 1982.
2007 Walter L. White

Walter L. White

American politician from Ohio (1919-2007)
Walter Lemuel White (July 6, 1919 – November 10, 2007) was a former member of the Ohio Senate. He served from 1973 until 1979. His district was the 12th, which encompassed much of West-Central Ohio.
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Prior to his service in the Senate, White served three terms in the Ohio House, representing the 6th District, which at the time was composed of Allen County.
2008

Agyare Koi Larbi

Ghanaian politician
Agyare Koi Larbi (26 December 1949 – 10 November 2008) was a Ghanaian politician and a member of the 2nd and 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. He was a former member of Parliament for the then-Akropong constituency now known as the Akuapem North Constituency of the eastern region of Ghana. Larbi was also a former member of the parliamentary committee on education.
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He died in Accra on 10 November 2008.
2008

Antonín Vězda

botanist, lichenologist and mycologist (1920-2008)
Antonín (Toni) Vězda (25 November 1920 – 10 November 2008) was a Czech lichenologist. After completing a university education that was postponed by World War II, Vězda taught botany at the Czech University of Life Sciences. In 1958, he was dismissed from his university position as a result of the restrictions placed on academic freedoms by the communist regime in power.
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He eventually was hired as a lichen researcher by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, who allowed him to work from his apartment, which served also as an office and herbarium. Vězda was a productive worker, publishing nearly 400 scientific papers between 1948 and 2008, most solitarily, describing hundreds of new taxa, and building up a herbarium collection of more than 300,000 specimens. He was praised for his series of exsiccates – sets of dried herbarium specimens – assembled with both local species as well as samples sent to him from colleagues throughout the world. Known as an outstanding taxonomist, he was awarded an Acharius Medal in 1992 for his lifetime contributions to lichenology. Two genera and twenty-four species have been named in honour of Vězda.
2008

Arthur Shawcross

American serial killer (1945–2008)
Arthur John Shawcross (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008), also known as the Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer active in Rochester, New York, between 1972 and 1989. Shawcross's first known murders took place in his hometown of Watertown, New York, where he killed a young boy and a girl. Under the terms of a plea bargain, he was allowed to plead guilty to one charge of manslaughter for those two 1972 murders, for which he served 14 years of a 25-year sentence.
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Shawcross killed most of his victims in 1988 and 1989 after being granted an early parole; the granting of that early parole later led to controversy. A food service worker, he trawled the streets of Rochester in his girlfriend's car looking for prostitutes to kill. Shawcross died on 10 November 2008, while serving a prison sentence of 250 years for his 1980s crimes, at the age of 63. Michael H. Stone, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and an authority on violent behavior, identified Shawcross's early parole as "one of the most egregious examples of the unwarranted release of a prisoner" in his book The Anatomy of Evil.
2008 Dorothy Vaughan

Dorothy Vaughan

African-American mathematician
Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician, human computer, computer programmer and schoolteacher who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center. She later was promoted officially to the position of supervisor.
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During her 28-year career, Vaughan prepared for the introduction of computers in the early 1960s by teaching herself and her staff the Fortran programming language. She later headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at Langley. Vaughan is one of the women featured in Margot Lee Shetterly's history Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016). It was adapted as a biographical film of the same name, also released in 2016. In 2019, Vaughan was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously.
2008 Earl Alexander Olmsted

Earl Alexander Olmsted

Canadian military personnel
Lieutenant Colonel Earl Alexander Olmsted C.D. (22 July 1914 – 10 November 2008) was a Canadian Army officer who held command positions (3rd Canadian Infantry Division Headquarters) and led artillery units (13th Field Regiment, RCA) during World War II, serving in the European theatres. After WWII he served as a Senior Operations Officer with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and was the National Secretary of the Canadian Army Benevolent Fund.
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His notable military career spanned 27 years and included postings on several continents.
2008

George W. Housner

American engineer (1910-2008)
George W. Housner (December 9, 1910 in Saginaw, Michigan – November 10, 2008 in Pasadena, California) was a professor of earthquake engineering at the California Institute of Technology and National Medal of Science laureate.
2008

Jack Reader

American football player and official (1925-2008)
John Kenneth Reader (November 11, 1925 – November 10, 2008) was an American football official.
2008 Joseph Pavliv

Joseph Pavliv

Ukrainian novelist (1940–2008)
Joseph Pavliv (Ukrainian: Йосип Петрович Павлів Russian: Иосиф Петрович Павлив) (29 May 1940 – 10 November 2008) was a Ukrainian novelist and short-story writer.
2008

Nikola Kavaja

Serbian nationalist (1932-2008)
Nikola Kavaja (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Каваја; 3 October 1932 – 10 November 2008) was a Serbian anti-communist dissident and terrorist. He became known as the "Tito Hunter", due to his repeated assassination attempts on Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. Kavaja served 18 years in prison in the United States for the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 293.
2008

Ralph Vibert

Jersey senator (1911–2008)
Ralph Vibert OBE (November 7, 1911 – November 10, 2008) was Solicitor General of Jersey (1948–1955) and a Senator of the States of Jersey (1959–1987).
2008

Sarah Blacher Cohen

American writer and academic
Sarah Blacher Cohen (June 11, 1936 in Appleton, Wisconsin, – November 10, 2008 in Albany, New York) was an American writer, scholar, and playwright, and a professor at SUNY Albany for 30 years. Her area of specialty was Jewish American fiction. Her published books include Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature, Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter (1974), and Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy.
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She edited From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen (Jewish Literature and Culture Series), Making a Scene: The Contemporary Drama of Jewish-American Women, and Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor. Her plays include The Ladies Locker Room, and Molly Picon's Return Engagement, a biographical play with music on the star of Yiddish theater. She collaborated with Joanne Koch, starting in 1989 on Sophie, Totie, and Belle, a musical on performers Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, and Belle Barth. 'She and Joanne Koch also co-authored the plays Danny Kaye: Supreme Court Jester, Soul Sisters, Henrietta Szold: Woman of Valor, an adaptation of Saul Bellow stories entitled Saul Bellow's Stories Onstage: The Old System and a Silver Dish, and the multicultural musical Soul Sisters. Cohen and Koch co-edited an anthology of ten plays Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks and Jews, including Driving Miss Daisy, Fires in the Mirror, and Soul Sisters. She collaborated with Isaac Bashevis Singer on the off-Broadway play Schlemiel the First. Cohen also gave talks and delivered papers, including "The Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers." Her husband was Gary Cohen. She died of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease on November 10, 2008, age 72.
2009

Amadi Ikwechegh

Nigerian politician
Commodore Amadi Guy Ikwechegh (25 February 1951 – 10 November 2009) was a Nigerian naval officer who was appointed military governor of Imo State from 1986 to 1989 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
2009

David Lloyd (writer)

American screenwriter and producer for television (1934-2009)
David Gibbs Lloyd (July 7, 1934 – November 10, 2009) was an American screenwriter and producer for television. He wrote for many sitcoms, such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier and Wings. Lloyd wrote "Chuckles Bites the Dust", an October 1975 episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series.
2009

Dick Katz

American musician (1924–2009)
Richard Aaron Katz (March 13, 1924 – November 10, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, arranger and record producer. He freelanced throughout much of his career, and worked in a number of ensembles. He co-founded Milestone Records in 1966 with Orrin Keepnews.
2009 Gheorghe Dinică

Gheorghe Dinică

Romanian actor, singer (1934–2009)
Gheorghe Dinică (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡe̯orɡe diˈnikə]; 1 January 1934 – 10 November 2009) was a Romanian actor.
2009 Hisaya Morishige

Hisaya Morishige

Japanese actor (1913–2009)
Hisaya Morishige (森繁 久彌, Morishige Hisaya; May 4, 1913 – November 10, 2009) was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School), and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Manchukuo.
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He became famous in films first for comedy roles, appearing in series such as the "Company President" (Shacho) and "Station Front" (Ekimae) series, produced by Toho. He appeared in nearly 250 films, both contemporary and jidaigeki. He was also famous on stage playing Tevye in the Japanese version of Fiddler on the Roof. He also appeared in television series and specials, and was the first guest on the television talk show Tetsuko's Room in 1975. He was long-time head of the Japan Actors Union. Among many honors, Morishige received the Order of Culture from the Emperor of Japan in 1991. Hisaya Morishige died of natural causes at a hospital in Tokyo on November 10, 2009, at the age of 96.
2009

José Afonso Ribeiro

Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop (1929–2009)
José Afonso Ribeiro T.O.R. (28 October 1929 – 10 November 2009) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Territorial Prelature of Borba, Brazil. Ordained to the priesthood on 7 December 1958, Ribeiro was named auxiliary bishop on 29 January 1974 and was ordained on 5 May 1974.
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On 6 July 1986, he was named bishop of Borba, retiring on 3 May 2006.
2009

Notis Peryalis

Greek actor
Notis Pergialis ( Greek: Νότης Περγιάλης), 16 August 1920 - 10 November 2009) was a Greek writer, actor, director and lyricist. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1953 to 1983. Until his death, he staged theatrical performances with an amateur group at Agioi Theodoroi.
2009

Robert Cameron (photographer)

American photographer (1911-2009)
Robert Cameron (April 21, 1911 – November 10, 2009) was a famed American photographer and author of numerous books featuring aerial photographs of numerous cities throughout the globe. He also invented a fad diet known as the Drinking Man's Diet.
2009 Robert Enke

Robert Enke

German footballer (born 1977)
Robert Enke was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
2009

Simple Kapadia

Indian actress and costume designer
Simple Kapadia (15 August 1958 – 10 November 2009) was a Hindi film actress and costume designer, who was active in her professional career from 1987 until her death in 2009. She won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for Rudaali (1994).
2009

Tim Hawarden

South African astrophysicist
Timothy George Hawarden (24 December 1943 – 10 November 2009) was a South African astrophysicist known for his pioneering work on passive cooling techniques for space telescopes for which he won NASA's Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal.
2009 Tomaž Humar

Tomaž Humar

Slovenian mountaineer (1969-2009)
Tomaž Humar (February 18, 1969 – c. November 10, 2009), nicknamed Gozdni Joža (akin to Hillbilly), was a Slovenian mountaineer. A father of two, Humar lived in Kamnik, Slovenia.
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He completed over 1500 ascents, and won a number of mountaineering and other awards, including the Piolet d'Or in 1997 for his Ama Dablam ascent.
2009

Tony Anselmo (Canadian football)

Calgary community leader (1918–2009)
Anthony Garry Anselmo, (March 14, 1918 – November 10, 2009) was a community builder for the Calgary Stampeders Football Club of the Canadian Football League and was involved with the team from 1973 until 2009. In 1978, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "in recognition of his numerous services to Calgary". He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame as a builder in 2009.
2010

Attila Kovács (fencer)

Hungarian fencer (1939–2010)
Attila Kovács (30 December 1939 – 10 November 2010) was a Hungarian fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
2010

Benjamin Owusu

Ghanaian footballer (1989–2010)
Benjamin Owusu (20 July 1989 – 10 November 2010) was a Ghanaian professional footballer who played as a defender.
2010 Dave Niehaus

Dave Niehaus

American sportscaster
David Arnold Niehaus (February 19, 1935 – November 10, 2010) was an American sportscaster. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in 1977 until his death after the 2010 season. In 2008, the National Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Niehaus the Ford C.
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Frick Award, the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters. Among fans nationwide and his peers, Niehaus was considered to be one of the greatest sportscasters in history.
2010

Donald S. Kellermann

American journalist (1927–2010)
Donald Simon Kellermann (February 6, 1927 – November 10, 2010) was an American journalist who served as the first director of what became the Pew Research Center. Kellermann was born in 1927 in Brooklyn. He was a radio broadcaster while serving with the United States Army in Germany during World War II and went to work for the Brooklyn Eagle after leaving Hofstra University.
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While working for Newsday in 1952, Kellermann agreed to commit a crime in order to be able to write stories from inside jail. He deliberately broke into a bar while working for Newsday so that he could write about his experiences at the Suffolk County Jail. While his reporting from jail led to an investigation of conditions at the facility, the case against him was ultimately thrown out as he had no criminal intent and had not stolen anything. The charges against him were ultimately tossed out. CBS News hired him as a producer, where programs he created during his more than a decade with the network included interviews with President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion, as well as a life story of Charles Dickens. He was later employed by National Educational Television, the predecessor to today's Public Broadcasting Service, where he was the director of cultural programming. He spent five years in the 1970s as chief of staff to U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits. He co-authored the 1973 book, The President Versus Congress, with Javits. Kellermann later worked for the Joint Republican Leadership Office. Returning to media, he was hired by the Times Mirror company, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, where he initially worked in Washington, D.C. before moving to Los Angeles to become the firm's director of corporate public affairs. As part of the newspaper company's opinion polling operation, Kellermann was named to serve as the first director of the Times Mirror Center, which would later become known as the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press after The Pew Charitable Trusts initiated sponsorship of the organization in the 1990s. Opinion polls which he initiated covered attitudes of younger people to newspapers, studied how people's values affected their stand on major issues and published "The Pulse of Europe", a survey of western European nations in the aftermath of the Cold War. A resident of Washington, D.C., Kellermann died in his home there at the age of 83 on November 10, 2010, from liver cancer. He was survived by his wife, Joan, two daughters and two granddaughters.
2010

Dorothy Knowles (academic)

academic
Dorothy Knowles (28 March 1906 – 10 November 2010) was a British academic, known to her friends as Diana. She was an analyst of French drama who taught at Liverpool University from 1934 to 1967. She was also an accomplished fencer.
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Knowles is known to historians of British cinema for her 1934 book The Censor, the Drama and the Film, in which she criticised the British Board of Film Censors for what she regarded as unaccountable political censorship. In 1989 she published a study of the work of the playwright Armand Gatti.
2010

Fred Spearman

American baseball player (1917-2010)
Frederick Douglas "Babe" Spearman (January 18, 1917 – November 10, 2010) was an American professional baseball third baseman in the Negro leagues. He played with the Newark Eagles in 1936. His father, Charlie, and four of his uncles, Henry, Clyde, Willie, and Codie, all played in the Negro leagues.
2010

Georges Aeschlimann

cyclist (1920-2010)
Georges Aeschlimann (11 January 1920 – 10 November 2010) was a Swiss racing cyclist. He rode in the 1948 and 1949 Tour de France.
2010

Gloria Amon Nikoi

former Ghana Foreign Minister (1927-2010)
Gloria Adwoa Amon Nikoi, née Addae (6 June 1927 – 10 November 2010) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the Foreign Minister in 1979 under the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) government. She was the first Ghanaian woman to hold this position.
2010

Jack Seward

American writer
John Neil Seward Jr. (October 11, 1924 – November 10, 2010) was a World War II veteran who was assigned to military intelligence in 1941 because of his knowledge of Japanese at a time when very few Americans knew the language. Following the war, Seward continued his intelligence work in Japan, during Allied occupation. After his time in the military and, later on, in the CIA, he worked with a number of companies and became a prolific writer.
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Some of his 45 books, in Japanese and English, are still used today. He was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1986 for his efforts to spread knowledge of Japanese culture and language.
2010

James Munnik

South African cricketer
James Barry Munnik (1 October 1953 – 10 November 2010) was a South African cricketer. He played in one List A and six first-class matches for Boland from 1984/85 to 1987/88. Known as Barry, he was born in Graaff-Reinet on 1 October 1953.
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He was educated at Union High School where he matriculated in December 1971. After National Service in 1972 he studied at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, and graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2010

John Howell (cricketer)

New Zealand cricketer
John Howell (17 June 1943 – 10 November 2010) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in 34 first-class and 5 List A matches for Central Districts from 1966 to 1973.
2010

Nicolo Rizzuto

Canadian mobster
Nicolo Rizzuto (Italian: [nikoˈlɔ rritˈtsuːto]; February 18, 1924 – November 10, 2010) was an Italian-Canadian crime boss and founder of the Rizzuto crime family, the Sicilian Mafia organization based in Montreal, Quebec. Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy, in 1924, and immigrated to Montreal in 1954 with his wife, son and daughter. He married into the mob through his wife Libertina Manno's family, beginning as an associate in the Sicilian faction of the Calabrian Cotroni crime family, which had most of the control in Montreal.
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In the late 1970s, a mob war broke out between the Sicilian and Calabrian factions, which resulted in the deaths of Paolo Violi, the acting capo of the Cotroni family, and his brothers. Although Rizzuto was not charged with any of these murders, he was linked to them as the events allowed the Rizzuto family to emerge as the preeminent crime family in Montreal by the early 1980s. Rizzuto was incarcerated twice, once in 1988 on drug charges where he served five years in a Venezuelan prison, and the other in 2006 where he served two years in jail of a tax evasion charge. His son Vito later followed him into the mob, and in 2007 was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder as well as racketeering, serving a prison sentence until 2012. During this time, a power struggle within the Rizzuto family ensued; his grandson Nicolo Jr. was killed in 2009, followed by Rizzuto himself by a sniper rifle while in his home on November 10, 2010.
2010

Philip Hoffman (surfing)

big wave surfing pioneer and businessman
Philip Rube "Flippy" Hoffman (January 24, 1930 – November 10, 2010) was an American big wave surfing pioneer and businessman.
2010

Pierre Citron

French musicologist (1919–2010)
Pierre Citron (19 April 1919 – 10 November 2010) was a French musicologist and university professor, a specialist of novelist Jean Giono. He was the husband of historian Suzanne Citron.
2010

Robert Curtis Smith

American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist and songwriter (1930-2010)
Robert Curtis Smith (February 17, 1930 – November 10, 2010) was a Piedmont blues singer, guitarist and songwriter from Cruger, Mississippi, US. Smith was influenced by Big Bill Broonzy. He recorded one album, for Bluesville Records, released in 1963.
2010 Theo Doyer

Theo Doyer

Dutch field hockey player (1955-2010)
Jan Jacob Theodoor "Theo" Doyer (December 29, 1955 – November 10, 2010) was a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch National Team that finished sixth in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Eight years earlier he was also on the Holland squad, that ended up fourth at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
2010

Tiger Lance

South African cricketer (1940-2010)
Herbert Roy "Tiger" Lance (6 June 1940 – 10 November 2010) was a South African cricketer who played in 13 Test matches between 1962 and 1970 as an all-rounder. Tiger Lance was born in Pretoria, Transvaal. He was a forceful middle-order batsman and useful seam bowler.
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His father William and his younger brother Anthony also played first-class cricket in South Africa. His most successful series was against Australia in 1966–67, when he played several important innings after early wickets had fallen cheaply; he hit a six off the bowling of Ian Chappell to win not only the Fifth Test in Port Elizabeth, but also the series, South Africa's first series win against Australia in the eleventh series between the two countries. In the five Tests of the series he scored 261 runs at 37.28. His form in domestic matches in 1969–70 was moderate and he was not selected for the First Test against Australia, but at the request of the captain Ali Bacher he was included in the side for the rest of the series. He was also selected for the 1970 tour of England and the 1971–72 tour of Australia, but neither series eventuated owing to anti-apartheid feeling in the host countries. He retired after the 1971–72 season. He died in hospital in Johannesburg, four weeks after the car he was driving was hit by a woman driving on the wrong side of the road.
2010

Veronica Rodrigues

Indian neurobiologist (1953–2010)
Veronica Filomena Rodrigues (1953 – 10 November 2010) was a Kenyan-born Indian biologist. Veronica completed a B.A with honors in Microbiology from Trinity College Dublin. After being inspired by the work of Obaid Siddiqi and his co-workers, she moved to India to pursue her Ph.D.
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While doing her PhD, considering her exceptional work, she was offered a permanent faculty position at TIFR. She also served as a senior professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. In 2004 she received the Senior National Woman Bioscientist Award. She died in 2010 after suffering from breast cancer for five years.
2010

William Cheng (civil servant)

Singaporean civil servant (1928–2010)
William Cheng (27 December 1928 – 10 November 2010) was a Singaporean civil servant, and the first trade representative of Singapore to Taiwan, from 1979 to 1988. Cheng was also the chairman of the Central Provident Fund Board from 1973 to 1979.
2011

Adrián Yospe

Argentine film actor (1970–2011)
Adrián Ezequiel Yospe (12 February 1970 – 10 November 2011) was an Argentine actor. He appeared in 13 films between 1991 and 2011.
2011

Alan Keen

British politician (1937-2011)
David Alan Keen (25 November 1937 – 10 November 2011) was a British Labour Co-operative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Feltham and Heston from 1992 until his death in 2011.
2011 Andrei Igorov

Andrei Igorov

Canoe racer (1939-2011)
Andrei Igorov (10 December 1939 – 10 November 2011) was a Romanian canoe sprinter. He specialized in the C-1 10000 m event, in which he won silver medals at the 1963 World and European Championships, as well as two European titles, in 1965 and 1967. This event was not available at the 1964 Olympics, and Igorov had to compete in the C-1 1000 m.
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He won a silver medal finishing 0.42 seconds ahead of the third place.
2011

Barbara Grier

writer
Barbara Glycine Grier (November 4, 1933 – November 10, 2011) was an American writer and publisher. She is credited as one of the leaders of the women in print movement during second-wave feminism, responsible for building the lesbian book industry. After editing The Ladder magazine, published by the lesbian civil rights group Daughters of Bilitis, she co-founded a lesbian book-publishing company Naiad Press, which achieved publicity and became the world's largest publisher of lesbian books.
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She built a major collection of lesbian literature, catalogued with detailed indexing of topics.
2011

Carlo Tabalujan

Indonesian businessman
Carlo Hein Tabalujan (born Tan Tjin Hin 譚欣下巴; 18 April 1924 – 10 November 2011) was a Chinese Indonesian businessman and entrepreneur of Hokkien origin. He was the head and founder of Indonesian conglomerate PT. Sumber Selatan Nusa.
2011

David Boyd (artist)

Australian artist (1924-2011)
David Fielding Gough Boyd (23 August 1924 – 10 November 2011) was an Australian artist, and a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty.
2011 Ed Hoekstra

Ed Hoekstra

Canadian ice hockey player (1937-2011)
Edward Adrian Hoekstra (November 4, 1937 – November 10, 2011) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 70 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1967–68 season and played 97 games in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Houston Aeros from 1972 to 1974. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1958 to 1974, was spent in the minor leagues.
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He was the brother of Cecil Hoekstra, who also played hockey.
2011 Fred Iklé

Fred Iklé

United States Department of Defense Official (1924-2011)
Fred Charles Iklé (né Fritz Karl Iklé; August 21, 1924 – November 10, 2011) was a Swiss-American sociologist and defense expert. Iklé's expertise was in defense and foreign policy, nuclear strategy, and the role of technology in the emerging international order. After a career in academia (including a professorship at MIT) he was appointed director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1973–1977, before becoming Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1981 to 1988).
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He was later a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, a Distinguished Scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a Director of the National Endowment for Democracy. Iklé is credited with a key role in increasing U.S. aid to anti-Soviet rebels in the Soviet–Afghan War. He successfully proposed and promoted the idea of supplying the rebels with anti-aircraft Stinger missiles, overcoming CIA opposition. Iklé was a second cousin of Elisabeth Kopp, the first woman in the Swiss Federal Council, elected in 1984.
2011

Hiroshi Saito (basketball)

Japanese basketball player (1933-2011)
Hiroshi Saito (斎藤 博, Saitō Hiroshi; 15 September 1933 – 10 November 2011) is a Japanese basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.
2011

Jacques Lataste

French fencer (1922-2011)
Jacques Lataste (7 June 1922 – 10 November 2011) was a French fencer. He won two gold medals and a silver in the team foil event at three different Olympics.
2011

Luis Davidson San Juan

mathematician
Luis J. Davidson San Juan ((1921-09-10)September 10, 1921 – (2011-11-10)November 10, 2011) was a Cuban mathematician, professor and Doctor in Mathematics, known for his contributions to the fields of mathematics and pedagogy. He is renowned for receiving the Paul Erdős Award in 1992 by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, and for being awarded the distinction of Maestro Founder of Mathematics in Ibero-America by the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture.
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He was the Vice President of the International Mathematical Olympiad Site Committee in 1988. And he is the author of many books, including Equations and mathematicians (2008), and Problems of elementary mathematics (1987).
2011 Mu Zang

Mu Zang

Chinese mycologist
Mu Zang (28 December 1930 – 10 November 2011) was a Chinese mycologist. He was known for his research on the Boletales of China, and the ecology and biogeography of fungi in southwestern China. He described more than 140 new species and circumscribed three genera, published more than 150 research papers, was chief editor or co-editor for twelve books, and wrote two monographs on the Boletaceae of China.
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His final book, "Dictionary of the Families and Genera of Chinese Cryptogamic (Spore) Plants" was co-authored with his wife, Professor Xinjiang Li.
2011 Petar Kralj

Petar Kralj

actor (1941-2011)
Petar Kralj (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Краљ; 4 April 1941 – 10 November 2011) was a Serbian theater, film and television actor.
2011

Rashed Mosharraf

politician
Rashed Mosharraf (died 10 November 2011) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jamalpur-2 constituency. He served as the state minister of land during 1996–2001. He was also the president of the Bangladesh Krishak League.
2011

Ted Bollard

New Zealand botanist, plant physiologist and science administrator (1920–2011)
Edward George Bollard (21 January 1920 – 10 November 2011) was a New Zealand plant physiologist and science administrator.
2011 William A. Cugno

William A. Cugno

American army general (1948-2011)
Major General William Anthony Cugno was born April 4, 1948, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was the son of Anthony and Marie Cugno of Harwich, Massachusetts. He graduated from Waterbury's Crosby High School in 1967.
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He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Connecticut in 1984 and a master's degree in public administration from Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1991. General Cugno served as the adjutant general and commander of the Connecticut Army and Air National Guard from June 1999 until his retirement in April 2005. Prior to becoming the adjutant general, during his 38-year military career, he served in several command and staff positions. General Cugno was a combat veteran of Vietnam where he served as a platoon leader from August 1968 to 1969 with the 9th Infantry Division. He joined the Connecticut Army National Guardin 1970 and held several staff and company command positions to include the 1st Battalion, 192nd (coastal) Artillery; Headquarters and Headquarters Co., 242nd Engineer Battalion; 130th Public Affairs Detachment. Following his company commands, General Cugno served as the Connecticut National Guard's Recruiting and Retention Manager for eight years. He then served as the commander of the 242nd Combat Engineer Battalion. Upon graduation from the U.S. Army War College, General Cugno was assigned as the commander of the 85th Troop Command, a brigade-size command, and served until 1994 when he was named the State Director of Plans, Operations, and Military Support for the Connecticut Military Department. In 1996, he served as the chief of staff for the City of Waterbury and was responsible for the day-to-day operations of city government.
2011

Winston C. Doby

American academic
Winston Churchill Doby (February 20, 1940 – November 10, 2011) was one of UCLA's vice chancellors. He was vice chancellor of student affairs for 20 years, making him the longest-serving vice chancellor in UCLA history, and then served as the vice president of student affairs for the UC system.
2011

Yuri Kvashnin

Soviet pair skater (1964–2011)
Yuri Kvashnin (Russian: Юрий Квашнин, 24 November 1964 – 10 November 2011) was a Russian pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union. With Marina Avstriyskaya, he won gold at the 1982 and 1983 World Junior Championships and competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics, placing ninth.
2012

Birger Strømsheim

Norwegian resistance fighter
Birger Edvin Martin Strømsheim (11 October 1911 – 10 November 2012) was a Norwegian resistance member during World War II, especially noted for his role in the heavy water sabotage 1942–1943.
2012

Eric Day

footballer (1921-2012)
Eric Charles Day (6 November 1921 – 10 November 2012) was an English footballer who played his entire career of nearly 400 Football League games for Southampton. He was born in Dartford, Kent. During his career with the club, which lasted 11 years from 1945 to 1957, he scored 145 league goals, which placed him seventh on the club's list of all-time goalscorers.
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He was selected to play for the Third Division South representative side in 1954–55.
2012

Eric Devenport

Bishop of Dunwich
Eric Nash Devenport (3 May 1926 – 10 November 2012) was Bishop of Dunwich from 1980 to 1992. Devenport was born in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. He attended the Lichfield Cathedral choir school until the family moved to Durham.
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His training at Kelham Hall theological college was interrupted by National Service in the Royal Navy. He was also educated at the Open University. After ordination he held curacies at St Mark's Church, Leicester and St Matthew, Barrow-in-Furness. Following this he was Succentor at Leicester Cathedral, then Vicar of Shepshed and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) Leader of Mission for the Diocese of Leicester. He resigned in 1992 and became Archdeacon of Italy and Malta and Chaplain of St Mark's, Florence, a post he held for five years. In retirement he was an assistant bishop in the Norwich Diocese until his death in 2012.
2012

Gilbert Geis

born:1925-10-01|died:2012-11-10|; Geis, Gilbert, criminoloog; Geis, Gilbert, 1925-2012; Geis, Gilbert, 1925-
Gilbert Lawrence Geis (January 10, 1925 – November 10, 2012) was an American criminologist known for his research on white-collar crime. He is particularly recognized for his paper "The Heavy Electric Equipment Antitrust Case of 1961", originally published in the 1967 book Criminal Behavior Systems: A Typology. He played a major role in founding the Department of Criminology, Law and Society in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine.
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He also served as president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the American Society of Criminology. He was a member of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice convened by then-President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson. He was author of over 500 articles and book chapters, as well as twenty-eight books. He was described by Henry Pontell and Paul Jesilow as "one of the most prolific scholars in all of social science".
2012 Kekoo Gandhy

Kekoo Gandhy

Indian art gallery owner
Kekoo Gandhy (2 February 1920 – 10 November 2012) was an Indian art gallerist, art collector and art connoisseur, who pioneered the promotion of Indian modern art from the 1940s. He established Chemould Frames, a frame manufacturing business in 1941, soon he started displaying works of young modern artists K. H.
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Ara, S. H. Raza, K. K. Hebbar and M. F. Husain in his showroom windows. This led to gradual rise of modern art movement and post-colonial art in India. Eventually Gallery Chemould, India's first commercial art gallery, was opened in 1963 on the first floor of the Jehangir Art Gallery. He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2008.
2012 Li Shijun

Li Shijun

Chinese Esperanto writer and translator (1923-2012)
Li Shijun (Chinese: 李士俊; pinyin: Lǐ Shìjùn; 29 March 1923 – 10 November 2012), also known by his Esperanto pseudonym Laŭlum, was a Chinese author, editor and translator who elected as a committee member of Akademio de Esperanto since 1983 and reelected in 1992, 2001 and 2010. He was a member of the China Democratic League. He was among the first few in China who translated the Chinese literature into Esperanto.
2012 Miriam Shlesinger

Miriam Shlesinger

linguist and interpreter (1947-2012)
Miriam Shlesinger (Hebrew: מרים שלזינגר; 20 May 1947, in Miami Beach – 10 November 2012) was a US-Israeli linguist and interpreter.
2012 Mitsuko Mori

Mitsuko Mori

Japanese actress (born 1920)
Mitsuko Mori , real name Mitsu Murakami , was a Japanese actress.
2012 Mynavathi

Mynavathi

Indian actress (1935-2012)
Mynavathi (26 July 1935 – 10 November 2012) was an Indian actress. She made her first screen appearance as an actor in the 1955 Kannada film Santa Sakhu and acted in over 100 Kannada films. She was the younger sister of another popular Kannada actress Pandari Bai.
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She became popular after her role in the 1959 Kannada film Abba Aa Hudugi, which co-starred Rajkumar and her sister Pandari Bai and was directed by H. L. N. Simha. In the film, she played the role of an autocratic girl who hates men. It was based on William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew.
2012

Ricky Naputi

Heaviest man from Guam
Ricky Junior Naputi (June 20, 1973 – November 10, 2012) was a Guamanian man who apparently died from overeating in his apartment in Mangilao, Guam, at 39 years old. He had struggled with his health since he was a teenager, which was when he developed an addiction to food, though he was an average-sized child. He weighed roughly 402 kg (900 lb) at his peak weight.
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He was the target of the Channel 5 documentary The Man Who Ate Himself to Death and TLC followed him for their documentary 900 Pound Man: The Race Against Time. That documentary suggests the possibility of either suicide or foul-play as, when Cheryl, his wife, called emergency services, she said he had taken some pills and was not breathing. In the documentary, she admits that she told him she was leaving him because she was not in love with him anymore, and he became very upset. Given his weight and inability to leave his bed, the question of how he got the pills exists, and those pills are potentially the actual cause of death.
2012

Robert Carter (RAF officer)

British air force officer (1910–2012)
Air Commodore Robert Alfred Copsey Carter, (15 September 1910 – 10 November 2012) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. He received a Distinguished Service Order for his leadership of No. 150 Squadron RAF in bombing raids against German battleships.
2012

Sándor Kiss (gymnast)

Hungarian gymnast (1941-2012)
Sándor Kiss (23 April 1941 – 10 November 2012) was a Hungarian gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
2012 Stuart Freedman

Stuart Freedman

American physicist (1944-2012)
Stuart Jay Freedman (January 13, 1944 – November 10, 2012) was an American physicist, known for his experiment testing Bell's inequality proposed to him by John Clauser at the University of California, Berkeley as well as for his contributions to nuclear and particle physics, particularly weak interaction physics. He was a graduate of Berkeley, receiving a Bachelor of Science in 1965 and his PhD in physics in 1972 under Eugene Commins. While at Berkeley, he worked with fellow graduate student Steven Chu.
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He was also recipient of 2007 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics. He held positions at Princeton University, Stanford University, Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
2012

Wally Swift

British boxer (1936-2012)
Wally Swift (10 August 1936 – 10 November 2012) was a British boxer who won the British welterweight title in 1960 and twice fought for the Commonwealth title before moving up to middleweight, becoming British champion between 1964 and 1965. He went on to fight for the European super welterweight and middleweight titles and the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles.
2013

Carl Hilliard

American journalist, reporter and columnist
Carl Hilliard (October 25, 1937 – November 10, 2013) was an American journalist, reporter and columnist. Born in Gebo, Wyoming, he began working for the Missoulian in Montana and worked on the base newspaper while stationed in the army at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center from 1960 to 1962. He worked for the Albuquerque Journal covering sports and general assignment news in 1963–64, and joined the Associated Press in November 1964 and worked in its bureau in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
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He was assigned to cover politics and state government for the Associated Press in Denver in 1967 and retired in 1999. Carl Hilliard died of heart attack on November 10, 2013, aged 76, in Commerce City, Colorado.
2013 Giorgio Orelli

Giorgio Orelli

Swiss poet and translator (born 1921)
Giorgio Orelli was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator.
2013

Hugh Morris (Australian footballer)

Australian rules footballer (1932–2013)
Hugh Jackson Morris (22 January 1932 – 10 November 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a premiership player with Essendon's reserves in 1952. Morris also played for Warracknabeal and Port Melbourne.
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Morris initially worked as a police officer before founding his own security company.
2013

Jiang Zejia

Chinese physicist
Jiang Zejia (simplified Chinese: 江泽佳; traditional Chinese: 江澤佳; pinyin: Jiāng Zéjiā; November 1920 – 10 November 2013) was a Chinese electrical engineer and educator.
2013 John Matchefts

John Matchefts

American ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)
John Peter Matchefts was an American ice hockey player and coach. Matchefts played for Team USA at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
2013

Kirpal Singh Bhardwaj

Kenyan hockey player (1935-2013)
Kirpal Singh Bhardwaj (9 September 1935 – 10 November 2013) was a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.
2013 Ray Riddell

Ray Riddell

Australian rules footballer and coach (1919-2013)
Norman Raymond Riddell (26 March 1918 – 10 November 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s. Riddell's VFL career was limited due to the war, as he was at the time a Leading Aircraftman with the RAAF. He played twice in the 1944 VFL season and his only appearance in 1945 was a preliminary final, which Collingwood lost.
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Riddell played in two further games in 1946. He briefly coached Preston in 1951, as a replacement for Reg Ryan who left before the season concluded.
2013

Richie Jean Jackson

American writer (1932-2013)
Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson (née Sherrod; August 30, 1932 – November 10, 2013), was an American author, teacher, and civil rights activist.
2013

Safdar Rahmat Abadi

Iranian politician
Safdar Rahmat Abadi (also Rahmatabadi) (died 10 November 2013) was an Iranian politician who served as deputy minister of industry in the governments of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Rouhani. His remit also included mining and trade. He was shot dead either in his car or as he entered his car at around 7:50 pm (15:50 GMT) on 10 November 2013 in the capital Tehran.
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His attacker has not been identified. No organisation has yet claimed responsibility, and the motivation for the killing is unknown. According to the BBC, some Iranian bloggers have been critical of the official position that the killing was not a political assassination. The assassination is the first of a senior political figure at the national level in Iran in several years. It follows the murder by shooting of Mousa Nouri, public prosecutor for the city of Zabol, in the border province of Sistan and Baluchestan on 6 November, for which the Sunni Islamist group Jaish ul-Adl claimed responsibility.
2013

Tommy Quick

Swedish archer
Tommy Quick (22 July 1955 – 10 November 2013) was a Swedish archer. He competed in the men's individual event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
2014

Brian Farrell (broadcaster)

Irish author, journalist, academic and broadcaster (1929-2014)
Bernard Brendan "Brian" Farrell (9 January 1929 – 10 November 2014) was an Irish author, journalist, academic and broadcaster. He presented programmes such as Today Tonight, and Prime Time on RTÉ.
2014

Clifford Branstad

American politician
Clifford Orville Branstad (April 23, 1924 – November 10, 2014) was an American politician who served in the Iowa House of Representatives between 1979 and 1997. Born in Thompson, Iowa, and one of five children to Lydia Siekmeier and Philip A. G.
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Branstad, Clifford Branstad attended the local high school, but left in January 1943 to enlist in the Army Air Corps, where he served 43 months, flying 41 missions for the Army Air Force. Upon his return to the United States and still without a high school diploma, Branstad enrolled at the Dunwoody Institute in Minnesota. He then earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and economics from the University of Iowa in 1948 after having studied at Central State Teachers College in Wisconsin. Branstad later became a pre-law student at Georgetown University and then moved to Chicago to work in the insurance industry. Branstad began farming near Thompson in 1951, and began his political career by contesting the state legislative elections of 1978, succeeding his second cousin Terry Branstad as state representative from the eighth district in January 1979. He won a second term in 1980, and from 1983 to his retirement in 1997 represented the sixteenth district. In December 2006, Branstad was awarded a high school diploma from North Iowa High School, which had formed from a merger between Thompson and Buffalo Center-Rake-Lakota High Schools in 1996. Branstad was a Lutheran. He died in 2014, aged 90, survived by his wife, Grace Martin, whom he had married in 1947, and four of his five children.
2014

Emmitt Ford

American politician (1943-2014)
Emmitt H. Ford (December 13, 1943 – November 10, 2014) was an American politician from Tennessee. He represented the 86th district encompassing Shelby County from 1975–1981.
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He was also an uncle of former United States Congressman Harold Ford Jr.
2014

Ernest Kinoy

American screenwriter
Ernest Kinoy (April 1, 1925 – November 10, 2014) was an American writer, screenwriter and playwright. He was known as a staff writer for the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) where he wrote scripts for many television and radio shows.
2014

Frank Allen (chemist)

English crystallographer
Frank Harmsworth Allen FRSC CChem (1944–2014) was an internationally recognised crystallographer.
2014

Gaetano Varcasia

Italian actor and voice actor (1959-2014)
Gaetano Varcasia (6 September 1959 – 10 November 2014) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
2014 Geula Nuni

Geula Nuni

Israeli actress
Geula Nuni (Hebrew: גאולה נוני; 9 June 1942 – 10 November 2014) was an Israeli actress and singer.
2014

Homer Heck

American politician
Homer Heck was an American businessman and politician.
2014

J. F. Gonzalez

American writer
Jesus F. Gonzalez (May 8, 1964 – November 10, 2014) was an American author, primarily of horror fiction (writing under the pseudonym J. F.
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Gonzalez). He has written many notable novels and has done collaborations with Bram Stoker Award winners Mike Oliveri and Brian Keene. His novel Survivor has been optioned to be filmed by Chesapeake Films, and Clickers has been optioned by Cooked Goose Productions. He primarily worked in the horror genre, with works published by such diverse companies as Leisure Books, Kensington Books, HarperCollins, Cemetery Dance Publications, Delirium Books, Bloodletting Press, and others. Ellen Datlow has listed his works in her "Recommended Reads" in her annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies.
2014

John Spencer Letts

United States federal judge
John Spencer Letts (December 19, 1934 – November 10, 2014) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
2014

Ken Takakura

Japanese actor (1931–2014)
Ken Takakura (Japanese: 高倉 健, Hepburn: Takakura Ken), born Takeichi Oda (小田 剛一, Oda Takeichi; February 16, 1931 – November 10, 2014), was a Japanese actor and singer who appeared in over 200 films. Affectionately referred to as "Ken-san" by audiences, he was best known for his brooding style and the stoic presence he brought to his roles. He won the Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role four times, tied with Koji Yakusho for the most ever.
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Takakura additionally received the Japanese Medal of Honor with purple ribbon in 1998, the Person of Cultural Merit award in 2006, and the Order of Culture in 2013.
2014

M. S. S. Pandian

social scientist who studied South Indian politics and culture
Mathias Samuel Soundra Pandian (16 December 1958 – 10 November 2014) was an eminent social scientist whose area of research covered the Dravidian Movement, South Indian politics, cinema, caste, identity and several other socially relevant issues. Pandian joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi as a professor in 2009. While serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies he offered courses on 'Region, Language and the Politics of Nation Making' and 'Caste, Culture and Communication: An Alternative Intellectual History of Modern India'.
2014

Ma'ali Zayed

Egyptian actress (1953-2014)
Ma'ali Zayed (Arabic: معالي زايد; November 5, 1953 - November 10, 2014) was an Egyptian actress who appeared in over 30 films, as well as numerous theatrical productions and television series in Egypt. She studied at the College of Art Education and then the Higher Institute of Cinema. Her first artistic appearance on television was in the movie “The Promised Night.”
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Zayed gained prominence for her roles in the series "Tears in Shameless Eyes" and "Heat Wave," as well as her part in the theatrical production "Extra Sugar." Her career in cinema commenced in 1987 with her debut film "Life is Wasted, My Son." Notably, she rose to fame for her performances in "The Egg and the Stone" and "Those Gentlemen," the latter being a groundbreaking Egyptian film that addressed the subject of gender-affirming surgery (female-to-male) in Arabic societies. She died on November 10, 2014, following a long battle with the Lung cancer.
2014 Marianne Alopaeus

Marianne Alopaeus

Finnish writer (1918–2014)
Marianne Alopaeus (9 October 1918 – 10 November 2014) was a Finnish-born writer who published in Swedish.
2014

Mohd Bakri Omar

former Inspector General of Police
Mohd Bakri bin Omar (10 September 1948 – 10 November 2014) was an Inspector General of Police who served from 5 November 2003 to 11 September 2006. Born in Manjung, Perak, Bakri began his service as an Assistant Superintendent Cadet on 1 January 1971, and like most other officers, has undergone basic police training at Police Training Center (PULAPOL). He became Kedah Police Chief in 1996 and Kuala Lumpur Police Chief in 1997.
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Then, in 2002, he was appointed Deputy Inspector General of Police. When Tan Sri Norian Mai retired on 5 November 2003, Bakri was appointed his replacement.
2014

R. K. W. Goonesekera

Sri Lankan lawyer and academic
Deshamanya R. K. W.
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Goonesekera, PC (8 May 1928 – 10 November 2014) was a Sri Lankan lawyer and academic. He was the Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya, a Professor and Professor of Law, Ahmadu Bello University and Principal of the Sri Lanka Law College. He specialises in Public Law, Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights. Educated at Royal College Colombo, he graduated with an LL.B. from the University of Ceylon in 1954, he was called to bar as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. In 1956 he gained a BCL from the University of Oxford. Goonesekera served as a senior lecturer of Law University of Ceylon and thereafter served as Principal of Sri Lanka Law College from 1966 to 1974. He became a Professor in Law at Ahmadu Bello University. A founder member of the Civil Rights Movement, Prof Goonesekera headed the Nadesan Centre for Human Rights through Law and became Deputy President of the Bar Council in 1993. He was also a member of the Legal Aid Commission and the Law Commission. He was appointed a President's Counsel and was awarded the title Deshamanya by the government of Sri Lanka. Goonesekera died on 10 November 2014, at the age of 86.
2014

Shi Changxu

Chinese material scientist (1920-2014)
Shi Changxu (Chinese: 师昌绪; 15 November 1920 – 10 November 2014) was a Chinese metallurgist. He served as vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
2014 Steve Dodd

Steve Dodd

Australian soldier, actor (1928-2014)
Steve Dodd (1 June 1928 – 10 November 2014) was an Aboriginal Australian actor, notable for playing Aboriginal characters across seven decades of Australian film. After beginning his working life as a stockman and rodeo rider, Dodd was given his first film roles by prominent Australian actor Chips Rafferty. His career was interrupted by six years in the Australian Army during the Korean War, and limited by typecasting.
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Dodd performed in several major Australian movies, including Gallipoli and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, in which he played Tabidgi, the murdering uncle of the lead character. He also held minor parts in Australia-based international film productions including The Coca-Cola Kid, Quigley Down Under and The Matrix. He likewise appeared in minor roles in early Australian television series, such as Homicide and Rush, as well as later series including The Flying Doctors. In 2013, Dodd was honoured with the Jimmy Little Lifetime Achievement Award at the 19th Deadly Awards at the Sydney Opera House. He died in November 2014.
2014 Syed Mainul Hossain

Syed Mainul Hossain

Bangladeshi architect
Syed Mainul Hossain (17 March 1952 – 10 November 2014) was a Bangladeshi structural engineer and architect. He is the designer of the National Martyrs' Memorial, one of the national landmarks of Bangladesh. He was posthumously awarded the Independence Award in 2022.
2014 Talgat Bigeldinov

Talgat Bigeldinov

Soviet aviator (1922-2014)
Talgat Jakypbekuly Bigeldinov (Kazakh: Талғат Жақыпбекұлы Бигелдинов, romanized: Talğat Jaqypbekūly Bigeldinov, Russian: Талгат Якубекович Бегельдинов) was a ground-attack pilot during the Second World War and the only Kazakh who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He remained in the military after the war and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel before he transferred to the reserve. After Kazakhstan became independent from the Soviet Union he was promoted to the rank of Major-General.
2014

Tomas Young

American soldier, war protester
Tomas Young (November 30, 1979 – November 10, 2014) was an American military veteran of the Iraq War. In 2004, he was wounded and paralyzed by a bullet to the spine five days after he reached Iraq. One of the first veterans to come out publicly against the war, Young actively protested against the war after he returned to the United States.
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When his physical condition worsened in 2013 due to various medical complications, Young chose to go into hospice care. He later reversed that decision and accepted medical treatment until he died in 2014.
2014

Whitey Adolfson

American football and wrestling coach
Earl Carl "Whitey" Adolfson Jr. (November 11, 1931 – November 10, 2014) was an American football and wrestling coach. He served as the head football coach at Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia from 1975 to 1979.
2015

Abdur Rahman (scholar)

Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1955–2015)
Abdur Rahman (Bengali: আব্দুর রহমান চাটগামী; 1920–2015), also known as Faqihul Millat, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school. He was born in Imam Nagar, Fatikchhari, Chittagong, in 1920. He was the founder director of the Islamic Research Center Bangladesh, Dhaka.
2015 Alfonso Dávila Ortiz

Alfonso Dávila Ortiz

Colombian businessman and politician
Alfonso Dávila Ortiz (4 April 1922 – 10 November 2015) was a Colombian civil engineer, diplomat, businessman and forester, former ambassador to Spain and Kuwait, Chargé d'Affaires in the United States of America, Governor of the Province of Cundinamarca, President of the Colombian Banker’s Association, twice President of the Colombian Association of Engineers, Councilor of the city of Bogotá, lifelong President of Bogotá’s Jockey Club and member of Colombia’s National Council of Public Works.
2015

Alix d'Unienville

British spy (1918-2015)
Alix Marrier d'Unienville, MBE (8 May 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a French-British agent in the Free French (RF) Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), during World War II.
2015 Bill Quinlan

Bill Quinlan

American football player (1932-2015)
William David Quinlan (June 19, 1932 – November 10, 2015) was an American professional football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions, and Washington Redskins. He also played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Quinlan played college football at Michigan State University and was selected in the third round of the 1956 NFL draft.
2015 David Atlas

David Atlas

meteorologist and radar pioneer (1924-2015)
David Atlas (May 25, 1924 – November 10, 2015) was an American meteorologist and one of the pioneers of radar meteorology. His career extended from World War II to his death: he worked for the US Air Force, then was professor at the University of Chicago and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), researcher at NASA and private consultant. Atlas owned 22 patents, published more than 260 papers, was a member of many associations, and received numerous honors in his field.
2015

George M. Scott (West Virginia judge)

American judge (1929–2015)
George M. Scott (August 5, 1929 – November 10, 2015) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. In November 1999, he was appointed by Republican Governor Cecil H.
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Underwood to the Supreme Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Justice Margaret Workman.
2015 Gusti Nurul

Gusti Nurul

Indonesian dancer (1921–2015)
Gusti Raden Ayu Siti Nurul Kamaril Ngasarati Kusumowardhani (17 September 1921 – 10 November 2015) was an Indonesian dancer and the only daughter of Mangkunegara VII and his consort, Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Timoer. She was known for her performance at the Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld marriage in 1937, and for rejecting the marriage proposal from Hamengkubuwono IX, Sutan Sjahrir, and Sukarno due to not wanting to be in a polygamy.
2015

Harold Collins (Canadian politician)

Canadian politician (1925-2015)
Harold Anthony Collins (May 21, 1925 – November 10, 2015) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Gander in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1967 to 1979. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Collins was born at Indian Islands, Newfoundland. He married Joan Peckford in 1949 and has ten children. Collins died in 2015 at the age of 90.
2015

Johannes Pujasumarta

archbishop from Indonesia
Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta (27 December 1949 in Surakarta - 10 November 2015 in Semarang) was a Roman Catholic archbishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1977, Pujasumarta was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bandung, Indonesia in 2008. In 2010, he was named archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Semarang; Pujasumarta died while still in office.
2015

John Carlill

Royal Navy Rear-Admiral (1925–2015)
Rear-Admiral John Hildred Carlill, OBE, DL (24 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
2015

Judith Magyar Isaacson

educator, author, and human rights advocate (1925-2015)
Judith Magyar Isaacson (July 3, 1925 – November 10, 2015) was a Hungarian-American educator, university administrator, speaker, and author. Born in Hungary into a Jewish family, Isaacson was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp with her mother and aunt in July 1944, where she spent eight months in forced labor in an underground munitions plant in Hessisch Lichtenau. After liberation, she married a United States intelligence officer and moved to his hometown of Lewiston, Maine.
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She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics in Maine colleges in the mid-1960s and taught at Lewiston High School and Bates College, serving as dean of women and dean of students at the latter institution. Her 1990 memoir, Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor, inspired a 1995 electronic chamber opera and a 1998 experimental film. The recipient of numerous awards and three honorary degrees, Isaacson was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2004.
2015

Klaus Roth

British mathematician (1925–2015)
Klaus Friedrich Roth (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester Medal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Roth moved to England as a child in 1933 to escape the Nazis, and was educated at the University of Cambridge and University College London, finishing his doctorate in 1950.
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He taught at University College London until 1966, when he took a chair at Imperial College London. He retired in 1988. Beyond his work on Diophantine approximation, Roth made major contributions to the theory of progression-free sets in arithmetic combinatorics and to the theory of irregularities of distribution. He was also known for his research on sums of powers, on the large sieve, on the Heilbronn triangle problem, and on square packing in a square. He was a coauthor of the book Sequences on integer sequences.
2015

Larry Chimbole

American politician
Larry Chimbole (May 22, 1919 – November 10, 2015) was a United States Army veteran of World War II, California politician, and a member of the Democratic party.
2015 Michael Wright (basketball)

Michael Wright (basketball)

Turkish basketball player (1980–2015)
Michael Wright (January 7, 1980 – November 10, 2015) was an American-Turkish professional basketball player. He also held Turkish citizenship, under the name Ali Karadeniz. He played professional basketball in Poland, Spain, Israel, South Korea, France, Germany, and Turkey.
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He was murdered in 2015.
2015

Ralph Bennett

British transport administrator
Ralph Featherstone Bennett FIMechE, FCILT, FRSA (3 December 1923 – 10 November 2015) was a British transport administrator who was general manager of Manchester City Transport from 1965 to 1968 and chairman of the London Transport Executive from 1978 to 1980. Bennett introduced one-man operation to buses in Manchester and London and promoted London Underground's extension of the Piccadilly line to Heathrow Airport and the construction of the Jubilee line.
2015 Tim Valentine

Tim Valentine

American politician (1926-2015)
Itimous Thaddeus "Tim" Valentine Jr. (March 15, 1926 – November 10, 2015) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina from 1983 to 1995.
2015 Volodymyr Demidko

Volodymyr Demidko

Ukrainian politician (1952–2015)
Volodymyr Mykolayovych Demidko (also transliterated as Demydko; Ukrainian: Володимир Миколайович Демидко; 12 February 1952-10 November 2015) was a Ukrainian politician and businesswoman who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada representing the 5th, 6th, and 7th convocations from 2006 to 2014 with the Party of Regions.
2016

André Ruellan

French writer (1922–2016)
André Ruellan (7 August 1922 – 10 November 2016) was a French science fiction and horror writer who has also used the pseudonym of Kurt Steiner, Kurt Wargar and André Louvigny.
2016

Arnulfo Obando (boxing coach)

Nicaraguan boxing coach
Arnulfo Obando (1962 – 10 November 2016) was a boxing coach from Nicaragua. His most notable boxer was Román González, whom he coached from 2010 to his death in 2016. He was one of five nominated for Trainer of the Year by The Ring magazine in 2015 but the award went to Joe Gallagher.
2016

Bill Stanfill

American football player (born 1947–2016)
William Thomas Stanfill (January 13, 1947 – November 10, 2016) was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Miami Dolphins of the American Football League (AFL) and then the National Football League (NFL) after the AFL-NFL merger of 1970. He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs. He was a member of Miami's two Super Bowl-winning teams.
2016

Carlos Alberto Cunha

Brazilian judoka (1959–2016)
Carlos Alberto Cunha (21 May 1959 – 10 November 2016) was a Brazilian judoka. He competed in the men's half-middleweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
2016

David Adamany

Political scientist, academic, eighth president of Wayne State University (1982-1997); eighth president of Temple University (2000-2006)
David Walter Adamany (September 23, 1936 – November 10, 2016) was the 8th president of Wayne State University, from 1983 to 1997. One of Wayne State University's libraries, David Adamany Undergraduate Library, was his creation. Subsequently, Adamany later was head of the Detroit Public School District from 1999 to 2000.
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He was Temple University's eighth president, from 2000 to 2006. David Adamany died Thursday November 10, 2016.
2016 Francisco Nieva

Francisco Nieva

Spanish writer (1924-2016)
Francisco Morales Nieva (29 December 1924 – 10 November 2016) was a Spanish playwright. Born in Valdepeñas, he moved to Madrid at an early age to train at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member of the avant-garde literary movement called Postismo.
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Between 1948 and 1963, he lived in Paris where his acquaintances included modernists such as Ionesco and Beckett. His first published work Es bueno no tener cabeza appeared in 1971. A past winner of the Asturias Award, he was considered to be a leading candidate for the Cervantes Prize. Nieva was elected to Seat J of the Real Academia Española on 17 April 1986, he took up his seat on 29 April 1990.
2016

Ken Ballantyne

Scottish athlete
Ken Ballantyne (15 October 1940 – 10 November 2016) was a Scottish athlete who specialised in the mile. He represented Scotland in international competition between 1961 and 1966.
2016

Leo Bohan

Australian rules footballer (1929-2016)
Leo Bohan (16 September 1929 – 10 November 2016) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
2016

Mr. 3-2

American rapper from Houston, TX
Christopher Juel Barriere (July 11, 1972 – November 10, 2016), professionally known as 3-2, was an American rapper and a member of southern hip hop groups Convicts, Blac Monks, Southside Playaz and Screwed Up Click. He achieved success through his association with Rap-A-Lot Records. He was also known to be an influence on Snoop Dogg when he was just starting and became affiliated with Death Row Records in the early 1990’s with Convicts partner Big Mike.
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Barriere was fatally shot in the head at a gas station in Houston.
2016

Ndiouga Dieng

Senegalese singer (1947-2006)
Ndiouga Dieng (6 June 1947 – 10 November 2016) was a Senegalese singer and one of the original vocalists of Orchestra Baobab, who died in 2016 after a prolonged illness. Momo Dieng is his son.
2016

Nikola Korabov

Bulgarian film director, screenwriter (1928-2016)
Nikola Korabov (Bulgarian: Никола Корабов, 7 December 1928 – 10 November 2016) was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.
2016

Pierre Billard

French journalist and film critic (1922-2016)
Pierre Billard (3 July 1922 – 10 November 2016) was a French journalist, film critic and historian of cinema.
2016

Trevor Johnson (footballer)

Australian rules footballer (1935–2016)
Trevor Johnson (25 January 1935 – 10 November 2016) was an Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Johnson, who played 118 games for Melbourne from 1955-62 and was a member of Melbourne’s golden era, playing in the club’s 1955-56-57 and 1960 VFL Premierships. Recruited from the Epping FC and rejecting offers to join Fitzroy and Collingwood in 1952, Johnson joined the club he barracked for growing up: Melbourne.
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Although listed by Melbourne in 1953, he did not play for the club that year due to national service. He played reserves in 1954 and was part of Melbourne’s reserves Grand Final team, which lost to Richmond. He then made his VFL/AFL debut in round three, 1955 against Footscray at the MCG, which Melbourne won by 12 points. He won Melbourne’s best first year player award in 1955. Originally a back-pocket player, Johnson later played at centre half-forward. He was considered the ultimate team man and nicknamed ‘Phantom’, due to his ability to go under the radar. Johnson was the classic underrated player. After playing in three premierships in his first three senior seasons, Johnson played in Melbourne’s shock loss to Collingwood in the 1958 Grand Final. He missed Melbourne’s 1959 flag, but returned to play in the 1960 premiership – his fourth for the red and blue. Johnson retired in 1962 and was made a life member of the club. In 1968, Johnson coached Melbourne’s under 19s. In 2004, he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame as a member of the 1956 Melbourne premiership team – widely regarded as one of the greatest teams in VFL/AFL history. He was also awarded an Order of the Medal of Australia in 2006 for his service to the community through charity fundraisers. Johnson later became a highly successful mushroom grower in Wanneroo, Western Australia.
2017

A. G. Milkha Singh

Indian cricketer (1941-2017)
Amritsar Govindsingh Milkha Singh () (31 December 1941 – 10 November 2017) was an Indian Test cricketer. Milkha Singh was a left-handed batsman and an occasional right arm medium pace bowler. He came from a famous cricketing family which also produced A.
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G. Ram Singh and his more successful brother A. G. Kripal Singh. He was a brilliant schoolboy cricketer and his exploits led to a first-class debut at the age of 16. He represented South Zone Schools in the interzonal Cooch Behar Trophy and scored 114 in the final against West Zone. This led to the vice captaincy of the Indian Schools that toured Ceylon that year. Milkha, who studied at Loyola College, Chennai, was twice voted the best collegiate cricketer and represented university and state. He played four Test matches. He made his debut in 1959–60 against the Australians, toured Pakistan in 1960-61 and played one Test against England in 1961–62. In the Test against England, the Indian team also included A.G. Kripal Singh and Vaman Kumar, the only instance when three Tamil Nadu players appeared in an Indian side. Milkha was only 19 when he played his last Test. He scored more than 2,000 runs for Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy and was the first player to score a century in the Duleep Trophy.
2017 Bernhard Eckstein

Bernhard Eckstein

East German Olympic cyclist (1935-2017)
Bernhard Eckstein (21 August 1935 – 10 November 2017) was a German cyclist. In 1960, he won the road race at the world championships and finished in 22nd place in the road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics. During his career he won six one-day races, four in 1958, one in 1960 (the Manx Trophy in the amateurs division), and one in 1966.
2017

Duffy Ayers

English portrait painter (1915-2017)
Betty Mona Desmond Ayers (née FitzGerald; 19 September 1915 – 10 November 2017), known as Duffy Ayers, was an English portrait painter. She was known for most of her life by the nickname "Duffy". Born in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, one of a pair of identical twin girls of an American mother and an Irish father, William FitzGerald, the brother of the politician and poet Desmond FitzGerald, she trained at the Central School of Art in London, and later married the painter and printmaker Michael Rothenstein RA, son of William Rothenstein.
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In 1941 the couple moved to Chapel Cottage in the Essex village of Great Bardfield, and relocated the next year to Ethel House in the centre of the village. Duffy and Michael were important members of the famous art community which lived in the north Essex village during the post-war period. At Great Bardfield she was mainly known as Duffy Rothenstein, although she still painted under the name of Betty Fitzgerald. The Rothensteins, along with other village artists, organised a series of large open-house exhibitions that garnered much press attention during the 1950s. During this time Duffy painted mostly portraits, and exhibited some of her work at the 1955 Great Bardfield Artists’ summer exhibition. By the end of 1955 her marriage to Michael Rothenstein had dissolved, and she left Great Bardfield. She settled in Bloomsbury, London, and married Eric Ayers (1921–2001), a graphic artist. After her second marriage she painted under the name of Duffy Ayers, and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. One of her oil portraits, "The Arrival" (1993) is in the North West Essex collection of the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden. Ayers latterly lived in London, and had two children from her first marriage: Julian Rothenstein (owner of Redstone Press) and Anne Rothenstein (b. 1949), artist and wife of film-director Stephen Frears.
2017 Erika Remberg

Erika Remberg

Austrian actress (1932–2017)
Erika Remberg (15 February 1932 – 10 November 2017) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 31 films between 1950 and 1970. She was born in Medan, Indonesia.
2017

Guy Barrabino

French fencer (1934–2017)
Guy Barrabino (17 January 1934 – 10 November 2017) was a French fencer. He competed in the team foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1959 Mediterranean Games where he won a gold medal in the team foil event and a bronze medal in the individual foil event.
2017

Harry Geffert

American sculptor
Harry Geffert (1934 – November 10, 2017) was an American bronze sculptor.
2017

José Almanzor

Mexican archer
José Almanzor (28 December 1929 – 10 November 2017) was a Mexican archer. He competed in the men's individual event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Almanzor died on 10 November 2017, at the age of 87.
2017 Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira

Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira

Brazilian writer
Luiz Alberto de Vianna Moniz Bandeira (30 December 1935, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – 10 November 2017) was a Brazilian writer, professor, political scientist, historian and poet.
2017

Márcia Cabrita

Brazilian actress (1964-2017)
Márcia Martins Alves (20 January 1964 – 10 November 2017), known professionally as Márcia Cabrita, was a Brazilian film, television and theater actress known mostly for her comedic roles.
2017 Mikhail Zadornov (comedian)

Mikhail Zadornov (comedian)

Soviet and Russian stand-up comedian and writer
Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Задо́рнов, Mihaíl Nikolájevič Zadórnov; July 21, 1948 in Jūrmala, Latvian SSR, USSR – November 10, 2017 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian stand-up comedian and writer. Zadornov was born into an artistic family, his father Nikolay Zadornov (1909-1992) being a notable writer from Riga. Zadornov's mother, Elena Matusevich (1909-2003), came from an old noble family, which can trace its roots to the Polish king Stephen Bathory.
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As a child, Zadornov listened to his father reading him works of literature before he went to sleep, such as classic writings of adventure and suspense, and poems. Zadornov's parents wanted their son to become an engineer, so he went to an engineering institute. Mikhail Zadornov graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute. However, in the early 1980s he started a career as a humorist, and later mockingly remembered his engineering days.
2017

Mohan Kumar (director)

filmmaker
Mohan Kumar (1 June 1934 – 10 November 2017) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter, who worked in the Bollywood (Hindi) film industry of India. He was born in Sialkot in British India; after Partition, he moved to India and settled down in Bombay.
2017

Penachio

Brazilian footballer
Carlos Alberto Penachio (28 February 1946 – 10 November 2017), better known as Penachio, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a defender.
2017

Radhika (singer)

Indian playback singer in Telugu cinema (1970–2017)
Radhika (1970 – 10 November 2017) was an Indian playback singer known for her contributions to Telugu cinema. She recorded over 200 songs in various South Indian languages, including Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada. Radhika is particularly recognized for singing item numbers in commercial films.
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She gained prominence with her iconic song "Bavalu Sayya... Maradallu Sayya" from the film Bava Bavamaridi (1993), which became a significant hit. Other notable tracks include "Aata Kavala," "Amalapuram Bulloda," and "Sunnunda Theesuko." Despite a successful career, she did not achieve widespread recognition.
2017 Ray Lovelock (actor)

Ray Lovelock (actor)

Italian actor (1950-2017)
Raymond Lovelock (19 June 1950 – 10 November 2017) was an Italian actor and musician, best known for his roles in genre films.
2017

Ron Mabra

American football defensive back
Ronald Edwin Mabra (June 4, 1951 – November 10, 2017) was an American football defensive back who played for the Philadelphia Bell in 1974, the Atlanta Falcons 1975–1976, the New York Jets in 1978, and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1979.
2017 Roy Cromack

Roy Cromack

English racing cyclist (1940-2017)
Roy Cromack (18 February 1940 – 10 November 2017) was a racing cyclist who represented Britain in track races and in international road races such as the Peace Race. He was the first British cyclist to ride more than 500 miles in a 24-hour time trial. He was educated at the Percy Jackson Grammar School and Sheffield University (Maths, Physics).
2018

Ajuma Ameh-Otache

Nigerian association football player (1984-2018)
Ajuma Ameh-Otache (1 December 1984 – 10 November 2018) was a Nigerian football midfielder and later a coach. She was part of the Nigeria women's national football team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She also won the African Women's Cup of Nations that same year.
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At the club level, she played for Pelican Stars. Ameh-Otache died on 10 November 2018 at the age of 33; no details for her cause of death have been given.
2018

Arnie Stocks

Canadian football player
Arnold Hugh Stocks (June 5, 1927 – November 10, 2018) was a Canadian professional football player who played for the Toronto Argonauts and Calgary Stampeders. He won the Grey Cup with the Argonauts in 1950. He died in November 2018 at the age of 91.
2018 Boniface Offokaja

Boniface Offokaja

a Nigerian broadcaster
Boniface Okechukwu Offokaja (21 May 1940 – 10 November 2018) was a Nigerian broadcaster. He was one of the secondary school students who represented Nigeria in a 1957 High School debate. He became the first Nigerian to become the head of the news department, Nigerian Television Service (NTV) in 1963.
2018

Georges Pierre Thibaut

Belgian chess player
Georges Pierre Joseph Thibaut (25 November 1920 – 10 November 2018) was a Belgian chess player, Belgian Chess Championship medalist (1951, 1952, 1953).
2018

Gert Coetzer

South African rugby union and rugby league footballer
Gert Coetzer (c. 1938–39 – 10 November 2018) was a South African rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He was nicknamed "Oupa", meaning "Old Man" in Afrikaans.
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He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Orange Free State, and at club level for the Bloemfontein Railway Institute RFC (as a wing). Coetzer played in the South African national rugby league team, and in the Other Nationalities and Commonwealth XIII representative rugby league squads. At club rugby league level, he played for Johannesburg Celtic, Bloemfontein Aquilae, and Wakefield Trinity, as a wing or centre.
2018

Jeanette Vogelbacher

French gymnast
Jeanette Vogelbacher Solbach (2 February 1922 – 10 November 2018) was a French gymnast. She competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics. She was a member of the French team that took the silver at the 1950 World Championships in Basel.
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She was the French champion in 1948, 1949, and 1950. She was married to fellow Olympian Amand Solbach, who died in 1967.
2018 Joel Barcellos

Joel Barcellos

actor (1936-2018)
Joel Dias Barcellos (27 November 1936 – 10 November 2018) was a Brazilian actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1955 and 1997. He starred in the 1974 film Sagarana: The Duel, which was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.
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In 2012 it was reported that he died while swimming, but this later turned out to be false. He later died of a stroke on 10 November 2018, aged 81.
2018

John Rogers (businessman)

canadian-born American businessman and executive
John Geoffrey Rogers (c. 1961 – November 10, 2018) was a Canadian-born American businessman and executive. Rogers, who served continuously as President of San Diego Comic-Con from 1986 until his death in 2018, oversaw its expansion from a niche event into an international multi-genre entertainment and comic convention.
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He was the longest serving president in Comic-Con's history. Rogers was born in Canada on Feb 23, 1961. His parents moved to Mount Helix in San Diego County when he was just 18-months old. They later relocated to the Del Cerro neighborhood of San Diego, where he attended Patrick Henry High School. San Diego Comic-Con was founded in 1970. Rogers joined the convention in 1978 while working as a software engineer for a San Diego telecommunications company. He served as a technical coordinator and films coordinator before being elected president for his first term in 1986. He was re-elected president annually from 1986 to 2018. Each year on the last day of Comic-Con, Rogers appeared in a popular panel called "Comic-Con Talk Back" to answer questions from convention attendees. Rogers died from complications of glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, on November 10, 2018, at the age of 57. He had recently been diagnosed with disease on September 10, 2018. He was survived by his wife, Janet Tait, and two siblings, Barbara and David. Officials at Comic-Con praised Rogers' three decades as chief executive saying, "As our longest serving president, first elected in 1986 and re-elected every year since, John's tenure saw Comic-Con grow from a select gathering of fans to the largest and most prestigious convention of its kind in the world."
2018

Liu Xuyi

Chinese historian (1913–2018)
Liu Xuyi (Chinese: 刘绪贻; 13 May 1913 – 10 November 2018) was a Chinese historian, scholar, writer and expert on US studies.
2018 Liz J. Patterson

Liz J. Patterson

American politician (1939-2018)
Gladys Elizabeth Johnston Patterson (November 18, 1939 – November 10, 2018) was an American politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, she was a three-term member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993.
2018 Mahmoud Al-Samra

Mahmoud Al-Samra

Jordanian academic and politician, Minister of Culture (1991–1993)
Mahmoud Daoud Sulaiman Al-Samra, محمود السمرة, (April 20, 1923 – November 10, 2018) was a Jordanian academic, academic administrator, and writer. Al-Samra served as the Jordanian Minister of Culture from 1991 until 1993. He authored more than 250 books, articles, research papers and other academic and literary works during his career.
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Al-Samra was born in Tantura, Mandatory Palestine, in 1923. He received his Bachelor of Arts from King Fuad University (present-day Cairo University) in 1950 and his doctorate in philosophy from the Institute of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 1958. He served as the dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Jordan from 1968 to 1973 and Vice President of the University of Jordan from 1973 to 1989. In 1989, he was appointed President of the University of Jordan and remained in that role until Fawzi Al-Gharaibeh succeeded him in 1991. Mahmoud Al-Samra died on November 10, 2018, at the age of 95.
2018

Marc Wilmet

linguist, professor (1938–2018)
Marc Wilmet (28 August 1938 – 10 November 2018) was a Belgian linguist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In 1986, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences.
2018 Marián Geišberg

Marián Geišberg

Slovak actor, humorist, writer and singer (1953–2018)
Marián Geišberg (23 December 1953 – 10 November 2018) was a Slovak actor. Geišberg was recognised in 2001 for his stage acting in the Jozef Kroner Awards. Geišberg won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Sun in a Net Awards in 2019 for his role in Čertí brko.
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His son is Slovak actor Marek Geišberg.
2018 Ricardo C. Binns

Ricardo C. Binns

United States Marine Corps Navy Cross recipient (1945-2018)
Ricardo Courtney Binns (R.C.Binns) (25 December 1945 – 10 November 2018) was a corporal in the United States Marine Corps and a recipient of the Navy Cross for actions in the Battle of Hill 488 of the Vietnam War. Later in life he became an author. Using the name he was most commonly known by, R.
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C. Binns, he wrote "We Are Not Warmongers", and The Price of Glory: "Battle of Hill 488".
2018 Ron Johnson (running back)

Ron Johnson (running back)

American football player (1947-2018)
Ronald Adolphis Johnson (October 17, 1947 – November 10, 2018) was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). Johnson played college football at the halfback position for the University of Michigan from 1966 to 1968. He set a Michigan school record in 1967 by rushing for 270 yards in a game.
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In 1968, he became the first African-American to serve as the captain of a Michigan football team. He set an NCAA record by rushing for 347 yards in a game and set Big Ten Conference records with 92 points scored and 1,017 rushing yards in seven conference games. He also set Michigan records with 2,524 career rushing yards, 19 rushing touchdowns in a season, and 139.1 rushing yards per game in 1968. He played seven seasons in the NFL from 1969 to 1975 and became the first player in New York Giants history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, accomplishing the feat in both 1970 and 1972. He also led the NFL in rushing attempts in both 1970 and 1972. Johnson retired as a player in 1976, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1992, and became chairman of the National Football Foundation in 2006. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2008, and died in 2018. He is the brother of 1970 American League batting champion Alex Johnson.
2018

Vanja Ilić (swimmer)

Yugoslav swimmer (1927-2018)
Vanja Ilić (10 February 1927 – 10 November 2018) was a Yugoslav swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was a member of swimming club Jadran Split.
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With the death of Željko Čajkovski on 11 November 2016, he became the oldest Croatian Olympic participant.
2019

Allan Gray (investor)

South African businessperson (1938-2019)
Allan William Buchanan Gray (8 April 1938 – 10 November 2019) was a South African billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He founded the eponymous investment management company, the nonprofit Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, and the Allan and Gill Gray Charitable Trust. Before he donated his stake in the Allan Gray investment management company, his net worth was estimated to have been US$1.8 billion in 2017.
2019 Bernard Tyson

Bernard Tyson

American executive
Bernard J. Tyson (January 20, 1959 – November 10, 2019) was an American health executive. He was the CEO of integrated managed care consortium Kaiser Permanente, the largest such organization in the United States, which provides health care to 12 million people.
2019 Bob Fry

Bob Fry

American football player (1930-2019)
Robert Moellering Fry (November 11, 1930 – November 10, 2019) was an American professional football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at the University of Kentucky and was drafted in the third round of the 1953 NFL draft.
2019

Dennis Sorrell

English footballer
Dennis James Sorrell (7 October 1940 – 10 November 2019) was an English professional footballer who played as a left-half in the Football League for Leyton Orient and Chelsea. He also played for a number of teams in non-League football, most notably Romford. He was the uncle of former Maidstone United, Colchester United and Barnet footballer Tony Sorrell.
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Sorrell died on 10 November 2019, aged 79, following a long battle with illness.
2019

Erik Køppen

Danish association football player
Erik Køppen (9 March 1923 – 10 November 2019) was a Danish footballer who played as a right-back. He made 21 appearances for the Denmark national team from 1949 to 1956.
2019 Gilbert Ling

Gilbert Ling

American scientist
Gilbert Ning Ling (December 26, 1919 – November 10, 2019) was a Chinese-born American cell physiologist, biochemist, and scientific investigator. In 1944, Ling won the biology slot of the sixth Boxer Indemnity Scholarship: a nationwide competitive examination that gave Chinese science and engineering students full scholarship to study in a United States university. In 1947, he co-developed the Gerard-Graham-Ling microelectrode: a device that allows scientists to more accurately measure the electrical potentials of living cells.
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In 1962, he proposed the Association induction hypothesis, a general theory of the living cell that offers an alternative model to the membrane pump theory. Rather than relying on energy-dependent membrane pumps to maintain the cell's internal composition, the hypothesis posits that water and proteins inside cells exist in a structured state that naturally associates with certain ions, such as potassium, and excludes others, such as sodium, based on their physical and chemical properties. Three years later he proposed the Polarized-Oriented Multilayer (PM or POM) theory of cell water. Ling carried out scientific experiments that attempted to disprove the accepted view of the cell as a membrane containing a number of pumps such as the sodium potassium pump and the calcium pump and channels that engage in active transport. He died in November 2019, one month short of turning 100.
2019 István Szívós (water polo

István Szívós (water polo

born 1948), Hungarian water polo player and coach (1948–2019)
István Antal Szívós, also known as István Szívós Jr. (Hungarian: ifj. Szívós István, 24 April 1948 – 10 November 2019) was a Hungarian water polo player. He competed in four consecutive Olympics in 1968–1980 and won a medal in each of them, becoming one of eight male athletes who won four or more Olympic medals in water polo.
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He also won six gold or silver medals at world and European championships and nine national titles. Between 1966 and 1980 he played 308 international matches for Hungary. In 1996 he was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame, one year earlier than his father István Sr., who won Olympic gold medals in water polo in 1952 and 1956. Szívós graduated from the Medical University in Budapest, where he later worked as a dentist. After retiring from competitions in 1980 he also became a water polo coach and president of Ferencvárosi TC, and served as a board member of the Hungarian Water Polo Federation.
2019

Jack Hollander

American nuclear chemist and physicist
Jack Marvin Hollander (April 13, 1927 – November 10, 2019) was an American nuclear physicist. He held various positions in nuclear physics, energy, environmental research, and academic administration throughout his career. He was also the founding editor of the academic journal the Annual Review of Energy (now the Annual Review of Environment and Resources).
2019

Jan Byrczek

Polish musician (1936-2019)
Jan A. Byrczek (15 June 1936 – 10 November 2019) was a jazz musician (double bass), jazz critic, and jazz magazine editor. He was born in Chelmek, and until the age of 41, worked as a musician in Poland, performing with artists that include the Trio Komeda Quartet Kurylewicz.
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Due to illness, Byrczek stopped playing. He then managed the Kraków Jazz Club and Polish Jazz Federation. He was a co-founder of the European Jazz Federation in 1956 and founded Jazz Forum in 1964. In 1977, he moved to the United States and was granted citizenship in 1987.
2019

Jerry Hirshberg

American automotive designer, industrial designer, musician and painter
Gerald Paul Hirshberg (July 1, 1939 – November 10, 2019) was an American automotive designer, industrial designer, musician and painter.
2019

Jim Adams (lacrosse)

Lacrosse coach
James Frederick "Ace" Adams IV (April 10, 1928 – November 10, 2019) was an American lacrosse coach. He served as the head coach at the United States Military Academy, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Virginia. He was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1975.
2019

Lawrence G. Paull

production designer, art director (1938-2019)
Lawrence G. Paull (April 13, 1938 – November 10, 2019) was an American neofuturistic production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Blade Runner.
2019

Les Campbell

English footballer (1935-2019)
Les Campbell (26 July 1935 – 10 November 2019) was an English footballer who played on the left wing in The Football League for Preston North End, Blackpool and Tranmere Rovers. Campbell started his career with Wigan Athletic, making five appearances in the Lancashire Combination before turning professional and joining Preston North End in 1953. He also played professionally for Blackpool and Tranmere Rovers before returning to Wigan Athletic (then in the Cheshire League) in 1964, where he made a further 41 appearances.
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In 1965, he signed for Altrincham where he made 84 league appearances in three seasons with the club (119 appearances in all competitions). He left the club at the end of the 1967–68 season and joined Netherfield. Campbell died on 10 November 2019, aged 84.
2019

Luciano De Genova

Italian weightlifter
Luciano De Genova (19 May 1931 – 10 November 2019) was an Italian weightlifter. He represented Italy at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympic Games, competing in the Lightweight (67.5 kg) category.
2019

Paul W. Hodge

American astronomer, Ph.D. Harvard University 1960 (1934–2019)
Paul W. Hodge ((1934-11-08)November 8, 1934 - (2019-11-10)November 10, 2019) was an American astronomer whose principal area of research was the stellar populations of galaxies.
2019

Rick Ludwin

American television executive (1948-2019)
Richard Adam Ludwin (May 27, 1948 – November 10, 2019) was an American television executive and former vice president at NBC Television. He is notable as the executive who backed Jerry Seinfeld's series Seinfeld, which went on to become one of the most popular and successful television sitcoms of all time. During his 31 years at NBC, Ludwin worked with every The Tonight Show host—Steve Allen and Jack Paar, albeit after their time on Tonight, as well as Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, and Jimmy Fallon.
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He also helped guide the network through the Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno conflict in 2010.
2019

Russell Chatham

American artist (1939-2019)
Russell Chatham (October 27, 1939 – November 10, 2019) was a contemporary American landscape artist and author who spent most of his career living in Livingston, Montana. The artist was the grandson of landscape painter Gottardo Piazzoni, though he was essentially a self-taught artist. His work has been exhibited in over 400 one man shows and in museums and galleries over the last five decades.
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Art scribe Robert Hughes was among Chatham's collectors along with Paul Allen and actor Jack Nicholson.
2019 T. N. Seshan

T. N. Seshan

Indian civil servant
Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan (15 May 1933 – 10 November 2019) was an Indian civil servant, lecturer, bureaucrat and statesman who served with the Indian Administrative Service. Prior to entering the civil service, he worked as a Physics lecturer at the Madras Christian College. After serving in various positions in Madras and in various ministries of the Central Government, he served as the 18th Cabinet Secretary of India in 1989.
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He was appointed the 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India (1990–1996) and became known for his electoral reforms. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service in 1996. After retirement as the CEC, he contested the 1997 Indian presidential election. He lost to K.R. Narayanan after which he unsuccessfully contested 1999 Lok sabha election from Gandhinagar constituency under the Indian National Congress.
2019

Zhao Wenliang

Chinese painter (1937–2019)
Zhao Wenliang (Chinese: 赵文量; 1937–2019) was a Chinese painter best known for his roles in the Yuyuantan School of Painting and as a foundational member of the No Name (Wuming) Group.
2020

Alec Baillie

American musician
Alec Baillie (died November 10, 2020) was an American bassist. He played in the bands Choking Victim, Agent 99, and Leftöver Crack.
2020 Bob Hantla

Bob Hantla

American football player (1931-2020)
Robert Dean Hantla (October 3, 1931 – November 10, 2020) was an American professional football offensive guard who played two seasons with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the 49ers in the fifth round of the 1954 NFL draft. He played college football at the University of Kansas.
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Hantla was also a member of the BC Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
2020 Carlo Bordini

Carlo Bordini

Italian poet (1938-2020)
Carlo Bordini (2 September 1938 – 10 November 2020) was an Italian poet. He was born in Rome. His poetry had been translated into Spanish, French, and Swedish.
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Bordini died from COVID-19 on 10 November 2020, at the age of 82.
2020

Carlo Vitrano

Italian wrestler
Carlo Vitrano (10 January 1938 – 10 November 2020) was an Italian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle flyweight at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Vitrano died on 10 November 2020, at the age of 82.
2020 Charles Corver

Charles Corver

Dutch association football referee (1936–2020)
Charles George Reinier Corver (16 January 1936 – 10 November 2020) was a Dutch football referee.
2020

Clayton Fiscus

American politician
Clayton Fiscus (July 11, 1936 – November 10, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the Montana House of Representatives from the Billings, Montana area from 2013 to 2017. He was a member of the Republican party.
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Fiscus died on November 10, 2020, at the age of 84.
2020

Debra White Plume

Lakota political activist and water protector (1954-2020)
Debra White Plume (Lakota: Wioweya Najin Win, August 20, 1954 – November 10, 2020) was a Lakota political activist and water protector. She fought to protect the traditional Oglala Lakota way of life.
2020 Dino da Costa

Dino da Costa

Italian footballer (1931-2020)
Dino da Costa (Italian: [ˈdiːno da (k)ˈkɔsta], Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈdʒinu dɐ ˈkɔstɐ]; 1 August 1931 – 10 November 2020) was a Brazilian-Italian professional footballer, who played as a central midfielder or striker.
2020

DJ Spinbad

American DJ, record producer and remixer (1974-2020)
Chris Sullivan (October 23, 1974 – November 10, 2020), known professionally as DJ Spinbad, was a DJ, producer, and remixer on New York City's radio station WHTZ.
2020

Ghasem Amiryavari

Iranian boxer
Ghasem Amir-Yavarkandi (Persian: قاسم امیر یاورکندی; 5 December 1931 – 10 November 2020) also known as Ghasem Amiryavari, was a member of the Iranian senior national boxing team. Yavari joined the "Niroo va Rasti" (Persian: نیرو و راستی; lit. Power and Virtue) Club in 1947 at the age of sixteen, where he started his boxing career and became a member of "Jafari" Club (Persian: جعفری) later on, where he stayed until 1962 which was the end of his national boxing championship career.
2020 Graham Cowdrey

Graham Cowdrey

English cricketer (born 1964)
Graham Robert Cowdrey (27 June 1964 – 10 November 2020) was an English cricketer.
2020

Hanan al-Barassi

Libyan activist
Hanan al-Barassi (Arabic: حنان البرعصي; 1963 – 10 November 2020) was a Libyan activist for human rights and women's rights.
2020

Harold Edwards (mathematician)

American mathematician (1936–2020)
Harold Mortimer Edwards, Jr. (August 6, 1936 – November 10, 2020) was an American mathematician working in number theory, algebra, and the history and philosophy of mathematics. He was one of the co-founding editors, with Bruce Chandler, of The Mathematical Intelligencer. He is the author of expository books on the Riemann zeta function, on Galois theory, and on Fermat's Last Theorem.
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He wrote a book on Leopold Kronecker's work on divisor theory providing a systematic exposition of that work—a task that Kronecker never completed. He wrote textbooks on linear algebra, calculus, and number theory. He also wrote a book of essays on constructive mathematics. The Edwards curve is named after him. Edwards graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1956, received a Master of Arts from Columbia University in 1957, and a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1961, under the supervision of Raoul Bott. He taught at Harvard and Columbia University; he joined the faculty at New York University in 1966, and was an emeritus professor starting in 2002. In 1980, Edwards won the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition of the American Mathematical Society, for his books on the Riemann zeta function and Fermat's Last Theorem. For his contribution in the field of the history of mathematics he was awarded the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize by the AMS in 2005. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Edwards was married to Betty Rollin, a former NBC News correspondent, author, and breast cancer survivor. Edwards died on November 10, 2020, of colon cancer.
2020

Igor Moskvin

figure skater (1929-2020)
Igor Borisovich Moskvin (Russian: Игорь Борисович Москвин; 30 August 1929 – 10 November 2020) was a Russian figure skating coach and competitor who represented the Soviet Union in pair skating with his partner Maya Belenkaya. He was an Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR and Honored Coach of the USSR.
2020

Isidro Pedraza Chávez

Mexican politician
Isidro Pedraza Chávez (15 May 1959 – 10 November 2020) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRD.
2020 Juan Sol

Juan Sol

Spanish footballer (1947–2020)
Juan Cruz Sol Oria (13 September 1947 – 10 November 2020) was a Spanish footballer, who played as a defender.
2020 Mahmoud Yavari

Mahmoud Yavari

Iranian football coach (1939-2020)
Mahmoud Yavari (Persian: محمود یاوری, 11 October 1939 – 10 November 2020) was an Iranian football coach and player. He was head coach of the Iran national football team for a short period of time in 1984. He had coached many teams like Zob Ahan, Sepahan, Shahin Bushehr, Tractor, Pas Tehran, Pas Hamedan, Rah Ahan and Fajr Sepasi.
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He was one of the oldest and most experienced head coaches in Iranian football history.
2020

Mike Whorf

American radio personality (1932–2020)
Michael Whorf (April 21, 1932 – November 10, 2020) was an American radio personality based in Detroit, Michigan. He was an announcer and program host on WJR from 1964 to 2003. Whorf was producer and host of the George Foster Peabody Award-winning documentary/narrative program Kaleidoscope, a combination of storytelling, interview, historic recordings and music on a particular topic.
2020 Mila del Sol

Mila del Sol

Filipino actress (1923-2020)
Mila del Sol (born Clarita Villarba Rivera; 12 May 1923 – 10 November 2020) was a Filipino actress and entrepreneur. She began her career in the late 1930s and became one of the biggest box office draws of the 1940s, noted for her performances in Giliw Ko (1939), Prinsesa ng Kumintang (1940), Sawing Gantimpala (1940), Ararong Ginto (1941), Villa Hermosa (1941), Ibong Adarna (1941), and Rosa Linda (1941). She appeared in fewer film and television productions from 1953 until 2010 and founded the Superior Maintenance Service in 1964, which became one of the biggest janitorial and professional cleaning service firms in the Philippines.
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Her accolades include the Lifetime Achievement Awards from Gawad Urian and Metro Manila Film Festival.
2020

Nagima Aitkhozhina

Kazakhstani biologist (1946-2020)
Nagima Abenovna Aitkhozhina (Kazakh: Нағима Әбенқызы Айтхожина; 22 February 1946 – 10 November 2020) was a Kazakh biologist who specialised in the field of molecular biology. She was engaged in the study of the structural and functional organisation of the genome of higher organisms and the molecular mechanisms of regulation of its expression. Aitkhozhina served as general director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry named after M.A.
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Aitkhozhin of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2018, Kazakhstan's first genome laboratory. Between 1999 and 2002, she was president of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. Aitkhozhina was an elected deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from the Committee of Soviet Women from 1989 to 1991. She was decorated with the Order of Parasat in December 2001 and the Order of the Leopard, Third Class ten years later.
2020

Peter James Nkambo Mugerwa

Ugandan lawyer and politician
Peter James Nkambo Mugerwa (10 January 1933 – 10 November 2020) was a prominent Ugandan lawyer. He served as Uganda's Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs under President Idi Amin from 1971 to 1973.
2020

Russell T. Thane

American politician
Russell T. Thane (July 14, 1926 – November 10, 2020) was an American politician who was a member of the North Dakota State Senate. He represented the 25th district from 1971 to 2006 as a member of the Republican party.
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He was an alumnus of the North Dakota State College of Science, North Dakota State University and Rutgers University Eagleton Institution of Politics. Thane was a farmer and resided in Wahpeton, North Dakota.
2020

Stephanie Zimmermann

German physicist
Stephanie Zimmermann (October 29, 1973-November 10, 2020) was a German physicist who worked on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. As a researcher from the University of Freiburg, she was involved in the Muon Detector Control System activities, and she served as muon run-coordinator. She was elected and served as ATLAS Run-Coordinator in 2012–2014.
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She then became Project Leader of the New Small Wheel project (NSW), part of an extensive upgrade, the largest phase 1 upgrade project for the ATLAS detector.
2020 Sven Wollter

Sven Wollter

Swedish actor (1934–2020)
Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter (11 January 1934 – 10 November 2020) was a Swedish actor, writer, and political activist. Wollter is one of the most renowned Swedish actors, he was awarded Best Swedish actor twice. In his native country, he became widely known through his role as Madame Flod's son Gusten in Swedish Television's adaption of The People of Hemsö by August Strindberg in 1966.
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Later he had several notable roles, including in 1976 when he played Detective Sergeant Lennart Kollberg in Bo Widerberg's film The Man on the Roof. For international viewers, he is best known for his role Victor in the dramatic film The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky, and for a wider television audience as the retired Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren in the cinematic adaptations of Håkan Nesser's police novels.
2020 Vladimir Găitan

Vladimir Găitan

Romanian actor
Vladimir Găitan (Romanian pronunciation: [vladiˈmir ɡəjˈtan]; 2 February 1947 – 10 November 2020) was a Romanian actor.
2020

Warren Simmons

Australian rugby league footballer
Warren Simmons (1930–2020) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s. He played for Manly-Warringah in the NSWRL competition.
2021

Al-Sarirah Makki

Designer of the Sudan flag (1928–2021)
Al-Sarirah Makki Abdullah al-Sufi (Arabic: السريرة مكي عبد الله الصوفي, , 1928 – 10 November 2021), better known as Macki Sufi, was a Sudanese visual artist, poet, and teacher. She is famous for being the designer of the Sudan flag after independence in 1956, which was raised by the Prime Minister Ismail Al-Azhari and opposition leader Muhammad Ahmed Al-Mahjoub to herald the declaration of Sudan's independence as they lowered the British and Egyptian flags, announcing that Sudan had become an independent and sovereign state. This was recognised by the United Nations in 1956.
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Al-Sirra Makki wrote an patriotic poems, in which she called for the evacuation of the Anglo-Egyptian colonial forces.
2021

Bill Calder

Scottish footballer (born 1934)
William Carson Calder (28 September 1934 – 10 November 2021) was a Scottish footballer who played for Oxford United, Leicester City, Bury and Rochdale. Originally a midfielder, Calder was converted to a forward while playing for Bury. Leicester City signed Calder from Port Glasgow Rovers in 1956.
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Calder transferred from Leicester City to Bury after three League appearances for Leicester City in Division 1. He played as right-winger for Bury, and won promotion with Bury to Division 2 in 1960–1961. Calder scored 21 goals that season, was ever present, and won a Division 3 champions medal. He then played more as a center forward. He moved to Oxford United for £8,500 from in November 1963, and then to Rochdale in 1966. Calder died in Ramsbottom on 10 November 2021, at the age of 87.
2021

Clyde Emrich

American weightlifter (1931–2021)
Clyde Emrich (April 6, 1931 – November 10, 2021) was an American Olympic weightlifter. He was also a long-time strength coach for the Chicago Bears, who in 2008 named their weight room after him. He is a member of the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame.
2021

Delma Cowart

NASCAR driver
Clinton “Delma” Cowart (July 6, 1941 – November 10, 2021) was an American stock car racing driver. While never achieving much success, Cowart became known by fans and broadcasters as the "clown prince of racing" in the 1980s and 1990s. His jovial nature made him a favorite among competitors.
2021

Ed Lucas

American sportscaster
Edward Joseph Lucas Jr. (January 3, 1939 – November 10, 2021) was an American blind sportswriter who primarily covered the New York Yankees.
2021

Enrique Iturra

Chilean footballer
Enrique Iturra Díaz (27 June 1946 – 10 November 2021) was a Chilean professional footballer who played as a centre-back for clubs in Chile, Mexico and El Salvador.
2021

Farouq Qasrawi

Jordanian politician
Farouq Qasrawi (12 February 1942 – 10 November 2021) was a Jordanian politician and diplomat. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2005.
2021

Gazbia Sirry

Egyptian painter (1925–2021)
Gazbia Sirry (Egyptian Arabic: جاذبيه سرى) (11 October 1925 – 10 November 2021) was an Egyptian painter. Born in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry studied fine arts at the Higher Institute of Art Education for Women Teachers in 1950 (currently known as the Faculty of Art Education at Helwan University), where her dissertation traced Egypt's political history. She later became a professor there, and also at the American University in Cairo.
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She has had more than 50 personal exhibitions, official purchases by international museums, international prizes, scholarships and university chairs. The paintings of Sirry capture the relationship between social reform, feminist consciousness and advocacy of women. Because of their eclecticism and heterogeneity of modern Egypt, Sirry's paintings were widely celebrated. Her early work was dominated by images of women in unmistakable poses of power, performing roles in the public and private spheres, and celebrating female unity. In the late nineteen fifties, Sirry made stylistic and thematic changes to reflect the grim mood created by discontent with the crackdown on dissent and curtailment of political freedom across the country. It also became increasingly abstract: by the 1960s this shift was apparent. While on fellowship at the Huntington Hartford Foundation in Pacific Palisades, California, 1965, she was introduced to the American style of abstract expressionism; in interviews Sirry credited this time in her life with "profound impact upon her art practice." Her shift towards abstraction has also been linked some scholars to political unrest and especially the Six-Day War of1967. The full abstraction was replaced in the early 1970s by the reappearance of human forms, but the dark paintings represent the fears of Sirry about the fortunes of women's emancipation. The dominant bright colors and pyramidal shapes of her paintings show the national pride and enthusiasm following the Ramadan/Yom Kippur War of 1973 in the later part of the 1970s.
2021

Gerald Sinstadt

British football commentator (1930–2021)
Gerald Morris Sinstadt (19 February 1930 – 10 November 2021) was an English sports commentator, broadcaster and newspaper columnist.
2021 John Robert Porter

John Robert Porter

British businessman
John Robert Camber Porter (5 January 1953 – 10 November 2021) was an English businessman best known as the grandson of Sir Jack Cohen, founder of Tesco, and son of Dame Shirley Porter.
2021 Jun Hong Lu

Jun Hong Lu

Chinese-Australian religous leader
Richard Jun Hong Lu (Chinese: 盧軍宏; pinyin: Lú Jūnhóng, 4 August 1959 – 10 November 2021), also known as Lu Tai Zhang (盧台長, lit. Master Lu) by his followers, was a Chinese-born Australian Buddhist faith healer and the founder of the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door religious movement (觀世音菩薩心靈法門). During his lifetime, the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door garnered praise from regular and new Buddhist followers, but also drew controversy among some Buddhist organisations.
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Lu was born in Shanghai, China in 1959, and later moved to Australia and studied at UNSW Business School at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) from 1989 to 1995. He became a citizen of Australia later. Lu was the founder of the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door religious movement with over 10 million people following his teachings with the spirit and compassion of Mahayana Buddhism. He is also well known internationally for his work in promoting Chinese traditional culture, world peace and helping people through Buddhist Teachings. Many governments and international organizations gave him a lot awards. For example, “British Community Honours Award” at UK Parliament House in 2012, “ICD Award for Exceptional Contribution and Peace Advocacy to the Global Community” presented by the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) in 2013, “World Peace Ambassador” at a global summit on world peace held in the US Congress in 2014, "Honorary Visiting Professorship" by the prestigious University of Siena in Italy in 2014, “International Ambassador for Religious Peace” and “Outstanding International Ambassador for Philanthropy” by House of Lords, UK in 2018. He was also conferred Datuk (a lifelong honor title) by Malaysia.
2021

Mablen Jones

American, 1943-2021
Mablen Jones (1943 – November 10, 2021) was an American artist. She is best known for the books she created. Jones was born in 1943 in Nutley, New Jersey.
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Jones' work was included in the 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists held at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. She was married to fellow artist Robert Adzema for two decades. The couple co-wrote a book entitled The Great Sundial Cutout Book which was published in 1978. The marriage ended in divorce. Jones co-authored Doing art together: the remarkable Parent-Child Workshop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Muriel Silberstein-Storfer in 1982. In 1987, Abbeville Press published her book Getting it on: the clothing of rock 'n' roll. Jones died on November 10, 2021. She was struck by a pick-up truck when she was walking across the West Side highway near her loft apartment in SoHo. Her work was included, posthumously, in 2022 exhibition 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone at the Aldrich Museum. The show commemorated the 51st anniversary of Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists
2021

Nairuhi Alaverdyan

Armenian singer
Nairuhi Isahak Alaverdyan (Armenian: Նաիրուհի Ալավերդյան, Persian: نایروهی آلاوردیان, 25 June 1941 – 10 November 2021) was an Azerbaijani Soviet folk singer and dancer. She was a People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1982) and was appointed to the Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots of the Republic of Armenia (2001) and as an Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia (2005).
2021 Otto Pendl

Otto Pendl

Austrian politician (1951–2021)
Otto Pendl (29 October 1951 – 10 November 2021) was an Austrian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, he served in the National Council from 1998 to 2017.
2021 Shimon Schwarzschild

Shimon Schwarzschild

Environmentalist
Shimon Schwarzschild (19 December 1925 – 10 November 2021) was a German-born American environmental activist. His work contributed to the establishment of a nature preserve in Assisi, Italy. Schwarzschild founded the Assisi Bird Campaign and helped organize the Assisi Nature Council.
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He was also active on many other environmental and neighborhood issues. Schwarzschild's activism received news coverage regionally, nationally, and internationally. He was listed in the World Who's Who and Does What in Environment & Conservation.
2021 Silke Helfrich

Silke Helfrich

German researcher of the commons
Silke Helfrich (1967 – 10 November 2021) was a German author, activist and scholar, best known for her contributions to the commons as a socio-political paradigm. Along with her frequent coauthor David Bollier, she was considered one of the most important international voices on the commons. She was regional director for Latin America at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the think tank of the German Green Party.
2021

Spike Heatley

British musician (1933–2021)
Brian John Heatley (17 February 1933 – 10 November 2021), better known as Spike Heatley, was a British jazz double bassist.
2022

Ahmed Mohamed El Hassan

Sudanese professor of pathology
Ahmed Mohamed El Hassan (Arabic: أحمد محمد الحسن; 10 April 1930 – 10 November 2022) was a Sudanese professor of pathology. El Hassan was born and reared in Sudan. He received most of his medical training at the University of Khartoum before completing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1965.
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Upon his return to Sudan, he led the Department of Pathology (1966–1969) and the Faculty of Medicine (1969–1971) before briefly heading the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (1971–1972). He became the president of the Medical Research Council (1972–1977), while helping establish the Department of Pathology at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia and the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology, Sudan. In addition, El Hassan was the Founding Director of the Institute of Endemic Diseases (1993–2000), the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences (SNAS) (2005–2011) and the Sudanese Cancer Society (2008–2009). El Hassan focused on epidemiology and the immunopathology of tropical and infectious diseases. As a result, Sudan bestowed upon him the highest orders of merit, and the Sudanese state of Al Qadarif's tropical medicine centre was named after him. In addition, he received WHO's 1987 Shousha Prize, RSTMH's 1996 Donald Mackay Medal, and the 2017–2018 Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum award.
2022 Alan Park

Alan Park

Canadian comedian
Alan John Park (November 5, 1962 – November 10, 2022) was a Canadian comedian and political satirist best known for his appearances on the Royal Canadian Air Farce where he gave humorous commentary on current events. Though originally not a caricaturist as were his Farce castmates, he developed portrayals of Canadian politicians such as Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Health Minister Tony Clement, Foreign Affairs minister Peter MacKay, as well as former Liberal leaders Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff. Foreign based political portrayals included Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former US defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and former U.S. president Barack Obama.
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Celebrity impressions included legendary folksinger Gordon Lightfoot, Boris Karloff, rock band Nickelback's front man Chad Kroeger, American stand-up comic and game show host Jeff Foxworthy, Kevin Federline, Peter O'Toole, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Fred Durst and former pop superstar Cat Stevens. Park's increased workload on the program resulted in nominations for both comedy writing as well as best male TV performance at the 2007 Canadian Comedy Awards. Park also appeared on MuchMusic's Video on Trial. Park was a member of the Atheists team on CBC Test the Nation: IQ broadcast live on January 24, 2010. Park died after a long battle with cancer on November 10, 2022, at the age of 60.
2022

Alfredo Torres

Mexican footballer (1931–2022)
Juan Alfredo Torres González (31 May 1935 – 10 November 2022) was a Mexican footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Mexico national team in the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
2022

Debra R. Anderson

American politician
Debra Rae Anderson (June 13, 1949 – November 10, 2022) was an American politician. Anderson was born in Bryant, Hamlin County, South Dakota, and graduated from Bryant High School in 1967. She then graduated from Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1971.
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Anderson served in the South Dakota House of Representatives from 1977 until her resignation in 1989; served as speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives from 1987 until 1988. She was a Republican, Anderson then served during the administration of President George H. W. Bush. She died at her home in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 2022, at the age of 73.
2022 Dillibe Onyeama

Dillibe Onyeama

Nigerian novelist and publisher
Charles Dillibe Ejiofor Onyeama (6 January 1951 – 10 November 2022) was a Nigerian author and publisher. In 1969, he became the first black person to finish his studies at Eton College in England. He wrote a book about his experiences of racism at Eton, A Black Boy at Eton, which resulted him being banned from visiting the school by then-headmaster Michael McCrum.
2022

Eugene F. Irschick

American historian
Eugene F. Irschick was an American historian. He was born in Kodaikanal (Tamil Nadu, India) in 1934, the son of Lutheran missionaries.
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He was a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1978. He died on November 10, 2022 in El Dorado Hills, California
2022

Frank Prihoda

Australian alpine skier
Frank Prihoda (born as František Příhoda; 8 July 1921 – 10 November 2022) was a Czechoslovak-born Australian alpine skier who competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics. Until his death in November 2022, he was Australia's oldest living former Olympian.
2022

Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof

Malaysian writer and academic
Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof (Punjabi: ਗੁਲਾਮ-ਸਰਵਰ ਯੁਸੂਫ, romanized: Gulāma-saravara yusūpha; 21 November 1939 – 10 November 2022) was a Malaysian academic and writer. He published three collections of verse: Performed Memories (1982), Songs for Shooting Stars: Mystical Verse (2011) and Transient Moments (2012). One book said "Ghulam Sarwar’s contemporary poetry and Wordsworth’s poems from the Romantic era have a very similar and strong affinity with nature."
2022

Hédi Balegh

Tunisian professor, writer, journalist, television and radio host and translator
Hédi Balegh (Arabic: الهادي البالغ, romanized: al-Hādī al-bāligh; died 10 November 2022) was a Tunisian academic, writer, journalist, television and radio presenter, and translator. Balegh was an associate professor of French at the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities at Manouba University. In the 1990s, he published Proverbes tunisiens in three volumes.
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He was credited with translating The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry into Tunisian Arabic.
2022 Henry Anglade

Henry Anglade

French cyclist (1933–2022)
Henry Anglade (6 July 1933 – 10 November 2022) was a French cyclist. In 1959 he was closest to winning the Tour de France, when he won a stage and finished second, 4:01 behind Federico Bahamontes. In 1960 he wore the yellow jersey for two days while finishing 8th overall.
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He placed in the top five of the Tour on two additional occasions in 1964 and 1965.
2022 Hervé Télémaque

Hervé Télémaque

French painter (1937–2022)
Hervé Télémaque (5 November 1937 – 10 November 2022) was a French painter of Haitian origin, associated with the surrealism and the narrative figuration movements. He lived and worked in Paris from 1961 on.
2022

Humaydi Daham al-Hadi

Syrian politician
Sheikh Humaydi Daham al-Hadi (also Hamidi Daham al-Hadi and Hmeidi Daham al-Jarba; Arabic: حميدي دهام الهادي الجربا, 1936 – 10 November 2022) was the leader of the Arab tribe of Shammar in Syria.
2022

Jack Reed (baseball)

American baseball player
John Burwell Reed (February 2, 1933 – November 10, 2022) was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder over all or parts of three seasons (1961–1963) with the New York Yankees. Reed was a member of the 1961 and 1962 World Series champion Yankees, although he did not appear in the latter series. An alumnus of the University of Mississippi, Reed's primary role for the Yankees was as a late-inning defensive replacement for injury-riddled star outfielder Mickey Mantle.
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For this reason, he was popularly known as Mantle's "caddie." Reed threw and batted right-handed; he was listed as 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and 185 pounds (84 kg). He spent his entire professional career in the Yankee organization as a player (1953–1955; 1958–1964) and minor league manager (1965–1967). During his Major League career, Reed hit .233 with one home run and six runs batted in in 222 games played (and 129 at-bats). He was only one of seven players in Major League Baseball history with more career games played than plate appearances. He appeared in three games of the 1961 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds (won by the Yankees in five games) as a defensive replacement, spelling Mantle, Héctor López and Johnny Blanchard; he did not have a plate appearance. On June 24, 1962, Reed hit the only home run of his career in the top of the 22nd inning, as the Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 9–7 in the longest game in Yankees' history. The blow came off Phil Regan at Tiger Stadium. Reed's 30 MLB hits also included two doubles and one triple. Reed died on November 10, 2022.
2022

Juan Carlos Orellana

Chilean footballer (1955–2022)
Juan Carlos Orellana Jara (21 June 1955 – 10 November 2022) was a Chilean footballer who played as a left winger.
2022

Lajos Máté

Hungarian skier
Lajos Máté (10 July 1928 – 10 November 2022) was a Hungarian alpine skier. He competed in three events at the 1948 Winter Olympics. Máté died on 10 November 2022, at the age of 94.
2022 Luigi Bartesaghi

Luigi Bartesaghi

cyclist
Luigi Bartesaghi (14 October 1932 – 10 November 2022) was a Canadian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Bartesaghi died in Lecco on 10 November 2022, at the age of 90.
2022 Nik Turner

Nik Turner

English musician (1940–2022)
Nicholas Robert Turner (26 August 1940 – 10 November 2022) was an English musician best known as a member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner played saxophone and flute, as well as being a vocalist and composer. While with Hawkwind, Turner was known for his experimental free jazz stylisations and outrageous stage presence, often donning full makeup and Ancient Egypt-inspired costumes.
2022

Peter Dawes

Bishop of Derby; Archdeacon of West Ham (1928–2022)
Peter Spencer Dawes (5 February 1928 – 10 November 2022) was a British Anglican cleric who served as Bishop of Derby from 1988 to 1995.
2022 Zuiyen Rais

Zuiyen Rais

Indonesian politician
Zuiyen Rais (13 December 1940 – 10 November 2022) was an Indonesian politician. He served as Mayor of Padang from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2003. Rais died in Padang on 10 November 2022, at the age of 81.
2023 Charles Jordan (basketball)

Charles Jordan (basketball)

American professional basketball player (1954–2023)
Charles C. Jordan (January 31, 1954 – November 10, 2023) was an American professional basketball player who played for one season for the Indiana Pacers of the American Basketball Association (ABA). He then spent the remainder of his career overseas, including stops in France and Italy.
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Jordan played college basketball for the Canisius Golden Griffins. He did not play his senior year at Canisius University because the NCAA declared both he and Larry Fogle ineligible for having received "improper financial aid" sometime during his career at the school. Jordan played one year with the Indiana Pacers in the ABA in 1975–76. He also briefly coached at a university in Spain. Jordan's younger brother, C.J., played college basketball as a 5-foot-10-inch (1.78 m) point guard for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. Jordan died on November 10, 2023, at the age of 69.
2023

Colin MacKay (journalist

born 1944), Scottish journalist (1944-2023)
Colin Hinshelwood MacKay (27 August 1944 – 10 November 2023) was a Scottish journalist who served as political editor of STV for nineteen years. He also worked in radio broadcasting for sixteen years.
2023

D. G. Compton

British writer (1930–2023)
David Guy Compton (19 August 1930 – 10 November 2023) was a British author who wrote science fiction under the name D. G. Compton.
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He used the name Guy Compton for his earlier crime novels and the pseudonym Frances Lynch for his Gothic novels. He also wrote short stories, radio plays, and a non-fiction book on stammering, its causes and cures.
2023 Danilo Astori

Danilo Astori

Uruguayan politician (1940–2023)
Danilo Ángel Astori Saragosa (23 April 1940 – 10 November 2023) was a Uruguayan social democratic politician and economist who served as the 15th vice president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 under President José Mujica. A member of Uruguay Assembly–Broad Front, he also served as Minister of Economy and Finance from 2005 to 2008 and from 2015 to 2020, and as Senator of the Republic from 1990 to 2005.
2023

Davide Renne

Italian fashion designer
Davide Renne (4 July 1977 – 10 November 2023) was an Italian fashion designer who was the creative director of Moschino after a stint as head of women’s wear at Gucci.
2023 Eric Thomas (gynaecologist)

Eric Thomas (gynaecologist)

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol
Sir Eric Jackson Thomas FMedSci (24 March 1953 – 10 November 2023) was an English academic who was vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol from 2001 to 2015. From 2003 to 2007, he was chair of the Worldwide Universities Network and was the president of Universities UK from 2011 to 2013.
2023 Ewan Fordyce

Ewan Fordyce

New Zealand paleontologist
Robert Ewan Fordyce (14 July 1953 – 10 November 2023) was a New Zealand palaeontologist. He specialised in the evolution of whales, dolphins, and early penguins.
2023

Ganga (actor)

Indian actor (1960–2023)
Ganga (1960 – 10 November 2023) was an Indian actor who appeared in Tamil language films as a leading and supporting actor.
2023

Gordon Gibson Jr

Canadian politician (1937–2023)
Gordon Fulerton Gibson (August 23, 1937 – November 10, 2023), often referred to as Gordon Gibson Jr., was a Canadian author, political columnist, and politician in British Columbia. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1974 to 1979, and served as the leader of the BC Liberal Party between 1975 and 1979.
2023

Henry Dunay

American goldsmith and jewelry designer (1935–2023)
Henry Paul Dunay (born Henry Loniewski, 1 May 1935 – 10 November 2023) was an American goldsmith and jewelry designer, best known for his fine scratched surface technique known as Sabi.
2023 Hiroyuki Hosoda

Hiroyuki Hosoda

Japanese politician (1944–2023)
Hiroyuki Hosoda (細田 博之, Hosoda Hiroyuki; 5 April 1944 – 10 November 2023) was a Japanese politician who served as the speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan from November 2021 to October 2023. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1990, and served as Chief Cabinet Secretary in Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet from 2004 to 2005, and as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2008 to 2009.
2023

Jan Schwarz

Czech priest, theologist, writer and bishop (1958–2023)
Jan Schwarz (27 September 1958 – 10 November 2023) was a Czech theologian, a spiritual leader, journalist and writer. He was the seventh Patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church from 2001 to 2005. In 2000, he had been assigned as the press spokesman and in 2001 as the head of the Church of the church.
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His rule was marked by serious rambling between rival factions some refusing his patriarchy and threatening the division of the church. In 2005, he appeared in front of the church's Episcopal Central Council where he tended his resignation from the patriarchate. He also announced his decision to join the Religious Society of Czech Unitarians. He was also engaged in journalistic and writer activities. The ecclesiastical council appointed Bishop Mgr. Štěpán Klásek as an interim administrator to prepare for the election of a new patriarch of the church. On 23 September 2006, Tomáš Butta was elected, in the first round of voting with absolute majority as eighth Patriarch of the Church.
2023

Jean-Philippe Thierry

French businessperson
Jean-Philippe Thierry (16 October 1948 – 10 November 2023) was a French businessman in the insurance industry who served as CEO of AGF.
2023

John Bailey (cinematographer)

American cinematographer and film director (1942–2023)
John Ira Bailey ASC (August 10, 1942 – November 10, 2023) was an American cinematographer, film director, and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
2023 Johnny Ruffo

Johnny Ruffo

Australian singer-songwriter and actor
John Patrick Ruffo (8 March 1988 – 10 November 2023) was an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, actor, and television presenter. He rose to prominence after been the last contestant eliminated on the third season of The X Factor Australia. His debut single "On Top" (2012), peaked at number fourteen on the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified platinum.
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His second single "Take It Home" (2012), peaked at number thirty in Australia and earned a gold music certification. In total he released seven singles during his career. Outside of music Ruffo ventured into reality television and won the twelfth season of Dancing with the Stars Australia. In 2013, he made his acting debut in Home and Away, portraying the role of Chris Harrington until 2016. For his role he earned a Logie Nomination for Most Popular New Talent.
2023 Joseph LaDou

Joseph LaDou

American editor
Joseph LaDou (August 19, 1938 – November 10, 2023), was an American occupational and environmental medicine physician who practiced in Silicon Valley during the early years of the semiconductor and computer industries. In 1983, he was appointed the first Chief of the University of California, San Francisco (MC) Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and was co-director of the residency program there from 1982-1991. LaDou was founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, serving in that capacity from 1992 to 2005.
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During the same years, LaDou was director of UCSF's International Center for Occupational Medicine.
2023

Lorraine Day

American alternative health practitioner
Lorraine Jeanette Day (February 24, 1937 – November 10, 2023) was an American author, orthopedic trauma surgeon and Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital and promoter of alternative cancer treatments. Day first became controversial when she began advocating that patients be tested for AIDS prior to surgery. In the 2000s, she started to promote an alternative cancer treatment program, which has attracted criticism as being generally misleading and dangerous.
2023

Max Black (politician)

American congressman in Idaho
Max Clark Black (July 2, 1936 – November 10, 2023) was an American politician who was a Republican Idaho State Representative for District 15 in the B seat from 1993 to 2012.
2023

Miah Dennehy

Irish footballer
Jeremiah Dennehy (29 March 1950 – 10 November 2023) was an Irish footballer whose teams included Cork Hibernians, Nottingham Forest, Walsall and Bristol Rovers. In 1972, he became the first-ever player to score a hat-trick in an FAI Cup final.
2023 Mihai Timofti

Mihai Timofti

Moldovan theatre and film director, actor, musician, professor, screenwriter, writer
Mihai Timofti (19 September 1948 – 10 November 2023) was a Moldovan theatre and film director, actor, multi-instrumentalist musician, professor, screenwriter, writer and composer. Held an honorary title of "Master of Arts". He was an outstanding representative of the culture of the Republic of Moldova.
2023 Padmanabha Acharya

Padmanabha Acharya

Indian politician
Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya (8 October 1931 – 10 November 2023) was an Indian politician who was the Governor of Manipur, from June 2019 to July 2019 and Governor of Nagaland, from July 2014 to July 2019, also Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, from January 2017 to October 2017 and Governor of Tripura, from July 2014 to May 2015.
2023 Pavel Kantorek

Pavel Kantorek

Czech long-distance runner
Pavel Kantorek (8 February 1930 – 10 November 2023) was long-distance runner from Czechoslovakia. He was born in Prague. He represented Czechoslovakia in three consecutive Summer Olympics in the men's marathon, starting in 1956.
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Kantorek was a three-time winner of the Košice Peace Marathon. He set a course record of 2:19:06 at the Ostrava Marathon, a record that was still standing 52 years later. Kantorek died in Prague on 10 November 2023, at the age of 93.
2023

Pierre Michel (cyclist)

French cyclist (1929-2023)
Pierre Michel (16 November 1929 – 10 November 2023) was a French cyclist. He competed in the 4,000 metres team pursuit event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Michel died in Caen on 10 November 2023, at the age of 93.
2023

Rahman Gumbo

Zimbabwean footballer and manager (1963–2023)
Rahman Allen Thuthani Gumbo (18 November 1963 – 10 November 2023) was a Zimbabwean football player and manager.
2023 Spiros Focás

Spiros Focás

Greek actor
Spiros Focás (Greek: Σπύρος Φωκάς; 17 August 1937 – 10 November 2023) was a Greek actor.
2023 Yaw Shin Leong

Yaw Shin Leong

Singaporean businessman
Yaw Shin Leong (Chinese: 饶欣龙; pinyin: Ráo Xīnlóng; 2 June 1976 – 10 November 2023) was a Singaporean businessman and politician. A former member of the Workers' Party (WP), he was the Member of Parliament for Hougang Single Member Constituency (SMC) between 2011 and 2012.
2024 Abdelkader Lecheheb

Abdelkader Lecheheb

Moroccan footballer and diplomat (1954–2024)
Abdelkader Lecheheb, sometimes written as Lachheb, (Arabic: عبد القادر لشهب; 13 July 1954 – 10 November 2024) was a Moroccan diplomat and footballer who was the Moroccan ambassador to Russia. He presented his credentials to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on 29 May 2009.
2024

Anthony J. Marsella

American psychology professor
Anthony J. Marsella (1940-2024) was an American author and academic who was professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He was a pioneer in the study of cultural determinants of psychopathology and therapies, and a leader in cross-cultural psychology and global and international psychology.
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Many of his writings are considered essential reading for students and scholars in psychology, psychiatry, and the social sciences. During his career he challenged the ethnocentricity and inherent cultural and racial biases of Western psychology and psychiatry.
2024 Arnold Oss

Arnold Oss

American ice hockey player
Arnold Carl Oss Jr. (April 18, 1928 – November 10, 2024) was an American ice hockey player. He won a silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics.
2024 Barbara Aland

Barbara Aland

German theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History (1937–2024)
Barbara Aland (née Ehlers, 12 April 1937 – 10 November 2024) was a German theologian and professor of New Testament Research and Church History at the University of Münster until 2002. She was internationally recognized for her work on the Novum Testamentum Graece and the Greek New Testament, which she undertook with her husband, Kurt Aland.
2024 Dallas Long

Dallas Long

American shot putter (1940–2024)
Dallas Crutcher Long (June 13, 1940 – November 10, 2024) was an American track and field athlete, who mostly competed in the shot put. Between 1959 and 1964 he set six official and five unofficial world records.
2024

Derrick Grant

Scottish rugby union footballer and coach
Derrick Grant (19 April 1938 – 10 November 2024) was a Scotland international rugby union player and coach.
2024 Dick Kercher

Dick Kercher

football player (born 1932)
Richard S. Kercher (March 11, 1932 – November 10, 2024) was an American professional football player who played one season with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He played collegiately for the University of Tulsa as a left halfback, starting for the top yardage-gaining offense in the country for the 1951 and 1952 seasons.
2024

George Owusu Mensah

Ghanaian musician and pastor
George Owusu Mensah was a Ghanaian gospel musician and pastor, best known for his song "Matwen Awurade Anim." He served as the head pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Amakom, Kumasi.
2024

Helmut Pflugradt

German politician
Helmut Pflugradt (7 February 1949 – 10 November 2024) was a German civil servant and politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union, he served in the Bürgerschaft of Bremen from 1975 to 2009. Pflugradt died in Bremen on 10 November 2024, at the age of 75.
2024

Henry Pedersen Jr.

American politician (1929–2024)
Henry Frederick Pedersen Jr. (December 16, 1929 – November 10, 2024) was a Republican politician from Nebraska who served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 4th district from 1965 to 1971.
2024

Indra Soundar Rajan

Indian writer
P. Soundar Rajan (13 November 1958 – 10 November 2024), known by the pen name Indra Soundar Rajan, was an Indian Tamil author of short stories, novels, television serials, and screenplays.
2024

João Omar Macagnan

Brazilian politician
João Omar Macagnan (3 September 1943 – 10 November 2024) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. A member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, he served as mayor of Itajaí from 1989 to 1992 and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Santa Catarina from 1987 to 1988 and from 1999 to 2003. Macagnan died in Itajaí on 10 November 2024, at the age of 81.
2024

John Kimble

American talent manager (1945–2024)
John D. Kimble (August 1, 1945 – November 10, 2024) was an American talent manager. Alongside Gene Parseghian, he founded a talent agency in New York City which later merged into the William Morris Agency.
2024

Karl Koepfer

American football player (born 1934)
Karl Justin Koepfer (October 7, 1934 – November 10, 2024) was an American professional football player who played for Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Bowling Green State University.
2024 Mahendra Singh Mewar

Mahendra Singh Mewar

Indian politician
Mahendra Singh Mewar (24 February 1941 – 10 November 2024) was an Indian aristocrat and politician who served as a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and was the disputed Head of the House of Mewar.
2024 Mary Pat Clarke

Mary Pat Clarke

American politician
Mary Pat Clarke (June 22, 1941 – November 10, 2024) was an American politician who represented the 14th district in the Baltimore City Council. She served as both council president and council member for 24 out of the last 35 years as of 2010. She is the first woman ever elected president of the Baltimore City Council and until 2016 was the only non-incumbent to win a council seat since single-member districts were mandated by Baltimore voters through Question P in 2002.
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Additionally, Clarke unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 1995.
2024

Maurice Johnston (British Army officer)

British Army general
Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Robert Johnston, (27 October 1929 – 10 November 2024) was a British Army officer. He served as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operational Requirements) from 1981 to 1982, and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 1996 to 2004.
2024

Noel Tierney

Irish Gaelic football player
Noel Tierney (2 February 1942 – 10 November 2024) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. At club level he played with Garrymore and Milltown, while he was also a member of the Galway senior football team.
2024

Paul Caponigro

American photographer (1932-2024)
Paul John Jerome Caponigro (December 7, 1932 – November 10, 2024) was an American photographer, writer and pianist. His best known photographs are Running White Deer and Galaxy Apple. His subject matter includes landscape and still life, taking an interest in natural forms.
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He was best known for his landscape works and for the mystical and spiritual qualities of his work. In 2001, Caponigro was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography. His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Modern Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
2024

Rex Blundell

cricketer
Rex Pole Blundell (8 May 1942 – 10 November 2024) was an Australian cricketer. He played 24 first-class and three List A matches for South Australia between 1964 and 1971. Blundell died in Adelaide on 10 November 2024, at the age of 82.
2024

Sandra Gilbert

American literary critic and poet
Sandra Mortola Gilbert (born Sandra Ellen Mortola; December 27, 1936 – November 10, 2024) was an American literary critic and poet who published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism. She was best known for her collaborative critical work with Susan Gubar, with whom she co-authored, among other works, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979). Madwoman in the Attic is widely recognized as a text central to second-wave feminism.
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She was Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis.
2024

Stanley Rensch

Surinamese human rights activist (1940–2024)
E. Stanley Rensch (18 April 1940 – 10 November 2024) was a Surinamese human rights activist.
2024

Tim Crow

British psychiatrist
Timothy John Crow, (7 June 1938 – 10 November 2024) was a British psychiatrist and researcher. Much of his research was related to finding the causes of schizophrenia. He also had an interest in neurology and evolutionary theory.
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He was the Honorary Director of the Prince of Wales International Centre for Research into Schizophrenia and Depression. He qualified at the Royal London Hospital in 1964 and obtained a PhD at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1970. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Academy of Medical Sciences. Crow was, for twenty years, Head of the Division of Psychiatry of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Research Centre at Northwick Park Hospital and then a member of the External Scientific Staff of the MRC in Oxford.
2024

Tim Sullivan

American novelist (born 1948)
Timothy Robert Sullivan was an American science fiction novelist, screenwriter, actor, film director and short story writer.
2024 Xu Chao

Xu Chao

Chinese cyclist (1994-2024)
Xu Chao (Chinese: 徐超; pinyin: Xú Chāo, 5 November 1994 – 10 November 2024) was a Chinese professional racing cyclist. He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He also competed at the 2014 Asian Games and won a silver medal in the team sprint.
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Xu died on 10 November 2024, at the age of 30.
2025

Abhinay Kinger

Indian film actor
Abhinay Kinger (20 June 1981 – 10 November 2025) was an Indian actor who appeared in Tamil and Malayalam-language films. He made his debut in the 2002 film Thulluvadho Ilamai directed by Kasthuri Raja. His final film, Game of Loans, was released posthumously.
2025

Akira Ishimaru

Ph.D. University of Washington 1958
Akira Ishimaru (Japanese: 石丸 昭; March 16, 1928 – November 10, 2025) was a Japanese-American electrical engineer and professor emeritus at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Washington. He was best known for his contributions to the theory of wave scattering in random media.
2025

Alwyn Crawshaw

British artist, writer and broadcaster (1934–2025)
Alwyn Crawshaw (1934-2025) was an artist, writer and broadcaster who published many books and presented programmes on painting.
2025 Ande Sri

Ande Sri

Poet and composer (Telangana's Antheme)
Ande Yellanna (18 July 1961 – 10 November 2025), also known under the pen name Ande Sri, was an Indian poet and lyricist.
2025 Antonio García-Bellido

Antonio García-Bellido

Spanish biologist (1936–2025)
Antonio García-Bellido y García de Diego ForMemRS (30 April 1936 – 10 November 2025) was a Spanish developmental biologist. His ideas and new approaches to the problem of development have been followed and pursued by many researchers worldwide. García-Bellido was research professor at the Spanish National Research Council from 1974, conducted research at the Center for Molecular Biology in Madrid for over 30 years, and supervised 22 PhD students.
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He was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1986 and as an International Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987. In 2012, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Developmental Biology. He died on 10 November 2025, at the age of 89.
2025

Arfa Sayeda Zehra

Pakistani educator and Urdu language expert
Arfa Sayeda Zehra (Punjabi: عارفہ سیدہ زہرا, Urdu: عارفہ سیدہ زہرا; 22 June 1937 – 10 November 2025) was a Pakistani human rights activist. She served as the Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Education and National Harmony Affairs. She studied first at Lahore College for Women University, then Government College University, with further degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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Zehra was a professor emeritus of history at Forman Christian College and was a principal of the Lahore College for Women University. She was a chairperson on the National Commission on the Status of Women and a caretaker provincial minister of Punjab. She was recognised for her knowledge of the Urdu language and literature and specialised in intellectual history and South Asian social issues; outside of the university sphere, she spoke at language conferences and televised forums.
2025 Barbara Raetsch

Barbara Raetsch

German painter (born 1936)
Barbara Raetsch (21 October 1936 – 10 November 2025) was a German painter. After finishing secondary school, she worked as a horticultural assistant before settling in Potsdam with her husband, Karl. She was a member of the Verband Bildender Künstler der DDR from 1977 to 1990 and used her converted cemetery and chapel in Potsdam as a studio and apartment until 2013.
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In 2021, she received the Honorary Prize of the Minister-President of the State of Brandenburg, Dietmar Woidke. Throughout her life, she was known as one of Potsdam's most influential artists. Raetsch died on 10 November 2025, at the age of 89.
2025

Barry Knight (cricketer)

English Test and County cricketer (born 1938)
Barry Rolfe Knight (18 February 1938 – 10 November 2025) was an English cricketer, who played in twenty-nine Tests for England from 1961 to 1969. Cricket correspondent Colin Bateman remarked: "a flamboyant cricketer... [Knight] was an elegant middle-order batsman and a bowler with a sharp turn of speed who never appeared to run out of energy".
2025

Danny Seagren

American puppeteer and actor (1943–2025)
Daniel Morley Seagren (November 15, 1943 – November 10, 2025) was an American puppeteer and actor.
2025 Dejan Ristanović

Dejan Ristanović

Serbian writer
Dejan Ristanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Ристановић; 16 April 1963 – 10 November 2025) was a Serbian writer and computer publicist.
2025 Eduard Esterleyn

Eduard Esterleyn

politician
Eduard Yakovlevich Esterleyn (Russian: Эдуард Яковлевич Эстерлейн; 28 July 1935 – 10 November 2025) was a Russian politician. He served in the Federation Council from 1994 to 1996. Esterleyn died on 10 November 2025, at the age of 90.
2025 Georgy Tolstoy

Georgy Tolstoy

Russian scientist
Georgy Kirillovich "Yury" Tolstoy (Russian: Георгий Кириллович (Юрий) Толстой; 24 September 1927 – 10 November 2025) was a Soviet and Russian scholar of civil law, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and professor of the Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Law. Tolstoy was widely known as a university professor of high-ranking Russian politicians, including Russian presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.
2025 Ham Lin̄i

Ham Lin̄i

Prime Minister of Vanuatu
Ham Lin̄i Vanuaroroa (8 December 1951 – 10 November 2025) was a ni-Vanuatu politician. He was a MP from Pentecost Island in Penama Province. He was Prime Minister of Vanuatu from 11 December 2004 until 22 September 2008.
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He was the Deputy Prime Minister, having assumed the post on 16 May 2014. Lin̄i was the brother of Walter Lin̄i, one of the founders of the modern Republic of Vanuatu. Ham Lin̄i was the leader of the National United Party (VNUP).
2025 Herzl Bodinger

Herzl Bodinger

Israeli Air Force general (1943–2025)
Herzl Bodinger (Hebrew: הרצל בודינגר; 1943 – 10 November 2025) was a general in the Israel Defense Forces who served as twelfth Commander of the Israeli Air Force between 1992 and 1996. He previously served several other command roles in the Israeli Air Force (IAF), and also participated in aerial operations over Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, shooting down two fighter jets.
2025

Irfan Siddiqui

Pakistani senior journalist
Raja Irfan-ul-Haque Siddiqui (Urdu: عرفان الحق صدیقی; died 10 November 2025) was a Pakistani politician and columnist senior figure of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). He served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan representing Punjab Province from March 2021 until his death and held key roles including Parliamentary Party Leader of PML-N in the Senate and Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. He died on 10 November 2025 in Islamabad after a fortnight-long hospitalisation for severe respiratory complications.
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John R. Carpenter

American geochemist (1938–2025)
John Richard Carpenter (May 20, 1938 – November 10, 2025) was an American geochemist.
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Jonathan Pienaar

South African actor
Jonathan Pienaar (16 September 1962 – 10 November 2025) was a South African actor, writer and comedian who was active for over 20 years.
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Kai T. Erikson

American sociologist
Kai Theodor Erikson (February 12, 1931 – November 10, 2025) was an American sociologist, noted as an authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events. He served as the 76th president of the American Sociological Association.
2025 Karel Oujezdský

Karel Oujezdský

Czech radio editor and journalist (1946–2025)
Karel Oujezdský (19 September 1946 – 10 November 2025) was a Czech radio editor and journalist.
2025 Kaspar Rostrup

Kaspar Rostrup

Danish theatre and film director
Kaspar Rostrup (27 April 1940 – 10 November 2025) was a Danish film director. Two of his films won the Best Film prize at the Bodil Awards : Jeppe på bjerget (1981) and Waltzing Regitze (1989). The latter was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Jeppe på bjerget was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.
2025 Rudolf Adler

Rudolf Adler

Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue
Rudolf Adler (25 May 1941 – 10 November 2025) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and film educator.
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Susan Anderson (politician)

American politician
Susan Carol Anderson (October 22, 1945 – November 10, 2025) was an American Republican politician from Natrona County, Wyoming. Anderson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 22, 1945. She represented Natrona County in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1991 to 1992 and represented the 28th district in the Wyoming Senate from 1993 to her resignation later that year.
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She died of ovarian cancer on November 10, 2025.
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Thomas Daniel Schlee

Austrian composer (1957–2025)
Thomas Daniel Schlee (26 October 1957 – 10 November 2025) was an Austrian composer, arts administrator and organist. He directed the Brucknerhaus in Linz and was artistic director of the Brucknerfest from 1990 to 1998. He was vice general manager of the Beethovenfest in Bonn from 1999 to 2003, and general manager of the Carinthischer Sommer from 2004 to 2015.

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