Deaths

Willem Hubert Nolens

A Catholic priest who became the most influential Dutch political figure of the early 20th-century Catholic emancipation movement, Willem Hubert Nolens led the Roman Catholic State Party in parliament for decades. He was instrumental in passing key social legislation, including expanded suffrage and labor protections, while navigating the complex confessional politics of Dutch coalition government.

Frank Harris

Frank Harris died in Nice in 1931. He'd been a cowboy, a lawyer, a newspaper editor, and a memoirist whose autobiography *My Life and Loves* was banned in Britain and America for decades because of its explicit sexual content. Shaw liked him. Wilde liked him. Oscar Wilde said of Harris: "Frank Harris is invited to all the great houses in England — once." He died broke, in exile, with a manuscript nobody would publish.

Francis Marion Smith

Francis Marion Smith died in San Francisco in 1931. He'd made a fortune mining borax in Death Valley in the 1880s and built the Twenty Mule Team Borax brand. At his peak he was worth million. Then he overextended into a real estate empire in Oakland that collapsed spectacularly. He spent his final years in debt. He'd pulled 20 million pounds of borax out of one of the most inhospitable places on earth and still went broke.

Louis Andrieux, französischer Politiker, Polizeipräfekt von Paris und Botschafter

1932

Friedrich von Gaisberg-Schöckingen, deutscher Gutsherr, Politiker, Genealoge und Heraldiker

1933

Horst von Waldthausen, deutsch-schweizerischer Automobilrennfahrer

1934

Linda Agostini

Known in Australian true crime as the "Pyjama Girl Case," Linda Agostini's battered body was found in a culvert near Albury in 1934, dressed in pyjamas and initially unidentifiable. The case remained one of Australia's most sensational unsolved mysteries for a decade until her Italian-born husband Tony Agostini confessed to the killing in 1944.

1935

Childe Hassam

Childe Hassam became America's foremost Impressionist, producing over 3,000 paintings, watercolors, and etchings across his career. His flag paintings of New York's Fifth Avenue — created during World War I — became some of the most recognized images of American patriotism in art.

1935

Tom Murray, acteur américain, le "méchant" Black Larsen de "La Ruée vers l'or" de Chaplin (° 8 septembre 1874).

1935

Friedrich Otto Schott, químico alemán (n.

Friedrich Otto Schott, químico alemán (n. 1851).

1936

George Henry Dern, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1937

Walter Rothschild, 2.

Walter Rothschild, 2. Baron Rothschild, britischer Bankier und Zoologe

1940

Israël Leizer Karp, premier fusillé au camp de Souge (° 20 janvier 1886).

1942

Walter Steinbeck, deutscher Schauspieler

1943

Otto Selz, psychologue allemand (° 14 février 1881).

1943

Constantin Prezan, rumänischer General im Ersten Weltkrieg

1944

Mafalda von Savoyen, italienische Adlige

1944

Georg von Boeselager

Georg von Boeselager died in August 1944. He was a German cavalry officer who had been part of the conspiracy to kill Hitler — specifically, he had arranged to have explosives available for Claus von Stauffenberg's July 20 plot. The bomb went off but Hitler survived. Boeselager was killed on the Eastern Front weeks later. The war ended nine months after that.

1945

Hubert Pál Álgyay

A Hungarian structural engineer who designed Budapest's Petőfi Bridge (originally Horthy Miklós Bridge), Hubert Pál Álgyay created one of the Danube's most elegant crossings when it opened in 1937. The bridge was destroyed during World War II and rebuilt, but Álgyay did not survive the war's final months.

1947

Johanna Ey, deutsche Galeristin

1948

Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes died in Osterville, Massachusetts, in 1948. He'd been Governor of New York, the Republican nominee for president in 1916 (he lost to Wilson by 3,800 votes in California), Secretary of State, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He lost by 3,800 votes. In an election decided 23 states to 11, the margin that mattered was California, where he went to sleep on election night thinking he'd won.

1948

Carl Møller, dänischer Ruderer

1948

Oscar Lorenzo Fernández, brasilianischer Komponist

1950

Cesare Pavese

He left eighteen sleeping pills and an unfinished glass of wine on the nightstand of Turin's Hotel Roma. Cesare Pavese had just won Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega, three weeks earlier. He was 41. His diary, *Il mestiere di vivere* — "The Business of Living" — became the book that outlasted everything, a raw decade-long record of depression and desire published posthumously. He'd written about death constantly. When it finally came, nobody called it a surprise.

1952

Armand Gagnier, kanadischer Klarinettist und Dirigent

1953

Petro Oros, eparca auxiliar húngaro (n.

Petro Oros, eparca auxiliar húngaro (n. 1917).

1953

Nikolai Tichonowitsch Beresowski, russischer Komponist

1956

Roelof Hommema, niederländischer Ruderer

1956

Pelageya Shajn

Russian astronomer Pelageya Shajn co-discovered numerous variable stars and minor planets during her career at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. Working alongside her husband Grigory Shajn, she contributed to the identification of new celestial objects at a time when women in Soviet science were more common than in the West.

1958

Ernest Lawrence

He went to Geneva to help negotiate a nuclear test ban treaty — and never came home. Ernest Lawrence, who'd built the first cyclotron in 1930 inside a Berkeley lab the size of a kitchen, died of colitis at 57, just days after those talks collapsed. His particle accelerator unlocked artificial radioactive isotopes, tools that became standard in cancer treatment worldwide. The Lawrence Berkeley and Livermore national laboratories still carry his name. But the man who split atoms died from inflammation of his gut.

1958

Georges Lecomte, romancier et auteur dramatique français, secrétaire perpétuel de l’Académie française (° 9 juillet 1…

Georges Lecomte, romancier et auteur dramatique français, secrétaire perpétuel de l’Académie française (° 9 juillet 1867).

1958

Johannes Gronowski, deutscher Politiker, MdL

1959

Joseph John Annabring, ungarischer Bischof

1961

Kálmán Rózsahegyi

A Hungarian actor and drama educator, Kálmán Rózsahegyi was a leading figure at the National Theatre of Hungary and trained generations of performers at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. His contributions to Hungarian theatrical pedagogy shaped the country's acting tradition through the mid-20th century.

1962

Leopoldo Panero, poeta español (n.

Leopoldo Panero, poeta español (n. 1909).

1962

Carlos Lavín, chilenischer Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler

W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (born 1868)

Adolf Grimme, deutscher Politiker und Widerstandskämpfer

Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi

A Pakistani mathematician, logician, and political activist, Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi founded the Khaksar Movement, a mass paramilitary organization that mobilized hundreds of thousands of followers in British India during the 1930s and 40s. Dubbed "Allama" (great scholar), he rejected a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Mathematics and instead pursued social revolution.

Garrett Morgan

Garrett Morgan died in Cleveland in 1963. He was a Black inventor who created the gas mask — the traffic signal came later, in 1923. In 1916, he put on his gas mask and walked into a collapsed tunnel under Lake Erie to rescue workers trapped by an explosion when everyone else refused. He saved lives that day. The patent for the gas mask sold. The traffic signal patent sold. He was also refused service at a restaurant in the city that owed him those tunnels.

W. E. B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois was 95 years old and had been fighting racial injustice in America for seventy years when he joined the Communist Party and moved to Ghana. He'd spent those decades building the NAACP, editing its magazine, writing The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction, lobbying at the founding of the United Nations for a petition against American racial discrimination. The State Department had taken his passport in 1951. When he finally got it back, he left. He died in Accra on August 27, 1963 — the day before the March on Washington.

Allama Mashriqi

Allama Mashriqi died in Lahore in 1963. He'd been a Cambridge-educated mathematician who gave up an academic career to found the Khaksar Movement in 1931 — a Muslim paramilitary organization that drilled with spades and preached self-reliance. The British jailed him repeatedly. After partition he supported a unified subcontinent, which made him inconvenient to almost everyone. He died having been right about most things and heeded about none.

Ernesto Arancibia, cineasta argentino (n.

Ernesto Arancibia, cineasta argentino (n. 1904).

1964

Gracie Allen

She ran for president in 1940. Not as a stunt — Gracie Allen actually filed, campaigned on the "Surprise Party" ticket, and got write-in votes across 42 states. Most people remember her as the scatterbrained half of Burns and Allen, but she was the one writing the jokes. George Burns admitted it openly. She died August 27, 1964, of a heart attack at 69. Burns visited her grave at Forest Lawn every single week until his own death. Thirty-two years of Sundays.

1965

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier died swimming in the Mediterranean, at a beach in southern France, in 1965. He'd revolutionized architecture twice — first with the Villa Savoye and the machine-for-living concept of the 1920s, then with the massive concrete social housing blocks of the postwar era. His Unité d'Habitation in Marseille was meant to be a vertical village. The housing estates built in his image across European cities became, decades later, bywords for social isolation. He never quite accepted that the gap between his drawings and what people actually experienced in his buildings was his problem to solve.

Henri-Georges Adam, pintor y escultor francés (n.

Henri-Georges Adam, pintor y escultor francés (n. 1904).

Brian Epstein

He was 32 years old and had accidentally taken one pill too many. Brian Epstein died alone in his London townhouse on August 27, 1967, just weeks after signing The Beatles to a new contract he privately feared was a mistake. He'd discovered them playing a sweaty Liverpool cellar club and turned down every major label before EMI finally said yes. John Lennon later said it plainly: "If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian." Without him, there might not have been four.

Pablo Úbeda (Rigoberto Cruz), maestro y guerrillero nicaragüense (n.

Pablo Úbeda (Rigoberto Cruz), maestro y guerrillero nicaragüense (n. años 1940).

Silvio Mayorga, guerrillero nicaragüense (n.

Silvio Mayorga, guerrillero nicaragüense (n. 1934).

1968

Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark

Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark died in London in 1968. She'd married Prince George, Duke of Kent, in 1934, and became Duchess of Kent — the most stylish of the wartime royals, setting fashion trends while her husband flew military missions. He was killed in a plane crash in 1942. She spent the next 26 years as a widow doing royal duties. She never remarried.

1968

Robert Z. Leonard

A prolific Hollywood director who helmed over 100 films across four decades, Robert Z. Leonard directed musicals, comedies, and dramas for MGM during the studio system's golden age. His credits include The Great Ziegfeld (1936), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

1969

Erika Mann

She married W.H. Auden in 1935 — not for love, but for a British passport to escape Nazi Germany. Auden agreed by telegram after a single request from a mutual friend. Never romantically involved, they remained legally wed until her death. Erika spent the war years broadcasting anti-Nazi radio programs and filing frontline dispatches from Spain and WWII combat zones. She was Thomas Mann's eldest daughter, but she built her own resistance from scratch. The marriage of convenience outlasted the Reich by 24 years.

1969

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett died in London in 1969. She wrote twenty novels, all of them set in Victorian upper-class households, all of them composed almost entirely of dialogue, all of them about families destroying each other with perfect manners. She didn't like plot. She liked what people said when they meant something else. Modernism ran toward experimentation; she ran toward the drawing room and found the same horror inside it.

1970

José Alonso, sindicalista argentino (n.

José Alonso, sindicalista argentino (n. 1917).

1971

Lil Hardin Armstrong, US-amerikanische Jazz-Pianistin, -Sängerin und -Komponistin

1971

Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White died in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1971. She was one of the first four photographers hired by *Life* magazine and one of the first women accredited as a war correspondent. She photographed the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 — General Patton took one look at the camp and made the local German civilians walk through it. Bourke-White photographed them walking through. She had Parkinson's disease for the last 17 years of her life and kept working.

1971

Bennett Cerf

Bennett Cerf died in Mount Kisco, New York, in 1971. He co-founded Random House in 1927 and published James Joyce's *Ulysses* in America after fighting and winning the obscenity case against it in 1933. Later he became a television regular on *What's My Line?*, cracking puns every Sunday night. He was the publisher who gave Joyce's masterwork its American audience, and America mostly remembered him for the jokes.

1972

Angelo Dell’Acqua, prélat italien (° 9 décembre 1903).

1974

Otto Strasser, deutscher nationalsozialistischer Politiker

1974

Lupicínio Rodrigues, compositor brasileiro (n.

Lupicínio Rodrigues, compositor brasileiro (n. 1914).

1974

Erwin Jürgens, deutscher Politiker, MdL

1975

Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie ruled Ethiopia for forty-four years, survived an Italian invasion, spoke at the League of Nations when no one helped him, returned after World War II, and became a symbol of African independence across the continent. Rastafarians declared him divine. He cultivated the image. When a 1973 famine killed 200,000 Ethiopians and he'd hidden it from the world while food rotted in storage, the military arrested him. He was 83 and was reportedly strangled in his bedroom a year later. The palace buried him under a toilet. His remains were found there in 1992.

1975

Efraín Orozco, kolumbianischer Komponist, Dirigent und Instrumentalist

1976

Ángel Garasa, actor mexicano de origen español (n.

Ángel Garasa, actor mexicano de origen español (n. 1905).

1976

Mukesh

He collapsed in Detroit — not Mumbai, not Delhi — while on a concert tour at age 53. Mukesh Chand Mathur had spent decades as Raj Kapoor's go-to voice, the melancholy tenor behind "Awara Hoon" that made a generation feel beautifully lost. He'd sung for 170 films across 30 years. But his own speaking voice was unremarkable; few recognized him on the street. He left behind a son, Nitin Mukesh, who'd carry the same surname into Bollywood. The saddest voice in Hindi cinema belonged to a man who died far from home.

1976

Georges Marrane, homme politique français (° 20 janvier 1888).

1977

Gertrud Wiebke Schröder, deutsche Bildhauerin und Kunstgewerblerin

1978

Helmi Üprus

Estonian art historian Helmi Üprus dedicated her career to documenting and preserving Estonia's architectural heritage. Her scholarly work on medieval Estonian architecture and decorative arts provided a foundation for cultural preservation during decades of Soviet occupation, when national identity was under pressure.

1978

Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark literally cut buildings in half. The artist and architect used chainsaws and blowtorches to carve geometric voids into condemned structures, creating sculptural works that challenged how people think about space and architecture. He died of cancer at 35, leaving behind a body of work that influenced generations of artists and architects.

1978

Ieva Simonaitytė

One of Lithuania's most beloved authors, Ieva Simonaitytė wrote novels depicting the lives of ethnic Lithuanians in the Klaipėda Region (Memelland) under German rule. Her semi-autobiographical works, particularly Aukštujų Šimonių likimas, captured the cultural identity of a community caught between two nations and became foundational texts of modern Lithuanian literature.

Paul Coste-Floret, homme politique français membre du Conseil constitutionnel de 1971 à sa mort (° 9 avril 1911).

Bolesław Szabelski, polnischer Komponist

Louis Mountbatten

A fishing boat. That's what ended one of the most decorated careers in British military history. On August 27, 1979, IRA operative Thomas McMahon had already planted a 50-pound radio-controlled bomb aboard Mountbatten's wooden vessel, *Shadow V*, off Mullaghmore, Ireland. The blast killed Mountbatten at 79, along with his 14-year-old grandson and two others. McMahon was convicted entirely on forensic evidence — paint and bomb residue on his clothes. Behind Mountbatten sat the partition of India, the last British handover of empire, decided in 340 days flat.

Bill Spear, US-amerikanischer Automobilrennfahrer

1980

Douglas Kenney

Douglas Kenney died in Hawaii in 1980. He co-founded the National Lampoon, co-wrote *Animal House*, co-wrote *Caddyshack*, and was 33 years old. He fell from a cliff at the Hanapepe Lookout. Chevy Chase, who'd worked with him on *Caddyshack*, said: "I guess he was just looking for a place to fall." The quote is cruel. It's also the kind of thing Doug Kenney would have written.

1981

Valeri Kharlamov

A car crash on a Moscow highway killed him at 33 — but Kharlamov had already survived one that nearly ended his career in 1976, returning to score 12 goals in that year's Canada Cup. Canadian coaches feared him so much that in the 1972 Summit Series, they reportedly instructed Bobby Clarke to slash his ankle deliberately. Clarke did. Kharlamov played hurt anyway. He scored 15 goals in 38 career games against NHL competition. The most dangerous Soviet player ever faced didn't need a full season to prove it.

1982

Anandamayi Ma, indische spirituelle Meisterin

1982

Alexander Radunski, sowjetischer Balletttänzer und -meister

1983

Bill Stein, US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler

1984

Febrônio Índio do Brasil, criminoso brasileiro (n.

Febrônio Índio do Brasil, criminoso brasileiro (n. 1895).

1984

Bernard Youens

Bernard Youens played Stan Ogden on Coronation Street for sixteen years, from 1964 until his death in 1984. Stan was a work-shy, cheerful, fundamentally decent man who occupied the bottom of the social ladder without apparent resentment. Youens himself had suffered a series of strokes in his final years, and the character's decline was written to match the actor's physical limitations. He died on the job, in the sense that his character's funeral aired after his actual death. It was one of the most watched episodes of British television that year.

1985

Walter Frey, Schweizer Pianist und Musikpädagoge

1986

Norbert-Jean Mahé, Automobilrennfahrer

1986

Georgi Tadschijewitsch Agsamow, sowjetischer Schachmeister

1986

Arturo Godoy, boxeador chileno (n.

Arturo Godoy, boxeador chileno (n. 1912).

1987

Scott La Rock

He was shot trying to calm a dispute — not performing, not famous, just a guy trying to stop a fight in the Bronx. Scott La Rock, born Scott Sterling, had worked as a homeless shelter counselor before co-founding Boogie Down Productions with KRS-One. He was 25. Their debut album, *Criminal Minded*, had dropped just months earlier. His death pushed KRS-One to build Stop the Violence Movement two years later. The shelter counselor trying to make peace died the same way he'd spent his whole life — intervening.

1987

Scott La Rock, DJ estadunidense (n.

Scott La Rock, DJ estadunidense (n. 1962).

1988

Mario Montenegro

Mario Montenegro died in Manila in 1988. He was one of the biggest stars of Filipino cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in dozens of films and becoming a matinee idol in a country where cinema was the dominant popular art form. Filipino film of that era had its own rhythms and its own stars, mostly invisible to the rest of the world. Montenegro was one of the biggest of them.

1988

William Sargant

William Sargant died in London in 1988. He was a British psychiatrist who pioneered — and aggressively promoted — physical treatments for mental illness: electroconvulsive therapy, insulin coma therapy, psychosurgery. He was also alleged to have conducted mind control experiments for the CIA under Project MKUltra. His methods were controversial then and look worse now. He died believing he had helped people. Some of them agreed.

1988

Max Black, US-amerikanischer Philosoph

Armin Scheurer, Schweizer Leichtathlet und Fußballspieler

Stevie Ray Vaughan

He'd survived crack cocaine, alcohol, and a near-fatal collapse on stage in 1986 — then died in a helicopter that lifted off in dense Alpine Valley fog at 12:50 a.m. on August 27, 1990. He was 35. Four people died in that crash, including three members of Eric Clapton's crew. Vaughan had swapped seats at the last minute, taking a spot originally meant for someone else. He left behind *Texas Flood*, an album that single-handedly revived blues guitar for a generation that'd nearly forgotten it existed.

Pearl Bailey, US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Sängerin

Avdy Andresson

An Estonian diplomat who served during the brief period of Estonian independence between the World Wars, Avdy Andresson was part of the generation of statesmen who built the young republic's foreign service before Soviet occupation erased it. He lived to see Estonia's path toward restored independence before dying in 1990.

Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco, jurista brasileiro (n.

Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco, jurista brasileiro (n. 1905).

1991

Vince Taylor (Brian Maurice Holden dit), chanteur de rock britannique (° 14 juillet 1939).

1991

Teddy Stauffer, Schweizer Bandleader

1991

Martín Karadagián, luchador profesional, promotor y actor argentino (n.

Martín Karadagián, luchador profesional, promotor y actor argentino (n. 1922).

1992

Bengt Holbek, folclorista danés (n.

Bengt Holbek, folclorista danés (n. 1933).

1992

Bengt Holbek

Danish folklorist Bengt Holbek spent his career at the University of Copenhagen studying the structure and social meaning of fairy tales. His 1987 work "Interpretation of Fairy Tales" applied rigorous analytical methods to oral storytelling traditions, bridging folklore studies and social history.

Beba Bidart, cantante de tangos argentina (n.

Beba Bidart, cantante de tangos argentina (n. 1924).

Boris Malenko

A professional wrestler and trainer, Boris Malenko (Larry Simon) was one of the most respected heels and technical wrestlers in the southeastern U.S. territory circuit. He trained numerous wrestlers who went on to prominent careers, and his sons Joe and Dean Malenko both became professional wrestlers, with Dean achieving stardom in WCW and WWE.

Frank Jeske

An East German footballer who played for 1. FC Union Berlin, Frank Jeske was the club's all-time top scorer in the DDR-Oberliga with over 100 goals. His death at just 33 from a rare autoimmune disease cut short a career that had made him a legend in East Berlin football.

Roberto Goyeneche, cantante de tango argentino (n.

Roberto Goyeneche, cantante de tango argentino (n. 1926).

1995

Mary Beth Hughes, US-amerikanische Schauspielerin

Agnieszka Kotlarska, modelo polonesa (n.

Agnieszka Kotlarska, modelo polonesa (n. 1972).

Dulcina de Moraes, atriz brasileira (n.

Dulcina de Moraes, atriz brasileira (n. 1908).

Wayne D. Overholser, US-amerikanischer Westernautor

Greg Morris

Greg Morris died in Las Vegas in 1996. He played Barney Collier, the electronics expert on *Mission: Impossible*, from 1966 to 1973 — one of the first Black actors to play a lead, non-comic role in a major American TV drama. He wasn't a sidekick. He was the technical heart of the team. When the show was made into a film in 1996, his son Phil Morris appeared in it. Greg Morris died the same year.

1997

Sotiria Bellou

The greatest female rebetiko singer in Greek music history, Sotiria Bellou brought raw emotion and lived experience to the urban blues genre that had been dominated by men. Her deep, resonant voice and interpretations of rebetiko classics made her a cultural icon, and her difficult personal life — including imprisonment, poverty, and discrimination as a lesbian — infused her performances with unmatched authenticity.

1997

Julio Musimessi, argentinischer Fußballspieler

1998

Benny Hansen, dänischer Schauspieler

1998

Essie Summers, escritora neozelandesa (n.

Essie Summers, escritora neozelandesa (n. 1912).

1998

Essie Summers

New Zealand's most prolific romance novelist, Essie Summers published over 50 books through Mills & Boon/Harlequin, setting her stories in the South Island landscapes she knew intimately. Her gentle romances sold millions of copies worldwide and introduced readers across the globe to the beauty of New Zealand's Canterbury region and Southern Alps.

1999

Hélder Câmara

Hélder Câmara died in Recife, Brazil, in 1999. He was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife for nineteen years and became the most prominent voice of liberation theology in Latin America. The Brazilian military dictatorship couldn't silence him because he was too famous. He said: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." That line traveled further than most bishops.

1999

Margaret Ahern, dessinatrice et scénariste américaine de bande dessinée (° 16 février 1921).

1999

Wladimir Prochorow, sowjetischer bzw.

Wladimir Prochorow, sowjetischer bzw. russischer Schauspieler und Synchronsprecher

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2000

Edmund Karp, estnischer Fußball-, Basketball- und Volleyballspieler

رمضان عبد التواب، عالم لغوي مصري.

Michael Dertouzos

Michael Dertouzos ran the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science for twenty-seven years and spent that time arguing that computers needed to be made useful to ordinary people, not just specialists. He helped build the World Wide Web Consortium with Tim Berners-Lee. His 1997 book What Will Be predicted ubiquitous computing, always-on internet connectivity, and machine translation of spoken language — roughly accurate for 2010, written in 1997. He died in 2001. The lab he ran became part of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which now carries his legacy forward under a different name.

Abu Ali Mustafa

Israel fired two missiles into his car. Right there in the street in Ramallah, August 27, 2001. Abu Ali Mustafa — real name Mustafa Zibri — was secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second-largest PLO faction. He was at his office window when the strike came. His death didn't end the conflict. The PFLP retaliated by assassinating Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi six weeks later, triggering an even deeper spiral. One targeted killing pulled two nations closer to the edge.

Witold Krzemieński, polnischer Komponist, Dirigent und Musikpädagoge

Justus Ahlheim, deutscher Politiker

Edwin Louis Cole, religioso y escritor estadounidense (n.

Edwin Louis Cole, religioso y escritor estadounidense (n. 1922).

Edwin Louis Cole

Edwin Louis Cole died in Dallas in 2002. He was an American evangelist who founded Christian Men's Network in 1977 and spent 25 years traveling the world preaching that masculinity and Christian faith reinforced each other. His book *Maximized Manhood* sold over a million copies. He reached men who didn't attend church but might attend a stadium event. That demographic was harder than it sounds.

Jane Tilden, österreichische Schauspielerin

Pierre Poujade

Pierre Poujade died in Saint-Céré, France, in 2003. He'd founded the Poujadist movement in 1953 — a populist revolt of small shopkeepers and artisans against taxes and modernization. The movement sent 52 deputies to the French National Assembly in 1956, including a young Jean-Marie Le Pen. Poujadism as a movement collapsed by 1958. As a template for anti-establishment populism, it has never really gone away.

Manuel Avellaneda Gómez, pintor español (n.

Manuel Avellaneda Gómez, pintor español (n. 1938).

Peter-Paul Pigmans

A Dutch record producer and music industry figure, Peter-Paul Pigmans worked in the Netherlands' electronic and dance music scene during the genre's explosive growth in the 1990s and early 2000s. His production work contributed to the Dutch dance music ecosystem that would eventually dominate global electronic music.

Doris Morf, Schweizer Politikerin

Gottlieb Göller, footballeur et entraîneur allemand (° 31 mai 1935).

Willie Crawford

Willie Crawford died in Vero Beach, Florida, in 2004. He played outfield for the Los Angeles Dodgers and other clubs from 1964 to 1976, and was one of the few players of his era to be both a useful fielder and an occasional power threat. He was part of the Dodgers teams that went to the World Series in 1965 and 1966. They lost both. He played 14 seasons in the majors and nobody can say he didn't earn them.

Alfred Gleitze, Berliner Kommunalpolitiker

Julio Tahier, argentinischer Autor und Regisseur

Willie Crawford, jugador de béisbol estadounidense (n.

Willie Crawford, jugador de béisbol estadounidense (n. 1946).

Antoine Gissinger, homme politique français (° 4 juin 1914).

Seán Purcell

Seán Purcell died in Tuam, Galway, in 2005. He played Gaelic football for Galway from 1949 to 1963, and was considered one of the greatest dual players the game ever produced — a man who could play at any position and read the game well enough to be the best player on the field regardless of where he stood. Galway won All-Ireland titles in 1956 and 1964. He was there for the first one. Barely missed the second.

Giorgos Mouzakis, trompetista y compositor griego (n.

Giorgos Mouzakis, trompetista y compositor griego (n. 1922).

Giorgos Mouzakis

He could squeeze a melody out of a trumpet that made grown men weep in tavernas across Athens. Giorgos Mouzakis spent decades shaping the sound of laïká — popular Greek music — from behind an instrument most composers ignored entirely. He didn't just perform; he arranged, composed, and pushed the trumpet into spaces Greek music hadn't considered before. Born in 1922, he worked through the golden era of Greek song. He left behind recordings that still fill bouzouki halls tonight.

Paul Gutty, cycliste sur route français (° 4 novembre 1942).

Antón Cañellas, político español (f.

Antón Cañellas, político español (f. 1923).

María Capovilla, un temps doyenne (équatorienne) de l'humanité (° 14 septembre 1889).

María Capovilla

María Capovilla died in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 2006. She was 116 years old — the oldest verified living person in the world at the time of her death. She was born in 1889, two years after the Eiffel Tower was built, during the presidency of Grover Cleveland. She attributed her longevity to abstaining from alcohol. She outlived everyone who knew her as a young woman by decades.

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Hrishikesh Mukherjee died in Mumbai in 2006. He'd been one of Hindi cinema's most beloved directors, known for gentle, humane films like *Anand*, *Golmaal*, and *Chupke Chupke*. He worked at a time when Bollywood wasn't dominated by spectacle and could make a commercially successful film about a man dying of cancer that left audiences laughing and crying simultaneously. *Anand* did that. He knew how.

Jesse Pintado

Jesse Pintado redefined extreme music by pioneering the blistering speed of grindcore through his work with Napalm Death and Terrorizer. His precise, rapid-fire riffing style became the blueprint for death metal guitarists worldwide. He died in 2006, leaving behind a discography that pushed the technical boundaries of heavy metal to their absolute limit.

Philippe Maillard-Brune, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

Emma Penella

Emma Penella was one of the leading actresses of Spanish cinema during the Franco era — a period when making interesting art required working around censorship that was both arbitrary and total. She appeared in films by major Spanish directors of the 1950s and 60s and was known for an intensity that the censors occasionally found threatening. She spent years in Argentina during the 1960s. Back in Spain, she continued working through the Transition period after Franco's death. She died in 2007. Her best work was made under conditions designed to prevent it.

Hans Ruesch, Schweizer Automobilrennfahrer, Publizist und Schriftsteller

Driss Basri, político marroquí (n.

Driss Basri, político marroquí (n. 1938).

Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami, (إدريس بن الحسن العلمي), poète et écrivain marocain (° 1925).

Jean Sunny, cascadeur français (° 1930).

Galina Djougachvili, linguiste russe et petite-fille de Joseph Staline (° 19 février 1938).

Gad Yaacobi, diplomate et homme politique israélien (° 18 janvier 1935).

Smaïn Lamari, militaire algérien (° 1941).

Del Martin, US-amerikanische Autorin, Journalistin und Frauenrechtlerin

Mark Priestley

Mark Priestley died in Melbourne in 2008. He was an Australian actor best known for *Neighbours*, where he played Dan Fitzgerald during a period when that show still reliably launched acting careers internationally. He was 37. His death was ruled an accidental drug overdose. The people who worked with him described someone who brought full commitment to every scene. That's the part worth knowing.

Jean-Marc Renard, boxeur belge (° 19 avril 1956).

Abie Nathan, militant pacifiste israélien (° 29 avril 1927).

Olavo Setúbal, banqueiro e político brasileiro (n.

Olavo Setúbal, banqueiro e político brasileiro (n. 1923).

Del Martin, ativista e jornalista americana (n.

Del Martin, ativista e jornalista americana (n. 1921).

Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez Cortés, catedrático, político y abogado español (n.

Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez Cortés, catedrático, político y abogado español (n. 1913).

Sergey Mikhalkov

He wrote the Soviet national anthem — then rewrote it twice. Sergey Mikhalkov drafted Stalin's 1944 anthem, watched it become embarrassing after Khrushchev's denunciations, and was called back in 1977 to quietly scrub Stalin's name from his own lyrics. Then Putin phoned him in 2000. Mikhalkov, age 87, rewrote it again. Three different governments, one poet. He died at 96 in 2009, leaving behind children's verses Russians still memorize and an anthem that outlasted every leader who commissioned it.

Abdullah al-Asiri

A Saudi Arabian bomb maker for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Abdullah al-Asiri was killed in a 2009 assassination attempt on Saudi Deputy Minister of Interior Prince Muhammad bin Nayef. He concealed explosives inside his own body — the blast killed only himself, and bin Nayef survived with minor injuries in what became a watershed moment for counter-terrorism screening methods.

Shota Chochishvili, judoka soviétique puis géorgien (° 10 juillet 1950).

Dave Laut, athlète de lancer de poids américaine (° 21 décembre 1956).

Kurt Bürer, Schweizer Politiker

Luna Vachon

A Canadian-American professional wrestler known for her wild, unhinged persona, Luna Vachon was a second-generation performer (her stepmother was "The Fabulous Moolah" Lillian Ellison's protégé) who brought an intensity to women's wrestling that was decades ahead of its time. Her face paint, shaved head, and brawling style made her one of the most distinctive characters in 1990s WWF.

Anton Geesink

The judoka who shattered Japan's monopoly on Olympic judo gold, Anton Geesink defeated Akio Kaminaga in the open-weight final at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics — the first Games to include judo. His victory on Japan's home soil in their national martial art sent shockwaves through the sporting world and proved that judo had become a truly international sport.

Hans-Joachim Marx, deutscher Komponist und Dirigent

Helene Loebenstein, österreichische Arabistin und Papyrologin

Ueli Beck, Schweizer Schauspieler und Radiomoderator

Pedro Penzini Fleury, locutor de radio y escritor venezolano (n.

Pedro Penzini Fleury, locutor de radio y escritor venezolano (n. 1936).

Popy (Diony José López), humorista, payaso, presentador y productor de televisión venezolano (n.

Popy (Diony José López), humorista, payaso, presentador y productor de televisión venezolano (n. 1946).

Amador Schüller, médico y catedrático universitario español (n.

Amador Schüller, médico y catedrático universitario español (n. 1921).

Néstor Zavarce, cantante y actor venezolano (n.

Néstor Zavarce, cantante y actor venezolano (n. 1936).

Hanna Zuschneid, deutsche Turnerin

Heribert Barrera, político español (n.

Heribert Barrera, político español (n. 1917).

María Esther Gilio, escritora uruguaya (n.

María Esther Gilio, escritora uruguaya (n. 1928).

Stetson Kennedy, escritor y activista estadounidense (n.

Stetson Kennedy, escritor y activista estadounidense (n. 1916).

Nikolaus Fheodoroff, österreichischer Komponist, Dirigent, Pianist und Tonmeister

Gentil Montaña, guitarrista clásico y compositor colombiano (n.

Gentil Montaña, guitarrista clásico y compositor colombiano (n. 1942).

Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic, cardenal esloveno (n.

Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic, cardenal esloveno (n. 1930).

Russell Scott

Known professionally as "Scoop the Clown," Russell Scott performed as a beloved children's entertainer for decades, bringing joy to audiences through the traditional American art of clowning. He was part of a generation of performers who kept circus and clown traditions alive in the postwar era.

Ivica Horvat

He managed Yugoslavia at the 1958 World Cup when the squad was so fractured by political tensions that players from rival republics barely spoke. Horvat held them together long enough to reach the quarterfinals in Sweden — beaten only by West Germany, 2–0. He'd played 53 times for Yugoslavia as a midfielder, then spent decades coaching clubs across Europe. Born in Zagreb, he died there too, in 2012. The man who unified a team that mirrored a country already quietly tearing apart.

Art Heyman

The No. 1 overall pick in the 1963 NBA Draft, Art Heyman was the consensus college player of the year at Duke, where his fierce rivalry with UNC's Larry Brown helped establish the intensity of the Duke-Carolina rivalry. His professional career never matched his college brilliance, but his impact on ACC basketball was lasting.

Malcolm Browne

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and photographer, Malcolm Browne captured one of the most searing images of the 20th century: the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc on a Saigon street in 1963. The photograph, which showed the monk burning alive in protest of the Diem regime, shocked the world and accelerated American disillusionment with its South Vietnamese ally.

Aboud Rogo

A controversial Kenyan Muslim cleric accused by the UN and Western governments of recruiting for al-Shabaab, Aboud Rogo was shot dead in his car in Mombasa in 2012 in what was widely believed to be an extrajudicial killing. His death triggered days of rioting in Mombasa and deepened tensions between Kenya's security forces and its coastal Muslim community.

Neville Alexander

A South African linguist, educator, and anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, Neville Alexander spent a decade in prison for his role in the resistance. After apartheid's fall, he became one of the country's leading advocates for multilingual education and the preservation of South Africa's indigenous languages.

Aurora Bautista, actriz española (n.

Aurora Bautista, actriz española (n. 1925).

Richard Kingsland

An Australian World War II pilot who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar for his service in Bomber Command, Richard Kingsland flew dangerous missions over occupied Europe. He later became a respected figure in Australian veterans' affairs and the preservation of wartime memory.

Geliy Korzhev

Geliy Korzhev was one of Soviet Russia's most acclaimed painters, known for works depicting ordinary workers and soldiers with an emotional intensity that transcended state-sanctioned Socialist Realism. His "Scorched by the Fire of War" triptych became one of the defining images of Soviet-era art, carrying a weight that outlasted the system that produced it.

عبود روجو، رجل دين كيني.

Bill Peach

He once interviewed a sitting Australian prime minister while floating down a river on a raft. Bill Peach spent 17 years on ABC television, hosting *This Day Tonight* and later *Peach's Australia*, clocking thousands of kilometres across the country to find stories nobody else bothered chasing. He didn't just report Australia — he wandered it, camera crew in tow. When he died in 2013, he left behind a generation of viewers who learned what their own country looked like through his eyes.

Anatoli Onoprienko, asesino en serie ucraniano (n.

Anatoli Onoprienko, asesino en serie ucraniano (n. 1959).

Jorge Morello, ecólogo argentino (n.

Jorge Morello, ecólogo argentino (n. 1923).

Kent Finell

A Swedish radio host and producer, Kent Finell was a familiar voice on Swedish radio, contributing to the country's vibrant public broadcasting culture. His career in radio spanned decades of Swedish media's evolution.

Maxwell Fuller

An Australian chess master who represented his country in international competition, Maxwell Fuller competed in Chess Olympiads and was among Australia's strongest players during the 1960s and 70s. He also contributed to chess culture as a writer and organizer.

Chris Kennedy

An Australian film director and producer, Chris Kennedy worked in the Australian film industry during its creative resurgence. He contributed to the diverse body of Australian cinema that gained international attention from the 1970s onward.

Zoltán Kovács

A Hungarian footballer who died tragically young at age 27, Zoltán Kovács played in the Hungarian football league system. His early death was a loss to Hungarian football and a reminder of the fragility of athletic careers.

Chen Liting

A pioneering Chinese theatre director and playwright, Chen Liting was a leading figure in China's spoken drama (huaju) movement and directed some of the most important Chinese films and plays of the mid-20th century. His career navigated the radical cultural upheavals of Republican China, the Japanese occupation, and the People's Republic.

Anatoly Onoprienko

Ukraine's most prolific serial killer, Anatoly Onoprienko murdered 52 people during a killing spree across rural Ukraine between 1989 and 1996, targeting families in isolated homes and often burning the houses afterward. Dubbed "The Beast of Ukraine" and "Citizen O," he was sentenced to life in prison and died behind bars.

Dave Thomas

A Welsh golfer who came within a missed putt of winning The Open Championship — he tied with Peter Thomson in 1958 and lost the 36-hole playoff — Dave Thomas won numerous European tournaments and later became a highly respected golf course architect. His near-miss at Lytham remains one of the great "what ifs" in Open history.

Maxwell Fuller, australischer Schachspieler

David J. P. Barker, britischer Epidemiologe

Melinda Esterházy, ungarisch-österreichische Balletttänzerin und Großgrundbesitzerin

Winnie Gebhardt-Gayler, deutsche Illustratorin

Benno Pludra

He wrote for children, but East Germany's censors watched every word. Benno Pludra spent decades navigating the GDR's cultural machinery, crafting stories about ordinary kids and boats and belonging — quietly human enough to slip past ideological gatekeepers. His 1967 novel *Tambari* reached generations of young readers across the socialist bloc. He didn't defect, didn't protest loudly. He just kept writing. When the Wall fell, his books remained in print. Sometimes the quietest voice in the room outlasts the loudest ideology.

Peret (Pedro Pubil Calaf), cantante, guitarrista y compositor español (n.

Peret (Pedro Pubil Calaf), cantante, guitarrista y compositor español (n. 1935).

Peret

The father of Catalan rumba, Peret (Pere Pubill Calaf) fused flamenco with Latin rhythms to create a distinctly Catalan-Romani pop sound that captivated Spain. His 1971 hit "Borriquito" became a pan-European smash, and he represented Spain at Eurovision in 1974, cementing rumba catalana as a genre with lasting international appeal.

Jacques Friedel

A French physicist who made fundamental contributions to solid-state physics and metallurgy, Jacques Friedel was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a leading figure in the study of dislocations and electronic structure in metals. His textbook Dislocations became a standard reference for materials scientists worldwide.

Jan Groth

Jan Groth defined the Norwegian rock landscape as the powerhouse vocalist for the progressive band Aunt Mary and later represented his country at Eurovision with Just 4 Fun. His death in 2014 silenced a versatile voice that bridged the gap between gritty blues-rock and accessible pop, shaping the sound of Scandinavian music for over four decades.

Jimmy Nesbitt

A senior Royal Ulster Constabulary officer, Jimmy Nesbitt led the investigation into some of Northern Ireland's most horrific Troubles-era massacres, including the 1987 Enniskillen Remembrance Day bombing. His police career was defined by the relentless challenge of conducting criminal investigations in a society torn apart by sectarian violence.

Valeri Petrov

One of Bulgaria's most beloved literary figures, Valeri Petrov wrote poetry, plays, children's verse, and screenplays across a seven-decade career. His witty, humanistic poetry and his translations of Shakespeare into Bulgarian made him a cultural institution, and his work transcended the ideological constraints of communist-era literature.

Kazi Zafar Ahmed, político bangladesí, 8.º primer ministro de Bangladés (n.

Kazi Zafar Ahmed, político bangladesí, 8.º primer ministro de Bangladés (n. 1939).

Kazi Zafar Ahmed

He rose from labor union halls to the Prime Minister's chair — a path almost nobody took in Bangladesh's early political chaos. Kazi Zafar Ahmed served as the 8th Prime Minister in 1989 under President Ershad, navigating a government most of the country considered illegitimate. He'd built his base organizing workers, not inheriting power. When democracy returned in 1991, his influence shrank fast. He left behind a career that showed how far a union man could climb — and exactly how quickly that height could disappear.

Friedrich Fehrmann, deutscher Verwaltungsjurist und Polizeipräsident

Willy Stähle, skieuse nautique néerlandaise (° 16 juin 1954).

Józef Wesołowski, prélat catholique polonais (° 15 juillet 1948).

Darryl Dawkins

Darryl Dawkins became famous for shattering two NBA backboards in 1979, prompting the league to introduce breakaway rims. "Chocolate Thunder" — who claimed to be from the planet Lovetron — was drafted straight out of high school at 18 by the 76ers in 1975, one of the youngest players in NBA history at the time, and his personality was as outsized as his 6'11" frame.

Monique Berlioux, französische Sportfunktionärin

Pascal Chaumeil

Pascal Chaumeil directed *Heartbreaker* (*L'Arnacour*, 2010), a French romantic comedy starring Romain Duris that became one of the highest-grossing French films of the year. He was developing a career that bridged French and English-language cinema when he died of lung cancer at 54.

Joan Garriga, piloto de motociclismo de velocidad español (n.

Joan Garriga, piloto de motociclismo de velocidad español (n. 1963).

Cookie

Cookie, a Major Mitchell's cockatoo at Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, lived to 83 years old — the oldest confirmed parrot in recorded history. Born in 1933 at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, he outlived most of the zookeepers who cared for him and became a living testament to the extraordinary longevity of cockatoo species.

Cookie, cacatúa australiana Major Mitchell, el loro más antiguo del que se tiene constancia (n.

Cookie, cacatúa australiana Major Mitchell, el loro más antiguo del que se tiene constancia (n. 1933).

Marta Portal, spanische Schriftstellerin

Hans Auras, deutscher Architekt

Helli Stehle, Schweizer Radiomoderatorin und Schauspielerin

Gert Richter, deutscher Schauspieldramaturg, Schriftsteller, Verlagsredakteur und Herausgeber

Agnes Sauser-Im Obersteg, Berner Politikerin, Gemeindepräsidentin

Wulf Bernotat, deutscher Manager

2018

Stefan Weinfurter, deutscher Mittelalterhistoriker

2018

Roland Mader, deutscher Volleyballfunktionär und Unternehmer

2018

Zé Béttio, radialista, cantor, acordeonista e compositor brasileiro (n.

Zé Béttio, radialista, cantor, acordeonista e compositor brasileiro (n. 1926).

2019

Jessi Combs, US-amerikanische Automobilrennfahrerin

2019

Dawda Jawara, gambischer Staatspräsident

2020

Arnaldo Saccomani, produtor musical e compositor brasileiro (n.

Arnaldo Saccomani, produtor musical e compositor brasileiro (n. 1949).

2020

Salvador Rivas Martínez, spanischer Botaniker

2020

Melissa Shook, US-amerikanische Fotografin und Künstlerin

Heide Keller, deutsche Schauspielerin und Drehbuchautorin

Siegfried Matthus, deutscher Komponist

Wolf-Dieter Poschmann, deutscher Leichtathlet und Sportmoderator

Ákis Tsochatzópoulos (Apóstolos-Athanásios « Ákis » Tsochatzópoulos ou Απόστολος-Αθανάσιος «Άκης» Τσοχατζόπουλος en g…

Ákis Tsochatzópoulos (Apóstolos-Athanásios « Ákis » Tsochatzópoulos ou Απόστολος-Αθανάσιος «Άκης» Τσοχατζόπουλος en grec contemporain), homme politique grec (° 31 juillet 1939).

Edmond H. Fischer, bioquímico suizo-estadounidense, premio nobel de fisiología en 1992 (n.

Edmond H. Fischer, bioquímico suizo-estadounidense, premio nobel de fisiología en 1992 (n. 1920).

Gabrielle Venora Petito dite Gabby Petito, victime dans le cadre d'une affaire criminelle (° 19 mars 1999).

غالب كامل، مذيع سعودي.

Ferenc Stámusz, ungarischer Radrennfahrer

Robert Mitchell, britischer Shorttracker und Eisschnellläufer

David Bailey, kanadischer Leichtathlet und Pharmakologe

Karl Lamers, deutscher Politiker

Manolo Sanlúcar (78), guitarrista y compositor español (n.

Manolo Sanlúcar (78), guitarrista y compositor español (n. 1943).

2023

Pat Corrales, joueur et manager de baseball américain ° 20 mars 1941).

2023

Svetlana Adyrkhaïeva, ballerine russe (° 12 mai 1938).

2023

Michael Brougham, pair britannique (° 2 août 1938).

Leonard Riggio

Leonard Riggio transformed a single college bookstore in New York into Barnes & Noble, the largest retail bookseller in the United States. His aggressive expansion strategy through the 1980s and 1990s — superstores with cafes and extensive inventory — redefined how Americans bought books before Amazon changed the game entirely.

Bob Carr

Bob Carr served in Michigan politics for decades, representing his district through periods of significant economic change in the American Midwest. His career in public service spanned the arc from post-industrial decline to efforts at regional reinvention.

Juan Izquierdo

Uruguayan footballer Juan Izquierdo collapsed on the pitch during a Copa Libertadores match in August 2024 and died days later at age 27 from cardiac arrest. His death sent shockwaves through South American football and reignited urgent debate about cardiac screening protocols for professional athletes.

René Hourquet, arbitre et dirigeant de rugby à XV français (° 15 novembre 1941).

Holly Lisle, femme-écrivain américaine (° 1er octobre 1960).

Howard Crook, ténor américain (° 15 juin 1947).

Pete Wade, guitariste américain (° 16 décembre 1934).

Charlotte Kretschmann

Charlotte Kretschmann lived to 114, making her one of Germany's oldest verified supercentenarians. Born in 1909 during the Kaiserreich, she witnessed the Weimar Republic, both World Wars, the division and reunification of Germany — an entire century of European upheaval compressed into one extraordinary life.

Jim Kimball, batteur de rock américain (° 1965 ou 1966).

Eusebio Poncela, actor español (n.

Eusebio Poncela, actor español (n. 1947).

Park Sung-soo, archer sud-coréen (° 19 mai 1970).

Andrée Yanacopoulo, médecin, écrivaine, traductrice, professeure et sociologue canadien (° 14 novembre 1927).

Cesare Nosiglia, évêque catholique italien (° 5 octobre 1944).

Abdallah Liégeon, footballeur algérien (° 10 décembre 1957).

Steve Hayden, personnalité du monde de la publicité américaine (° 21 mai 1947).

Jacques Dorfmann, producteur de cinéma, scénariste et réalisateur français (° 2 décembre 1945).

Alain Belmondo, producteur de cinéma français (° 24 octobre 1931).

Raúl Barboza, musicien et accordéoniste franco-argentin (° 22 juin 1938).

Damien Alary, homme politique français (° 17 janvier 1951).