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József Szlávy, homme politique hongrois, plusieurs fois ministre, président de la Chambre des magnats de 1894 à 1896 …

József Szlávy, homme politique hongrois, plusieurs fois ministre, président de la Chambre des magnats de 1894 à 1896 et Premier ministre de 1872 à 1874 (° 23 novembre 1818).

Emil von Škoda, böhmischer Ingenieur, Industrieller und Namensgeber des Maschinenbaukonzerns Škoda

José Pedro Xavier da Veiga, político brasileiro (n.

José Pedro Xavier da Veiga, político brasileiro (n. 1846).

Emílio Carlos Jourdan, engenheiro belga (n.

Emílio Carlos Jourdan, engenheiro belga (n. 1838).

Oreste Baratieri, italienischer General

Alfred Vaucher, Schweizer Mediziner und Politiker

William Augustus Newell, médico e político estadunidense (n.

William Augustus Newell, médico e político estadunidense (n. 1817).

Ferdinand Arnold, deutscher Botaniker

1902

James Tissot

James Tissot painted Victorian women with a precision that made contemporary critics uncomfortable. Too fashionable, they said. Too interested in surfaces. After his companion Kathleen Newton died of tuberculosis in 1882, he abandoned London entirely and spent years in Palestine painting biblical scenes. He produced hundreds of watercolors of the Holy Land. They sold better than his society portraits ever had.

1902

John Henry Twachtman

American Impressionist painter John Henry Twachtman created shimmering, near-abstract landscapes of his Greenwich, Connecticut property that pushed American Impressionism toward modernism. His soft, tonal paintings of waterfalls and snow scenes are now considered among the finest American landscapes of the period.

1904

James Cox Aikins, kanadischer Politiker

1908

Joseph Maria Olbrich, architecte autrichien, un des fondateurs du mouvement de l’Art nouveau (° 22 décembre 1867).

1908

Alfred Mathieu Giard, französischer Biologe

1908

Christian Schneller, österreichischer Philologe, Lyriker, Epiker und Volkskundler

1909

Joseph Frederik Whiteaves, paleontólogo britânico (n.

Joseph Frederik Whiteaves, paleontólogo britânico (n. 1835).

1909

Mary MacKillop

She was excommunicated by her own bishop in 1871 — then reinstated five months later after he reportedly confessed on his deathbed that he'd acted wrongly. Mary MacKillop had exposed clergy abuse in Penola, and the Church's response was to silence her. It didn't stick. She and Father Julian Tenison Woods had already built 40 schools across Australia's rural outback, teaching children nobody else would reach. She died in Sydney with 750 sisters carrying on her work. In 2010, Rome made her Australia's first saint.

1910

Richard Wülker, angliciste allemand (° 29 juillet 1845).

1911

Heinrich von Poschinger, deutscher Schriftsteller und Historiker

1911

William P. Frye

William P. Frye served in the United States Senate for thirty years and presided over it for six more as President Pro Tempore. He was a protectionist and an expansionist — he supported the Spanish-American War and wanted the US to hold onto the Philippines. Born in 1830, he saw the country go from pre-Civil War politics to the edge of World War I. He died in 1911, having outlasted most of the world he'd entered politics to defend.

1912

Cincinnatus Leconte (Jean-Jacques Dessalines Michel Cincinnatus Leconte dit), homme politique haïtien, président d’Ha…

Cincinnatus Leconte (Jean-Jacques Dessalines Michel Cincinnatus Leconte dit), homme politique haïtien, président d’Haïti de 1911 à 1912 (° 29 septembre 1854).

1913

Hermann Harry Schmitz, satirisch-humoristischer Autor und Vortragskünstler

1914

Rudolf Manga Bell, König des Duala-Volkes in Kamerun

1915

Miguel Ramos Carrión, dramaturgo, humorista y periodista español (n.

Miguel Ramos Carrión, dramaturgo, humorista y periodista español (n. 1848).

1915

Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais, auteur, avocat et homme politique québécois (° 13 août 1864).

1916

Benno Berneis, deutscher Maler

1916

Franz Eckert, deutscher Komponist

1918

Juan J. Silva, médico y político argentino (n.

Juan J. Silva, médico y político argentino (n. 1835).

1918

Michel Zévaco, écrivain et journaliste anarchiste français (° 1er février 1860).

1918

Eusebi Güell, spanischer Industrieller, Mäzen und Politiker

1919

Ernst Haeckel, zoologiste et philosophe allemand (° 16 février 1834).

1920

Eduard Birnbaum

Polish-born German cantor Eduard Birnbaum amassed one of the most important collections of Jewish liturgical music manuscripts, now held at Hebrew Union College. His scholarly work preserved centuries of Jewish musical tradition.

1921

Juhani Aho

Juhani Aho was one of the founders of modern Finnish literature, writing the first Finnish-language novel *Rautatie* (The Railroad, 1884). His realist fiction captured Finnish rural life during the transition from Swedish cultural dominance to an independent Finnish national identity.

1921

Juhani Aho, periodista y escritor finlandés (n.

Juhani Aho, periodista y escritor finlandés (n. 1861).

1922

Alwin Gerisch, deutscher Politiker, MdR und erster SPD-Vorsitzender

1923

Georg Retienne, deutscher Motorradrennfahrer

1924

Otto Mayer, deutscher Jurist und Verwaltungsrechtswissenschaftler

1925

Nikolai von Astudin, russischer Landschaftsmaler

1926

Frank Boggs, französischer Maler US-amerikanischer Herkunft

1926

Lizzie Holmes (Elizabeth Swank dite « Elizabeth Holmes, Lizzie » ou), journaliste et militante anarchiste américaine …

Lizzie Holmes (Elizabeth Swank dite « Elizabeth Holmes, Lizzie » ou), journaliste et militante anarchiste américaine (° 1850).

1926

Saxton Pope, US-amerikanischer Bogenschütze

1927

Wilhelm Idel, deutscher Heimatforscher und Dichter

1928

Frederico II de Baden (n.

Frederico II de Baden (n. 1857).

1928

Stjepan Radić

He was shot inside Yugoslavia's parliament building — not outside, not in an alley, but on the floor of the National Assembly itself. Punjiša Račić, a Radical Party deputy, pulled a revolver on June 20, 1928, and fired five shots, killing two delegates instantly and wounding three others, including Radić. Radić died six weeks later from his wounds. He'd spent years fighting for Croatian autonomy through peaceful politics. His assassination handed King Alexander the justification he needed to dissolve parliament entirely and declare a royal dictatorship eight months later.

1929

Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, criminologue et photographe suisse, pionnier de la police scientifique (° 8 juillet 1875).

1929

Paul Mishel, deutscher Landschaftsmaler

1929

Willy Ascherl, deutscher Fußballspieler

1930

Launceston Elliot

Launceston Elliot won the first Olympic weightlifting gold medal in modern history at the 1896 Athens Games, competing in the one-handed lift. The Scottish-born athlete also competed in wrestling at those Games and became a celebrated figure in early Olympic history.

1933

Adolf Loos, arquitecto austríaco (n.

Adolf Loos, arquitecto austríaco (n. 1870).

1933

Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos hated ornament. His 1908 essay 'Ornament and Crime' argued that decorating surfaces was a sign of cultural degeneracy. His buildings had smooth, clean facades when Vienna's architecture still bristled with detail. The Looshaus on Michaelerplatz scandalized the city. Emperor Franz Joseph reportedly refused to look at it. Loos died in 1933. The building is now a bank.

1934

Wilbert Robinson

Wilbert Robinson caught for the Baltimore Orioles and later managed the Brooklyn Dodgers for 18 seasons. He was one of the great personalities of early baseball — loud, funny, and sometimes spectacularly wrong. He once tried to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane. The 'baseball' turned out to be a grapefruit. He was soaked in citrus in front of a crowd. He thought he was bleeding.

1937

Jimmie Guthrie

Scottish motorcycle racer Jimmie Guthrie was one of the greatest Grand Prix motorcycle racers of the 1930s, winning six TT races on the Isle of Man. He died during the 1937 German Grand Prix at Sachsenring, and the Germans erected a memorial at the crash site that still stands.

1939

Armand Alexandre Albert-Petit, historien français (° 16 novembre 1860).

Wladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, russischer Zionist und Schriftsteller, Gründer der jüdischen Legion im Ersten Weltkrieg

Eduardo Rabello, médico brasileiro (n.

Eduardo Rabello, médico brasileiro (n. 1876).

Johnny Dodds

Johnny Dodds was one of the defining clarinetists of early New Orleans jazz. He played with Louis Armstrong on some of the most important recordings of the 1920s — the Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions. His tone was raw and blue in a way that influenced everyone who came after. He never left Chicago after moving there from New Orleans. He died in 1940, forty-eight years old.

Wilhelm Hoff, Organisator des preußischen Eisenbahnwesens und Minister

1942

Rudolf Abel, deutscher Bakteriologe

1943

Leon Asher, deutscher Physiologe

Michael Wittmann

Michael Wittmann, the most prolific tank ace of the Second World War, died when his Tiger tank was destroyed during the Allied breakout from Normandy. His death ended the career of a commander whose tactical aggression had become a centerpiece of Nazi propaganda, forcing the German military to lose its most effective symbol of armored combat.

Joseph Allekotte, deutscher Politiker, MdR

Erich Hoepner, militar alemán (n.

Erich Hoepner, militar alemán (n. 1886).

Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, juriste et résistant allemand (° 13 novembre 1904).

Hellmuth Stieff, général et résistant allemand (° 6 juin 1901).

Friedrich Karl Klausing, officier et résistant allemand (° 24 mai 1920).

Paul von Hase, général et résistant allemand (° 24 juillet 1885).

Albrecht von Hagen, homme politique et résistant allemand (° 11 mars 1904).

Robert Bernardis, militaire et résistant autrichien (° 7 août 1908).

Robert Darniche, résistant français (° 23 juillet 1910)

Aino Ackté, finnische Sopranistin

Erwin von Witzleben

Erwin von Witzleben was one of the senior officers who signed onto the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hitler. He was supposed to become Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht once the coup succeeded. It didn't. Witzleben was arrested, tried before the People's Court where Roland Freisler screamed at him for hours, and hanged with piano wire in Plötzensee Prison the same day. The SS filmed the execution for Hitler to watch. Born in 1881. Dead at 62, badly.

Chaim Soutine

Chaim Soutine painted portraits and carcasses — dead animals hung on hooks, faces twisted by something between anguish and ecstasy. He kept a beef carcass in his studio for weeks to paint it, refreshing it with blood when it faded. His neighbors called the police about the smell. He kept painting. He died in Paris in 1944, hiding from the Germans. He was fifty.

1945

Rafael Porlán, poeta español de la Generación del 27 (n.

Rafael Porlán, poeta español de la Generación del 27 (n. 1899).

1945

Georgel (Georges Job dit), chanteur français (° 2 juillet 1884).

1946

Vulcana, strongwoman galloise (° 6 mai 1874).

1946

María Barrientos, spanische Opernsängerin

1947

Antón Denikin, militar ruso (n.

Antón Denikin, militar ruso (n. 1872).

1947

Anton Denikin

He died broke in Ann Arbor, Michigan — a former commander of nearly a million White Army soldiers, reduced to a refugee scratching out memoirs in exile. Anton Denikin had come agonizingly close, his forces reaching within 250 miles of Moscow in 1919 before the advance collapsed. He refused Nazi collaboration during World War II, openly urging Russians to resist Hitler. His five-volume memoir, *The Russian Turmoil*, remains one of the sharpest firsthand accounts of the Civil War's catastrophic human unraveling.

1949

Joaquín Torres García, uruguayischer Maler

1949

Otto Lauffer, deutscher Volkskundler und Kulturhistoriker

1950

Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Mjaskowski, russischer Komponist

1950

Fergus McMaster

Fergus McMaster was a Queensland grazier who helped co-found Qantas in 1920. He wasn't an aviator — he was a businessman who understood that the outback needed air service. He served as the airline's chairman for over two decades and helped keep it solvent through years when most early airlines failed. He died in 1950. Qantas is still flying.

1951

Charles Hitchcock Adams, US-amerikanischer Chemiker, Holzhändler und Amateur-Astronom

1952

Adolph Alexander Weinman, US-amerikanischer Bildhauer

1955

Fúlvio Aducci, político brasileiro (n.

Fúlvio Aducci, político brasileiro (n. 1884).

1956

Hermann Meister, deutscher Verleger und Schriftsteller

1956

Just Scheu, deutscher Komponist, Filmschauspieler, Moderator und Bühnenautor

1957

Hans von Kahlenberg, eigentlich Helene Keßler, deutsche Schriftstellerin

1957

André Osterritter, deutscher Maler, Karikaturist, Grafiker

1958

Brendan Bracken, 1.

Brendan Bracken, 1. Viscount Bracken, britischer Politiker

1959

Jean Danne, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

1959

Albert Namatjira

Australian Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira transformed the Australian art world by painting Central Australian landscapes in a Western watercolor style — the first Aboriginal artist to gain widespread recognition in white Australian society. His fame brought him citizenship rights denied to other Indigenous Australians, but also persecution and a prison sentence that broke his health.

1959

Friedrich Panzinger, deutscher SS-Offizier, Chef des Reichskriminalpolizeiamtes, Mitarbeiter des BND

1961

Mei Lanfang

He grew a beard to avoid performing for Japanese occupiers. That quiet act of defiance — stretching across eight years of occupation — cost Mei Lanfang his livelihood but not his art. He'd spent decades perfecting female dan roles so completely that he performed for Charlie Chaplin and brought Beijing opera to Western stages for the first time. He died in Beijing at 67. Behind him: a training school still producing performers, and a theatrical style that survived everything thrown at it.

1962

Elizabeth Ann Duncan

Elizabeth Ann Duncan hired two men to murder her pregnant daughter-in-law in 1958, driven by an obsessive desire to keep her son to herself. She was executed in California's gas chamber in 1962, one of the last women put to death in the state before the moratorium on capital punishment.

1962

Yanagita Kunio, japanischer Schriftsteller und Ethnologe

1963

Johann Aufhauser, deutscher Theologe

1963

Sándor Jemnitz, ungarischer Dirigent, Musiker und Komponist

1964

Paul Foucret, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

1964

Rudolf Kohl, deutscher Politiker, Landesminister, MdB

1964

Marie Baum, deutsche Sozialpolitikerin, Wegbereiterin der sozialen Arbeit

1965

Oskar Wackerzapp, deutscher Politiker, MdB

1965

Shirley Jackson

She was found in her bed, only 48 years old, her heart simply stopped. Shirley Jackson had spent years terrified of open spaces — agoraphobia kept her trapped inside her Vermont home, the very house that fed her darkest fiction. She wrote "The Lottery" in one sitting, and The New Yorker received more letters about it than anything they'd ever published. Mostly hate mail. Readers thought it was real. She left behind six novels, including *The Haunting of Hill House*, now considered a masterwork of psychological dread written by someone who genuinely understood fear from the inside.

1966

Wassili Bokarew, sowjetischer Schauspieler

1967

Hans Kroll, deutscher Diplomat, Botschafter in Belgrad, Tokio und Moskau

1967

Jaromír Weinberger, tschechisch-US-amerikanischer Musikpädagoge und Komponist

1967

Samira Azzam, palästinensische Schriftstellerin

1968

Orovida Camille Pissarro, britische Malerin

1968

Fritz Stiedry, österreichischer Dirigent

Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer

Otmar von Verschuer was Josef Mengele's doctoral supervisor and mentor. He received specimens from Auschwitz — including eyes from murdered twins — for his research institute in Berlin. After the war, he was classified as a fellow traveler rather than a war criminal, fined 600 reichsmarks, and eventually appointed to a university chair in genetics. He died in a car accident in 1969. He never faced prosecution.

Hekel Tavares, compositor brasileiro (n.

Hekel Tavares, compositor brasileiro (n. 1896).

Ferry Ohrtmann, deutscher Hallenchef, Veranstalter und NS-Sportfunktionär

Elias Avery Lowe, amerikanischer Paläograph

Harry Hyland, kanadischer Eishockeyspieler und -trainer

Joseph Santley, US-amerikanischer Regisseur, Autor und Produzent

Roberto Fugazot, actor, cantante y guitarrista uruguayo (n.

Roberto Fugazot, actor, cantante y guitarrista uruguayo (n. 1902) expatriado en Argentina, padre de la actriz María Rosa Fugazot y abuelo del actor y director teatral René Bertrand.

Freddie Spencer Chapman

Freddie Spencer Chapman led one of the most extraordinary behind-enemy-lines campaigns of World War II, spending over three years in the Malayan jungle organizing guerrilla resistance against the Japanese occupation. His memoir *The Jungle Is Neutral* became a classic of survival literature.

Julien Hasley, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

1972

Noël Bissot, auteur de bande dessinée belge (° 17 décembre 1916).

1972

Andrea Feldman

Andrea Feldman was part of Andy Warhol's Factory circle in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She appeared in multiple Warhol films and was known for her unpredictable, often confrontational performances. She died by suicide on August 8, 1972, jumping from a tenth-floor window while holding a Bible and a Coca-Cola. She was twenty-four. She had invited friends to watch.

Dean Corll

Dean Corll was a candy man. He worked at his mother's candy company near a Houston school and used free sweets to befriend children. Between 1970 and 1973, he murdered at least 28 boys with the help of two teenage accomplices. The case wasn't discovered until one of his accomplices shot him. Houston had no missing persons unit. Most victims had been written off as runaways.

José Villalonga Llorente, entraîneur espagnol (° 4 décembre 1919).

Nikos Zachariadis, político griego, secretario general del Partido Comunista de Grecia (n.

Nikos Zachariadis, político griego, secretario general del Partido Comunista de Grecia (n. 1903).

Vilhelm Moberg

Vilhelm Moberg wrote four novels about Swedish emigrants to Minnesota and became the most read Swedish author of the 20th century. The Emigrants series followed Karl Oskar and Kristina from Småland to the American frontier — unglamorous, exhausting, and real. Moberg researched it by going to Minnesota himself and interviewing descendants of emigrants. He was also a ferocious journalist who attacked the Swedish establishment for years. Born 1898. Died 1973, by drowning, officially ruled accidental.

Charles Meldreum Daniels, nageur américain (° 24 mars 1885).

Chihiro Iwasaki, artista japonesa (n.

Chihiro Iwasaki, artista japonesa (n. 1918).

Baldur von Schirach, oficial nazi alemán (n.

Baldur von Schirach, oficial nazi alemán (n. 1907).

Baldur von Schirach

He served every single day of his 20-year Spandau sentence — no early release, no deals. Baldur von Schirach had recruited over 8 million German children into the Hitler Youth by 1939, shaping an entire generation for war. His American grandfather once owned Harper's Weekly. At Nuremberg, even his own wife testified against him. He died in Kröv, Germany, a free man for only eight years. The organization he built funneled millions directly into Wehrmacht combat units.

Elisabeth Abegg

German teacher Elisabeth Abegg sheltered dozens of Jewish people in her Berlin apartment during the Nazi era, risking her life repeatedly to save others. Recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, she was one of the quiet heroes of the German resistance.

1975

Sune Almkvist, footballeur suédois (° 4 février 1886).

1975

Pierre Lafue, professeur, directeur de collections historiques, critique littéraire français (° 18 septembre 1895).

1975

Cannonball Adderley

Julian Cannonball Adderley redefined the possibilities of the alto saxophone, bridging the gap between the complex structures of bebop and the soulful accessibility of hard bop. His death at forty-six silenced one of jazz’s most exuberant voices, leaving behind a discography that transformed the genre into a mainstream commercial force through hits like Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.

1976

Winston Hibler, réalisateur américain (° 8 octobre 1910).

1976

Hermann Dortans, deutscher Politiker, MdB

1977

Edgar Douglas Adrian

Edgar Douglas Adrian shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology with Charles Sherrington for discovering how nerve impulses work — specifically, that neurons fire in all-or-nothing bursts whose frequency encodes information. This is foundational neuroscience. He also served as Master of Trinity College Cambridge and was ennobled as Baron Adrian. He died in 1977 at eighty-seven.

1977

Timoteo Pérez Rubio, pintor español (n.

Timoteo Pérez Rubio, pintor español (n. 1896).

1978

Elisabeth Engelhardt, deutsche Schriftstellerin

1978

Hans Revenstorff, deutscher Politiker, MdB

Nicholas Monsarrat

Nicholas Monsarrat spent four years on convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic during World War II, watching ships get sunk. Then he went home and wrote The Cruel Sea. Published in 1951, it sold hundreds of thousands of copies and became a film within two years. Monsarrat said he wrote it because he couldn't explain the war in conversation — only on the page. Born in Liverpool in 1910. Died in 1979. The Cruel Sea is still in print.

Feodor Lynen, biochimiste allemand, prix Nobel de médecine en 1964 (° 6 avril 1911).

Emil Belzner, deutscher Journalist und Schriftsteller

Emil Lumbeck, deutscher Buchhändler

1980

Paul Triquet

Paul Triquet was a French Canadian officer who won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Casa Berardi in Italy in December 1943. His company entered the battle with 80 men and finished it with nine, plus two tanks. Triquet reportedly told his men: 'Never mind them, they can't shoot straight.' He survived. He died in 1980 at sixty-nine.

1980

Paul Triquet, general canadiense (n.

Paul Triquet, general canadiense (n. 1910), condecorado con la Cruz de la Victoria.

1981

Lazar Wechsler, Schweizer Filmproduzent

1981

Thomas McElwee

Thomas McElwee was the ninth Irish republican to die on hunger strike in 1981, passing away at age 23 in the Maze Prison after 62 days without food. A cousin of Francis Hughes (the second hunger striker to die), his death deepened the political crisis that reshaped Northern Irish politics and fueled Sinn Féin's electoral rise.

1981

Thomas McElwee (23), criminal e independentista norirlandés (n.

Thomas McElwee (23), criminal e independentista norirlandés (n. 1957), miembro del IRA Provisional (Ejército Republicano Irlandés Provisional), murió tras 62 días de huelga de hambre.

1982

Georg Wurzer, deutscher Fußballtrainer

1982

Eric Brandon

Eric Brandon raced Formula One in the early 1950s when the sport was as dangerous as it was disorganized. He drove for the Cooper works team and competed in seven World Championship races. He never scored a point. He died in 1982, outliving several teammates who hadn't been as lucky on the circuits where they both competed.

1982

Eric Brandon, piloto de carreras y empresario británico-inglés (n.

Eric Brandon, piloto de carreras y empresario británico-inglés (n. 1920).

1983

Hans Tittel, deutscher Gewerkschafter und Politiker

1983

Wild Bill Moore (William M. Moore dit), saxophoniste américain (° 13 juin 1918).

1983

Hanna Bekker vom Rath, deutsche Malerin, Sammlerin und Kunsthändlerin

Walter Stone Tevis, écrivain américain de science-fiction et de roman noir (° 28 février 1928).

Ellen Raskin

Ellen Raskin won the Newbery Medal in 1979 for The Westing Game, a mystery novel built around a dead millionaire, sixteen heirs, and a puzzle. She designed the book's cover herself. Raskin was also a celebrated illustrator who designed more than a thousand book jackets — including the original cover of A Wrinkle in Time. Born in Milwaukee in 1928. She died in 1984 at 56, before she could see how many classrooms would spend the next forty years solving that puzzle alongside her characters.

Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon was a character actor best known as Mel Cooley on *The Dick Van Dyke Show* (1961-1966), the perpetual target of Buddy Sorrell's insults. His tall, balding, deadpan presence made him one of the most recognizable comic foils in American television history.

Heinz Werner Ketzer, deutscher römisch-katholischer Priester und Kölner Dompropst

Werner Otto von Hentig, deutscher Diplomat

Louise Brooks

She walked away from Hollywood at its peak — not fired, not forgotten, but disgusted. Louise Brooks turned down a contract extension in 1928, boarded a ship to Germany, and made two films with G.W. Pabst that critics now consider masterpieces. Back in America, studios blacklisted her. She spent years working a department store counter in Rochester, New York. But she'd reinvented herself again — writing film criticism sharp enough to earn a George Polk Award. The girl they discarded became the scholar who defined what they'd thrown away.

Leo Weisgerber, linguiste allemand (° 25 février 1899).

Edward Pimental, US-amerikanischer Soldat, der für einen Anschlag der RAF ermordet wurde

Milton Greene, US-amerikanischer Fotograf

Louis Meeuwessen

Louis Meeuwessen competed as a boxer for the Netherlands at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boxing contingent during the era when the country hosted the Games.

1987

Hans Milch, deutscher katholischer Pfarrer und Gründer der actio spes unica

1987

Danilo Blanuša

Danilo Blanuša was a Croatian mathematician who built the first known graph with a chromatic number higher than four that wasn't a complete graph — what became known as the Blanuša snark. Graph theory was an obscure corner of mathematics in 1946 when he published it. It turned out to matter enormously in computer science. He died in 1987, having outlived the era in which his work seemed purely abstract.

Alan Ameche, US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler

Ramón Valdés

Ramón Valdés played Don Ramón on El Chavo del 8, the Mexican comedy series that became one of the most watched shows in Latin American television history. Don Ramón was a lovable deadbeat — always behind on rent, always getting thrown out, always coming back. Valdés played him for over a decade. He died in 1988. El Chavo keeps running in reruns.

Panchito Riset, kubanischer Son- und Bolerosänger

Alan Napier

Alan Napier was a British character actor who appeared in dozens of films across a fifty-year career. He is remembered almost entirely for one role: Alfred the butler in the 1966 Batman television series. He stood six feet five and played Alfred with perfect dignity, a role that required him to treat Batman's absurdities as completely reasonable. He was very good at it.

Félix Leclerc

Félix Leclerc wrote "Moi, mes souliers" on his kitchen table and figured nobody would care. He was wrong. The Quebec chansonnier became the first French-Canadian artist to break through in Paris — performing at the ABC music hall in 1950 when nobody in France knew Quebec had a folk tradition. He came home a star. His songs about the St. Lawrence and the land of his childhood gave Quebec something it hadn't had: a sound of its own. Born 1914. Died 1988.

1989

Enrico Lorenzetti, italienischer Motorradrennfahrer

1989

Brian Naylor, britischer Automobilrennfahrer

1990

Andrzej Dobrowolski, polnischer Komponist und Musikpädagoge

Eugen Nerdinger, deutscher Schrift- und Buchgestalter, Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus

Werner Holz, deutscher Maler

Walter Zeman, österreichischer Fußballspieler

James Irwin

James Irwin drove a car on the moon. During Apollo 15 in July 1971, he and David Scott used the first lunar roving vehicle to cover seventeen miles of the Hadley–Apennine region. Irwin was deeply moved by the experience — he became an evangelical minister afterward and led three expeditions to Mount Ararat searching for Noah's Ark. He didn't find it. He died in 1991 from a heart attack. He had suffered a mild heart attack on the lunar surface during Apollo 15, though NASA didn't announce it until later.

Julissa Gomez

Julissa Gomez was a young American gymnast who was one of the sport's rising talents in the mid-1980s. In 1988, she suffered a catastrophic vault accident at a competition in Tokyo, striking her head and sustaining severe spinal injuries. She never regained consciousness. She died in 1991 at nineteen. Her death accelerated safety reforms to the vault approach runway.

Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei

Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei was the leading Shia religious authority for much of the latter half of the twentieth century, with followers across the Islamic world. He consistently opposed clerical involvement in government — a direct challenge to Khomeini's concept of velayat-e faqih. He spent his final years under house arrest in Najaf. He died in 1992. His followers still number in the millions.

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, líder religioso y erudito iraní (n.

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, líder religioso y erudito iraní (n. 1899).

John Kordic

John Kordic was an enforcer — a fighter in the NHL era when teams kept players on the roster specifically to intimidate opponents. He played for Montreal, Toronto, Quebec, and Washington. His career was shadowed by drug and alcohol dependency. He died in a hotel room in 1992 during a confrontation with police, who had responded to a disturbance call. He was twenty-seven.

Bertalan Papp

Bertalan Papp won gold medals in fencing at three consecutive Olympics (1948, 1952, 1956) as part of Hungary's dominant sabre teams. He was one of the greatest sabre fencers of the mid-20th century, competing during Hungary's golden era in the sport.

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei was one of the most influential Shia Muslim scholars of the 20th century, serving as Grand Ayatollah in Najaf, Iraq. His scholarly network and charitable foundation spanned the global Shia community, and his religious rulings shaped the faith of millions.

John Kordic, joueur de hockey sur glace canadien (° 22 mars 1965).

1993

Harry Bellaver, acteur américain (° 12 février 1905).

1993

Jiří Adamíra, tschechischer Schauspieler

1994

Leonid Maximowitsch Leonow, russischer Schriftsteller

1995

František Nepil, tschechischer Schriftsteller und Rundfunkmoderator

1995

Fiódor Diachenko, francotirador soviético (n.

Fiódor Diachenko, francotirador soviético (n. 1917).

1995

John Adams

John Adams played professional American football. His career in the sport spanned the 1960s.

Jüri Randviir

Jüri Randviir was an Estonian chess player and journalist who became a champion of Estonian chess during the Soviet era. He combined competitive play with chess writing, contributing to the intellectual life of occupied Estonia.

Herbert Huncke, écrivain américain, pionnier des droits homosexuels (° 9 janvier 1915).

Åke Hermanson, schwedischer Komponist

Harry Angelman, britischer Kinderarzt und Neurologe

Nevill Francis Mott

Nevill Francis Mott transformed our understanding of electronic processes in disordered materials, earning a Nobel Prize for his work on semiconductors and glass. His research provided the theoretical foundation for modern amorphous semiconductors, which directly enabled the development of today’s ubiquitous thin-film solar cells and flat-panel displays.

Oswaldo Barros Velloso, futebolista brasileiro (n.

Oswaldo Barros Velloso, futebolista brasileiro (n. 1908).

Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, maestro italiano (n.

Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, maestro italiano (n. 1911).

1997

Paul Rudolph, architecte américain (° 23 octobre 1918).

Raymond Edward Brown, prêtre sulpicien, théologien et exégète américain (° 22 mai 1928).

László Szabó, ungarischer Schachspieler

Anna J. Harrison, química y profesora estadounidense (n.

Anna J. Harrison, química y profesora estadounidense (n. 1912).

Mahmoud Saremi

Mahmoud Saremi was an Iranian journalist and diplomat stationed in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan in 1998. When the Taliban captured the city, they entered the Iranian consulate and killed eight Iranian diplomats and one journalist. Saremi was among them. Iran mobilized 70,000 troops to the Afghan border. War was considered likely. It didn't happen. Saremi was thirty.

1999

Dora Schaul, deutsche Antifaschistin und Résistancekämpferin

1999

Rupert Stöckl, deutscher Maler

1999

Yolanda Vargas Dulché, écrivain et historietista mexicaine (° 18 juillet 1926).

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2000

Gilles Thibaut, auteur-compositeur français, coauteur de Comme d'habitude (° 21 septembre 1927).

2000

Günter Goetzendorff, deutscher Politiker, MdB

2001

Paul Vaessen, englischer Fußballspieler

2001

Jean Dorst, naturaliste français académicien ès sciences (° 7 août 1924).

2001

Jean-Louis Flandrin, historien français (° 4 juillet 1931).

2002

Reiner Geye, deutscher Fußballspieler

2002

Jacques Richard, acteur et doublure vocale française (° 10 mai 1931).

Robert Dutoit, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

Dirk Hoogendam

Dirk Hoogendam was a Dutch member of the Waffen-SS during World War II who served on the Eastern Front. After the war, his case was among those that confronted the Netherlands with its history of wartime collaboration.

Falaba Issa Traoré

He built Mali's national theater scene almost from scratch, yet most of the world never learned his name. Falaba Issa Traoré spent decades writing and directing plays in Bambara — not French — insisting Malian audiences deserved stories in their own tongue. He trained generations of performers who'd never had a stage before him. His scripts remain in repertoire across West Africa. The colonial language wasn't the only way to make art matter. He proved that with every single production.

Hermann Oxfort, deutscher Rechtsanwalt, MdL, Berliner Bürgermeister und Justizsenator

Martha Chase, US-amerikanische Molekularbiologin

Willibald Hilf, Intendant des Südwestfunks

Dimitris Papamichael

Dimitris Papamichael was one of the defining actors of Greek cinema from the 1950s through the 1990s. He appeared in over 120 films — comedies, dramas, historical epics — and was one of the few actors who crossed between the popular and art house circuits without losing credibility in either. He died in 2004 at sixty-nine. Greek cinema has produced no equivalent since.

Fay Wray

She turned down the lead in *Of Human Bondage* — a role that made Bette Davis a star — and nobody remembers that. What they remember is Kong. Fay Wray spent 80 years outrunning one performance, the 1933 scream atop the Empire State Building that studios filmed using a rubber hand around a doll. She died in her Manhattan apartment in August 2004, age 96. The Empire State Building dimmed its lights that night. She'd lived within sight of it for years.

Eva Kemlein, deutsche Fotografin

Andreas Matthae, homme politique allemand (° 8 novembre 1968).

Leon Golub

American painter Leon Golub created monumental, unflinching canvases depicting political violence, torture, and mercenary warfare. His raw, confrontational paintings of the 1980s — showing figures that seem to leer at the viewer — made him one of the most important political artists of the late 20th century.

John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (born 1918)

Monica Sjöö

Monica Sjöö was a Swedish-born artist who lived in Britain and became a central figure in the feminist spirituality movement. Her 1968 painting 'God Giving Birth' depicted a divine female figure giving birth and caused a public outcry when exhibited in London. The authorities considered prosecuting her for blasphemy. The painting now hangs in a museum in Bristol. She died in 2005.

Gene Mauch

Gene Mauch managed in the major leagues for 26 years and never won a pennant. He's remembered above all for the 1964 Phillies collapse — his team led by 6.5 games with 12 to play and lost the pennant. He had one of the sharpest baseball minds of his era, and the sport gave him almost every award except the only one that matters to managers. He died in 2005.

John H. Johnson

He started Ebony magazine in 1945 with $500 borrowed against his mother's furniture. Nobody thought Black readers were a market worth chasing. They were wrong. Within a year, Ebony's circulation hit 400,000. Johnson built an empire — Jet, Fashion Fair Cosmetics, radio stations — becoming the first Black American on the Forbes 400. He died August 8, 2005, in Chicago. But here's the reframe: his mother pawned her furniture so the world could see itself differently.

Ahmed Deedat

Ahmed Deedat spent decades challenging Christian missionaries in South Africa and became one of the most prominent Islamic preachers of the 20th century. His debates were recorded and distributed on VHS tapes across the Muslim world before internet video existed. He suffered a stroke in 1996 that left him paralyzed and unable to speak. He communicated by blinking for the last nine years of his life. He died in 2005.

Barbara Bel Geddes

Barbara Bel Geddes played Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas for twelve seasons — the moral center of a show built around greed and manipulation. Before Dallas, she'd had a serious stage career and an Oscar nomination for I Remember Mama in 1948. She also illustrated children's books. Born in New York in 1922, she was the daughter of stage designer Norman Bel Geddes. She died in 2005. In a show full of people behaving badly, she was the one everyone trusted.

Harald Winkel, deutscher Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Historiker und Verleger

Ilse Werner

Ilse Werner was an Austrian-born actress who became one of the most popular German film stars of the 1940s, known partly for her ability to whistle — a skill she incorporated into several performances. She made films during the Nazi era and continued working in postwar German cinema for decades. How to weigh a career that spanned that particular divide is a question German cultural life spent seventy years not quite answering.

Dean Rockwell

Dean Rockwell won an Olympic gold medal in wrestling at the 1932 Los Angeles Games, then became a decorated naval officer in World War II and Korea. He later coached wrestling at Penn State, combining three careers — athlete, warrior, and educator — into a single extraordinary life.

Ilse Werner, actriz alemana (n.

Ilse Werner, actriz alemana (n. 1921).

Sylvère Monod, traducteur, essayiste et universitaire français (° 9 octobre 1921).

Hélène Hily, actrice française (° 29 mai 1937).

Gustavo Arcos, kubanischer Dissident

Greg Athans, kanadischer Freestyle-Skier und Wasserskiläufer

Nicolau Casaus, dirigente futbolístico español (n.

Nicolau Casaus, dirigente futbolístico español (n. 1913).

Ma Lik

Ma Lik was a Hong Kong politician and journalist who led the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, the city's largest pro-Beijing party. In 2007, he told a newspaper that the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was not a massacre — triggering a public firestorm in a city where June 4th is observed every year with candlelight vigils. He died of a heart attack three weeks later. He was fifty-five.

Joybubbles

Joybubbles was born Joe Engressia, blind from birth, with perfect pitch so precise that he could whistle an exact 2,600 Hz tone — the frequency that unlocked AT&T's long-distance telephone switching systems. He discovered this by accident as a child. He became one of the original phone phreaks, exploring the telephone network as a world unto itself. Later in life, he legally changed his name to Joybubbles and declared himself permanently five years old.

Julius Wess, österreichischer Physiker, Mitentdecker der Supersymmetrie

Melville Shavelson

Melville Shavelson wrote and directed some of the best Hollywood comedies of the 1950s and 60s — Houseboat, The Seven Little Foys, Cast a Giant Shadow. He was also a founder of the Writers Guild of America and spent decades fighting for writers' residual rights. The WGA strike of 2023 traced its foundations partly to arguments Shavelson had been making since the 1950s. He died in 2007.

Leonard Pagliero

Leonard Pagliero served as an RAF pilot during World War II, flying transport and special operations missions. After the war, he became a successful dog breeder, known in British kennel circles.

Tom Drake, kanadischer Singer-Songwriter, Drehbuchautor und Regisseur

Orville Moody, golfista estadounidense (n.

Orville Moody, golfista estadounidense (n. 1933).

Orville Moody

Orville Moody won the 1969 U.S. Open at age 35 after spending 14 years in the Army. He played professional golf for two decades and never won another major. But he had a second act: he became one of the senior tour's most successful players, winning 11 times on the Champions Tour. He also wore a hearing aid, played through it, and complained about it constantly in interviews. He died in 2008 at 74.

Raul Solnado, humorista portugués (n.

Raul Solnado, humorista portugués (n. 1929).

Ita Maria Eisenring, Schweizer Juristin, erste Staatsanwältin der Schweiz

Daniel Jarque

He was 26, captain of Espanyol, and engaged to be married in weeks. Daniel Jarque collapsed alone in his hotel room during a pre-season training camp in Florence — cardiac arrest, no warning. His fiancée, Danae Perdigó, was waiting back home. Teammates found him too late. Afterward, Dani Alves held up a shirt bearing Jarque's name at the 2011 Copa América, a quiet tribute that traveled across continents. He never played a single minute in La Liga's top flight that coming season. He never got the chance.

Émile Papiernik, médecin français (° 14 février 1936).

Jone Railomo, joueur de rugby à XV fidjien (° 26 février 1981).

Alfonso Calderón, poeta, novelista, ensayista y crítico chileno (n.

Alfonso Calderón, poeta, novelista, ensayista y crítico chileno (n. 1930).

Jürgen Tippe, deutscher Hochschulrektor und -präsident

Matthew Simmons, US-amerikanischer Investmentbanker

Juan Marichal, ensayista, crítico literario e historiador español (n.

Juan Marichal, ensayista, crítico literario e historiador español (n. 1922).

José María López Piñero, historiador científico español (n.

José María López Piñero, historiador científico español (n. 1933).

David Dixon, empresario deportivo estadounidense (n.

David Dixon, empresario deportivo estadounidense (n. 1923).

Adele Filene, deutsche Modedesignerin

Patricia Neal

She survived three massive strokes in 1965 — while pregnant — and doctors privately doubted she'd ever speak again. Her husband Roald Dahl, the children's author, essentially became her drill sergeant, forcing her through brutal daily rehab sessions with neighbors and friends rotating through their home. She didn't just recover. She won an Academy Award for *Hud* before the strokes, then earned another nomination after. Patricia Neal died at 84, leaving behind proof that the most remarkable performance of her career happened entirely off-screen.

2011

Huguette Proulx, journaliste, chroniqueuse et animatrice québécoise (° 4 janvier 1922).

2011

Ernesto Silva Bafalluy, economista y rector chileno (n.

Ernesto Silva Bafalluy, economista y rector chileno (n. 1948).

2011

Joaquín Jiménez Maxwell, dominikanischer Journalist, Rundfunksprecher und -direktor

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove

She fled Nazi Germany as a child, but the real fight came decades later in an American physics department that simply refused to hire married women. Fay Ajzenberg-Selove sued the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 under Title IX — and won. She'd already spent years compiling the definitive nuclear energy-level data tables, used by physicists worldwide as a standard reference. Her lawsuit forced institutional policy changes across multiple universities. She left behind both the data tables and a legal precedent that opened doors for generations of women in physics.

Magro, cantor brasileiro (n.

Magro, cantor brasileiro (n. 1943).

Surya Lesmana

He wore the captain's armband for Indonesia before most players his age had earned a single cap. Surya Lesmana spent decades shaping Indonesian football from both sides of the touchline — as a player who carried the national team through Southeast Asian competition in the 1960s, then as a manager who built the next generation. He died in 2012. But the clubs he coached and the players he mentored kept competing. The man outlasted by the game he gave everything to.

Sancho Gracia, actor español (n.

Sancho Gracia, actor español (n. 1936).

Jairo Varela, cantautor colombiano de salsa (n.

Jairo Varela, cantautor colombiano de salsa (n. 1949).

Kurt Maetzig

He made the first DEFA film ever produced in postwar East Germany — but Kurt Maetzig is remembered most for creating the GDR's most beloved sci-fi franchise, *Signale*, and the two-part Ernst Thälmann epic that schoolchildren were required to watch for decades. He lived to 101, outlasting the country that made him its most celebrated filmmaker by twenty-one years. He spent his final years in Wildkau quietly. The state he'd helped construct in celluloid vanished. He didn't.

Sancho Gracia

Sancho Gracia became one of Spain's most beloved television actors through his title role in *Curro Jiménez* (1976-1978), a swashbuckling adventure series about an Andalusian bandit. The show made him a household name across the Spanish-speaking world.

Ruth Etchells

She ran Durham's St John's College for over a decade — one of the first women to lead an Oxbridge-affiliated institution — but Ruth Etchells never let administration swallow the poet. She wrote theology through verse when most academics wrote it through footnotes. Her collections wrestled faith into plain, sometimes jagged language. She died in 2012 after shaping generations of ordinands who'd go on to lead parishes across England. The administrator and the artist were the same person. That combination was rarer than either credential alone.

Lourdes Canale, actriz mexicana (n.

Lourdes Canale, actriz mexicana (n. 1934).

Hans R. Camenzind

Hans Camenzind designed the 555 timer chip in 1971, which became the most popular integrated circuit ever manufactured — with over a billion units produced annually for decades. The Swiss-born engineer's single invention powered everything from kitchen timers to spacecraft, making it one of the most ubiquitous pieces of electronics in history.

Igor Kurnosov

Igor Kurnosov was a Russian chess grandmaster who reached a peak rating in the world's top 100. His promising career was tragically cut short when he died in a traffic accident in 2013 at age 28.

Reinhard Tausch, deutscher Psychologe

Chikondi Banda, futbolista malauí (n.

Chikondi Banda, futbolista malauí (n. 1978).

Léon Taverdet, évêque français (° 17 juillet 1923).

Johannes Bluyssen

Johannes Bluyssen served as the Bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands from 1966 to 1983, navigating the turbulent post-Vatican II era in one of Europe's most rapidly secularizing countries. His episcopate coincided with dramatic declines in Dutch Catholic practice.

Fernando Castro Pacheco

Fernando Castro Pacheco was one of Mexico's most important muralists of the 20th century, best known for his monumental paintings in the Government Palace of Mérida depicting Yucatán's history. His work carried forward the Mexican muralism tradition of Rivera and Orozco into the late 20th century.

Jack Clement

Jack Clement — "Cowboy Jack" — was a songwriter, producer, and studio wizard who worked with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Charley Pride, helping shape the sound of Sun Records and Nashville. He wrote "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" and produced some of country music's most enduring recordings across five decades.

Barbara Mertz

Barbara Mertz wrote bestselling historical mysteries under the pen names Elizabeth Peters (the Amelia Peabody series) and Barbara Michaels, while also publishing respected Egyptology scholarship under her real name. She was one of the rare authors who achieved both academic credibility and mass-market commercial success.

Regina Resnik

Regina Resnik began her career as a soprano at the Metropolitan Opera before making a rare and successful transition to mezzo-soprano, a vocal shift that extended her career by decades. She sang over 300 performances at the Met and was acclaimed for her Wagnerian and Verdi roles.

Jaymala Shiledar

Jaymala Shiledar was a celebrated Marathi actress and classical singer who helped popularize Marathi musical theatre (sangeet natak) across Maharashtra, India. Her performances were known for combining dramatic power with vocal artistry.

Karen Black

She was nominated for an Oscar for *Five Easy Pieces* but lost — then spent decades deliberately choosing weird over safe. Karen Black picked B-movies and cult horror when A-list offers came. She appeared in over 200 films total. Her final years included a crowdfunding campaign to cover cancer treatment, and fans raised the money fast. She left behind a body of work that Hollywood couldn't categorize, a reminder that refusing to be respectable is its own kind of career strategy.

Leonardo Legaspi

Leonardo Legaspi served as Archbishop of Caceres in the Philippines and was a prominent figure in the Filipino Catholic hierarchy. He was known for his pastoral work in one of the country's most Catholic regions.

Charles Keating

Charles Keating was an English-born actor who became a familiar face on American daytime television, playing Carl Hutchins on the soap opera *Another World* for over a decade. He also had a distinguished stage career in the UK and US.

Menahem Golan

Menahem Golan, together with his cousin Yoram Globus, ran Cannon Films, the 1980s exploitation-to-mainstream studio behind *Breakin'*, *Delta Force*, *Runaway Train*, and dozens of Charles Bronson films. Their aggressive, budget-conscious approach to filmmaking made them both loved and ridiculed in Hollywood — the Cannon brand became synonymous with audacious, over-the-top cinema.

Ralph Bryans

Ralph Bryans was a Northern Irish motorcycle racer who competed in Grand Prix racing during the 1960s, winning the 50cc World Championship in 1965 for Honda. He was one of the few riders from the British Isles to win a world title in the smallest displacement class.

Luidig Ochoa, animador y convicto venezolano (n.

Luidig Ochoa, animador y convicto venezolano (n. 1980)

Red Wilson

Red Wilson played both football and baseball professionally — a rare mid-century dual-sport athlete. He spent the bulk of his baseball career as a catcher for the Detroit Tigers in the late 1950s.

Danny Murphy

Danny Murphy was an American actor who appeared in a variety of film and television roles during his career. He worked across different genres in Hollywood.

Peter Sculthorpe

Peter Sculthorpe was Australia's most prominent classical composer, whose works drew deeply on the sounds of the Australian landscape, Aboriginal music, and the cultures of neighboring Southeast Asia and the Pacific. His orchestral piece *Sun Music* (1965) put Australian concert music on the world stage.

Sean Price

Brooklyn rapper Sean Price was one of hip-hop's most respected underground lyricists, known for his gruff delivery and sharp wit as half of Heltah Skeltah and a member of Boot Camp Clik. His sudden death from a heart attack at 43 devastated the underground rap community.

Joachim Wollasch, deutscher Historiker

Sam S. Walker

Lieutenant General Sam S. Walker served in senior U.S. Army command positions during the Cold War era, contributing to military planning and operations during a period of sustained global tension between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces.

Christopher Marshall

Christopher Marshall was a professor at the Institute of Cancer Research in London whose work on the Ras signaling pathway — how cells receive signals to grow and divide — was fundamental to understanding how mutations in these pathways lead to cancer. His research influenced the development of targeted cancer therapies.

Gus Mortson

Gus Mortson won four consecutive Stanley Cups with the Toronto Maple Leafs (1947-1951) and shared the Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year. A physically punishing defenseman, he accumulated penalty minutes that reflected his era's aggressive style of play.

Mauk Moruk, osttimoresischer Paramilitär

Željko Kopanja, journaliste bosnien (° 21 octobre 1954).

Walther Stützle, deutscher Politikwissenschaftler und Politiker

Edward Daly, prélat catholique irlandais (° 5 décembre 1933).

Günther Böhme, deutscher Bildungsphilosoph

Dick MacPherson, entraîneur de Foot U.S.

Dick MacPherson, entraîneur de Foot U.S. américain (° 4 novembre 1930).

Glen Campbell

He recorded "Wichita Lineman" in one take. Glen Campbell, the twelfth of twelve children born in a shotgun shack in Billstown, Arkansas, became one of the most-called session guitarist in Hollywood before anyone knew his name — playing on records by Sinatra, Elvis, and the Beach Boys. He replaced Brian Wilson on tour. But he wanted to sing. Alzheimer's took him slowly, and he said goodbye with a farewell album called *Adios*. The man who played for everyone else finally made them play for him.

Jorge Zorreguieta, homme politique argentin (° 18 janvier 1928).

Gonzague Saint-Bris, écrivain et journaliste français (° 26 janvier 1948).

Pēteris Plakidis, pianiste et compositeur letton (° 4 mars 1947).

Max DePree, homme d'affaires américain (° 28 octobre 1927).

Barbara Cook, actrice et chanteuse américaine (° 25 octobre 1927).

Ríus (Eduardo del Río), caricaturista, historietista, activista político de izquierda y escritor comunista mexicano (n.

Ríus (Eduardo del Río), caricaturista, historietista, activista político de izquierda y escritor comunista mexicano (n. 1934)

Takeshi Onaga, político japonés (n.

Takeshi Onaga, político japonés (n. 1950)

Nicholas Bett

Kenyan hurdler Nicholas Bett won the 400m hurdles gold medal at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing — the first Kenyan to win a World Championship title in a non-distance event. He died in a car accident at 28, cutting short one of Kenya's most promising athletic careers.

Günther Schilling, deutscher Agrarwissenschaftler und Universitätsrektor

Willie Dille, femme politique néerlandaise (° 2 juin 1965).

Lucien-René Delsalle, historien français (° 10 octobre 1935).

Georg Peters, deutscher Mediziner und Mikrobiologe

Yves Bizeul, französisch-deutscher Politikwissenschaftler

Ernie Colón, dessinateur de comics et lettreur américain (º 13 juillet 1935).

Jean-Pierre Mocky, actor, director de cine, guionista y productor de cine francés (n.

Jean-Pierre Mocky, actor, director de cine, guionista y productor de cine francés (n. 1933).

Manfred Max Neef, economista, ambientalista y político chileno (n.

Manfred Max Neef, economista, ambientalista y político chileno (n. 1932).

Catalina Ruiz Pérez, física española (n.

Catalina Ruiz Pérez, física española (n. 1957).

Mazhar Krasniqi, neuseeländischer muslimischer Gemeindeleiter

Gabriel Ochoa Uribe

Colombian football manager Gabriel Ochoa Uribe won a record seven Colombian league titles, making him the most successful manager in the history of Colombian professional football.

Alfredo Lim

Alfredo Lim defined Manila’s law-and-order politics for decades, serving two terms as mayor and earning the nickname Dirty Harry for his aggressive, often controversial anti-crime campaigns. His death from COVID-19 complications ended a career that spanned the police force, the Senate, and the Department of the Interior, permanently shaping the city’s approach to urban governance.

Guy Hauray, homme d'affaires, coach mental, producteur, promoteur et commentateur sportif franco-canadien (° 11 févri…

Guy Hauray, homme d'affaires, coach mental, producteur, promoteur et commentateur sportif franco-canadien (° 11 février 1943).

Salome Bey, kanadische Sängerin und Schauspielerin

Pedro Casaldáliga, évêque catholique espagnol puis brésilien (° 16 février 1928).

Bobby Bowden, joueur et entraîneur de foot U.S.

Bobby Bowden, joueur et entraîneur de foot U.S. américain (° 8 novembre 1929).

Najma Chaudhury, universitaire bangladaise (° 26 février 1942).

Paul Hellyer, homme politique canadien (° 6 août 1923).

Bill Davis

Canadian politician Bill Davis served as Premier of Ontario for 14 years, overseeing massive investments in education — including the creation of several universities — and helping bring the Canadian Constitution home from Britain. His moderate, consensus-building style made him one of the most respected provincial premiers in Canadian history.

Arnold Angenendt, deutscher Theologe und Kirchenhistoriker

Jaan Kaplinski, estnischer Schriftsteller, Lyriker, Übersetzer und Philosoph

Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John spent three years fighting breast cancer the first time. It came back twice more. She spent the last decades of her life as an advocate for cancer research, helping fund a wellness center in Melbourne that bears her name. She also played Sandy in Grease, one of the highest-grossing musicals ever made. 'Physical' sold ten million copies. She had a career that could have defined anyone. She chose to be defined by how she handled the thing that tried to kill her.

Lamont Dozier, auteur-compositeur et producteur américains de musique soul (° 16 juin 1941).

Zofia Posmysz, polnische Widerstandskämpferin und KZ-Überlebende

Gustav Burosch, deutscher Mathematiker und Hochschullehrer

Paul Brandenburg, deutscher Bildhauer

Federico Martín Bahamontes, ciclista español (n.

Federico Martín Bahamontes, ciclista español (n. 1928).

Rodriguez

American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez recorded two albums in the early 1970s that flopped in the United States but — unknown to him — became massive hits in South Africa and Australia. The 2012 documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man' told his extraordinary rediscovery story and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Dominique Hulin, acteur et cascadeur français (° 11 juin 1952).

Julio Capote, acteur de télévision cubain puis vénézuélien (° 22 octobre 1932).

Ioulia Borissova, actrice et comédienne soviétique puis russe (° 17 mars 1925).

Richard Murphy, rameur d'aviron américain (° 14 novembre 1931).

Ian G. Macdonald, mathématicien britannique (° 11 octobre 1928).

Alfredo Barlucchi, basketteur et entraîneur italien (° 2 mars 1940).

Chi-Chi Rodríguez

Puerto Rican golfer Chi-Chi Rodríguez was one of the most colorful personalities in professional golf, famous for his 'sword dance' celebration after sinking putts. Beyond his eight PGA Tour victories, he became the game's most beloved goodwill ambassador, using his fame to support at-risk youth through his foundation.

Woody Thompson, joueur américain de football U.S.

Woody Thompson, joueur américain de football U.S. américain (° 20 août 1952).

Jorge Rodríguez, footballeur international mexicain (° 18 avril 1968).

Zoran Petrović, arbitre de football yougoslave puis serbe (° 10 avril 1952).

Larbi Nasra, homme d'affaires et homme politique tunisien (° 15 janvier 1947).

Tomasz Lisowicz, coureur cycliste polonais (° 23 février 1977).

Elizabeth A. R. Brown, historienne américaine (° 16 février 1932).

Issa Hayatou

Cameroonian sports executive Issa Hayatou served as president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for 29 years, becoming one of the most powerful figures in world football governance. He briefly served as acting FIFA president during Sepp Blatter's suspension.

Mitzi McCall

American actress Mitzi McCall worked in comedy alongside her husband Charlie Brill for decades. The couple appeared together on numerous television variety shows and in stand-up comedy.

Steve Symms

American politician Steve Symms served as a U.S. Senator from Idaho, known for his staunch conservative positions and advocacy for tax cuts and deregulation.

Arlindo Domingos da Cruz Filho, compositeurs de samba et de pagode brésilien (° 14 septembre 1958).

Gérard Fayolle, homme politique et essayiste français (° 11 octobre 1937).

Jamal Al-Qadiri Al-Boutchichi, maître spirituel marocain (° 1942).

William H. Webster, juriste et avocat américain (° 6 mars 1924).