Deaths

Arnold Genthe, deutsch-amerikanischer Fotograf

Tahar Sfar (الطاهر صفر), homme politique et avocat tunisien (° 15 novembre 1903).

Rosa Stein, Schwester von Edith Stein, Holocaustopfer

Edith Stein

Edith Stein was a philosopher who studied under Edmund Husserl, converted from Judaism to Catholicism, became a Carmelite nun, and was murdered at Auschwitz on August 9, 1942. She had written to Pope Pius XI in 1933 asking him to speak against Nazi antisemitism. She received no reply. Pope John Paul II canonized her in 1998. Her feast day is August 9. The date of her execution. Born in Breslau in 1891 on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.

Lisamaria Meirowsky, deutsche Ärztin und Ordensfrau, NS-Opfer

1943

Franz Jägerstätter, objecteur de conscience autrichien et martyr catholique (° 20 mai 1907).

1943

Chaim Soutine

Chaim Soutine fled the shtetl for Paris and painted with a furious, distorted expressionism that influenced Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning. His canvases of hanging beef carcasses and twisted landscapes sold for millions after his death. He died hiding from the Nazis in occupied France, unable to get proper medical treatment because seeking a hospital risked arrest.

1944

Darrell R. Lindsey, US-amerikanischer Pilot

Harry Hillman

Harry Hillman won three gold medals at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, which were arguably the most chaotic Olympics ever held — the marathon winner was disqualified for being helped across the line, another runner was allegedly fed rat poison as a stimulant, and the entire event was overshadowed by a world's fair happening simultaneously. Through all of it, Hillman won the 200m hurdles, 400m hurdles, and 400m flat. He died in 1945, forty-one years after his medals.

Jakow Alexandrowitsch Protasanow, russischer Filmregisseur

Robert Hampton Gray

Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray died while leading a daring low-level dive-bombing attack against a Japanese destroyer in Onagawa Bay. His final strike successfully sank the escort ship, earning him a posthumous Victoria Cross as one of the last Canadians to receive the honor during the Second World War.

Charles Sands, golfista y tenista estadounidense (n.

Charles Sands, golfista y tenista estadounidense (n. 1865).

1946

Bert Vogler

Bert Vogler was South Africa's dominant bowler in the early years of Test cricket, a leg-spin and googly bowler who could turn the ball in ways that batsmen from England and Australia hadn't seen before. He took 36 wickets in five Tests against England in 1905–06 at an average of 22. That series, South Africa beat England. Then the world wars happened, and cricket paused, and careers like Vogler's got folded into history. He died in Johannesburg in 1946.

1946

Johannes Esser, niederländischer Arzt, Schachmeister und Kunstsammler

1946

Léon Gaumont, inventor francés (n.

Léon Gaumont, inventor francés (n. 1864).

1947

Reginald Innes Pocock, biólogo británico (n.

Reginald Innes Pocock, biólogo británico (n. 1863).

1948

Hugo Boss

Hugo Boss founded his clothing company in 1924 and kept it alive during the Depression by manufacturing uniforms for the Nazi Party, the SS, and the Hitler Youth — a history the company did not publicly acknowledge until the late 1990s. Boss himself was an early NSDAP member. The luxury brand that carries his name today bears little resemblance to its origins.

1949

Edward Thorndike

He tested cats. Specifically, he locked hungry cats inside wooden puzzle boxes and timed how fast they'd claw their way to freedom — hundreds of trials, meticulous notes. From that unglamorous experiment, Thorndike built the "Law of Effect": behaviors followed by satisfaction get repeated, behaviors followed by discomfort don't. Every dog trainer, classroom teacher, and app designer using reward loops today is working from his blueprint. He died in 1949, largely unknown outside academia. But his cats changed how humans understand learning itself.

1949

Harry Davenport, actor estadounidense (n.

Harry Davenport, actor estadounidense (n. 1866).

1950

Ernst Hollstein, deutscher Fußballspieler

1952

Bartholomäus Koßmann, deutscher Politiker, MdL, MdR, Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus

1953

Henri Étiévant, actor y director francés (n.

Henri Étiévant, actor y director francés (n. 1870).

1953

Lucien Adrion, französischer Maler

1954

Leo Katz, österreichischer Schriftsteller

1955

Fritz Steuri, Schweizer Skirennläufer und Bergführer

1955

Marion Bauer, US-amerikanische Komponistin

1956

Tobías Dantzig, matemático ruso-estadounidense (n.

Tobías Dantzig, matemático ruso-estadounidense (n. 1884).

1956

Rudolf Fettweis, badischer Direktor des Wasser- und Straßenbaus

1956

Jean Temerson, acteur français (° 12 juin 1898).

1957

Carl Clauberg

Carl Clauberg performed forced sterilization experiments on Jewish women at Auschwitz. He was a gynecologist. He corresponded with Himmler about the efficiency of his methods and seemed proud of his results. He was captured by the Soviets after the war, sentenced to 25 years, and then released early under a prisoner exchange. He returned to West Germany and resumed practicing medicine under his own name. Other doctors complained. He was arrested in 1955. He died in custody in 1957 before his trial concluded.

1957

José Jesús González Gallo, político mexicano (n.

José Jesús González Gallo, político mexicano (n. 1900).

1958

Felipe Boero, compositor argentino (n.

Felipe Boero, compositor argentino (n. 1884).

1959

Emil František Burian, tschechischer Komponist

1960

Adela Carbone, actriz italiana (n.

Adela Carbone, actriz italiana (n. 1890).

1960

Marie Ulfers, deutsche Schriftstellerin

1961

José Domínguez Echenique, político chileno (n.

José Domínguez Echenique, político chileno (n. 1900).

1961

Walter Bedell Smith, general estadounidense (n.

Walter Bedell Smith, general estadounidense (n. 1895).

1962

Hermann Hesse

He almost became a bookseller instead. After a mental breakdown at 15 and a failed seminary escape, Hesse spent years selling used books in Tübingen before *Peter Camenzind* bought him a writing life. He'd eventually produce *Steppenwolf* and *Siddhartha* from a stone house in Montagnola, Switzerland, where he lived 43 years. The Nobel came in 1946. He died quietly there on August 9th, 1962, at 85. But his real surge came after — American college students in the 1960s made *Siddhartha* a counterculture bible he never lived to see.

1962

Raymond Sudre, sculpteur français (° 28 octobre 1870).

1963

Käthe Mende, deutsche Nationalökonomin, Soziologin und Pionierin der Sozialen Arbeit, Holocaustüberlebende

1963

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy lived just 39 hours. Born five and a half weeks premature to President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, he died of respiratory distress syndrome — a condition that was poorly understood in 1963. His death brought national attention to premature infant care and accelerated research into neonatal respiratory treatment.

1964

Amelia Wilhelmy, cantante mexicana (n.

Amelia Wilhelmy, cantante mexicana (n. 1900).

1965

Arnold Krieger, deutscher Schriftsteller

1966

Joan Gibert i Camins, katalanischer Pianist, Cembalist, Komponist und Musikpädagoge

1966

Herbert Berliner, kanadischer Musikproduzent und Erfinder

1966

Gösta Nystroem, schwedischer Komponist und Maler

Joe Orton

His partner Kenneth Halliwell beat him to death with nine hammer blows, then swallowed 22 sleeping pills himself. Orton was 34. He'd spent six months in prison years earlier — not for his scandalous plays, but for defacing library books. That stretch radicalized his wit into something sharper, meaner, funnier. Three completed plays survived him: *Entertaining Mr Sloane*, *Loot*, *What the Butler Saw*. His diaries, published posthumously, turned out to be as wickedly observed as anything he'd staged.

Adolf Wohlbrück, österreichischer Schauspieler

Pedro Garfias, poeta español (n.

Pedro Garfias, poeta español (n. 1901).

Rudolf Vogel, deutscher Schauspieler

1968

Friedrich Christian von Sachsen, Chef des Hauses Wettin

Johannes Härtel, deutscher Generalmajor des Heeres der Bundeswehr

C. F. Powell

Cecil Powell revolutionized particle physics by developing the photographic emulsion technique that captured the existence of the pi-meson. His discovery of this subatomic particle confirmed the mechanism binding the atomic nucleus together, earning him the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died while on holiday in Italy, leaving behind a deeper understanding of the fundamental forces of nature.

Sharon Tate

She was eight and a half months pregnant when Charles Manson's followers broke into 10050 Cielo Drive. Sharon Tate begged her killers to let her live long enough to have the baby. They didn't. She was 26. Her father, Army Colonel Paul Tate, shaved his beard, grew his hair long, and spent years infiltrating hippie communities hunting her killers himself. The murders effectively ended the 1960s counterculture's innocence — not a metaphor, but a documented cultural shift journalists noted within weeks.

Abigail Folger

Abigail Folger was a coffee heiress, a volunteer social worker in Los Angeles's Watts neighborhood, and a close friend of Sharon Tate. She was at Tate's house on Cielo Drive the night of August 8–9, 1969, when Charles Manson's followers broke in. She was 26. Her work in Watts had nothing to do with the Hollywood social circle that brought her to that house on that night. But she was there. Five people were killed. She was one of them.

Steven Parent

Steven Parent was 18 years old and had gone to visit William Garretson, the caretaker of the Cielo Drive property, to sell him a clock radio. He didn't know Sharon Tate. Didn't know the people at the main house. He was leaving in his car when Charles "Tex" Watson stopped him at the gate. Parent begged for his life. He was shot four times. He was the first of the five victims that night, killed because he was in the wrong place, leaving at the wrong moment.

Abigail Folger, US-amerikanische Millionenerbin

Jay Sebring

Jay Sebring was the hairstylist who made men's grooming fashionable. He had clients like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and Frank Sinatra at a time when men's salons didn't exist — Sebring essentially invented the category. He was at Cielo Drive on the night of August 8–9, 1969. He had been Sharon Tate's boyfriend before she married Polanski and remained her close friend after. He was 35. The industry he built — high-end men's hair care — exists today because of him.

Wojciech Frykowski

Wojciech Frykowski was a Polish actor and writer who had moved to Los Angeles at the invitation of his friend Roman Polanski. He was staying at Polanski's house on Cielo Drive while Polanski was in London working on a film. Sharon Tate was there. So was Frykowski. On the night of August 8–9, 1969, Manson's followers arrived. He was stabbed 51 times, shot twice, and struck over the head multiple times. He was 32.

1970

Jimmy Steele

Jimmy Steele spent decades as an uncompromising militant in the Irish Republican Army, participating in campaigns from the 1920s through the 1960s. He also edited republican publications, using print as a weapon alongside his direct activism.

1971

Manuel Lozano Garrido, escritor español (n.

Manuel Lozano Garrido, escritor español (n. 1920).

1971

Ángel Segundo Médici, futbolista argentino (n.

Ángel Segundo Médici, futbolista argentino (n. 1897).

1971

Otto Wagener, deutscher Generalmajor, Kriegsverbrecher

1972

Warren Paoa Kealoha, US-amerikanischer Schwimmer

1972

Ernst von Salomon, deutscher Schriftsteller

1972

Sıddık Sami Onar

Siddik Sami Onar was one of Turkey's foremost legal scholars, specializing in administrative law at Istanbul University. His academic work shaped the legal foundations of the modern Turkish state and influenced generations of Turkish jurists.

1973

Charles Daniels, nadador estadounidense (n.

Charles Daniels, nadador estadounidense (n. 1885).

1973

William Aitken, schottischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

1973

Heinrich Fischer, deutscher Politiker, MdL, Landesminister

Bill Chase

Bill Chase built a reputation as one of the best trumpet players in jazz — he'd played in the Woody Herman Orchestra before striking out on his own. His band Chase fused jazz and rock at the exact moment when that fusion was commercially viable. The 1971 album Get It On sold well enough to matter. In August 1974, Chase and three bandmates died when their chartered plane crashed in a field in Jackson, Minnesota. He was 39. The plane went down near a small town that almost nobody had heard of.

Else Alfelt, pintora danesa (n.

Else Alfelt, pintora danesa (n. 1910).

Bill Chase, trompetista estadounidense (n.

Bill Chase, trompetista estadounidense (n. 1934).

Robert Boehringer, deutscher Industrieller und Lyriker

1975

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Fifth Symphony in 1937 under threat. His Fourth Symphony had been quietly withdrawn after Stalin's denunciation of his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District — an official assault that had forced other Soviet artists to recant, confess, or disappear. The Fifth was described as 'a Soviet artist's reply to just criticism.' The finale is triumphant in a way that almost everyone who heard it recognized as forced. Whether Shostakovich intended it as subversion or survival, nobody knows. Possibly both.

1975

Karl Nag, norwegischer Ruderer

1975

Siegfried Hermelink, deutscher Musikwissenschaftler

1976

Mariano Ozores Francés, actor español (n.

Mariano Ozores Francés, actor español (n. 1890).

1976

José Lezama Lima, escritor cubano (n.

José Lezama Lima, escritor cubano (n. 1910).

1976

Hermann Sasse, deutscher lutherischer Theologe

1977

Jean Bassoul, libanesischer Erzbischof

1977

Johanna Decker, deutsche katholische Missionsärztin

1977

David Caro, político y médico argentino (n.

David Caro, político y médico argentino (n. 1900).

1978

James Gould Cozzens

James Gould Cozzens won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1948 novel "Guard of Honor," a meticulous study of racial tensions on a Florida military base during World War II. His 1957 novel "By Love Possessed" was a massive bestseller but was savaged by critics, and his reputation collapsed almost overnight. He spent his last decades in near-total obscurity.

1978

Hermine Schröder, deutsche Leichtathletin

1978

Elmer Sleight, US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler

Josef Eichner, deutscher Politiker, MdB

Charles Spinasse, homme politique français (° 22 octobre 1893).

Walter O'Malley

Walter O'Malley moved the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1958. He is still, decades later, despised by a generation of Brooklyn fans who grew up believing the team was theirs. He was a businessman who saw a market. Los Angeles had 2.5 million people and no major league team. He went west. The Dodgers won the World Series the second year they were there. For Brooklyn, the stadium they played in was demolished and replaced by a housing project. O'Malley died in Rochester in 1979.

Chus Alonso, futbolista español (n.

Chus Alonso, futbolista español (n. 1917).

Raymond Washington

Raymond Washington founded the Crips on the east side of Los Angeles in 1969. He was fifteen. The original intention was neighborhood protection — a response to gang violence targeting young Black men in South Central. Within a decade, the Crips had become one of the largest and most violent gangs in American history, with chapters across the country. Washington was shot and killed in 1979 at age 25, before he could see what the organization he'd started became. He never ran it as it existed at his death.

Günther Grzimek, deutscher Rechtsanwalt, Notar, Politiker und Kunstsammler

Ruby Hurley

Ruby Hurley organized NAACP chapters across the Deep South during the most dangerous years of the civil rights movement, becoming the organization's southeastern regional director. She investigated the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, disguising herself as a field worker to gather evidence in Mississippi.

Elliott Nugent, diretor e ator estadunidense (n.

Elliott Nugent, diretor e ator estadunidense (n. 1899).

Jacqueline Cochran

Jacqueline Cochran was the first woman to break the sound barrier, in 1953. She also held more speed, distance, and altitude records than any pilot — male or female — alive at the time. She'd grown up in poverty in the Florida Panhandle, taught herself to fly in three weeks, and spent the next four decades proving that the sky had no ceiling for the determined. She died in Indio, California, in 1980. Her record count at death: more than 200.

1981

Max Hoffman

Max Hoffman almost single-handedly created the American market for European sports cars after World War II, importing Porsche, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen to the United States. His showroom on Park Avenue in Manhattan helped convince BMW to build the 507 and Mercedes to create the 300SL Gullwing.

1982

Emanuel Kaláb, tschechischer Militärkapellmeister, Dirigent und Komponist

1983

André Hossein, compositeur de musiques de films, père de Robert Hossein (° 1905).

1985

Horst Gentzen, deutscher Schauspieler

1985

Fred Åkerström, schwedischer Liedermacher und Sänger

1985

Clive Churchill

Clive Churchill was the greatest rugby league fullback Australia produced in the mid-twentieth century — possibly the greatest the sport has ever seen. The NRL's Man of the Match award at the Grand Final is still called the Clive Churchill Medal. He played 37 Tests for Australia, was never on the losing side against Great Britain, and captained South Sydney to three premierships. Born in 1927, died in 1985. The award bearing his name is still presented every year.

1986

Eoin McNamee

Eoin McNamee served as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army during a period of internal reorganization. His leadership shaped the IRA's strategic direction during the mid-20th century campaigns for Irish unification.

1987

Jutta Balk, deutsche Malerin, Puppengestalterin

1987

Roger Garand, acteur québécois (° 30 octobre 1922).

Paul Ruegger, Schweizer Anwalt

Ramón Valdés

Ramón Valdés played Señor Barriga on El Chavo del 8 — the landlord who was always getting hit or humiliated or having his money stolen by children. The show was a Mexican comedy series that became the most watched Spanish-language television program in history, with an estimated 91 million daily viewers at its peak. Valdés played a supporting role that became beloved across Latin America. He died in Guadalajara in 1988. His character, in animated form, is still broadcast today.

Giacinto Scelsi

Giacinto Scelsi wrote music that didn't sound like anyone else's. He focused on single pitches — microtonally expanded and elaborated — when everyone else was building harmonically complex systems. He was also a genuine eccentric who claimed to channel music from higher spiritual realms and refused to be photographed. For years there were allegations that he hadn't composed his music at all, that an arranger named Vieri Tosatti had written it. The allegations were never resolved. He died in Rome in 1988.

M. Carl Holman

M. Carl Holman combined careers as a poet, playwright, and civil rights leader, serving as president of the National Urban Coalition. His poetry appeared in major anthologies of African American literature, and he taught English at Clark Atlanta University before turning to full-time activism.

Ramón Valdés, actor y cómico mexicano (n.

Ramón Valdés, actor y cómico mexicano (n. 1924).

1989

Hans Ausserwinkler, österreichischer Politiker

1989

Hoyt Johnson, US-amerikanischer Country- und Rockabilly-Musiker

1990

Joe Mercer

Joe Mercer died on his birthday. August 9, 1990 — his 76th. He'd been in declining health for years, affected by dementia. The Manchester City players he'd managed two decades earlier still talked about him with genuine affection. That was rare. Football management is not a profession that generates much warmth. Mercer generated warmth. He was born in Ellesmere Port in 1914, the son of a footballer, and stayed in the game his entire life.

1990

Marianne Wünscher, deutsche Schauspielerin

Zbigniew Strzalkowski (° 3 juillet 1958) et

Zbigniew Adam Strzałkowski, sacerdote, misionero y beato católico polaco (n.

Zbigniew Adam Strzałkowski, sacerdote, misionero y beato católico polaco (n. 1958).[cita requerida]

Schubert Gambetta, futbolista uruguayo (n.

Schubert Gambetta, futbolista uruguayo (n. 1920).

Richard Lee Armstrong, kanadischer Geologe und Geochemiker

Richard Löwenthal, deutscher Politologe und Fernsehjournalist

Michal Tomaszek (° 23 septembre 1960), religieux franciscains polonais, assassinés par les terroristes du Sentier lum…

Michal Tomaszek (° 23 septembre 1960), religieux franciscains polonais, assassinés par les terroristes du Sentier lumineux, au Pérou.

Fereydoun Farrokhzad

Fereydoun Farrokhzad was one of Iran's biggest entertainment stars before the 1979 revolution. Afterward, he left — went to West Germany and kept performing for the Iranian diaspora. He also made political broadcasts criticizing the Islamic Republic. In August 1992, he was found stabbed to death in his apartment in Bonn. German investigators linked the killing to Iranian intelligence operatives. He was 54. His murder was part of a wave of assassinations of Iranian dissidents in Europe that the German courts eventually traced to Tehran.

Manuel Ulloa Elías, economista y político peruano (n.

Manuel Ulloa Elías, economista y político peruano (n. 1922).

Friedrich Aichberger, deutscher Jurist

Friedrich Wille, deutscher Mathematiker und Hochschullehrer

1993

Reinhard Kamitz, österreichischer Politiker

1993

Ludwig Gebhard, deutscher Kirchenmusiker, Komponist und Musikpädagoge

1993

César Altamirano, cantante peruano (n.

César Altamirano, cantante peruano (n. 1944).

Manuel Cepeda Vargas, periodista y político colombiano (n.

Manuel Cepeda Vargas, periodista y político colombiano (n. 1930).

Miguel Frank, cineasta y escritor chileno (n.

Miguel Frank, cineasta y escritor chileno (n. 1920).

Lennie Dale, bailarino estadunidense (n.

Lennie Dale, bailarino estadunidense (n. 1934).

Helena Rasiowa, polnische Mathematikerin

Cathy Stewart, actrice pornographique française (° 2 avril 1956)

1995

Teodoro Alcalde, futbolista peruano (n.

Teodoro Alcalde, futbolista peruano (n. 1913).

1995

Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia died at 53 in a drug rehabilitation center in Forest Knolls, California, having checked in two days earlier. His heart gave out. The Grateful Dead had played their last concert three weeks before. Garcia had carried the band and its mythology for three decades — the long improvisational jams, the devoted traveling fanbase, the countercultural permanence of it — while fighting heroin addiction in a way that was public enough that it became part of the mythology too. The band dissolved within weeks. Some of them never stopped playing his songs.

1996

May Ayim, deutsche Dichterin, Pädagogin und Aktivistin der afrodeutschen Bewegung

1996

Frank Whittle

He submitted his jet engine patent in 1930 — and the British government let it lapse in 1935 because they wouldn't pay the £5 renewal fee. Five pounds. Whittle watched Germany develop similar technology while his own country ignored him. When his W.1 engine finally flew in 1941, he was running on amphetamines and the edge of a nervous breakdown. He died a retired RAF Air Commodore, never having earned real wealth from his invention. Every commercial flight since owes him that £5.

1996

Emilio Ariño, locutor, periodista y actor argentino (n.

Emilio Ariño, locutor, periodista y actor argentino (n. 1930).

1997

Herbert de Souza, sociologue brésilien (° 3 novembre 1935).

1997

Max Bloesch, Schweizer „Storchenvater“,

1997

Jean Prasteau, écrivain, journaliste et historien français (° 1921).

Francisco Zúñiga, pintor y escultor mexicano (n.

Francisco Zúñiga, pintor y escultor mexicano (n. 1912).

Frankie Ruiz, cantante estadounidense de salsa de origen puertorriqueño (n.

Frankie Ruiz, cantante estadounidense de salsa de origen puertorriqueño (n. 1958).

Gabriel Cattand, acteur français (° 29 novembre 1923).

Marcella Rovena, actrice italienne (° 22 janvier 1908).

Alberto Pafundi, futbolista argentino (n.

Alberto Pafundi, futbolista argentino (n. 1952).

Rodrigo Riera, venezolanischer Gitarrist und Komponist

Fouad Serageddin

Fouad Serageddin led the Wafd Party in Egypt through one of its most complicated chapters — the party had a history going back to the 1919 revolution and had been a dominant force in Egyptian politics before Nasser's military coup dissolved it in 1952. When multi-party politics returned under Sadat and Mubarak, Serageddin rebuilt it. He ran against Mubarak in the 1993 election and received official permission to do so, which in Egypt meant Mubarak wasn't worried. Serageddin was in his nineties. He died in Cairo in 1999.

Helen Rollason

Helen Rollason became the BBC's first female sports presenter in 1990, breaking into one of British television's most male-dominated roles. She continued broadcasting even while undergoing treatment for cancer, earning widespread admiration for her professionalism and courage before her death in 1999 at 43.

Georg Marischka, österreichischer Regisseur, Schauspieler und Drehbuchautor

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Louis Nucéra, écrivain français, prix Interallié en 1981 et grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française en 1993…

Louis Nucéra, écrivain français, prix Interallié en 1981 et grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française en 1993 (° 17 juillet 1928).

Nicholas Markowitz

Nicholas Markowitz was fifteen when Jesse James Hollywood ordered his kidnapping as leverage in a drug money dispute with Nick's older brother. Hollywood's crew took Nick to Santa Barbara, spent four days with him — swimming, partying, treating him well enough that some accounts say he didn't want to leave. Then Hollywood ordered him killed. He was shot nine times. Jesse James Hollywood went on the run for five years, eventually caught in Brazil. Nick was buried in 2000. The film Alpha Dog was made about it in 2006.

John Harsanyi

John Harsanyi transformed game theory by integrating it with ethics, providing a rigorous mathematical framework for analyzing how rational agents make moral decisions. His work earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize and fundamentally altered how economists approach social cooperation and utilitarianism. He died at age 80, leaving behind a new standard for evaluating distributive justice.

Lewis Wilson, acteur américain (° 28 janvier 1920).

2001

Otti Pfeiffer, deutsche Lyrikerin, Kinder- und Jugendbuchautorin

2001

Albino Milani, italienischer Motorradrennfahrer

Paul Samson

Paul Samson led the British heavy metal band Samson from 1977 through the band's most significant years, when a young Bruce Dickinson — then called Bruce Bruce — was their vocalist. Dickinson left for Iron Maiden in 1981. Samson kept the band going through various lineups for decades. He never had the audience that Maiden got, but he built the platform Dickinson launched from. He died of cancer in Aylesbury in 2002.

Peter Neville

Peter Neville was an anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist who spent decades writing and organizing at the margins of British radical politics. His work bridged academic sociology and direct action — the kind of dual existence that rarely satisfies either audience fully. He died in 2002. The peace movement he was part of never stopped having people like him at its edges, doing the work that doesn't get headlines.

Bertold Hummel, compositor alemán (n.

Bertold Hummel, compositor alemán (n. 1925).

Roberto Guzmán, actor mexicano (n.

Roberto Guzmán, actor mexicano (n. 1936).

Jacques Deray

Jacques Deray directed French crime cinema for four decades — thrillers with stars like Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean-Louis Trintignant. His 1969 film La Piscine remains his most celebrated work: four people at a villa in the south of France, one swimming pool, and a murder. It's been remade twice. The original is better. He died in Garches in 2003, having made the kind of films that don't get made anymore.

Gregory Hines

He could tap faster than most people could blink — but Gregory Hines didn't learn proper technique until his thirties. He'd been performing since age five, improvising his way through Carnegie Hall before other kids learned to read. His partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov in *White Nights* convinced Hollywood that tap deserved a cinema close-up. He died of liver cancer at 57, weeks before learning he'd won an Emmy. He left behind a generation of tappers who finally had someone to point to.

Skip Scott, US-amerikanischer Automobilrennfahrer

R. Sivagurunathan

R. Sivagurunathan was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, journalist, and academic who wrote extensively on the legal and political struggles of the Tamil community. His work documented a perspective that was systematically marginalized during Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.

Chester Ludgin

Chester Ludgin was an American baritone who performed at the New York City Opera for over two decades. He created the role of Olin Blitch in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah in 1955 — a role he returned to repeatedly throughout his career. He was a stage presence more than a recording artist, which means his reputation survives mainly in opera houses and program notes. He died in 2003.

Ray Harford

Ray Harford managed Blackburn Rovers as assistant to Kenny Dalglish when they won the Premier League title in 1994–95. He became manager himself when Dalglish moved upstairs, but the squad that had won the title was aging and expensive, and Harford's tenure ended in relegation in 1996. He spent the rest of his career as an assistant and coach at various clubs. He died in 2003 at age 58. The title year remains Blackburn's last.

Annemarie Marks-Rocke, deutsche Schauspielerin

David Raksin

David Raksin composed "Laura" in 1944 — the theme for the film noir of the same name. He wrote it in a single weekend after Johnny Mercer rejected Duke Ellington's proposed theme. The melody became one of the most recorded songs in history, covered by jazz musicians for the next eighty years. Raksin also composed the score for Force of Evil, The Bad and the Beautiful, and dozens of other films. He taught film composition at USC for thirty years. He died in 2004 at 92.

Tony Mottola

Tony Mottola played guitar on hundreds of recordings as a session musician — the kind of guitarist whose work is on records you own without knowing his name. He played for Frank Sinatra. He worked regularly on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, which meant his playing was heard by millions of Americans who were thinking about something else. Studio musicians built American popular music. Most of them are invisible. Mottola was among the best of them. He died in 2004 at 86.

Robert Lecourt

Robert Lecourt served as Lord Chancellor of France and was the first President of the European Court of Justice, sitting from 1967 to 1976 — the court's formative decade, when it was establishing the principles that would govern European Union law. He wrote opinions that shaped how European law interacted with national law for generations. A French politician who built one of the continent's most important legal institutions. He died in Paris in 2004 at 95.

Jacinto Peynado Garrigosa, político y empresario dominicano (n.

Jacinto Peynado Garrigosa, político y empresario dominicano (n. 1941).

Eduard Neumann, soldado alemán (n.

Eduard Neumann, soldado alemán (n. 1911).

Otto Kranzbühler, deutscher Jurist, Verteidiger bei den Nürnberger Prozessen

Matthew McGrory, actor estadounidense (n.

Matthew McGrory, actor estadounidense (n. 1973).

Nikolai Georgijewitsch Putschkow, russischer Eishockeyspieler

مصلح العازمي، نائب في مجلس الأمة الكويتي.

François Dalle, homme d’affaires et chef d’entreprise français, président de L'Oréal de 1957 à 1984 (° 18 septembre 1…

François Dalle, homme d’affaires et chef d’entreprise français, président de L'Oréal de 1957 à 1984 (° 18 septembre 1918).

Judith Rossner

Judith Rossner's 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar was based on a real murder — a schoolteacher who picked up a man in a bar and was killed in her apartment. Rossner turned it into a novel about loneliness and risk and the particular vulnerability of independent women in the 1970s. The book sold millions. The film starred Diane Keaton. Rossner went on to write other novels that didn't reach that audience. She died in New York in 2005. The novel that made her reputation was always her most uncomfortable work.

Matthew McGrory

Matthew McGrory was 7 feet 6 inches tall. He holds the Guinness World Record for the largest feet in the world — size 29.5. Tim Burton cast him in Big Fish and House of 1000 Corpses for the exact physical presence that made Hollywood nervous. He played Tiny in Rob Zombie's films with a gentleness that went against the character's name. He was 32 when he died in 2005. The cause was not publicly specified. He had more range than his roles showed.

Colette Besson, atleta francesa (n.

Colette Besson, atleta francesa (n. 1946).

Philip E. High

Philip E. High wrote science fiction novels from the 1960s onward that explored totalitarian societies, alien contact, and the nature of consciousness — reliably competent paperback fiction that sold throughout Britain and built a loyal readership without ever breaking into the mainstream. He worked as a bus driver while he wrote. He wrote fast and published often. Forty novels, multiple short story collections. He died in 2006 at 91. The kind of writer who kept science fiction shelves stocked without ever appearing on television.

Günter Busch, deutscher Fußballspieler

Philip E. High, English author (born 1914)

Alberto Wagner de Reyna, filósofo y escritor peruano (n.

Alberto Wagner de Reyna, filósofo y escritor peruano (n. 1915).

Melissa Hayden, bailarina canadiense (n.

Melissa Hayden, bailarina canadiense (n. 1923).

Jenny Gröllmann, actriz alemana (n.

Jenny Gröllmann, actriz alemana (n. 1947).

Miguel «Angá» Díaz, percusionista cubano de latin jazz (n.

Miguel «Angá» Díaz, percusionista cubano de latin jazz (n. 1961).

James Van Allen

He almost missed the discovery entirely. James Van Allen had to duct-tape a Geiger counter into Explorer 1 — America's first successful satellite — because the instruments kept reading zero, which turned out to mean they were completely overwhelmed by radiation. Those belts of trapped charged particles circling Earth, now bearing his name, he identified from a farmhouse in Iowa. He died in Iowa City at 91, still teaching. The Van Allen Belts remain one of the few features of near-Earth space named after a living scientist who found them by accident.

Michel Thompson, peintre français (° 12 janvier 1921).

Rudolf Thanner, hockeyeur sur glace allemand (° 20 août 1944).

Ulrich Plenzdorf, écrivain, romancier et scénariste allemand (° 26 octobre 1957).

Joe O'Donnell

Joe O'Donnell captured the haunting aftermath of the atomic bombings in Japan, producing images that forced the world to confront the visceral reality of nuclear warfare. His documentation of the devastation in Nagasaki provided rare, unflinching evidence of civilian suffering, shaping global public opinion on the human cost of the conflict for decades to come.

Mahmoud Darwish

He carried an Israeli ID card for years — a Palestinian poet forced to prove citizenship in a state he wrote against. Darwish resigned from the PLO executive committee in 1993 over Oslo, believing the deal surrendered too much. He'd been exiled, jailed, stateless. His poem "Identity Card" — written at 20 — became a rallying cry across the Arab world. He died after open-heart surgery in Houston, Texas. He left behind over 30 collections. Palestine's national poet never lived to see a Palestinian state.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Mac performed stand-up comedy for fifteen years before most of America knew who he was. His first major television exposure came on Def Comedy Jam, and he stopped the show cold with a set that began: "I ain't scared of you." He said it three times. The audience stopped laughing and started listening. The Kings of Comedy concert film came out in 2000. The Bernie Mac Show ran from 2001 to 2006. He won a Peabody Award. He died on August 9, 2008, from pneumonia complications from sarcoidosis. He was 50.

Dunav Kuzmanich, cineasta, guionista y libretista chileno radicado en Colombia (n.

Dunav Kuzmanich, cineasta, guionista y libretista chileno radicado en Colombia (n. 1935).

Walter Michael Klepper, rumänischer Komponist

Reynald Bouchard, acteur québécois (° 1946).

Thomas Knopper, pilote automobile néerlandais (° 2 février 1990).

Jasmine You, japanischer Musiker (Versailles)

John Quade

John Quade appeared in five Clint Eastwood films, most memorably as the biker gang leader Cholla in "Every Which Way but Loose" and its sequel. He was a reliable character actor who played heavies and tough guys across four decades of Hollywood production.

Mário Cravo Neto, fotógrafo e escultor brasileiro (n.

Mário Cravo Neto, fotógrafo e escultor brasileiro (n. 1947).

Thierry Jonquet, escritor francés (f.

Thierry Jonquet, escritor francés (f. 1954).

Camille Vallin, homme politique français (° 22 novembre 1918).

John Quade, acteur américain (° 1er avril 1938).

Marie-Laure Picat, écrivaine française (° 2 juillet 1972).

2010

Ted Stevens

Ted Stevens served as a US Senator from Alaska for 40 years — the longest-serving Republican senator at the time of his departure. He was the architect of Alaska's federal funding pipeline and was known for his 2006 description of the internet as "a series of tubes." He died in a plane crash at 86, eighteen months after losing his seat following a corruption conviction that was later voided due to prosecutorial misconduct.

2010

Fernando Fernández, historietista, ilustrador y pintor español (n.

Fernando Fernández, historietista, ilustrador y pintor español (n. 1940).

2010

Calvin "Fuzz" Jones

Calvin "Fuzz" Jones played bass in Muddy Waters' band during the 1970s before co-founding The Blues Band with other former Waters sidemen after the master's death. He kept the Chicago blues tradition alive in an era when the genre was losing commercial ground to rock.

François Cacheux, sculpteur français (° 24 janvier 1923).

Dietmar Sauermann, deutscher Volkskundler

Werner W. Wallroth, deutscher Filmregisseur

Adolphe-Marie Hardy, évêque français (° 23 juillet 1920).

Bartomeu Fiol, poeta español (n.

Bartomeu Fiol, poeta español (n. 1933).

Mel Stuart

Mel Stuart directed "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (1971), the Gene Wilder film that flopped at the box office and became one of the most beloved children's movies ever made through television reruns. He also directed the Oscar-winning documentary "Four Days in November" about the JFK assassination.

Al Freeman

Al Freeman Jr. won a Daytime Emmy for playing Captain Ed Hall on "One Life to Live" and earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of Malcolm X in the 1979 TV movie "Roots: The Next Generations." He later chaired Howard University's drama department, training the next generation of Black actors.

Mendel Basch, lettischer Schlosser, Dirigent, Komponist und Hochschullehrer

Gene F. Franklin, American engineer, theorist, and academic (born 1927)

Erol Togay, türkischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

Milan Uherek, tschechischer Chorleiter und Komponist

Gene F. Franklin

Gene F. Franklin was a Stanford professor whose textbook "Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems" became the standard reference in control systems engineering, used by generations of students worldwide. His work shaped how engineers design everything from autopilots to industrial robots.

Carl Davis

He turned down the Beatles. Carl Davis, the Chicago soul architect behind Brunswick Records, passed on signing the Fab Four in the early 1960s — a decision that still echoes. But he didn't miss everything. He built Chi-Sound Records from scratch and handed Jackie Wilson, Gene Chandler, and Barbara Acklin their defining moments. His productions moved more than 30 million records. Davis died in 2012, leaving behind a Chicago sound that New York and Los Angeles never quite replicated.

Jan Sawka, arquitecto estadounidense (n.

Jan Sawka, arquitecto estadounidense (n. 1946).

David Rakoff

David Rakoff was a Canadian-American essayist and humorist who contributed to "This American Life" and wrote three collections of acid, elegant prose about failure, pretension, and mortality. He wrote his final pieces while dying of cancer, including a dance performance at an awards show six weeks before his death in which he moved one arm — the only limb cancer hadn't immobilized.

Carmen Belen Richardson

Carmen Belen Richardson was a pioneer of Puerto Rican television, acting across six decades in telenovelas and theater productions on the island. She was one of the first Afro-Puerto Rican actresses to achieve sustained prominence in the island's entertainment industry.

Dale Olson

Dale Olson was one of Hollywood's most powerful publicists for over 50 years, representing Rock Hudson, Marilyn Monroe, and Gregory Peck. He handled Hudson's AIDS announcement in 1985 — one of the most consequential celebrity press moments of the 20th century.

John H. Ross

John H. Ross served as a captain in the United States military, part of the generation that served through mid-century American conflicts. Details of his service record reflect the quiet dedication of career military officers who never made headlines.

Natalija Bogunowa, sowjetische bzw.

Natalija Bogunowa, sowjetische bzw. russische Schauspielerin

Klaus-Ernst Behne, deutscher Musikwissenschaftler und Hochschulpräsident

Luis Ramírez Saldarriaga, cantautor colombiano (n.

Luis Ramírez Saldarriaga, cantautor colombiano (n. 1917).

Phill Nixon

Phill Nixon competed on the professional darts circuit in England, where the sport draws large television audiences and pub-culture devotion that outsiders find baffling and insiders treat as deadly serious.

William Lynch

He spent 22 years as a New York City Council member representing Brooklyn's 36th District, but William Lynch Jr. built his real power behind the scenes. He managed David Dinkins' 1989 mayoral campaign — the one that made Dinkins the first Black mayor in New York City history. Lynch understood precincts, favors, and phone calls. Not speeches. He died in 2013, leaving behind a Brooklyn political machine that trained a generation of organizers who'd reshape city politics long after his name faded from the marquee.

Louis Killen

Louis Killen was a Northumbrian folk singer who helped launch the British folk revival of the 1960s, performing traditional songs from the industrial northeast of England. He later moved to the United States and became a prominent figure in the American folk scene, performing sea shanties and work songs.

Glen Hobbie

Glen Hobbie pitched for the Chicago Cubs from 1957 to 1964, twice winning 16 games in seasons when the Cubs were terrible. He was a durable starter on bad teams — the kind of pitcher whose competence gets overshadowed by the franchise's futility.

Eduardo Falú

He could've been a lawyer. Falú studied law in Tucumán before music swallowed him whole. Born in Salta in 1923, he became the guitarist who made Atahualpa Yupanqui cry — that's a credential. His compositions wove Andean folk rhythms into classical guitar with a precision that earned him Spain's highest arts honor. He played for presidents and shepherds alike, and didn't distinguish between them. He left behind over 200 compositions. Argentina lost its quietest giant in 2013.

Harry Elliott

He played just 93 major league games, but Harry Elliott's career in baseball stretched across six decades. The St. Louis Cardinals outfielder hit .268 in his brief cup of coffee in the early 1950s, then pivoted entirely — spending years coaching and scouting, quietly shaping players who'd never know his name. He died in 2013 at 89. The guys who make the highlight reels aren't always the ones who build the game. Elliott built it anyway.

Haji

Haji was born in Montreal and became a cult film icon through her role as Billie in Russ Meyer's "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (1965), a movie that flopped on release and became a midnight-movie staple. She appeared in several more Meyer films and remained a fixture on the exploitation-film convention circuit.

Henry Pease, politólogo, sociólogo y político peruano (n.

Henry Pease, politólogo, sociólogo y político peruano (n. 1944).

Raymond Berthillon, glacier parisien (° 9 décembre 1923).

Michael Brown

Michael Brown was 18 years old when he was shot and killed by Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson. His death sparked weeks of protests, a Department of Justice investigation that exposed systematic racial bias in Ferguson's police and courts, and helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement into a national force.

Reinhold Hohl, Schweizer Kunsthistoriker und Kunstpublizist

Andriy Bal

Andriy Bal played as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv during the Soviet era and later coached multiple Ukrainian Premier League clubs. He was part of the generation of Ukrainian footballers who built careers under the Soviet system and then transitioned to independent Ukrainian football.

Wilhelm Fahlbusch, deutscher Theologe und Hochschullehrer

Arthur G. Cohen

Arthur G. Cohen reshaped the American retail landscape by co-founding Arlen Realty and Development Corporation, a firm that aggressively expanded suburban shopping centers across the United States. His death in 2014 concluded a career that defined the mid-century shift toward massive, centralized commercial hubs, permanently altering how millions of Americans access goods and services.

Ed Nelson

Ed Nelson appeared in over 200 television episodes across a 40-year career, best known as Dr. Michael Rossi on the prime-time soap "Peyton Place" from 1964 to 1969. He started in Roger Corman low-budget horror films before moving to steady television work.

J. F. Ade Ajayi

J. F. Ade Ajayi was Nigeria's foremost historian, whose book "A Thousand Years of West African History" reshaped how Africa's past was taught — by Africans, from an African perspective, rather than through the colonial lens that had dominated the field. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos.

Thomas Schüler, österreichischer Schauspieler

وهبة الزحيلي، عالم مسلم وفقيه سوري.

Coyote (Philippe Escafre dit), auteur de bande dessinée français (° 9 octobre 1962).

Fikret Otyam

Fikret Otyam documented the lives of ordinary people in southeastern Turkey through both painting and journalism, spending years living among Kurdish communities. His vivid, colorful canvases and written dispatches brought visibility to a region and its people that mainstream Turkish media often overlooked.

Kayyar Kinhanna Rai

Kayyar Kinhanna Rai was one of the most prominent Kannada-language poets and journalists of the 20th century, writing poems that championed social reform and the rights of marginalized communities in Karnataka. He received the Padma Shri and multiple state literary awards for a body of work spanning seven decades.

David Nobbs

David Nobbs created Reginald Perrin — the suburban middle-aged man who fakes his own death to escape the tedium of corporate life — in novels and the BBC series *The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin* (1976-79), one of the most acclaimed British sitcoms ever made. His mordant wit and empathy for ordinary people's quiet desperation also produced *A Bit of a Do* and *The Legacy of Reginald Perrin*.

Walter Nahún López

Walter Nahun Lopez was a Honduran goalkeeper who earned over 50 caps for the national team and played in the country's domestic league. His death in 2015 came during a period of mourning for Honduran football, which lost several figures in close succession.

John Henry Holland

John Henry Holland invented genetic algorithms — computer programs that evolve solutions through processes modeled on natural selection — and was one of the founders of the field of complex adaptive systems. His 1975 book *Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems* launched an entire branch of computer science, and his work at the Santa Fe Institute shaped how scientists study emergence and self-organization.

Frank Gifford

He was found at home on a Sunday morning — the day he'd spent most of his life owning. Frank Gifford won an NFL MVP in 1956, made eight Pro Bowls, and then rebuilt himself entirely after a 1960 hit left him unconscious for 36 hours. He reinvented as a broadcaster, spending 27 years on Monday Night Football alongside Howard Cosell and Don Meredith. But after his death, a CTE diagnosis reshaped how everyone remembered his final years — and what the game had quietly taken from him.

Karl Schröder, deutscher Heimatforscher und Studiendirektor

Álvaro Castaño Castillo, fue un empresario, abogado, gestor cultural y locutor colombiano.

Álvaro Castaño Castillo, fue un empresario, abogado, gestor cultural y locutor colombiano. (n. 1920).

Siegbert Horn, kayakiste est-allemand puis allemand (° 11 mai 1950).

Fabio Garriba, acteur italien (° 13 novembre 1944).

Philippe Roberts-Jones, poète et historien belge (° 8 novembre 1924).

Kalikho Pul, homme politique indien (° 20 juillet 1969).

Ernst Neïzvestny, sculpteur russo-américain (° 9 avril 1925).

Celestina Marrón, militante comunista española (n.

Celestina Marrón, militante comunista española (n. 1926).

Miguel Asurmendi, spanischer Ordensgeistlicher und Bischof

Gerhard Tötschinger, österreichischer Schauspieler, Intendant, Autor und Moderator

Gerald Grosvenor

Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, controlled a property empire centered on 300 acres of prime London real estate in Mayfair and Belgravia, making him Britain's third-richest person. He was also a committed Territorial Army officer, serving in Northern Ireland and the Balkans.

Jean Mesnard, universitaire français (° 23 février 1921).

Marián Varga, slowakischer Musiker und Komponist

Romdhan Chatta, acteur et comédien tunisien (° 25 novembre 1939).

Egon Ammann, Schweizer Verleger

Jean Vendome, bijoutier français (° 18 avril 1930).

Micaëla Kreißler, deutsche Schauspielerin

Fritz Huber, skieur alpin autrichien (° 21 janvier 1931).

Carol Springer, US-amerikanische Immobilienmaklerin und Politikerin

Tamara Degtiareva, actrice russe (° 29 mai 1944).

Manfred Melzer, prélat catholique allemand (° 28 février 1944).

Néstor Gurini, piloto de automovilismo argentino (n.

Néstor Gurini, piloto de automovilismo argentino (n. 1954).

Klaus Wildenhahn, deutscher Dokumentarfilmer

2019

Aboubacar Mé Diomandé, ivorischer Fußballspieler

2019

Robert Weimann, deutscher Anglist

2020

Franca Valeri, actriz italiana (n.

Franca Valeri, actriz italiana (n. 1920).

2020

Fips Asmussen, deutscher Komiker und Alleinunterhalter

2020

Kurt Luedtke, guionista y editor ejecutivo estadounidense (n.

Kurt Luedtke, guionista y editor ejecutivo estadounidense (n. 1939).

Alex Cord, actor estadounidense (n.

Alex Cord, actor estadounidense (n. 1933).

Sergei Adamowitsch Kowaljow, sowjetischer bzw.

Sergei Adamowitsch Kowaljow, sowjetischer bzw. russischer Menschenrechtler

Zairaini Sarbini

Zairaini Sarbini was one of Malaysia's most recognized voice actresses, lending her voice to characters in dubbed versions of animated series and films for Malaysian audiences. Her voice work spanned decades of the country's entertainment industry.

Pat Hitchcock

Pat Hitchcock appeared in three of her father Alfred Hitchcock's films — 'Stage Fright,' 'Strangers on a Train,' and 'Psycho' — before stepping behind the camera as a producer. She spent decades managing Alfred Hitchcock's legacy and estate after his death.

Killer Kau

Killer Kau was a rising star of South Africa's amapiano music scene, known for his energetic dance moves and collaborations with artists like Mbali. He died in a car accident in 2021 at age 23, cutting short a career that had made him one of the genre's most popular young performers.

František Hrúzik, tschechoslowakischer Vielseitigkeitsreiter

2022

Heinz Behrens, deutscher Schauspieler

2022

Willi O. Hoffmann, deutscher Fußballfunktionär

Ita Ever, actrice soviétique puis estonienne (° 1er avril 1931).

Joseph Ganda, prélat catholique sierra-léonais (° 22 mars 1932).

Robbie Robertson

He wrote "The Weight" in about an hour, sitting at a piano he barely played, pulling names like Nazareth and Fanny from a list of random words. Robbie Robertson built The Band's sound from Mississippi Delta mud and Canadian prairie dust — something that shouldn't work but absolutely did. He spent his final decades scoring Scorsese films, a partnership stretching across fifty years and dozens of projects. He died at 80. The Weight is still playing somewhere right now.

Aderbal Freire Filho, ator, diretor teatral e apresentador de televisão brasileiro.

Aderbal Freire Filho, ator, diretor teatral e apresentador de televisão brasileiro. (n. 1941).

Dionys Baeriswyl, physicien théoricien suisse (° 23 juin 1944).

Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, französische Onkologin und Politikerin

Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki served as CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023, growing the platform from a video site into a global media ecosystem with over 2 billion monthly users. She was one of Google's earliest employees — the company's first office was in her garage — and she led the team that developed Google's advertising business before taking charge of YouTube.

Simon Dumarinu, homme politique papou-néo-guinéen (° 4 avril 1956).

Roger Gaignard, coureur cycliste français (° 13 avril 1933).

Sadok Gmech, peintre tunisien (° 1940).

Lebogang Morula, footballeur sud-africain (° ).

John Paska, avocat et syndicaliste papou-néo-guinéen (° 1948).

Pierre Salama, économiste français (° 11 août 1942).

Kevin Sullivan, catcheur américain (° 26 octobre 1948).

Keiichi Tanaami, artiste japonais (° 26 juillet 1936).