Died on Saturday, 23rd August – Famous Deaths

23/08/2023

Dmitry Utkin, Russian army officer, founder of Wagner Group (born 1970)

Dmitry Valerievich Utkin was a Russian military officer and mercenary. He served as a special forces officer in the GRU, where he held the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the co-founder and military commander of the Russian state-funded Wagner Group, with his military alias reportedly being Wagner. Utkin was a neo-Nazi. He rarely made public appearances, but was allegedly the commander of the private military company, while Yevgeny Prigozhin was its owner and public face. Utkin was awarded four Orders of Courage of Russia.

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian businessman, chief of Wagner Group (born 1961)

Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin was a Russian mercenary leader, rebel commander, and oligarch. He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until he launched a one-day rebellion in June 2023. Prigozhin was sometimes referred to as "Putin's chef" because he owned restaurants and catering businesses that provided services to the Kremlin. Once a convict in the Soviet Union, Prigozhin controlled a network of influential companies whose operations, according to a 2020 investigation, were "tightly integrated with Russia's Defence Ministry and its intelligence arm, the GRU".

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Terry Funk, American professional wrestler (born 1944)

Terrance Dee Funk was an American professional wrestler and actor. Funk is known for the length of his career, which spanned more than 50 years and included multiple short-lived retirements. He is also known for his influential hardcore wrestling style he pioneered in the latter part of his career.

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23/08/2021

Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter and printmaker (born 1931)

Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, was a Scottish painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy of Arts.

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23/08/2015

Augusta Chiwy, Congolese-Belgian nurse (born 1921)

Augusta Marie Chiwy was a Belgian nurse who was a volunteer during the Siege of Bastogne in 1944. She worked with the U.S. Army physician John Prior and with fellow Belgian nurse Renée Lemaire, treating injured soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.

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Guy Ligier, French rugby player and race car driver (born 1930)

Guy Camille Ligier was a French racing driver and team owner. He maintained many varied and successful careers over the course of his life, including rugby player, butcher, racing driver and Formula One team owner.

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Enrique Reneau, Honduran footballer (born 1971)

Germán Enrique Centeno Reneau, known as "Quique" Renau was a Honduran football player.

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Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot (born 1914)

Flight Lieutenant Paul Gordon Royle was an Australian Royal Air Force pilot who was one of the last two survivors of the 76 men who were able to escape from the Stalag Luft III German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II in what became known as The Great Escape.

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23/08/2014

Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (born 1989)

Albert Dominique Ebossé Bodjongo Dika was a Cameroonian footballer who played in Cameroon, Malaysia and Algeria.

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Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (born 1994)

Annefleur Kalvenhaar was a Dutch cyclist and mountain biker. She won the U23 European Cyclo-cross Championships in 2013. She began her career at the age of 13. She participated for the first time in a World Cup in 2012. In Houffalize and La Bresse she finished second place in the top 10. She was born in Wierden, the Netherlands.

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Birgitta Stenberg, Swedish author and illustrator (born 1932)

Birgitta Alma Sofia Stenberg was a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. She was the 2005 winner of the Selma Lagerlöf Prize.

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Jaume Vallcorba Plana, Spanish philologist and publisher (born 1949)

Jaume Vallcorba Plana was a Spanish philologist and publisher.

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23/08/2013

Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (born 1955)

Richard Jay Corman was the founder and owner of R. J. Corman Railroad Group, a Nicholasville, Kentucky-based railroad services and short line operating company.

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William Glasser, American psychiatrist and author (born 1925)

William Glasser was an American psychiatrist. He was the developer of W. Edwards Deming's workplace ideas, reality therapy and choice theory. His innovations for individual counseling, work environments and school, highlight personal choice, personal responsibility and personal transformation. Glasser positioned himself in opposition to conventional mainstream psychiatrists, who focus instead on classifying psychiatric syndromes as "illnesses" and prescribe psychotropic medications to treat mental disorders.

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Charles Lisanby, American production designer and set director (born 1924)

Charles Alvin Lisanby Jr. was an American production designer who had a formative role for scenic design in early color television. During his career, Lisanby was nominated for sixteen Emmys and won three. In January 2010, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame at the nineteenth annual ceremony alongside Don Pardo, the Smothers Brothers, Bob Stewart, and Gene Roddenberry. Aside from his success in the entertainment industry, Lisanby was known for his friendship with the artist Andy Warhol.

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Konstanty Miodowicz, Polish ethnographer and politician (born 1951)

Konstanty Bronisław Miodowicz was a Polish politician. He was a member of Sejm from 1997 until mid-2013, mostly as a candidate from the Civic Platform.

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Vesna Rožič, Slovenian chess player (born 1987)

Vesna Rožič was a Slovenian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in April 2006. Rožič was ranked the second best Slovenian female chess player, after Anna Muzychuk. She won the Slovenian women's championship in 2007 and 2010. In 2007, Rožič also became the Mediterranean women's champion in Antalya. In team events, she represented Slovenia in four Women's Chess Olympiads, four Women's European Team Chess Championships, six Women's Mitropa Cups and four European Girls U18 Team Championships. In the Women's Mitropa Cup, Rožič won two team golds, four team silvers and two individual gold medals.

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Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (born 1927)

Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika. She was the prime author of the Novosibirsk Report and several books on the economy of the Soviet Union and in sociology of the countryside. She was a member of the Consulting Committee to the President of Russia from 1991 to 1992 and also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Zaslavskaya was the founder of RPORC and also its director in the years from 1987 to 1992. In 2000 she was the Laureate of the Demidov Prize and the honorary president of the Levada Center.

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23/08/2012

Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (born 1934)

Jerry Nelson was an American puppeteer, best known for his work with the Muppets. Known for his wide range of characters and singing abilities, he performed Muppet characters on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and various Muppet movies and specials.

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Josepha Sherman, American anthologist and author (born 1946)

Josepha Sherman was an American author, folklorist, and anthologist. In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel The Shining Falcon.

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23/08/2008

John Russell, English-American author and critic (born 1919)

John Russell CBE was an English art critic and journalist.

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23/08/2006

Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (born 1928)

Walter Maynard Ferguson CM was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957. He was noted for his bands, which often served as stepping stones for up-and-coming talent, his versatility on several instruments, and his ability to play in a high register.

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23/08/2005

Brock Peters, American actor (born 1927)

Brock Peters was an American actor, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. He made his Broadway debut in the 1965 Norman Rosten play Mister Johnson. He was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his lead role as Rev. Stephen Kumalo in the 1972 Broadway revival of the musical Lost in the Stars. He received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1991 and a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1992.

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23/08/2003

Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (born 1946)

Bobby Lee Bonds was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball from 1968 to 1981. He played for the San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, and Chicago Cubs.

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Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (born 1913)

John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM, nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931 and 1949. One of the game's most prominent players, he was one of 12 inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. He later turned to coaching and work in the media as a popular broadcaster and journalist.

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Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator (born 1917)

Jan Boleslav Sedivka, Czech-born, was one of Australia's foremost violinists and teachers.

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Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (born 1944)

Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa was a renowned Kenyan politician who at the time of his death was serving as the eighth Vice-President of Kenya.

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23/08/2002

Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (born 1922)

James Hoyt Wilhelm, nicknamed "Old Sarge", was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, California Angels, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles Dodgers between 1952 and 1972. Wilhelm was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985.

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23/08/2001

Kathleen Freeman, American actress (born 1919)

Kathleen Freeman was an American actress. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors and relatives, almost invariably to comic effect. In film, she is perhaps best remembered for appearing in 12 Jerry Lewis comedies in the 1950s and 1960s and The Blues Brothers (1980).

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Peter Maas, American journalist and author (born 1929)

Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish ancestry.

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23/08/2000

John Anthony Kaiser, American priest and missionary (born 1932)

John Anthony Kaiser was a Roman Catholic priest and Mill Hill father from Perham, Minnesota, US, who was assassinated near his mission at Morendat, near Naivasha, Rift Valley Province, Kenya.

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23/08/1999

Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (born 1926)

Norman Wexler was an American screenwriter whose work included films such as Saturday Night Fever, Serpico and Joe. A New Bedford, Massachusetts native and 1944 Central High School graduate in Detroit, Wexler attended Harvard University before moving to New York in 1951.

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James White, Irish author (born 1928)

James White was a Northern Irish author of science fiction. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada. After a few years working in the clothing industry, he worked at Short Brothers Ltd., an aircraft company based in Belfast, from 1965 until taking early retirement in 1984 as a result of diabetes. White married Margaret Sarah Martin, another science fiction fan, in 1955 and the couple had three children. He died of a stroke.

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23/08/1997

Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (born 1922)

Sir Eric Matthew Gairy PC was the first Prime Minister of Grenada, serving from his country's independence in 1974 until his overthrow in a coup by Maurice Bishop in 1979. Gairy also served as head of government in pre-independence Grenada as Chief Minister from 1961 to 1962 and as Premier from 1967 to 1974.

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John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of haem-containing proteins.

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23/08/1996

Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (born 1904)

Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE was an Aboriginal Australian activist and writer who was among the first Aboriginal authors to publish an autobiography If Everyone Cared, in 1977; a new edition of this work was published in 2024.

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23/08/1995

Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (born 1898)

Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the U.S. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published.

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23/08/1994

Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (born 1917)

Zoltán Fábri was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films The Boys of Paul Street (1969) and Hungarians (1978) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1965 film Twenty Hours shared the Grand Prix with War and Peace at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1969 film The Toth Family was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1975 film 141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival, where he won a Special Prize for Directing.

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23/08/1990

David Rose, American pianist and composer (born 1910)

David Daniel Rose was a British-American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His best known compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and "Calypso Melody". He also wrote music for many television series, including It's a Great Life, The Tony Martin Show, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, Bonanza, Leave It to Beaver, and Highway Patrol, some under the pseudonym Ray Llewellyn.

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23/08/1989

Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (born 1944)

Mohammed Abdul-Hayy or Muhammad Abd al-Hayy was a member of the first generation of post-colonial Sudanese writers and academics. Together with Ali El-Mak and Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, he is regarded as a pioneer of modern poetry in Sudan.

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R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (born 1927)

Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia. Politically, Laing was regarded as a thinker of the New Left. He has been theatrically portrayed by Mike Maran, Alan Cox, Billy Mack, and David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.

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23/08/1987

Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (born 1952)

Didier Joseph Louis Pironi was a French racing driver and offshore powerboat racer, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1982. Pironi was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1982 with Ferrari, and won three Grands Prix across five seasons. In endurance racing, Pironi won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 with Renault.

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23/08/1982

Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)

Stanford Moore was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease and for contributing to the understanding of the connection between the chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule.

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23/08/1977

Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (born 1890)

Naum Gabo was an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture. His work combined geometric abstraction with a dynamic organization of form in small reliefs and constructions, monumental public sculpture and pioneering kinetic works that assimilated new materials such as nylon, wire, lucite and semi-transparent materials, glass and metal. Responding to the scientific and political revolutions of his age, Gabo led an eventful and peripatetic life, moving to Berlin, Paris, Oslo, Moscow, London, and finally the United States, and within the circles of the major avant-garde movements of the day, including Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, de Stijl and the Abstraction-Création group. Two preoccupations, unique to Gabo, were his interest in representing negative space—"released from any closed volume" or mass—and time. He famously explored the former idea in his Linear Construction works (1942-1971)—used nylon filament to create voids or interior spaces as "concrete" as the elements of solid mass—and the latter in his pioneering work, Kinetic Sculpture (1920), often considered the first kinetic work of art.

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23/08/1975

Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (born 1913)

Ömer Faruk Gürler was a Turkish general. He was the 15th Commander of the Turkish Army during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état, and then Chief of the General Staff of Turkey (1972–1973). He was the military's candidate in the 1973 Presidential Election, but lost to Fahri Korutürk chosen by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

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23/08/1974

Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (born 1888)

Roberto Assagioli was an Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Assagioli founded the psychological movement known as psychosynthesis, which is still being developed today by therapists and psychologists who practice the psychological methods and techniques he developed.

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23/08/1967

Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (born 1918)

Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix.

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Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (born 1883)

Nathaniel John Cartmell, also known as Nat and Nate, was an American athlete who won medals at two editions of the Olympic Games. Importantly, Nate was on first racially integrated Men's Medley relay team that won Olympic gold medal at the 1908 London Olympics, which Nate helped form and featured Nate's fellow University of Pennsylvania alumnus and former teammate, Dr. John Baxter Taylor Jr., the first black athlete in America to win a gold medal in the Olympics. Nate is also known for being the first head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team

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23/08/1966

Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1883)

Francis Xavier Bushman was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early '20s.

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23/08/1964

Edmond Hogan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (born 1883)

Edmond John "Ned" Hogan was an Australian politician who was the 30th Premier of Victoria. He was born in Wallace, Victoria, where his Irish-born parents were small farmers. After attending a Roman Catholic primary school, he became a farm worker and then a timber worker, and spent some time on the goldfields of Western Australia.

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23/08/1962

Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (born 1885)

Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson was a Baltic German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.

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Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (born 1892)

Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson was an American rodeo champion, film actor, film director, and producer. While acting and stunt work began as a sideline to Gibson's focus on rodeo, he successfully transitioned from silent films to become a leading performer in Hollywood's growing cowboy film industry.

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23/08/1960

Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (born 1895)

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and director in musical theater for nearly 40 years. He won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalists and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs.

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23/08/1954

Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (born 1877)

Jaan Sarv was an Estonian mathematician and educator. Most of his life he worked as a professor at the University of Tartu. Sarv laid the foundation of Estonian language mathematical education.

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23/08/1949

Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (born 1858)

Helen Churchill Candee was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist, and geographer. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, and for her later work as a travel writer and explorer of southeast Asia.

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23/08/1944

Abdülmecid II, Ottoman caliph (born 1868)

Abdülmecid II or Abdul Mejid II, commonly known as Abdülmecid Efendi, was the last Ottoman caliph, the only caliph of the Republic of Turkey, and head of the Osmanoğlu family from 1926 to 1944. Unlike previous caliphs, he used the title Halîfe-i Müslimîn, instead of Emîrü'l-Mü'minîn.

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Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (born 1879)

Stefan Filipkiewicz was a Polish painter and designer. He was born in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary, and died in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Nazi Germany, during the Holocaust. Notable for his landscapes inspired by the Young Poland movement, he was a leading representative of the Polish Art Nouveau style of painting.

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23/08/1937

Albert Roussel, French composer (born 1869)

Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His early works were strongly influenced by the Impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, while he later turned toward neoclassicism.

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23/08/1933

Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (born 1870)

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism.

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23/08/1927

Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (born 1891)

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Seven years later, they were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison. Most historians consider their conviction unfair due to prejudice against immigrants and radicals.

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (born 1888)

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Seven years later, they were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison. Most historians consider their conviction unfair due to prejudice against immigrants and radicals.

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23/08/1926

Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (born 1895)

Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or mononymously as Valentino, was an Italian-born actor and dancer. Dubbed the Latin Lover, he became one of the most iconic stars of American silent cinema and an enduring symbol of old Hollywood glamour. Rising to international fame in the early 1920s, Valentino was celebrated for his exotic screen persona, romantic intensity, and expressive performances, which helped redefine male stardom during the silent era.

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23/08/1924

Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (born 1856)

Heinrich Berté, born Heinrich Bettelheim was an Austrian-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas.

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23/08/1900

Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1840)

Count Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889. He was one of the genrō, or senior statesman of the Meiji era. Born in the Satsuma Domain to a samurai family, Kuroda was involved in the colonization of Hokkaido, the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876, and the suppression of the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877. After his tenure as prime minister, which ended due to his inability to revise the unequal treaties imposed on Japan, Kuroda also served as Minister of Communications and President of the Privy Council.

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23/08/1892

Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (born 1827)

Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the head of provisional government and the first president of Brazil. He was born in Alagoas in a military family, followed a military career, and became a national figure. Fonseca took office as provisional president after heading a military coup that deposed Emperor Pedro II and established the First Brazilian Republic in 1889, disestablishing the Empire. After his election in 1891, he stepped down the same year under great political pressure when he dissolved the National Congress. He died less than a year later.

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23/08/1880

William Thompson, British boxer (born 1811)

William Abednego Thompson, also known as Bendigo Thompson and mononymously as Bendigo, was an English bare-knuckle boxer who won the heavyweight championship of England from James Burke on 12 February 1839. He was inducted into The Ring magazine Hall of Fame in 1955, the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011. His nickname of "Bendigo" lives on in the name of a city and creek in Australia.

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23/08/1867

Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet and author (born 1796)

Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy was a French satirical poet. His name can hardly be separated from that of his friend and compatriot, Joseph Méry (1798–1866), with whom he carried on so intimate a collaboration that it is not possible to distinguish their personalities in their joint works.

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23/08/1853

Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (born 1806)

Alexander Calder was the first mayor of Beaumont, Texas, on August 8, 1840.

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23/08/1845

Thomas R. Gray, American author and diplomat (born 1800)

Thomas Ruffin Gray was an American attorney, diplomat, and author. He represented several enslaved people during their trials in the wake of Nat Turner's Rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831. Gray interviewed Nat Turner and published The Confessions of Nat Turner, the first detailed account of the slave rebellion. Later, Gray was appointed as the U.S. Consul for Tabasco, Mexico and Trinidad de Cuba, Cuba.

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23/08/1831

Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author and poet (born 1759)

Ferenc Kazinczy, was a Hungarian author, poet, translator, neologist, an agent in the regeneration of the Hungarian language and literature at the turn of the 19th century. Today his name is connected with the extensive Language Reform of the 19th century, when thousands of words were coined or revived, enabling the Hungarian language to keep up with scientific progress and become an official language of the nation in 1844. For his linguistic and literary works he is regarded as one of the cultural founders of the Hungarian Reform Era along with Dávid Baróti Szabó, Ferenc Verseghy, György Bessenyei, Mátyás Rát and János Kis.

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August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (born 1760)

August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the reform of the Prussian military and the War of Liberation.

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23/08/1819

Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (born 1785)

Oliver Hazard Perry was a United States Navy officer from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A prominent member of the Perry family naval dynasty, he was the son of Sarah Wallace Alexander and Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, and older brother of Commodore Matthew C. Perry.

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23/08/1813

Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (born 1766)

Alexander Wilson was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Identified by George Ord as the "Father of American Ornithology", Wilson is regarded as the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon.

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23/08/1806

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (born 1736)

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. He also did important work on friction, and his work on earth pressure formed the basis for the later development of much of the science of soil mechanics.

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23/08/1723

Increase Mather, American minister and author (born 1639)

Increase Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials, he was influential in the administration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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23/08/1706

Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1654)

Colonel Edward Nott was an English Colonial Governor of Virginia. He was appointed by Queen Anne on either April 25, 1705 or August 15, 1705. His administration lasted only one year, as he died in 1706 at the age of 49. He is interred at Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is noted as having been a "mild, benevolent man."

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23/08/1652

John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (born 1600)

John Byron, 1st Baron Byron was an English politician and army officer who fought on the Royalist side during the English Civil War.

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23/08/1628

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1592)

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was an English courtier, statesman, and notable patron of the arts. He was a favourite and self-described "lover" of King James VI and I. Buckingham remained at the height of royal favour for the first three years of the reign of James's son, Charles I, until he was assassinated.

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23/08/1618

Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (born 1585)

Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.

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23/08/1591

Luis de León, Spanish poet and academic (born 1527)

Luis de León, was a Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic.

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23/08/1574

Ebussuud Efendi, Turkish lawyer and jurist (born 1490)

Ebussuud Efendi, was a Hanafi Maturidi Ottoman jurist and Quran exegete, served as the Qadi (judge) of Istanbul from 1533 to 1537, and the Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman Empire from 1545 to 1574. He was also called "El-İmâdî" because his family hailed from Imâd, a village near İskilip.

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23/08/1568

Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (born 1495)

Sir Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton was an English nobleman and a follower of King Henry VIII of England. He is best known for his victory at Solway Moss on 24 November 1542 for which he was given a barony.

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23/08/1540

Guillaume Budé, French philosopher and scholar (born 1467)

Guillaume Budé was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France.

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23/08/1519

Philibert Berthelier, Swiss soldier (born 1465)

Philibert Berthelier, often known just as Berthelier, was a Genevan patriot, an uncompromising enemy of the Duke of Savoy in his ambition to control Geneva.

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23/08/1507

Jean Molinet, French poet and composer (born 1435)

Jean Molinet was a French poet, chronicler, and composer. He is best remembered for his prose translation of Roman de la rose.

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23/08/1498

Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, eldest daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (born 1470)

Isabella, Princess of Asturias, also known as Isabella of Aragon, was the eldest child and heiress presumptive of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. She was Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Manuel I from 30 September 1497 until her death the following year.

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23/08/1481

Thomas de Littleton, English judge and legal author (born c. 1407)

Sir Thomas de Littleton was an English judge, undersheriff, Lord of Tixall Manor, and legal writer from the Lyttelton family. He was also made a Knight of the Bath by King Edward IV.

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23/08/1478

Johannes Pullois, Franco-Flemish composer (born c. 1420?)

Johannes Pullois was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in both the Low Countries and Italy. He was one of the early generation of composers to carry the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style from its home region in the Netherlands to Italy.

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23/08/1367

Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Spanish cardinal (born 1310)

Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz more commonly Gil de Albornoz ; c. 1295/1310 – 23 August 1367), was a Spanish curial cardinal, archbishop of Toledo from 13 May 1338 to 17 December 1350. Grand Penitentiary from December 1352 to August 23, 1364. Cardinal priest with the title of San Clemente from December 17, 1350, to December 1356. Cardinal bishop of Sabina from December 1356 to August 23, 1364. Cardinal legate and vicar general from 30 June 1353 to 1357, who led as condottiere Papal States mercenary armies in two campaigns to reconquer territory in Italy, and statesman.

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23/08/1363

Chen Youliang, founder of the Dahan regime (born 1320)

Chen Youliang was the founder and first emperor of the dynastic state of Chen Han in Chinese history. He was one of the military leaders and heroes of the peasant rebellions at the end of the Yuan dynasty.

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23/08/1348

John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury

John de Stratford was Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Winchester, Treasurer and Chancellor of England.

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23/08/1335

Heilwige Bloemardinne, Christian mystic (born c. 1265)

Heilwige Bloemardinne was a Christian mystic who lived in Brussels and was loosely associated with the Brethren of the Free Spirit. She was also known as Heilwijch Blomart and Bloemardine.

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23/08/1329

Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (born 1282)

Frederick IV, called the Fighter, was the Duke of Lorraine from 1312 to his death in 1328.

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23/08/1328

Nicolaas Zannekin, Flemish peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel)

Nicolaas Zannekin, was a Flemish peasant leader, best known for his role in a peasant revolt in Flanders from 1323 to 1328.

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23/08/1305

William Wallace, Scottish knight and rebel leader (born c.1270)

Sir William Wallace was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.

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23/08/1176

Emperor Rokujō of Japan (born 1164)

Emperor Rokujō was the 79th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1165 through 1168.

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23/08/1106

Magnus, Duke of Saxony (born 1045)

Magnus was the duke of Saxony from 1072 to 1106.

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23/08/0992

Volkold, bishop of Meissen

Volkold of Meissen was the second Bishop of Meissen.

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23/08/0634

Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (born 573)

Abd Allah ibn Abi Quhafa, better known by his kunya Abu Bakr, was a senior companion, the closest friend, and father-in-law of Muhammad, the Islamic prophet. He served as the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, ruling from 632 until his death in 634. Abu Bakr was granted the honorific title al-Ṣiddīq by Muhammad, a designation that continues to be used by Sunni Muslims to this day.

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23/08/0406

Radagaisus, Gothic king

Radagaisus was a Gothic king who led an invasion of Roman Italy in late 405 and the first half of 406. A committed pagan, he was executed after being defeated by the general Stilicho.

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23/08/0093

Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general and politician (born AD 40)

AD 93 (XCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pompeius and Priscinus. The denomination AD 93 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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01/01/1970

Caesarion, Egyptian king (born 47 BC)

Ptolemy XV Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion, was the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, reigning with his mother Cleopatra VII from 44 BC to 30 BC. He nominally reigned as sole pharaoh for a few days after his mother's death, although Alexandria had already fallen and Caesarion remained in hiding until his execution by Octavian, who would become the first Roman emperor as "Augustus".

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Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier (born 47 BC)

Marcus Antonius Antyllus was a son of the Roman Triumvir Marc Antony. He was also called Antyllus, a nickname given to him by his father meaning "the Archer". Despite his three children by Cleopatra, Marc Antony designated Antyllus as his official heir, a requirement under Roman law and a designation that probably contributed to his execution at age 17 by Octavian.

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