Died on Monday, 4th August – Famous Deaths

04/08/2024

Charles Cyphers, American actor (born 1939)

Charles George Cyphers was an American actor who is known in the horror movie community for his work in the films of John Carpenter, especially his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in Carpenter's 1978 movie Halloween. He reprised this role in the 1981 sequel Halloween II and the 2021 sequel Halloween Kills.

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Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.

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Duane Thomas, American football player (born 1947)

Duane Julius Thomas was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the West Texas State Buffaloes.

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04/08/2023

Dalia Fadila, Israeli educator (born 1971/1972)

Dalia Fadila was an Israeli educator. She developed a new curriculum, textbooks, and schools in Israel and Jordan, which are designed to teach English to Arab schoolchildren. She was the first Arab woman to found and manage an education chain in Israel.

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04/08/2019

Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician and theorist for the Khmer Rouge (born 1926)

Nuon Chea, also known as Long Bunruot or Rungloet Laodi, was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge. He also briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea. He was commonly known as "Brother Number Two" (បងធំទី២), as he was second-in-command to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, General Secretary of the Party, during the Cambodian genocide of 1975–1979. In 2014, Nuon Chea received a life sentence for crimes against humanity, alongside another top-tier Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan, and a further trial convicted him of genocide in 2018. These life sentences were merged into a single life sentence by the Trial Chamber on 16 November 2018. He died while serving his sentence in 2019.

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04/08/2015

Elsie Hillman, American philanthropist and politician (born 1925)

Elsie Hilliard Hillman was a Pittsburgh based philanthropist and a former Republican National Committeewoman. She was the wife of billionaire industrialist Henry Hillman. During her life, Hillman helped to advance the careers of a number of moderate Republican politicians to state and national offices. Among the politicians whose careers she fostered are President George H. W. Bush, Senator John Heinz, and Pennsylvania governors Dick Thornburgh and Tom Ridge.

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Les Munro, New Zealand soldier and pilot (born 1919)

Squadron Leader John Leslie Munro, was a Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot during World War II and the last surviving pilot of the Dambusters Raid of May 1943.

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John Rudometkin, American basketball player (born 1940)

John Rudometkin was an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks and San Francisco Warriors in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected in the second round as the 11th pick in the 1962 NBA draft by the Knicks and spent three seasons playing in the league. Rudometkin was nicknamed "the Reckless Russian" by Chick Hearn, the Los Angeles Lakers broadcaster who used to broadcast USC men's basketball games before transitioning to the NBA.

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Billy Sherrill, American songwriter and producer (born 1936)

Billy Norris Sherrill was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger associated with country artists, notably Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Sherrill and business partner Glenn Sutton are regarded as the defining influences of the countrypolitan sound, a smooth amalgamation of pop and country music that was popular during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Sherrill also co-wrote many hit songs, including "Stand by Your Man" and "The Most Beautiful Girl".

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04/08/2014

James Brady, American activist and politician, 15th White House Press Secretary (born 1940)

James Scott Brady was an American journalist, politician, activist and American public official who served as assistant to the U.S. president and the 17th White House Press Secretary, serving under President Ronald Reagan. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Brady during Hinckley’s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, which occurred two months and 10 days after Reagan's inauguration.

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Chester Crandell, American lawyer and politician (born 1946)

Chester J. Crandell was an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate representing District 6 since January 14, 2013. Crandell served consecutively in the Arizona State Legislature from January 10, 2011, until January 14, 2013, in the Arizona House of Representatives District 5 seat.

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Jake Hooker, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (born 1953)

Jerry Mamberg, often known as Jake Hooker, Jake Richards, or Jake Falsworth, was a musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock/pop band Arrows.

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04/08/2013

Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist and academic (born 1940)

Keith Hamilton Basso was a cultural and linguistic anthropologist noted for his study of the Western Apaches, specifically those from the community of Cibecue, Arizona. Basso was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and earlier taught at the University of Arizona and Yale University.

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Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (born 1925)

Arthur James "Fatso" Donovan Jr., was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle for three National Football League (NFL) teams, primarily the Baltimore Colts. He played college football for the Boston College Eagles. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.

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Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish engineer and politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1918)

Olavi Johannes Mattila was a Finnish politician who served twice as the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs, and also held several other ministerial positions in a number of cabinets in the 1960s and 1970s. He was also the CEO of state owned Valmet. He was considered as a close associate of Urho Kekkonen.

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Renato Ruggiero, Italian lawyer and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1930)

Renato Ruggiero was an Italian diplomat and politician. He was Director-General of the World Trade Organization from 1995 to 1999 and briefly served as Italy's Foreign Minister in 2001.

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Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1922)

Flight Lieutenant Anthony Noel Snell, was a British RAF pilot during the Second World War. He flew in the North African campaign in 1942 and was shot down during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. Initially captured by the Germans, he escaped from a firing squad but was later recaptured. He escaped captivity again while in Italy and became one of the very few men awarded the DSO solely for escaping from the enemy.

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Sandy Woodward, English admiral (born 1932)

Admiral Sir John Forster "Sandy" Woodward, was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Task Force of the Falklands War.

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04/08/2012

Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1935)

Johnnie Alexander Bassett was a Detroit-based American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Working for decades primarily as a session musician, by the 1990s Bassett had his own backing band. He released seven albums in his lifetime. He cited Billy Butler, Tiny Grimes, Albert King, B.B. King and especially T-Bone Walker as major influences.

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Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (born 1918)

Brian Rossiter Crozier was a British historian, propagandist and journalist. He was also one of the central staff members of a secret propaganda department belonging to the UK Foreign Office, known as the Information Research Department (IRD) which republished and supported much of his work.

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Bud Riley, American football player and coach (born 1925)

Edward Jones "Bud" Riley Jr. was an American college football coach who served as an assistant coach at the University of Idaho and Oregon State University.

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04/08/2011

Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (born 1977)

Naoki Matsuda was a Japanese professional footballer who played as a central defender for the Japan national team.

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04/08/2009

Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and producer (born 1957)

Blake Snyder was an American screenwriter, consultant, author and educator based in Los Angeles. His screenplays include the comedies Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) and Blank Check (1994).

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04/08/2008

Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (born 1985)

Craig Jones was an English motorcycle racer. He grew up in the town of Northwich in Cheshire and attended Charles Darwin Primary School, and later Hartford High School. He died in 2008, shortly after a racing accident when he fell and was struck by another motorcycle.

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04/08/2007

Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)

Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s and 1970s. His collaborations with Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as "cowboy psychedelia" or "saccharine underground". Rolling Stone ranked Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra No. 9 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time.

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Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (born 1926)

Raul Hilberg was a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist, historian, and Holocaust researcher. He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust.

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04/08/2005

Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (born 1932)

Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin was a Russian theoretical physicist.

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Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (born 1934)

Iván Szabó was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance between 1993 and 1994. He joined to the Hungarian Democratic Forum in 1988. He was chosen to the party's presidency in 1990. After the death of József Antall (1993) he served as manager president. Szabó was member of the National Assembly of Hungary since 1990. Between June 1990 and December 1991 he served as the Chairman of the Assembly's Economical Committee. He was appointed Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism in 1991. He became faction leader in 1994.

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04/08/2004

Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (born 1921)

Mary Sherman Morgan was an American rocket fuel scientist credited with the invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne in 1957, which powered the Jupiter-C rocket that boosted the United States' first satellite, Explorer 1.

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Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (born 1956)

Hossein Panahi Dezhkooh was an Iranian actor and poet. After graduating from high school, due to his father's recommendation, he found his way to Ayatollah Golpaygaani's religious class. Hossein then returned to his hometown as a religious figure, but this lasted only for a few months. He then moved to Tehran and started studying in Anahita art school for four years and graduated as an actor and a screenwriter.

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04/08/2003

Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)

Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist. He was born in Auburn, Alabama, and grew up in Columbia, Missouri, attending David H. Hickman High School.

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04/08/1999

Victor Mature, American actor (born 1913)

Victor John Mature was an American stage, film, and television actor who was a leading man in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. His best known film roles include One Million B.C. (1940), My Darling Clementine (1946), Kiss of Death (1947), Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Robe (1953). He also appeared in many musicals opposite such stars as Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable.

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04/08/1998

Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1930)

Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space.

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04/08/1997

Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (born 1875)

Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian. With a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days, she is the oldest person in history whose age has been verified. Her longevity attracted media attention and medical studies of her health and lifestyle. Calment is the only person in history who has been verified to have reached the age of 120 years.

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04/08/1996

Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (born 1936)

Geoffrey Stephen Hamilton was an English gardener, broadcaster and author, best known as presenter of BBC television's Gardeners' World in the 1980s and 1990s.

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04/08/1992

Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (born 1909)

Seichō Matsumoto was a Japanese writer, credited with popularizing detective fiction in Japan.

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04/08/1990

Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (born 1894)

Ettore Maserati was an Italian automotive engineer, one of five brothers who founded the Maserati firm in Bologna 1914. He was born in Voghera.

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04/08/1985

Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer (born 1933)

Donald Desbrow Whillans was an English rock climber and mountaineer. He climbed with Joe Brown and Chris Bonington.

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04/08/1982

Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (born 1904)

Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect, distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.

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04/08/1981

Melvyn Douglas, American actor (born 1901)

Melvyn Douglas was an American actor, whose stage and screen careers spanned from the late 1920s until the early 1980s. He was one of 24 performers to win the Triple Crown of Acting - winning two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.

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04/08/1977

Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves.

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04/08/1976

Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop and martyr (born 1923)

Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti was a bishop of the Catholic Church in Argentina who was assassinated during the Dirty War for his involvement with social issues. Angelelli commitment to the "Church of the Poor" offered a model for the future Pope Francis.

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Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (born 1894)

Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, was a Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street in London.

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04/08/1967

Peter Smith, English cricketer (born 1908)

Thomas Peter Bromley Smith was an English cricketer, who played for Essex and England. Smith was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1947. An all-rounder, Smith played for Essex from 1929 to 1951.

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04/08/1964

Nätti-Jussi, Finnish lumberjack and forest laborer (born 1890)

Juho Vihtori Nätti, known as "Nätti-Jussi" was a Finnish forest laborer. The stories told by Nätti made him a legendary figure, particularly in Lapland. Nätti was born to a six-member family in Karstula, Central Finland, in August 1890. His parents were log driver Juho Nätti and hostess Maija Nätti. He had three sisters. Nätti migrated with other members of his family to the Northern logging sites, and worked there for most of his life. He was a well-known lumberjack who was known in Tervola, Pisa, Muurola and Rovaniemi.

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04/08/1962

Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (born 1926)

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million by her death in 1962.

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04/08/1961

Margarito Bautista, Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (born 1878)

Margarito Bautista was a Mexican evangelist and religious founder who wrote and preached for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After converting in 1901, Bautista preached for the church through word and writing for three decades and spent time in Mexico and Utah. During this time, Bautista developed a theology that fused Book of Mormon doctrine with Mexican nationalism, and he claimed Mexicans held a birthright to lead the church and someday the world. The church's Anglo-American leaders often considered Bautista's interpretations out of line with official doctrine, but they became very popular with Mexican Latter-day Saints.

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04/08/1959

József Révai, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (born 1898)

József Révai was a Hungarian communist politician, statesman and cultural ideologue.

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04/08/1958

Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (born 1883)

Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciated for her witty and ironic stories. Anderson has been described as "a high-profile author, artist, art commentator and emissary for modernism".

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04/08/1957

John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (born 1882)

John Cain was an Australian politician who served as the 34th Premier of Victoria. He was the first Labor Party leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, and is the only premier of Victoria whose son has also served as premier.

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Washington Luís, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th President of Brazil (born 1869)

Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa was a Brazilian politician who served as the 13th president of Brazil. Elected governor of São Paulo state in 1920 and president of Brazil in 1926, Washington Luís belonged to the Republican Party of São Paulo (PRP) and served as the last president of the First Brazilian Republic.

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04/08/1944

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (born 1921)

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets, of whom several perished in the Warsaw Uprising and during the German occupation of Poland.

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04/08/1942

Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (born 1860)

Alberto Franchetti was an Italian composer and racing driver, best known for the 1902 opera Germania.

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04/08/1941

Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (born 1883)

Mihály Babits was a Hungarian poet, writer, essayist, and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927) explore psychological problems.

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04/08/1940

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (born 1880)

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was an author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.

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04/08/1938

Pearl White, American actress (born 1889)

Pearl Fay White was an American stage and film actress. She began her career on the stage at age 6, and later moved on to silent films appearing in a number of popular serials.

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04/08/1932

Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (born 1868)

Alfred Henry Maurer was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century. Highly respected today, his work met with little critical or commercial success in his lifetime, and he died, a suicide, at the age of sixty-four.

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04/08/1922

Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (born 1881)

İsmâil Enver Pasha was an Ottoman Turkish military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who was a part of the dictatorial triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas" in the Ottoman Empire.

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04/08/1919

Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (born 1845)

David William Gregory was an Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, Gregory was the first Australian national cricket captain, leading the side for the first three recognised Test matches between England and Australia in March and April 1877 and January 1879. Gregory was also the captain of the New South Wales team, notably during the Sydney Riot of 1879 when he rebelled against an unpopular decision by Victorian umpire George Coulthard during a game against the touring English team.

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04/08/1914

Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (born 1853)

François Élie Jules Lemaître was a French critic and dramatist.

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04/08/1900

Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (born 1860)

Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".

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04/08/1886

Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (born 1814)

Samuel Jones Tilden was an American politician who served as the 25th governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.

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04/08/1875

Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1805)

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.

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04/08/1873

Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (born 1834)

Viktor Aleksandrovich Hartmann or Gartman was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by Savva Mamontov, and the Russian Revival.

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04/08/1859

John Vianney, French priest and saint (born 1786)

John Vianney was a French Catholic priest and member of the Third Order of Mary who is often referred to as the Curé d'Ars. Canonized a saint in 1925, he is known for his priestly and pastoral work in his parish in Ars, France, resulting in the radical spiritual transformation of the community and its surroundings. Catholics note his saintly life, mortification, persevering ministry in the sacrament of confession, and ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. His feast day is 4 August. He is the patron saint of parish priests.

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04/08/1844

Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist, historian, and politician (born 1773)

Jacob Aall was a Norwegian politician, historian, landowner and government economist.

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04/08/1822

Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet and author (born 1801)

Kristjan Jaak Peterson, also known as Christian Jacob Petersohn, was an Estonian poet, commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and the founder of modern Estonian poetry.

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04/08/1804

Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish admiral (born 1731)

Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for defeating Batavian Navy at the 1797 Battle of Camperdown, which was one of the most significant naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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04/08/1795

Timothy Ruggles, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1711)

Timothy Dwight Ruggles was an American colonial military leader, jurist, and politician. He was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and later a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.

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04/08/1792

John Burgoyne, English general and politician (born 1723)

General John Burgoyne was a British Army officer, playwright and politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1761 to 1792. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, most notably during the Spanish invasion of Portugal in 1762.

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04/08/1778

Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-French politician, Governor General of New France (born 1698)

Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil was a French military officer and colonial administrator. Born in Quebec, he was governor of French Louisiana (1743–1753) and in 1755 became the last Governor-General of New France. In 1759 and 1760 the British conquered the colony in the Seven Years' War.

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04/08/1741

Andrew Hamilton, Scottish-American lawyer and politician (born 1676)

Andrew Hamilton was a Scottish lawyer in the Thirteen Colonies who settled in Philadelphia. He was best known for his legal victory on behalf of the printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger. His involvement with the 1735 decision in New York helped to establish that truth is a defense to an accusation of libel. His eloquent defense concluded with saying that the press has "a liberty both of exposing and opposing tyrannical power by speaking and writing truth."

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04/08/1727

Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (born 1647)

Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie was a French Royal Army officer.

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04/08/1718

René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian founder of Rimouski (born 1656)

Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire is the lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, Quebec, Canada.

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04/08/1639

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican actor and playwright (born 1581)

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was a New Spanish writer of the Golden Age who cultivated different variants of dramaturgy. His works include the comedy La verdad sospechosa, which is considered a masterpiece of Latin American Baroque theater.

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04/08/1612

Hugh Broughton, English scholar and theologian (born 1549)

Hugh Broughton was an English scholar and theologian.

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04/08/1598

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English academic and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1520)

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. In his description in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, A. F. Pollard wrote, "From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of England." He was raised to the peerage as Baron Burghley in February 1571.

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04/08/1578

Sebastian of Portugal (born 1554)

Sebastian was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz.

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04/08/1526

Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer and navigator (born 1476)

Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the Spice Islands. He received recognition for his achievement by Charles I of Spain with a coat of arms bearing a globe and the Latin motto Primus circumdedisti me.

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04/08/1430

Philip I, Duke of Brabant (born 1404)

Philip I, also known as Philip of Saint Pol, was the younger son of Anthony, Duke of Brabant and Jeanne of Saint-Pol. He succeeded his brother John IV as Duke of Brabant in 1427, while he had inherited Saint-Pol and Ligny as an appanage on the death of his maternal grandfather, Waleran III of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny, in 1415.

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04/08/1378

Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan (born c. 1320)

Galeazzo II Visconti was a member of the Visconti dynasty and a ruler of Milan, Italy. His most notable military campaigns were against Pope Gregory XI, around 1367. These battles fought between the papacy and the Visconti family ultimately ended in a peace treaty. Politically active, he expanded the power of his family, where the Visconti first became hereditary rulers of Milan starting in 1349. He is remembered in conjunction with his patronage of intellectuals and writers, from his sponsorship of Petrarch to the founding of the University of Pavia in 1361. Galeazzo II Visconti, and his brother Bernabò, are credited with the institution of the Quaresima Torture Protocol, a vicious means of torture.

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04/08/1345

As-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt (born 1326)

As-Salih Imad ad-Din Abu'l Fida Isma'il, better known as as-Salih Isma'il, was the Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt between June 1342 and August 1345. He was the fourth son of an-Nasir Muhammad to succeed the latter as sultan. His reign saw a level of political stability return to the sultanate. Under his orders or those close to him, his two predecessors and brothers, al-Ashraf Kujuk and an-Nasir Ahmad, were killed. He was succeeded by another brother, al-Kamil Sha'ban.

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04/08/1306

Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (born 1289)

Wenceslaus III was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1301 to 1305, and King of Bohemia and Poland from 1305. He was the son of Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia, and Judith of Habsburg.

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04/08/1266

Eudes of Burgundy, Count of Nevers (born 1230)

Odo of Burgundy, in French Eudes de Bourgogne or Eudes de Nevers, was the Count of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre and son of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy and Yolande of Dreux.

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04/08/1265

Casualties of the Battle of Eversham

Peter de Montfort of Beaudesert Castle was an English magnate, soldier and diplomat. He is the first person recorded as having presided over Parliament as a parlour or prolocutor, an office now known as Speaker of the House of Commons. He was one of those elected by the barons to represent them during the constitutional crisis with Henry III in 1258. He was later a leading supporter of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester against the King. Both he and Simon de Montfort were slain at the Battle of Evesham on 4 August 1265.

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Casualties of the Battle of Eversham

Sir Henry de Montfort was the son of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and with his father played an important role in the struggle of the barons against King Henry III. Henry's mother was Princess Eleanor of England, a daughter of King John, whose marriage to Simon further increased the foreign influence begun by the king, which was to result in great hostility by those very barons who later revolted against the king.

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Casualties of the Battle of Eversham

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, 1st Earl of Chester, also known as Simon V de Montfort, was an English nobleman of French origin and a member of the English peerage, who led the baronial opposition to the rule of King Henry III, culminating in the Second Barons' War. Following his initial victories over royal forces, he became de facto ruler of England, and played a major role in the constitutional development of England.

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Casualties of the Battle of Eversham

Hugh le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser was an important ally of Simon de Montfort during the reign of Henry III. He served briefly as Justiciar of England in 1260 and as Constable of the Tower of London.

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04/08/1113

Gertrude of Saxony, countess and regent of Holland (born c. 1030)

Gertrude of Saxony, also known as Gertrude Billung, was a countess of Holland by marriage to Floris I, Count of Holland, and countess of Flanders by marriage to Robert I, Count of Flanders. She was regent of Holland in 1061-1067 during the minority of her son Dirk V, and regent of Flanders during the absence of her spouse in 1086–1093.

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04/08/1060

Henry I of France (born 1008)

Henry I was King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060. The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the early Capetians. This is not entirely agreed upon, however, as other historians regard him as a strong but realistic king, who was forced to conduct a policy mindful of the limitations of the French monarchy.

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04/08/0966

Berengar II of Italy (born 900)

Berengar II was the king of Italy from 950 until his deposition in 961. He was a scion of the Anscarid and Unruoching dynasties, and was named after his maternal grandfather, Berengar I. He succeeded his father as margrave of Ivrea around 923, and after 940 led the aristocratic opposition to kings Hugh and Lothair II. In 950 he succeeded the latter and had his son, Adalbert, crowned as his co-ruler. In 952 he recognised the suzerainty of Otto I of Germany, but he later joined a revolt against him. In 960 he invaded the Papal States, and the next year his kingdom was conquered by Otto. Berengar remained at large until his surrender in 964. He died imprisoned in Germany two years later.

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04/08/0221

Lady Zhen, Chinese empress (born 183)

Lady Zhen, personal name unknown, was the first wife of Cao Pi, the first ruler of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period. In 226, she was posthumously honoured as Empress Wenzhao when her son Cao Rui succeeded Cao Pi as the emperor of Wei.

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