Died on Tuesday, 10th June – Famous Deaths

10/06/2025

Suchinda Kraprayoon, Thai army general, 19th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1933)

Suchinda Kraprayoon was a Thai military officer and politician who was the 19th prime minister of Thailand for several weeks in 1992.

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10/06/2024

Victims in the 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash:

Saulos Klaus Chilima was a Malawian economist and politician who served as Vice President of Malawi from 2014 to 2019 and again from 2020 until his death in 2024. Chilima assumed office on 28 June 2020, winning the majority alongside presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera. Chilima also served as the Minister of Economic Planning and Development, as well as Head of Public Sector Reforms, a position he also previously held under the administration of former president Peter Mutharika. Before joining politics, Chilima held key leadership positions in various multi-national companies including Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Airtel Malawi, where he rose to become Chief Executive Officer.

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Victims in the 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash:

Patricia Shanil Dzimbiri was a Malawian politician, teacher, and First Lady of Malawi from 1999 until 2004 as the then-wife of former President Bakili Muluzi. She later represented the Balaka West Constituency in the National Assembly of Malawi from 2014 to 2019.

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Steele Hall, Australian politician, 36th Premier of South Australia (born 1928)

Raymond Steele Hall was an Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also served in the federal Parliament as a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977 and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996.

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10/06/2023

Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (born 1942)

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

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10/06/2020

Claudell Washington, American baseball player (born 1954)

Claudell Washington was an American baseball outfielder who played seventeen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, and California Angels from 1974 until 1990. He batted and threw left-handed.

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10/06/2018

Neal E. Boyd, American singer, winner of the 2008 season of America's Got Talent (born 1975)

Neal Evans Boyd was an American singer who developed an interest in opera after listening to the performances of the Three Tenors. Despite being raised in conditions of poverty within the U.S. state of Missouri, he achieved a degree in music and eventually entered the third season of America's Got Talent, winning that year's competition. In addition to music, he also became involved in politics and conducted performances at many state-wide events across Missouri.

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10/06/2017

Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (born 1980)

Yuli Rachmawati, better known as Julia Perez, abbreviated as Jupe, was an Indonesian singer, model, and actress. In the early 2010s, she became known for her outspoken statements against conservative Muslim clerics, who deemed her as too erotic for Indonesian audiences.

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10/06/2016

Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (born 1994)

Christina Victoria Grimmie was an American singer, songwriter, and internet personality. In 2009, she began posting covers of popular songs on YouTube. After releasing her debut EP, Find Me (2011), her YouTube channel reached one million subscribers. After she reached two million subscribers, she released her debut studio album, With Love (2013).

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Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1928)

Gordon Howe was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA); his first 25 seasons were spent with the Detroit Red Wings. Nicknamed "Mr. Hockey", Howe is often considered the most complete player ever to play the game and one of the greatest of all time. At his retirement, his 801 goals, 1,049 assists, and 1,850 total points were all NHL records that stood until they were broken by Wayne Gretzky, who himself has been a major champion of Howe's legacy. A 23-time NHL All-Star, he shares the NHL record for seasons played with Chris Chelios, and his all-time NHL games played record of 1,767 was only surpassed in 2021 by Patrick Marleau. In 2017, Howe was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players".

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10/06/2015

Robert Chartoff, American film producer and philanthropist (born 1933)

Robert Irwin Chartoff was an American film producer and philanthropist.

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Wolfgang Jeschke, German author and publisher (born 1936)

Wolfgang Jeschke was a German science fiction author and editor at Heyne Verlag. In 1987, he won the Harrison Award for international achievements in science fiction.

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10/06/2014

Marcello Alencar, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Rio de Janeiro (born 1925)

Marcello Nunes de Alencar was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. Alencar served as the Governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro from 1995 until 1999, as well as two tenures as Mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 1983 to 1986 and 1989 to 1993.

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Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager (born 1951)

Gary John Gilmour was an Australian cricketer who played in 15 test matches and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1973 and 1977. He was a part of the Australian squad that finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

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Robert M. Grant, American theologian and academic (born 1917)

Robert McQueen Grant was an American academic theologian and the Carl Darling Buck Professor Emeritus of Humanities and of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Chicago. His scholarly work focused on the New Testament and Early Christianity.

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Jack Lee, American radio host and politician (born 1920)

Jackson "Jack" Lee was an American radio broadcaster and politician. In 1971, Lee became the first Republican Mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina, of the 20th Century. He served as the city's Mayor for two consecutive, two-year terms from 1971 to 1975. Lee was also elected Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party in April 1977. He is widely credited with unifying the state Republican Party during his tenure as chairman.

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10/06/2013

Doug Bailey, American political consultant (born 1933)

Doug Bailey was an American political consultant and founder of The Hotline, a bipartisan, daily briefing on American politics.

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Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer and coach (born 1922)

Enrique Orizaola Velázquez was a Spanish football player and coach.

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Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (born 1921)

Barbara Farrell Vucanovich was an American Republican politician from Nevada. She was the first woman from Nevada elected to the United States House of Representatives, in which she served seven terms representing Nevada from 1983 to 1997.

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10/06/2012

Piero Bellugi, Italian conductor (born 1924)

Piero Bellugi was an Italian orchestral conductor.

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Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster (born 1944)

Warner Fusselle was an American sportscaster remembered for contributions to the television shows This Week in Baseball and Major League Baseball Magazine, and for his memorable Southern voice. He was an announcer for several Minor League Baseball teams such as the Spartanburg Phillies, Richmond Braves, and the Brooklyn Cyclones from 2001 until his death from a heart attack at age 68. He was also a radio broadcaster for the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association until they folded operations in 1976.

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Will Hoebee, Dutch songwriter and producer (born 1947)

Will Hoebee was a Dutch record producer and songwriter. In late 1981, he married José Hoebee. Benny Neyman, Saskia & Serge, Gheorghe Zamfir, David Soul and Nana Mouskouri were among the acts he produced.

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Georges Mathieu, French painter and academic (born 1921)

Georges Mathieu was a French abstract painter, art theorist, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is considered one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction, a trend of informalism.

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Joshua Orwa Ojode, Kenyan politician (born 1958)

Joshua Orwa Ojode was a Kenyan politician. He was first appointed to parliament on June 28, 1994 to represent the Ndhiwa Constituency for the National Development party. In 2007 he joined the Orange Democratic Movement. He served as assistant minister for provincial administration and internal security.

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George Saitoti, Kenyan economist and politician, 6th Vice-President of Kenya (born 1945)

George Musengi Saitoti, E.G.H. was a Kenyan politician, businessman and American- and British-trained economist, mathematician and development policy thinker.

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Sudono Salim, Chinese-Indonesian businessman, founded Bank Central Asia (born 1916)

Sudono Salim or Lim Sioe Liong, also known as Om (Uncle) Liem was an Indonesian banker and businessman. He was the richest individual in Indonesia. He was the founder and chairman of the conglomerate Salim Group before handing over its management to his youngest son Anthoni Salim in 1992.

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Gordon West, English footballer (born 1943)

Gordon West was an English professional football goalkeeper. He won three international caps in a career that included a long stint at Everton.

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10/06/2011

Brian Lenihan Jnr, Irish lawyer and politician, 25th Irish Minister for Finance (born 1959)

Brian Joseph Lenihan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Finance from 2008 to 2011, Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil from March 2011 to June 2011, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform from 2007 to 2008 and Minister of State for Children from 2002 to 2007. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin West from 1996 until his death in 2011.

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10/06/2010

Basil Schott, American archbishop (born 1939)

Basil Myron Schott was the Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh from 2002 until his death.

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Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (born 1941)

Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life, he produced paintings focused on his perception of historical events.

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10/06/2009

Stelios Skevofilakas, Greek footballer (born 1940)

Stelios Skevofilakas was a Greek professional footballer who played as a midfielder mostly for AEK Athens and later a manager.

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10/06/2008

Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani author and diplomat (born 1928)

Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov was a Kyrgyz author who wrote mainly in Russian, but also in Kyrgyz. He is one of the best known figures in Kyrgyzstan's literature.

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10/06/2007

Augie Auer, American-New Zealand meteorologist (born 1940)

August Henry "Augie" Auer Jr was an American-born atmospheric scientist and meteorologist in New Zealand.

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10/06/2005

Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer, designed the Pitts Special (born 1915)

Curtis Hardeman Pitts was an American aircraft designer, aircraft manufacturer, crop duster, and airport fixed-base operator. He became widely known and revered in the aerobatics community for his design of the Pitts Special, a series of highly aerobatic biplanes. Pitts Specials dominated aerobatic competition from the 1960's to the 1970's. Though later outclassed by newer monoplane designs, Pitts Specials remain popular as sport airplanes for their excellent flying qualities. The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has called Curtis Pitts' design "revolutionary because of its small size, light weight, short wingspan and extreme agility".

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10/06/2004

Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1930)

Ray Charles Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians of the 20th century and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians, Charles preferred being called "Brother Ray". He lost his vision as a child, possibly due to glaucoma, and consequently wore dark glasses.

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Odette Laure, French actress and singer (born 1917)

Odette Laure was a French actress and cabaret singer. She appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1950 and 2001. She was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Daddy Nostalgia (1990). She was born Odette Yvonne Marie Dhommée in Paris, where she died.

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Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1904)

Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas was a Greek economist who served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece.

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10/06/2003

Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff (born 1918)

Donald Thomas Regan was an American government official and business executive who served as the 66th United States secretary of the treasury from 1981 to 1985 and as the 11th White House chief of staff from 1985 to 1987 under President Ronald Reagan.

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Bernard Williams, English philosopher and academic (born 1929)

Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), Shame and Necessity (1993), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999.

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Phil Williams, Welsh academic and politician (born 1939)

Philip James Stradling Williams was a Welsh politician for Plaid Cymru and scientist.

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10/06/2002

John Gotti, American mobster (born 1940)

John Joseph Gotti Jr. was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. He ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter, leading what was described as the most powerful crime syndicate in the United States.

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10/06/2001

Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran (born 1970)

Leila Pahlavi was a princess of Iran and the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Shah and his third wife, Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi.

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10/06/2000

Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (born 1930)

Hafez al-Assad was a Syrian politician and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. He was previously the prime minister from 1970 to 1971 as well as the regional secretary of the regional command of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and secretary general of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1970 until his death. Assad was a key participant in the 1963 Syrian coup d'état, which brought the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power in the country, a power that lasted until the fall of the regime in 2024, then led by his son Bashar.

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Brian Statham, English cricketer (born 1930)

John Brian Statham, was an English professional cricketer from Gorton, in Manchester, who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1950 to 1968 and for England from 1951 to 1965. As an England player, he took part in nine overseas tours from 1950–51 to 1962–63. He was a right arm fast bowler and was noted for the consistent accuracy of his length and direction.

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10/06/1998

Jim Hearn, American baseball player (born 1921)

James Tolbert Hearn was an American professional baseball player who was a pitcher in Major League Baseball for 13 seasons (1947–1959). The right-hander was listed as 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and 205 pounds (93 kg).

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Hammond Innes, English author (born 1913)

Ralph Hammond Innes was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as works for children and travel books.

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10/06/1996

George Hees, Canadian soldier, football player, and politician (born 1910)

George Harris Hees was a Canadian politician and businessman.

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Jo Van Fleet, American actress (born 1915)

Jo Van Fleet was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual age. Van Fleet won a Tony Award in 1954 for her performance in the Broadway production The Trip to Bountiful, and the next year she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in East of Eden.

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10/06/1993

Les Dawson, English comedian, actor, writer and presenter (born 1931)

Leslie Dawson was an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and pianist. He was known for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona, musical routines, and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.

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10/06/1992

Hachidai Nakamura, Chinese-Japanese pianist and composer (born 1931)

Hachidai Nakamura was a Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist.

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10/06/1991

Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit (born 1902)

Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure.

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10/06/1988

Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (born 1908)

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series. L'Amour also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction (Frontier), and poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. His books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death, almost all of his 105 existing works were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".

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10/06/1987

Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (born 1943)

Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an American actress of stage and screen. She debuted in the popular film A Patch of Blue (1965), playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.

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10/06/1986

Merle Miller, American author and playwright (born 1919)

Merle Dale Miller was an American writer, novelist, and author, who gained notability with his best-selling biography of Harry S. Truman, and as a pioneer in the gay rights movement.

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10/06/1984

Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Turkish author and poet (born 1901)

Halide Nusret Zorlutuna was a Turkish poet and novelist.

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10/06/1982

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1945)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement. He directed over 40 films that span a variety of genres; frequently his work blends elements of Hollywood melodrama with social criticism and avant-garde techniques. His films, according to him, explored "the exploitability of feelings". His work was deeply rooted in post-war German culture: the aftermath of Nazism, the German economic miracle and the Red Army Faction. Early on, Fassbinder focused on marginalized figures in the city—migrant workers, prisoners, and gay people. He worked with a company of actors and technicians who frequently appeared in his projects.

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10/06/1976

Adolph Zukor, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (born 1873)

Adolph Zukor was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913.

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10/06/1974

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (born 1900)

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a member of the British royal family. He was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary, and was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. He served as the 11th governor-general of Australia from 1945 to 1947, the only prince to hold the post.

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10/06/1973

William Inge, American playwright and novelist (born 1913)

William Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the "Playwright of the Midwest".

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10/06/1971

Michael Rennie, English actor (born 1909)

Michael Rennie was a British film, television and stage actor, who had leading roles in a number of Hollywood films, including his portrayal of the space visitor Klaatu in the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). In a career spanning more than 30 years, Rennie appeared in more than 50 films and in several American television series.

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10/06/1967

Spencer Tracy, American actor (born 1900)

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American actor. He was known for his natural performing style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, from nine nominations. During his career, he appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the ninth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

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10/06/1965

Vahap Özaltay, Turkish footballer and manager (born 1908)

Vahap Özaltay or Vehâb Özaltay was a Turkish international footballer and track and field athlete.

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10/06/1963

Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (born 1936)

Timothy Birdsall was an English cartoonist.

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10/06/1959

Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (born 1883)

Zoltán Meskó de Széplak was a leading Hungarian Nazi during the 1930s. He led his own Nazi movement during the early 1930s but faded from the political scene when Hungary became a member of the Axis powers.

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10/06/1958

Angelina Weld Grimké, American journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1880)

Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet.

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10/06/1955

Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (born 1876)

Margaret Ives Abbott was an American amateur golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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10/06/1949

Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)

Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

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10/06/1947

Alexander Bethune, Canadian businessman and politician, 12th Mayor of Vancouver (born 1852)

Alexander Bethune, merchant, was the 12th Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1907 to 1908. He had previously served seven years as alderman.

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10/06/1946

Jack Johnson, American boxer (born 1878)

John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth". He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history.

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10/06/1944

Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician and academic (born 1910)

Willem Jacob van Stockum was a Dutch mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general relativity.

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10/06/1940

Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded the Black Star Line (born 1887)

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist. His ideas came to be known as Garveyism.

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10/06/1939

Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania (born 1890)

Albert George Ogilvie was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 22 June 1934 until his death on 10 June 1939.

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10/06/1937

Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1854)

Sir Robert Laird Borden was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada, serving from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I.

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10/06/1936

John Bowser, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of Victoria (born 1856)

Sir John Bowser, Australian politician, was the 26th Premier of Victoria. He was born in London, the son of an army officer, and arrived in Melbourne as a child with his family. He grew up at Bacchus Marsh and when he left school got a job with the Bacchus Marsh Express. As a young man he went to Scotland and worked on newspapers while studying at University of Edinburgh. Returning to Australia, he settled in Wangaratta, where he farmed and managed the Wangaratta Chronicle, which he eventually bought.

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10/06/1934

Frederick Delius, English composer and educator (born 1862)

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe.

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10/06/1930

Adolf von Harnack, German historian and theologian (born 1851)

Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent church historian. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912. He was ennobled in 1914.

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10/06/1926

Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (born 1852)

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with most located in Barcelona, including his main work, the Sagrada Família church.

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10/06/1924

Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (born 1885)

Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist, anti-fascist politician and an opposition leader, who was the secretary of the Unitary Socialist Party (PSU) from 1922 to 1924. Born in the province of Rovigo in Fratta Polesine, he was a militant socialist from a young age, joining the youth wing of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in 1898 and then the main party around 1900. In 1907, he graduated in law at the University of Bologna. A lawyer by degree and a journalist by trade, Matteotti was a follower of Filippo Turati, a co-founder of the PSI and leader of the gradualist wing. Politically, his name is associated with democratic socialism and social democracy, and his thought is summarised as reformist socialist, radical reformist, and revolutionary reformist.

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10/06/1923

Pierre Loti, French soldier and author (born 1850)

Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.

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10/06/1918

Arrigo Boito, Italian author, poet, and composer (born 1842)

Arrigo Boito was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretti are Giuseppe Verdi's monumental last two operas Otello and Falstaff as well as Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda.

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10/06/1914

Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect (born 1845)

Ödön Lechner was a Hungarian architect, one of the prime representatives of the Hungarian Szecesszió style, which was related to Art Nouveau in the rest of Europe, including the Vienna Secession. He is famous for decorating his buildings with Zsolnay tile patterns inspired by old Magyar and Turkic folk art, which are combined with modern materials such as iron.

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10/06/1909

Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (born 1822)

Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in support of the Union during the Civil War. He was the grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the American spy during the Revolutionary War.

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10/06/1906

Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1845)

Richard John Seddon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his death. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Zealand's longest-serving head of government.

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10/06/1902

Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet (born 1845)

Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the late Romantic era. The bishop Josep Torras i Bages, one of the main figures of Catalan nationalism, called him the "Prince of Catalan poets". He was also known as mossèn (Father) Cinto Verdaguer, because of his career as a priest, and informally also simply "mossèn Cinto".

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10/06/1901

Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, author, and playwright (born 1841)

Robert Williams Buchanan was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. Several of his works were adapted into films.

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10/06/1899

Ernest Chausson, French composer (born 1855)

Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French Romantic composer.

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10/06/1868

Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia (born 1823)

Mihailo Obrenović III was the ruling Prince of Serbia from 1839 to 1842 and again from 1860 to 1868.

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10/06/1849

Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician (born 1784)

Thomas Robert Bugeaud, marquis de la Piconnerie, duc d'Isly was a Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria during the French colonization. Born an aristocrat, he has a complex legacy, serving as a soldier during the Napoleonic wars, focusing on agriculture during Bourbon rule, then serving the July monarchy in Algeria during which he achieved undoubted military success, also utilised extreme violence and caused outrage at the time.

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Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (born 1773)

Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the observation of Brownian motion; early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms; and some of the earliest studies in palynology. He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy, notably erecting a number of plant families that are still accepted today; and numerous Australian plant genera and species, the fruit of his exploration of that continent with Matthew Flinders.

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10/06/1836

André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (born 1775)

André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as electrodynamics. He made also important contributions in chemistry and philosophy. He is also the inventor of numerous applications, such as the solenoid and the electrical telegraph. As an autodidact, Ampère was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and professor at the École polytechnique and the Collège de France.

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10/06/1831

Hans Karl von Diebitsch, German-Russian field marshal (born 1785)

Hans Karl Friedrich Anton Graf von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski und Narten was a Prussian-born soldier serving as Russian field marshal. His dynasty is of Silesian origin. He stands among the most important military leaders of the late modern period.

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10/06/1811

Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1728)

Charles Frederick was Margrave, Elector and later Grand Duke of Baden from 1738 until his death.

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10/06/1791

Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (born 1720)

Lieutenant général des armées navales Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte was a French Navy officer. Over a career spanning 50 years, he served under Louis XV and Louis XVI and took part in 34 military engagements. He fought in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War, earning the ranks of Commandeur in the Order of Saint Louis in 1780, and of Grand Cross in 1784. He died during the French Revolution.

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10/06/1776

Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (born 1736)

Hsinbyushin, also known as Maung Rwa or Prince of Myedu (မြေဒူးမင်း), was the third emperor of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1763 to 1776. The second son of the dynasty founder Alaungpaya is best known for his wars with Qing China and Siam, and is considered the most militaristic king of the dynasty. His successful defense against four Qing invasions preserved Burmese sovereignty. His 1765 invasion of Ayutthaya brought an end to the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The near simultaneous victories over Qing and Siam has been referred to as testimony "to a truly astonishing elan unmatched since Bayinnaung." He also raised the Shwedagon Pagoda to its current height in April 1775.

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Leopold Widhalm, Austrian instrument maker (born 1722)

Martin Leopold Widhalm was an Austrian or German luthier known for his work in Nuremberg. Charles Beare considers Widhalm to have been the most significant maker of violins in Germany during the 18th century not to be based in Mittenwald, and praises the "sharpness and good taste" of his instruments.

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10/06/1753

Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt, German architect (born 1678)

Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt was a German Baroque architect, official, and councillor most active in Königsberg and throughout the Kingdom of Prussia.

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10/06/1735

Thomas Hearne, English historian and author (born 1678)

Thomas Hearne or Hearn was an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important historical texts.

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10/06/1692

Bridget Bishop, Colonial Massachusetts woman hanged as a witch during the Salem witch trials (born 1632)

Bridget Bishop was a midwife and the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried.

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10/06/1680

Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician (born 1635)

Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna was a Swedish politician.

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10/06/1654

Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (born 1598)

Alessandro Algardi was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome. In the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals of Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Rome. He is now most admired for his portrait busts that have great vivacity and dignity.

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10/06/1607

John Popham, English politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1531)

Sir John Popham of Wellington, Somerset, was Speaker of the House of Commons, Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice of England.

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10/06/1604

Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (born 1562)

Isabella Andreini, also known as Isabella Da Padova, was an Italian actress and writer. Andreini was a member of the Compagnia dei Comici Gelosi, a touring theatre company that performed in Italy and France. The role of Isabella of the commedia dell'arte was named after her.

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10/06/1580

Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born 1524–25)

Luís Vaz de Camões, sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns, is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Milton, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas. His collection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost during his life. The influence of his masterpiece Os Lusíadas is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes called the "language of Camões".

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10/06/1556

Martin Agricola, German composer and theorist (born 1486)

Martin Agricola was a German composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist.

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10/06/1552

Alexander Barclay, English poet and author (born 1476)

Dr Alexander Barclay was a poet and clergyman of the Church of England, probably born in Scotland.

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10/06/1468

Idris Imad al-Din, supreme leader of Tayyibi Isma'ilism, scholar and historian (born 1392)

Idris Imad al-Din ibn al-Hasan al-Qurashi was the 19th Da'i al-Mutlaq of Tayyibi Isma'ilis from 1428 to 1468. A major religious and political leader in 15th-century Yemen, as well as a notable theologian, Idris was also an important medieval Isma'ili historian whose work is fundamental for the history of the Fatimid Caliphate and the Isma'ili communities in Yemen.

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10/06/1437

Joan of Navarre, Queen of England (born 1370)

Joan of Navarre, also known as Joanna was Duchess of Brittany by marriage to Duke John IV and later Queen of England as the wife of King Henry IV. Joan was a daughter of Charles II of Navarre and Joan of France. She served as regent of Brittany from 1399 until 1403 during the minority of her eldest son, Duke John V. She also served as regent of England during the absence of her stepson King Henry V in 1415. Four years later Henry V imprisoned her and confiscated her money and land. Joan was released in 1422, shortly before Henry's death.

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10/06/1424

Ernest, Duke of Austria (born 1377)

Ernest the Iron-Willed, a member of the House of Habsburg, ruled over the Inner Austrian duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola from 1406 until his death. He was head of the Habsburg Leopoldian line from 1411.

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10/06/1364

Agnes of Austria (born 1281)

Agnes of Austria was Queen of Hungary by marriage to Andrew III of Hungary.

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10/06/1338

Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (born 1318)

Kitabatake Akiie was a Japanese court noble, and an important supporter of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-chō Wars. He also held the posts of Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of the North, and Governor of Mutsu Province. His father was Imperial advisor Kitabatake Chikafusa.

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10/06/1261

Matilda of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 1210)

Matilda of Brandenburg, a member of the House of Ascania, was first Duchess consort of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 to 1252 by her marriage with the Welf duke Otto the Child.

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10/06/1190

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1122)

Frederick Barbarossa, also known as Frederick I, was the Holy Roman emperor from 1155 until his death in 1190. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152. He was crowned King of Italy on 24 April 1155 in Pavia and emperor by Pope Adrian IV on 18 June 1155 in Rome. Two years later, the term sacrum ("holy") first appeared in a document in connection with his empire. He was later formally crowned King of Burgundy, at Arles on 30 June 1178. His nickname of Barbarossa "was first used by the Florentines only in 1298 to differentiate the emperor from his grandson, Frederick II ... and was never employed in medieval Germany". In German, he was known as Kaiser Rotbart, which in English means "Emperor Redbeard". The prevalence of the Italian nickname, even in later German usage, reflects the centrality of the Italian campaigns under his reign, and "remains to this day one of the [most] powerful historical monikers."

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10/06/1141

Richenza of Northeim (born 1087)

Richenza of Northeim was Duchess of Saxony from 1106, Queen of Germany from 1125 and Holy Roman Empress from 1133 as the wife of Lothair of Supplinburg.

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10/06/1075

Ernest, Margrave of Austria (born 1027)

Ernest, known as Ernest the Brave, was the Margrave of Austria from 1055 to his death in 1075. He was a member of the House of Babenberg.

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10/06/0942

Liu Yan, emperor of Southern Han (born 889)

Liu Yan, né Liu Yan (劉巖), also named Liu Zhi (劉陟) and briefly as Liu Gong (劉龔), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Southern Han (南漢高祖), was the first emperor of the Chinese Southern Han dynasty, one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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10/06/0932

Dong Zhang, Chinese general

Dong Zhang was a Chinese military general and politician of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Later Liang and Later Tang states. After submitting to Later Tang after Later Liang's destruction, he became a general favored by both Later Tang's founding emperor Li Cunxu and Li Cunxu's chief of staff Guo Chongtao, causing Guo to commission Dong as the military governor (jiedushi) of Dongchuan Circuit after Guo's conquest of Former Shu. Because of this, after Li Cunxu's downfall and succession by his adoptive brother Li Siyuan, Li Siyuan's chief of staff An Chonghui came to suspect both Dong and Meng Zhixiang, the military governor of neighboring Xichuan Circuit. Dong and Meng jointly rebelled against Li Siyuan and were successful military, forcing the imperial government to eventually move into a reconciliatory posture. Dong, however, as his son Dong Guangye (董光業) and Dong Guangye's family were slaughtered, refused the imperial overture, and later launched an attack on Meng, as Meng was moving to reconciliation with the imperial government. Meng defeated him, and he was later killed by his own subordinates.

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10/06/0903

Cheng Rui, Chinese warlord

Cheng Rui, adoptive name Guo Yu, formally the Prince of Shanggu (上谷王), was a warlord late in the Chinese Tang dynasty who ruled Jingnan Circuit from 888 to 903, until he was defeated in battle. He was known to be a capable administrator who treated his people well.

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10/06/0871

Odo I, Frankish nobleman

Odo I was the Count of Troyes from 852 to 859 and Count of Châteaudun through 871.

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10/06/0779

Emperor Daizong of Tang (born 727)

Emperor Daizong of Tang, personal name Li Yu, né Li Chu, was an emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty.

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10/06/0754

Abul Abbas al-Saffah, Muslim caliph (born 721)

Abu al-ʿAbbās Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās, known by his laqab al-Saffah, was the first caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, one of the longest and most important caliphates in Islamic history.

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10/06/0223

Liu Bei, Chinese emperor (born 161)

Liu Bei, courtesy name Xuande (玄德), was a Chinese warlord in the late Eastern Han dynasty who later became the founding emperor of Shu Han, one of the Three Kingdoms of China.

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10/06/0038

Julia Drusilla, Roman sister of Caligula (born 16 AD)

AD 38 (XXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iulianus and Asprenas. The denomination AD 38 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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