Died on Tuesday, 24th June – Famous Deaths

24/06/2025

Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1943)

Robert Cabot Sherman Jr. was an American singer and actor who was a teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He had a series of successful singles, notably the million-seller "Little Woman" (1969). Sherman left show business in the 1970s for a career as a paramedic and a deputy sheriff, but performed occasionally into the 1990s.

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24/06/2024

Shifty Shellshock, American vocalist (born 1974)

Seth Brooks Binzer, better known by his stage name Shifty Shellshock, was an American rapper and songwriter who cofounded the rap rock band Crazy Town, known for their hit song "Butterfly". He later had a solo career. Binzer struggled with addiction throughout his career and appeared on the reality television series Celebrity Rehab and Sober House.

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24/06/2021

Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines (born 1960)

Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Aquino III, also known colloquially as PNoy, was the 15th president of the Philippines, serving from 2010 to 2016. A member of the Liberal Party, he was the son of assassinated politician Ninoy Aquino and 11th president Corazon Aquino, and a fourth-generation politician as part of the Aquino family of Tarlac.

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Trần Thiện Khiêm, 7th Prime Minister of South Vietnam and army officer (born 1925)

Trần Thiện Khiêm was a South Vietnamese soldier and politician, who served as a General in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) during the Vietnam War. He was born in Saigon, Cochinchina, French Indochina. During the 1960s, he was involved in several coups. He helped President Ngô Đình Diệm put down a November 1960 coup attempt and was rewarded with a promotion. In 1963, however, he was involved in the coup that deposed and assassinated Diêm.

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24/06/2015

Cristiano Araújo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1986)

Cristiano de Melo Araújo was a Brazilian singer-songwriter.

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Mario Biaggi, American police officer, politician and criminal (born 1917)

Mario Biaggi was an American politician, attorney, and police officer. He served ten terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1969 to 1988.

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Marva Collins, American author and educator (born 1936)

Marva Delores Collins was an American educator. Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1975.

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Susan Ahn Cuddy, American lieutenant (born 1915)

Susan Ahn Cuddy was the first female gunnery officer in the United States Navy. She was the eldest daughter of Korean independence activist Ahn Chang-ho and Helen Ahn, the first married Korean couple to immigrate to the United States in 1902. She joined the Navy in 1942 and served until 1946, reaching the rank of lieutenant. She was the first Asian-American woman to join the U.S. Navy and the first Korean-American in U.S. Naval Intelligence.

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24/06/2014

John Clement, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1928)

John Twining Clement was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament from 1971 to 1975 and was in the cabinet of premier Bill Davis.

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Marilyn Fisher Lundy, American businesswoman (born 1925)

Marilyn Fisher Lundy was an American businesswoman and philanthropist. As the CEO and president of the League of Catholic Women, Lundy led the development of several organizations for women and children within Michigan, including educational institutions.

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Olga Kotelko, Canadian runner and softball player (born 1919)

Olga Kotelko was a Canadian track and field athlete. She held over 30 world records and won over 750 gold medals in her age category for the Masters competition, age 90–95, and was considered "one of the world's greatest athletes" as a result. She held every track and field world record she attempted for her age group.

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Ramón José Velásquez, Venezuelan journalist, lawyer, and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1916)

Ramón José Velásquez Mujica was a Venezuelan politician, historian, journalist, and lawyer. He served as the president of Venezuela between 1993 and 1994.

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Eli Wallach, American actor (born 1915)

Eli Herschel Wallach was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City. Known for his character actor roles, his entertainment career spanned over six decades. He received a BAFTA Award, a Tony Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He also was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1988 and received the Academy Honorary Award in 2010.

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24/06/2013

Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (born 1946)

Michael Antony Aston was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology. Over the course of his career, he lectured at both the University of Bristol and University of Oxford and published fifteen books on archaeological subjects. A keen populariser of the discipline, Aston was widely known for appearing as the resident academic on the Channel 4 television series Time Team from 1994 to 2011.

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Emilio Colombo, Italian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920)

Emilio Colombo was an Italian politician. A member of the Christian Democracy party, he served as Prime Minister of Italy from August 1970 to February 1972. In 2003, he was appointed senator for life, a seat he held until his death.

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Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (born 1932)

Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen was a Dutch bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. After being Bishop (emeritus) of Roermond, Limburg, the Netherlands, he became Bishop (emeritus) of the Diocese of Reykjavík (Iceland). His episcopal motto was Parate viam Domini.

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William Hathaway, American lawyer and politician (born 1924)

William Dodd Hathaway was an American politician and lawyer from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator for Maine from 1973 to 1979, as the U.S. representative for Maine's 2nd congressional district from 1965 to 1973, and as the commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission from 1990 to 1999.

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James Martin, English-Bermudian computer scientist and author (born 1933)

James Martin was a British information technology consultant and author, known for his work on information technology engineering.

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Alan Myers, American drummer (born 1955)

Alan Charles Myers was an American rock drummer whose music career spanned more than 30 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the third and most prominent drummer of the new wave band Devo, replacing Jim Mothersbaugh.

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24/06/2012

Darrel Akerfelds, American baseball player and coach (born 1962)

Darrel Wayne Akerfelds was an American professional baseball pitcher. He also served as the bullpen coach of Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres, from 2001 until his death. Akerfelds pitched in the major leagues in parts of five seasons, from 1986 to 1991 for the Oakland Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, and Philadelphia Phillies.

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Gad Beck, German author and educator (born 1923)

Gerhard "Gad" Beck was an Israeli-German educator, author, activist, resistance member, and survivor of the Holocaust.

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Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician and academic (born 1926)

Gu Chaohao was a Chinese mathematician. He graduated from National Chekiang University in 1948, and received a doctorate in physics and mathematical science from Moscow University in 1959. He was primarily engaged in research on partial differential equations, differential geometry, solitons, and mathematical physics. He served as vice president of Fudan University and from 1988 to 1993 as president of the University of Science and Technology of China. In 1980, he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received the Highest Science and Technology Award in 2009.

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Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (born 1988)

Miguel "Miki" Roqué Farrero was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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Ann C. Scales, American lawyer, educator, and activist (born 1952)

Ann C. Scales was an American lawyer, activist, and law professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law from 2003 to 2012, where she taught in constitutional law, sexual orientation and the law, civil procedure and torts.

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Lonesome George, last known Pinta Island tortoise (hatched c. 1910)

Lonesome George was a male Pinta Island tortoise and the last known individual of the subspecies. In his last years, he was known as the rarest creature in the world. George serves as an important symbol for conservation efforts in the Galápagos Islands and throughout the world.

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24/06/2011

Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football coach and manager (born 1933)

Tomislav Ivić was a Croatian professional football player and manager. Often described as a brilliant strategist, Ivić is credited with helping develop the modern style of the game. In April 2007, Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport proclaimed him as the most successful football manager in history, due to his seven league titles won in five countries.

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24/06/2010

Fred Anderson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (born 1929)

Fred Anderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who was based in Chicago, Illinois. Anderson's playing was rooted in the swing music and hard bop idioms, but he also incorporated innovations from free jazz. Anderson was also noted for having mentored numerous young musicians. Critic Ben Ratliff called him "a father figure of experimental jazz in Chicago". Writer John Corbett referred to him as "scene caretaker, underground booster, indefatigable cultural worker, quiet force for good." In 2001, author John Litweiler called Anderson "the finest tenor saxophonist in free jazz/underground jazz/outside jazz today."

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24/06/2009

Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (born 1927)

Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc was a Canadian journalist and politician who served as the 25th governor general of Canada from 1995 to 1999.

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24/06/2008

Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (born 1919)

Gerhard Ringel was a German mathematician. He was one of the pioneers in graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture, a mathematical problem closely linked with the four color theorem.

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24/06/2007

Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and reggae singer (born 1974)

Natasja Saad, also known mononymously as Natasja and also as Dou T and Little T, was a Danish rapper, deejay, and singer. While already relatively successful in her native Denmark, her vocals on a popular reggae fusion remix of "Calabria" gained her worldwide fame and a number one spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car crash in Jamaica.

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Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (born 1967)

Christopher Michael Benoit was a Canadian professional wrestler who worked for various promotions during his 22-year career. Despite his accomplishments, he is more generally known for murdering his wife and youngest son before committing suicide.

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Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer and manager (born 1938)

Alexander Derek Dougan was a Northern Ireland international footballer, football manager, football chairman, pundit, and writer. He was also known by his nickname, "The Doog". He was capped by Northern Ireland at schoolboy, youth, Amateur, and 'B' team level, before he won 43 caps in a 15-year career for the senior team from 1958 to 1973, scoring eight international goals and featuring in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He also played in the Shamrock Rovers XI v Brazil exhibition match in July 1973, which he also helped to organise.

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24/06/2005

Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist (born 1922)

Paul Winchell was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, humanitarian, and inventor whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1950 to 1954, he hosted The Paul Winchell Show, which also used two other titles during its prime time run on NBC: The Speidel Show, and What's My Name? From 1965 to 1968, Winchell hosted the children's television series Winchell-Mahoney Time.

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24/06/2004

Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (born 1957)

Ifigeneia Giannopoulou was a Greek songwriter. She also wrote books for children. Giannopoulou worked with great names of Greek music.

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24/06/2002

Pierre Werner, Luxembourgish banker and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born 1913)

Pierre Werner was a Luxembourgish politician of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) who was the prime minister of Luxembourg from 1959 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1984.

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24/06/2001

Konstantin Gerchik, the second head of the world's first cosmodrome — "Baikonur" (1958–1961).

Konstantin Vasilyevich Gerchik was a Russian military officer who served in the Red Army and a program manager in the former Soviet space program. He was Colonel-General of the Soviet Army, Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences of Russia, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, and the second head of the Baikonur Cosmodrome (1958–1961).

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24/06/2000

Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (born 1908)

Vera May Atkins was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who was the Deputy Director of the France Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War.

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David Tomlinson, English actor and comedian (born 1917)

David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English stage, film and television actor, singer and comedian. Having been described as both a leading actor and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles with The Walt Disney Company as the patriarch father George Banks in Mary Poppins (1964), hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug (1968) and the friendly con man Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Tomlinson was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 2002.

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Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine cuarteto singer (born 1973)

Rodrigo Alejandro Bueno, also known by his stage name Rodrigo or his nickname "El Potro", was an Argentine singer of cuarteto music. He is widely regarded as the best, most famous and most influential singer in the history of this genre. Bueno's style was marked by his on-stage energy and charisma. His short, dyed hair and casual clothes differed from typical cuarteto singers with strident colors and long curly hair. During his career, Bueno expanded cuarteto music to the Argentine national scene, remaining one of the main figures of the genre. The son of Eduardo Alberto Bueno, a record shop owner and music producer, and Beatriz Olave, a songwriter and newsstand owner, Rodrigo Bueno was born into the cuarteto musical scene in Córdoba, Argentina. He first appeared on television at the age of two, on the show Fiesta de Cuarteto, along with family friend Juan Carlos "La Mona" Jiménez. With the help of his father, he recorded an album of children's songs, Disco Baby, at the age of five. During his preteen years he informally joined the local band Chébere during live performances. He dropped out of school at the age of twelve and successfully auditioned for the band Manto Negro. After five years without success in Córdoba, Bueno's father decided to try to launch his son's career as a soloist in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1990, Bueno released his first record, La Foto de tu Cuerpo, on Polygram Records. Bueno introduced his next album, Aprendiendo a Vivir, with a live performance at the nightclub Fantástico Bailable. The performance brought him his first recognition in the tropical music scene.

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24/06/1997

Brian Keith, American actor (born 1921)

Robert Alba Keith, known professionally as Brian Keith, was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his six-decade career gained recognition for his work in films such as the Disney family film The Parent Trap (1961); Johnny Shiloh (1963); the comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966); and the adventure saga The Wind and the Lion (1975), in which he portrayed President Theodore Roosevelt.

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24/06/1995

Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney Morissette v. United States (born 1903)

Andrew Jackson Transue was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1939.

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24/06/1994

Jean Vallerand, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1915)

Jean Vallerand, CQ was a composer, music critic, violinist, conductor, arts administrator, writer, and music educator from Quebec. As a composer he was active from 1935 to 1969. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was appointed a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1991.

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24/06/1991

Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (born 1917)

Sumner Locke Elliott was an Australian novelist and playwright.

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Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1899)

Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences.

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24/06/1988

Csaba Kesjár, Hungarian race car driver (born 1962)

Csaba Kesjár was a Hungarian racing driver who was born in Budapest and died in Norisring, Nuremberg.

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24/06/1987

Jackie Gleason, American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1916)

Herbert John Gleason, known as Jackie Gleason, was an American comedian, actor, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One". He developed a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, and was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his city bus driver character Ralph Kramden in the television series The Honeymooners. He also developed The Jackie Gleason Show, which maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s through 1970. The series originated in New York City, but filming moved to Miami Beach, Florida, in 1964 after Gleason took up permanent residence there.

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24/06/1984

Clarence Campbell, Canadian businessman (born 1905)

Clarence Sutherland Campbell was a Canadian ice hockey executive and referee, and soldier. He refereed in the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 1930s, served in the Canadian Army during World War II, then served as the third president of the NHL from 1946 to 1977. His tenure as president included the Richard Riot and the 1967 NHL expansion. His career was recognized with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966, and the naming of the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl for him.

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24/06/1980

V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (born 1894)

Varahagiri Venkata Giri, better known as V. V. Giri was an Indian statesman, activist, and diplomat who served as the president of India from 1969 to 1974. He previously served as the vice president of India from 1967 to 1969 and the minister of labour from 1952 to 1954.

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24/06/1978

Robert Charroux, French author and critic (born 1909)

Robert Charroux was the best-known pen-name of Robert Joseph Grugeau. He was a French author known for his writings on the ancient astronaut theme.

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24/06/1976

Minor White, American photographer, critic, and academic (born 1908)

Minor Martin White was an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator.

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24/06/1975

Wendell Ladner, Professional Basketball Player in the ABA

Wendell Larry Ladner was an American professional basketball player most notable for his playing time in the American Basketball Association (ABA) from 1970 to 1975.

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24/06/1969

Frank King, American cartoonist (born 1883)

Frank Oscar King was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Gasoline Alley. In addition to innovations with color and page design, King introduced real-time continuity in comic strips by showing his characters aging over generations.

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Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (born 1906)

Willy Otto Oskar Ley was a German and American science writer and proponent of space exploration and cryptozoology. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.

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24/06/1964

Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (born 1892)

Edward Stuart Davis was an American modernist painter. He was associated with early twentieth-century American modernism, including the Ashcan School, and later developed a style characterized by bold color, jazz references, and urban subject matter. In the 1930s, Davis became politically active and participated in federally sponsored art programs during the Great Depression.

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24/06/1962

Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist and music critic (born 1906)

Volfgangs Dārziņš was a Latvian composer, pianist and music critic.

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24/06/1947

Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (born 1864)

Emil Seidel was an American woodworker, patternmaker and politician. Seidel was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912. The first Socialist mayor of a major city in the United States, Seidel became the vice presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America in the 1912 presidential election.

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24/06/1946

Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (born 1857)

Louise Whitfield Carnegie was an American philanthropist. She was the wife of Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

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24/06/1943

Camille Roy, Canadian priest and critic (born 1870)

Camille Roy was a Canadian priest and literary critic. He wrote extensively about the development of French-Canadian literature, and its importance in the promotion of French language and culture and of Christian ideals.

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24/06/1932

Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (born 1879)

Ernst-Johannes Põdder VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander in the 1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence.

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24/06/1931

Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (born 1840)

Otto Mears was a Colorado railroad builder and entrepreneur who played a major role in the early development of southwestern Colorado.

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Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (born 1880)

Xiang Zhongfa was a Chinese socialist who was one of the early senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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24/06/1923

Edith Södergran, Swedish-Finnish poet (born 1892)

Edith Irene Södergran was a Swedish-speaking Finnish poet. One of the first modernists within Swedish-language literature, her influences came from French Symbolism, German expressionism, and Russian futurism. At the age of 24 she released her first collection of poetry entitled Dikter ("Poems"). Södergran died at the age of 31, having contracted tuberculosis as a teenager. She did not live to experience the worldwide appreciation of her poetry, which has influenced many lyrical poets. Södergran is considered to have been one of the greatest modern Swedish-language poets, and her work continues to influence Swedish-language poetry and musical lyrics, for example, in the works of Mare Kandre, Gunnar Harding, Eva Runefelt, Heidi Sundblad-Halme, and Eva Dahlgren.

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24/06/1922

Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, 7th German Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1867)

Walther Rathenau was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February 1922 until his assassination in June 1922.

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24/06/1909

Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1849)

Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.

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24/06/1908

Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)

Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms and the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War.

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24/06/1902

George Leake, Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (born 1856)

George Leake was the third Premier of Western Australia, serving from May to November 1901 and then again from December 1901 to his death.

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24/06/1835

Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (born 1769)

Andreas Vokos, better known by his nickname Miaoulis, was a Greek revolutionary, admiral, and politician who commanded Greek naval forces during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829).

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24/06/1817

Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1734)

Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father. During the American Revolution he was a Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, where he signed the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation. He served as President of Congress for four months in 1781. McKean was at various times a member of the Federalist and the Democratic-Republican parties and served as president of Delaware, chief justice of Pennsylvania, and the second governor of Pennsylvania. He also held numerous other public offices.

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24/06/1803

Matthew Thornton, Irish-American judge and politician (born 1714)

Matthew Thornton was an Irish-born Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire.

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24/06/1778

Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist and academic (born 1714)

Pieter Burman, also known as Peter or Pieter Burmann and distinguished from his uncle as "the Younger", was a Dutch philologist.

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24/06/1766

Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1678)

Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles was a French Royal Army officer.

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24/06/1643

John Hampden, English politician (born 1595)

Colonel John Hampden was an English politician and army officer who was killed fighting for Parliament in the First English Civil War. An ally of Parliamentarian leader John Pym, and a cousin of Oliver Cromwell, he was one of the Five Members whom Charles I of England tried to arrest in January 1642, a significant step in the outbreak of fighting in August. All five are commemorated at the State Opening of Parliament each year.

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24/06/1637

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (born 1580)

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name, Peirescius, was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant, who maintained a wide correspondence with scientists, and was a successful organizer of scientific inquiry.

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24/06/1604

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English courtier, Lord Great Chamberlain (born 1550)

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era. Oxford was heir to the second oldest earldom in the kingdom, a court favourite for a time, a sought-after patron of the arts, and noted by his contemporaries as a lyric poet and court playwright, but his volatile temperament precluded him from attaining any courtly or governmental responsibility and contributed to the dissipation of his estate.

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24/06/1520

Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese commander (born 1489)

Hosokawa Sumimoto was a samurai commander in the Muromachi period during the 16th century of Japan.

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24/06/1519

Lucrezia Borgia, Italian wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (born 1480)

Lucrezia Borgia was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spoleto.

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24/06/1503

Reginald Bray, English architect and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1440)

Sir Reginald Bray was an English administrator and statesman. He was the Chancellor of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster under Henry VII, briefly Treasurer of the Exchequer, and one of the most influential men in Henry VII's government and administration. He was an estate officer and senior councillor to both Henry VII and the king's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. He was a major benefactor to St George's Chapel, Windsor, where some of the building work for which he provided funds can still be seen and identified.

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24/06/1439

Frederick IV, duke of Austria (born 1382)

Frederick IV, also known as Frederick of the Empty Pockets, a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1402 until his death. As a scion of the Habsburg Leopoldian line, he ruled over Further Austria and the County of Tyrol from 1406 onwards.

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24/06/1398

Hongwu, Chinese emperor (born 1328)

The Hongwu Emperor, personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1368 to 1398.

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24/06/1314

Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, English commander (born 1291)

Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, 7th Earl of Hertford was an English nobleman and military commander in the Scottish Wars. In contrast to most English earls at the time, his main focus lay in the pursuit of war rather than in domestic political strife. He was the son of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, and Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I. The older Gilbert died when his son was only four years old, and the younger Gilbert was invested with his earldoms at the young age of sixteen. Almost immediately, he became involved in the defense of the northern border, but later he was drawn into the struggles between Edward II and some of his barons. He was one of the Lords Ordainers who ordered the expulsion of the king's favourite Piers Gaveston in 1311. When Gaveston was killed on his return in 1312, Gloucester helped negotiate a settlement between the perpetrators and the king.

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Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, English soldier and politician, Lord Warden of the Marches (born 1274)

Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, of Appleby Castle, Westmorland, feudal baron of Appleby and feudal baron of Skipton in Yorkshire, was an English soldier who became 1st Lord Warden of the Marches, responsible for defending the English border with Scotland.

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24/06/1088

William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, Norman nobleman

William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, Lord of Lewes, Seigneur de Varennes, was a Norman nobleman named the first Earl of Surrey under William II Rufus. He is among the few known from documents to have fought under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. At the time of Domesday Book in 1086 he held extensive lands in 13 counties, including the Rape of Lewes, a tract now divided between the ceremonial counties of East Sussex and West Sussex.

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24/06/1046

Jeongjong II, Korean ruler (born 1018)

Jeongjong, personal name Wang Hyŏng, was the 10th king of Korea's Goryeo dynasty. He was the second son of King Hyeonjong, and the younger brother of King Deokjong. At the age of four in 1022, he was made Naesaryeong, a position of high rank, and designated the Prince of Pyongyang.

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