Died on Thursday, 13th November – Famous Deaths

13/11/2025

Juan Ponce Enrile, Filipino politician and lawyer (born 1924)

Juan Furagganan Ponce Enrile Sr.,, also referred to by his initials JPE, was a Filipino politician and lawyer, who served as 26th President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 to 2013. Enrile was one of the longest-serving Filipino politicians in history, and one of the few to reach the age of 100. He was known for his role in the administration of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos; his role in the failed coup that helped hasten the 1986 People Power Revolution and the ouster of Marcos; and his tenure in the Philippine legislature in the years after the revolution. Enrile served four terms in the Senate, in a total of twenty-two years and three-hundred twenty days, one of the longest-tenures in the history of the upper chamber. In 2022, at the age of 98, he returned to government office as the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel in the administration of President Bongbong Marcos, serving until his death in 2025.

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13/11/2024

Theodore Olson, American lawyer (born 1940)

Theodore Bevry Olson was an American lawyer who served as the 42nd solicitor general of the United States from 2001 to 2004 in the administration of President George W. Bush. He previously served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1981 to 1984 under President Ronald Reagan, and he was also a longtime partner at the law firm Gibson Dunn.

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Shel Talmy, American record producer, songwriter and arranger (born 1937)

Sheldon Talmy was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger, most notable for his work in England in the 1960s with the Who, the Kinks, and many other artists.

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Shuntarō Tanikawa, Japanese poet and translator (born 1931)

Shuntarō Tanikawa was a Japanese poet and translator. He was considered to be one of the most widely read and highly regarded Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad. The English translation of his poetry volume Floating the River in Melancholy, translated by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura and illustrated by Yōko Sano, won the American Book Award in 1989.

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Daim Zainuddin, Malaysian politician (born 1938)

Che Abdul Daim bin Zainuddin was a Malaysian politician and businessman who served as the Minister of Finance from 1984 to 1989 and again from 1999 to 2001, both times under Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. He also served as a Senator from 1980 to 1982 and as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1982 to 2004.

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13/11/2020

Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer (born 1946)

Peter William Sutcliffe, also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. Press reports dubbed him the Yorkshire Ripper, an allusion to the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper. Sutcliffe was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which were converted to a whole life order in 2010. Two of his murders took place in Manchester; all the others took place in West Yorkshire. Criminal psychologist David Holmes characterised Sutcliffe as being an "extremely callous, sexually sadistic serial killer."

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13/11/2017

Bobby Doerr, American baseball player and manager (born 1918)

Robert Pershing Doerr was an American professional baseball second baseman and coach. He played his entire 14-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Boston Red Sox (1937–1951). A nine-time MLB All-Star, Doerr batted over .300 three times, drove in more than 100 runs six times, and set Red Sox team records in several statistical categories despite missing one season due to military service during World War II. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986.

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13/11/2016

Leon Russell, American singer-songwriter (born 1942)

Leon Russell was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, blues rock, folk, surf and the Tulsa sound. His recordings earned six gold records and he received two Grammy Awards from seven nominations. In 1973 Billboard named Russell the "Top Concert Attraction in the World". In 2011, he was inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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13/11/2014

María José Alvarado, Honduran model, Señorita Honduras 2014 (born 1995)

María José Alvarado Muñoz was a Honduran model, television host, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Honduras 2014. She was supposed to represent Honduras at Miss World 2014 held in London, but was murdered prior to the event.

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Kakha Bendukidze, Georgian economist and politician, Georgian Minister of Economy (born 1956)

Kakha Bendukidze was a Georgian statesman, businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Knowledge Foundation and head of the supervisory board of Agricultural and Free Universities.

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Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (born 1922)

Alvin Ralph Dark, nicknamed "Blackie" and "the Swamp Fox", was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, the New York Giants (1950–1956), the St. Louis Cardinals (1956–1958), the Chicago Cubs (1958–59), and the Philadelphia Phillies (1960). Later, he managed the San Francisco Giants (1961–1964), the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, the Cleveland Indians (1968–1971), and the San Diego Padres (1977). He was a three-time All-Star and a two-time World Series champion, once as a player (1954) and once as a manager (1974).

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Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (born 1928)

Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French, was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revolutionary advances in many areas of pure mathematics. He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century.

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13/11/2013

Hans-Jürgen Heise, German author and poet (born 1930)

Hans-Jürgen Heise was a German author and poet.

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Chieko Aioi, Japanese actress and voice actress (born 1934)

Reiko Komatsu , professionally known as Chieko Aioi , was a Japanese actress and voice actress.

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13/11/2012

Erazm Ciołek, Polish photographer and author (born 1937)

Erazm Ciołek was a Polish photojournalist, author of many exhibitions and laureate of various awards. He is considered as the main photographer of the Solidarity movement.

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Manuel Peña Escontrela, Spanish footballer (born 1965)

Manuel "Manolo" Peña Escontrela was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a forward.

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John Sheridan, English rugby player and coach (born 1933)

John Sheridan was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Lock Lane ARLFC, and Castleford (captain), as a centre, or loose forward, and coached at club level for Castleford, Leeds and Doncaster.

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13/11/2010

Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1921)

Luis García-Berlanga Martí was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Acclaimed as a pioneer of modern Spanish cinema, his films are marked by social satire and acerbic critiques of Spanish culture under the Francoist dictatorship. These include Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953), which won the International Prize at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, Plácido (1961), nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1962, and The Executioner (1963), winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 24th Venice International Film Festival He kept a long-time collaboration with screenwriter Rafael Azcona, with whom he co-wrote the scripts for seven of his films between 1961 and 1987.

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Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (born 1926)

Allan Rex Sandage was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.

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13/11/2007

Wahab Akbar, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1960)

Ustadz Wahab M. Akbar was a Filipino politician who served three terms as governor of Basilan, during which time he was known for his "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" policy for dealing with kidnappers and terrorists in the province. He was later elected as congressman for the lone district of Basilan in the House of Representatives, but was one of 4 people killed in a bomb attack at the Batasang Pambansa. Police publicly suspected the attack was directed at him by political opponents.

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John Doherty, English footballer and manager (born 1935)

John Peter Doherty was an English footballer. His regular position was at inside right.

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Kazuhisa Inao, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1937)

Kazuhisa Inao was a Japanese pitcher and manager in Nippon Professional Baseball. He played all of his professional seasons for the Nishitetsu Lions.

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13/11/2005

Vine Deloria, Jr., American historian, theologian, and author (born 1933)

Vine Victor Deloria Jr. was an author, theologian, historian, and activist for Native American rights. He is widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969), which helped attract national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement. From 1964 to 1967, he served as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, increasing its membership of tribes from 19 to 156. Beginning in 1977, he was a board member of the National Museum of the American Indian, which now has buildings in both New York City and in Washington, DC, on the Mall.

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Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (born 1967)

Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) / World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), along with his appearances in Mexico and Japan. A prominent member of the Guerrero wrestling family, being the son of first-generation wrestler Gory Guerrero, and brother of Chavo Guerrero Sr., Mando Guerrero, Héctor Guerrero and father of Shaul Guerrero. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential professional wrestlers of all time.

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13/11/2004

John Balance, English singer-songwriter (born 1962)

Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton, better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet.

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Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (born 1968)

Russell Tyrone Jones, known professionally as Ol' Dirty Bastard, was an American rapper who was one of the founding members of the New York rap group Wu-Tang Clan, formed in 1992. Jones also released music as a solo artist beginning with Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995). He was noted for his "outrageously profane, free-associative rhymes delivered in a distinctive half-rapped, half-sung style".

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Thomas M. Foglietta, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1928)

Thomas Michael Foglietta was an American politician and diplomat. He represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives from 1981 to 1997, and later served as United States Ambassador to Italy from December 1997 to October 2001.

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13/11/2002

Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1925)

Juan Alberto "Pepe" Schiaffino Villalba was a Uruguayan football player who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. A highly skilful and creative playmaker, at club level, he played for Peñarol in Uruguay, and for AC Milan, and Roma in Italy. At international level, he won the 1950 FIFA World Cup with the Uruguay national team, and also took part at the 1954 FIFA World Cup; he later also represented the Italy national football team.

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Rishikesh Shaha, Nepalese academic and politician (born 1925)

Rishikesh Shah was a Nepalese writer, politician and human rights activist.

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13/11/2001

Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter (born 1915)

Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam was an American pole vaulter who held the world record between 1940 and 1957. He missed the Olympics due to World War II, and retired from senior competitions in 1944, though he continued to vault into his sixties. He was inducted into the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame in 1974.

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13/11/1998

Edwige Feuillère, French actress (born 1907)

Edwige Feuillère was a French stage and film actress.

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Valerie Hobson, Irish-born English actress (born 1917)

Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson was a British actress whose film career spanned the 1930s to the early 1950s. Her second husband was John Profumo, a British government minister who became the subject of the Profumo affair in 1963.

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Red Holzman, American basketball player and coach (born 1920)

William "Red" Holzman was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1967 to 1977, and again from 1978 to 1982. Holzman helped lead the Knicks to two NBA championships in 1970 and 1973, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1986.

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13/11/1997

André Boucourechliev, Bulgarian-French pianist and composer (born 1925)

André Boucourechliev was a French composer of Bulgarian origin.

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13/11/1996

Bill Doggett, American pianist and composer (born 1916)

William Ballard Doggett was an American pianist and organist. He began his career playing swing music before transitioning into rhythm and blues. Best known for his instrumental compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy", Doggett was a pioneer of rock and roll. He worked with the Ink Spots, Johnny Otis, Wynonie Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Jordan.

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Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and academic (born 1959)

Dr Roberta Anne 'Bobbie' Vaile was an Australian astrophysicist and senior lecturer in physics at the Faculty of Business and Technology at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur. She was involved with Project Phoenix and influential in the establishment of the SETI Australia Centre, created at the university in 1995.

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13/11/1994

Jack Baker, American actor and screenwriter (born 1947)

John Anthony Bailey was an American actor and pornographic film actor. He appeared in mainstream film and television productions during the 1970s, most notably as C.C. McNamara on Wonderbug (1976–78), before later transitioning into an adult film career under the stage name Jack Baker.

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Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and geneticist (born 1924)

Motoo Kimura was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists. He is remembered in genetics for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation of beneficial, deleterious, or neutral alleles. Combining theoretical population genetics with molecular evolution data, he also developed the neutral theory of molecular evolution in which genetic drift is the main force changing allele frequencies. James F. Crow, himself a renowned population geneticist, considered Kimura to be one of the two greatest evolutionary geneticists, along with Gustave Malécot, after the great trio of the modern synthesis, Ronald Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright.

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13/11/1993

Rufus R. Jones, American wrestler (born 1933)

Carey L. Lloyd, also known by his ring name Rufus R. "Freight Train" Jones, was an American professional wrestler. He competed in the Central States, St. Louis and Mid-Atlantic regional promotions of the National Wrestling Alliance as well as the American Wrestling Association and All Japan Pro Wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s.

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13/11/1991

Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (born 1904)

Paul-Émile Léger was a Canadian Catholic prelate, educator, missionary, and humanitarian. A member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice, he served as Archbishop of Montreal from 1950 to 1967 and was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1953 by Pope Pius XII. Known for his eloquent preaching, progressive leadership during the Second Vatican Council, and dedication to the poor, Léger resigned his archdiocese in 1967 to pursue missionary work among lepers and the disabled in Africa, where he established numerous aid projects. His humanitarian efforts extended globally, founding several foundations that continue to operate as of 2025. Léger's legacy endures through institutions bearing his name, such as the Centre National de Réhabilitation des Personnes Handicapées Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger in Cameroon, and commemorations marking his contributions to ecumenism, social justice, and church reform. He was the elder brother of Jules Léger, who served as Governor General of Canada from 1974 to 1979.

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13/11/1990

Helen Dettweiler, American golfer (born 1914)

Elizabeth Helen Dettweiler was an American professional golfer. She was one of the co-founders of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. She won the Women's Western Open in 1939.

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13/11/1989

Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (born 1964)

Victor Davis, CM was a Canadian Olympic and world champion swimmer who specialized in the breaststroke. He also enjoyed success in the individual medley and the butterfly.

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Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (born 1906)

Franz Joseph II was the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein from 25 July 1938 until his death in November 1989.

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Rohana Wijeweera, Sri Lankan rebel and politician (born 1943)

Patabendi Don Jinadasa Nandasiri Wijeweera, better known as Rohana Wijeweera, was a Sri Lankan Marxist–Leninist political activist, revolutionary, and founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Wijeweera led the party in two unsuccessful insurrections in Sri Lanka, in 1971 and 1987 until his assassination.

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Dorothea Krook-Gilead, Latvian-South African author, translator and scholar (born 1920)

Dorothea Krook-Gilead was an Israeli literary scholar, translator, and professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University.

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13/11/1988

Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (born 1906)

Antal Doráti was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943.

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Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (born 1902)

Jaromír Vejvoda was a Czech composer. He is best known as the author of the "Beer Barrel Polka".

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13/11/1986

Franco Cortese, Italian race car driver (born 1903)

Franco Cortese was an Italian racing driver. He entered 156 races between 1927 and 1958, of which one was a Formula 1 Grand Prix and three were Formula 2 Grands Prix. Cortese holds the record of most finishes in a Mille Miglia race: fourteen.

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13/11/1983

Henry Jamison Handy, American swimmer and water polo player (born 1886)

Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy was an American Olympic breaststroke swimmer, water polo player, and founder of the Jam Handy Organization (JHO), a producer of commercially sponsored motion pictures, slidefilms, trade shows, industrial theater and multimedia training aids. Credited as the first person to imagine distance learning, Handy made his first film in 1910 and presided over a company that produced an estimated 7,000 motion pictures and perhaps as many as 100,000 slidefilms before it was dissolved in 1983.

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Junior Samples, American comedian and actor (born 1926)

Alvin Samples Jr., better known as Junior Samples, was an American comedian best known for his 14-year run as a cast member of the television show Hee Haw.

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13/11/1982

Hugues Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 15th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1911)

Hugues Lapointe was a Canadian lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1966 to 1978.

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13/11/1979

Dimitris Psathas, Greek playwright and academic (born 1907)

Dimitris Psathas was a modern Greek satirist and playwright. He was born in Trabzon of Pontos, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1907.

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13/11/1975

Olga Bergholz, Russian poet and playwright (born 1910)

Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, playwright and journalist. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's siege, when she became the symbol of the city's resilience.

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13/11/1974

Vittorio De Sica, Italian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1901)

Vittorio De Sica was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.

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Karen Silkwood, American technician and activist (born 1946)

Karen Gay Silkwood was an American laboratory technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility.

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13/11/1973

Lila Lee, American actress (born 1901)

Lila Lee was a prominent screen actress, primarily a leading lady, of the silent film and early sound film eras.

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Bruno Maderna, Italian-German conductor and composer (born 1920)

Bruno Maderna was an Italian composer, conductor and academic teacher.

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13/11/1970

Bessie Braddock, British politician (born 1899)

Elizabeth Margaret Braddock was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Liverpool Exchange division from 1945 to 1970. She was a member of Liverpool County Borough Council from 1930 to 1961. Although she never held office in government, she won a national reputation for her forthright campaigns in connection with housing, public health and other social issues.

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13/11/1969

Iskander Mirza, Indian-Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (born 1899)

Iskander Ali Mirza was a Pakistani politician and military general who served as the fourth and last governor-general of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956, and then as the first president of Pakistan from the promulgation of the first constitution in 1956 until his overthrow in a coup d'état in 1958, following his declaration of martial law and unilateral abrogation of the constitution.

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13/11/1963

Margaret Murray, Indian-English anthropologist and author (born 1863)

Margaret Alice Murray was a British Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935. She was president of the Folklore Society from 1953 to 1955, and published widely.

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13/11/1961

Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (born 1897)

Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. was an American diplomat who served as ambassador to several countries between the 1930s and 1961. He served in the United States Army during World Wars I and II, continuing after the war and rising from an enlisted Private to a commissioned major general.

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13/11/1955

Bernard DeVoto, American historian and author (born 1897)

Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy Chair, an influential column in Harper's Magazine. DeVoto also wrote several well-regarded novels and during the 1950s served as a speech-writer for Adlai Stevenson. His friend and biographer, Wallace Stegner described DeVoto as "flawed, brilliant, provocative, outrageous, ... often wrong, often spectacularly right, always stimulating, sometimes infuriating, and never, never dull."

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Moshe Pesach, Greek rabbi (born 1869)

Moshe Pesach was a Greek rabbi who was the rabbi of Volos from 1892 until his death, and chief rabbi of Greece from 1946. Through his efforts, and with the assistance of the Greek authorities, the majority of the city's Jewish community was saved during the Holocaust.

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13/11/1954

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (born 1881)

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Born into the Prussian noble family von Kleist, Kleist entered the Prussian Army in 1900 and commanded a cavalry squadron during World War I. Kleist joined the Reichswehr of inter-war Germany before being discharged in 1938.

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13/11/1952

Margaret Wise Brown, American author (born 1910)

Margaret Wise Brown was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942), both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called "the laureate of the nursery" for her achievements. Besides her real name, she also used the noms-de-plume Golden MacDonald for Doubleday and Company, Timothy Hay for Harper & Brothers and Juniper Sage for William R. Scott, Inc.

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13/11/1942

Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral (born 1890)

Daniel Judson Callaghan was a United States Navy officer who served his country in two wars, in a three-decades-long career. Callaghan served on several ships during his first 20 years of service, including escort duties during World War I, and also filled some shore-based administrative roles. He later came to the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed Callaghan as his naval aide in 1938.

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13/11/1937

Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (born 1857)

Caroline Louise Dudley, known professionally as Mrs. Leslie Carter, was an American silent film and stage actress who found fame on Broadway through collaborations with impresario David Belasco. She was a beautiful and vivacious performer with strikingly red hair, known as "The American Sarah Bernhardt". She acted under her married name, Mrs. Leslie Carter, which she continued to use even after her divorce.

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13/11/1932

Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (1915) (born 1878)

Francisco Jerónimo de Jesús Lagos Cházaro Mortero was the acting President of Mexico designated by the Convention of Aguascalientes from 10 June to 10 October 1915.

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13/11/1929

Princess Viktoria of Prussia (born 1866)

Princess Viktoria of Prussia was the second daughter of Frederick III, German Emperor and his wife Victoria, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria. Born a member of the Prussian royal house of Hohenzollern, she became Princess Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe following her first marriage in 1890.

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13/11/1921

Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian scholar of Islam (born 1850)

Ignác Goldziher, often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam. Alongside Joseph Schacht and G.H.A. Juynboll, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern academic hadith studies.

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13/11/1911

Cecilie Thoresen Krog, Norwegian women's rights pioneer (born 1858)

Ida Cecilie Thoresen Krog was a Norwegian women's rights pioneer and Liberal Party politician, and the first female university student in Norway. She became famous when she was allowed to submit to examen artium in 1882, after an Act amendment had taken place. She was the first president of the women's rights association Skuld and a co-founder and vice president of its successor, the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. She was also a co-founder and board member of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association. She was active in the Liberal Party and her liberal views also colored her involvement in the women's rights movement. She was elected a deputy representative in Christiania City Council for the Liberal Party in 1901, as one of the first women elected to a political office in Norway.

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13/11/1903

Camille Pissarro, Virgin Islander-French painter (born 1830)

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

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13/11/1883

J. Marion Sims, American physician and gynecologist (born 1813)

James Marion Sims was an American physician in the field of surgery. His most famous work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth. He developed this technique via non-consensual and unanesthetized surgeries on enslaved black women Anarcha Westcott, Lucy and Betsey and impoverished Irish women. He is also remembered for inventing the Sims speculum, the Sims sigmoid catheter, and Sims' position. Against significant opposition, he established, in New York, the first hospital in the United States specifically for women. He was forced out of the hospital he founded because he insisted on treating cancer patients; he played a small role in the creation of the nation's first cancer hospital, which opened after his death.

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13/11/1872

Margaret Sarah Carpenter, English painter (born 1793)

Margaret Sarah Carpenter was an English painter. Noted in her time, she mostly painted portraits in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence. She was a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington.

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13/11/1868

Gioachino Rossini, Italian pianist and composer (born 1792)

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer and conductor of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. While he gained most of his fame for his 39 operas, he also wrote many pieces of chamber music, piano, and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity.

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13/11/1867

Adolphe Napoléon Didron, French archaeologist and historian (born 1806)

Adolphe Napoléon Didron (1806–1867) was a French art historian and archaeologist.

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13/11/1863

Ignacio Comonfort, Mexican soldier and politician. President 1855–1858 (born 1812)

Ignacio Gregorio Comonfort de los Ríos, also known as Ignacio Comonfort, was a Mexican politician and soldier who was also president during La Reforma.

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13/11/1862

Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (born 1787)

Johann Ludwig Uhland was a German poet, philologist, literary historian, lawyer and politician.

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13/11/1777

William Bowyer, English printer and author (born 1699)

William Bowyer was an English printer known as "the learned printer".

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13/11/1771

Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (born 1712)

Konrad Ernst Ackermann was a German actor.

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13/11/1770

George Grenville, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1712)

George Grenville was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, during the early reign of the young George III. He served for only two years (1763-1765), and attempted to solve the problem of the massive debt resulting from the Seven Years' War. He instituted a series of measures to increase revenue to the crown, including new taxes and enforcement of collection, and sought to bring the North American colonies under tighter crown control.

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13/11/1726

Sophia Dorothea of Celle (born 1666)

Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle was the repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain. The union with George, her first cousin, was a marriage of state, arranged by her father George William, her father-in-law the Elector of Hanover, and her mother-in-law, Electress Sophia of Hanover, first cousin of King Charles II of England.

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13/11/1650

Thomas May, English poet and historian (born 1595)

Thomas May was an English poet, dramatist and historian of the Renaissance era.

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13/11/1619

Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1555)

Ludovico Carracci was an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion and are credited with reinvigorating Italian art, especially fresco art, which was subsumed with formalistic Mannerism. He died in Bologna in 1619.

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13/11/1606

Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (born 1530)

Girolamo Mercuriale or Mercuriali was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica.

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13/11/1502

Annio da Viterbo, Italian friar, historian, and scholar (born 1432)

Annius of Viterbo was an Italian Dominican friar, scholar, and historian, born Giovanni Nanni in Viterbo. He is now remembered for his fabrications.

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13/11/1460

Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (born 1394)

Prince Henry of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known in English as Prince Henry the Navigator, was a Portuguese prince, a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and 15th-century European maritime exploration. He is regarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discovery. Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal, who founded the House of Aviz.

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13/11/1440

Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland

Joan Beaufort was the youngest of the four legitimised children and only daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, by his mistress, later wife, Katherine de Roet. Joan married Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and in her widowhood became a powerful landowner in the north of England, as countess of Westmorland. Joan was grandmother to kings Edward IV and Richard III, and great-great grandmother to Henry VIII.

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13/11/1432

Anne of Burgundy, duchess of Bedford (born 1404)

Anne of Burgundy, Duchess of Bedford was a daughter of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (1371–1419), and his wife Margaret of Bavaria (1363–1423).

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13/11/1369

Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick

Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, KG, sometimes styled as Lord Warwick, was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. His reputation as a military leader was so formidable that he was nicknamed "the devil Warwick" by the French. In 1348 he became one of the founders and the third Knight of the Order of the Garter.

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13/11/1359

Ivan II of Moscow (born 1326)

Ivan II Ivanovich the Fair was Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1353 to 1359. Until that date, he had ruled the towns of Ruza and Zvenigorod. He was the second son of Ivan Kalita, and succeeded his brother Simeon the Proud, who died of the Black Death.

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13/11/1345

Constance of Peñafiel, queen of Pedro I of Portugal (born 1323)

Constanza Manuel of Villena, was a Castilian noblewoman who by her two marriages was Queen consort of Castile and León and Infanta of Portugal.

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13/11/1319

Eric VI of Denmark (born 1274)

Eric VI Menved was King of Denmark (1286–1319). A son of King Eric V and Agnes of Brandenburg, he became king in 1286 at age 12, when his father was murdered on 22 November by unknown assailants. On account of his age, his mother ruled for him until 1294.

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13/11/1299

Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln

Oliver Sutton was a medieval Bishop of Lincoln, in England.

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13/11/1175

Henry of France, Archbishop of Reims (born c.1121)

Henry of France, bishop of Beauvais (1149–1161), then archbishop of Reims (1161–1175), was the third son of King Louis VI of France and Adelaide of Maurienne.

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13/11/1154

Iziaslav II of Kiev, Prince of Vladimir and Volyn, (born c. 1097)

Iziaslav II Mstislavich was Grand Prince of Kiev (1146–1154). He was also Prince of Pereyaslavl, Prince of Turov (1132–1134), Prince of Rostov (1134–), and Prince of Volhynia (1134–1142). He is the founder of the Iziaslavichi branch of Rurikid princes in Volhynia.

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13/11/1143

Fulk, King of Jerusalem (born 1089)

Fulk of Anjou, also known as Fulk the Younger, was the king of Jerusalem from 1131 until 1143 as the husband and co-ruler of Queen Melisende. Previously, he was the count of Anjou as Fulk V from 1109 to 1129. He had also been the count of Maine from 1110 to 1126 alongside his first wife, Countess Erembourg. His direct descendants were the rulers of the Angevin Empire and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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13/11/1093

Malcolm III of Scotland (born 1031)

Malcolm III was King of Alba (Scotland) from 1058 to 1093. He was later nicknamed "Canmore". Malcolm's long reign of 35 years preceded the beginning of the Scoto-Norman age.

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13/11/1072

Adalbero III of Luxembourg (born c. 1010)

Adalbero III of Luxembourg was a German nobleman. He was a titular Count of Luxembourg and Bishop of Metz.

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13/11/1004

Abbo of Fleury, French monk and saint (born 945)

Abbo or Abbon of Fleury, also known as Saint Abbo or Abbon, was a monk and abbot of Fleury Abbey in present-day Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire near Orléans, France.

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13/11/1002

Pallig, Danish chieftain, Jarl of Devonshire

Pallig was a Danish chieftain who joined the service of King Æthelred the Unready of England but deserted to join a Viking raid. He was said to have been the husband of Gunhilde, the sister of Sweyn Forkbeard, and to have been killed along with her in the St Brice's Day massacre in 1002.

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Gunhilde, wife of Pallig, Danish chieftain

Gunhilde is said to have been the sister of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, and the daughter of Harald Bluetooth. She was married to Pallig, a Dane who served the King of England, Æthelred the Unready, as ealdorman of Devonshire.

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13/11/0867

Pope Nicholas I (born 800)

Pope Nicholas I, called Nicholas the Great, was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 24 April 858 until his death on 13 November 867. He is the last of the three popes listed in the Annuario Pontificio with the title "the Great", alongside Leo I and Gregory I.

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