Died on Tuesday, 18th November – Famous Deaths

18/11/2024

Charles Dumont, French singer and composer (born 1929)

Charles Gaston Dumont was a French singer and composer. Dumont is best remembered for writing or co-writing more than 30 of the most well-known songs recorded by singer Édith Piaf, including "Non, je ne regrette rien".

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Arthur Frommer, American travel writer (born 1929)

Arthur Bernard Frommer was an American travel writer known for founding the Frommer's brand of travel guides.

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Bob Love, American basketball player (born 1942)

Robert Earl Love was an American professional basketball player who spent the prime of his career with the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls. A versatile forward who could shoot with either his left or right hand, Love later worked as the Bulls' director of community affairs and goodwill ambassador. Love was nicknamed "Butterbean", which dates back to his boyhood when he was fond of the legume.

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Colin Petersen, Australian drummer, record producer and actor (born 1946)

Frederick Colin Petersen was an Australian musician and actor. He played as a member of the bands Steve and the Board, the Bee Gees and Humpy Bong. In August 1969, he left the Bee Gees and he was replaced by Pentangle drummer Terry Cox to record the songs for their 1970 album Cucumber Castle. His scenes from the film of the same name were cut, and he is not credited on the accompanying album soundtrack, even though he does play on some songs.

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18/11/2022

Tabassum, Indian actress and talk show host (born 1944)

Tabassum, was an Indian actress, talk show host and YouTuber, who started her career as child actor Baby Tabassum in 1947. She later had a television career as the host of first TV talk show of Indian television, Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan. It ran on National broadcaster Doordarshan from 1972 to 1993, wherein she interviewed film and TV personalities.

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18/11/2020

Kirby Morrow, Canadian actor, comedian and writer (born 1973)

Kirby Robert Morrow was a Canadian actor, comedian and writer. In animation, he was known as the voice of Miroku from InuYasha, its four movies, and Inuyasha: The Final Act, Van Fanel from the Ocean dub of Escaflowne, Cyclops from X-Men: Evolution, Jay from Class of the Titans, Teru Mikami from Death Note, Trowa Barton from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Rey Za Burrel from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, Ryo Takatsuki from Project ARMS, Goku from Ocean Productions' dub of Dragon Ball Z, Hot Shot from Transformers: Cybertron and his main role as Cole from LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu until Seabound. On camera, he was known for the recurring role of Captain Dave Kleinman from Stargate Atlantis.

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18/11/2017

Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian hard rock guitarist (born 1953)

Malcolm Mitchell Young was an Australian musician who was a founding member of the hard rock band AC/DC. Young was a rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and backing vocalist in the band. Except for a brief absence in 1988, Young was a member of AC/DC from its formation in 1973 until his retirement in 2014. As a member of AC/DC, Young was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Young and his younger brother and fellow AC/DC member Angus Young the 38th-best guitarists of all time.

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18/11/2016

Sharon Jones, American soul and funk singer (born 1956)

Sharon Lafaye Jones was an American soul and funk singer. She was the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a soul and funk band based in Brooklyn, New York. Jones experienced breakthrough success relatively late in life, releasing her first record when she was 40 years old. In 2014, Jones was nominated for her first Grammy, in the category Best R&B Album, for Give the People What They Want.

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Denton Cooley, American surgeon and scientist (born 1920)

Denton Arthur Cooley was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and a clinical professor of Surgery at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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18/11/2015

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Belgian-Moroccan terrorist (born 1987)

Abdelhamid Abaaoud was a Belgian-born French Islamic terrorist who had spent time in Syria and was suspected of having organized multiple terror attacks in Belgium and France, and is known to have masterminded and participated in the November 2015 Paris attacks. Prior to the Paris attacks, there was an international arrest warrant issued for Abaaoud for his activities in recruiting individuals to Islamic terrorism in Syria.

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Dan Halldorson, Canadian-American golfer (born 1952)

Daniel Albert Halldorson was a Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Canadian Tour.

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Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (born 1975)

Jonah Tali Lomu was a New Zealand professional rugby union player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players in the history of the sport, and as one of the most talented sportsmen ever. Lomu is considered to have been the first true global superstar of rugby, and consequently had a huge impact on the game.

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18/11/2014

Dave Appell, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1922)

David Appell was an American musician, arranger and record producer born in Philadelphia.

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Pepe Eliaschev, Argentinian journalist and author (born 1945)

José Ricardo Eliaschev, better known as Pepe Eliaschev, was an Argentine journalist and writer.

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Ahmad Lozi, Jordanian educator and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Jordan (born 1925)

Ahmad Lozi was a Jordanian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Jordan from 29 November 1971 to 26 May 1973. He succeeded Wasfi al-Tal who had been assassinated by the Black September Organization. In the 1960s he had already served as member of the House of Representatives and the Senate. He also had terms as Minister for Prime ministry affairs, Municipal Affairs and Finance. He served as Chief of the Royal Court from 1979 to 1984. This was followed by the presidency of the Senate for thirteen years, from 1984 to 1997. In 2011 he headed a committee to oversee changes to the Constitution of Jordan.

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C. Rudhraiya, Indian director and producer (born 1947)

Rudraiah Chockalingam was an Indian film director most known for directing the film, Aval Appadithan (1978) which starred Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Sripriya.

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18/11/2013

Thomas Howard, American football player (born 1983)

Thomas Arquis Howard was an American professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2006 NFL draft. He also played for the Cincinnati Bengals and Atlanta Falcons. He played college football for the University of Texas at El Paso.

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S. R. D. Vaidyanathan, Indian nadaswaram player and composer (born 1929)

SRD Vaidyanathan was an Indian musician who played the Nadaswaram.

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Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (born 1947)

Ljubomir Vračarević, was a Serbian martial artist and founder of Real Aikido.

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Peter Wintonick, Canadian director and producer (born 1953)

Peter Kenneth Wintonick was a Canadian independent documentary filmmaker based in Montreal. A winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, former Thinker in Residence for the Premier of South Australia, prolific award-winning filmmaker, he was one of Canada's best known international documentarians.

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18/11/2012

Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, Spanish clown, singer, and accordion player (born 1929)

Emilio Alberto Aragón Bermúdez, better known as Miliki, was a Spanish clown, accordionist and singer, he was a member of the artist family Aragón. He was declared Son of the City of Carmona and received the Silver Medal of that town.

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Phoebe Hearst Cooke, American businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1927)

Phoebe Millicent Hearst Cooke was an American businesswoman, philanthropist and heiress of the wealthy Hearst family. She served on the board of directors of the Hearst Corporation from 1962 to 1998. She was a granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst. Her twin brother was former Hearst Corporation chairman George Randolph Hearst Jr., who died earlier that year, in June 2012.

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18/11/2010

Freddy Beras-Goico, Dominican comedian and television host (born 1940)

Freddy Reinaldo Antonio Beras-Goico, popularly known as "Freddy Beras" or just "Beras-Goico", was a Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality for over 30 years. He hosted the TV show El Gordo de La Semana and he was a staple of primetime TV. He was one of the most recognized personalities in the Dominican Republic.

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Brian G. Marsden, English-American astronomer and academic (born 1937)

Brian Geoffrey Marsden was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

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18/11/2009

Red Robbins, American basketball player (born 1944)

Austin "Red" Robbins was an American basketball player.

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18/11/2005

Harold J. Stone, American actor (born 1911)

Harold J. Stone was an American stage, radio, film, and television character actor.

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18/11/2004

Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic (born 1905)

Robert Fox Bacher was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Born in Loudonville, Ohio, Bacher obtained his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan, writing his 1930 doctoral thesis under the supervision of Samuel Goudsmit on the Zeeman effect of the hyperfine structure of atomic levels. After graduate work at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he accepted a job at Columbia University. In 1935 he accepted an offer from Hans Bethe to work with him at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It was there that Bacher collaborated with Bethe on his book Nuclear Physics. A: Stationary States of Nuclei (1936), the first of three books that would become known as the "Bethe Bible".

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Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (born 1929)

Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.

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18/11/2003

Michael Kamen, American composer and conductor (born 1948)

Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer, arranger, conductor, songwriter, and musician. He began his work as a pop and rock music arranger, notably for Pink Floyd, and was a member of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and the Roger Waters Band. Starting in the mid-1980s, he achieved further prominence as a composer of film scores.

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18/11/2002

James Coburn, American actor (born 1928)

James Harrison Coburn III was an American actor who featured in more than 70 films, largely action roles, and made 100 television appearances during a 45-year career.

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18/11/2001

Walter Matuszczak, Polish-American football player 1939 All-America, 1941 New York Giants draft (born 1918)

Walter John Matuszczak later changed the spelling of his last name to Matuszak was an American football player and veterinarian. Founder of DeWitt Animal Hospital in New York, he practiced there until 1971. Dr. Matuszak owned Wa-Noa Golf Club in East Syracuse, New York. A World War II veteran, Dr. Matuszak served as a captain in the Army Veterinary Corps.

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18/11/1999

Paul Bowles, American composer and author (born 1910)

Paul Frederic Bowles was an American composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.

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Doug Sahm, American singer and guitarist (born 1941)

Douglas Wayne Sahm was an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from San Antonio, Texas. He is regarded as a key Tex-Mex music and Texan Music performer. San Antonio's conjunto and blues and later the hippie scene of San Francisco helped create his blend of music, with which he found success performing in 1970s Austin, Texas.

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18/11/1998

Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (born 1936)

Tara Singh Hayer was an Indian-Canadian newspaper publisher and editor who was murdered after his outspoken criticism of fundamentalist violence and terrorism. In particular, he was a key witness in the trial of the Air India Flight 182 bombing.

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18/11/1995

Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist (born 1909)

Miron Grindea was a Romanian-British literary journalist and the editor of ADAM International Review, a literary magazine published for more than 50 years. In 1984, ADAM was said to be "the world's longest surviving literary magazine". Its title was an acronym for "Arts, Drama, Architecture and Music".

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18/11/1994

Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (The Cab Calloway Orchestra) (born 1907)

Cabell Calloway III was an American jazz singer, songwriter and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era. His niche of mixing jazz and vaudeville won him acclaim during a career that spanned over 65 years.

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Anselm Franz, Austrian jet engine pioneer (born 1900)

Anselm Franz was a pioneering Austrian jet engine engineer known for the development of the Jumo 004, the world's first mass-produced turbojet engine by Nazi Germany during World War II, and his work on turboshaft designs in the United States after the war as part of Operation Paperclip, including the Lycoming T53, the Honeywell T55, the AGT-1500, and the PLF1A-2, the world's first high-bypass turbofan engine.

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Peter Ledger, Australian painter and illustrator (born 1945)

Peter Ledger was an Australian cartoonist, comic book artist, commercial airbrush artist, and illustrator.

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18/11/1991

Gustáv Husák, Slovak lawyer and politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1913)

Gustáv Husák was a Czechoslovak politician who served as the long-time First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1987 and the President of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1989.

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18/11/1987

Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (born 1934)

Jacques Anquetil was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.

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18/11/1986

Gia Carangi, American model (born 1960)

Gia Marie Carangi was an American supermodel, considered by some to be the first supermodel. In 2023, Harper's Bazaar ranked her 15th among the greatest supermodels in the 1980s. She was featured on the cover of numerous magazines, including multiple editions of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, and appeared in advertising campaigns for fashion houses including Armani, Dior, Versace and Yves Saint Laurent.

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18/11/1984

Mary Hamman, American journalist and author (born 1907)

Mary Hamman was an American writer and editor. She was an editor for Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping, Mademoiselle, as well as the modern living editor for LIFE and editor-in-chief for Bride & Home.

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18/11/1980

Conn Smythe, Canadian soldier, ice hockey player, and businessman (born 1895)

Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and executive in ice hockey and horse racing. He was best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of the Maple Leaf Gardens hockey arena. He first joined the Maple Leafs in 1927 when the Toronto NHL franchise was in financial trouble. Under the threat of being moved, he organized a partnership to buy the team and keep it in Toronto. It was at his instigation that the team became known as the Maple Leaf club. He would remain involved with the franchise until the 1960s. The club was very successful during his ownership and his name appears on the Stanley Cup eight times. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder. In his honour, the Gardens gave the NHL the Conn Smythe Trophy, given to the most valuable player of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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18/11/1979

Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1901)

Frederick Landis Fitzsimmons was an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher, manager, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1925 to 1943 with the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. Nicknamed Fat Freddie, and known for his mastery of the knuckle curve, Fitzsimmons' 217 wins were the third most by a National League (NL) right-hander in the period from 1920 to 1955, trailing only Burleigh Grimes and Paul Derringer. In 1940 he set an NL record, which stood until 1959, with a single-season winning percentage of .889 (16–2). He was an agile fielder in spite of his heavy build, holding the major league record for career double plays (79) from 1938 to 1964, and tying another record by leading the league in putouts four times; he ranked eighth in NL history in putouts (237) and ninth in fielding percentage (.977) when his career ended.

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18/11/1978

Jim Jones, American cult leader, founded Peoples Temple (born 1931)

James Warren Jones was an American cult leader, preacher, and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder–suicide that resulted in the deaths of over 900 people including 304 children, which he described as "revolutionary suicide", a term coined by Huey P. Newton, in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978, including the assassination of U.S. congressman Leo Ryan. Jonestown had a defining influence on society's perception of cults.

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Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (born 1925)

Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. was an American politician and teacher. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented California's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 until his assassination in the Jonestown massacre in 1978. Before that, he served in the California State Assembly, representing the state's 27th district.

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18/11/1977

Kurt Schuschnigg, Italian-Austrian lawyer and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (born 1897)

Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany. Although Schuschnigg considered Austria a "German state" and Austrians to be Germans, he was strongly opposed to Adolf Hitler's goal to absorb Austria into the Third Reich and wished for it to remain independent.

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18/11/1976

Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (born 1890)

Man Ray was an American-born, French-naturalized visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all.

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18/11/1972

Danny Whitten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crazy Horse) (born 1943)

Danny Ray Whitten was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse, and for the song "I Don't Want to Talk About It", a hit for Rod Stewart and Everything but the Girl.

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18/11/1969

Ted Heath, English trombonist and bandleader (born 1902)

George Edward Heath was a British musician and big band leader.

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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (born 1888)

Joseph Patrick Kennedy was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. Known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children, he was the patriarch of the Kennedy family.

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18/11/1965

Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and bureaucrat, 33rd Vice President of the United States, 11th US Secretary of Agriculture (born 1888)

Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agriculture and the 10th U.S. secretary of commerce. He was the nominee of the new Progressive Party in the 1948 presidential election.

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18/11/1962

Niels Bohr, Danish footballer, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)

Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.

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18/11/1952

Paul Éluard, French poet and author (born 1895)

Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.

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18/11/1941

Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet and author (born 1879)

Émile Nelligan was a French Canadian Symbolist poet influenced by Romanticism. Although he almost entirely ceased writing poetry after being institutionalized at the age of nineteen, Nelligan remains an iconic figure in Quebecois culture and was considered by Edmund Wilson to be the greatest Canadian poet in any language.

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Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)

Walther Hermann Nernst was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for developing the Nernst equation in 1887.

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Chris Watson, Chilean-Australian journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1867)

John Christian Watson was an Australian politician who served as the third prime minister of Australia from April to August 1904. He held office as the inaugural federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1901 to 1907 and was the first member of the party to serve as prime minister.

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18/11/1940

Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian and academic (born 1876)

Ivane Alexandres dze Javakhishvili was a Georgian historian and linguist whose works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia. He was one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University (1918) and its rector from 1919 to 1926.

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18/11/1936

V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1872)

Valliappan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, businessman, Tamil scholar, and politician. He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISNC). He launched the first indigenous Indian shipping service between Tuticorin in British India and Colombo in Ceylon. Once a member of the Indian National Congress, he was later charged with sedition by the British government and sentenced to life imprisonment, and his barrister license was revoked. He is known by the epithet Kappalottiya Tamizhan. Tuticorin Port Trust, one of India's thirteen major ports, is named after him.

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18/11/1927

Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona Italian race car driver, explorer, and politician (born 1871)

Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver belonging to the House of Borghese.

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18/11/1922

Marcel Proust, French author and critic (born 1871)

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.

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18/11/1909

Renée Vivien, English-French poet (born 1877)

Renée Vivien was a British poet who wrote in the French language. A high-profile lesbian writer in Paris during the Belle Époque era, she is widely considered to be one of the first noteworthy lesbian poets of the twentieth century. Her work has recently received more attention due to a revival of interest in Sapphic verse. Many of her poems are autobiographical, pertaining mostly to Baudelarian themes of extreme romanticism and frequent despair. Apart from poetry, she wrote several works of prose, including L'Etre Double, and an unfinished biography of Anne Boleyn, which was published posthumously. She has also been the subject of multiple biographies, most notably those by Jean-Paul Goujon, André Germain, and Yves-Gerard Le Dantec. A novel based on her life was written by the Catalan poet Maria Mercè Marçal in 1994, and translated into English in 2020 as The Passion according to Renée Vivien.

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18/11/1889

William Allingham, Irish-English poet and scholar (born 1824)

William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known artist, watercolourist and illustrator.

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18/11/1886

Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (born 1829)

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. Assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination, Arthur's administration saw the largest expansion of the U.S. Navy, the end of the so-called "spoils system", and the implementation of harsher restrictions for migrants entering from abroad.

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18/11/1852

Rose Philippine Duchesne, French-American nun and saint (born 1769)

Rose Philippine Duchesne, RSCJ, was a French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988. A native of France, she immigrated as a missionary to America, and is recognized for her care and education of Indigenous American survivors of the United States Indian removal programs.

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18/11/1841

Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (born 1785)

Agustín Gamarra Messia was a Peruvian soldier and politician, who served twice as President of Peru.

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18/11/1839

Wilhelmine von Wrochem, German flutist, singer and actress (born 1798)

Wilhelmine von Wrochem was a German flutist, soprano opera singer and stage actress.

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18/11/1830

Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (born 1748)

Johann Adam Weishaupt was a German philosopher, professor of civil law and later canon law, and founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.

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18/11/1814

William Jessop, English engineer (born 1745)

William Jessop was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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18/11/1804

Philip Schuyler, American general and senator (born 1733)

Philip John Schuyler was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J. Schuyler.

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18/11/1797

Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (born 1719)

Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat was a prominent shipbuilder and merchant of the port of Bordeaux in the late 18th century. His son, André-Daniel Laffon de Ladebat, succeeded him, and later became involved in politics. In 1789, he participated in the French Revolution.

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18/11/1785

Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (born 1725)

Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, known as le Gros, was a French royal of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon. The First Prince of the Blood after 1752, he was the most senior male at the French court after the immediate royal family. He was the father of Philippe Égalité. He greatly augmented the already huge wealth of the House of Orléans.

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18/11/1724

Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese priest (born 1685)

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a Catholic priest and naturalist born in colonial Brazil, who was a pioneer of lighter-than-air aerostat design, being among the first scholars at that time to understand the operational principles of the hot air balloon and to build a functional prototype of such a device. He is also one of the main characters in Nobel Prize-winning José Saramago's Baltasar and Blimunda.

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18/11/1664

Miklós Zrínyi, Croatian and Hungarian military leader and statesman (born 1620)

Miklós Zrínyi was a Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet. He was a member of the House of Zrinski, a Croatian-Hungarian noble family. He is the author of the first epic poem, The Peril of Sziget, in Hungarian literature.

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18/11/1590

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander and politician, Lord High Steward of Ireland (born 1528)

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 6th Earl of Waterford, 12th Baron Talbot, KG, Earl Marshal (c. 1522/1528 – 18 November 1590) was an English magnate and military commander. He also held the subsidiary titles of 15th Baron Strange of Blackmere and 11th Baron Furnivall. He was best known for his tenure as keeper of Mary, Queen of Scots between 1568 and 1585, his marriage to his second wife Elizabeth Talbot, as well as his surviving collection of written work.

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18/11/1565

Yun Wŏnhyŏng, Korean writer and politician (born 1509)

Yun Wŏnhyŏng was a Korean political figure of the Joseon period. He was the younger brother of Queen Munjeong, the 3rd wife of the 11th King Jungjong of Joseon and was the maternal uncle of the 13th King Myeongjong.

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18/11/1559

Cuthbert Tunstall, English bishop (born 1474)

Cuthbert Tunstall was an English humanist, bishop, diplomat, administrator and royal adviser. He served as Bishop of Durham during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. He has been described as having "invincible" or "burning moderation" on Erasmian Catholic lines.

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18/11/1482

Gedik Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman politician, 17th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

Gedik Ahmed Pasha was an Ottoman statesman and admiral who served as grand vizier and kapudan pasha during the reigns of sultans Mehmed II and Bayezid II.

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18/11/1472

Basilius Bessarion, titular patriarch of Constantinople (born c. 1403)

Bessarion was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the revival of letters in the 15th century. He was educated by Gemistus Pletho in Neoplatonic philosophy and later served as the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople. He eventually was named a cardinal and was twice considered for the papacy.

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18/11/1441

Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer

Roger Bolingbroke was a 15th-century English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. He flourished in the first half of the 15th century. He was tried, convicted and executed for treasonable witchcraft on the person of Henry VI of England.

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18/11/1349

Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (born 1310)

Frederick II was the margrave of Meissen from 1323 until his death.

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18/11/1313

Constance of Portugal, Portuguese infanta (born 1290)

Constance of Portugal, was Queen of Castile by her marriage to Ferdinand IV.

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18/11/1305

John II, duke of Brittany (born 1239)

John II reigned as Duke of Brittany from 1286 until his death, and was also Earl of Richmond in the Peerage of England. He took part in two crusades prior to his accession to the ducal throne. As a duke, John was involved in the conflicts between the kings of France and England. He was crushed to death in an accident during the celebrations of a papal coronation.

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18/11/1259

Adam Marsh, English scholar and theologian

Adam Marsh was an English Franciscan, scholar and theologian. Marsh became, after Robert Grosseteste, "...the most eminent master of England."

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18/11/1170

Albert the Bear, margrave of Brandenburg (born c. 1100)

Albert the Bear was the first margrave of Brandenburg from 1157 to his death and was briefly duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142.

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18/11/1154

Adelaide of Maurienne, French queen consort (born 1092)

Adelaide de Maurienne, also called Adelaide de Savoye, Alix, or Adele, was Queen of France as the second wife of King Louis VI (1115–1137).

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18/11/1100

Thomas of Bayeux, archbishop of York

Thomas of Bayeux was Archbishop of York from 1070 until 1100. He was educated at Liège and became a royal chaplain to Duke William of Normandy, who later became King William I of England. After the Norman Conquest, the king nominated Thomas to succeed Ealdred as Archbishop of York. After Thomas's election, Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, demanded an oath from Thomas to obey him and any future Archbishops of Canterbury; this was part of Lanfranc's claim that Canterbury was the primary bishopric, and its holder the head of the English Church. Thomas countered that York had never made such an oath. As a result, Lanfranc refused to consecrate him. The King eventually persuaded Thomas to submit, but Thomas and Lanfranc continued to clash over ecclesiastical issues, including the primacy of Canterbury, which dioceses belonged to the province of York, and the question of how York's obedience to Canterbury would be expressed.

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18/11/0953

Liutgard of Saxony, duchess of Lorraine (born 931)

Liutgarde of Saxony, a member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duchess of Lorraine from 947 until her death by her marriage with Duke Conrad the Red. She and Conrad became progenitors of the Salian dynasty.

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18/11/0942

Odo of Cluny, Frankish abbot and saint (born c. 878)

Odo of Cluny was the second abbot of Cluny.

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