Died on Tuesday, 4th November – Famous Deaths

04/11/2024

Bernard Marcus, American billionaire businessman and philanthropist (born 1929)

Bernard Marcus was an American billionaire businessman. He co-founded Home Depot in 1978. He was the company's first CEO and first chairman until retiring in 2002. In November 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$10.3 billion. He was a major donor to the Republican Party, including Donald Trump's presidential campaigns.

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Murray Sinclair, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1951)

Calvin Murray Sinclair was a Canadian politician and lawyer. On April 2, 2016, Sinclair was appointed to the Senate of Canada, serving until his resignation on January 31, 2021. Prior to his appointment to the senate, he was chair of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2009 to 2015.

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04/11/2023

Akbar Golpayegani, Iranian vocalist (born 1934)

Akbar Golpayegani, also known as Golpa, was an Iranian traditional singer.

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04/11/2020

Ken Hensley, English rock singer-songwriter and musician (born 1945)

Kenneth William David Hensley was an English musician, singer, songwriter and producer, best known for his work with Uriah Heep during the 1970s.

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04/11/2019

Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster (born 1934)

Gabriel Mary Byrne was an Irish presenter and host of radio and television. His most notable role was as the first host of The Late Late Show over a 37-year period spanning 1962 until 1999. The Late Late Show is the world's longest-running live chat show. He was affectionately known as "Uncle Gay", "Gaybo" or "Uncle Gaybo". His time working in Britain with Granada Television saw him become the first person to introduce the Beatles on-screen, and Byrne was later the first to introduce Boyzone on-screen in 1993. According to Byrne, Paul McCartney asked him to be the Beatles' agent during a sound check for his show but he declined the offer.

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04/11/2017

Isabel Granada, Filipino-Spanish actress and singer (born 1976)

Isabella Villarama Granada was a Filipino actress and singer.

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Ned Romero, American actor and opera singer (born 1926)

Ned Romero was an American actor and opera singer who appeared in television and film.

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04/11/2016

Catherine Davani, first female Papua New Guinean judge (born 1960)

Catherine Anne Davani was a Papua New Guinean judge. She was the first female to serve as a judge of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea from 2001 until her death.

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Mansour Pourheidari, Iranian football player and coach (born 1946)

Mansour Pourheidari was an Iranian football player, coach and manager.

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04/11/2015

Piotr Domaradzki, Polish-American historian and journalist (born 1946)

Piotr Krystian Domaradzki was a Polish-American journalist, essayist and historian who, during a longtime association with Chicago's Polish community, worked for 30 years at Dziennik Związkowy, the oldest and largest Polish-language newspaper in the United States. From October 2009 to March 2013, he served as the paper's editor-in-chief. He emigrated from Poland in 1984 and became a U.S. citizen in 1996.

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René Girard, French-American historian, philosopher, and critic (born 1923)

René Noël Théophile Girard was a French academic best known for developing mimetic theory, which posits that human desire is fundamentally imitative, leading to rivalry, violence and the scapegoat mechanism as foundations of religion and culture. Holding academic appointments primarily in literature departments in the United States, his interdisciplinary work influenced fields ranging from theology to economics to psychology and cultural studies.

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Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (born 1950)

Károly Horváth was a Romanian-born composer and musician. He spent most of his professional life in Hungarian theatre.

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Lee Robinson, American lawyer and politician (born 1943)

William Lee Robinson was an American politician who was the Mayor of Macon, Georgia from 1987–1991, and a four-term State Senator of Georgia. At the time of his death, Lee Robinson was serving as the Circuit Public Defender of the Macon (Georgia) Judicial Circuit, which includes Bibb, Peach and Crawford Counties.

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04/11/2014

Enrique Olivera, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires (born 1940)

Enrique Olivera was an Argentine politician who served as Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires from December 1999 to August 2000.

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George Edgar Slusser, American author and academic (born 1939)

George Edgar Slusser was an American scholar, professor and writer. Slusser was a well-known science fiction critic. A professor emeritus of comparative literature at University of California, Riverside, he was the first curator of the Eaton collection.

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S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (born 1915)

Stanley Donald Stookey was an American inventor. He had 60 patents in his name related to glass and ceramics. His discoveries and inventions have contributed to the development of ceramics, eyeglasses, sunglasses, cookware, defense systems, and electronics.

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04/11/2013

John D. Hawk, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1924)

John Druse "Bud" Hawk was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II during the battle of the Falaise pocket.

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Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (born 1929)

Leonid Naumovich Stolovich was a Russian-Estonian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966) and professor (1967). Stolovich graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952, from 1953 on he worked at Tartu University, Estonia, from 1994 on as a professor emeritus. Above all, Stolovich studied esthetics: its history, theories of esthetics and axiology. He is the author of more than forty books and 400 publications in 20 languages.

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Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (born 1928)

Ray Willsey was an American gridiron football player and coach. He was the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964 to 1971. During his tenure he compiled a 40–42–1 record. He was inducted into the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.

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04/11/2012

David Resnick, Brazilian-Israeli architect, designed Yad Kennedy (born 1924)

David Reznik was a Brazilian-born Israeli architect and town planner whose awards include the Israel Prize in architecture and the Rechter Prize. Resnick, whose name is sometimes spelled in English as "Reznik" or "Reznick," is a past director of the Israeli Architects Association, and is known as one of Israel's "most celebrated modern architects".

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04/11/2011

Arnold Green, Latvian-Estonian soldier and politician (born 1920)

Arnold Green was a Soviet and Estonian politician and president of the Estonian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1997, leader of the Estonian Olympic team for the Games in Albertville, Barcelona, Lillehammer and Atlanta and former President of the Estonian Wrestling League and the Estonian Skiing League.

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Andy Rooney, American author, critic, journalist, and television personality (born 1919)

Andrew Aitken Rooney was an American radio and television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired on October 2, 2011; he died a month later at the age of 92.

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04/11/2010

Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (born 1934)

George Lee "Sparky" Anderson was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach, and manager. He managed the National League's Cincinnati Reds from 1970 to 1978 and the American League's Detroit Tigers from 1979 to 1995. Anderson managed the Reds to two World Series championships in 1975 and 1976, then added a third title in 1984 with the Tigers. Anderson was the first manager to win the World Series in both leagues. His 2,194 career wins are the sixth-most for a manager in Major League history. In his 26-year career, Anderson had only five losing seasons as manager. His 1,331 wins with the Tigers are the most for any manager in team history. Anderson was named American League Manager of the Year in 1984 and 1987. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.

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04/11/2009

Hubertus Brandenburg, German bishop (born 1923)

Hubertus Brandenburg was a Catholic bishop of Stockholm. He was ordained priest in Osnabrück on 20 December 1952. On 12 December 1974, he was appointed by Pope Paul VI as auxiliary bishop of Osnabrück. On 21 November 1977, he was appointed as Bishop of Stockholm. He resigned in 1998, and was succeeded by Bishop Anders Arborelius.

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04/11/2008

Michael Crichton, American physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1942)

John Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. Crichton's novels often explore human technological advancement and attempted dominance over nature, both with frequently catastrophic results; many of his works are cautionary tales, especially regarding themes of biotechnology. Several of his stories center on themes of genetic modification, hybridization, paleontology and/or zoology. Many feature medical or scientific underpinnings, reflective of his own medical background.

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Rosella Hightower, American ballerina (born 1920)

Rosella Hightower was an American ballerina and member of the Choctaw Nation. One of the Five Moons, she achieved fame in both the United States and Europe, and later enjoyed a career as an instructor and opera director.

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Juan Camilo Mouriño, French-Mexican economist and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (born 1971)

Juan Camilo Mouriño Terrazo was a Spanish-born Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN) and the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.

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04/11/2007

Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (born 1926)

Karl Rebane was a Soviet and Estonian physicist.

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Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (born 1920)

Peter Viertel was an author and screenwriter.

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04/11/2006

Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1915)

Frank Arthur Calder, was a Nisga'a politician in Canada.

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Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (born 1908)

Ernestine Moller Gilbreth Carey was an American writer.

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04/11/2005

Nadia Anjuman, Afghan journalist and poet (born 1980)

Nadia Anjuman was a poet from Afghanistan.

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Sheree North, American actress and dancer (born 1932)

Sheree North was an American actress, dancer, and singer, known for being one of 20th Century-Fox's intended successors to Marilyn Monroe.

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Graham Payn, South African-born English actor and singer (born 1918)

Graham Payn was a South African-born actor and singer, also known for being the life partner of the playwright Noël Coward. Beginning as a boy soprano, Payn later made a career as a singer and actor in the works of Coward and others. After Coward's death, Payn ran the Coward estate for 22 years.

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Hiro Takahashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1964)

Hiro Takahashi , born as Hiroyuki Takahashi , was a Japanese singer, lyricist, and composer.

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04/11/2003

Charles Causley, Cornish author and poet (born 1917)

Charles Stanley Causley CBE FRSL was a Cornish poet, school teacher and writer. His work is often noted for its simplicity and directness as well as its associations with folklore, legends and magic, especially when linked to his native Cornwall.

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Richard Wollheim, English philosopher, author, and academic (born 1923)

Richard Arthur Wollheim was a British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions, especially as related to the visual arts, specifically, painting. Wollheim served as the president of the British Society of Aesthetics from 1992 onwards until his death in 2003.

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04/11/1999

Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (born 1958)

Malcolm Denzil Marshall was a Barbadian cricketer. Primarily a fast bowler, Marshall is widely regarded as one of the greatest and one of the most accomplished fast bowlers of the modern era in Test cricket. He is often acknowledged as the greatest West Indian fast bowler of all time, and one of the most complete fast bowlers in the history of cricket. His Test bowling average of 20.94 is the second best of anyone who has taken 200 or more wickets.

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04/11/1997

Richard Hooker, American novelist (born 1924)

Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work is his novel MASH (1968), based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon during the Korean War and written in collaboration with W. C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for the award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie M*A*S*H (1970) — and two years later, the acclaimed long running television series of the same title.

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04/11/1995

Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher and scholar (born 1925)

Gilles Louis René Deleuze was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered to be his magnum opus.

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Paul Eddington, English actor (born 1927)

Paul Clark Eddington was an English actor who played Jerry Leadbetter in the television sitcom The Good Life (1975–1978) and politician Jim Hacker in the sitcom Yes Minister (1980–1984) and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1988). He was a four-time BAFTA TV and two-time Olivier Award nominee.

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Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (born 1922)

Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister of Israel, having served two terms in office, 1974–1977, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. He was the first prime minister to have been born in the region of Palestine, at the time under British control.

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Morrie Schwartz, American sociologist, author, and academic (born 1916)

Morris S. Schwartz was an American professor of sociology at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, a former student of Schwartz. He was portrayed by Jack Lemmon in the 1999 television film adaptation of the book.

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04/11/1994

Sam Francis, American soldier and painter (born 1923)

Samuel Lewis Francis was an American painter and printmaker.

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04/11/1992

George Klein, Canadian engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair (born 1904)

George Johann Klein, was a Canadian inventor who is widely regarded as the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century. Although he struggled as a high school student, he eventually graduated from the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering. His inventions include key contributions to the first electric wheelchairs for quadriplegics, a novel microsurgical suturing device, the ZEEP nuclear reactor which was the precursor to the CANDU reactor, the international system for classifying ground-cover snow, aircraft skis, the Weasel all-terrain vehicle, the STEM antenna for the space program, and the Canadarm.

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04/11/1988

Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer and manager (born 1916)

Kleanthis Vikelidis was a Greek footballer who played for Aris and Greece. He was also a manager, taking charge of Aris, PAOK and Apollon Kalamarias.

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04/11/1986

Kurt Hirsch, German-English mathematician and academic (born 1906)

Kurt August Hirsch was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. His research was in group theory. He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion. The Hirsch length and Hirsch–Plotkin radical are named after him.

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04/11/1984

Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, Turkish poet and author (born 1926)

Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan was a Turkish poet.

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04/11/1982

Burhan Felek, Turkish lawyer and journalist (born 1889)

Burhan Felek was a Turkish journalist, columnist, sportsperson and writer.

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Gil Whitney, American journalist (born 1940)

Gilman "Gil" Whitney (1940–1982) was an American television personality in Dayton, Ohio, who worked primarily at WHIO television and radio until his death in 1982. He was posthumously inducted into the Dayton Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2005.

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04/11/1980

Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American engineer and author (born 1905)

Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill, known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was a Canadian engineer. She was chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William, Ontario during the Second World War. There she oversaw manufacturing of 1,451 Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force and the British Royal Air Force, then 835 Curtiss Helldivers for the U.S. Navy, which contributed greatly to the war effort and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft manufacturing. After her work at CC&F, she ran a successful aeronautical engineering consulting business. Between 1967 and 1970, she was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, which published a report in 1970.

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04/11/1977

Tom Reamy, American author and illustrator (born 1935)

Tom Reamy was an American science fiction and fantasy author, and a key figure in 1960s and 1970s science fiction fandom. He died at age 42 prior to the publication of his first novel; his work is primarily dark fantasy.

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04/11/1976

Toni Ulmen, German race car driver and motorcycle racer (born 1906)

Anton "Toni" Ulmen was a German motorcycle and racing driver from Düsseldorf, Germany. His racing career started in 1925 on a 250 cc Velocette. In 1927 he won the opening race of the Nürburgring on a 350 cc Velocette. In 1929 he won the 350 cc class on the Eilenriede, a non-permanent race course near Hannover. From 1949 to 1952, he was four times German sports car and Formula 2 champion.

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04/11/1975

Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic (born 1893)

Francis Dvornik was a Czech academic medievalist, byzantinist, slavist and Catholic priest. He was one of the leading 20th century authorities on Slavic and Byzantine history and matters related to the churches of Rome and Constantinople. For almost three decades, he was a professor of Byzantine history at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies of Harvard University.

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Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist, historian, and academic (born 1914)

Izzat Husrieh was a renowned Syrian journalist, author, publisher and researcher. He contributed several books to the Arab library and his famous newspaper Al-Alam continued to form public opinion in Syria for two decades.

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04/11/1974

Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (born 1909)

Bertrand "Bert" Arthur Patenaude was an American soccer player who played as a forward. Although it was formerly disputed, he is officially credited by FIFA as the scorer of the first hat-trick in World Cup history. He is a member of the United States Soccer Hall of Fame.

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04/11/1969

Carlos Marighella, Brazilian author and activist (born 1911)

Carlos Marighella was a Brazilian politician, writer, and Marxist–Leninist militant. Critical of nonviolent resistance to the Brazilian military dictatorship, he founded the Ação Libertadora Nacional, a Marxist–Leninist urban guerrilla group, which was responsible for a series of bank robberies and high-profile kidnappings. He was killed by police in 1969 in an ambush. Marighella's most famous contribution to revolutionary literature was the Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla.

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04/11/1968

Horace Gould, English race car driver (born 1918)

Horace Gould was a British racing driver from Bristol.

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Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter and soldier (born 1892)

Michel Kikoïne was a Lithuanian Jewish-French painter who belonged to the Ecole de Paris art movement.

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04/11/1959

Friedrich Waismann, Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1896)

Friedrich Waismann was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle and one of the key theorists in logical positivism.

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04/11/1957

Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith (born 1897)

Shoghí Effendi (; Persian: شوقی افندی; 1896 or 1897 – 4 November 1957) was Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith from 1922 until his death in 1957. As the grandson and successor of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, he was charged with guiding the development of the Baháʼí Faith, including the creation of its global administrative structure and the prosecution of Baháʼí teaching plans that oversaw the expansion of the religion to several new countries. As the authorized interpreter of the Baháʼí literature, he translated the primary written works of the Faith's central figures, providing unity of understanding of its essential teachings and safeguarding its followers from division. Upon his death in 1957, leadership passed to the Hands of the Cause, and in 1963 the Baháʼís of the world elected the Universal House of Justice, an institution which had been described and planned by Baháʼu’llah.

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04/11/1956

Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (born 1892)

Frederick William Dixon was an English motorcycle racer and racing car driver. The designer of the motorcycle and banking sidecar system, he was also one of the few motorsport competitors to have been successful on two, three and four wheels. He was twice awarded the BRDC Gold Star for car racing. Dixon, who had the nickname "Flying Freddie", was born at Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, one of eight children of John and Martha Dixon.

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04/11/1955

Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1896)

Robert Emmet Sherwood was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Cy Young, American baseball player and manager (born 1867)

Denton True "Cy" Young was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. Born in Gilmore, Ohio, he worked on his family's farm as a youth before starting his professional baseball career. Young entered the major leagues in 1890 with the National League's Cleveland Spiders and pitched for them until 1898. He was then transferred to the St. Louis Cardinals franchise. In 1901, Young jumped to the American League and played for the Boston Red Sox franchise until 1908, helping them win the 1903 World Series. He finished his career with the Cleveland Naps and Boston Rustlers, retiring in 1911.

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04/11/1954

Stig Dagerman, Swedish journalist and writer (born 1923)

Stig Halvard Dagerman was a Swedish author and journalist prominent in the aftermath of World War II.

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04/11/1950

Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach (born 1887)

Grover Cleveland Alexander, nicknamed "Old Pete" and "Alexander the Great", was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played from 1911 through 1930 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and St. Louis Cardinals. In 1938, Alexander was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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04/11/1948

Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (born 1874)

Albert Henry Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield,, born Albert Henry Knattriess, was a British-American businessman who was managing director, then chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) from 1910 to 1933 and chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) from 1933 to 1947.

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04/11/1946

Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general (born 1865)

Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz was a German army general during the First World War. He commanded the Baltic Sea Division, which intervened decisively in the Finnish Civil War in the spring of 1918, landing at Hanko and capturing Helsinki. After the armistice Goltz remained in Finland until December 1918, exercising significant political influence; the Quartermaster General of the White Army, Hannes Ignatius, described him as the "true regent of Finland". In 1919 he commanded German and Baltic German forces in Latvia, defeating the Bolsheviks and capturing Riga, before being recalled under Allied pressure in October 1919. After the war he was active in right-wing nationalist politics in Germany, participating in the Kapp Putsch and later the Harzburg Front.

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04/11/1940

Arthur Rostron, English mariner, captain of the rescue ship Carpathia during the Titanic disaster (born 1869)

Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a British merchant seaman and a seagoing officer for the Cunard Line. He is best known as the captain of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia, when she rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic after the ship sank in 1912 in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.

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04/11/1931

Buddy Bolden, American cornet player and bandleader (born 1877)

Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden was an American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries and later jazz scholars as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later came to be known as jazz.

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Luigi Galleani, Italian theorist and activist (born 1861)

Luigi Galleani was an Italian insurrectionary anarchist and communist best known for his advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", a strategy of political assassinations and violent attacks.

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04/11/1930

Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (born 1859)

Akiyama Yoshifuru was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and was considered the father of modern Japanese cavalry. He was the older brother of Vice Admiral Akiyama Saneyuki.

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04/11/1924

Richard Conner, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1843)

Richard Conner was an American Civil War Union Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his bravery in action.

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Gabriel Fauré, French pianist, composer, and educator (born 1845)

Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Sicilienne, nocturnes for piano and the songs "Après un rêve" and "Clair de lune". Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style.

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04/11/1921

Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1856)

Hara Takashi , informally known as Hara Kei, was a Japanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 until his assassination. Hara was the first commoner and first Christian appointed to be Prime Minister of Japan, and was given the moniker of "commoner prime minister" .

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04/11/1918

Wilfred Owen, English lieutenant and poet (born 1893)

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are "Dulce et Decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", "Spring Offensive" and "Strange Meeting". Owen was killed in action on 4 November 1918, a week before the Armistice, at the age of 25.

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04/11/1906

John H. Ketcham, American general and politician (born 1832)

John Henry Ketcham was an American politician and military officer who was a United States representative from New York for over 33 years from 1877 to 1893 and from 1897 to 1906. He also served as a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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04/11/1895

Eugene Field, American journalist, author, and poet (born 1850)

Eugene Field Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood".

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04/11/1893

Pierre Tirard, Swiss-French engineer and politician, 54th Prime Minister of France (born 1827)

Pierre Emmanuel Tirard was a French politician, who served twice as Prime Minister during the Third Republic.

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04/11/1886

James Martin, Irish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of New South Wales (born 1820)

Sir James Martin, QC was three times Premier of New South Wales, and Chief Justice of New South Wales from 1873 to 1886.

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04/11/1856

Paul Delaroche, French painter and educator (born 1797)

Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English and French history. The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romanticism while the detail of his work along with the deglorified portrayal of historic figures follow the trends of Academicism and Neoclassicism. Delaroche aimed to depict his subjects and history with pragmatic realism. He did not consider popular ideals and norms in his creations, but rather painted all his subjects in the same light whether they were historical figures like Marie-Antoinette, figures of Christianity, or people of his time like Napoleon Bonaparte. Delaroche was a leading pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and later mentored a number of notable artists such as Thomas Couture, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Jean-François Millet.

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04/11/1847

Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1809)

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian and Scottish Symphonies, the oratorios St. Paul and Elijah, the Hebrides Overture, the mature Violin Concerto, the String Octet, and the melody used in the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions.

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Thiệu Trị, Vietnamese emperor (born 1807)

Thiệu Trị, personal name Nguyễn Phúc Miên Tông or Nguyễn Phúc Tuyền, was the third emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty. He was the eldest son of Emperor Minh Mạng, and reigned from 14 February 1841 until his death on 4 November 1847. He died at the age of 41, according to some reports, of apoplexy. He was interred in the Xương Lăng tomb located in Huế, which was completed by his son and successor, Emperor Tự Đức.

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04/11/1801

William Shippen, American physician and anatomist (born 1712)

William Shippen Sr. was an American physician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was also a civic and educational leader who represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress.

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04/11/1781

Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet and songwriter (born 1721)

Johann Nikolaus Götz was a German poet from Worms.

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04/11/1704

Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist and scholar (born 1654)

Andreas Acoluthus was a German scholar of orientalism and professor of theology at Breslau (Wrocław). A native of Bernstadt (Bierutów), Lower Silesia, he was the son of Johannes Acoluthus, pastor of St. Elisabeth and superintendent of the churches and schools of Breslau.

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04/11/1702

John Benbow, English admiral (born 1653)

Vice-Admiral of the White John Benbow was a Royal Navy officer. He joined the Navy in 1678, seeing action against Barbary pirates before leaving to join the Merchant Navy in which Benbow served until the 1688 Glorious Revolution, whereupon he returned to the Royal Navy and was commissioned.

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04/11/1698

Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (born 1625)

Rasmus Bartholin was a Danish physician and grammarian.

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04/11/1669

Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian and academic (born 1603)

Johannes Cocceius was a Dutch theologian born in Bremen.

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04/11/1658

Antoine Le Maistre, French lawyer and author (born 1608)

Antoine Le Maistre was a French lawyer, author and translator. His name has also been written as Lemaistre and Le Maître, and he sometimes used the pseudonym of Lamy.

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04/11/1652

Jean-Charles della Faille, Flemish priest and mathematician (born 1597)

Jean-Charles della Faille, born in Antwerp, 1 March 1597 and died in Barcelona, 4 November 1652, was a Flemish Jesuit priest from Brabant, and a mathematician of repute.

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04/11/1581

Mathurin Romegas, rival Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (born c.1525)

Mathurin d’Aux de Lescout, called Mathurin Romegas, was a scion of the aristocratic Gascony family of d'Aux and a member of the Knights of Saint John. He was one of the order's greatest naval commanders and an acting Grand Master.

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04/11/1576

John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (born c. 1510)

John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester, styled The Honourable John Paulet between 1539 and 1550, Lord St John between 1550 and 1551 and Earl of Wiltshire between 1551 and 1572, was an English peer. He was the eldest son of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester and Elizabeth Capel.

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04/11/1485

Françoise d'Amboise, duchess of Brittany (born 1427)

Françoise d'Amboise, O.Carm was a French Carmelite nun.

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Giovanni Mocenigo, Doge of Venice (born 1408)

Giovanni di Mocenigo was doge of Venice from 1478 to 1485. He fought at sea against the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and on land against Ercole I d'Este, duke of Ferrara, from whom he recaptured Rovigo and the Polesine. He was interred in the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges. His dogaressa was Taddea Michiel, who was to be the last dogaressa to be crowned in Venice until Zilia Dandolo in 1557, almost a century later. His brother, Pietro Mocenigo, served as Doge before him, in 1474–1476.

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04/11/1428

Sophia of Bavaria, queen of Bohemia (born 1376)

Sophia Euphemia of Bavaria was a Queen of Bohemia and the spouse of Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia and King of the Romans. She was briefly interim regent of Bohemia after the death of Wenceslaus in 1419.

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04/11/1411

Khalil Sultan of Timurid (born 1384)

Khalil Sultan was the Timurid ruler of Transoxiana from 18 February 1405 to 1409. He was a son of Miran Shah and a grandson of Timur.

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04/11/1360

Elizabeth de Clare, English noblewoman (born 1295)

Elizabeth de Clare, 11th Lady of Clare was a member of the Anglo-Norman family, de Clare, and heiress to the lordships of Clare, Suffolk, in England and Usk in Wales.

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04/11/1212

Felix of Valois, French saint (born 1127)

Felix of Valois, OSsT (French: Félix de Valois; was a French Catholic former Cistercian hermit and a co-founder of the Trinitarian Order.

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04/11/1203

Dirk VII, Count of Holland

Dirk VII was the count of Holland from 1190 to 1203. He was the elder son of Floris III and Ada of Huntingdon.

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04/11/1038

Jaromír, duke of Bohemia (born 970)

Jaromír, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Duke of Bohemia in 1003, from 1004 to 1012, and again from 1034 to 1035.

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04/11/0915

Zhang, Chinese empress (born 892)

Consort Zhang, imperial consort rank Defei (張德妃) was the wife of Zhu Zhen, the last emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Liang.

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04/11/0604

Yohl Ik'nal, Mayan queen

Yohl Ikʼnal, also known as Lady Kan Ik, Lady Kʼanal Ikʼnal, and sometimes rendered as Ix Yohl Ikʼnal, was queen regnant of the Maya city-state of Palenque. She acceded to the throne on 23 December 583 CE and ruled until her death in 604.

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