Died on Friday, 24th October – Famous Deaths

24/10/2025

Sirikit, Queen Mother of Thailand (born 1932)

Sirikit was Queen of Thailand from 28 April 1950 to 13 October 2016 as the wife of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

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24/10/2024

Amir Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player and coach (born 1981)

Amir Abdur-Rahim was an American basketball coach and player who was the head coach of the South Florida Bulls men's basketball team. Prior to coaching at USF, he was the head coach at Kennesaw State from 2019 to 2023, leading the Owls to the 2023 conference regular season and tournament titles and their first-ever berth in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

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Abdelaziz Barrada, Moroccan footballer (born 1989)

Abdelaziz Barrada, sometimes known as Abdel, was a professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in France, he represented Morocco at international level.

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Jeri Taylor, American screenwriter (born 1938)

Jeri Cecile Suer, known professionally as Jeri Taylor, was an American television scriptwriter and producer who wrote many episodes of the Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager series.

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24/10/2022

Leslie Jordan, American actor, writer, and singer (born 1955)

Leslie Allen Jordan was an American actor, comedian, writer, and singer. His television roles include Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace, several characters in the American Horror Story franchise (2013–2019), Sid on The Cool Kids (2018–2019), Phil on Call Me Kat (2021–2022), and Lonnie Garr on Hearts Afire (1993–1995). On stage, Jordan played Earl "Brother Boy" Ingram in the 1996 play Sordid Lives, later portraying the character in the 2000 film of the same name. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he became an Instagram contributor, amassing 5.8 million followers in 2020, and published his autobiography How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived in April 2021.

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24/10/2021

James Michael Tyler, American actor (born 1962)

James Michael Tyler was an American actor best known for portraying Gunther on the NBC sitcom Friends. Prior to acting, he was an assistant film editor and production assistant. His early works included being the production assistant for Fat Man and Little Boy. He also portrayed Oscar Bevins in the 1997 thriller film Motel Blue.

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24/10/2018

Tony Joe White, American singer/songwriter (born 1943)

Tony Joe White, nicknamed the Swamp Fox, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but which was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent for the Blues", both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner's producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who was a friend of White. "Polk Salad Annie" was also recorded by Joe Dassin, Elvis Presley, Joe Bonamassa and Tom Jones.

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24/10/2017

Fats Domino, American pianist and singer-songwriter (born 1928)

Antoine Caliste Domino Jr., known as Fats Domino, was an American singer-songwriter and pianist. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New Orleans to a French Creole family, Domino signed to Imperial Records in 1949. His first single "The Fat Man" is cited by some historians as the first rock and roll single and the first to sell more than 1 million copies. Domino continued to work with the song's co-writer Dave Bartholomew, contributing his distinctive rolling piano style to Lloyd Price's "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (1952) and scoring a string of mainstream hits beginning with "Ain't That a Shame" (1955). Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 US pop hits. By 1955, five of his records had sold more than a million copies, being certified gold.

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Robert Guillaume, American actor (born 1927)

Robert Guillaume was an American actor and singer. He played Benson DuBois in the ABC television series Soap and its spin-off, Benson. He also voiced the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King, and played Isaac Jaffe in Aaron Sorkin's dramedy Sports Night.

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Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (born 1929)

Girija Devi was an Indian classical singer of the Seniya and Banaras gharanas. She performed classical and light classical music and helped elevate the profile of thumri. She was dubbed as the 'Queen of Thumri' for her contribution in the genre. She died on 24 October 2017.

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24/10/2016

Bobby Vee, American pop singer (born 1943)

Robert Thomas Velline, known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. He had six gold singles in his career.

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Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, former president (2000-2005) (born 1927)

Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez was an Uruguayan politician and lawyer, who served as the 38th president of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. A member of the Colorado Party, he previously served as National Representative from 1959 to 1967, and as Senator of the Republic from 1985 to 1990 and from 1990 to 1999. Batlle is, to date, the last president from the Colorado Party.

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24/10/2015

Michael Beetham, English commander and pilot (born 1923)

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael James Beetham, was a Second World War bomber pilot and a high-ranking commander in the Royal Air Force from the 1960s to the 1980s. As Chief of the Air Staff during the Falklands War, he was involved in the decision to send the Task Force to the South Atlantic. At the time of his death, Beetham was one of only six people holding his service's most senior rank and, excluding Prince Philip's honorary rank, he had the longest time in that rank, making him the senior Marshal of the Royal Air Force.

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Alvin Bronstein, American lawyer and academic (born 1928)

Alvin J. Bronstein was an American lawyer, and founder and Director Emeritus of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. According to his ACLU biography, 'he has argued numerous prisoners’ rights cases in federal trial and appellate courts as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a consultant to state and federal correctional agencies, appeared as an expert witness on numerous occasions and has edited or authored books and articles on human rights and corrections'.

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Margarita Khemlin, Ukrainian-Russian author and critic (born 1960)

Margarita Khemlin was a Jewish-Ukrainian novelist and short-story writer, best known for her novel Klotsvog.

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Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal (born 1924)

Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ was a Slovak Jesuit priest and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was ordained as a priest in 1950 and consecrated as a bishop in 1951.

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Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (born 1920)

Maureen O'Hara was an Irish and American actress who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films. She worked with director John Ford and long-time friend John Wayne on numerous projects.

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24/10/2014

Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (born 1980)

Mbulaeni Tongai Mulaudzi OIB was a South African middle-distance runner, and the 2009 world champion in the men's 800 metres.

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S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1928)

Sedapatti Suryanarayana Rajendran, also known by his initials SSR, was an Indian actor, film director, film producer and politician who worked in Tamil theatre and cinema. He is also referred to as Latchiya Nadigar.

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Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (born 1948)

Marcia Ann Strassman was an American actress and singer. She had roles on the TV programs Welcome Back, Kotter and M*A*S*H, as well as in the film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and the sequel Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.

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24/10/2013

Antonia Bird, English director and producer (born 1951)

Antonia Jane Bird, FRSA was an English producer and director of television drama and feature films.

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Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare genetic disorder (born 1993)

Brooke Megan Greenberg was an American who became famous for being the first documented case of neotenic complex syndrome. Throughout her life of 20 years, she remained physically and cognitively similar to a toddler despite her increasing age. She was about 30 in (76 cm) tall, weighed about 16 lb (7.3 kg), and had an estimated mental age of nine months to one year.

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Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (born 1934)

Ana Bertha Lepe Jiménez was a Mexican actress and beauty pageant titleholder. In 1953 she was crowned Miss México and the third runner-up at the Miss Universe 1953.

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Lew Mayne, American football player and coach (born 1920)

Lewis Elwood "Mickey" Mayne was an American football halfback who played three seasons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) between 1946 and 1948. Mayne played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts.

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24/10/2012

Peggy Ahern, American actress (born 1917)

Peggy Lenore Ahearn Blaylock, known professionally as Peggy Ahern, was an American actress best known for her appearance in eight of the Our Gang series of films released between 1924 and 1927. The Our Gang series, which was also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of comedic, short silent films created by director and producer Hal Roach. Ahern was one of the last surviving cast members from a Hal Roach film.

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Anita Björk, Swedish actress (born 1923)

Anita Björk was a Swedish actress.

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Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1957)

Jeffrey Carl Blatnick was an American super heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and sports commentator. He won NCAA Division II heavyweight wrestling championships in 1978 and 1979 and won the Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1984 after battling back from cancer. During his wrestling days, he and Dan Severn were on the same U.S. National Wrestling Team.

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Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)

William Marvin Dees was an American musician known for his songwriting collaborations with singer Roy Orbison.

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Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (born 1918)

Margaret Osborne duPont was a world No. 1 American female tennis player.

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24/10/2011

Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer and educator (born 1967)

Sansan Chien was a Taiwanese composer of contemporary classical music. Chien was well known in Taiwan for her teaching of music theory and composition.

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John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (born 1927)

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s. He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), led the development of the symbolic programming language family Lisp and had a large influence in the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and created garbage collection.

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24/10/2010

Mike Esposito, American author and illustrator (born 1927)

Michael "Mike" Esposito, who sometimes used the pseudonyms Mickey Demeo, Mickey Dee, Michael Dee, and Joe Gaudioso, was an American comic book artist whose work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics and others spanned the 1950s to the 2000s. As a comic book inker teamed with his childhood friend Ross Andru, he drew for such major titles as The Amazing Spider-Man and Wonder Woman. An Andru-Esposito drawing of Wonder Woman appears on a 2006 U.S. stamp.

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Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (born 1922)

Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. was an American actor and film director who appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.

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Joseph Stein, American author and playwright (born 1912)

Joseph Stein was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba.

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24/10/2008

Moshe Cotel, American pianist and composer (born 1943)

Moshe (Morris) Cotel was a pianist and composer whose music was strongly influenced by his Jewish roots. Cotel moved from his Jewish roots to focus on music for most of his life, and received his rabbinic ordination and synagogue pulpit in the years before his death.

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24/10/2007

Petr Eben, Czech organist and composer (born 1929)

Petr Eben was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music, and an organist and choirmaster.

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Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (born 1928)

Ian Middleton was a New Zealand novelist, who made a particular mark with his books set in post-Second World War Japan. Born in New Plymouth, he was the younger brother of noted New Zealand short story writer O. E. Middleton.

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Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (born 1981)

Alisher Saipov was a Kyrgyzstani journalist of Uzbek ethnic origin and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Siyosat of the country's ethnic Uzbek minority, which reported on human rights abuses in neighboring Uzbekistan. Saipov often wrote articles critical of Uzbek President Islam Karimov and his government. He wrote extensively about torture in Uzbek prisons, the clampdown on dissent, and the rise of Islamic radicalism. He also worked as a correspondent for RFE/RL and Voice of America. He was shot dead at close range outside his downtown office in Osh in October 2007.

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Anne Weale, English journalist and author (born 1929)

Jay Blakeney was a British writer and newspaper reporter, well known as a romance novelist under the pen names Anne Weale and Andrea Blake. She wrote over 88 books for Mills & Boon from 1955 to 2002. She died on 24 October 2007; at the time of her death she was writing her autobiography, 88 Heroes…1 Mr Right.

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24/10/2006

Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (born 1904)

Enolia Pettigen McMillan was an American educator, civil rights activist, and community leader. She was the first female national president of the NAACP.

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William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and scholar (born 1909)

William Montgomery Watt was a Scottish historian and orientalist. An Anglican priest, Watt served as Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1979 and was also a prominent contributor to the field of Quranic studies.

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24/10/2005

Joy Clements, American soprano and actress (born 1932)

Joy Clements was an American lyric coloratura soprano who had a substantial opera and concert career from 1956 through the late 1970s. She notably sang regularly with both the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera during the 1960s through the early 1970s. She also traveled regularly for performances with opera companies and orchestras throughout the United States but only appeared in a relatively few number of performances internationally.

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José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras (born 1926)

José Simón Azcona del Hoyo was President of Honduras from 27 January 1986 to 27 January 1990 for the Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH). He was born in La Ceiba in Honduras.

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Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (born 1928)

Mokarrameh Ghanbari was an Iranian self-taught painter who won several international art awards. She started painting at the age of 61 in 1991.

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Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (born 1923)

Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsu was a sinologist, a scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history, and a professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (born 1913)

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".

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Robert Sloman, English actor and screenwriter (born 1926)

Robert Sloman was an English screenwriter and actor who later worked at The Sunday Times circulation department for more than 20 years, becoming distribution manager; but is best known for his work on British television.

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24/10/2004

Randy Dorton, American engineer (born 1954)

Randall Alexander Dorton was the Director of Engine Operations and lead engine builder for Hendrick Motorsports. With Dorton, the team won nine NASCAR championships.

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Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver and businessman (born 1980)

Joseph Riddick "Ricky" Hendrick IV was an American stock car racing driver and partial owner at Hendrick Motorsports, a NASCAR team that his father Rick Hendrick founded. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 2, 1980, and began racing in Go Karts at a young age, then the Legends Series at fifteen. He competed in both the Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series before his death from an airplane accident on October 24, 2004. He was killed with nine other family members and friends during the accident.

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James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (born 1920)

James Aloysius Hickey was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Washington from 1980 to 2000, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1988. Hickey previously served as Bishop of Cleveland from 1974 to 1980.

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Maaja Ranniku, Estonian chess player (born 1941)

Maaja Ranniku was an Estonian chess player.

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24/10/2002

Winton M. Blount, American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (born 1921)

Winton Malcolm Blount, known as Red Blount, was an American philanthropist and politician who served as the United States Postmaster General from January 22, 1969, to January 1, 1972. He founded and served as the chief executive officer of the large construction company, Blount International, based in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Hernán Gaviria, Colombian footballer (born 1969)

Hernán Gaviria Carvajal was a Colombian footballer, who played as a central midfielder.

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Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (born 1912)

Henry Hay Jr. was an American gay rights activist, communist, and labor advocate. He cofounded the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States, as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely affiliated gay spiritual movement. Hay has been described as "the Founder of the Modern Gay Movement" and "the father of gay liberation".

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Peggy Moran, American actress and singer (born 1918)

Peggy Moran was an American film actress who appeared in films between 1938 and 1943.

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24/10/2001

Kathleen Ankers, American actress and set designer (born 1919)

Kathleen Ankers was an American scenic designer, best known for her work on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and the Late Show with David Letterman.

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Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author and critic (born 1937)

Wolf Rüdiger Hess was a German architect, the only son of Rudolf Hess and Ilse Hess.

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Jaromil Jireš, Czech director and screenwriter (born 1935)

Jaromil Jireš was a Czech film director and screenwriter. He was associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement.

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24/10/1999

Berthe Qvistgaard, Danish actress (born 1910)

Berthe Qvistgaard was a Danish stage and film actress, and winner of the prestigious Tagea Brandt Rejselegat award in 1965.

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24/10/1997

Don Messick, American voice actor and singer (born 1926)

Donald Earle Messick was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. His best-remembered voice roles include Scooby-Doo; Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in The Flintstones; Astro in The Jetsons; Muttley in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines; Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith in The Yogi Bear Show; Sebastian the Cat in Josie and the Pussycats; Gears, Ratchet, and Scavenger in The Transformers; Papa Smurf and Azrael in The Smurfs; Hamton J. Pig in Tiny Toon Adventures; and Dr. Benton Quest in Jonny Quest.

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24/10/1994

Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician and author (born 1930)

Yannis Hotzeas was a Greek communist, Marxist theoretician and one of the principal founders of the Greek Marxist-Leninist movement.

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Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (born 1940)

Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay was a Puerto Rican actor and humanitarian. He was best known for his intense and varied roles on stage and screen. He started his career in the Public Theater before transitioning to film. He received numerous accolades including a Drama Desk Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and nominations for four Tony Awards. In 2017, The Daily Telegraph named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

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24/10/1993

Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (born 1930)

Heinz Kubsch was a German football goalkeeper.

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24/10/1992

Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (born 1944)

Laurie Colwin was an American writer who wrote five novels, three collections of short stories and two volumes of essays and recipes. She was known for her portrayals of New York society and her food columns in Gourmet magazine. In 2012, the James Beard Foundation inducted her into its Cookbook Hall of Fame.

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24/10/1991

Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (born 1921)

Eugene "Gene" Wesley Roddenberry Sr. was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction series and fictional universe Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he joined the Los Angeles Police Department and began to write for television.

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Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (born 1915)

Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

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24/10/1989

Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (born 1948)

Józef Jerzy Kukuczka was a Polish mountaineer, regarded as one of the greatest high-altitude climbers in history. In 1987, he became the second man to climb all 14 eight-thousanders in the world, a feat known as the "Crown of the Himalayas." He accomplished this feat in less than eight years, and climbed all, except for Lhotse, by new routes or in winter. He is the only person to have climbed two eight-thousanders in one winter, and his ascents of Cho Oyu, Kangchenjunga and Annapurna were the first winter ascents. His ascent of K2 in 1986, in alpine style with Tadeusz Piotrowski, is now known as the Polish Line. No other mountaineers have attempted an ascent using the route since.

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24/10/1985

Richie Evans, American race car driver (born 1941)

Richard Ernest Evans, was an American racing driver who won nine NASCAR National Modified Championships, including eight in a row from 1978 to 1985. The International Motorsports Hall of Fame lists this achievement as "one of the supreme accomplishments in motorsports". Evans won virtually every major race for asphalt modifieds, most of them more than once, including winning the Race of Champions three times. Evans was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on June 14, 2011. As one of the Class of 2012, Evans was one of the Hall's first 15 inductees, and was the first Hall of Famer from outside the now NASCAR Cup Series.

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Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (born 1905)

Maurice Roy was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1947 to 1981. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

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24/10/1983

Jiang Wen-Ye, Taiwanese composer and educator (born 1910)

Chiang Wen-yeh or Jiang Wenye was a Taiwan-born composer, active mainly in Japan and later in China. He was born in Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan and died in Beijing. While often known in the West by renditions of his Chinese name, the three Chinese characters that form his name are pronounced Kō Bunya in Japanese, and thus he is also known as Koh Bunya in the West. In his compositions, which range from for piano to choral and orchestral works, he merged elements of traditional Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese music with modernist influences. Due to the political turmoil surrounding his life, he came to be largely forgotten during the latter part of his life. After his death, however, his work has started to gain new recognition in East Asia as well as in the West.

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24/10/1979

Carlo Abarth, Italian automobile designer and founded of Abarth (born 1908)

Carlo Abarth, born Karl Albert Abarth, was an Italian automobile designer.

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24/10/1975

İsmail Erez, Turkish lawyer and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to France (born 1919)

İsmail Erez was a Turkish diplomat who held several high-ranking posts in the Turkish Foreign Service.

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Zdzisław Żygulski, Polish historian, author, and academic (born 1888)

Zdzisław Żygulski was a Polish literary historian and Germanist. He was a professor at the universities of Łódź and Wrocław. An expert of German literature of 18th–19th century and antique drama, he published, with Marian Szyrocki, a German literature history textbook Geschichte der deutschen Literatur. His notable works includes Gerhart Hauptmann. Człowiek i twórca (1968), Fryderyk Schiller (1975). His son, also named Zdzisław, was an art historian, academic and educator.

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24/10/1974

David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (born 1908)

David Fyodorovich Oistrakh was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960).

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24/10/1972

Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1919)

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers signing Robinson heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s.

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Claire Windsor, American actress (born 1892)

Claire Windsor was an American film actress of the silent screen era.

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24/10/1971

Carl Ruggles, American composer (born 1876)

Carl Ruggles was an American composer, painter and teacher. His pieces employed "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by fellow composer and musicologist Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal counterpoint was based on a non-serial technique of avoiding repeating a pitch class until a generally fixed number of eight pitch classes intervened. He is considered a founder of the ultramodernist movement of American composers that included Henry Cowell and Ruth Crawford Seeger, among others. He had no formal musical education, yet was an extreme perfectionist—writing music at a painstakingly slow rate and leaving behind a very small output.

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Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (born 1936)

Joseph "Jo" Siffert was a Swiss racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1962 to 1971. Siffert won two Formula One Grands Prix across 10 seasons.

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Chuck Hughes, NFL player died during a game (born 1943)

Charles Frederick Hughes was an American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1967 to 1971 with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Detroit Lions. He is known for being the only player in NFL history to die on the field during a game.

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24/10/1970

Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (born 1916)

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to the concept of "consensus history", and was epitomized by some of his admirers as the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus." Others see in his work an early critique of the one-dimensional society, since he was equally critical of socialist and capitalist models of society, and bemoaned the "consensus" within the society as "bounded by the horizons of property and entrepreneurship", criticizing the "hegemonic liberal capitalist culture running throughout the course of American history".

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24/10/1969

Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet and politician (born 1908)

Behçet Kemal Çağlar was a Turkish poet, educator and nationalist politician.

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24/10/1966

Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (born 1896)

Sofya Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya was a Soviet mathematician, philosopher and historian, specializing in the history of mathematics, mathematical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. She is best known for her efforts in restoring the research of mathematical logic in the Soviet Union and publishing and editing the mathematical works of Karl Marx.

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24/10/1965

Hans Meerwein, German chemist (born 1879)

Hans Meerwein was a German chemist. Several reactions and reagents bear his name, most notably the Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction, the Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement, the Meerwein arylation reaction, and Meerwein's salt.

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24/10/1964

Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (born 1931)

Toni Kinshofer was a German mountaineer.

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24/10/1960

Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin Prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (born 1924)

Yevgeny Ilyich Ostashev was a combat engineer, test pilot of rocket and space technology, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, head of the 1st control polygon NIIP-5 (Baikonur), Lenin Prize winner, candidate of Technical Sciences, and engineer-podpolkovnik.

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24/10/1958

G. E. Moore, English philosopher and academic (born 1873)

George Edward Moore was an English philosopher who, alongside Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege, was an initiator of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began de-emphasising the idealism which was then prevalent among British philosophers and became known for advocating common-sense concepts and contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. He was said to have had an "exceptional personality and moral character". Ray Monk dubbed him "the most revered philosopher of his era".

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24/10/1949

Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (born 1902)

Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Halan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, playwright, and publicist.

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24/10/1948

Franz Lehár, Austrian-Hungarian composer (born 1870)

Franz Lehár was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow.

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Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (born 1877)

Frederic Logan Paxson was an American historian. He also served as the President of Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master's from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin as a successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947.

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24/10/1945

Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (born 1887)

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who headed the government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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24/10/1944

Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (born 1877)

Louis Renault was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault, and a pioneer of the automobile industry.

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24/10/1943

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (born 1912)

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau was a Canadian poet, writer, letter writer, and essayist, who "was posthumously hailed as a herald of the Quebec literary renaissance of the 1950s". He is mainly recognized for his literary work – in particular, for the only book published during his lifetime, entitled Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, published in 1937 – but he was also a painter. Almost all of his writings are published, without cuts, between 1970 and 2020.

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24/10/1938

Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (born 1870)

Ernst Heinrich Barlach was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the conflict made him change his position, and he is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against it. This created many conflicts during the rise of the Nazi Party, when most of his works were confiscated as degenerate art. Stylistically, his literary and artistic work would fall between the categories of twentieth-century Realism and Expressionism.

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24/10/1937

Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (born 1886)

Nils Wahlbom was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in around forty films including The Women Around Larsson (1934).

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24/10/1935

Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (born 1902)

Arthur Simon Flegenheimer, known as Dutch Schultz, was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. He made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket. Schultz's rackets were weakened by two tax evasion, trials led by United States Attorney Thomas Dewey, and also threatened by fellow mobster Lucky Luciano.

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24/10/1922

George Cadbury, English businessman (born 1839)

George Cadbury was an English Quaker businessman and social reformer who expanded his father's Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company in Britain.

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24/10/1917

James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (born 1852)

James Carroll Beckwith was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Naturalist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century as a respected figure in American art.

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24/10/1915

Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (born 1828)

Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries.

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24/10/1898

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (born 1824)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin, and he aided medallists by designs and suggestions for their works. Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as "an art made of reason, passion, and will".

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24/10/1875

Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (born 1817)

Raffaello Carboni was an Italian writer, composer and interpreter who wrote a book on the Eureka Stockade which he witnessed while living in Australia. Although only a spectator at the Eureka Rebellion he was charged with treason in the Supreme Court of Victoria, but found not guilty of the charge and released on 21 March 1855.

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24/10/1852

Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (born 1782)

Daniel Webster was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state under presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Webster was one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over 200 cases before the United States Supreme Court in his career. During his life, Webster had been a member of the Federalist Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party. He was among the three members of the Great Triumvirate along with Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

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24/10/1824

Israel Bissell, American patriot post rider during American Revolutionary War (born 1752)

Israel Bissell, also spelled Bissel, was a patriot post rider who delivered mail between Boston, Massachusetts and New York.

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24/10/1821

Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (born 1740)

Elias Boudinot was an American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, and early abolitionist and women's rights advocate. During the Revolutionary War, Boudinot was an intelligence officer and prisoner-of-war commissary under general George Washington, working to improve conditions for prisoners on both the American and British sides. In 1779, he was elected to the Continental Congress and then to its successor, the Congress of the Confederation, serving as President of Congress in 1782–1783, the final years of the war.

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24/10/1799

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (born 1739)

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer and violinist. He was a friend of both Haydn and Mozart. His best-known works include the German singspiel Doktor und Apotheker and a number of programmatic symphonies based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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24/10/1770

William Bartram, American scientist and politician (born 1711)

Colonel William Bartram was an American scientist and politician in the Province of North Carolina. He was a Quaker and the uncle of the naturalist of the same name.

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24/10/1725

Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and educator (born 1660)

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan school of opera.

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24/10/1672

John Webb, English architect and scholar (born 1611)

John Webb was an English architect and scholar, who collaborated on some works with Inigo Jones.

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24/10/1669

William Prynne, English lawyer and author (born 1600)

William Prynne, an English lawyer, voluble author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church policy under William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633–1645). His views were Presbyterian, but he became known in the 1640s as an Erastian, arguing for overall state control of religious matters.

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24/10/1655

Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1592)

Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him.

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24/10/1642

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English peer and courtier (born 1582)

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, 16 December 1582 – 24 October 1642, was an English peer, naval officer, soldier and courtier.

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24/10/1633

Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (born 1562/3)

Jean (Jehan) Titelouze was a French Catholic priest, composer, poet and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He was a canon and organist at Rouen Cathedral. His style was firmly rooted in the Renaissance vocal tradition and as such, was far removed from the distinctly French style of organ music that developed during the mid-17th century. However, his hymns and Magnificat settings are the earliest known published French organ collections, and he is regarded as the first composer of the French organ school.

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24/10/1601

Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (born 1546)

Tycho Brahe, generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations which helped to turn astronomy into the first modern science and launch the Scientific Revolution. He was known during his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer, and alchemist. He was the last major astronomer before the invention of the telescope and has been described as the greatest pre-telescopic astronomer.

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24/10/1572

Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1508)

Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby was an English nobleman and politician. He succeeded his father as Lord of Mann until his death, and then was succeeded by his son.

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24/10/1537

Jane Seymour, English queen and wife of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1508)

Jane Seymour was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was accused by Henry of adultery after failing to produce a male heir. Jane, however, died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, the future King Edward VI. She was the only wife of Henry VIII to receive a queen's funeral, and Henry was later buried alongside her remains in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

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24/10/1375

Valdemar IV, Danish king (born 1320)

Valdemar IV Atterdag (the Restorer), Valdemar Christoffersen or Waldemar (c. 1320 – 24 October 1375) was King of Denmark from 1340 to 1375. He is best known for reunifying Denmark after the kingdom had effectively collapsed through bankruptcy and the mortgaging of its territories under previous rulers. Denmark had ceased to function as a unified realm, with its lands controlled by various Holstein lords. Over the course of 25 years, Valdemar gradually reacquired the lost territories that had accumulated over centuries, restoring the kingdom under his own authority. His heavy-handed methods, relentless taxation, and appropriation of rights long held by noble families led to repeated uprisings throughout his reign.

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24/10/1260

Qutuz, Egyptian sultan

Sayf ad-Din Qutuz, also romanized as Kutuz or Kotuz and fully al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Sayf ad-Dīn Quṭuz, was the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt. He reigned as Sultan for less than a year, from 1259 until his assassination in 1260, but served as the de facto ruler for two decades.

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24/10/1168

William IV, Count of Nevers, French nobleman

William IV, was count of Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonnerre from 1161 until his death.

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24/10/1152

Jocelin of Soissons, French theologian, philosopher and composer

Jocelin of Soissons was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer, with two pieces in the Codex Calixtinus. He was teaching at the Paris cathedral school in the early 1110s.

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24/10/0996

Hugh Capet, French king

Hugh Capet was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder of and first king from the House of Capet. The son of the powerful duke Hugh the Great and Hedwige of Saxony, he was elected as the successor of the last Carolingian king, Louis V. Hugh was descended from Charlemagne's son Pepin of Italy through his paternal grandmother Béatrice of Vermandois, and was also the nephew of Otto the Great.

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24/10/0935

Li Yu, Chinese official and chancellor

Li Yu (李愚), courtesy name Zihui (子晦), known in his youth as Li Yanping (李晏平), was a Chinese essayist, historian, and politician of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period states Later Liang and Later Tang, serving as a chancellor during Later Tang.

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