Died on Sunday, 26th October – Famous Deaths

26/10/2025

Bjorn Andresen, Swedish actor and musician (born 1955)

Björn Johan Andrésen was a Swedish actor and musician. He was best known for having played the 14-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice.

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26/10/2021

Roh Tae-woo, South Korean general and politician, 6th President of South Korea (born 1932)

Roh Tae-woo was a South Korean army general and politician who served as the sixth president of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. In 1987, he became the first president to be directly elected under the current democratic constitution, which was promulgated after a lengthy period of indirect elections under military governments following the advent of the Yushin Constitution in 1972.

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26/10/2017

Ali Ashraf Darvishian, Iranian novelist, short story writer and academic. (born 1941)

Ali Ashraf Darvishian was an Iranian story writer and scholar of Kurdish descent. After finishing teacher-training college, he would teach at the poverty-stricken villages of Gilan-e-Gharb and Shah Abad. This atmosphere is featured in most of his stories. His own life situation, as well as the experiences that he had from his teaching in those poor areas, was the inspiration for his literary works and also made him a critic of the political and social situation of Iran. Later, he moved to Tehran and continued his studies in Persian literature.

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26/10/2015

Willis Carto, American activist and theorist (born 1926)

Willis Allison Carto was an American far-right political activist. He described himself as a Jeffersonian and a populist, but was primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. Throughout his life, Carto established and controlled a variety of right-wing organizations and periodicals, most significantly the Liberty Lobby. An intensely private person despite his influence, he remains little known and had a reputation as a "shadowy" figure even among other right-wing activists. Extremism scholar George Michael, the author of a biography of Carto, argued that despite his public obscurity, Carto was "undoubtedly the central figure in the post-World War II American far right".

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Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic (born 1937)

Leo Philip Kadanoff was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at the University of Chicago and a former president of the American Physical Society (APS). He contributed to the fields of statistical physics, chaos theory, and theoretical condensed matter physics.

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Giuseppe Nazzaro, Italian-Syrian bishop and theologian (born 1937)

Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM was an Emeritus bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo, Custodian of the Holy Land and a polyglot.

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26/10/2014

Vic Allen, English sociologist, economist, and historian (born 1923)

Vic Allen was a British communist, human rights activist, political prisoner, sociologist, historian, economist and emeritus professor at the University of Leeds who worked closely with British trade unions, and was considered a key player in the resistance against Apartheid in South Africa. He was also known for being a key activist within the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and for spending his life supporting the South African National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).

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Mo Collins, American football player and coach (born 1976)

Damon Jamal "Mo" Collins, was an American professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons during the 1990s and early 2000s. Collins played college football for the University of Florida, and was a member of a national championship team. The Oakland Raiders selected him in the first round of the 1998 NFL draft, and he played his entire professional career for the Raiders.

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Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1942)

Joseph Adrien Germain Gagnon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 259 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders, Chicago Black Hawks, and Kansas City Scouts. An original Islander, Gagnon recorded three points, including the winning goal, in the Islanders first win on October 12, 1972. The full name was found in his Baptism document. Gagnon returned to Chicoutimi and died there after a long illness on October 26, 2014.

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Senzo Meyiwa, South African footballer (born 1987)

Senzo Robert Meyiwa was a South African professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for and captained both Orlando Pirates in the Premier Soccer League, and the South Africa national team.

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Brian Moore, Australian rugby league player (born 1944)

Brian "Chicka" Moore was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach.

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Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (born 1961)

Jeffrey Mark Robinson was an American right-handed pitcher who spent six seasons from 1987 to 1992 in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Detroit Tigers (1987–1990), Baltimore Orioles (1991), Texas Rangers (1992) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1992).

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Gordy Soltau, American football player and sportscaster (born 1925)

Gordon Leroy Soltau was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for nine seasons with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

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Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (born 1992)

Oscar Francisco Taveras was a Dominican professional baseball outfielder who played one season for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Known as "El Fenómeno" in the Dominican Republic, the Cardinals signed him at age 16 in 2008 as an international amateur free agent and he made his MLB debut in 2014. Over six minor league seasons, he batted .321 with a .519 slugging percentage. He played all three outfield positions while spending most of the time in center field.

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26/10/2013

Ritva Arvelo, Finnish actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Ritva Helinä Arvelo was a Finnish actress, director, screenwriter and a pioneer in modern dance.

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Ron Davies, Welsh photographer (born 1921)

Ron Davies, OBE was a Welsh photographer.

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Doug Ireland, American journalist and activist (born 1946)

William Douglas Ireland was an American journalist and blogger who wrote about politics, power, media, and LGBT issues. He was the U.S. correspondent for the French political-investigative weekly Bakchich, for which he also wrote a weekly column, and he was also the Contributing Editor for International Affairs of Gay City News. Scott Tucker has called him "not only a left-wing critic of sexual and political conformism among sectors of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movements, but ... also one of the notable public intellectuals of the civil libertarian left."

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Al Johnson, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)

Alfred Orlando Johnson was an American R&B singer, writer, arranger and producer. He co-wrote the song "We Have Love for You" with Deniece Williams from her 1977 album Songbird.

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Andries Maseko, South African footballer (born 1955)

Andries "Six Mabone" Maseko was a South African football striker who played for Moroka Swallows, San Jose Earthquakes, Washington Diplomats and Phoenix Inferno.

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Gabriel of Komana (born 1946)

Gabriel of Komana was an Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who led the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe from 2003 to 2013.

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26/10/2012

Mac Ahlberg, Swedish-Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (born 1931)

Mac Ahlberg was a Swedish film director and cinematographer.

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Arnold Greenberg, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (born 1932)

Arnold Shepard Greenberg was an American businessman who co-founded Snapple, a brand of tea and juice drinks, in the 1970s with Leonard Marsh, his former high school classmate, and Hyman Golden, who was Marsh's brother-in-law. Greenberg later became the vice president and chief operating officer of the Snapple Corporation and retired after the 1994 acquisition of the brand to Quaker Oats.

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John M. Johansen American architect, designed the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre (born 1916)

John MacLane Johansen was an American architect and a member of the Harvard Five. Johansen took an active role in the modern movement.

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Alan Kirschenbaum, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1961)

Alan Kirschenbaum was an American television sitcom producer and writer.

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Björn Sieber, Austrian skier (born 1989)

Björn Sieber was an Austrian alpine skier. Sieber won two medals at the world junior championships, a silver in giant slalom in 2009, and bronze in super-G in 2008. His best World Cup result was seventh at a super-combined event in February 2011 in Bansko, Bulgaria. Sieber died in a car crash on 26 October 2012, at the age of 23.

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Alan Stretton, Australian general (born 1922)

Major General Alan Bishop Stretton, was a senior Australian Army officer. He came to public prominence through his work in charge of cleanup efforts at Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Day 1974. As head of the National Disasters Organisation he managed the evacuation of 35,000 people in six days, including loading a jumbo jet with 673 passengers, mostly children, then a record for the most people aloft in the one aircraft.

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26/10/2011

Jona Senilagakali, Fijian physician and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Fiji (born 1929)

Jona Baravilala Senilagakali was a Fijian medical doctor and diplomat who was briefly appointed as Prime Minister of Fiji following the 2006 Fijian coup d'état. Subsequently he was Minister for Health in the military regime from 2007 to 2008.

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26/10/2010

Glen Little, American clown (born 1925)

Glen Gordon "Frosty" Little was a circus clown who served with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for over 20 years. He was one of only four clowns ever to have been given the title "Master Clown" by the Ringling organization.

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Mbah Maridjan, Indonesian spiritual leader (born 1927)

Mas Penewu Surakso Hargo, better known as Mbah Maridjan was the spiritual guardian or "gatekeeper" of the Indonesian volcano Mount Merapi. His birthplace was in the mountainside hamlet of Kinahrejo, Umbulharjo Village, Cangkringan District, of the Sleman Regency, on the island of Java in Indonesia.

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Romeu Tuma, Brazilian police officer and politician (born 1931)

Romeu Tuma was a Brazilian politician and a former director of the Federal Police.

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26/10/2009

Teel Bivins, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Ambassador to Sweden (born 1947)

Miles Teel Bivins was an American diplomat and politician. He served as a Republican member for the 31st district of the Texas Senate, and also as the 18th United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden.

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Yoshirō Muraki, Japanese production designer and art director(born 1924)

Yoshirō Muraki was a Japanese production designer, art director, and costume designer. Muraki joined Toho Film studio in 1944. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the films Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Kagemusha (1980), and Ran (1985). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for his work in Yojimbo (1961). He is most well known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa, having done work on all of Kurosawa's films from Record of a Living Being (1955) onward, with the exception of Dersu Uzala (1975). He was married to Shinobu Muraki.

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George Naʻope, American singer and dancer (born 1928)

George Lanakilakeikiahialiʻi Naʻope, born in Kalihi, Hawaiʻi and raised in Hilo, was a celebrated kumu hula, master Hawaiian chanter, and leading advocate and preservationist of native Hawaiian culture worldwide. He taught hula dancing for over sixty years in Hawaiʻi, Japan, Guam, Australia, Germany, England, North America, and South America.

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Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In (born 1922)

Troy Nuel Smith Sr. was an American businessman who founded Sonic Drive-In, a fast-food restaurant chain based in Oklahoma City that recreates the drive-in diner feel of the 1950s, complete with carhops who usually wear roller skates. By the time of Smith's death in 2009, the chain had 3,600 restaurants in 42 U.S. states.

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26/10/2008

Tony Hillerman, American journalist, author, and educator (born 1925)

Anthony Grove Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Several of his works have been adapted for film and television, including the AMC series Dark Winds.

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Delmar Watson, American actor and photographer (born 1926)

David Delmar Watson was an American child actor and news photographer.

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26/10/2007

Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer and manager (born 1947)

Nicolae Dobrin was a Romanian professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and a manager.

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Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and television host (born 1943)

Friedman Paul Erhardt was a German American pioneering early television chef. He was known as "Chef Tell" to his 40 million fans. He is widely regarded as one of the first chefs to enjoy widespread popularity on American television. Former Philadelphia Inquirer food writer, Elaine Tait, wrote, "Chef Tell is America's pioneer TV showman chef whose food always tastes good." Erhardt's thick German accent reportedly made him the inspiration for the Swedish Chef, a well known Muppet character on The Muppet Show, although Brian Henson denies this.

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Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize (born 1918)

Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, an L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, and the National Medal of Science in 1979. In 1991, Kornberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and the Gairdner Foundation Award in 1995.

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26/10/2006

Tillman Franks, American bassist and songwriter (born 1920)

Tillman Ben Franks, Sr., was an American bassist, songwriter and artist manager whose roster included country music stars Johnny Horton, David Houston, Webb Pierce, Claude King, and the Carlisles.

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Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and curator (born 1924)

Karl Gunnar Vougt Pontus Hultén was a Swedish art collector and museum director. Pontus Hultén is regarded as one of the most distinguished museum professionals of the twentieth century. He was the pioneering former head of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and in the 1970s he was invited to participate in the creation of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where he was the first director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne (MNAM) in 1974–1981.

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26/10/2005

Keith Parkinson, American illustrator (born 1958)

Keith A. Parkinson was an American fantasy artist and illustrator known for book covers and artwork for games such as EverQuest, Guardians, Magic: The Gathering, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. After designing book and magazine covers for TSR, Parkinson moved into game design in the 1990s, and co-designed the collectible card game Guardians. Parkinson died of leukemia on October 26, 2005.

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George Swindin, English footballer and manager (born 1914)

George Hedley Swindin was an English football player and manager.

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26/10/2004

Bobby Ávila, Mexican baseball player and politician (born 1924)

Roberto Francisco Ávila González, known as "Beto" in Mexico and as "Bobby" in the United States, was a Mexican professional baseball second baseman.

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26/10/2002

Jacques Massu, French general (born 1908)

Jacques Émile Massu was a French general who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez Crisis. He led French troops in the Battle of Algiers, first supporting and later denouncing their use of torture.

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Sally Hoyt Spofford, American ornithologist (born 1914)

Sally Hoyt Spofford was an American ornithologist who was long associated with the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. In retirement, she was involved in conservation and birding in Arizona, known as the "doyenne of southern Arizona's birding community". She authored some 50 articles on bird behavior and co-authored the books Enjoying Birds in Upstate New York (1963) with O. S. Pettingill Jr. and Enjoying Birds Around New York City (1966) with Pettingill and R.S. Arbib Jr. She was a member of the American Ornithologists' Union from 1940 onward.

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26/10/2001

Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, Turkish scholar and academic (born 1911)

Huseyin Hilmi Işık was a Turkish, Sunni Islamic scholar.

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26/10/1999

Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1938)

Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. Among his best-known songs are "Joy to the World", "The Pusher", "No No Song", "Greenback Dollar", "Della and the Dealer", "Never Been to Spain", and "Boney Fingers".

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Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American author and educator (born 1910)

Eknath Easwaran was an Indian-born spiritual teacher, author, and translator and interpreter of Indian religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads.

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26/10/1998

Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician and academic (born 1917)

Kenkichi Iwasawa was a Japanese mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory.

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26/10/1995

Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1909)

Wilhelm Freddie, born Christian Frederik Wilhelm Carlsen was a Danish painter, sculptor and filmmaker. Initially working along a somewhat abstract line, he soon turned towards a more realistic surrealism, only to later return to abstract art. Some of his works were highly controversial and considered pornographic at their time, resulting in confiscation of the works and his imprisonment though his artistic merits were later recognized.

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Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (born 1913)

Francesco Kramer Gorni, known as Gorni Kramer, was an Italian songwriter, musician and band leader.

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26/10/1994

Wilbert Harrison, American singer and guitarist (born 1929)

Wilbert Huntington Harrison was an American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, guitarist, and harmonica player.

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26/10/1993

Oro, Mexican wrestler (born 1971)

Jesús Javier Hernández Silva was a Mexican professional wrestler known under the ring name Oro (Gold), a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler. Hernández died in 1993 as a direct result of a wrestling match. He was a second-generation wrestler, and several of his brothers and cousins were also wrestlers. His nephew works for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as Oro Jr. as an homage to his uncle.

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26/10/1991

Sherry Hawco, Canadian gymnast (born 1964)

Sherry Louise Hawco was a Canadian gymnast.

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26/10/1989

Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)

Charles John Pedersen was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, and at DuPont's Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater, New Jersey. Often associated with Reed McNeil Izatt, Pedersen also shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 with Donald J. Cram and Jean-Marie Lehn. He is one of three Nobel Prize laureates born in Korea, along with Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-jung and Literature laureate Han Kang.

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26/10/1986

Jackson Scholz, American runner (born 1897)

Jackson Volney Scholz was an American sprint runner. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games. After his athletic career, he also gained fame as a writer.

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26/10/1984

Gus Mancuso, American baseball player and coach (born 1905)

August Rodney Mancuso, nicknamed "Blackie", was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout and radio sports commentator. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs (1939), Brooklyn Dodgers (1940) and Philadelphia Phillies (1945).

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26/10/1979

Park Chung Hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (born 1917)

Park Chung Hee was a South Korean politician and army officer who served as the third president of South Korea from 1962 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961 until his assassination in 1979. His regime oversaw a period of intense economic growth and transformation, making Park one of the most consequential leaders in Korean history, although his legacy as a military dictator remains a bitter subject.

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26/10/1978

Alexander Gerschenkron, Ukrainian-American historian, critic, and academic (born 1904)

Alexander Gerschenkron was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University trained in the German historical school of economics.

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26/10/1976

Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and author (born 1919)

Deryck Cooke was a British musician, musicologist, broadcaster and Gustav Mahler expert.

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26/10/1974

Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator (born 1914)

Bidia Dandarovich Dandaron, religious name Chitta-Vajra, was a Soviet Buryat Buddhist lama, Tibetologist, Buddhologist and translator, known for being the successor of the Balagat movement. A victim of Soviet religious persecution, Dandaron was imprisoned for a total of 15 years throughout his life and died aged 59 in Vydrino Labor Camp.

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26/10/1973

Semyon Budyonny, Marshal of the Soviet Union (born 1883)

Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was a Russian and Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish–Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

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26/10/1972

Igor Sikorsky, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (born 1889)

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition and F.A.I. pilot's license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, and in the fall of that year the aircraft won first prize for its young designer, builder and pilot in the military competition at Saint Petersburg. In 1913, the Sikorsky-designed Russky Vityaz (S-21) became the first successful four-engine aircraft to take flight. He also designed and built the Ilya Muromets family of four-engine aircraft, an airliner which he redesigned to be the world's first four-engine bomber when World War I broke out.

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26/10/1966

Alma Cogan, English singer (born 1932)

Alma Angela Cohen Cogan was an English singer of traditional pop in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.

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26/10/1965

Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (born 1949)

Sylvia Marie Likens was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her extensive injuries and malnourishment on October 26, 1965, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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26/10/1963

Elizabeth Gunn, New Zealand pediatrician (born 1879)

Elizabeth Catherine Gunn was a New Zealand school and army doctor and public health official. She was a pioneer in the field of children's health, and was instrumental in the establishment of children's health camps in New Zealand.

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26/10/1962

Louise Beavers, American actress (born 1902)

Louise Beavers was an American film and television actress who appeared in dozens of films and two hit television shows from the 1920s to 1960. She played a prominent role in advancing the lives of black Americans through her work and collaborated with fellow advocates to improve the social standing and media image of the black community.

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26/10/1961

Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (born 1886)

Sadae Inoue was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He commanded the Japanese forces at the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Angaur.

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26/10/1960

Toshizō Nishio, Japanese general (born 1881)

Toshizō Nishio was a Japanese general, considered to be one of the Imperial Japanese Army's most successful and ablest strategists during the Second Sino-Japanese War, who commanded the Japanese Second Army during the first years after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

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26/10/1957

Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)

Gerty Theresa Cori was a Czech and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".

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Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (born 1883)

Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years, and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide.

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26/10/1956

Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (born 1895)

Walter Wilhelm Gieseking was a French-born German pianist and composer. Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control—particularly in the music of Debussy and Ravel; he made complete recordings of all their published works which were extant during his life. He also recorded most of Mozart's solo piano works.

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26/10/1952

Hattie McDaniel, American actress and singer (born 1895)

Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 2006 became the first black Oscar winner honored with a U.S. postage stamp. In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.

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26/10/1949

Lionel Halsey, English admiral and courtier (born 1872)

Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, was a Royal Navy officer and courtier.

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26/10/1947

Edwin Savage, English priest and author (born 1862)

Edwin Sidney Savage was a British priest in the Church of England and an author.

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26/10/1946

Ioannis Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (born 1878)

Ioannis Rallis was the third and last collaborationist prime minister of Greece during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, holding office from 7 April 1943 to 12 October 1944, succeeding Konstantinos Logothetopoulos in the Nazi-controlled Greek puppet government in Athens.

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26/10/1945

Aleksey Krylov, Russian mathematician and engineer (born 1863)

Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist.

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Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer (born 1878)

Paul Eugène Pelliot was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing center storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts.

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26/10/1944

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (born 1857)

Princess Beatrice, later known as Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She was also the last surviving child of Queen Victoria, dying nearly 66 years after the first to die, her elder sister Princess Alice.

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Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (born 1920)

Lieutenant Junior Grade Hiroyoshi Nishizawa was a Japanese naval aviator and an ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II. Nishizawa was known to his colleagues as 'the Devil' for his breathtaking, brilliant, and unpredictable aerobatics and superb control of his aircraft while in combat. He was a member of the Tainan Kōkūtai's famous "clean up trio" with fellow aces Saburō Sakai and Toshio Ōta and would see action in the New Guinea campaign as well as in the aerial battles over Guadalcanal and over the Solomon Islands. He was killed in 1944 during the Philippines Campaign while aboard an IJN transport aircraft. It is possible that he was the most successful Japanese fighter ace of the war, reportedly telling his last CO that he had achieved a tally of 86 or 87 aerial victories- post war he was linked with scores of 147 or 103, but both of these scores have been considered inaccurate.

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William Temple, English archbishop and theologian (born 1881)

William Temple was an English Anglican priest who served as Bishop of Manchester (1921–1929), Archbishop of York (1929–1942) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1942–1944).

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26/10/1943

Aurel Stein, Hungarian-English archaeologist and academic (born 1862)

Sir Marc Aurel Stein, (Hungarian: Stein Márk Aurél; 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia. He was also a professor at Indian universities.

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26/10/1941

Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author (born 1904)

Arkady Petrovich Gaidar was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children, and a Red Army commander.

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26/10/1937

Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (born 1867)

Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki was a Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies. He was also the military commander of the Greater Poland Uprising.

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26/10/1932

Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (born 1867)

Margaret Brown, posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a survivor of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, and she unsuccessfully urged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field to look for survivors.

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26/10/1931

Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager (born 1859)

Charles Albert Comiskey, nicknamed "Commy" or "the Old Roman", was an American professional baseball first baseman, manager, and team owner. He played 13 seasons in the American Association (AA) for the St. Louis Brown Stockings / Browns, the Players' League (PL) for the Chicago Pirates, and the National League (NL) for the Cincinnati Reds. He was a key figure in the formation of the American League and was also the founding owner of the Chicago White Sox. Comiskey Park, the White Sox's storied baseball stadium, was built under his guidance and named for him.

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26/10/1930

Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss physician and microbiologist (born 1860)

Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, born Vladimir Aronovich (Markus-Volf) Khavkin was a Russian-French bacteriologist known for his pioneering work in vaccines.

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Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (born 1872)

Harry Payne Whitney was an American businessman, thoroughbred horse breeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family.

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26/10/1927

Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet (born 1898)

Jūkichi Yagi was a Japanese poet active in the late Taishō period and for the first few years of the Shōwa period, who focused on modern religious themes.

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26/10/1919

Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (born 1864)

Baron Akashi Motojiro was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 7th Governor-General of Taiwan from 6 June 1918 to 26 October 1919.

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26/10/1909

Itō Hirobumi, Japanese samurai and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1841)

Prince Itō Hirobumi was a Japanese statesman who served as the first prime minister of Japan from 1885 to 1888. Itō held office again as prime minister three times between 1892 and 1901. He was also a member of the genrō, a group of senior statesmen who effectively dictated policy for the Empire of Japan during the Meiji era. A key figure in the making of modern Japan, Itō played a central role in the drafting of the 1889 Meiji Constitution as well as the establishment of the National Diet and Japanese cabinet system.

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26/10/1902

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (born 1815)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially abolitionism.

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26/10/1897

John J. Robison, American politician in Michigan (born 1824)

John J. Robison (1824–1897) was a 19th-century Michigan politician who was the mayor of Ann Arbor from 1886 to 1887. He also served as a state senator and county clerk.

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26/10/1896

Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French philosopher, academic, and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1827)

Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour was a French statesman.

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26/10/1890

Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (born 1826)

Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.

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26/10/1871

Robert Anderson (Union officer), American general (born 1805)

Robert Anderson was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War. He was the Union commander in the first battle of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter in April 1861 when the Confederates bombarded the fort and forced its surrender, starting the war. Anderson was celebrated as a hero in the North and promoted to brigadier general and given command of Union forces in Kentucky. He was removed late in 1861 and reassigned to Rhode Island, before retiring from military service in 1863. In 1865, he returned to Fort Sumter to again raise the American flag that he had lowered during the 1861 surrender.

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26/10/1866

John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer, founded the Labatt Brewing Company (born 1803)

John Kinder Labatt was an Irish-Canadian brewer and the founder of the Labatt Brewing Company.

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26/10/1864

William T. Anderson, American captain (born 1838)

William T. Anderson, known by the nickname "Bloody Bill" Anderson, was a Confederate soldier who was one of the deadliest and most notorious guerrilla leaders in the American Civil War. Anderson led a band of volunteer partisan raiders who targeted Union loyalists and federal soldiers in the states of Missouri and Kansas.

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26/10/1817

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Dutch-Austrian chemist and botanist (born 1727)

Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. He travelled to the West Indies as part of an Austrian expedition and collected a large number of botanical specimens and described many species. He served as the first professor of chemistry in the mining academy at Schemnitz in Austria and later worked at the University of Vienna. He was the father of the botanist Joseph Franz von Jacquin.

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26/10/1806

John Graves Simcoe, English general and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (born 1752)

Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe was a British army officer, politician, and colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796. He founded York, which is now known as Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada.

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26/10/1803

Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1721)

Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, KG PC, known as Viscount Trentham from 1746 to 1754 and as The Earl Gower from 1754 to 1786, was a British Whig politician from the Leveson-Gower family. Sitting in the House of Lords, he spent a quarter of a century in the Cabinet.

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26/10/1773

Amédée-François Frézier, French mathematician, engineer, and explorer (born 1682)

Amédée-François Frézier was a French military engineer, mathematician, spy, and explorer who is best remembered for bringing back five specimens of Fragaria chiloensis, the beach strawberry, from an assignment in South America, thus introducing this New World fruit to the Old. The standard author abbreviation Frez. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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26/10/1764

William Hogarth, English painter and engraver (born 1697)

William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".

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26/10/1751

Philip Doddridge, English minister and hymn-writer (born 1702)

Philip Doddridge D.D. was an English Nonconformist minister, educator, and hymnwriter.

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26/10/1717

Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (born 1657)

Catherine Colyear, suo jure Countess of Dorchester and Countess of Portmore, was an English noble and courtier. She was the mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the throne. Catherine was noted not for beauty but for her celebrated wittiness and sharp tongue.

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26/10/1686

John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1623)

John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, PC, was an English nobleman from the Egerton family.

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26/10/1675

William Sprague, English settler, co-founded Charlestown, Massachusetts (born 1609)

William Sprague left England on the ship Lyon's Whelp for Plymouth/Salem Massachusetts. He was originally from Upwey, near Weymouth, Dorset, England.

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26/10/1671

Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (born 1593)

Sir John Gell was an English military officer who acted as local Parliamentarian commander for most of the First English Civil War from 1643 to his resignation in 1646. He was notorious for parading the body of his Royalist opponent through Derby after the Battle of Hopton Heath in March 1643.

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26/10/1633

Horio Tadaharu, Japanese daimyō (born 1596)

Horio Tadaharu was a tozama daimyō in Japan during the Edo period. His father was Horio Tadauji and his grandfather was Horio Yoshiharu. He was the third leader of the Matsue clan.

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26/10/1631

Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1550)

Michael Maestlin was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler. A student of Philipp Apian, Maestlin is recognized as the teacher who had the greatest influence on Kepler. He is regarded as one of the most significant astronomers of the period between Copernicus and Kepler.He was the first to write a decimal approximation of the Golden ratio.

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26/10/1609

Matsudaira Tadayori, Japanese samurai and daimyō (born 1582)

Matsudaira Tadayori was a Sengoku period samurai who became a daimyō under the Tokugawa shogunate in early-Edo period Japan. He was also the founder of the Sakurai-branch of the Matsudaira clan.

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26/10/1580

Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (born 1549)

Anna of Austria was Queen of Spain by marriage to her uncle, King Philip II of Spain. During her last days of life she was also briefly Queen of Portugal.

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26/10/1555

Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian-German scholar and educator (born 1526)

Olimpia Fulvia Morata was an Italian classical scholar.

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26/10/1440

Gilles de Rais, French lord (born c. 1405)

Gilles de Rais, Baron de Rais was a French knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou. He served as one of the captains in the French royal army during the Hundred Years' War, notably participating in military operations alongside Joan of Arc. He remains chiefly known for his conviction on charges of the rape and murder of several children.

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26/10/1111

Gómez González, Castilian nobleman and military leader

Gómez González, called de Lara or de Candespina, was a Castilian nobleman and military leader who had some claim to being Count of Castile. He was the eldest son and successor of Gonzalo Salvadórez and his wife Sancha, and thus kinsman of the Lara family. Like his father, he perished in battle.

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26/10/0930

Li Qi, chancellor of Later Liang (born 871)

Li Qi, courtesy name Taixiu (台秀), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and its successor states Later Liang and Later Tang of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, serving as a chancellor during Later Liang.

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26/10/0899

Alfred the Great, English king (born 849)

Alfred the Great was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and Æthelwulf's first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young. Three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and Æthelred, reigned in turn before him. Under Alfred's rule, considerable administrative and military reforms were introduced, prompting lasting change in England.

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26/10/0760

Cuthbert, archbishop of Canterbury

Cuthbert was a medieval Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury in England. Prior to his elevation to Canterbury, he was abbot of a monastic house, and perhaps may have been Bishop of Hereford also, but evidence for his holding Hereford mainly dates from after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. While Archbishop, he held church councils and built a new church in Canterbury. It was during Cuthbert's archbishopric that the Diocese of York was raised to an archbishopric. Cuthbert died in 760 and was later regarded as a saint.

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26/10/0664

Cedd, English monk and bishop (born 620)

Cedd was an Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop from the Kingdom of Northumbria. He was an evangelist of the Middle Angles and East Saxons in England and a significant participant in the Synod of Whitby, a meeting which resolved important differences within the Church in England. He is venerated in Anglicanism, the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.

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