Died on Friday, 12th September – Famous Deaths

12/09/2024

Sitaram Yechury, Indian politician and leader of CPI(M) (born 1952)

Sitaram Yechury was an Indian Marxist politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who was a member of the Politburo of the CPI(M) from 1992 until his death in September 2024. Previously, he was a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, West Bengal, from 2005 to 2017.

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12/09/2019

ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (born 1941)

Samiuela ʻAkilisi Pōhiva was a Tongan pro-democracy activist and politician. A key leader of the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands (DPFI), he served as the Prime Minister of Tonga from 2014 to his death in 2019. He was only the fourth commoner to serve as Prime Minister, and the first commoner to be elected to that position by Parliament rather than appointed by the King.

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12/09/2018

Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (born 1932)

Shen Chun-shan was a Taiwanese physicist who served as president of National Tsing Hua University from 1994 to 1997. He was known as one of the "four princes of Taiwan" along with Chen Li-an, Fredrick Chien, and Lien Chan, all of whose fathers attained prominence in politics prior to their sons' successes.

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12/09/2017

Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (born 1921)

Allan Joseph MacEachen was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as a senator and several times as a Cabinet minister. He was the first deputy prime minister of Canada and served from 1977 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984.

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Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (born 1929)

Edith Windsor was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. She was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States. The Obama administration and federal agencies extended rights, privileges and benefits to married same-sex couples because of the decision.

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12/09/2015

Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (born 1940)

Claudia Falconer Card was the Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with teaching affiliations in Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Environmental Studies, and LGBT Studies.

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12/09/2014

Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1932)

Atef Muhammad Ebeid was an Egyptian politician who served in various capacities in the governments of Egypt. He was the 47th prime minister of Egypt from 1999 to 2004.

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John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1942)

John Frederick "Johnny" Gustafson was an English bass guitar player and singer, who had a lengthy recording and live performance career. During his career, he was a member of the bands The Big Three, The Merseybeats, Quatermass, Roxy Music, The Pirates and Ian Gillan Band.

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Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical pastor (Free Presbyterian Church) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1926)

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.

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Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (born 1939)

Joseph Leslie Sample was an American jazz keyboardist and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Jazz Crusaders in 1960, whose name was shortened to "The Crusaders" in 1971. He remained a part of the group until its final album in 1991, and also the 2003 reunion album Rural Renewal.

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12/09/2013

Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (born 1933)

Ray Milton Dolby was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR, which has been said to have "transformed sound reproduction".

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Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (born 1924)

Warren Kenneth Giese was an American state legislator in South Carolina and a college football coach. He served as the head football coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks for five years at the University of South Carolina. He later served in the South Carolina State Senate.

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Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (born 1926)

Erich Loest was a German writer born in Mittweida, Saxony. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hans Walldorf, Bernd Diksen and Waldemar Naß.

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Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (born 1946)

Candace Beebe Pert was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opioid receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.

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12/09/2012

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet and author (born 1946)

Arkadii Trofimovich Dragomoshchenko was a Russian poet, writer, translator, and lecturer. He is considered the foremost representative of language poetry in contemporary Russian literature.

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Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (born 1938)

Jon Douglas Finlayson was an Australian stage and screen character actor, radio performer, writer, director, producer and singer

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Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (born 1950)

Tom Sims was an American athlete, inventor, and entrepreneur. Sims was World Snowboarding Champion (1983), World Champion Skateboarder (1975), and founder of SIMS Snowboards and SIMS Skateboards. He lived in Santa Barbara, California, from 1971 until his death.

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12/09/2011

Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1985)

Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) whose team plane crashed on 7 September 2011 killing all but one of the 45 crew and passengers on board.

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12/09/2010

Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker.

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Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (born 1946)

Giulio Zignoli was an Italian professional footballer, who played as a defender. He made 108 appearances in Serie A, most notably for Cagliari and Milan, during the late 1960s and 1970s. He died in Cantù, aged 64.

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12/09/2009

Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)

Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal, one of only seven people to have received all three awards.

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Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1921)

John Albert Kramer was an American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, and a pioneer promoter who helped drive the sport towards professionalism at the elite level. Kramer also ushered in the serve-and-volley era in tennis, a playing style with which he won three Grand Slam tournaments. He also led the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team to victory in the 1946 and 1947 Davis Cup finals.

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Willy Ronis, French photographer and author (born 1910)

Willy Ronis was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.

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12/09/2008

Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)

Robert Berrima Quinn MM was a champion Australian rules footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and a decorated soldier of the Second World War.

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David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1962)

David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine named one of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".

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12/09/2007

Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1934)

Bobby Howard Byrd was an American rhythm and blues, soul and funk singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, bandleader, pianist and talent dedicated. He played a part in the development of soul and funk music in association with James Brown.

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12/09/2005

Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (born 1927)

Serge Lang was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the Bourbaki group.

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12/09/2003

Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1932)

John R. Cash was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career. He was known for his deep, calm, bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his backing band, the Tennessee Three, that was characterized by its train-like chugging guitar rhythms, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, and his free prison concerts. Cash wore a trademark all-black stage wardrobe, which earned him the nickname "Man in Black".

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Arthur Johnson, canoeist (born 1921)

Arthur Leonard Johnson was a Canadian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1950s. He finished eighth in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

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12/09/2000

Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1934)

Stanley William Turrentine, nicknamed Mr. T, was an American Grammy nominated jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touching on jazz fusion during a stint on CTI in the 1970s. He was described by critic Steve Huey as "renowned for his distinctively thick, rippling tone [and] earthy grounding in the blues." In the 1960s Turrentine was married to organist Shirley Scott, with whom he frequently recorded, and he was the younger brother of trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, with whom he also recorded.

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12/09/1997

Judith Merril, American-Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist (born 1923)

Judith Josephine Grossman, who took the pen-name Judith Merril around 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be widely influential in those roles.

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12/09/1996

Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (born 1907)

Ernesto Beckmann Geisel was a Brazilian Army officer and politician, who served as the 29th president of Brazil from 1974 to 1979, during the Brazilian military dictatorship.

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12/09/1995

Jeremy Brett, English actor (born 1933)

Peter Jeremy William Huggins, known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes from 1984 to 1994 in 41 episodes of the Granada TV series. He also played the smitten Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the 1964 Warner Bros. production of My Fair Lady. His career spanned stage, television and film, to Shakespeare and musical theatre.

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Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (born 1965)

Yasutomo Nagai was a motorcycle road racer, born in Koshigaya, Japan.

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12/09/1994

Tom Ewell, American actor (born 1909)

Tom Ewell was an American film, stage and television actor, and producer. His most successful and most identifiable role was that of Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch, a character he played in the Broadway production (1952–1954) and reprised for the 1955 film adaptation. He received a Tony Award for his work in the play and a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the film. Although Ewell preferred acting on stage, he accepted several other screen roles in light comedies of the 1950s, most notably The Girl Can't Help It (1956). He appeared in the film version of the musical State Fair (1962) and in a small number of additional ones released between the early 1960s and 1980s.

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Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (born 1937)

Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet physician and cosmonaut who became the first physician to travel to space. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union and received his medical degree from the Moscow Medical Institute in 1961.

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12/09/1993

Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (born 1917)

Raymond William Stacy Burr was a Canadian actor who had a lengthy Hollywood film career and portrayed the title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.

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12/09/1992

Ruth Nelson, American actress (born 1905)

Ruth Gloria Nelson was an American stage and film actress. She is known for her roles in films such as Wilson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Humoresque, 3 Women, The Late Show and Awakenings. She was the wife of John Cromwell, with whom she acted on multiple occasions.

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Anthony Perkins, American actor, singer, and director (born 1932)

Anthony Perkins was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, he began his acting career as a teenager in summer stock theatre, and appeared in films prior to his Broadway debut. His first film role was in The Actress (1953). That same year, he debuted on Broadway in Tea and Sympathy, a performance for which he received critical acclaim.

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12/09/1991

Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman (born 1909)

Major General Albert Bruce Matthews was a senior Canadian Army officer and businessman. Although not a professional soldier, he nevertheless rose to be the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during the final months of the Second World War, after having served with distinction in campaigns in Sicily, Italy and Western Europe from 1943-1945. He became noted for his personal bravery and the accuracy and reliability of the artillery under his command. Post-war, his business career continued. In addition, he was active in the Canadian Liberal Party.

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12/09/1990

Athene Seyler, English actress (born 1889)

Athene Seyler was an English actress.

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12/09/1987

John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (born 1899)

John Qualen was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles.

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12/09/1986

Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (born 1894)

Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.

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Charlotte Wolff, German-English psychotherapist and physician (born 1897)

Charlotte Wolff was a German-British physician who worked as a psychotherapist and wrote on sexology and hand analysis. Her writings on lesbianism and bisexuality were influential early works in the field.

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12/09/1982

Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (born 1891)

Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spanish composer, conductor, and theatrical impresario. He is especially remembered for his contributions to the classical guitar repertoire, becoming one of the leading twentieth-century composers for the instrument. He was also one of the foremost composers of zarzuelas, a form of Spanish light opera. His 1932 zarzuela Luisa Fernanda has proved to be enduringly popular. In addition, he composed ballets, symphonic works, and piano pieces, as well as one-act operas and one full-length opera, El poeta, which premiered in 1980, starring tenor Plácido Domingo. Moreno Torroba also ran his own zarzuela company, which toured extensively, especially in Latin America.

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12/09/1981

Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)

Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions."

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12/09/1978

William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (born 1896)

Sir William Hudson was a New Zealand-born engineer who headed construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme for hydroelectricity and irrigation in Australia from 1949 to 1967, when he reluctantly retired at 71. The scheme was completed in 1974, under budget and before time.

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12/09/1977

Steve Biko, South African activist (born 1946)

Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.

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Robert Lowell, American poet (born 1917)

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His ancestors and contemporary family were important subjects in his poetry. Growing up in Boston also informed his poems, which were frequently set in Boston and the New England region. Literary scholar Paula Hayes argues that, particularly in his early work, Lowell mythologized New England.

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12/09/1972

William Boyd, American actor and producer (born 1895)

William Lawrence Boyd was an American actor and film producer, known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in dozens of Western films released during the 1930s and '40s.

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12/09/1971

Walter Egan, American golfer (born 1881)

Walter Eugene Egan was an American golfer who competed in the late 1890s and early 1900s.

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12/09/1968

Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and journalist (born 1894)

Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-born golfer who played primarily in the United States. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. He was the winner of three of golf's major championships: 1927 U.S. Open, 1930 PGA, and 1931 Open Championship. Armour popularized the term yips, the colloquial term for a sudden and unexplained loss of skills in experienced athletes.

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12/09/1967

Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright (born 1903)

Vladimir Bartol was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages.

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12/09/1965

Raja Aziz Bhatti, Pakistani Major who received the Nishan-e-Haider in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

Raja Aziz Bhatti NH was a Pakistani military officer and the 4th recipient of Pakistan's highest military honour, the Nishan-e-Haider, which he was posthumously awarded for his brave defence of Lahore during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

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12/09/1962

Spot Poles, American baseball player and soldier (born 1887)

Spottswood Poles was an American outfielder in baseball's Negro leagues. One of the fastest players of his era, Poles was sometimes referred to as "the black Ty Cobb."

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Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (born 1923)

Rangeya Raghava was an Indian writer.

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12/09/1961

Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (born 1898)

Carl Heinrich Hermann, also spelled Karl Hermann, was a German physicist, crystallographer, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. He is known for his research in crystallographic symmetry, nomenclature, and mathematical crystallography in N-dimensional spaces.

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12/09/1956

Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (born 1882)

Count Sándor Ágost Dénes Festetics de Tolna was a Hungarian nobleman and cabinet minister who later became an advocate of Nazism in Hungary.

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12/09/1953

James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (born 1869)

James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, styled Marquess of Hamilton between 1885 and 1913, was a British peer and Unionist politician. He was the first Governor of Northern Ireland, a post he held between 1922 and 1945.

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Hugo Schmeisser, German engineer (born 1884)

Hugo Schmeisser was a German developer of 20th century infantry weapons.

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Lewis Stone, American actor (born 1879)

Lewis Shepard Stone was an American film actor. He spent 29 years as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was best known for his portrayal of Judge James Hardy in the studio's popular Andy Hardy film series. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 for his performance as Russian Count Pahlen in The Patriot. Stone was also cast in seven films with Greta Garbo, including in the role of Doctor Otternschlag in the 1932 drama Grand Hotel.

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12/09/1949

Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician (born 1870)

Erik Adolf von Willebrand was a Finnish physician who made major contributions to hematology. Von Willebrand disease and von Willebrand factor are named after him. He also researched metabolism, obesity and gout, and was one of the first Finnish physicians to use insulin to treat a diabetic coma.

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12/09/1945

Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War (born 1880)

Hajime Sugiyama was a Japanese field marshal and one of Japan's military leaders for most of the Second World War.

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12/09/1942

Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (born 1888)

Captain Valentine Henry Baker MC AFC, nicknamed "Bake", served in all three of the British Armed Forces during the First World War. After the war he became a civilian flight instructor, and co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company. He was the father of novelist Denys Val Baker.

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12/09/1927

Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (born 1847)

Sarah Frances Whiting was an American physicist and astronomer. In February 1896 Whiting founded both the physics and astronomy departments; and was the first professor of physics and astronomy at Wellesley College, where she taught for over 30 years. At Wellesley College, Whiting instructed several notable astronomers and physicists, including Annie Jump Cannon. Whiting was one of the founders and the first director of the Whitin Observatory.

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12/09/1923

Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (born 1841)

Jules Louis Gabriel Violle was a French physicist and inventor.

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12/09/1919

Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (born 1871)

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age literary period. Andreyev's style combines the elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist schools in literature. Of his 25 plays, his 1915 play He Who Gets Slapped is regarded as his finest achievement.

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12/09/1918

George Reid, Australian accountant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1845)

Sir George Houston Reid was a Scottish-born Australian politician, diplomat, and barrister who served as the fourth prime minister of Australia from 1904 to 1905. He held office as the leader of the Free Trade Party, previously serving as the 12th premier of New South Wales from 1894 to 1899, and later as the high commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1916.

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12/09/1912

Pierre-Hector Coullié, French cardinal (born 1829)

Pierre-Hector Coullié was a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1893 to 1912. He was previously Bishop of Orléans from 1878 to 1893 and was made a cardinal in 1897.

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12/09/1907

Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (born 1837)

Tavadi (Prince) Ilia Chavchavadze was a Georgian journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the second half of the 19th century in the period of Tsarist rule. He has been called Georgia's "most universally revered hero" and the "Father of the Nation."

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12/09/1903

Duncan Gillies, Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (born 1834)

Duncan Gillies, was an Australian colonial politician who served as the 14th Premier of Victoria.

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12/09/1874

François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (born 1787)

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics between the Revolution of 1830 and the Revolution of 1848.

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12/09/1870

Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist (born 1782)

Eleanora Atherton was an English philanthropist best known for her work in Manchester, England. At the time of her death, she was one of the richest British women in the nineteenth century.

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Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, explorer, and author (born 1836)

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow, was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857).

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12/09/1869

Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (born 1779)

Peter Mark Roget was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words (thesaurus). In 1824, he read a paper to the Royal Society about a peculiar optical illusion which is often (falsely) regarded as the origin of the ancient persistence of vision theory that was later commonly, yet incorrectly, used to explain apparent motion in film and animation.

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12/09/1836

Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (born 1801)

Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist of the Vormärz era. He wrote many historical plays conceiving a disillusioned and pessimistic world view, with some shrill scenes. Heinrich Heine saw him as one of Germany's foremost dramatists, calling him "a drunken Shakespeare" and Sigmund Freud described Grabbe as "an original and rather peculiar poet."

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12/09/1819

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (born 1742)

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Graf (count), later elevated to Fürst (prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall. He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

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12/09/1814

Robert Ross, Irish general (born 1766)

Major-General Robert Ross was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.

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12/09/1810

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (born 1740)

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet was an English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets.

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12/09/1779

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1711)

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, KG, PC was a British politician and peer who served as Lord Privy Seal from 1757 to 1761. He is best known for his association with his brother-in-law William Pitt, serving with him in the Pitt–Newcastle ministry during Britain's participation in the Seven Years' War from 1756 to 1761. He resigned, along with Pitt, in 1761 in protest over the ministry's refusal to declare war on Spain.

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12/09/1764

Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (born 1683)

Jean-Philippe Rameau was a French composer and music theorist of the late Baroque era. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer of his time for the harpsichord, alongside François Couperin.

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12/09/1712

Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1637)

Jan van der Heyden was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der Heyden was one of the first Dutch painters to specialize in townscapes and became one of the leading architectural painters of the Dutch Golden Age. He painted a number of still lifes in the beginning and at the end of his career.

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12/09/1683

Afonso VI of Portugal (born 1643)

Dom Afonso VI, known as "the Victorious", was the second king of Portugal of the House of Braganza from 1656 until his death. He was initially under the regency of his mother, Luisa de Guzmán, until 1662, when he removed her to a convent and took power with the help of his favourite, D. Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor.

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12/09/1674

Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (born 1593)

Nicolaes Tulp was a Dutch physician and mayor of Amsterdam. Tulp was well known for his upstanding moral character and as the subject of Rembrandt's famous painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.

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12/09/1672

Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French scholar and author (born 1615)

Tanneguy Le Fèvre was a French classical scholar. He wrote many books, and translated numerous classical works. Somewhat unusual in this era, he educated his daughter Anne Dacier in Greek and Latin, and she subsequently became the notable classical scholar and translator better known as Madame Dacier.

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12/09/1665

Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and hagiographer (born 1596)

Jean Bolland, SJ was a Flemish Jesuit priest, theologian, and prominent hagiographer.

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12/09/1660

Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (born 1577)

Jacob Cats was a Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books.

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12/09/1642

Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born 1620)

Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, Marquis of Cinq-Mars was a favourite of King Louis XIII, who led the last and most nearly successful of many conspiracies against the Cardinal Richelieu, the king's powerful first minister.

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12/09/1612

Vasili IV of Russia (born 1552)

Vasili IV Ivanovich Shuisky was Tsar of all Russia from 1606 to 1610, after the murder of False Dmitri I. His rule coincided with the Time of Troubles. He was the only member of House of Shuisky to become tsar and the last member of the Rurikid dynasty to rule as tsar.

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12/09/1544

Clément Marot, French poet (born 1496)

Clément Marot was a French Renaissance poet. He was influenced by the writers of the late 15th century and paved the way for the Pléiade, and is undoubtedly the most important poet at the court of Francis I. Despite the support of Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême (1492-1549), the king’s sister, his strong leanings toward the Reformation led to several imprisonments and two periods of exile.

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12/09/1500

Albert III, Duke of Saxony (born 1443)

Albert III was Duke of Saxony from 1464 to 1500. Known as Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous, he founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin. Initially, he ruled jointly with his older brother Ernest, Elector of Saxony, but upon division of Wettinian lands by the Treaty of Leipzig (1485), he became a sole ruler in his own domain, known is historiography as the Albertine Duchy of Saxony.

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12/09/1439

Sidi El Houari, Algerian imam (born 1350)

Sidi El Houari was an Algerian imam whose real name was Ben-Amar El Houari. He is the patron saint of the city of Oran in Algeria. The old quarter of Sidi El Houari in Oran is named after him.

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12/09/1368

Blanche of Lancaster (born 1345/1347)

Blanche of Lancaster was a member of the English-French royal House of Lancaster and the daughter of the kingdom's wealthiest and most powerful peer, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. She was the first wife of John of Gaunt, the mother of King Henry IV, and the grandmother of King Henry V of England.

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12/09/1362

Pope Innocent VI (born 1295)

Pope Innocent VI, born Étienne Aubert, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 18 December 1352 to his death, in September 1362. He was the fifth Avignon pope and the only one with the pontifical name of "Innocent".

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12/09/1213

Peter II of Aragon (born 1174)

Peter II the Catholic was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1196 to 1213.

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12/09/1185

Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1118)

Andronikos I Komnenos, Latinized as Andronicus I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1183 to 1185. A nephew of John II Komnenos, Andronikos rose to fame in the reign of his cousin Manuel I Komnenos, during which his life was marked by political failures, adventures, scandalous romances, and rivalry with the emperor.

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12/09/0973

Nefingus, bishop of Angers

Nefingus, in French Néfingue, was the bishop of Angers from 966 until his death. His predecessor, Aimo, died on 19 October 966.

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12/09/0640

Sak Kʼukʼ, Mayan queen

Sak Kʼukʼ also known as Muwaan Mat, Lady Sak Kʼukʼ and Lady Beastie, was queen of the Maya city-state of Palenque. She acceded to the throne in October, 612 and ruled until 615.

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