Died on Saturday, 13th September – Famous Deaths

13/09/2024

Wolfgang Gerhardt, German politician (born 1943)

Wolfgang Gerhardt was a German politician and the leader of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) from 1995 until he was succeeded by Guido Westerwelle in 2001.

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Pravin Gordhan, South African politician (born 1949)

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist who held various ministerial posts in the Cabinet of South Africa. He served as Minister of Finance from 2009 until 2014, and again from 2015 until 2017, as Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs from 2014 until 2015, and as Minister of Public Enterprises from February 2018 until June 2024, when the entire Department of Public Enterprises and its ministry were abolished following the 2024 general elections.

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Lex Marinos, Australian actor (born 1949)

Alexander Francis Marinos was an Australian actor and television director, radio personality and voice artist. He was most notable for his role as Bruno, in the 1980s television series Kingswood Country.

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Mary McFadden, American fashion designer (born 1938)

Mary McFadden was an American fashion designer of women's clothing and other high-fashion items, including historically inspired form-fitting dresses.

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13/09/2022

Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic (born 1930)

Jean-Luc Godard was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork.

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13/09/2019

Eddie Money, American musician (born 1949)

Edward Joseph Money was an American singer and songwriter who had his greatest commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s. Money had eleven Top 40 singles, starting with "Baby Hold On" in 1977 and including the Billboard Top 10 hits "Take Me Home Tonight" (1986) and "Walk on Water" (1988). Critic Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called him a working-class rocker. In 1987, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Take Me Home Tonight".

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13/09/2017

Pete Domenici, American politician, senator of New Mexico (born 1932)

Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from New Mexico from 1973 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served six terms in the Senate, making him the longest-tenured U.S. Senator in the state's history. To date, Domenici is the last Republican to be elected to the Senate from New Mexico. He was succeeded by Democratic U.S. Representative Tom Udall.

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13/09/2016

Jonathan Riley-Smith, British historian (born 1938)

Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has been described as "quite simply the leading historian of the crusades anywhere in the world".

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13/09/2015

Vivinho, Brazilian footballer (born 1961)

Welvis Dias Marcelino, better known as Vivinho, was an association football striker, who played in several Brazilian Série A clubs.

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Erma Bergmann, American baseball player (born 1924)

Erma M. "Bergie" Bergmann was an American baseball pitcher and outfielder who played from 1946 through 1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), 155 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. She later served as one of the first commissioned police women in the city of St. Louis.

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Brian Close, English cricketer and coach (born 1931)

Dennis Brian Close, was an English first-class cricketer. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England, captaining them seven times to six wins and one drawn test. Close also captained Yorkshire to four county championship titles – the main domestic trophy in English cricket. He later went on to captain Somerset, where he is widely credited with developing the county into a hard-playing team, and helping to mould Viv Richards and Ian Botham into the successful players they became.

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Moses Malone, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1955)

Moses Eugene Malone Sr. was an American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1974 through 1995. A center, he was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times, was a 12-time NBA All-Star and an eight-time All-NBA Team selection. Malone led the Philadelphia 76ers to an NBA championship in 1983, winning both the league and Finals MVP. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2001. Malone is widely regarded as one of the greatest centers and players of all time.

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13/09/2014

Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (born 1936)

Benjamin Adesanya Maja Adekunle was a Nigerian military officer and prominent military figure during the Nigerian Civil War.

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Helen Filarski, American baseball player (born 1924)

Helen Filarski was an American baseball player. She was an infielder and outfielder who played from 1945 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 2 in (157 cm), 125 lb (57 kg), she batted and threw right-handed.

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Milan Galić, Serbian footballer (born 1938)

Milan Galić was a Yugoslav and Serbian professional footballer who played as a striker. He was part of the Yugoslav squad that won gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (born 1931)

Frank Joseph Torre was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman. Torre, who batted and threw left-handed, played for the Milwaukee Braves (1956–60) and Philadelphia Phillies (1962–63). He was the older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Joe Torre, himself a former Major League Baseball player and longtime manager. Torre attended James Madison High School in his native Brooklyn, New York.

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13/09/2013

Olusegun Agagu, Nigerian politician, 15th Governor of Ondo State (born 1948)

Olusegun Kokumo Agagu ; Born on 16 February 1948–13 September 2013) was a Nigerian politician who was a governor of Ondo State from 29 May 2003 until February 2009, when a court voided his re-election as governor on account of electoral irregularities. He was replaced as a governor by Olusegun Mimiko, the runner-up in the election. He was a member of the then-ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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Robert J. Behnke, American biologist and academic (born 1929)

Dr. Robert J. Behnke was an American fisheries biologist and conservationist who was recognized as a world authority on the classification of salmonid fishes. He was popularly known as "Dr. Trout" or "The Trout Doctor". His seminal work, Trout and Salmon of North America, was published in 2002. He wrote a regular column for Trout Magazine, the quarterly publication of Trout Unlimited. He was a fisheries biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and a professor at Colorado State University in the 1970s. He became a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology at Colorado State University.

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Rick Casares, American football player (born 1931)

Richard Jose Casares was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) for twelve seasons during the 1950s and 1960s. Casares played college football for the University of Florida, where he was standout fullback and kicker. Casares played professionally for the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins of the NFL, and was a member of the expansion Miami Dolphins of the AFL.

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Luiz Gushiken, Brazilian trade union leader and politician (born 1950)

Luiz Gushiken was a Brazilian union leader and politician. He was formerly the head of the social communication office of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration, a position which carried a ministerial rank. He was a second-generation Ryukyuan-Brazilian, with Ryukyuan parents from Okinawa.

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13/09/2012

William Duckworth, American composer and author (born 1943)

William Duckworth was an American composer, author, educator, and Internet pioneer. He wrote more than 200 pieces of music and is credited with the composition of the first postminimal piece of music, The Time Curve Preludes (1977–78), for piano. Duckworth was a Professor of Music at Bucknell University. Together with Nora Farrell, his wife, he ran Monroe Street Music, the publisher of many Duckworth's pieces.

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Peter Lougheed, Canadian football player, lawyer, and politician, 10th Premier of Alberta (born 1928)

Edgar Peter Lougheed was a Canadian lawyer and Progressive Conservative politician who served as the tenth premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, presiding over a period of reform and economic growth.

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Edgar Metcalfe, English-Australian actor and director (born 1933)

Edgar Metcalfe, was an English-born actor, director and author, who widely contributed to theatre in Perth, Western Australia.

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Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (born 1926)

Ranganath Misra was the 21st Chief Justice of India, serving from 25 September 1990 to 24 November 1991. He was also the first chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He also served as Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from the Congress Party between 1998 and 2004. He is the second Supreme Court judge to become a Rajya Sabha member after Baharul Islam who was also elected as Indian National Congress member.

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Lehri, (Actual name:Safirullah Siddiqui), Pakistani comedian and an actor in the Urdu film industry of Pakistan (born 1929)

Safirullah Siddiqui, commonly known by his stage name Lehri, was a comedian and actor in the Urdu film industry of Pakistan.

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13/09/2011

Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer and journalist (born 1930)

Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist. He was noted for many climbing achievements, including a solo climb of a new alpine climbing route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955, the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958, and, in 1965, the first solo climb in winter of the North face of the Matterhorn on the mountain's centenary year of its first ascent. Immediately after his solo climb on the Matterhorn, Bonatti announced his retirement from professional climbing at the age of 35, and after 17 years of climbing activity. He authored many mountaineering books and spent the remainder of his career travelling off the beaten track as a reporter for the Italian magazine Epoca. He died on 13 September 2011 of pancreatic cancer in Rome aged 81, and was survived by his life partner, the actress Rossana Podestà.

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13/09/2009

Paul Burke, American actor (born 1926)

Paul Raymond Burke was an American actor, best known for his lead roles in two 1960s ABC television series, Naked City and 12 O'Clock High. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of New York Police Department detective Adam Flint in Naked City.

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13/09/2007

Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand archbishop (born 1928)

Whakahuihui "Hui" Vercoe was an Anglican bishop in New Zealand. He was the Archbishop of New Zealand from 2004 to 2006, the first person from the Māori church to hold that office. He was also Bishop of Aotearoa from 1981, the first person to be elected to that position by the congregation rather than being appointed by the church hierarchy. He held both offices until his retirement in 2006. He was also the first person to become a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit after the rank was introduced in 2000.

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13/09/2006

Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (born 1933)

Dorothy Ann Richards was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards was the second female governor of Texas, and was frequently noted in the media for her outspoken feminism and her one-liners.

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13/09/2005

Toni Fritsch, Austrian footballer (born 1945)

Anton K. "Toni" Fritsch was an Austrian footballer who later started a successful career in American football in the United States. He is distinguished as being the first Austrian to play in the National Football League (NFL). He is the only player in history to win professional titles in both association football and American football: he won the Austrian League in 1964, 1967, and 1968, and the Super Bowl in 1972.

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Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (born 1916)

Julio César Turbay Ayala was a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as the 26th president of Colombia from 1978 to 1982. He also held the positions of Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States.

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13/09/2004

Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill (born 1925)

Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas was a Mexican chemist known as co-inventor and the first to synthesize an oral contraceptive, progestin norethisterone.

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Charlie Brandt, American serial killer (born 1957)

Carl Eric "Charlie" Brandt was an American serial killer who murdered at least four women: his mother in Indiana and a homeless woman, his wife, and his niece in Florida. Growing up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Brandt shot his parents in their family home on the night of January 3, 1971, when he was 13, killing his pregnant mother and wounding his father. He spent one year at a psychiatric hospital before being released and was never criminally charged. On September 13, 2004, Brandt stabbed his wife and niece to death and then hanged himself in his niece's garage in Maitland, Florida.

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13/09/2003

Frank O'Bannon, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, 47th Governor of Indiana (born 1930)

Frank Lewis O'Bannon was an American politician who served as the 47th governor of Indiana from 1997 until his death in 2003. He is the most recent American governor to have died in office.

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13/09/2002

George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian, and author, designed the Flag of Canada (born 1907)

Colonel George Francis Gillman Stanley was a Canadian author, soldier, historian at the Royal Military College of Canada and Mount Allison University, public servant, and designer of the Canadian Flag.

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13/09/2001

Johnny Craig, American sailor and illustrator (born 1926)

John Thomas Alexis Craig, was an American comic book artist notable for his work with the EC Comics line of the 1950s. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Jay Taycee and F. C. Aljohn.

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Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English ice hockey player and tennis player (born 1921)

Jaroslav Drobný was a world No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, where he died in 2001. In 1951, he became the first and, to date, only Egyptian to win the French Open, while doing likewise at the Wimbledon Championships in 1954. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983. He played internationally for the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team, and was inducted in the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.

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Dorothy McGuire, American actress (born 1916)

Dorothy Hackett McGuire was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for Friendly Persuasion (1956). She starred as the mother in the popular films Old Yeller (1957) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960).

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13/09/2000

Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author (born 1908)

Agnes Betty Jeffrey, was an Australian nurse, prisoner of war and writer, who wrote about her Second World War nursing experiences in the book White Coolies.

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13/09/1999

Benjamin Bloom, American psychologist and academic (born 1913)

Benjamin Samuel Bloom was an American educational psychologist and didactician who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery learning. He has greatly influenced the practices and philosophies of educators around the world from the latter part of the twentieth century.

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13/09/1998

Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant and politician (born 1922)

Necdet Calp was a Turkish civil servant and politician.

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Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1926)

Harry "Apple Cheeks" Lumley was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Boston Bruins between 1943 and 1960. He won the Vezina Trophy for being the goaltender to allow the fewest goals against in 1954 and won the Stanley Cup with the Red Wings in 1950. He was the second goaltender to win 300 games, doing so in 1958. In 1980, Lumley was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman (born 1918)

Sir Francis Henry Renouf was a New Zealand stockbroker and financier.

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George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (born 1919)

George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and lawyer who was the 45th and longest-serving governor of Alabama, and the longest-serving governor from the Democratic Party. Wallace is remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views, although in the late 1970s he moderated his views on race, renouncing his support for segregation. During Wallace's tenure as governor of Alabama, he promoted "industrial development, low taxes, and trade schools." Wallace unsuccessfully sought the United States presidency as a Democrat three times, and once with the American Independent Party, in which he carried five states in the 1968 presidential election. Wallace opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his 1963 inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."

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13/09/1997

Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French actor, singer, and dancer (born 1915)

Georges Guétary, born Lambros Vorloou was a French singer, dancer, cabaret performer and film actor, best known for his role in the 1951 musical An American in Paris.

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Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (born 1962)

Georgios Mitsibonas was a Greek football player during the 1980s and 1990s.

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13/09/1996

Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (born 1971)

Tupac Amaru Shakur, also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. He was one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century, and a prominent political activist for Black America. He is among the best-selling music artists, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Some of Shakur's music addressed social injustice, political issues, and the marginalization of African Americans, but he was also synonymous with gangsta rap and violent lyrics.

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13/09/1993

Carl Voss, American ice hockey player and referee (born 1907)

Carl Potter Voss was an American ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League. He played for several teams between 1926 and 1938. He would later become a referee, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1974 as a builder.

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13/09/1991

Robert Irving, English soldier and conductor (born 1913)

Robert Augustine Irving, DFC*, was a British conductor whose reputation was mainly as a ballet conductor.

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Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (born 1936)

Metin Oktay nicknamed the Crownless King by Galatasaray fans, was a Turkish footballer and one of the most successful goal scorers in Turkey.

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Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American production manager and producer (born 1901)

Joseph Herman Pasternak was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood. Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producing many successful musicals with female singing stars like Deanna Durbin, Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell, as well as swimmer/bathing beauty Esther Williams' films. He produced Judy Garland's final MGM film, Summer Stock, which was released in 1950, and some of Gene Kelly’s early breakthrough roles. Pasternak worked in the film industry for 45 years, from the later silent era until shortly past the end of the classical Hollywood cinema in 1967.

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13/09/1987

Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (born 1900)

Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer. During the 1930s, he was one of the two great practitioners of economical and effective film directing at Warner Brothers studios, the other being his colleague Michael Curtiz. LeRoy's most acclaimed films of his tenure at Warners include Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Anthony Adverse (1936), and They Won't Forget (1937). LeRoy left Warners and moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1939 to serve as both director and producer. He is best known for producing the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, as well as for directing the 1951 Oscar-nominated film Quo Vadis.

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13/09/1985

Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, composer, and author (born 1895)

Dane Rudhyar, born Daniel Chennevière, was an American author, modernist composer, painter and humanistic astrologer. He was a pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.

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13/09/1982

Reed Crandall, American illustrator (born 1917)

Reed Leonard Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the 1940s Quality Comics' Blackhawk and for stories in EC Comics during the 1950s. Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.

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13/09/1981

William Loeb III, American publisher (born 1905)

William Loeb III was an American newspaper publisher. He is remembered for his unyieldingly conservative political views, which helped made the Manchester Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire, one of the best-known small papers in the country. The newspaper also benefited from nationwide attention every four years during the New Hampshire presidential primary. Loeb was publisher of the Union Leader from 1946 until his death, a period of 35 years.

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13/09/1977

Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (born 1882)

Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristic sound from the orchestras he directed.

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13/09/1976

Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1905)

Joseph Armand Mondou was a Canadian ice hockey forward.

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Albert Tessier, Canadian priest, historian, and director (born 1895)

Albert Tessier was a French-speaking Canadian priest, historian and a film maker.

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13/09/1975

Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Indian singer and musicologist (born 1897)

Mudikondan Venkatarama Iyer was a South Indian Carnatic music singer and musicologist. He was also known as Mudikondan - the name of his native village.

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13/09/1973

Betty Field, American actress (born 1913)

Betty Field was an American film and stage actress.

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Sajjad Zaheer, Indian poet and philosopher (born 1905)

Syed Sajjad Zaheer was an Indian Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue, radical revolutionary and a member of the Communist Party of India. He established the All India Progressive Writers' Association after the short story collection Angarey was banned by the British Indian government. He then went on to study law at Lincoln's Inn in London and published the memoir London Ki Ek Raat (1935) based on his experience. He later served as the editor of several Communist Party of India newspapers. After the partition of India, he moved to the newly created Pakistan and became one of founding members of the Communist Party of Pakistan but was arrested in the alleged Rawalpindi conspiracy case and returned to India to continue working in cultural activities organized by the Communist Party of India.

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13/09/1971

Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1907)

Lin Biao was a Chinese military general and politician. He was a Marshal of the People's Republic of China, and was pivotal in the Communist victory during the Chinese Civil War, especially in Northeast China from 1946 to 1949. Lin was the general who commanded the decisive Liaoshen and Pingjin campaigns, in which he co-led the Manchurian Field Army to victory and led the People's Liberation Army into Beijing. He crossed the Yangtze River in 1949, decisively defeated the Kuomintang and took control of the coastal provinces in Southeast China. He ranked third among the Ten Marshals. Zhu De and Peng Dehuai were considered senior to Lin, and Lin ranked directly ahead of He Long and Liu Bocheng.

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13/09/1967

Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman, founded Saudi Binladin Group (born 1903)

Muhammad bin Awad bin Ladin was a Yemeni-born Saudi billionaire business magnate working primarily in the construction industry. He founded what is today the Saudi Binladin Group and became the wealthiest non-royal Saudi, establishing the wealth and prestige of the bin Ladin family. He was the father of Osama bin Laden, who is best known for planning the September 11 attacks.

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Robert George, English air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (born 1896)

Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia from 23 February 1953 until 7 March 1960. He was born in the County of Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, on 27 July 1896, and educated at Invergordon and Inverness. In May 1927, he married Sybil Elizabeth Baldwin.

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Leonard Lord, English businessman (born 1896)

Leonard Percy Lord, 1st Baron Lambury KBE was a captain of the British motor industry.

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13/09/1960

Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator (born 1885)

Leó Weiner was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and a composer.

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13/09/1953

Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (born 1868)

Mary Brewster Hazelton was an American portrait painter. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was later an instructor. Among her other achievements, Hazelton was the first woman to win an award open to both men and women in the United States when she won the Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy of Design in 1896. Her portrait paintings are in the collections of the Massachusetts State House, Harvard University, Peabody Essex Museum, and Wellesley Historical Society. The professional organizations that Hazelton was affiliated with included the Wellesley Society of Artists, of which she was a founding member, and The Guild of Boston Artists, of which she was a charter member. She lived her adult life with her sisters in the Hazelton family home in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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13/09/1949

August Krogh, Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)

Schack August Steenberg Krogh was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle.

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13/09/1946

Amon Göth, Austrian captain and Nazi war criminal (born 1908)

Amon Leopold Göth was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II.

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Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1875)

Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, also often spelled Eugene Lansere, was a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva.

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William Watt, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (born 1871)

William Alexander Watt was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria before entering federal politics in 1914. He then served as a minister in the government of Billy Hughes from 1917 to 1920, including as acting prime minister during World War I, and finally as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1923 to 1926.

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13/09/1944

W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (born 1872)

William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist who drew whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.

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13/09/1941

Elias Disney, Canadian-American farmer and businessman (born 1859)

Elias Charles Disney was a Canadian construction worker and entrepreneur. He was best known as the father of Roy and Walt Disney, co-founders of The Walt Disney Company. Elias was a strict and hardworking man who played a major role in shaping his sons' early lives, instilling in them a strong work ethic. He spent his early years as a construction worker for the World's Columbian Exposition, which was the inspiration for Disney's son, Walt Disney, and the Disney Kingdom he eventually created. His entrepreneurial tendencies were passed on to his son Walt, despite financial difficulties and business setbacks.

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13/09/1937

David Robertson, Scottish rugby player and golfer (born 1869)

David Donaldson Robertson was a Scottish sportsman who represented Great Britain and Ireland at golf in the 1900 Summer Olympics, and also played international rugby for the Scotland.

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13/09/1931

Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (born 1882)

Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery.

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13/09/1929

Jatindra Nath Das, Indian activist (born 1904)

Jatindra Nath Das, better known as Jatin Das, was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary who worked to make India independent from the British Raj and was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. He died in the Borstal Jail, Lahore after a long 63-day hunger strike for the rights of political prisoners of India's freedom struggle. He was only 24 years old when he died. His death proved to be a major incident in India's struggle for independence with more than five lakhs people attending his funeral.

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13/09/1928

Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright (born 1861)

Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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13/09/1918

Frederic Crowninshield, American artist and author (born 1845)

Frederic Crowninshield (1845–1918) was an American artist and author.

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13/09/1915

Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (born 1835)

Andrew Lintner Harris was one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War and served as the 44th governor of Ohio.

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13/09/1913

Aurel Vlaicu, Romanian pilot and engineer (born 1882)

Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor, and early pilot.

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13/09/1912

Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet (born 1843)

Joseph Furphy was an Australian author and poet. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic.

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Nogi Maresuke, Japanese general (born 1849)

Count Nogi Maresuke , also known as Kiten, Count Nogi, was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor-general of Taiwan. He was one of the commanders during the 1894 capture of Port Arthur from China and a prominent figure in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, as commander of the forces which captured Port Arthur from the Russians.

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13/09/1910

Rajanikanta Sen, Bangladeshi poet and composer (born 1865)

Rajanikanta Sen, also known as Kantakobi, was a Bengali poet and composer, known for his devotional (bhakti) compositions, as well as his patriotic songs.

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13/09/1905

René Goblet, French lawyer and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (born 1828)

René Marie Goblet was a French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886–1887.

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13/09/1894

Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (born 1841)

Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. His bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked as a civil servant until the age of thirty-nine while immersing himself in the modernist artistic life of the French capital and composing in his spare time. From 1880 until his final illness he was a full-time composer.

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13/09/1885

Friedrich Kiel, German composer and educator (born 1821)

Friedrich Kiel was a German composer and music educator.

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13/09/1881

Ambrose Burnside, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (born 1824)

Ambrose Everts Burnside was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the American Civil War and a three-time governor of Rhode Island, as well as being an inventor and industrialist.

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13/09/1872

Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (born 1804)

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach was a German philosopher and anthropologist who was a leading figure among the Young Hegelians. He is best known for his 1841 book, The Essence of Christianity, which argued that God is a projection of the essential attributes of humanity. His critique of religion formed the basis for his advocacy of atheism, materialism, and sensualism. In his later work, Feuerbach developed a more complex theory of religion arising from the human confrontation with nature. His thought served as a critical bridge between the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and that of Karl Marx.

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13/09/1871

İbrahim Şinasi, Turkish journalist, author, and translator (born 1826)

İbrahim Şinasi Efendi was a pioneering Ottoman intellectual, founder of Turkish dramaturgy, author, journalist, translator, playwright, linguist and newspaper editor. He was the innovator of several fields: he wrote one of the earliest examples of an Ottoman play, he encouraged the trend of translating poetry from French into Turkish, he simplified the script used for writing the Ottoman Turkish language, and he was one of the first of the Ottoman writers to write specifically for the broader public. Şinasi used his newspapers, Tercüman-ı Ahvâl and Tasvîr-i Efkâr, to promote the proliferation of European Enlightenment ideals during the Tanzimat period, and he made the education of the literate Ottoman public his personal vocation. Though many of Şinasi's projects were incomplete at the time of his death, "he was at the forefront of a number of fields and put his stamp on the development of each field so long as it contained unsolved problems."

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13/09/1847

Nicolas Oudinot, French general (born 1767)

Nicolas Charles Oudinot, duc de Reggio, was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He is known to have been wounded 34 times in battle, being hit by artillery shells, sabres, and at least twelve bullets over the course of his military career. A Marshal of the Empire, he is best known for his contributions to the Napoleonic Wars with his famous grenadier division. Oudinot is one of the Names inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, Eastern pillar Columns 13, 14.

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13/09/1813

Hezqeyas, Ethiopian emperor

Hezqeyas was Emperor of Ethiopia from 26 July 1789 to January 1794, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Iyasu III.

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13/09/1808

Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (born 1718)

Saverio Bettinelli was an Italian Jesuit priest and writer. He became known as a polymath, dramatist, polemicist, poet, and literary critic. He was a friend of some of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Francesco Algarotti, Vincenzo Monti and Ippolito Pindemonte. Théodore Tronchin, Guillaume du Tillot, Melchiorre Cesarotti, Giacomo Filippo Durazzo, Pietro Verri, Giammaria Mazzucchelli and Francesco Maria Zanotti were among his correspondents.

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13/09/1806

Charles James Fox, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1749)

Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was an English Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.

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13/09/1800

Claude Martin, French-English general and explorer (born 1735)

Major-General Claude Martin was a French army officer who served in the French and later British East India companies in colonial India. Martin rose to the rank of major-general in the British East India Company's Bengal Army. Martin was born in Lyon, France, into a humble background, and was a self-made man who left a substantial lasting legacy in the form of his writings, buildings and the educational institutions he founded posthumously. There are now ten schools named after him, two in Lucknow, two in Calcutta and six in Lyon. The small village of Martin Purwa in India was also named after him.

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13/09/1766

Benjamin Heath, English scholar and author (born 1704)

Benjamin Heath, D.C.L.[a] was an English classical scholar and bibliophile.

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13/09/1759

James Wolfe, English general (born 1727)

Major-General James Wolfe was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, in the final moments of which he was killed in action.

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13/09/1632

Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (born 1586)

Leopold V, Archduke of Further Austria was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria, and the younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand II, father of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria. He was Prince-Bishop of Passau and of Strasbourg, until he resigned to get married, and Archduke of Further Austria including Tyrol.

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13/09/1612

Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (born 1550)

Karin Månsdotter was first the mistress and then the queen consort of King Erik XIV of Sweden.

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13/09/1598

Philip II of Spain (born 1526)

Philip II, sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent, was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He was also jure uxoris King of England and Ireland from his marriage to Queen Mary I in 1554 until her death in 1558. Further, he was Duke of Milan from 1540. From 1555, he was Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands.

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13/09/1592

Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and author (born 1533)

Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous writers of Western literature; his Essais contain some of the most influential essays ever written.

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13/09/1557

John Cheke, English scholar and politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1514)

Sir John Cheke was an English classical scholar and statesman. One of the foremost teachers of his age, and the first Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, he played a great part in the revival of Greek learning in England. He was tutor to Prince Edward, the future King Edward VI, and also sometimes to Princess Elizabeth. Of strongly Reformist sympathy in religious affairs, his public career as provost of King's College, Cambridge, Member of Parliament and briefly as Secretary of State during King Edward's reign was brought to a close by the accession of Queen Mary in 1553. He went into voluntary exile abroad, at first under royal licence. He was captured and imprisoned in 1556, and recanted his faith to avoid death by burning. He died not long afterward, reportedly regretting his decision.

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13/09/1506

Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (born 1431)

Andrea Mantegna was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archaeology, and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.

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13/09/1488

Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1434)

Charles II, Duke of Bourbon, was Archbishop of Lyon from an early age and a French diplomat under the rule of Louis XI of France. He had a 2-week tenure as Duke of Bourbon in 1488, being ousted afterward by his younger brother and successor, Peter II, Duke of Bourbon.

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13/09/1409

Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (born 1389)

Isabella of Valois was Queen of England as the wife of Richard II, King of England, between 1396 and 1399, and Duchess of Orléans as the wife of Charles I, Duke of Orléans, from 1406 until her death in 1409. She had been born a princess of France as the daughter of King Charles VI and Isabeau of Bavaria.

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13/09/1313

Notburga, Austrian saint (born 1265)

Notburga, also known as Notburga of Rattenberg or Notburga of Eben, was an Austrian saint and peasant from Tyrol. Numerous vitae have been written about her and painted of her where she is depicted with a scythe. She is venerated by the Catholic Church, having been canonized by Pope Pius IX.

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13/09/1171

Al-Adid, last Fatimid caliph (born 1151)

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ, better known by his regnal name al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh, was the fourteenth and last caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, and the twenty-fourth imam of the Hafizi Isma'ili branch of Shi'a Islam, reigning from 1160 to 1171.

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13/09/0908

Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king of Munster (Ireland)

Year 908 (CMVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

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13/09/0864

Pietro Tradonico, doge of Venice

Year 864 (DCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

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13/09/0531

Kavad I, Sasanian King of Kings of Iran (born 473)

Year 531 (DXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year after the Consulship of Lampadius and Probus. The denomination 531 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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13/09/0413

Marcellinus of Carthage, martyr and saint

Year 413 (CDXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Heraclianus and Lucius. The denomination 413 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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13/09/0081

Titus, Roman emperor (born AD 39)

A.D. 81 (LXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silva and Pollio. The denomination A.D. 81 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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