Died on This Day (08-Jan)
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Larry Langford | Larry Paul Langford was an American politician who had a one-term tenure as the mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama. | Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama | 72 | 1 |
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Maria Teresa de Filippis | Maria Teresa de Filippis was an Italian racing driver, and the first woman to race in Formula One. | Italian racing driver | 89 | 4 |
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Antonino P. Roman | Antonino Pascual Roman, Jr. was a Filipino politician. | Filipino politician | 74 | 6 |
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Alexis Weissenberg | Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg was a Bulgarian-born French pianist. | Bulgarian musician | 82 | 8 |
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Art Clokey | Arthur "Art" Clokey was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. | American animator | 88 | 10 |
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Simeon Aké | Simeon Aké was an Ivorian politician.Simeon Aké studied law in the University of Dakar in Senegal, and gained his certificate in 1957. | Ivorian politician | 71 | 17 |
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Carlos Monzon | Carlos Roque Monzón , nicknamed Escopeta , was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight championship for 7 years. | Boxer | 52 | 25 |
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Eva Bowring | Eva Kelly Bowring was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska. | American politician | 92 | 35 |
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Louis P. Lochner | Ludwig "Louis" Paul Lochner was an American political activist, journalist, and author. | American journalist | 87 | 45 |
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Maud Powell | Minnie "Maud" Powell was an American violinist who gained international acclaim for her skill and virtuosity. | American musician | 52 | 100 |
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani born Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician, writer, and one of the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic who was the fourth president of Iran from 3 August 1989 until 3 August 1997. | President of Iran | 82 | 3 |
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Andrae Crouch | Andraé Edward Crouch was an American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, record producer and pastor. | American gospel singer | 72 | 5 |
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Kenojuak Ashevak | Kenojuak Ashevak, , is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art. | Canadian artist | 85 | 7 |
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François Patriat | François Patriat is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Côte-d'Or department. | French politician | 67 | 9 |
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Tom Kindness | Thomas Norman Kindness was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Ohio from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1987. | American politician | 74 | 16 |
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Alexander Prokhorov | Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers in the Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov. | Soviet physicist | 85 | 18 |
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Terry Thomas | Terry-Thomas was an English comedian and character actor who became known to a worldwide audience through his films during the 1950s and 1960s. | English comic actor | 78 | 30 |
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Tryggve Gran | Jens Tryggve Herman Gran was a Norwegian aviator, explorer and author. | British flying ace | 91 | 40 |
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Chuck Braidwood | Charles "Chuck" Grant Braidwood was a professional American football player who played end for four seasons for the Portsmouth Spartans, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cardinals, and Cincinnati Reds. | American football player | 41 | 75 |
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John Michael Rysbrack | Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack, often referred to simply as Michael Rysbrack , was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor, who spent most of his career in England where he was one of the foremost sculptors of monuments, architectural decorations and portraits in the first half of the 18th century. | Sculptor | 75 | 250 |