Died on This Day (09-Jan)
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Lester Wunderman | – Lester Wunderman was an American advertising executive widely considered the creator of modern-day direct marketing. | American advertising executive | 98 | 1 |
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Ed "Stewpot" Stewart | Edward Stewart Mainwaring , known as Ed "Stewpot" Stewart, was an English radio broadcaster and TV presenter. | English broadcaster and DJ | 74 | 4 |
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Allard van der Scheer | Allard Jan van der Scheer was a Dutch actor. Allard van der Scheer died on 10 January 2014, aged 85, in Muiderberg, North Holland. | Dutch actor | 85 | 6 |
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Augusto Gansser-Biaggi | Augusto Gansser-Biaggi was a Swiss geologist who specialised in the geology of the Himalayas. | Swiss geologist | 101 | 8 |
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Aleš Svoboda | Aleš Svoboda was a Czech linguist, university professor, and a prominent representative of the Prague School of linguistics. | Czech linguist | 68 | 10 |
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Bruno Zevi | Bruno Zevi was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author, and editor. | Italian architect | 81 | 20 |
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Northern Calloway | Northern James Calloway was an American actor and singer, best known for playing David on Sesame Street from 1971 to 1989. | American actor | 41 | 30 |
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Virginia E. Jenckes | Virginia Jenckes served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana's Sixth Congressional District. | American politician | 97 | 45 |
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Jüri Uluots | Jüri Uluots was an Estonian prime minister, journalist, prominent attorney and distinguished Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu. | Prime Minister of Estonia | 54 | 75 |
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Chauncey W. West | Chauncey Walker West was a Mormon pioneer and was a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah Territory. | American Mormon bishop | 42 | 150 |
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Kato Ottio | Benkato "Kato" Ottio was a Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer. | Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer | 23 | 2 |
Said Kouachi | Islamic terrorist | Islamic terrorist | 34 | 5 | |
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James M. Buchanan | James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962, The Calculus of Consent, then developed over decades for which he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986. | Economist, Nobel Prize in economics winner | 93 | 7 |
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Howard Wallace Pollock | Howard Wallace Pollock was an American politician and Republican Representative from Alaska. | United States Representative | 90 | 9 |
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Myron E. Leavitt | Myron E. Leavitt was an American politician who was the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from 1979 to 1983. | American judge | 73 | 16 |
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Peter Cook | Peter Edward Cook was an English actor, comedian, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. | Comedian | 57 | 25 |
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John Cavanaugh | John William Cavanaugh was an American sculptor who worked for much of his career in Washington, DC, where he lived and worked in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. | American artist | 63 | 35 |
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Danny J. Petersen | Danny John Petersen was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. | Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient | 20 | 50 |
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Aaron Lufkin Dennison | Aaron Lufkin Dennison was an American watchmaker and businessman who founded a number of companies. | American businessman and watchmaker | 82 | 125 |
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Charles-Louis Clérisseau | Charles-Louis Clérisseau was a French architect, draughtsman, antiquary, and artist who became a leading authority on ancient Roman architecture and Roman ruins in Italy and France. | French architect | 98 | 200 |