Died on This Day (11-Jan)
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Steffan Lewis | Steffan Lewis was a Welsh politician, who was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in the 2016 election. | Welsh politician | 34 | 1 |
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Victor Lownes | Victor Aubrey Lownes III was an executive for HMH Publishing Company Inc. | Playboy magazine executive | 88 | 3 |
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Anita Ekberg | Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg ; 29 September 1931 – 11 January 2015) was a Swedish actress active in American and European films, known for her beauty and stunning figure. | Swedish actor | 83 | 5 |
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Nguyễn Khánh | Nguyễn Khánh was a South Vietnamese military officer and Army of the Republic of Vietnam general who served in various capacities as head of state and prime minister of South Vietnam while at the head of a military junta from January 1964 until February 1965. | Prime Minister of South Vietnam | 85 | 7 |
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David Nelson | David Oswald Nelson was an American actor, director, and producer. | American actor, director, producer | 74 | 9 |
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Thelma White | Thelma White was an American radio and film actress. | American radio and film actress | 94 | 15 |
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Ad Kaland | Adriaan Jakobus "Ad" Kaland was a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal . | Dutch politician | 72 | 25 |
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William McKell | William John McKell , often known as Bill McKell, was an Australian politician who served as the 12th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1947 to 1953. | Governor General of Australia | 93 | 35 |
Ada Negri | Ada Negri was an Italian poet and writer. | Italian poet | 74 | 75 | |
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Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil | Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil was a French physician and surgeon. | French surgeon | 71 | 125 |
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Edgar Ray Killen | Edgar Ray Killen was a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. | Ku Klux Klan murderer | 92 | 2 |
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Monte Irvin | Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin was an American left fielder and right fielder in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who played with the Newark Eagles , New York Giants and Chicago Cubs . | American Baseball Player | 96 | 4 |
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Ariel Sharon | Ariel Sharon el ʃaˈʁon] ; Ariʼēl Sharōn; also known by his diminutive Arik, אָרִיק, born Ariel Scheinermann, אֲרִיאֵל שַׁיינֶרְמָן; 26 February 1928 – 11 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006. | Prime Minister of Israel | 85 | 6 |
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John Madin | John Hardcastle Dalton Madin was an English architect. | British architect | 87 | 8 |
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Miep Gies | Hermine "Miep" Gies , was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and four other Dutch Jews from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II. | Dutch Resistance (Anne Frank) | 100 | 10 |
Ivan Combe | Ivan DeBlois Combe was the American inventor of personal-care products, most notably Clearasil and Odor Eaters. | Business founder | 88 | 20 | |
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Kittens Reichert | Kittens Reichert was an American child actress in silent films. | American actor | 79 | 30 |
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Werna Gerhardsen | Werna Julie Gerhardsen, née Koren Christie was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, best known as the wife of Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen. | Norwegian politician | 57 | 50 |
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Kataoka Shichirō | Baron Kataoka Shichirō was an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy. | Japanese admiral | 65 | 100 |
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Victor Noir | Victor Noir was a French journalist. After he was shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of the French Emperor Napoleon III , Noir became a symbol of opposition to the imperial regime. | French journalist | 21 | 150 |