Died on This Day (14-Jan)
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Paweł Adamowicz | Paweł Bogdan Adamowicz was a Polish politician and lawyer who served as the city mayor of Gdańsk from 1998 until his assassination in 2019. | Mayor of Gdańsk | 53 | 1 |
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Zhou Youguang | Zhou Youguang , also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, Esperanto-speaker, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system for the writing of Mandarin Chinese in Roman script, or romanization, which was officially adopted by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986. | Inventor of Pinyin | 111 | 3 |
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Eric James Mellon | Eric James Mellon was a ceramic artist who specializes in using ash glaze and underglaze graphic drawings of figures. | British artist | 88 | 6 |
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Antonio Mistrorigo | Antonio Mistrorigo was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. | Catholic bishop | 99 | 8 |
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Antonio Fontán | Antonio Fontán Pérez was a Spanish journalist recognized for his work in promoting press freedom in his country. | Spanish journalist | 86 | 10 |
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Uta Hagen | Uta Thyra Hagen was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. | Actress, acting teacher | 84 | 16 |
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Gordon Jackson | Gordon Cameron Jackson, was a Scottish actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals. | Scottish actor | 66 | 30 |
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Robert Ardrey | Robert Ardrey was an American playwright, screenwriter and science writer perhaps best known for The Territorial Imperative . | American playwright, screenwriter | 71 | 40 |
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Gerald Balfour | Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour, PC , known as Gerald Balfour or The Rt Hon. | British politician | 91 | 75 |
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John S. Barry | John Stewart Barry was the fourth and eighth Governor of the U. | American politician | 67 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Cyrille Regis | Cyrille Regis, MBE was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. | English international footballer | 59 | 2 |
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Alan Rickman | Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was an English actor and director. | English actor and director | 69 | 4 |
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Conrad Bain | Conrad Stafford Bain was a Canadian-American actor. | Canadian/American actor and comedian | 89 | 7 |
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Betty Mae Tiger Jumper | Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, also known as Potackee was the first and so far the only female chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. | Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida | 87 | 9 |
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Carl Möhner | Carl Martin Rudolf Möhner was an Austrian film actor. | Austrian film actor | 83 | 15 |
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Alphonse Boudard | Alphonse Boudard was a French novelist and playwright. | Novelist and screenwriter | 74 | 20 |
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Jetta Goudal | Jetta Goudal was a Dutch-American actress, successful in Hollywood films of the silent film era. | Dutch-American actress | 93 | 35 |
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William Feller | William "Vilim" Feller , born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory. | Croatian-American mathematician | 63 | 50 |
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Charles Edward Magoon | Charles Edward Magoon was an American lawyer, judge, diplomat, and administrator who is best remembered as a governor of the Panama Canal Zone; he also served as Minister to Panama at the same time. | American lawyer and diplomat | 58 | 100 |
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Agnes Broun | Agnes Broun, Agnes Brown or Agnes Burnes , was the mother of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. | Mother of Robert Burns | 87 | 200 |