Died on This Day (16-Jan)
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John C. Bogle | John Clifton "Jack" Bogle was an American investor, business magnate, and philanthropist. | American investor | 89 | 1 | |
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Eugene Cernan | Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. | American astronaut | 82 | 3 |
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Pauline Phillips | Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips , also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the Dear Abby column in 1956. | American journalist | 94 | 7 |
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Pavol Hudák | Pavol Hudák was a Slovak poet, journalist and publicist. | Slovak writer | 51 | 9 |
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Agustín González | Agustín González Martínez, was a Spanish actor. | Spanish actor | 74 | 15 |
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Maria Tauberová | Maria Tauberová was a Czech opera singer who had an active international career from the 1930s through the 1970s. | Czech opera singer | 91 | 17 |
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Laurent-Désiré Kabila | Laurent-Désiré Kabila or simply Laurent Kabila , was a Congolese revolutionary and politician who served as the third President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 17, 1997, when he overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko, until his assassination on January 16, 2001. | President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | 61 | 19 |
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Árpád Szenes | Árpád Szenes was a Hungarian-Jewish abstract painter who worked in France. | French painter | 87 | 35 |
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Thor Johnson | Thor Martin Johnson was an American conductor. He was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. | American conductor | 61 | 45 |
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Francis T. Maloney | Francis Thomas Maloney was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1933 to 1935 and a U. | American politician | 50 | 75 |
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Tyler Hilinski | Tyler Scott Haun Hilinski was an American football quarterback who played college football at Washington State University. | American football quarterback | 21 | 2 |
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Hiroo Onoda | Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and was a Japanese holdout who did not surrender at the war's end in August 1945. | Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer | 91 | 6 |
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Ed Derwinski | Edward Joseph Derwinski was an American politician who served as the first Cabinet-level United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving under President George H. | American politician | 85 | 8 |
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Carl Smith | Carl Milton Smith was an American country music singer. | Country singer | 82 | 10 |
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Kalevi Sorsa | Taisto Kalevi Sorsa was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland three times: 1972–1975, 1977–1979 and 1982–1987. | Prime Minister of Finland | 73 | 16 |
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Henry E. Erwin | Henry Eugene Erwin Sr. was a United States Army Air Forces airman and a recipient of the U. | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient | 80 | 18 |
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Robert R. Wilson | Robert Rathbun Wilson was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , where he was the first director from 1967 to 1978. | American physicist | 85 | 20 |
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Naum Sorkin | Naum Semyonovich Sorkin was a Soviet military officer and diplomat. | Soviet general | 80 | 40 |
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Elsie Jane Wilson | Elsie Jane Wilson was a cinema actress, director, and writer during the early film era. | Australian film director | 74 | 55 |
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Reginald De Koven | Henry Louis Reginald De Koven was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas. | American music critic and composer | 60 | 100 |