Died on This Day (21-Jan)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Emiliano Sala | Emiliano Raúl Sala Taffarel was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a striker. | Argentine footballer | 28 | 1 |
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Maggie Roche | The Roches were an American vocal trio of sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, from Park Ridge, New Jersey. | American singer | 65 | 3 |
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Leon Brittan | Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, PC, QC, DL was a British Conservative politician and barrister who served as a European Commissioner from 1989 to 1999. | British politician | 75 | 5 |
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Michael Winner | Robert Michael Winner was a British filmmaker, writer, and media personality. | English film director | 77 | 7 |
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Barney F. Hajiro | Barney Fushimi Hajiro was an American combat veteran of World War II who received the Medal of Honor, the highest United States military award for valor. | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient | 94 | 9 |
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Eugene Leake | Eugene "Bud" Leake pronounced "Leaky" was a landscape painter and president of the Maryland Institute College of Art. | American painter | 93 | 15 |
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Alex Groza | Alex John Groza was an American professional basketball player from Martins Ferry, Ohio. | Basketball player | 68 | 25 |
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Clyde Barnhart | Clyde Lee Barnhart was a right-handed outfielder and third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates. | American baseball player | 84 | 40 |
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Al Blozis | Albert Charles Blozis was an American football offensive tackle and track and field athlete who died fighting in World War II. | College Football Hall of Fame inductee | 26 | 75 |
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Alexander Herzen | Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism . | Russian author | 57 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Connie Sawyer | Connie Sawyer was an American stage, film, and television actress, affectionately nicknamed "The Clown Princess of Comedy". | American actress | 105 | 2 |
Gerald Williams | Gerald Williams was a British tennis commentator and journalist. | British tennis commentator and journalist | 86 | 4 | |
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George C. Wortley | George Cornelius Wortley was an American banker and Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. | American politician and World War II veteran | 87 | 6 |
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Cliff Chambers | Clifford Day Chambers was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 189 games in Major League Baseball from 1948 to 1953 for the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates and St. | American baseball player | 90 | 8 |
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Paul Quarrington | Paul Lewis Quarrington was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator. | Canadian writer | 56 | 10 |
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M. Arunachalam | M. Arunachalam was an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament elected from Tamil Nadu. | Indian politician | 59 | 16 |
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James Beard | James Andrews Beard was an American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality. | Chef and food writer | 81 | 35 |
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Marie Lohr | Marie Lohr was an Australian-born actress, active on stage and in film in Britain. | Australian born film and stage actress, active on | 84 | 45 |
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Ljubomir Nenadović | Ljubomir Nenadović was Serbian writer, poet, translator, diplomat, minister of education and member of the Serbian Royal Academy. | Serbian writer | 68 | 125 |
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Honorat de Bueil | Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan was a French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and member of the Académie française. | French poet | 80 | 350 |