Died on This Day (26-Jan)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Jean Guillou | Jean Victor Arthur Guillou was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. | French composer | 88 | 1 |
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Tam Dalyell | Sir Thomas Dalyell, 11th Baronet, FRSGS, , known as Tam Dalyell, was a Scottish Labour Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. | Scottish Labour Party politician | 84 | 3 |
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Tom Gola | Thomas Joseph Gola was an American basketball player and politician. | American basketball player-coach | 81 | 6 |
Dominique Mainon | Dominique Mainon was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker living in Laguna Beach, California. | American Author | 41 | 8 | |
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Louis Auchincloss | Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. | Lawyer, novelist, historian, essayist | 92 | 10 |
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Hugh Trevor-Roper | Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton FBA was an English historian. | Historian | 89 | 17 |
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Don Budge | John Donald Budge was an American tennis player. He is most famous as the first tennis player — male or female, and still the only American male — to win the Grand Slam, and to win all four Grand Slam events consecutively overall. | American tennis player | 84 | 20 |
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Kenny Clarke | Kenneth Clarke Spearman , nicknamed Klook, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. | American musician | 71 | 35 |
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John C. Kluczynski | John Carl Kluczynski was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, representing the 5th district from 1951 until his death from a heart attack in Chicago, Illinois in 1975. | American politician | 78 | 45 |
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Charles Himrod | Charles Himrod was an American politician who served as mayor of Boise, Idaho Territory, in the 1860s and 1870s. | Mayor of Boise, Idaho Territory | 77 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Elizabeth Hawley | Elizabeth Hawley was an American journalist, author, and chronicler of Himalayan mountaineering expeditions. | American journalist | 94 | 2 |
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Abe Vigoda | Abraham Charles Vigoda was an American actor known for his portrayals of Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather and Phil Fish in both Barney Miller and Fish . | American actor | 94 | 4 |
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Stefan Kudelski | Stefan Kudelski was a Polish audio engineer known for creating the Nagra series of professional audio recorders. | Polish audio engineer | 83 | 7 |
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Charlie Louvin | Charles Elzer Loudermilk , known professionally as Charlie Louvin, was an American country music singer and songwriter. | Country singer | 83 | 9 |
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Vilma G. Holland | Vilma Isabel Gonzalez Cordova Holland was a Puerto Rican visual artist. | Puerto Rican visual artist | 76 | 15 |
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Rudolph B. Davila | Rudolph B. Davila , born in El Paso, Texas, was a United States Army officer, of Spanish-Filipino descent, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Italy during World War II. | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient | 85 | 18 |
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Lewis Mumford | Lewis Mumford was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. | American writer | 94 | 30 |
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Justas Paleckis | Justas Paleckis was a Lithuanian author, journalist and politician. | Soviet politician | 81 | 40 |
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Adolf Pittschellis | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. | SS officer | 30 | 75 |
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Arthur Cayley | Arthur Cayley FRS was a prolific British mathematician who worked mostly on algebra. | British mathematician | 73 | 125 |