Died on This Day (27-Jan)
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Maya von Schönburg | Countess Maria Felicitas von Schönburg-Glauchau , also known as Maya von Schönburg, was a German socialite. | German socialite | 60 | 1 | |
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Brunhilde Pomsel | Brunhilde Pomsel was a personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany. | Personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels | 106 | 3 |
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Charles H. Townes | Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. | American physicist | 99 | 5 |
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Phạm Duy | Phạm Duy was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one thousand songs to his credit, he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music, along with Văn Cao and Trịnh Công Sơn. | Prolific Vietnamese songwriter | 91 | 7 |
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J. D. Salinger | Jerome David Salinger was an American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. | American fiction writer | 91 | 10 |
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Jack Paar | Jack Harold Paar was an American talk show host, author, movie actor, radio and television comedian. | Television host | 85 | 16 |
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Pedro Carrasco | Pedro Juan Carrasco García was a Spanish boxer whose fame transcended the boxing ring. | Spanish boxer | 57 | 19 |
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Helen Jerome Eddy | Helen Jerome Eddy was a motion picture actress from New York City. | American actor | 92 | 30 |
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Julia Sanderson | Julia Sanderson was a Broadway actress and singer. | Broadway actress and singer | 87 | 45 |
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Freeborn Garretson Hibbard | Reverend Freeborn Garrettson Hibbard was an American Methodist minister, theologian, and author. | American Methodist minister | 83 | 125 |
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Ingvar Kamprad | Feodor Ingvar Kamprad ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. | IKEA founder | 91 | 2 |
Peter Baker | Peter Baker was an English footballer. Educated at Southgate County School in North London, he played right-back for Tottenham Hotspur and was part of the double-winning side of 1960-61 and won the FA Cup with Spurs in 1962. | English footballer | 84 | 4 | |
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Pete Seeger | Peter Seeger was an American folk singer and social activist. | American folk singer | 94 | 6 |
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Charlie Callas | Charlie Callas was an American actor and comedian. | Actor/comedian | 83 | 9 |
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Aurélie Nemours | Aurélie Nemours was a Parisian painter who made abstract geometrical paintings and was highly influenced by De Stijl, or neoplasticism. | French painter | 94 | 15 |
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Henryk Jabłoński | Henryk Jan Jabłoński was a Polish Socialist. After 1948, he became a Communist politician, as well as a historian and professor at Warsaw University. | Polish politician | 93 | 17 |
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Raphael M. Robinson | Raphael Mitchel Robinson was an American mathematician. | American mathematician | 83 | 25 |
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Peppino De Filippo | Peppino De Filippo was an Italian actor. De Filippo was born in Naples, brother of actor and dramatist Eduardo De Filippo and of Titina De Filippo. | Italian actor | 76 | 40 |
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Erich Heckel | Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group Die Brücke which existed 1905–1913. | German artist | 86 | 50 |
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Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl | Johann Karl Philipp, Graf von Cobenzl – 27 January 1770 in Brussels) was an 18th-century politician in the Habsburg Monarchy. | Habsburg politician | 57 | 250 |