Died on This Day (28-Jan)
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Kim Bok-dong | Kim Bok-dong was a Korean woman who became a human rights activist that campaigned against sexual slavery and war rape. | Korean sex slave | 92 | 1 |
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Christopher Bland | Sir Francis Christopher Buchan Bland was a British businessman and politician. | British businessman and politician | 78 | 3 |
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Dwight Gustafson | Dwight Leonard Gustafson was an American composer, conductor, and dean of the School of Fine Arts at Bob Jones University. | American composer | 83 | 6 |
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Roman Juszkiewicz | Roman Juszkiewicz was a Polish astrophysicist whose work concerned fundamental issues of cosmology. | Polish cosmologist | 59 | 8 |
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Alistair Hulett | Alistair Hulett was a Scottish acoustic folk singer best known as the singer of the folk punk band, Roaring Jack. | British singer | 58 | 10 |
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Gad Rausing | Gad Rausing was a Swedish industrialist and archaeologist. | Swedish businessman | 77 | 20 |
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Chesley G. Peterson | Major General Chesley G. Peterson was a career officer in the United States Air Force, and a flying ace of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. | United States Air Force Major General | 69 | 30 |
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Ciril Kosmač | Ciril Kosmac was a Slovenian novelist and screenwriter. | Slovenian writer | 69 | 40 |
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Harold Gonsalves | Harold Gonsalves was a United States Marine Corps private first class who was killed in action during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. | US Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient | 19 | 75 |
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François Certain Canrobert | François Marcellin Certain de Canrobert was a French Marshal. | Marshal of France | 85 | 125 |
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Coco Schumann | Heinz Jakob "Coco" Schumann was a German jazz musician and Holocaust survivor. | Holocaust survivor | 93 | 2 |
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Paul Kantner | Paul Lorin Kantner was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. | American guitarist, singer and songwriter | 74 | 4 |
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Ceija Stojka | Ceija Stojka was an Austrian Romani writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. | Austrian artist | 79 | 7 |
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Ken Carpenter | Kenneth Leroy Carpenter was an American football halfback who played for the Cleveland Browns in the National Football League the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League , and the Denver Broncos in the American Football League in the 1950s and 1960. | American football player | 84 | 9 |
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Artūras Barysas | Artūras Barysas "Baras" was a Lithuanian actor, singer, photographer, and filmmaker, known as a member of the counter-culture and the father of modern Lithuanian avant-garde. | Lithuanian actor, singer and filmmaker | 50 | 15 |
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Richard L. Roudebush | Richard Lowell Roudebush was an American World War II veteran who served five terms as a U. | American politician | 77 | 25 |
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Bobby Young | Robert George Young was an American professional baseball player. | American baseball player | 60 | 35 |
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Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh | Hugh Arthur Wardell-Yerburgh was a British schoolmaster and rower. | Rower | 32 | 50 |
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Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai | Mirza Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabai was one of the leaders of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution who played an important role in the establishment of democracy and rule of law in Iran. | Iranian activist | 77 | 100 |
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Archduchess Eleanor of Austria | Eleanor of Austria , was an Austrian archduchess and a member of the House of Habsburg. | Archduchess of Austria | 37 | 400 |