Died on This Day (04-Feb)
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John Otho Marsh Jr. | John Otho Marsh Jr. was an American politician and an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law. | United States Secretary of the Army | 92 | 1 |
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Kenneth Newman | Sir Kenneth Leslie Newman GBE KStJ QPM was a senior British police officer. | Senior British police officer | 90 | 3 |
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Keith Allen | Courtney Keith "Bingo" Allen was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and National Hockey League head coach and general manager. | Canadian ice hockey defenceman | 90 | 6 |
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István Csurka | István Csurka was a Hungarian nationalist politician, journalist and writer. | Hungarian politician and writer | 77 | 8 |
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Tomás Mac Giolla | Tomás Mac Giolla was an Irish Workers' Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1993 to 1994, Leader of the Workers' Party from 1962 to 1988 and President of Sinn Féin from 1962 to 1970. | Irish politician | 86 | 10 |
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Johnny Leartice Robinson | Johnny Leartice Robinson was an American criminal executed by the State of Florida for the 1985 murder of Beverly St. | American murderer | 51 | 16 |
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Carl Albert | Carl Bert Albert was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 46th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and represented Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1947 to 1977. | American lawyer and politician | 91 | 20 |
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Dan Curtin | Daniel James Curtin was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was educated at a Catholic primary school before becoming a boilermaker and organiser of the Boilermakers' Society. | Australian politician | 81 | 40 |
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Louise Bogan | Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. | American poet | 72 | 50 |
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Ed Siever | Edward Tilden Siever was an American baseball pitcher. | American baseball player | 44 | 100 |
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Esmond Bradley Martin | Esmond Bradley Martin was an American conservationist who fought for both the preservation of elephants against the illegal ivory trade, and for the rhinoceros against the illegal trade of rhinoceros horns. | American conservationist | 76 | 2 | |
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Harry Harpham | Robert Harry Harpham was a British Labour Party politician and coal miner. | British Labour Party politician and coal miner | 61 | 4 |
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Reg Presley | Reginald Maurice Ball , known professionally as Reg Presley, was an English singer and songwriter. | English singer-songwriter | 71 | 7 |
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Anton Ebben | Antonius "Toon" Ebben was a Dutch equestrian. After acting as a groom for Max and Ernest van Loon at the 1952 Summer Olympics, Ebben began competing himself, riding Kairouan in the 1950s–60s and later Jumbo Design . | Dutch equestrian | 80 | 9 |
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Ossie Davis | Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. | American film, television and Broadway actor | 87 | 15 |
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Benyoucef Benkhedda | Benyoucef Benkhedda was an Algerian politician. He headed the third GPRA exile government of the National Liberation Front , acting as a leader during the Algerian War . | Algerian politician | 82 | 17 |
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Patricia Highsmith | Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. | American author | 74 | 25 |
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Louis Jordan | Louis Thomas Jordan was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. | American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician | 66 | 45 |
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Yrjö Pulkkinen | Yrjö Rafael Pulkkinen was a Finnish lawyer and politician, who was born in Parkano. | Finnish lawyer and politician | 69 | 75 |
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James Owen Dorsey | James Owen Dorsey was an American ethnologist, linguist, and Episcopalian missionary in the Dakota Territory, who contributed to the description of the Ponca, Omaha, and other southern Siouan languages. | American anthropologist | 46 | 125 |