Died on This Day (06-Feb)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Rosamunde Pilcher | Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. | British writer | 94 | 1 | |
Alastair Biggar | Alastair Gourlay Biggar was a Scotland international rugby union player. | Scotland international rugby union player | 69 | 4 | |
Ralph Kiner | Ralph McPherran Kiner was an American Major League Baseball player and broadcaster. | American baseball player and announcer | 91 | 6 | |
Antoni Tàpies | Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tápies was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. | Spanish artist | 88 | 8 | |
John Dankworth | Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE , also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores. | British musician | 82 | 10 | |
Erich Beine | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of Nazi Germany during World War II. | German paratrooper and Knight's Cross recipient | 89 | 16 | |
Chester E. Holifield | Chester Earl "Chet" Holifield was a businessman and politician, a United States representative from California's 19th congressional district. | American politician | 91 | 25 | |
Elmer W. Cart | Elmer W. Cart was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as a North Dakota Public Service Commissioner from 1949 to 1954. | American politician | 88 | 40 | |
Roscoe Karns | Roscoe Karns was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. | American actor | 78 | 50 | |
Jack Lapp | John Walker Lapp was an American professional baseball catcher. | Major League Baseball catcher | 35 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Joost van der Westhuizen | Joost Heystek van der Westhuizen was a South African professional rugby union player who made 89 appearances in test matches for the national team, scoring 38 tries. | South African rugby union player | 45 | 3 | |
Kayla Mueller | Kayla Jean Mueller was an American human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona. | ISIS victim | 26 | 5 | |
Chokri Belaid | Chokri Belaïd , also transliterated as Shokri Belaïd, was a Tunisian politician and lawyer who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement. | Tunisian politician | 48 | 7 | |
Gary Moore | Robert William Gary Moore was a Northern Irish musician. | Northern Irish musician and songwriter | 58 | 9 | |
Karl Haas | Karl Haas was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking voice, humanistic approach to music appreciation, and popularization of classical music. | Radio presenter | 91 | 15 | |
Klaus Wagner | Klaus Wagner was a German mathematician known for his contributions to graph theory. | German mathematician | 89 | 20 | |
James Hadley Chase | James Hadley Chase was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, he was well known by his various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. | English writer | 78 | 35 | |
Keith Park | Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park, GCB, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC was a New Zealand-born officer of the Royal Air Force . | Royal Air Force air marshals | 82 | 45 | |
Robert Brasillach | Robert Brasillach was a French author and journalist. | French writer | 35 | 75 | |
Otto Mahler | Otto Mahler was a Bohemian-Austrian musician and composer who died by suicide at the age of 21. | Austrian composer | 21 | 125 |