Died on This Day (14-Feb)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Andrea Levy | Andrea Levy FRSL was an English author best known for the novels Small Island and The Long Song . | English author | 62 | 1 | |
Eric Lubbock | Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury , was an English politician and human rights campaigner. | English politician | 87 | 4 | |
Tom Finney | Sir Thomas Finney CBE was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as a winger or centre forward for Preston North End and England. | English footballer | 91 | 6 | |
V. S. Acharya | Vedavyasa Srinivasa Acharya was an Indian senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka. | Indian politician | 71 | 8 | |
Dick Francis | Richard Stanley Francis CBE FRSL was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. | English jockey and crime writer | 89 | 10 | |
Walter Zinn | Walter Henry Zinn was an American nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956. | Nuclear physicist | 93 | 20 | |
Graeme Hole | Graeme Blake Hole was an Australian cricketer who played 18 Test matches between 1951 and 1955. | Australian cricketer | 59 | 30 | |
Grigore Vasiliu Birlic | Grigore Vasiliu Birlic was a Romanian actor who appeared on stage, television and in films. | Romanian actor and comedian | 65 | 50 | |
Andy Sullivan | Andrew Raymond Sullivan was a Major League Baseball shortstop. | American baseball player | 35 | 100 | |
St. John Richardson Liddell | St. John Richardson Liddell was a prominent Louisiana planter who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. | American general | 54 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Ruud Lubbers | Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers was a Dutch politician, diplomat and businessman who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 to 2005. | Prime Minister of the Netherlands | 78 | 2 | |
Michele Ferrero | Michele Ferrero was an Italian billionaire businessman. | Italian entrepreneur | 89 | 5 | |
Reeva Steenkamp | Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp was a South African model and paralegal. | Murder victim (South Africa) | 29 | 7 | |
George Shearing | Sir George Albert Shearing, OBE was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. | Jazz Pianist | 91 | 9 | |
Ron Burgess | William Arthur Ronald Burgess was a Wales international footballer, who played in the wing half position. | Welsh footballer | 87 | 15 | |
Michael V. Gazzo | Michael Vincenzo Gazzo was an American playwright who later in life became a film and television actor. | American playwright and actor | 71 | 25 | |
Victor Gruen | Victor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum , was an Austrian-born architect best known as a pioneer in the design of shopping malls in the United States. | Architect | 76 | 40 | |
Johann Veith | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary of Nazi Germany during World War II. | SS Officer | 28 | 75 | |
Isaac P. Gray | Isaac Pusey Gray was the 18th and 20th governor of the U. | American politician | 66 | 125 | |
Cosme Argerich | Cosme Mariano Argerich was a pioneer of military medical practices in Argentina. | Argentine physician | 61 | 200 |