Died on This Day (24-Feb)
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Donald Keene | Donald Lawrence Keene was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. | American-born Japanese scholar | 96 | 1 |
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Bertrice Small | Bertrice Small , was an American New York Times- bestselling writer of historical and erotic romance novels. | Romance novelist | 77 | 5 |
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Virgil Johnson | The Velvets were an American doo-wop group from Odessa, Texas, United States. | American singer | 77 | 7 |
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Kees Douze | Jan Cornelis "Kees" Douze" was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Kiel, Germany. | Olympic sailor | 71 | 9 |
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Gustavo Vázquez Montes | Gustavo Alberto Vázquez Montes was a Mexican politician. | Mexican politician | 42 | 15 |
Bernard Opper | Bernard Opper was an All-American basketball player at Kentucky and then professional player in the National Basketball League and American Basketball League. | American basketball player | 84 | 20 | |
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Tony Conigliaro | Anthony Richard Conigliaro , nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was a Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox and California Angels . | Major League Baseball outfielder | 45 | 30 |
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Nikolai Bulganin | Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as Minister of Defense and Premier of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev, following service in the Red Army and as defence minister under Joseph Stalin. | Soviet politician | 79 | 45 |
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Ekai Kawaguchi | Ekai Kawaguchi was a Japanese Buddhist monk who was famed for his four journeys to Nepal and two to Tibet . | Japanese Buddhist monk | 78 | 75 |
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Joseph Bradford Carr | Joseph Bradford Carr was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. | Union Army general | 66 | 125 |
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Sridevi | Shree Amma Yanger Ayyappan , professionally credited with her stage name Sridevi, was an Indian actress who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada language films. | Indian actress and film producer | 54 | 2 |
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Harold Ramis | Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, comedian, director and writer. | Comedian, actor, director, screenwriter | 69 | 6 |
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Njenga Karume | James Njenga Karume was a Kenyan businessman and politician. | Kenyan businessman and politician | 82 | 8 |
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Dawn Brancheau | Dawn Therese Brancheau was an American senior animal trainer at SeaWorld. | Killed by Orca | 40 | 10 |
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A.C. Reed | Aaron Corthen, better known as A.C. Reed was an American blues saxophonist, closely associated with the Chicago blues scene from the 1940s into the 2000s. | American blues saxophonist | 77 | 16 |
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Hideko Maehata | Hideko Maehata was a Japanese breaststroke swimmer and the first Japanese woman to earn a gold medal in the Olympics. | Swimmer | 80 | 25 |
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Willem van den Hout | Wilhelmus Henricus Maria van den Hout was a Dutch writer and publicist, best known as the writer of the Bob Evers series of children's books. | Dutch writer | 69 | 35 |
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Conrad Nagel | John Conrad Nagel was an American film, stage, television and radio actor. | American film, stage, television and radio actor | 72 | 50 |
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Franklin Murphy | Franklin Murphy was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 31st governor of New Jersey, from 1902–1905. | American politician | 74 | 100 |
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Martin Richard Flor | Martin Richard Flor was a Norwegian botanist, economist, author and teacher at Christiania Cathedral School and the Royal Frederick University. | Norwegian botanist | 47 | 200 |