Died on This Day (18-Mar)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Kenneth To | Kenneth King-him To was a Hong Kong Australian swimmer who practised individual medley, freestyle, butterfly and breaststroke. | Hong Kong Australian swimmer | 26 | 1 | |
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Chuck Berry | Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. | American musician | 90 | 3 |
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Ara Shiraz | Ara Shiraz was an Armenian sculptor. His mother and father were the poets Silva Kaputikyan and Hovhannes Shiraz. | Sculptor | 72 | 6 |
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Imra Agotić | Imra Agotić was a Croatian general who distinguished himself in the Croatian War of Independence. | Croatian general | 69 | 8 |
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Fess Parker | Fess Elisha Parker Jr. , was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in the Walt Disney 1954–1955 TV miniseries, which aired on ABC, and as Daniel Boone in an NBC television series from 1964 to 1970. | American film and television actor | 85 | 10 |
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James H. Howard | James Howell Howard was a general in the United States Air Force and the only fighter pilot in the European Theater of Operations in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor — the United States military's highest decoration. | American fighter pilot in World War II | 81 | 25 |
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Myrtle Cook | Myrtle Alice Cook was a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. | Athletics (sport) competitor | 83 | 35 |
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Adrienne Bolland | Adrienne Bolland, born Boland, was a French test pilot and the first woman to fly over the Andes between Chile and Argentina. | French aviator | 78 | 45 |
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Hans Waldmann | Hans Peter Waldmann was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. | Recipient of the Knight's Cross | 22 | 75 |
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John P. Leedom | John Peter Leedom was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for one-term from 1881 to 1883. | American politician | 47 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Li Ao | Li Ao was a Chinese-born Taiwanese writer, social commentator, historian and independent politician. | Chinese writer | 82 | 2 |
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Barry Hines | Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL was an English author, playwright, screenwriter and amateur footballer. | English author | 76 | 4 |
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Clay Ford | Clarence V. Ford, known as Clay Ford , was an attorney and Republican politician from Gulf Breeze in Santa Rosa County near Pensacola, Florida, who from 2007 until his death represented District 2 in the Florida House of Representatives. | American politician | 74 | 7 |
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Warren Christopher | Warren Minor Christopher was an American lawyer, diplomat and politician. | US Statesman | 85 | 9 |
Eberhard Bethge | Eberhard Bethge was a German theologian and pastor, best known for being the close friend and biographer of the theologian and anti-Nazi Dietrich Bonhoeffer. | Bonhoeffer biographer | 90 | 20 | |
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Robin Harris | Robin Hughes Harris was an American comedian and actor, known for his recurring comic sketch about "Bébé's Kids". | Comedian | 36 | 30 |
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Tamara Lempicka | Tamara Łempicka , better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. | Polish painter | 81 | 40 |
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Waldo Peirce | Waldo Peirce was an American painter, who for many years reveled in living the life of a bohemian expatriate. | American artist | 85 | 50 |
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Franz Büchner | Franz Büchner PlM was one of the most successful German fighter aces of the First World War, shooting down 40 enemy aircraft. | German flying ace | 22 | 100 |
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Gulian C. Verplanck | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck was an American attorney, politician, and writer. | American politician | 83 | 150 |