Died on This Day (18-Mar)
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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 the titular characters in the Walt Disney television miniseries Davy Crockett and the long-running television series Daniel Boone . | 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. | 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 | Anniv | |
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Li Ao | Li Ao was a Chinese writer, social commentator, historian and independent politician based in Taiwan. | Chinese writer | 82 | 2 |
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Barry Hines | Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL was an English author, playwright and screenwriter. | 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 Sr. was an American comedian and actor, best 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 |