Died on This Day (06-Apr)
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Ernest Hollings | Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005. | United States Senator | 97 | 1 |
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Don Rickles | Donald Jay Rickles was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. | American stand-up comedian | 90 | 3 |
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James Best | Jewel Franklin Guy , known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. | American actor | 88 | 5 |
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Bigas Luna | José Juan Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. | Film director | 67 | 7 |
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Diaa al-Din Dawoud | Diaa al-Din Dawoud was an Egyptian politician and activist. | Egyptian politician | 85 | 9 |
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Prince Rainier | Rainier III was the Prince of Monaco from 9 May 1949 to his death in 2005. | Prince of Monaco | 81 | 15 |
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V. J. Sukselainen | Vieno Johannes Sukselainen , was twice Prime Minister of Finland and four times Speaker of the Parliament. | Finnish politician | 88 | 25 |
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Gene Davis | Gene Davis was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color. | American artist | 64 | 35 |
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Heinrich Bulle | Heinrich Bulle was a German archaeologist born in Bremen. | German archaeologist | 77 | 75 |
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Christen Mikkelsen Kold | Christen Mikkelsen Kold was a Danish teacher, notable for creating the Danish Folk high school system, for non-degree education of adults. | Educator | 54 | 150 |
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Donald McKayle | Donald McKayle was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer best known for creating socially conscious concert works during the 1950s and '60s that focus on expressing the human condition and, more specifically, the black experience in America. | American modern dancer | 87 | 2 |
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Merle Haggard | Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. | American singer | 79 | 4 |
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Mickey Rooney | Mickey Rooney was an American actor, producer, radio entertainer and vaudevillian. | American actor | 93 | 6 |
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Fang Lizhi | Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. | Professor of astrophysics | 76 | 8 |
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Anatoly Dobrynin | Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin was a Soviet statesman, diplomat and politician. | Soviet Diplomat | 90 | 10 |
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Habib Bourguiba | Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian lawyer, nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1987 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia then as the first president of Tunisia . | President of Tunisia | 96 | 20 |
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B. T. Ranadive | Bhalchandra Trimbak Ranadive , popularly known as BTR was an Indian communist politician and trade union leader. | Indian politician | 85 | 30 |
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Sam Sheppard | Samuel Holmes Sheppard was an American osteopathic physician-neurosurgeon. | American neurosurgeon | 46 | 50 |
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Archibald Peake | Archibald Henry Peake was an Australian politician. | Australian politician | 61 | 100 |
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Raphael | Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. | Italian Renaissance artist and architect | 37 | 500 |