Died on This Day (15-Apr)
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Owen Garriott | Owen Kay Garriott was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission in 1983. | NASA astronaut | 88 | 1 |
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Clifton James | George Clifton James was an American actor known for roles as a prison floorwalker in Cool Hand Luke , Sheriff J. | American actor | 96 | 3 |
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Eliseo Verón | Eliseo Verón was an Argentine sociologist, anthropologist and semiotician, and professor of communication sciences at Universidad de San Andrés. | Sociologist | 78 | 6 |
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Murray Rose | Iain Murray Rose, AM was an Australian swimmer, actor, sports commentator and marketing executive. | Australian swimmer and six-time Olympic medalist | 73 | 8 |
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Margaretta Scott | Margaretta Mary Winifred Scott was an English stage, screen and television actress whose career spanned over seventy years. | British actor | 93 | 15 |
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Edward Gorey | Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers. | Writer/illustrator | 75 | 20 |
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Zarifa Aliyeva | Zarifa Aziz gizi Aliyeva was an Azerbaijani ophthalmologist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and professor. | Azerbaijani ophthalmologist | 61 | 35 |
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Richard Conte | Nicholas Peter Conte , known professionally as Richard Conte, was an American actor. | American actor | 65 | 45 |
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Karl-Otto Koch | Karl-Otto Koch was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. | SS officer | 47 | 75 |
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Charles Thomas Campbell | Charles Thomas Campbell was a United States Army soldier, and a legislator, businessman, and town mayor. | Union Army general | 71 | 125 |
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R. Lee Ermey | Ronald Lee Ermey was an American actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor. | American actor | 74 | 2 |
| Guy Woolfenden | Guy Anthony Woolfenden OBE was an English composer and conductor. | English composer and conductor | 78 | 4 | |
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Benjamin Fain | Benjamin Fain was an Israeli physicist, professor-emeritus, and former refusenik. | Israeli physicist | 83 | 7 |
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Benjamin Hooks | Benjamin Lawson Hooks was an American civil rights leader and government official. | American civil rights leader | 85 | 10 |
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Don Bunce | Dr. Don Bunce was an American football quarterback and orthopedic surgeon. | American football player | 54 | 17 |
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Greta Garbo | Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses, she was known for her melancholic, sombre persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. | Swedish-American film actress | 84 | 30 |
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Jean-Paul Sartre | Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism , a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. | French philosopher/writer | 74 | 40 |
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Ripper Collins | James Anthony "Ripper" Collins was an American professional baseball player, coach and scout. | American baseball player | 66 | 50 |
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James Livingston | James Livingston was an Ontario businessman and politician. | Canadian politician | 81 | 100 |
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Władysław Hieronim Sanguszko | Prince Wladyslaw Hieronim Sanguszko was a Polish nobleman, landowner, and conservative politician. | Polish noble | 66 | 150 |