Died on This Day (18-Apr)
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Lyra McKee | Lyra Catherine McKee was a journalist from Northern Ireland who wrote for several publications about the consequences of the Troubles. | Northern Irish journalist | 29 | 1 |
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Brian Priestman | Brian Priestman was a British conductor and music educator. | British conductor | 87 | 6 |
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K. D. Wentworth | Kathy Diane Wentworth , known as K. D. Wentworth, was an American science fiction author. | American writer | 61 | 8 |
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Mieczysław Cieślar | Mieczyslaw Cieslar was a Lutheran theologian and bishop of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland. | Lutheran theologian and bishop | 60 | 10 |
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Kamisese Mara | Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, CF, GCMG, KBE was a Fijian politician, who served as Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, the first Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992. | President of Fiji | 83 | 16 |
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Thor Heyerdahl | Thor Heyerdahl KStJ was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography. | Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer | 87 | 18 |
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Arturo Frondizi | Arturo Frondizi Ércoli was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher and politician, who was elected President of Argentina and ruled between May 1, 1958 and March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown by a military coup. | President of Argentina | 86 | 25 |
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Jesse Addison Udall | Jesse Addison Udall was an American jurist and member of the Udall political family who served as chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. | American politician | 86 | 40 |
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Alvary Gascoigne | Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne GBE, KCMG was a British diplomat. | British diplomat | 76 | 50 |
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George McMillan | George A. McMillan was an American professional baseball player. | Canadian baseball player | 56 | 100 |
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Dale Winton | Dale Jonathan Winton was an English radio DJ and television presenter. | English television presenter | 62 | 2 |
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Goran Švob | Goran Švob was a Croatian philosopher, logician, and author. | Philosopher | 65 | 7 |
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Grete Waitz | Grete Waitz was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. | Marathon Runner | 57 | 9 |
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Benny Bailey | Ernest Harold "Benny" Bailey was an American jazz trumpeter. | American musician | 79 | 15 |
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Emil Loteanu | Emil Vladimirovich Loteanu was a Romanian-Soviet film director born in what is now Moldova. | Moldovan filmmaker | 67 | 17 |
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Isaac Berenblum | Isaac Berenblum, was an Israeli biochemist, who in 1947 proposed that cancers need another trigger to grow besides mutated DNA. | Israeli biochemist | 96 | 20 |
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Haseeb-ul-Hasan | Haseeb-ul-Hasan was a Pakistani first-class cricketer. | Pakistani cricketer | 25 | 30 |
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Jack Burns | John Irving Burns , nicknamed "Slug", was an American first baseman, coach and scout in Major League Baseball who played for the St. | American baseball player and coach | 67 | 45 |
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John Ambrose Fleming | Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, and also established the right-hand rule used in physics. | Electrical engineer and physicist | 95 | 75 |
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Robert C. Wickliffe | Robert Charles Wickliffe was Lieutenant Governor and the 15th Governor of Louisiana from 1856 to 1860. | American politician | 76 | 125 |