Died on This Day (06-May)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Max Azria | Max Azria was a Tunisia-born fashion designer who founded the contemporary women's clothing brand . | Tunisia-born fashion designer | 70 | 1 |
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Reg Grundy | Reginald Roy Grundy was an Australian entrepreneur and media mogul, best known for his numerous television productions. | Australian media and tv entrepreneur and mogul | 92 | 4 |
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Giulio Andreotti | Giulio Andreotti was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st prime minister of Italy and leader of the Christian Democracy party; he was the sixth longest-serving prime minister since the Italian Unification and the second longest-serving post-war prime minister, after Silvio Berlusconi. | Prime Minister of Italy | 94 | 7 |
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Duane Pillette | Duane Xavier Pillette [″Dee″] was an Anerican professional baseball pitcher, who played all or part of eight seasons in Major League Baseball for four different teams from 1949 through 1956. | Major League Baseball player | 88 | 9 |
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Theodore J. Bauer | Theodore J. "Ted" Bauer was an American Infectious disease specialist who was head of the Communicable Disease Center from 1953 to 1956, and who also served as Assistant Surgeon General of the United States. | American physician | 95 | 15 |
David Woodley | David Eugene Woodley was an American football player, a quarterback in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins , and the Pittsburgh Steelers . | US Footballer | 44 | 17 | |
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Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança | Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança , also known by her literary pseudonym Hilda de Toledano, was a Portuguese writer and journalist who claimed to be the royal bastard daughter of King Carlos I of Portugal. | Portuguese politician | 88 | 25 |
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Frank H. Ono | Frank H. Ono was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II. | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient | 56 | 40 |
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James D. Howe | James Donnie Howe was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in May 1970 during the Vietnam War. | US Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient | 21 | 50 |
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Carl Röchling | Carl Röchling was a German painter and illustrator known for his representation of historical military themes. | German artist | 64 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Steven Holcomb | Steven Paul Holcomb was an American bobsledder who competed from 1998 until his death in 2017. | American bobsledder | 37 | 3 |
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Errol Brown | Errol Brown MBE was a British-Jamaican singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the soul and funk band Hot Chocolate. | Hot Chocolate Singer | 71 | 5 |
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David A. Granger | David Arthur Granger is a Guyanese politician and retired military officer who served as the 9th President of Guyana from May 2015 to August 2020. | Guyanese politician | 66 | 8 |
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Robin Roberts | Robin Evan Roberts was a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who pitched primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies . | American baseball player and coach | 83 | 10 |
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Barney Kessel | Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. | American musician | 80 | 16 |
Otis Blackwell | Otis Blackwell was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist, whose work influenced rock and roll. | Singer/pianist | 70 | 18 | |
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Charles Farrell | Charles Farrell was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. | Actor, developer, former Palm Springs Mayor | 88 | 30 |
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Jozsef Mindszenty | József Mindszenty [jo:ʒɛf mindsɛnti] was the Prince Primate, Archbishop of Esztergom, cardinal, and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary from 2 October 1945 to 18 December 1973. | Archbishop of Esztergom | 83 | 45 |
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Franz Budka | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of the Third Reich during World War II. | SS officer | 24 | 75 |
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James Young Simpson | Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine. | British doctor | 58 | 150 |