Died on This Day (20-May)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Niki Lauda | Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda was an Austrian Formula One driver and aviation entrepreneur. | Austrian Formula One racing driver | 70 | 1 |
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Patricia Derian | Patricia "Patt" Murphy Derian was an American civil rights and human rights activist who fought racism in Mississippi and went on to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from 1977 to 1981. | American civil rights activist | 86 | 4 |
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Robin Gibb | Robin Hugh Gibb CBE was a British singer and songwriter. | Singer-songwriter | 62 | 8 |
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Harry C. Aderholt | Harry Clay "Heinie" Aderholt was an American brigadier general in the United States Air Force and a prominent figure in air force special operations. | Brigadier General | 90 | 10 |
Len Murray | Lionel Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest, OBE, PC was a British Labour Party politician and trade union leader. | British trade union leader | 81 | 16 | |
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Renato Carosone | Renato Carosone was an Italian musician. He was a prominent figure of the Italian music scene in the second half of the 20th century. | Italian singer | 81 | 19 |
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Burton Jastram | Burton Albert Jastram was an American rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and won the Gold Medal as a member of the American boat in the Eights Competition at the Long Beach Marine Stadium, beating the Italian crew from the University of Pisa by inches. | American rower | 84 | 25 |
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Victor Paul Wierwille | Victor Paul Wierwille was the founder of The Way International . | American christian writer | 68 | 35 |
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Barbara Hepworth | Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE was an English artist and sculptor. | English sculptor | 72 | 45 |
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Otto von Feldmann | Otto von Feldmann was a German officer and politician. | German politician | 71 | 75 |
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Nobukazu Kuriki | Nobukazu Kuriki was a Japanese mountaineer and entrepreneur. | Japanese mountaineer | 35 | 2 |
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Ray Manzarek | Raymond Daniel Manzarek Jr. was an American keyboardist. | American musician | 74 | 7 |
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Randy Savage | Randall Mario Poffo , better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling . | American wrestler and actor | 58 | 9 |
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JD Cannon | John Donovan Cannon was an American actor. An alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, he is best known for his co-starring role of Chief of Detectives Peter B. | American actor | 83 | 15 |
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Stephen Jay Gould | Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. | American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist | 60 | 18 |
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Jean-Pierre Rampal | Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century. | Flautist | 78 | 20 |
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Peter Rabe | Peter Rabe was a German American writer who also wrote under the names Marco Malaponte and J. | American writer | 68 | 30 |
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James W. Huffman | James Wylie Huffman was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Ohio. | American politician | 85 | 40 |
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John Whiteley | General Sir John Francis Martin Whiteley, GBE, KCB, MC was a senior British Army officer who became Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff . | British Army general | 73 | 50 |
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Karl Ludwig Sand | Karl Ludwig Sand , 5 October 1795 – Mannheim, 20 May 1820) was a German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft . | German murderer | 24 | 200 |