Died on This Day (25-May)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Thembinkosi Mbamba | Thembinkosi Mbamba was a South African professional footballer who played as a striker. | South African footballer | 23 | 1 | |
Peggy Spencer | Margaret Ann Spencer MBE was a British professional ballroom dancer, choreographer, competition adjudicator, and organizer. | British ballroom dancer and choreographer | 95 | 4 | |
Nand Kumar Patel | Nand Kumar Patel was an Indian National Congress politician from the province of Chhattisgarh. | Indian politician | 59 | 7 | |
Terry Jenner | Terrence James Jenner was an Australian cricketer who played nine Tests and one ODI from 1970 to 1975. | Australian cricket player and coach | 66 | 9 | |
Antonia Ivanova | Antonia Petrova Ivanova was a Bulgarian chess player with the title Woman Grandmaster. | Chess player | 74 | 16 | |
Elizabeth Durack | Elizabeth Durack Clancy CMG, OBE was a Western Australian artist and writer. | Australian artist and writer | 84 | 20 | |
Vic Tayback | Victor E. Tayback was an American actor. He is known for his role as Mel Sharples in the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and the television series Alice . | American actor | 60 | 30 | |
Dominic McCarthy | Lawrence Dominic McCarthy, VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 83 | 45 | |
Ishii Kikujirō | Viscount Ishii Kikujiro , was a Japanese diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period Japan. | Japanese politician | 79 | 75 | |
Richard Stockton Field | Richard Stockton Field was an Attorney General of New Jersey, a United States senator from New Jersey and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. | United States Senator | 66 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Alistair Horne | Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL was a British journalist, biographer and historian of Europe, especially of 19th- and 20th-century France. | British journalist, biographer and historian | 91 | 3 | |
Herb Jeffries | Herb Jeffries was an American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone voice. | American singer and actor | 100 | 6 | |
Edoardo Mangiarotti | Edoardo Mangiarotti was an Italian fencer. He won a total of 39 Olympic titles and World championships, more than any other fencer in the history of the sport. | Fencer | 93 | 8 | |
Ismail Merchant | Ismail Merchant ) was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter. | Film Producer | 68 | 15 | |
Bart de Graaff | Bart Frederikus de Graaff was an influential Dutch television presenter, comedian and creator, as well as the founder and chairman of the public broadcasting network BNN. | Dutch television presenter | 35 | 18 | |
Alice Day | Jacqueline Alice Irene Newlin , professionally known as Alice Day, was an American film actress who began her career as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties. | American actress | 89 | 25 | |
Robert Nathan | Robert Gruntal Nathan was an American novelist and poet. | Novelist and poet | 91 | 35 | |
Eggert Neumann | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. | SS officer | 57 | 50 | |
Mary Collins | Mary Collins was a missionary, writer, and proponent for Native American rights in the Dakota Territory of the United States of America. | American missionary | 74 | 100 | |
Eric Ruuth | Eric Ruuth was a Swedish nobleman and the owner of Marsvinsholm Castle. | Swedish noble and politician | 73 | 200 |