Died on This Day (26-May)
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Prem Tinsulanonda | Prem Tinsulanonda was a Thai military officer, politician, and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Thailand from 3 March 1980 to 4 August 1988, during which time he was credited with ending a communist insurgency and presiding over accelerating economic growth. | Prime Minister of Thailand | 98 | 1 |
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Laura Biagiotti | Laura Biagiotti was an Italian fashion designer, and the founder of the . | Italian fashion designer | 73 | 3 |
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Arthur Decabooter | Arthur Decabooter was a Belgian professional racing cyclist, active as a professional between 1959 and 1967. | Belgian racing cyclist | 75 | 8 |
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Art Linkletter | Arthur Gordon Linkletter was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. | TV Personality | 97 | 10 |
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Ross Powless | Alexander Powless was a Mohawk lacrosse player from the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation near Brantford, Ontario. | Lacrosse player | 76 | 17 |
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Anne Haney | Anne Ryan Haney was an American stage and screen actress. | American stage and screen actress | 67 | 19 |
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Friz Freleng | Isadore "Friz" Freleng , credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. | American cartoonist | 88 | 25 |
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Rufus Franklin | Rufus William Franklin was an American criminal who served a life sentence in Alcatraz. | American murderer | 59 | 45 |
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Prince Wilhelm of Prussia | Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf of Prussia was the eldest child of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. | Prussian prince | 33 | 80 |
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Ahmed Cevdet Pasha | Ahmed Cevdet Pasha or Jevdet Pasha in English was an Ottoman scholar, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator, and historian who was a prominent figure in the Tanzimat reforms of the Ottoman Empire. | Ottoman statesman | 73 | 125 |
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Alan Bean | Alan LaVern Bean was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, NASA astronaut and painter; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. | NASA astronaut | 86 | 2 |
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Georgia Williams | Georgia Williams is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team BikeExchange–Jayco. | British murder victim | 16 | 7 |
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Arisen Ahubudu | Kalasuri Arisen Ahubudu was a Sri Lankan writer, orator, scholar, playwright, teacher , Sinhala lyricist, author and poet. | Author, poet and scholar | 91 | 9 |
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Eddie Albert | Edward Albert Heimberger was an American actor and activist. | American actor | 99 | 15 |
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Nathan Mantel | Nathan Mantel was an American biostatistician best known for his work with William Haenszel which led to the Mantel–Haenszel test and its associated estimate, the Mantel–Haenszel odds ratio. | American statistician | 83 | 18 |
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Burdette Keeland | Burdette Keeland, Jr. was an American architect and professor from Houston whose work was admired by Philip Johnson. | American architect | 74 | 20 |
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Marguerite S. Church | Marguerite Stitt Church was an American psychologist and politician who represented Illinois' 13th congressional district as a Republican from 1951 to 1963. | American politician | 97 | 30 |
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John E. Gingrich | Admiral John Edward Gingrich was an officer in the United States Navy who served as the first chief of security for the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1947 to 1949, and as Chief of Naval Material from 1953 to 1954. | United States Navy Admiral | 63 | 60 |
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Eddie Giroux | Edward Joseph "Eddie" Giroux was a Canadian professional ice hockey player best known for being the only 20-year-old to have competed in the 1904 Stanley Cup Playoffs. | Canadian ice hockey player | 47 | 90 |
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Johann Heinrich Blasius | Johann Heinrich Blasius was a German zoologist. His sons, Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius and August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius were ornithologists. | German zoologist | 60 | 150 |