Died on This Day (09-Jun)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Rafael Miguel | Rafael Henrique Miguel was a Brazilian actor. He was best known for his character Paçoca in the telenovela Chiquititas and previously for participating in a TV commercial playing a boy who demanded broccoli from his mother in a supermarket. | Brazilian actor | 22 | 1 | |
Adam West | William West Anderson , professionally known as Adam West, was an American actor. | American actor | 88 | 3 | |
James Last | James Last , also known as Hansi, was a German composer and big band leader of the James Last Orchestra. | Big Band composer | 86 | 5 | |
Iain Banks | Iain Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. | Scottish science-fiction novelist | 59 | 7 | |
Eugene R. Brady | Eugene R. Brady was a United States Marine Corps officer and naval aviator who was the recipient of the Navy Cross and a later Silver Star for his heroic actions during two separate medevac missions taking wounded Marines from a landing zone while under fire during the Vietnam War. | Recipient of the Purple Heart medal | 83 | 9 | |
Richard Eberhart | Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. | American poet | 101 | 15 | |
Walter Landor | Walter Joseph Landor was a brand designer and the founder of Landor. | American designer | 81 | 25 | |
Carmelo Zito | Carmelo Zito , born in Oppido Mamertina, Italy and immigrated to the United States circa 1923, was an outspoken Italian American immigrant who operated the Il Corriere del Popolo Italian-language newspaper in San Francisco, California, from 1935 through 1966. | American anti-facist | 80 | 40 | |
Richard Haking | General Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, GBE, KCB, KCMG , was a British general who commanded XI Corps in the First World War. | British First World War general | 83 | 75 | |
Charles Dickens | Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. | English novelist | 58 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Kenyatta Jones | Kenyatta Lapoleon Jones was an American football offensive tackle. | American footballer | 39 | 2 | |
Hamza Ali | Hamza Sultan Ali , also known as Hamza Shabbir, was a British Pakistani cricketer who played for Hampshire, Marylebone Cricket Club Young Cricketers and Rawalpindi Rams. | English cricketer | 20 | 4 | |
Rik Mayall | Richard Michael Mayall was an English actor, stand-up comedian and writer. | Comedian/actor | 56 | 6 | |
Abram Wilson | Abram Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist raised in New Orleans and based in London where he also taught music in schools. | American trumpeter | 38 | 8 | |
Harold Ivory Williams | Harold Ivory Williams, Jr. was an American jazz keyboardist most known for working with Miles Davis, Michal Urbaniak, MFSB, and the Rev. | American jazz keyboardist | 60 | 10 | |
Jacob Lawrence | Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. | American painter | 82 | 20 | |
Clifford Evans | Clifford George Evans was a Welsh actor. During the summer of 1934 Evans appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre in London. | British actor | 73 | 35 | |
Albert Spencer | Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, TD, FSA, FRSA , styled The Honourable Albert Spencer until 1910 and Viscount Althorp from 1910 to 1922, and known less formally as Jack Spencer, was a British peer. | English peer | 83 | 45 | |
Francis Hendricks | Francis Hendricks was an American merchant, banker and politician from New York. | American politician and businessman | 85 | 100 | |
Judith Sargent Murray | Judith Sargent Stevens Murray was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. | American writer | 69 | 200 |