Died on This Day (17-Jul)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Andrea Camilleri | Andrea Calogero Camilleri was an Italian writer. | Italian writer | 93 | 1 | |
Jules Bianchi | Jules Lucien André Bianchi was a French motor racing driver who drove for the Marussia F1 Team in the FIA Formula One World Championship. | French motor racing driver | 25 | 5 | |
Forrest S. McCartney | Forrest Striplin McCartney was a United States Air Force lieutenant general and former director of NASA's John F. | United States Air Force lieutenant general | 81 | 8 | |
Bernard Giraudeau | Bernard René Giraudeau was a French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer. | French actor | 63 | 10 | |
Lucien Leduc | Lucien Leduc was a French football midfielder and a manager. | French football midfielder and a manager | 85 | 16 | |
Aligi Sassu | Aligi Sassu was an Italian painter and sculptor. | Italian painter | 88 | 20 | |
Leslie C. Arends | Leslie Cornelius Arends was a Republican politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1935 until 1974. | American politician | 89 | 35 | |
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia | Konstantine Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian writer and public figure. | Georgian writer | 82 | 45 | |
Ernst Busch | Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who commanded the 16th Army and later the massive Army Group Centre. | Third Reich Field Marshal | 60 | 75 | |
Henri-Pierre Picou | Henri-Pierre Picou was a French painter. His oeuvre began with portraits and classical historical subject matter but he later moved on to allegorical and mythological themes. | French painter | 71 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Yvonne Blake | Yvonne Ann Blake was a British-Spanish costume designer. | British costume designer | 78 | 2 | |
Ian Gourlay | General Sir Basil Ian Spencer Gourlay, KCB, CVO, OBE, MC was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1971 to 1975. | Royal MArines general | 92 | 7 | |
Alex Steinweiss | Alexander Steinweiss was an American graphic design artist known for inventing album cover art. | Graphic designer | 94 | 9 | |
Edward Heath | Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. | British Prime Minister | 89 | 15 | |
Carol Shields | Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSC was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. | American-born Canadian novelist | 68 | 17 | |
Juan Manuel Fangio | Juan Manuel Fangio , nicknamed El Chueco or El Maestro , was an Argentine racing car driver. | Argentinian racing driver | 84 | 25 | |
Frank W. Fries | Frank William Fries was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. | American politician | 87 | 40 | |
John Eyre Sloane | John Eyre Sloane was an American industrialist He was born in South Orange, New Jersey, to well-known scientist, inventor and author, Dr. | American airplane manufacturer | 83 | 50 | |
Christopher Bruun | Christopher Arndt Bruun was a Norwegian priest and educator. | Danish priest | 80 | 100 | |
Georg Prochaska | Georg Prochaska was a leading Czech-Austrian anatomist, ophthalmologist, physiologist, writer and university professor. | Czech scientist | 71 | 200 |