Died on This Day (24-Jul)
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Margaret Fulton | Margaret Isobel Fulton was a Scottish-born Australian food and cooking writer, journalist, author and commentator. | Australian food and cooking writer | 94 | 1 |
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Udupi Ramachandra Rao | Udupi Ramachandra Rao was an Indian space scientist and chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. | Indian space scientist | 85 | 3 |
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Chiwoniso Maraire | Chiwoniso Maraire was a Zimbabwean singer, songwriter, and exponent of Zimbabwean mbira music. | Zimbabwean singer, songwriter, mbira master | 37 | 7 |
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G. D. Spradlin | Gervase Duan Spradlin was an American actor. Known for his distinctive accent and voice, he often played devious authority figures. | American actor | 90 | 9 |
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Richard Doll | Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. | British physiologist | 92 | 15 |
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Ahmad Shamloo | Ahmad Shamlou ʃɒːmˈluː], also known under his pen name A. | Iranian poet | 74 | 20 |
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Coen Dillen | Coenraad Henrik Dillen was a Dutch footballer who primarily played for PSV as well as the Dutch national side. | Dutch footballer | 63 | 30 |
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Peter Sellers | Peter Sellers was an English actor, comedian and singer. | British comedian & actor | 54 | 40 |
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Beatrice Roberts | Alice Beatrice Roberts was an American film actress. | American film actress | 65 | 50 |
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George Stuart Henderson | George Stuart Henderson VC, DSO & Bar, MC was a British Army officer and a Scottish 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 | 26 | 100 |
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Tony Cloninger | Tony Lee Cloninger was an American professional baseball player and coach. | American baseball pitcher | 77 | 2 |
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Marni Nixon | Margaret Nixon McEathron , known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. | American soprano | 86 | 4 |
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Sherman Hemsley | Sherman Alexander Hemsley was an American actor and musician, known for his roles as George Jefferson on the CBS television series All in the Family and The Jeffersons, Deacon Ernest Frye on the NBC series Amen, and B. | American actor | 74 | 8 |
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Alex Higgins | Alexander Gordon Higgins was a Northern Irish professional snooker player who is remembered as one of the most iconic figures in the game. | Snooker player | 61 | 10 |
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Claude Ballif | Claude Ballif was a French composer. Ballif was born in Paris. | French composer | 80 | 16 |
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Hans Wind | Hans Henrik "Hasse" Wind was a Finnish fighter pilot and flying ace in World War II, with 75 confirmed air combat victories. | Finnish flying ace | 75 | 25 |
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Ezechiele Ramin | Ezechiele Ramin , familiarly known as "Lele" in Italy and "Ezequiel" in Brazil, was an Italian Comboni missionary and artist who was described as a martyr of charity by Pope John Paul II after his murder in Brazil while defending the rights of the farmers and the Suruí natives of the Rondônia area against the local landowners. | Italian martyr | 32 | 35 |
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Barbara Colby | Barbara Colby was an American actress. | American actress | 35 | 45 |
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Fred Davis | Alfred Thomas "Fred" Davis was a farmer and a politician on the federal and provincial level in Canada. | Canadian politician | 77 | 75 |
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Pierre Dupont | Pierre Dupont was a French songwriter. Dupont was born in Lyon as the son of a blacksmith. | French songwriter | 49 | 150 |