Died on This Day (30-Jul)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Nick Buoniconti | Nicholas Anthony Buoniconti was an American professional football player who was a middle linebacker in the American Football League and National Football League . | American football player | 78 | 1 | |
Gloria DeHaven | Gloria Mildred DeHaven was an American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . | American actress and singer | 91 | 4 | |
Antoni Ramallets | Antoni Ramallets Simón was a Spanish football goalkeeper and manager. | Spanish football player/manager | 89 | 7 | |
Robert M. Chanock | Robert Merritt Chanock was an American pediatrician and virologist who made major contributions to the prevention and treatment of childhood respiratory infections in more than 50 years spent at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. | American virologist | 86 | 10 | |
Wolfgang Ullmann | Wolfgang Ullmann was a German journalist, theologian, politician. | German theologian | 74 | 16 | |
Phil Smith | Philip Arnold Smith was an American professional basketball player who played for 9 seasons in the National Basketball Association . | American basketball player | 50 | 18 | |
Derek Hill | Arthur Derek Hill, CBE, HRHA was an English portrait and landscape painter, long resident in Ireland. | British artist | 83 | 20 | |
Jimmy Hoffa | James Riddle Hoffa was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1957 until 1971. | Union leader | 62 | 45 | |
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki | Jun'ichiro Tanizaki was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. | Japanese writer | 79 | 55 | |
Alston G. Dayton | Alston Gordon Dayton was a United States representative from West Virginia and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. | United States federal judge | 62 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Ron Dellums | Ronald Vernie Dellums was an American politician who served as Mayor of Oakland from 2007 to 2011. | Mayor of Oakland | 82 | 2 | |
Lynn Anderson | Lynn Renée Anderson was an American country singer and television personality. | American country music singer | 67 | 5 | |
Maeve Binchy | Anne Maeve Binchy Snell was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker. | Irish novelist | 72 | 8 | |
John Garang | John Garang de Mabior was a Sudanese politician and revolutionary leader. | President of Southern Sudan | 60 | 15 | |
Foday Sankoh | Foday Saybana Sankoh was the founder of the Sierra Leone rebel group Revolutionary United Front , which was supported by Charles Taylor-led NPFL in the 11-year-long Sierra Leone Civil War, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. | Sierra Leone rebel leader | 80 | 17 | |
Amir-Hossein Aryanpour | Amir-Hossein Aryanpour was an Iranian lexicographer, writer, translator, philosopher, sociologist, and literary figure. | Iranian academic | 76 | 19 | |
Julia Robinson | Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician noted for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory—most notably in decision problems. | American mathematician | 65 | 35 | |
George Szell | George Szell , originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. | American conductor | 73 | 50 | |
Alfonza W. Davis | Alfonza W. Davis was the first African-American aviator from North Omaha, Nebraska, to be awarded his "wings. | American World War II pilot | 25 | 75 | |
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje | Aasmund Olavsson Vinje was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål . | Norwegian writer | 52 | 150 |