Died on This Day (09-Aug)
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Takis | Panayiotis Vassilakis , also known as Takis , was a self-taught Greek artist known for his kinetic sculptures. | Greek artist | 93 | 1 |
Jonathan Ollivier | Jonathan Byrne Ollivier was a British dancer. | British dancer | 38 | 5 | |
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Eduardo Falú | Eduardo Falú was a well-known Argentine folk music guitarist and composer. | Argentine folk musician | 90 | 7 |
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Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy | Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Beauvais, France from 1985 to 1995. | Catholic bishop | 91 | 9 |
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Judith Rossner | Judith Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers Looking for Mr. | Novelist | 70 | 15 |
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Bob Lido | Robert Lido was an American musician and singer who was a regular member of television's The Lawrence Welk Show. | American musician | 85 | 20 |
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Joe Mercer | Joseph Mercer, OBE was an English football player and manager. | Football Manager | 76 | 30 |
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Jacqueline Cochran | Jacqueline Cochran was an American pilot and business executive. | Aviator | 74 | 40 |
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John McEwan | John James "Cap" McEwan was an American football player and coach. | American football player and coach | 77 | 50 |
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Samuel Griffith | Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919. | Australian politician | 75 | 100 |
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Gerald Grosvenor | Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, was a British landowner, businessman, philanthropist, Territorial Army general, and peer. | Duke of Westminster | 64 | 4 |
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Michael Brown | On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. | Poilice black police shooting victim | 18 | 6 |
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David Rakoff | David Benjamin Rakoff was a Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry based in New York City, who wrote humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. | Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry | 47 | 8 |
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Ted Stevens | Theodore Fulton Stevens, Sr. , was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. | US Senator | 86 | 10 |
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David Raksin | David Raksin was an American composer who was noted for his work in film and television. | Film score composer | 92 | 16 |
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Jerry Garcia | Jerome John Garcia was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for being a principal songwriter, the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band the Grateful Dead, of which he was a founding member and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s. | American singer-songwriter and guitarist | 53 | 25 |
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Clive Churchill | Clive Bernard Churchill AM was an Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach in the mid-20th century. | Australian rugby league player and coach | 58 | 35 |
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Dimitri Shostakovich | Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist. | Russian composer | 68 | 45 |
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Harry Hillman | Harry Livingston Hillman Jr. was an American athlete and winner of three gold medals at the 1904 Summer Olympics. | Athletics (sport) competitor | 63 | 75 |
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Anders Erikson Sparrman | Anders Sparrman was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. | Sweidsh ornithologist | 72 | 200 |