Died on This Day (14-Aug)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Ben Unwin | Ben Denis Unwin was an Australian actor and music video director, best known for portraying Jesse McGregor on the television soap opera Home and Away from 1996 until 2000, and again from 2002 to 2005. | Australian actor | 41 | 1 | |
Frank Broyles | John Franklin Broyles was an American college football player and coach, college athletics administrator, and broadcaster. | American football player and coach | 92 | 3 | |
Jazz Summers | Gordon "Jazz" Summers was a British music manager. | British music manager | 71 | 5 | |
Phyllis Thaxter | Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter was an American actress. | American actress | 92 | 8 | |
Gloria Winters | Gloria Winters was an actress most remembered for having portrayed the well-mannered niece, Penny King, in the 1950s – 1960s American television series Sky King. | American actress | 78 | 10 | |
Czeslaw Milosz | Czeslaw Milosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. | Polish poet | 93 | 16 | |
Lafayette Leake | Lafayette Leake was an American blues and jazz pianist, organist, vocalist and composer who played for Chess Records as a session musician, and as a member of the Big Three Trio, during the formative years of Chicago blues. | American musician | 71 | 30 | |
Dorothy Stratten | Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten , known professionally as Dorothy Stratten, was a Canadian Playboy Playmate and actress. | Actress, model | 20 | 40 | |
Alfred C. Smith | Alfred Charles Smith was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate, representing the state's 3rd district. | Member of the Senate of Virginia | 71 | 75 | |
Thomas Hovenden | Thomas Hovenden , was an Irish artist and teacher who spent much of his life in the United States. | American artist | 54 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Jill Janus | Huntress is an American heavy metal band. It was founded in the underground music scene of Highland Park, California when lead vocalist Jill Janus moved to Los Angeles where she met an underground metal band called 'Professor' in 2009. | American rock and roll singer | 42 | 2 | |
Fyvush Finkel | Philip "Fyvush" Finkel was an American actor known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences, for which he earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1994. | American actor | 93 | 4 | |
Allen Lanier | Allen Glover Lanier was an American musician who played keyboards and rhythm guitar. | American musician | 67 | 7 | |
Shammi Kapoor | Shammi Kapoor was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema. | Indian actor and director | 79 | 9 | |
Simon Chimbetu | Simon Chimbetu was a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist and composer. | Zimbabwean musician | 49 | 15 | |
Cuan McCarthy | Cuan Neil McCarthy was a South African cricketer who played in fifteen Test matches from 1948 to 1951. | South African cricketer | 71 | 20 | |
Gale Sondergaard | Gale Sondergaard was an American actress. Sondergaard began her acting career in theater and progressed to films in 1936. | American actress | 86 | 35 | |
Ellsworth B. Buck | Ellsworth Brewer Buck was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York during the 1940s. | American politician | 78 | 50 | |
Frank Fennelly | Francis John Fennelly was a 19th-century Major League Baseball shortstop. | American baseball player | 60 | 100 | |
David Farragut | David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. | United States Navy admiral | 69 | 150 |