Died on This Day (15-Aug)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Rita Borsellino | Rita Borsellino was an Italian Sicilian anti-Mafia activist, politician and, between 2009 and 2014, a Member of the European Parliament for the Democratic Party. | Italian anti-Mafia activist | 73 | 2 |
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Dalian Atkinson | Dalian Robert Atkinson was an English footballer who played as a striker. | English footballer | 48 | 4 |
Timothy Cathcart | Timothy Cathcart was a Northern Irish rally driver from Enniskillen who was killed at the 2014 Todds Leap , a round of the 2014 British Rally Championship season, after his car, a Citroën DS3 R3T left the road and crashed near Fivemiletown. | Northern Irish rally driver | 20 | 6 | |
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Harry Harrison | Harry Max Harrison was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! . | American science fiction writer | 87 | 8 |
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Ahmad Alaadeen | Ahmad Alaadeen was a jazz saxophonist and educator whose career spanned over six decades. | American saxophonist | 76 | 10 |
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Haim Yosef Zadok | Haim Yosef Zadok was an Israeli jurist and politician. | Israeli politician | 88 | 18 |
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John Cameron Swayze | John Cameron Swayze was an American news commentator and game show panelist during the 1940s and 1950s who later became best known as a product spokesman. | American news presenter and reporter | 89 | 25 |
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Robert Maxwell | James Robert Maxwell was an American runner. He competed at the 1928 Olympics in the 400 m hurdles, but failed to reach the final. | American hurdler | 83 | 35 |
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Mujibur Rahman | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib, was a Bangladeshi politician, statesman and Founding Father of Bangladesh who served as the first President and later as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 17 April 1971 until his assassination on 15 August 1975. | President of Bangladesh | 55 | 45 |
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John D. Imboden | John Daniel Imboden , American lawyer, Virginia state legislator, and a Confederate army general. | Confederate Army general | 72 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Paul Oliver | Paul Hereford Oliver MBE was an English architectural historian and writer on the blues and other forms of African-American music. | British architectural historian | 90 | 3 |
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Julian Bond | Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. | American social activist | 75 | 5 |
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Rosalia Mera | Rosalía Mera Goyenechea was a Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur. | World's richest woman | 69 | 7 |
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Rick Rypien | Richard Joseph Rypien was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who spent parts of six seasons in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks. | Canadian ice hockey player | 27 | 9 |
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Min Thu Wun | Thiri Pyanchi Min Thu Wun was a Burmese poet, writer and scholar who helped launch a new age literary movement called Khit-San in Burma. | Burmese poet | 95 | 16 |
Edward Walker | Edward Craven Walker was a British inventor, who invented the psychedelic Astro lamp, also known as the lava lamp. | British inventor | 82 | 20 | |
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Viktor Tsoi | Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was a Soviet and Russian singer and songwriter who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian music. | Soviet actor | 28 | 30 |
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Imru Haile Selassie | Leul Ras Imru Haile Selassie, CBE was an Ethiopian noble, soldier, and diplomat. | Ethiopian prince | 87 | 40 |
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Korechika Anami | Korechika Anami was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II who was War Minister during the surrender of Japan. | Japanese general | 58 | 75 |
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Edward Antill | Edward Antill was a colonial plantation owner, attorney, and early politician in the Province of New Jersey. | American winemaker | 69 | 250 |