Died on This Day (15-Aug)
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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 professional 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 an American 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 and widely known as Bangabandhu , was a Bengali politician, parliamentarian, diarist, and the founding leader of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. | 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 | Anniv | |
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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 singer and songwriter who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian-language 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 |