Died on This Day (16-Aug)
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Peter Fonda | Peter Henry Fonda was an American actor. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. | American actor | 79 | 1 |
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David Somerset | David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort GCC , known as David Somerset until 1984, was an English peer and major landowner. | Duke of Beaufort | 89 | 3 |
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Ray B. Sitton | Ray Benjamin Sitton was an American lieutenant general, command pilot and navigator. | United States general | 89 | 7 |
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Andrej Bajuk | Andrej Bajuk, also known in Spanish as Andrés Bajuk was a Slovene politician and economist. | Prime Minister of Slovenia | 67 | 9 |
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Joe Ranft | Joseph Henry Ranft was an American screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor. | American screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist | 45 | 15 |
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Jeff Corey | Jeff Corey was an American stage and screen actor who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s. | American stage and screen actor and director | 88 | 18 |
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Ricardo Saprissa | Ricardo Juan Antonio Saprissa Aymá was a lifelong athlete, coach, and promoter of sports. | Lifelong athlete, coach, and promoter of sports | 89 | 30 |
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Jean Touzet du Vigier | Lieutenant General Jean-Louis-Alain Touzet du Vigier (1888–1980 was a French army officer during World War II and an advocate of military mechanization, particularly the motorization of the cavalry. | French general | 91 | 40 |
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Takijirō Ōnishi | Takijiro Onishi was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II who came to be known as the father of the kamikaze. | Imperial Japanese Navy admiral | 54 | 75 |
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Samuel B. Maxey | Samuel Bell Maxey was an American soldier, lawyer, and politician from Paris, Texas. | American politician | 70 | 125 |
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Aretha Franklin | Aretha Louise Franklin was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. | American singer | 76 | 2 |
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João Havelange | Jean-Marie Faustin Godefroid "João" de Havelange was a Brazilian lawyer, businessman, athlete and centenarian who served as the seventh president of FIFA from 1974 to 1998. | President of FIFA | 100 | 4 |
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Abune Paulos | Abune Paulos was an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Patriarch from 1992 to his death in 2012. | Patriarch of Ethiopia | 76 | 8 |
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Bobby Thomson | Robert Brown Thomson was a Scottish-born American professional baseball player, nicknamed the "Staten Island Scot". | Scottish-born American baseball player | 86 | 10 |
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Ben Mang Reng Say | Benedictus Mang Reng Say was an Indonesian politician who was appointed Vice Chairman of the People's Representative Council of Mutual Assistance 1966–1971. | Indonesian politician | 75 | 17 |
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J. P. McCarthy | Joseph Priestley "J.P." McCarthy II was a radio personality best known for his over 30 years of work as the morning man and interviewer on station WJR in Detroit, Michigan. | Radio presenter | 62 | 25 |
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Dick Drott | Richard Fred Drott was a Major League Baseball player who pitched for the Chicago Cubs and the Houston Colt . | American baseball player | 49 | 35 |
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Beniamino Bufano | Beniamino "Benny" Bufano was an Italian American sculptor, best known for his large-scale monuments representing peace and his modernist work often featured smoothly rounded animals and relatively simple shapes. | American artist | 71 | 50 |
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Henry Daglish | Henry Daglish was an Australian politician who was the sixth premier of Western Australia and the first from the Labor Party, serving from 10 August 1904 to 25 August 1905. | Australian politician | 53 | 100 |
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Komatsu Kiyokado | Komatsu Kiyokado was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who served the Shimazu clan of Satsuma, and went on to become a government official of the early Meiji period. | Samurai | 34 | 150 |