Died on This Day (27-Aug)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Jessi Combs | Jessica Combs was an American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator. | American professional racer | 39 | 1 |
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Ebrahim Yazdi | Ebrahim Yazdi was an Iranian politician, pharmacist, and diplomat who served as deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest at the Iran hostage crisis. | Iranian deputy PM | 85 | 3 |
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Carl Graffunder | Carl Graffunder was a mid-century modernist architect whose influence from European modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright and Antonin Raymond manifested in many residential and commercial structures mostly in Minnesota. | American architect | 94 | 7 |
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Cecily Norden | Cecily Bourchier Norden was an author, senior horse judge, champion rider and exhibitor and stud breeder. | Equestrian and author | 92 | 9 |
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Jinx Falkenburg | Eugenia Lincoln "Jinx" Falkenburg was an American actress and model. | Model, actress, radio personality, columnist | 84 | 17 |
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Big Dee Irwin | DiFosco "Dee" T. Ervin Jr. , usually known professionally as Big Dee Irwin, was an American singer and songwriter whose biggest hit was a version of "Swinging on a Star" in 1963, recorded as a duet with Little Eva. | American singer | 63 | 25 |
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Johnny Lindell | John Harlan Lindell was an American professional baseball player who was an outfielder and pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1941 to 1950 and from 1953 to 1954 for the New York Yankees, St. | American baseball player | 68 | 35 |
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Haile Selassie | Haile Selassie I ; born Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. | Emperor of Ethiopia | 83 | 45 |
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Le Corbusier | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret , known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. | Swiss architect | 77 | 55 |
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Elfego Baca | Elfego Baca was a gunman, lawman, lawyer, and politician in New Mexico, during the later years of the New Mexico Territory frontier he became a American folk hero. | American sheriff | 80 | 75 |
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Emil Rachev | Emil Rachev was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a midfielder. | Bulgarian footballer | 28 | 2 | |
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Darryl Dawkins | Darryl R. Dawkins was an American professional basketball player. | American basketball playerr | 58 | 5 |
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Malcolm Browne | Malcolm Wilde Browne was an American journalist and photographer, best known for his award-winning photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963. | Photographer, journalist | 81 | 8 |
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Anton Geesink | Antonius Johannes Geesink was a Dutch 10th dan judoka. | Dutch judoka | 76 | 10 |
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Bob McKinlay | Robert McKinlay , known as Bob McKinlay or Bobby McKinlay, was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre half. | Scottish footballer | 69 | 18 |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan | Stephen Ray Vaughan was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock band Double Trouble. | American musician, singer, songwriter | 35 | 30 |
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Douglas Kenney | Douglas Clark Francis Kenney was an American comedy writer of magazine, novels, radio, TV and film who co-founded the magazine National Lampoon in 1970. | American comedy writer | 33 | 40 |
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Savel Rădulescu | Savel Rădulescu was a Romanian diplomat. He started his career in 1921 and worked as secretary of Nicolae Titulescu at the League of Nations. | Romanian diplomat | 84 | 50 |
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Douglas Ellington | Douglas Dobell Ellington was an American architect who is noted for his work in the Art Deco style. | American architect | 74 | 60 |
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Albert Smith | Albert Smith was an American politician, a judge and a U. | American politician | 65 | 150 |