Died on This Day (31-Aug)
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Alec Holowka | Alec Holowka was a Canadian indie game developer and co-founder of independent game companies Infinite Ammo, Infinite Fall, and Bit Blot. | Canadian video game developer | 35 | 1 |
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Ann Jellicoe | Patricia Ann Jellicoe was a British playwright, theatre director and actress. | British playwright, theatre director and actress | 90 | 3 |
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David Frost | Sir David Paradine Frost was a British television host, journalist, comedian and writer. | English journalist | 74 | 7 |
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Wade Belak | Wade William Belak was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and defenceman. | Canadian ice hockey player | 35 | 9 |
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Michael Sheard | Michael Sheard was a Scottish character actor who featured in many films and television programmes, and was known for playing villains. | Scottish character actor | 67 | 15 |
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Connie Hill | Conrad Ralph "Connie" Hill was a Canadian ice hockey player and professor of journalism and advertising. | Canadian ice hockey player | 83 | 19 |
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David Farrar | David Farrar was an English stage and film actor. His film roles include as the male lead in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus , The Small Back Room and Gone to Earth . | British actor | 87 | 25 |
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Morris Ginsberg | Morris Ginsberg FBA was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline. | British sociologist | 81 | 50 |
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Stefan Banach | Stefan Banach ; 30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the world's most important and influential 20th-century mathematicians. | Polish mathematician | 53 | 75 |
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George Rogers Harding | Judge George Rogers Harding was a Queensland judge and the founder of the Ashgrove locality St Johns Wood, in Brisbane, Australia. | Australian judge | 56 | 125 |
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Gloria Jean | Gloria Jean was an American actress and singer who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films from 1939 to 1959, and made numerous radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances. | American actress and singer | 92 | 2 | |
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Lord Montagu | Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu , was an English Conservative politician well known in Great Britain for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivotal cause célèbre in British gay history following his 1954 conviction and imprisonment for homosexual sex, a charge he denied. | English Conservative politician | 88 | 5 |
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Max Bygraves | Walter William Bygraves , best known by the stage name Max Bygraves , was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. | Comedian | 89 | 8 |
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Laurent Fignon | Laurent Patrick Fignon was a French professional road bicycle racer who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and the Giro d'Italia in 1989. | French cyclist | 50 | 10 |
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Lionel Hampton | Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. | American jazz musician | 94 | 18 |
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Joan Hartigan | Joan Marcia Bathurst was an Australian Champion tennis player. | Australian tennis player | 88 | 20 |
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Frank Macfarlane Burnet | Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, , usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology. | Australian virologist | 85 | 35 |
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Willi Baumeister | Willi Baumeister was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. | German painter, scenic designer, and typographer | 66 | 65 |
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Wilhelm Wundt | Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the fathers of modern psychology. | German psychologist | 88 | 100 |
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John F. Appleton | John Francis Appleton was a lawyer and Union colonel in the American Civil War from the state of Maine who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers. | Union Army general | 32 | 150 |