Died on This Day (01-Sep)
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Randy Weston | Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection. | American jazz pianist and composer | 92 | 2 |
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Jon Polito | Jon Raymond Polito was an American character actor. | American character actor and voice artist | 65 | 4 |
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Tommy Morrison | Tommy "The Duke" Morrison was an American professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2008, and held the WBO heavyweight title in 1993. | American heavyweight boxer | 44 | 7 |
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Kamal Salibi | Kamal Suleiman Salibi was a Lebanese historian, professor of history at the American University of Beirut and the founding Director of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman, Jordan. | Lebanese historian | 82 | 9 |
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R. L. Burnside | R. L. Burnside was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. | American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist | 78 | 15 |
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Ramón Serrano Súñer | Ramón Serrano Suñer , was a Spanish politician during the first stages of the Francoist dictatorship, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the FET y de las JONS caucus , and then Interior Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. | Spanish politician | 101 | 17 |
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Geir Hallgrímsson | Geir Hallgrímsson was the prime minister of Iceland for the Independence Party from 28 August 1974 to 1 September 1978. | Prime Minister of Iceland | 64 | 30 |
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Xavier Thaninayagam | Reverend Xavier S. Thani Nayagam was a Tamil scholar known for setting up the International Association for Tamil Research and organising the first World Tamil Conference. | Tamil scholar | 67 | 40 |
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Frank Craven | Frank Craven was an American stage and film actor, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for originating the role of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town. | US film actor, writer, director | 64 | 75 |
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Joseph Anton von Maffei | Joseph Anton von Maffei was a German industrialist. | German industrialist | 79 | 150 |
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Cormac Murphy-O'Connor | Cormac Murphy-O'Connor was a British cardinal, the Archbishop of Westminster and president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. | Archbishop of Westminster | 85 | 3 |
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Dean Jones | Dean Carroll Jones was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Agent Zeke Kelso in That Darn Cat! , Jim Douglas in The Love Bug and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo and Dr. | American actor | 84 | 5 |
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Hal David | Harold Lane David was an American lyricist. He grew up in New York City. | American lyricist and songwriter | 91 | 8 |
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Cammie King | Eleanore Cammack "Cammie" King was an American former actress and public relations officer. | American child actress and PR officer | 76 | 10 |
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Chan Tai San | Chan Tai San was a Chinese martial arts grandmaster. | Chinese martial artist | 84 | 16 |
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María de la Cruz | María de la Cruz Toledo was a Chilean political activist for Women's suffrage, a journalist, a writer, and a political commentator. | Chilean activist | 82 | 25 |
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Saunders Lewis | Saunders Lewis was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. | British writer | 91 | 35 |
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François Mauriac | François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française , and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature . | French writer | 84 | 50 |
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Marshall McDonald | Marshall McDonald was an American engineer, geologist, mineralogist, pisciculturist, and fisheries scientist. | American engineer | 59 | 125 |
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Samuel Hood Linzee | Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood Linzee was an admiral of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. | British admiral | 46 | 200 |