Died on This Day (16-Sep)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Sander Vanocur | Sander "Sandy" Vanocur was an American television journalist who focused on U. | American television journalist | 91 | 1 |
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Edward Albee | Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , A Delicate Balance , and Three Tall Women . | American playwright | 88 | 4 |
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Friedrich Zimmermann | Friedrich Zimmermann was a German politician and a member of the Christian Social Union . | Federal Minister of Transport | 87 | 8 |
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George N. Parks | George N. Parks was the director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band at University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1977 until 2010. | American conductor | 57 | 10 |
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Sheb Wooley | Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley was an American singer, songwriter, actor and comedian. | American actor-singer | 82 | 17 |
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Samuel Z. Arkoff | Samuel Zachary Arkoff was an American producer of B movies. | American producer of B movies | 83 | 19 |
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Rudolf Wild | Rudolf Wild was a German entrepreneur, and the founder of WILD, a producer of natural ingredients for food products and beverages. | German businessman | 91 | 25 |
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Jean Piaget | Jean William Fritz Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. | Swiss philosopher | 84 | 40 |
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David Young Cameron | Sir David Young Cameron RA was a Scottish painter and, with greater success, etcher, mostly of townscapes and landscapes in both cases. | British artist | 80 | 75 |
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Alphonse Balat | Alphonse Hubert François Balat was a Belgian architect. | Belgian architect | 77 | 125 |
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Kevin Beattie | Thomas Kevin Beattie was an English footballer. Born into poverty, he played at both professional and international levels, mostly as a centre-half. | English footballer | 64 | 2 |
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Chin Peng | Chin Peng , born Ong Boon Hua, was a Malayan communist politician, anti-fascist activist and long-time leader of the Malayan Communist Party and the Malayan National Liberation Army . | Malaysian politician | 88 | 7 |
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Brian Burnett | Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Kenyon Burnett, GCB, DFC, AFC, ADC was a senior Royal Air Force officer who became Air Secretary and served as the last Commander-in-Chief of Far East Command. | Royal Air Force air marshals | 98 | 9 |
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Gordon Gould | Gordon Gould was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier. | American inventor | 85 | 15 |
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James Gregory | James Gregory was an American character actor known for his deep, gravelly voice and playing brash roles such as Schaffer in Al Capone , the McCarthy-like Sen. | American character actor | 90 | 18 |
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Ioan Alexandru | Ioan Alexandru was a Romanian poet, essayist and politician. | Romanian poet | 58 | 20 |
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Art Scholl | Arthur Everett Scholl was an American aerobatic pilot, aerial cameraman, flight instructor and educator based in Riverside, Southern California. | American acrobatic pilot | 53 | 35 |
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Jack Thomas Counter | Jack Thomas Counter VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 71 | 50 |
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Dan Andersson | Dan Andersson was a Swedish author, poet, and composer. | Swedish author, poet and composer | 32 | 100 |
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William Penn | Sir William Penn was an English admiral and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1670. | Royal Navy admiral | 49 | 350 |