Died on This Day (04-Oct)
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Diahann Carroll | Diahann Carroll was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. | American actress | 84 | 1 |
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Liam Cosgrave | Liam Cosgrave was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1973 to 1977, Leader of Fine Gael from 1965 to 1977, Leader of the Opposition from 1965 to 1973, Minister for External Affairs from 1954 to 1957, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Commerce and Government Chief Whip from 1948 to 1951. | Irish Fine Gael politician | 97 | 3 |
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Erhard Wunderlich | Erhard "Sepp" Wunderlich was a German handball player. | German handball player | 55 | 8 |
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Norman Wisdom | Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character that was often called Norman Pitkin. | English comedian and actor | 95 | 10 |
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Gordon Cooper | Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States. | American astronaut | 77 | 16 |
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Buddy Lester | William "Buddy" Lester was an American comedian and actor who played dozens of character roles in films and television. | American comedian and actor | 85 | 18 |
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Arturo García Buhr | Arturo García Buhr was an Argentine actor and film director. | Actor, Film director | 89 | 25 |
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Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria | Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria was the eldest daughter and third child of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his first wife Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma. | Bulgarian princess | 87 | 35 |
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May Sutton | May Godfrey Sutton was an American tennis player who was active during the first decades of the 20th century. | American tennis player | 89 | 45 |
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John Guthrie Tait | John "Jack" Guthrie Tait V.D. was a Scottish educator who became principal of the Central College of Bangalore prior to the First World War. | Rugby union player, amateur golfer, educator | 84 | 75 |
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Kevin Ellison | Kevin Marcus Ellison was an American football safety in the National Football League. | American footballer | 31 | 2 |
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Vo Nguyen Giap | Võ Nguyên Giáp was a Vietnamese general and communist politician who is regarded as having been one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century. | North Vietnamese commander | 102 | 7 |
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Doris Belack | Doris Belack was an American character actress of stage, film and television. | American character actress | 85 | 9 |
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Stanley K. Hathaway | Stanley Knapp Hathaway served as the 27th Governor of Wyoming from January 2, 1967 to January 6, 1975, and as United States Secretary of the Interior under President Gerald Ford from June to October, 1975. | American politician | 81 | 15 |
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Hanadi Jaradat | Hanadi Tayseer Abdul Malek Jaradat , a Palestinian fighter from Jenin, blew herself up on Saturday, October 4, 2003 in a suicide attack on Maxim restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. | Palestinian suicide bomber | 28 | 17 |
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Arthur Daniels | Arthur Harper Daniels was a Welsh rugby league footballer. | Welsh rugby league player | 79 | 19 |
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Jill Bennett | Nora Noel Jill Bennett was a British actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne. | English actress | 58 | 30 |
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László Szollás | László Szollás was a Hungarian world champion and Olympic medalist pair skater. | Figure skater | 72 | 40 |
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Janis Joplin | Janis Joplin was an American singer-songwriter who sang rock, soul, and blues music. | American musician | 27 | 50 |
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Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen was a Norwegian-American author and college professor. | American writer | 47 | 125 |