Died on This Day (09-Oct)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Andrés Gimeno | Andrés Gimeno Tolaguera was a Spanish tennis player. | Spanish tennis player | 82 | 1 |
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Jean Rochefort | Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort was a French actor. He received many accolades during his career, including an Honorary César in 1999. | French actor | 87 | 3 |
Gordon Honeycombe | Ronald Gordon Honeycombe , known professionally as Gordon Honeycombe, was a British newscaster, author, playwright and stage actor. | British newscaster | 79 | 5 | |
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Wilfried Martens | Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens s]; 19 April 1936 – 9 October 2013) was a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 1979 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1992. | Prime Minister of Belgium | 77 | 7 |
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Jakkampudi Rammohan Rao | Jakkampudi Rammohan Rao was a three-term member of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh for Kadiyam constituency, winning elections in 1989, 1999 and 2004 as an Indian National Congress candidate. | Indian politician | 58 | 9 |
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Louis Nye | Louis Nye was an American comedic actor. He was an entertainer to the troops during World War II and is best known for his work on countless television, film and radio programs. | American actor | 92 | 15 |
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Kukrit Pramoj | Mom Rajawongse Kukrit Pramoj was a Thai politician, scholar and professor. | Prime Minister of Thailand | 84 | 25 |
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Emílio Garrastazu Médici | Emílio Garrastazu Médici si]; 4 December 1905 – 9 October 1985) was a Brazilian military leader and politician who was the president of Brazil from 1969 to 1974. | President of Brazil | 79 | 35 |
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Carl W. Ackerman | Carl William Ackerman was an American journalist, author and educational administrator, the first dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. | American journalist | 80 | 50 |
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Thomas Long | Thomas Long was an Ontario merchant and political figure. | Canadian politician | 84 | 100 |
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Thomas A. Steitz | Thomas Arthur Steitz was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, best known for his pioneering work on the ribosome. | American biochemist | 78 | 2 |
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Andrzej Wajda | Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. | Polish film and theatre director | 90 | 4 |
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Jan Hooks | Janet Vivian Hooks was an American actress and comedian, best known for her work on Saturday Night Live, where she was a repertory player from 1986 to 1991 and continued making cameo appearances until 1994. | American actress and comedian | 57 | 6 |
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Kenny Rollins | Kenneth Herman Rollins was an American professional basketball player. | Basketball player | 89 | 8 |
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Maurice Allais | Maurice Félix Charles Allais was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources", along with John Hicks and Paul Samuelson , to neoclassical synthesis. | French economist | 99 | 10 |
David Dukes | David Coleman Dukes was an American character actor. | American actor | 55 | 20 | |
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Boris Paichadze | Boris Paichadze was a Georgian footballer, who played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi. | Georgian footballer | 75 | 30 |
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Bolesław Bronisław Duch | Boleslaw Bronislaw Duch was a Polish Major General and General Inspector of the Armed Forces. | Polish general | 94 | 40 |
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Alfred Ost | Alfred Ost was a Belgian artist. In 1920 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his painting Joueur de Football . | Belgian artist | 61 | 75 |
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Thomas Keith | Thomas Keith FRCSEd was a Victorian surgeon and amateur photographer from Scotland. | British photographer | 68 | 125 |