Died on This Day (10-Oct)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Paul Polak | Paul Polak was the co-founder and CEO of Windhorse International, a for-profit social venture with the mission of inspiring and leading a revolution in how companies design, price, market and distribute products to benefit the 2. | American entrepreneur | 88 | 1 | |
Scott Carpenter | Malcolm Scott Carpenter was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. | NASA astronaut | 88 | 7 | |
Jagjit Singh | Jagjit Singh was an Indian composer, singer and musician. | Musician, Singer | 70 | 9 | |
Milton Obote | Apollo Milton Obote was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence from British colonial rule in 1962. | Prime Minister of Uganda | 80 | 15 | |
Bruce Vento | Bruce Frank Vento was an American politician, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 until his death in 2000, representing Minnesota's 4th congressional district. | US Representative | 60 | 20 | |
Irene Mayer Selznick | Irene Gladys Selznick was an American socialite and theatrical producer. | American theatre producer | 83 | 30 | |
Billie Thomas | William "Billie" Thomas Jr. was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang short films from 1934 until the series' end in 1944. | Film actor | 49 | 40 | |
Édouard Daladier | Édouard Daladier was a French Radical-Socialist politician, and the Prime Minister of France who signed the Munich Agreement before the outbreak of World War II. | Prime Minister of France | 86 | 50 | |
Meri Te Tai Mangakahia | Meri Te Tai Mangakahia was a campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand, who inspired future generations of Maori women. | New Zealand suffragist | 52 | 100 | |
Wilson Cary Nicholas | Wilson Cary Nicholas was an American politician who served in the U. | American politician | 59 | 200 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Mary Midgley | Mary Beatrice Midgley was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights. | British philosopher | 99 | 2 | |
Basil L. Plumley | Basil Leonard Plumley was a career soldier and airborne combat infantryman in the United States Army who rose to the rank of command sergeant major. | United States Army soldier | 92 | 8 | |
Joan Sutherland | Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. | Australian opera singer | 83 | 10 | |
Christopher Reeve | Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, best known for playing the titular character in the film Superman and its first three sequels. | American Superman actor | 52 | 16 | |
Robert Finch | Robert Hutchinson Finch was a Republican politician from La Canada Flintridge, California. | Republican politician | 70 | 25 | |
Orson Welles | George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. | American director, actor, screenwriter | 70 | 35 | |
Gustav von Vaerst | Gustav von Vaerst was a German general during World War II. | German general | 81 | 45 | |
Karl Emil Scherz | Karl Emil Scherz was a German architect and local historian of Blasewitz. | German historian and academic | 85 | 75 | |
Mordecai Bartley | Mordecai Bartley was a Whig politician from northeastern Ohio. | American politician | 86 | 150 | |
Antoine Coysevox | Charles Antoine Coysevox , was a French sculptor in the Baroque and Louis XIV style, best known for his sculpture decorating the gardens and Palace of Versailles and his portrait busts. | French artist | 80 | 300 |