Died on This Day (26-Oct)
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Robert Evans | Robert Evans was an American film producer, studio executive, and actor, best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby , Love Story , The Godfather , and Chinatown . | American film producer | 89 | 1 |
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Ron Davies | Ron Davies, OBE was a Welsh photographer. | British photographer | 91 | 7 |
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Dave Cole | David Bruce Cole was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball for six seasons, between 1950 and 1955. | American baseball player | 81 | 9 |
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Bobby Ávila | Roberto Francisco Ávila González , known as "Beto" in Mexico and as "Bobby" in the United States, was a Mexican professional baseball second baseman. | Mexican baseball second baseman | 80 | 16 |
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Jacques Massu | Jacques Émile Massu was a French general who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez crisis. | French general | 94 | 18 |
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Laila Kinnunen | Laura “Laila” Annikki Kinnunen was a Finnish singer. | Finnish singer | 60 | 20 |
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William S. Paley | William Samuel Paley was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States. | Television executive | 89 | 30 |
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Marcelo Caetano | Marcelo José das Neves Alves Caetano GCTE GCC was a Portuguese politician and scholar. | Portuguese politician | 74 | 40 |
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Marcel Minnaert | Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert was a Dutch astronomer of Belgian origin. | Belgian astronomer | 77 | 50 |
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Paul Pelliot | Paul Eugène Pelliot was a French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and his discovery of many important Chinese texts such as the Dunhuang manuscripts. | French sinologist | 67 | 75 |
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Oscar Taveras | Oscar Francisco Taveras was a Dominican–Canadian professional baseball outfielder who played one season for the St. | Dominican-Canadian baseball outfielder | 22 | 6 |
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Björn Sieber | Björn Sieber was an Austrian alpine skier. Sieber won two medals at the world junior championships, a silver in giant slalom in 2009, and bronze in super-G in 2008. | Austrian alpine skier | 23 | 8 |
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Ana María Romero de Campero | Ana María Romero de Campero was a Bolivian journalist, writer, activist and influential public figure in her country. | President of the Senate of Bolivia | 69 | 10 |
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Hans-Joachim Jabs | Hans-Joachim Jabs was an officer in the German Luftwaffe during World War II. | German flying ace | 85 | 17 |
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Abdul Haq | Abdul Haq was an Afghan mujahideen commander who fought against the Soviet-backed People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, the de facto Afghan government in the 1980s. | Afghan leader | 43 | 19 |
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Georgia Neese Clark | Georgia Neese Clark Gray was an American actress and banker who served as the 29th treasurer of the United States from 1949 to 1953, and was the first woman to hold that office. | American actress and banker | 97 | 25 |
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Bob Scheffing | Robert Boden Scheffing was an American professional baseball player, coach, manager and front-office executive. | American baseball player and coach | 72 | 35 |
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John J. Rooney | John James Rooney was a Democratic politician from New York. | American politician | 71 | 45 |
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Sylvia Likens | Sylvia Marie Likens was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. | American murder victim | 16 | 55 |
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Alexander Watson | Alexander Watson was a Scottish first-class cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club. | English cricketer | 75 | 100 |