Died on This Day (28-Oct)
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Kay Hagan | Janet Kay Hagan was an American lawyer, banking executive, and politician who served as a United States Senator from North Carolina from 2009 to 2015. | United States Senator | 66 | 1 |
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Nalini Ambady | Nalini Ambady was an Indian-American social psychologist and a leading expert on nonverbal behavior and interpersonal perception. | American social psychologist | 54 | 7 |
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Beryl Davis | Beryl Davis was a vocalist who sang with British and American big bands, as well as being an occasional featured vocalist at a very young age with the Quintette du Hot Club de France between 1936 and 1939. | British singer | 87 | 9 |
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Richard Smalley | Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. | American chemist | 62 | 15 |
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Lawrence Dobkin | Lawrence Dobkin was an American television director, character actor and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades. | American actor, director and screenwriter | 83 | 18 |
Josef Felder | Josef Felder was a German politician. He was one of the 94 Social Democratic members of the Reichstag who voted against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933. | German politician | 100 | 20 | |
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Ángel Zubieta | Ángel Zubieta Redondo was a Spanish football player and manager. | Argentine footballer | 67 | 35 |
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Georges Carpentier | Georges Carpentier was a French boxer, actor and World War I pilot. | French boxer | 81 | 45 |
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Thomas Alderson | Thomas Hopper Alderson GC was a British Air Raid Precautions warden in Bridlington, and the first person to be directly awarded the George Cross shortly after its creation in 1940. | British Air Raid Precautions (ARP) warden | 62 | 55 |
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Gilbert Emery | Gilbert Emery Bensley Pottle , known professionally as Gilbert Emery, was an American actor who appeared in over 80 movies from 1921 to his death in 1945. | American actor | 70 | 75 |
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Colin Sylvia | Colin Martin Sylvia was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League . | Australian rules football player | 32 | 2 |
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Merry Anders | Merry Anders was an American actress and model who appeared in a number of television programs and films from the 1950s until her retirement from the screen in 1972. | American actor | 80 | 8 |
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James MacArthur | James Gordon MacArthur was an American actor with a long career in both movies and television. | American actor | 72 | 10 |
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Maria Fiore | Maria Fiore was an Italian film and television actress. | Italian film and television actress | 69 | 16 |
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Carlos Betances Ramírez | The 65th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed "The Borinqueneers" during the Korean War for the original Taíno Indian name for Puerto Rico , is a Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army. | Recipient of the Purple Heart medal | 91 | 19 |
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Erich Göstl | Erich Göstl was a member of the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. | Member of the Waffen SS | 65 | 30 |
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Leon Janney | Leon Janney was an American actor and radio personality from 1920 to 1980. | American actor and radio personality | 63 | 40 |
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Kyōichi Sawada | Kyoichi Sawada was a Japanese photographer with United Press International who received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. | Japanese photojournalist | 34 | 50 |
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John Thomas Davies | John Thomas Davies VC was an English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that was awarded in the British Empire, and to this day in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 60 | 65 |
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Ceran St. Vrain | Ceran St. Vrain, born Ceran de Hault de Lassus de Saint-Vrain , was the son of a French aristocrat who immigrated to the Spanish Louisiana in the late 18th century; his mother was from St. | American fur trader | 68 | 150 |