Died on This Day (05-Nov)
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Ernest J. Gaines | Ernest James Gaines was an American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. | American author | 86 | 1 |
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Marek Svatoš | Marek Svatoš was a Slovak professional ice hockey winger. | Slovak ice hockey winger | 34 | 4 |
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Leonardo Favio | Fuad Jorge Jury , better known by his stage name Leonardo Favio , was an Argentine singer, actor and filmmaker. | Actor, film director | 74 | 8 |
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Jill Clayburgh | Jill Clayburgh was an American actress known for her work in theater, television, and cinema. | American actress | 66 | 10 |
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Bobby Hatfield | Robert Lee Hatfield was an American singer. He and Bill Medley were the Righteous Brothers. | American singer | 63 | 17 |
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Jimmie Davis | James Houston Davis was an American politician, singer and songwriter of both sacred and popular songs. | Governor of Louisiana | 101 | 20 |
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Meir Kahane | Meir David HaKohen Kahane was an American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset before later being convicted of acts of terrorism. | American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi | 58 | 30 |
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Julian C. Smith | Julian Constable Smith was a United States Marine Corps general who served for 37 years, including service in Nicaragua and during World War II's Battle of Tarawa . | United States Marine Corps general | 90 | 45 |
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Ward Bond | Wardell Edwin Bond was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 200 films and starred in the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1960. | American film character actor | 57 | 60 |
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Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa | Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa of Japan, was the second head of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family. | Japanese politician | 48 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Nancy Friday | Nancy Colbert Friday was an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. | American female sexuality author | 84 | 3 | |
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Habibollah Asgaroladi | Habibollah Asgaroladi Mosalman was a leading senior Iranian conservative and principlist politician who was the leader of Islamic Coalition Party, a highly influential conservative political party in Iran. | Iranian politician | 81 | 7 |
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Bhupen Hazarika | Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor, filmmaker and politician from Assam, widely known as Sudha Kontho . | Indian singer, poet, director and composer | 85 | 9 |
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John Fowles | John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. | English novelist | 79 | 15 |
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Ramon Abellana | Dr. Ramon Alcoseba Abellana was a Cebuano sculptor and composer from Carcar. | Filipino painter | 90 | 19 |
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Ernest Gellner | Ernest André Gellner FRAI was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph, when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by The Independent as a "one-man crusader for critical rationalism". | Czech philosopher | 69 | 25 |
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Joachim Schubach | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. | SS officer | 70 | 40 |
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Dave Robertson | Davis Aydelotte Robertson was an American professional baseball player. | American baseball player | 81 | 50 |
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Maurice Utrillo | Maurice Utrillo , born Maurice Valadon; 26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955), was a French painter of School of Paris who specialized in cityscapes. | French painter | 71 | 65 |
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William Hume Blake | William Hume Blake, QC was an Irish-Canadian jurist and politician. | Canadian judge | 61 | 150 |