Died on This Day (08-Nov)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Thích Trí Quang | Thích Trí Quang was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk best known for his role in leading South Vietnam's Buddhist population during the Buddhist crisis in 1963, and in later Buddhist protests against subsequent South Vietnamese military regimes until the Buddhist Uprising of 1966 was crushed. | Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk | 1 | ||
Antonio Carluccio | Antonio Carluccio, OBE OMRI was an Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert, based in London. | Italian chef | 80 | 3 | |
Lee MacPhail | Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr. was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball. | American baseball executive | 95 | 8 | |
Emilio Eduardo Massera | Emilio Eduardo Massera was an Argentine Naval military officer, and a leading participant in the Argentine coup d'état of 1976. | Argentine military officer | 85 | 10 | |
Ed Kemmer | Ed Kemmer was an American motion picture and television actor. | American motion picture and television actor | 84 | 16 | |
Anno Birkin | Alexander Kingdom Nik-o "Anno" Birkin was an English poet and musician. | British musician and poet | 20 | 19 | |
Veselin Petrović | Veselin Petrovic was a Serbian cyclist. | Serbian racing cyclist and cycle racing executive | 66 | 25 | |
Claudio Bincaz | Claudio Bincaz was an Argentine sportsman who competed in sailing, association football and rugby union for the Club Atlético San Isidro during the decade of 1920. | Sportsman | 83 | 40 | |
George Russell Boucher | George Russell Boucher was a Canadian politician and barrister. | Canadian politician | 70 | 50 | |
Abraham Kuyper | Abraham Kuyper was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist theologian and a journalist. | Dutch politician | 83 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Wallace Triplett | Wallace Triplett was a professional American football player, the first African-American draftee to play for a National Football League team. | American football player | 92 | 2 | |
Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam | Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam , better known and credited by his initials AVS, was an Indian actor, comedian, producer, director, and journalist known for his works in Telugu cinema. | Indian actor | 56 | 7 | |
Herbert S. Okun | Herbert Stuart Okun was a United States Ambassador to East Germany and the Deputy U. | American diplomat | 80 | 9 | |
Robert Eugene Bush | Robert Eugene Bush , at age 18, was the youngest member of the United States Navy in World War II to receive the nation's highest military decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor. | United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient | 79 | 15 | |
Geoffrey Howard | Cecil Geoffrey Howard was an English cricketer and cricket administrator. | English cricketer | 93 | 18 | |
John Levitow | John Lee Levitow was a United States Air Force Loadmaster who received the Medal of Honor for exceptional heroism during wartime. | United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient | 55 | 20 | |
Jacques Hnizdovsky | Jacques Hnizdovsky , was a Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, graphicdesigner, illustrator and sculptor. | American artist | 70 | 35 | |
Esther Vilenska | Esther Vilenska was a Lithuanian Jewish Israeli communist politician, journalist and author who served as a member of the Knesset for Maki between 1951 and 1959 and then again from 1961 to 1965. | Israeli politician | 57 | 45 | |
August von Mackensen | Anton Ludwig Friedrich August von Mackensen , ennobled as "von Mackensen" in 1899, was a German field marshal. | German general | 95 | 75 | |
Friedrich Gottlob Keller | Friedrich Gottlob Keller was a German machinist and inventor, who invented the wood pulp process for use in papermaking. | German machinist and inventor | 79 | 125 |