Died on This Day (22-Nov)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Stephen Cleobury | Sir Stephen John Cleobury CBE was an English organist and music director. | English organist and music director | 70 | 1 | |
Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky was a Russian operatic baritone. | Russian operatic baritone | 55 | 3 | |
Georges Lautner | Georges Lautner was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard. | French film director and screenwriter | 87 | 7 | |
Lynn Margulis | Lynn Margulis was an American evolutionary biologist, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. | American Biologist | 73 | 9 | |
Frank Gatski | Frank "Gunner" Gatski was an American professional football player who was a center for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference and the National Football League in the 1940s and 1950s. | American football player | 84 | 15 | |
Parley Baer | Parley Edward Baer was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. | American actor | 88 | 18 | |
Emil Zátopek | Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. | Czech long-distance runner | 78 | 20 | |
Gudolf Blakstad | Gudolf Blakstad was a Norwegian architect. He was noted for his work in the transition between neo-classicism and functionalism in Norwegian architecture. | Norwegian architect | 92 | 35 | |
Kevin Ellis | Sir Kevin William Collin Ellis KBE was an Australian politician and solicitor, elected as a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. | Australian politician | 67 | 45 | |
John Taber | John Taber was an American attorney and New York politician who represented parts of the Finger Lakes and Central New York regions in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1963. | Member of the US House of Representatives | 85 | 55 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Richard Philippe | Richard Philippe was a French racecar driver who resided in Miami, Florida. | French racecar driver | 28 | 2 | |
Kim Young-sam | Kim Young-sam was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the seventh president of South Korea from 1993 to 1998. | President of South Korea | 87 | 5 | |
Bryce Courtenay | Arthur Bryce Courtenay, AM was a South African-Australian advertising director and novelist. | Australian novelist | 79 | 8 | |
Len Lunde | Leonard Melvin Lunde was a professional ice hockey player who played 321 games in the National Hockey League and 72 games in the World Hockey Association. | Ice hockey player | 74 | 10 | |
Yuri Khukhrov | Yuri Dmitrievich Khukhrov was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg . | Russian artist | 71 | 17 | |
Mohammed Atef | Mohammed Atef was the military chief of al-Qaeda, and was considered one of Osama bin Laden's two deputies, the other being Ayman Al Zawahiri, although Atef's role in the organization was not well known by intelligence agencies for years. | Al-Qaida Leader | 83 | 19 | |
Benjamin H. Vandervoort | Benjamin Hayes "Vandy" Vandervoort was an officer of the United States Army, who fought with distinction in World War II. | United States Army officer | 73 | 30 | |
Mae West | Mae West was an American stage and film actress, playwright, screenwriter, singer, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned over seven decades. | Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol | 87 | 40 | |
Hideo Iwakuro | Hideo Iwakuro was a major general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. | Japanese general | 73 | 50 | |
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá | Anselmo Alliegro y Milá was a Cuban politician who served as the Interim President of Cuba for one day after the departure of the President, General Fulgencio Batista, from the country. | Prime Minister of Cuba | 60 | 60 |