Died on This Day (04-Dec)
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Bob Willis | Robert George Dylan Willis was an English cricketer, who played for Surrey, Warwickshire, Northern Transvaal and England. | English cricketer | 70 | 1 |
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Ali Abdullah Saleh | Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar was a Yemeni politician who served as the first President of Yemen, from Yemeni unification on 22 May 1990 to his resignation on 25 February 2012, following the Yemeni Revolution. | President of Yemen | 75 | 3 |
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Robert Loggia | Salvatore "Robert" Loggia was an American actor and director. | American actor and director | 85 | 5 |
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Joana Raspall i Juanola | Joana Raspall i Juanola was a Spanish writer and librarian. | Catalan writer | 100 | 7 |
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Dev Anand | Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand , better known as Dev Anand, was an Indian film actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema, through a career that spanned over six decades. | Actor, producer, director | 88 | 9 |
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Jacob Pins | Jacob Otto Pins was a German-born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector, particularly of Japanese prints and paintings. | Israeli artist | 88 | 15 |
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Roel Wiersma | Roel Wiersma was a Dutch footballer, who most notably played for PSV Eindhoven and the Netherlands national team. | Dutch footballer | 63 | 25 |
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Forest Sale | Forest E. "Aggie" Sale was an American college basketball player at the University of Kentucky from 1930–31 to 1932–33. | All-American basketball player | 74 | 35 |
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Thomas Hunt Morgan | Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. | American biologist | 79 | 75 |
Elihu Embree | Elihu Embree was an abolitionist and the publisher of the first newspaper in the United States devoted exclusively to the cause of abolishing slavery. | American abolitionist | 38 | 200 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg | Selma Engel-Wijnberg was one of only two Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivors of the Sobibor extermination camp. | Holocaust survivor | 96 | 2 |
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Patricia Robins | Patricia Robins was a British writer of short stories and over 80 novels mainly romances from 1934 to 2016, she also signed under the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer, she had sold more than ten million copies. | British romance novelist | 95 | 4 |
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Jeremy Thorpe | John Jeremy Thorpe was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for North Devon from 1959 to 1979, and as leader of the Liberal Party between 1967 and 1976. | British Liberal politcian | 85 | 6 |
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Hilmar Moore | Hilmar Guenther Moore was an American rancher and long-time Mayor of Richmond, Texas. | American politician | 92 | 8 |
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Abul Fateh | Abul Fateh was a Bangladeshi diplomat, statesman and Sufi who was one of the founding fathers of South Asian diplomacy after the Second World War, having been the founder and inaugural Director of Pakistan's Foreign Service Academy and subsequently becoming Bangladesh's first Foreign Secretary when it gained its independence in 1971. | Pakistani diplomat | 86 | 10 |
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Colin Cowdrey | Michael Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, was an English first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University , Kent County Cricket Club and England . | English cricketer | 67 | 20 |
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Edward Binns | Edward Binns was an American stage, film and television actor. | American actor | 74 | 30 |
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Norman Tunna | Norman Tunna , a shunter for the Great Western Railway in Birkenhead was awarded the George Cross in 1941. | Recipient of the George Cross | 62 | 50 |
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Elizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone | Elizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone was an American pioneer woman who was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1988. | American pioneer | 94 | 125 |
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Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst | Emilie Antonia of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst , was Princess consort of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and then regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt during the minority of her son Albert Anton from 1646 to 1662. | Regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1646-1662) | 56 | 350 |