Died on This Day (06-Dec)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Ron Leibman | Ron Leibman was an American actor. He won both the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play in 1993 for his performance as Roy Cohn in Angels in America. | American actor | 82 | 1 | |
Johnny Hallyday | Jean-Philippe Léo Smet , better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France. | French pop singer and actor | 74 | 3 | |
Peeter Mudist | Peeter Mudist was an Estonian painter, sculptor, and print-maker whose works have received multiple awards. | Estonian artist | 71 | 7 | |
Dobie Gray | Dobie Gray was an American singer and songwriter whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop, and musical theater. | American singer and songwriter | 71 | 9 | |
Charly Gaul | Charly Gaul /'ga?l/ was a Luxembourgian professional cyclist. | Luxembourgian racing cyclist | 72 | 15 | |
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio | Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio was President of Guatemala from 1970 to 1974. | President of Guatemala | 85 | 17 | |
James Reston | James Barrett Reston , nicknamed "Scotty", was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. | American journalist | 86 | 25 | |
Burleigh Grimes | Burleigh Arland Grimes was an American professional baseball player and manager, and the last pitcher officially permitted to throw the spitball. | American baseball player and coach | 92 | 35 | |
Pierre Bost | Pierre Bost was a French screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. | French writer | 74 | 45 | |
Bedford Brown | Bedford Brown was a Democratic United States Senator from the State of North Carolina between 1829 and 1840. | North Carolina politician | 75 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Pete Shelley | Pete Shelley was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. | English singer, songwriter and guitarist | 63 | 2 | |
Adolf Burger | Adolf Burger was a Slovak Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. | Holocaust survivor | 99 | 4 | |
Huw Lloyd-Langton | Richard Hugh "Huw" Lloyd-Langton was an English musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band Hawkwind at various times. | English guitarist | 61 | 8 | |
James Thomas Lynn | James Thomas Lynn was an American cabinet officer and government official. | American politician | 83 | 10 | |
Adrian Morris | Adrian Grant Morris was an English painter. | English painter | 75 | 16 | |
Werner Klemperer | Werner Klemperer was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969. | American actor and musician | 80 | 20 | |
Tunku Abdul Rahman | Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah was a Malaysian statesman and lawyer who served as the 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia and the head of government of its predecessor states from 1955 to 1970. | Prime Minister of Malaysia | 87 | 30 | |
Sir Reginald Graham | Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, 3rd Baronet, VC, OBE was a British businessman, army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 88 | 40 | |
Leandro Faggin | Leandro Faggin was an Italian racing cyclist, Olympic champion and world champion in track cycling. | Italian track cyclist | 37 | 50 | |
Neri Maria Corsini | Neri Maria Corsini was an Italian nobleman and Catholic priest and cardinal. | Italian Catholic priest and cardinal | 85 | 250 |