Died on This Day (06-Dec)
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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 | |
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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 |
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Peeter Mudist | Peeter Mudist was an Estonian painter, sculptor, and print-maker whose works have received multiple awards. | Estonian artist | 71 | 7 |
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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 |
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Charly Gaul | Charly Gaul was a Luxembourgian professional cyclist. | Luxembourgian racing cyclist | 72 | 15 |
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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 | |
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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 |
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Pierre Bost | Pierre Bost was a French screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. | French writer | 74 | 45 |
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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 |
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Pete Shelley | Pete Shelley was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. | English singer, songwriter and guitarist | 63 | 2 |
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Adolf Burger | Adolf Burger was a Slovak Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. | Holocaust survivor | 99 | 4 |
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Huw Lloyd-Langton | Richard Hugh "Huw" Lloyd-Langton was an English guitarist, best known as the guitarist for Hawkwind at various times. | English guitarist | 61 | 8 |
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James Thomas Lynn | James Thomas Lynn was an American cabinet officer and government official. | American politician | 83 | 10 |
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Adrian Morris | Adrian Grant Morris was an English painter. | English painter | 75 | 16 |
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Werner Klemperer | Werner Klemperer was a German-American actor, stage entertainer, and singer. | American actor and musician | 80 | 20 |
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Tunku Abdul Rahman | Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah was a Malaysian statesman who served as the head of government of Malaysia and its predecessor states from 1955 to 1970. | Prime Minister of Malaysia | 87 | 30 |
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Sir Reginald Graham | Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, 3rd Baronet, 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 |
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Leandro Faggin | Leandro Faggin was an Italian racing cyclist, Olympic champion and world champion in track cycling. | Italian track cyclist | 37 | 50 |
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Neri Maria Corsini | Neri Maria Corsini was an Italian nobleman and Catholic priest and cardinal. | Italian Catholic priest and cardinal | 85 | 250 |