Died on This Day (08-Dec)
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Caroll Spinney | Caroll Edwin Spinney was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author, artist and speaker, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street from its inception in 1969 until 2018. | American puppeteer | 85 | 1 |
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John Glenn | John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. | American aviator, engineer, astronaut | 95 | 4 |
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Don Mitchell | Don Michael Mitchell was an American actor, best known for appearing with Raymond Burr in the NBC television series Ironside . | American actor | 70 | 7 |
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Murray Armstrong | Murray Alexander Armstrong was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and National Collegiate Athletic Association ice hockey Head Coach. | Canadian ice hockey player | 94 | 10 |
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Darrell Abbott | Darrell Lance Abbott , best known by his stage name Dimebag Darrell, was an American musician. | Dimebag Darrell | 38 | 16 |
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Julian C. Dixon | Julian Carey Dixon was an American politician from the state of California serving from 1979 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles, California in 2000. | American politician | 66 | 20 |
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Bill Wambsganss | William Adolf Wambsganss was a second baseman in Major League Baseball. | American baseball player | 91 | 35 |
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Thor Bjørklund | Thor Bjørklund was a Norwegian inventor and businessman. | Norwegian inventor and businessman | 86 | 45 |
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Hermann Weyl | Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher. | German mathematician | 70 | 65 |
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George Augustus Henry Sala | George Augustus Henry Fairfield Sala was an author and journalist who wrote extensively for the Illustrated London News as G. | British journalist | 67 | 125 |
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David Weatherall | Sir David John Weatherall, was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine. | British geneticist | 85 | 2 |
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Douglas Tompkins | Douglas Rainsford Tompkins was an American businessman, conservationist, outdoorsman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and agriculturalist. | American conservationist | 72 | 5 |
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Ambrose Madtha | Ambrose Madtha was the Roman Catholic archbishop and the Nuncio to Ivory Coast. | Roman Catholic archbishop | 57 | 8 |
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Georgiy Zhzhonov | Georgiy Stepanovich Zhzhonov , was a Soviet actor and writer. | Russian actor/writer | 90 | 15 |
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Maurice Gross | Maurice Gross was a French linguist and scholar of Romance languages. | French linguist | 67 | 19 |
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Tadeusz Kantor | Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. | Polish artist | 75 | 30 |
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John Lennon | John Winston Ono Lennon was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as the founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. | Beetles Musician | 40 | 40 |
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Christopher Kelk Ingold | Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. | British chemist | 77 | 50 |
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Alexander Siloti | Alexander Ilyich Siloti was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. | Composer and pianist | 82 | 75 |
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Louis Philogène Brûlart | Louis Philogène Brulart, Comte de Sillery and Marquis de Puysieux was a French diplomat and nobleman who served as Foreign Minister from 1747 to 1751 but was forced to retire due to ill-health. | French politician | 68 | 250 |