Died on This Day (13-Dec)
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Richard G. Hatcher | Richard Gordon Hatcher was an American attorney and politician who served as the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana for 20 years, from 1968 to 1988. | American politician | 86 | 1 |
Bruce Gray | Bruce Gray was a Canadian actor, known for multiple roles in films and television shows for over 5 decades. | Puerto Rican-born Canadian actor | 81 | 3 | |
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Sian Blake | Sian Samantha Blake , also known by her stage name Syan Blake, was a British actress, best known for playing Frankie Pierre on the British television show EastEnders, appearing in 56 episodes in 1996–97. | British actress | 43 | 5 |
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Richard Holbrooke | Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author. | US Ambassador | 69 | 10 |
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Andre Rodgers | Kenneth Andre Ian Rodgers was a Major League Baseball shortstop who played for the New York / San Francisco Giants , Chicago Cubs , and Pittsburgh Pirates . | Major League Baseball shortstop | 70 | 16 |
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Zal Yanovsky | Zalman Yanovsky was a Canadian folk-rock musician. | Canadian rock musician | 57 | 18 |
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Anatoly Dyatlov | Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov was a Soviet engineer who was the deputy chief engineer for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. | Chernobyl deputy chief-engineer | 64 | 25 |
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Harm van Riel | Harm van Riel was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and businessman. | Dutch politician | 73 | 40 |
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Irma Grese | Irma Ilse Ida Grese was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. | German concentration camp guard | 22 | 75 |
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Ányos Jedlik | Ányos István Jedlik was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. | Hungarian physicist | 95 | 125 |
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Nancy Wilson | Nancy Sue Wilson was an American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. | American jazz singer and actress | 81 | 2 |
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Alan Thicke | Alan Thicke was a Canadian actor, songwriter, and game and talk show host. | Canadian actor and game show host | 69 | 4 |
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Vivian Kellogg | Vivian Caroline Kellogg ["Kelly"] was an American baseball player who played first base from 1944 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. | Female baseball League player | 91 | 7 |
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Stanley Williams | Stanley Tookie Williams III was an American gang member and spree killer who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles. | American criminal | 51 | 15 |
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William Roth | William Victor Roth Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. | United States Senator | 82 | 17 |
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Franz Josef Krombholz | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. | SS officer | 80 | 20 |
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Donald J. Russell | Donald Joseph McKay Russell was an American railroad executive. | Railroad executive | 85 | 35 |
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Chick Gandil | Charles Arnold "Chick" Gandil was a professional baseball player. | Major League Baseball first baseman | 82 | 50 |
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Bonifacio Flores Arevalo | Bonifacio Flores Arévalo was a Filipino ilustrado, dentist, sculptor, propagandist, and an ardent patron of music and theater. | Sculptor and patron of the arts | 70 | 100 |
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Ferenc Széchényi | Count Ferenc Széchényi of Sárvár-Felsovidék was a Hungarian nobleman and statesman, known for founding the Hungarian National Library and the National Museum in Budapest. | Hungarian philanthropist | 66 | 200 |