Died on This Day (18-Dec)
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Kenny Lynch | Kenneth Lynch, OBE was an English singer, songwriter, entertainer, and actor. | English singer | 81 | 1 |
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Arseny Roginsky | Arseny Borisovich Roginsky was a Soviet dissident and Russian historian. | Soviet dissident | 71 | 3 |
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Ronnie Biggs | Ronald Arthur Biggs was an English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. | Train robber | 84 | 7 |
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Václav Havel | Václav Havel OC was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. | President of the Czech Republic | 75 | 9 |
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Belita | Belita Jepson-Turner , known professionally as Belita, was a British Olympic figure skater, dancer and film actress. | British figure skater and actress | 82 | 15 |
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Charles Berlitz | Charles Frambach Berlitz was an American polyglot, language teacher and writer, known for his language-learning courses and his books on paranormal phenomena. | American linguist | 90 | 17 |
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Stan Fox | Stanley Cole Fuchs , known professionally as Stan Fox , was an American open wheel race car driver. | American racing driver | 48 | 20 |
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Paul Tortelier | Paul Tortelier was a French cellist and composer. After an outstanding student career at the Conservatoire de Paris he played in orchestras in France and the US before the Second World War. | French cellist and composer | 76 | 30 |
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Alexei Kosygin | Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin ?v??t? k?'s?g??n]; 21 February [O. | Soviet politician | 76 | 40 |
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C.H. Middleton | Cecil Henry Middleton was a British gardener, writer and one of the earliest radio and television broadcasters on gardening for the BBC. | Author and TV host about gardening | 59 | 75 |
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Wendy Ramshaw | David Charles Henshaw Austin OBE was a British rose breeder and writer who lived in Shropshire, England. | British rose breeder and writer | 92 | 2 |
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Zsa Zsa Gabor | Zsa Zsa Gabor was a Hungarian-American socialite and actress. | Hungarian-American actress and socialite | 99 | 4 |
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Anatoliy Zayaev | Anatoliy Zayaev was a Soviet football player and a Ukrainian coach. | Ukrainian football manager | 81 | 8 |
Clay Cole | Clay Cole was an American host and disk jockey, best known for his eponymous television dance program, The Clay Cole Show, which aired in New York City on WNTA-TV and WPIX-TV from 1959 to 1968. | American DJ and television host | 72 | 10 | |
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Albert Nordengen | Albert Nordengen was a Norwegian banker and politician with the Conservative Party. | Norwegian politician | 81 | 16 |
Bert Millichip | Sir Frederick Albert Millichip was an English association footballer best known for his sometimes controversial contributions to the administration of the game. | Football authority | 88 | 18 | |
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Konrad Zuse | Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. | German engineer | 85 | 25 |
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Joseph Janse | Joseph Janse , was the third child of Jan Pieter and Gertrude Janse. | American chiropracter | 76 | 35 |
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Theodosius Dobzhansky | Theodosius Grigorovich Dobzhansky was a prominent Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the modern synthesis. | Ukrainian-American geneticist | 75 | 45 |
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Edward Wemple | Edward Wemple was an American businessman and U.S. | American congressman for New York | 77 | 100 |