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 ; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, who served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. | President of the Czech Republic | 75 | 9 |
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Belita | Maria 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. | French cellist and composer | 76 | 30 |
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Alexei Kosygin | Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin ɪvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsɨɡʲɪn]; 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 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 actress and socialite. | 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 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 Grygorovych 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 |