Died on This Day (24-Dec)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Allee Willis | Alta Sherral "Allee" Willis was an American songwriter, multi-media artist, collector, and art director. | American songwriter | 72 | 1 | |
Rick Parfitt | Richard John Parfitt, OBE was an English musician, best known as a singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist with rock band Status Quo. | Status Quo musician | 68 | 4 | |
Jack Klugman | Jack Klugman was an American actor of stage, film, and television. | American actor | 90 | 8 | |
Roy Neuberger | Roy Rothschild Neuberger was an American financier who contributed money to raise public awareness of modern art through his acquisition of pieces he deemed worthy. | American businessman | 107 | 10 | |
Richard Annand | Captain Richard Wallace Annand VC, ERD, DL was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 90 | 16 | |
Nick Massi | Nick Massi was an American bass singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons. | Singer/guitarist | 73 | 20 | |
Rodolfo Orlandini | Rodolfo Orlandini was an Argentine football midfielder who played for the Argentina national team between 1927 and 1930. | Argentine footballer and manager | 85 | 30 | |
Karl Donitz | Karl Dönitz was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later. | German naval officer | 89 | 40 | |
Adelina Stehle | Adelina Stehle was an Austrian-born operatic soprano, associated almost entirely with the Italian repertory. | Austrian singer | 85 | 75 | |
Edward Harland | Sir Edward James Harland, 1st Baronet , was an Ulster-based English shipbuilder and politician. | British politician | 64 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Heather Menzies | Heather Menzies Urich was a Canadian–American model and actress, known for her roles as Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music and Jessica 6 in the TV series Logan's Run. | Canadian-American model and actress | 68 | 3 | |
Ron Noades | Ronald Geoffrey Noades was an English businessman, best known for his investments in football clubs. | Football chairman | 76 | 7 | |
Johannes Heesters | Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters , known professionally as Johannes Heesters, was a Dutch actor of stage, television and film, as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stage with a career dating back to the 1920s. | Dutch actor, singer and entertainer | 108 | 9 | |
Michael Vale | Michael Vale was an American character actor famous for being the longtime sleepy-eyed mascot "Fred the Baker" for donut chain Dunkin' Donuts, with his famous catchphrase "Time to make the donuts. | American character actor | 83 | 15 | |
James Kitching | James William Kitching was a South African vertebrate palaeontologist and regarded as one of the world’s greatest fossil finders. | South African paleontologist | 81 | 17 | |
Aharon Becker | Aharon Becker was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1955 and 1974. | Israeli politician | 90 | 25 | |
Biagio Marin | Biagio Marin was a Venetian poet, best known from his poems in the Venetian language, which had no literary tradition until then. | Italian poet | 94 | 35 | |
Bernard Herrmann | Bernard Herrmann was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in composing for films. | American composer | 64 | 45 | |
Stephen Mosher Wood | Stephen Mosher Wood was an American politician. Mr. | American politician | 88 | 100 | |
Peter, 5th Count de Salis-Soglio | Peter John Fane de Salis, Count de Salis-Soglio, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, DL, JP, G. | Count de Salis-Soglio | 71 | 150 |