Died on This Day (31-Dec)
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| Ivo-Valentino Tomaš | Ivo-Valentino Tomaš was a Croatian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. | Croatian footballer | 26 | 1 | |
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William Christopher | William Christopher was an American actor and comedian, best known for playing Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U. | American actor | 84 | 4 |
| John Fortune | John Fortune was an English satirist, comedian, writer, and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune. | Comedian | 74 | 7 | |
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Alexander Naumov | Alexander Alexandrovich Naumov was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting, the most known for his works depicting Central Asia. | Russian artist | 75 | 10 |
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Gérard Debreu | Gérard Debreu was a French-born economist and mathematician. | French economist | 83 | 16 |
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Flaviano Vicentini | Flaviano Vicentini was an Italian road race cyclist who was active between 1963 and 1971. | Italian cyclist | 60 | 18 |
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Alan Cranston | Alan MacGregor Cranston was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California from 1969 to 1993, and as a President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1952. | American politician | 86 | 20 |
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George Allen | George Herbert Allen was an American football coach. | American football coach | 72 | 30 |
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Marshall McLuhan | Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. | Academic | 69 | 40 |
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Roy A. Young | Roy Archibald Young was an American banker who served as the 4th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1927 to 1930. | American businessman | 78 | 60 |
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Ray Sawyer | Ray Sawyer was an American percussionist and vocalist with the 1970s rock band Dr. | American singer and vocalist | 81 | 2 |
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Natalie Cole | Natalie Maria Cole was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. | American singer, songwriter, and performer | 65 | 5 |
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Günter Rössler | Günter Rössler was a German photographer who made a name for himself especially in the field of nude art photography. | German photographer | 86 | 8 |
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Phillip Whitehead | Phillip Whitehead was a British Labour politician, television producer and writer. | British politician | 68 | 15 |
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Paula Raymond | Paula Raymond was an American model and actress who played the leading lady in numerous movies and television series including Crisis with Cary Grant. | American actress | 79 | 17 |
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Eileen Heckart | Anna Eileen Heckart was an American stage and screen actress whose career spanned nearly 60 years. | American actress | 82 | 19 |
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Richard Linke | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of Nazi Germany during World War II. | German bomber pilot and Knight's Cross recipient | 86 | 25 |
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Ricky Nelson | Eric Hilliard Nelson was an American musician, songwriter and actor. | Actor, Musician, Singer | 45 | 35 |
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Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege | Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege was a German general during World War II who held several corps level commands. | German general and Knight's Cross recipient | 76 | 55 |
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Lorenz Hackenholt | Lorenz Hackenholt was a member of the Schutzstaffel with the rank of Hauptscharführer . | German Nazi SS gas chamber executioner | 31 | 75 |