Died on This Day (27-Jan)
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Lina Ben Mhenni | Lina Ben Mhenni was a Tunisian Internet activist, blogger and lecturer in linguistics at Tunis University. | Tunisian political activist and blogger | 36 | 1 |
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Ingvar Kamprad | Feodor Ingvar Kamprad ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. | IKEA founder | 91 | 3 |
Peter Baker | Peter Baker was an English footballer. Educated at Southgate County School in North London, he played right-back for Tottenham Hotspur and was part of the double-winning side of 1960-61 and won the FA Cup with Spurs in 1962. | English footballer | 84 | 5 | |
Charlie Callas | Charlie Callas was an American comedian and actor most commonly known for his work with Mel Brooks, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin, and his many stand-up appearances on television talk shows in the 1970s. | Actor/comedian | 83 | 10 | |
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Aurélie Nemours | Aurélie Nemours was a Parisian painter who made abstract geometrical paintings and was highly influenced by De Stijl, or neoplasticism. | French painter | 94 | 16 |
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Henryk Jabłoński | Henryk Jabłoński was a Polish Socialist. After 1948, he became a Communist politician, as well as a historian and professor at Warsaw University. | Polish politician | 93 | 18 |
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Ralph Yarborough | Ralph Webster Yarborough was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1971 and was a leader of the progressive wing of his party. | Texas politician | 92 | 25 |
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Lilli Palmer | Lilli Palmer ; born Lilli Marie Peiser; was a German actress and writer. | German actress | 71 | 35 |
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Ludwig Gies | Ludwig Gies was a German sculptor, medallist and professor of art. | German sculptor and medallist | 78 | 55 |
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Justiniano Borgoño | Justiniano Borgoño Castañeda was a Peruvian soldier and politician who briefly occupied the Presidency of Peru during 1894. | President of Peru | 84 | 100 |
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Maya von Schönburg | Countess Maria Felicitas von Schönburg-Glauchau , also known as Maya von Schönburg, was a German socialite. | German socialite | 60 | 2 | |
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Brunhilde Pomsel | Brunhilde Pomsel was a personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany. | Personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels | 106 | 4 |
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Pete Seeger | Peter R. "Pete" Seeger was an American folk singer and social activist. | American folk singer | 94 | 7 |
Christopher Lloyd | Christopher Hamilton Lloyd, OBE was a British gardener and author. | Gardner | 84 | 15 | |
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Jack Paar | Jack Harold Paar was an American author, movie actor, radio and television comedian, and talk show host. | Television host | 85 | 17 |
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Pedro Carrasco | Pedro Juan Carrasco García was a Spanish boxer whose fame transcended the boxing ring. | Spanish boxer | 57 | 20 |
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Dale Long | Richard Dale Long was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. | American baseball player and coach | 64 | 30 |
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Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe | Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe was daughter of Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe and consort of the last reigning Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Ernst II. | Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg | 95 | 50 |
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Erich Kleiber | Erich Kleiber was an Austrian, later Argentine, conductor, known for his interpretations of the classics and as an advocate of new music. | Austrian conductor | 65 | 65 |
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Simeon Bavier | Simeon Bavier was a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council . | Swiss politician | 70 | 125 |