Died on This Day (02-Jan)
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Paulien van Deutekom | Paulien van Deutekom was a Dutch champion speed skater who specialised in the middle to long distances, over 1000 and 1500 metres. | Dutch speed skater | 37 | 1 |
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John Berger | John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. | English art critic, novelist, painter and poet | 90 | 3 |
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Little Jimmy Dickens | James Cecil Dickens , better known by his stage name Little Jimmy Dickens, was an American country music singer and songwriter famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size , and his rhinestone-studded outfits, in which he is given credit for introducing into country music live performances). | American country music singer | 94 | 5 |
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Géza Koroknay | Géza Koroknay was a Hungarian actor, most notable for his work on the Hungarian television show Szomszédok . | Actor | 64 | 7 |
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Pete Postlethwaite | Peter William Postlethwaite, OBE was an English character actor, who appeared in In the Name of the Father , Dragonheart , Romeo + Juliet , Brassed Off , Sharpe , Amistad , The Lost World: Jurassic Park , Animal Farm , The Constant Gardener , Clash of the Titans , and Inception . | English actor | 64 | 9 |
Cyril Fletcher | Cyril Fletcher was an English comedian, actor and businessman. | Comedian | 91 | 15 | |
Gary Adams | Gary Adams was a notable salesman, founder of TaylorMade Golf, Founders Club, McHenry Metals, and nominal inventor of the modern "metal wood. | Golfer | 56 | 20 | |
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Alan Hale Jr. | Alan Hale Jr. was an American actor and restaurateur. | American film, stage, character and tv actor | 68 | 30 |
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J. Mayo Williams | Jay Mayo "Ink" Williams was a pioneering African-American producer of recorded blues music. | American football player and coach | 85 | 40 |
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Bertram Ramsay | Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, KCB, KBE, MVO was a Royal Navy officer. | Royal Navy admiral | 61 | 75 |
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Thomas S. Monson | Thomas Spencer Monson was an American religious leader, author, and the 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . | American religious leader | 90 | 2 |
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Matt Hobden | Matthew Edward Hobden was an English cricketer, a right-arm fast-medium bowler who batted right-handed. | English cricketer | 22 | 4 |
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Harald Nugiseks | Harald Nugiseks was an SS-Oberscharführer in World War II, who served in the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS of the Waffen-SS. | Estonian military commander | 92 | 6 |
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Gordon Hirabayashi | Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi was an American sociologist, best known for his principled resistance to the Japanese American internment during World War II, and the court case which bears his name, Hirabayashi v. | American sociologist | 93 | 8 |
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David R. Ross | David Robertson Ross was a Scottish author and historian. | British historian and writer | 51 | 10 |
Etta Moten Barnett | Etta Moten Barnett was an American actress and contralto vocalist, who was identified with her signature role of "Bess" in Porgy and Bess. | American actress and contralto vocalist | 102 | 16 | |
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Nancy Kelly | Nancy Kelly was an American actress in film, theater and television. | Actress | 73 | 25 |
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Jacques de Lacretelle | Jacques de Lacretelle was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on 12 November 1936. | French novelist | 96 | 35 |
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Jules Levey | Jules Levey was the producer of the Frank Buck movie Jacaré. | American film producer | 78 | 45 |
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Paul Adam | Paul Adam was a French novelist who became an early proponent of Symbolism in France, and one of the founders of the Symbolist review . | Novelist | 57 | 100 |