Died on This Day (05-Jan)
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Eric Haydock | Eric Haydock was a British musician, best known as the original bass guitarist of The Hollies from December 1962 until July 1966. | British musician | 75 | 1 |
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Jill Saward Drake | Jill Saward, also known by her married name Jill Drake was an English campaigner on issues relating to sexual violence. | English rape campaigner | 51 | 3 |
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Eusebio da Silva Ferreira | Eusébio da Silva Ferreira GCIH, GCM was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker. | Portuguese footballer | 71 | 6 |
Helene Palmer | Helene Palmer was an English actress best known for her portrayal of Ida Clough, a factory machinist in the long-running soap opera, Coronation Street. | Actor | 82 | 9 | |
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Tug McGraw | Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr. was an American professional baseball relief pitcher and long-time Major League Baseball player, often remembered for coining the phrase "Ya Gotta Believe", which became the rallying cry for the 1973 New York Mets. | Baseball player | 59 | 16 |
Nancy Parsons | Nancy Anne Parsons was an American actress. She was best known for her role as Beulah Balbricker in the 1982 cult film Porky's and its sequels, as well as Ida in Motel Hell . | Actor | 58 | 19 | |
Arthur Kennedy | John Arthur Kennedy was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway. | Actor | 75 | 30 | |
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Gottlob Berger | Gottlob Christian Berger was a senior German Nazi official who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS and was the chief of the SS Main Office responsible for Schutzstaffel recruiting during World War II. | SS general | 78 | 45 |
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Julius Leber | Julius Leber was a German politician of the SPD and a member of the German resistance against the Nazi régime. | German politician | 53 | 75 |
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Władysław Podkowiński | Władysław Podkowiński was a Polish master painter and illustrator associated with the Young Poland movement during Partitions. | Polish artist | 28 | 125 |
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John Young | John Watts Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. | American astronaut | 87 | 2 |
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Pierre Boulez | Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of several musical institutions. | French composer and conductor | 90 | 4 |
Bruce McCarty | Bruce McCarty, FAIA was an American architect, founder and senior designer at McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects of Knoxville, Tennessee. | American architect | 92 | 7 | |
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Harry Sibson | Harry was a wing forward who played for Aylestonians prior to being invited to join Leicester Tigers. | English rugby union player | 90 | 10 |
Jean Kerr | Jean Kerr was an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and best known for her humorous bestseller Please Don't Eat the Daisies as well as the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary. | American writer | 80 | 17 | |
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Bernard Braine | Bernard Richard Braine, Baron Braine of Wheatley, PC was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. | British Conservative Party politician | 85 | 20 |
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Franjo Punčec | Franjo Punčec was a Yugoslav tennis player of Croatian ethnicity. | Croatian tennis player | 71 | 35 |
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Max Born | Max Born was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. | Physicist | 87 | 50 |
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John D. White | John Daugherty White was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, nephew of John White. | American politician | 70 | 100 |
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George O. Rathbun | George Oscar Rathbun was a U.S. Representative from New York. | American politician | 67 | 150 |