Died on This Day (06-Jan)
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| José Ramón Fernández | José Ramón Fernández Álvarez is a Cuban Communist leader who is a Vice-President of the Council of Ministers. | Cuban Communist leader | 95 | 1 | |
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Om Puri | Om Prakash Puri, was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Hindi films, as well as independent and art films. | Indian actor | 66 | 3 |
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Bishop Robinson | Bishop Lee Robinson , was the first African American police commissioner of Baltimore, Maryland. | American police commissioner | 86 | 6 |
| Bob Holness | Robert Wentworth John Holness was a British radio and television presenter and occasional actor. | Blockbusters presenter | 83 | 8 | |
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Ivan Medek | Ivan Medek was a Czech classical music critic, radio broadcaster and journalist. | Czech musician | 84 | 10 |
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Edward Pain | Edward Oscar Guthrie "Ted" Pain was an Australian rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. | Rower | 74 | 20 |
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Ian Charleson | Ian Charleson was a British stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. | British actor | 40 | 30 |
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Georgeanna Tillman | Georgeanna Marie Tillman was an American singer and an original member of the Motown girl group The Marvelettes. | American singer | 36 | 40 |
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Reuben Henry Tucker III | Major General Reuben Henry Tucker III was a highly decorated senior officer in the United States Army. | Recipient of the Purple Heart medal | 58 | 50 |
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Gustav Graef | Gustav Graef was a German painter, primarily of portraits and historical subjects. | German artist | 73 | 125 |
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Dave Toschi | David Ramon Toschi was an American law enforcement officer widely known for his efforts in the San Francisco Police Department as an inspector in the Zodiac Killer case. | LA police inspector | 86 | 2 |
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Pat Harrington | Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. was an American Emmy Award-winning stage and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the sitcom One Day at a Time . | American voice, stage, and television actor | 86 | 4 |
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Gerard Helders | Gerardus Philippus "Gerard" Helders was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Christian Historical Union party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal party and jurist. | Dutch politician | 107 | 7 |
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Donald J. Tyson | Donald John "Don" Tyson was an American businessman who was the President and CEO of Tyson Foods during its rise to the top of the food business. | American businessman | 80 | 9 |
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Louis Robichaud | Louis Joseph Robichaud , popularly known as "Little Louis" or "P'tit-Louis", was the second Acadian Premier of New Brunswick, serving from 1960 to 1970. | Canadian politician | 79 | 15 |
| Joe Slovo | Joe Slovo was a South African politician, and an opponent of the apartheid system. | South African politician | 68 | 25 | |
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Heinrich Gattineau | Heinrich Gattineau was a German economist, Sturmabteilung leader, director of IG Farben and defendant during the Nuremberg trials. | German economist | 80 | 35 |
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Burton K. Wheeler | Burton Kendall Wheeler was an attorney and an American politician of the Democratic Party in Montana; he served as a United States Senator from 1923 until 1947. | American politician and lawyer | 92 | 45 |
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Chester Thordarson | Chester Hjortur Thordarson — born Hjörtur Þórðarson — was an Icelandic-American inventor and manufacturer of electrical apparatus who eventually held nearly a hundred technology patents related to transformers, inductors, high voltage coils, and more. | American engineer | 77 | 75 |
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Joseph A. Mower | Joseph Anthony Mower was a Union general during the American Civil War. | Union Army general | 42 | 150 |