Died on This Day (20-Jan)
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Paul Bocuse | Paul Bocuse was a French chef based in paris who was known for the high quality of his food A student of Eugénie Brazier, he was one of the most prominent chefs associated with the nouvelle cuisine, which is less opulent and calorific than the traditional cuisine classique, and stresses the importance of fresh ingredients of the highest quality. | French chef | 91 | 2 |
Lord Weidenfeld | George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist. | British publisher, philanthropist, and columnist | 96 | 4 | |
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Claudio Abbado | Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian conductor. | Conductor | 80 | 6 |
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Bruce Gordon | Bruce Gordon was an American actor best known for playing gangster Frank Nitti in the ABC television series The Untouchables. | American actor | 94 | 9 |
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Per Borten | was a Norwegian politician from the Centre Party and Prime Minister of Norway from 1965 to 1971. | Norwegian politician | 91 | 15 |
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Franklin E. Sigler | Private First Class Franklin Earl Sigler was an American Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Iwo Jima campaign – a one-man assault on a Japanese gun position which had been holding up the advance of his company for several days, and for annihilating the enemy gun crew with hand grenades. | US Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient | 70 | 25 |
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Gillis William Long | Gillis William Long was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U. | Recipient of the Purple Heart medal | 61 | 35 |
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Richard Malik | Richard Malik was a German international footballer. | Association footballer | 35 | 75 |
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Benjamin F. Martin | Benjamin Franklin Martin was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and teacher from Virginia and West Virginia. | American politician | 66 | 125 |
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Charles Yorke | Charles Yorke PC was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. | British politician | 47 | 250 |
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Emma Tennant | Emma Christina Tennant FRSL was a British novelist and editor known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. | British novelist and editor | 79 | 3 | |
Ricardo dos Santos | Ricardo dos Santos was a Brazilian surfer. Dos Santos reached the quarterfinals at the 2012 Billabong Pro event in Tahiti in defeating among others Kelly Slater. | Brazilian surfer | 24 | 5 | |
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Etta James | Jamesetta Hawkins , known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel. | American blues, soul, rhythm-and-blues | 73 | 8 |
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Abraham Sutzkever | Abraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust. | Israeli poet | 96 | 10 |
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Ron Herbel | Ronald Samuel Herbel was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in 331 games, all but 79 in relief, for the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, New York Mets and Atlanta Braves. | American baseball player | 62 | 20 |
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Barbara Stanwyck | Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress, model and dancer. | American actress, model, and dancer | 82 | 30 |
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George M. Humphrey | George Magoffin Humphrey was an American lawyer, businessman and banker. | American politician | 79 | 50 |
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Mato Celestin Medović | Mato Celestin Medović was a Croatian painter. Best known for his large paintings depicting historical scenes, and his series of colourful landscapes and seascapes of his native Dalmatia, Medović is one of the earliest modern Croatian painters. | Croatian painter | 62 | 100 |
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George Seymour | Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Francis Seymour was a Royal Navy officer. | Royal Navy admiral of the fleet | 82 | 150 |
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Giovanni Maria Lancisi | Giovanni Maria Lancisi was an Italian physician, epidemiologist and anatomist who made a correlation between the presence of mosquitoes and the prevalence of malaria. | Italian physician | 65 | 300 |