Died on This Day (25-Jan)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Fatima Ali | Fatima Ali was a Pakistani-American executive chef, restaurateur and television personality. | Pakistani-American chef and media personality | 29 | 1 | |
John Murrell | John Norman Murrell FRS was a British theoretical chemist who played a leading role in revolutionising the UK's reputation for theoretical chemistry during the second half of the 20th century. | British theoretical chemist | 83 | 4 | |
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Arthur Doyle | Arthur Doyle was an American jazz saxophonist, bass clarinettist, flutist, and vocalist who was best known for playing what he called "free jazz soul music". | American musician | 69 | 6 |
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Paavo Berglund | Paavo Allan Engelbert Berglund was a Finnish conductor and violinist. | Finnish conductor | 82 | 8 |
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Philip Johnson | Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. | Architect | 98 | 15 |
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Robert Rockwell | Robert Rockwell was an American stage, film, radio and television actor. | Actor | 82 | 17 |
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John Smith | John Smith was an American actor remembered in particular for his leading roles in two NBC western television series, Cimarron City and Laramie. | American actor | 63 | 25 |
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Hunter Poon | Hunter Robert George Poon was the first player of Chinese descent to appear in Australian first-class cricket | Australian cricketer | 85 | 40 |
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Frank R. Reid | Frank R. Reid was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. | American politician | 65 | 75 |
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T. Muthuswamy Iyer | Sir Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer was an Indian lawyer who, in 1877, became the first native Indian to be appointed as judge of the Madras High Court. | Indian judge | 62 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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John Hurt | Sir John Vincent Hurt was a British actor whose career spanned over five decades. | English actor | 77 | 3 |
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Demis Roussos | Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos was a Greek vocalist and performer who had an internationally acclaimed career, as a single recording artist and bandleader. | Greek singer | 68 | 5 |
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Martial Asselin | Martial Asselin, was a Canadian politician and the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec . | Canadian politician | 88 | 7 |
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Charles Mathias | Charles McCurdy "Mac" Mathias Jr. was an American politician and attorney. | American politician | 87 | 10 |
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Fanny Blankers-Koen | Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. | Athletics (sport) competitor | 85 | 16 |
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Dale Alford | Thomas Dale Alford, Sr. was an American ophthalmologist and politician from the U. | American politician | 83 | 20 |
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Ava Gardner | Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress and singer. | American actress | 67 | 30 |
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Sumner Sewall | Sumner Sewall was a U.S. Republican politician and airline executive who served as the 58th Governor of Maine from 1941 to 1945. | American politician | 67 | 55 |
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Jeanne Hébuterne | Jeanne Hébuterne was a French artist, best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani. | French painter | 21 | 100 |
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Charles Henry Darling | Sir Charles Henry Darling was a British colonial governor. | British colonial governor | 60 | 150 |