Died on This Day (02-Feb)
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Bob Elliott | Robert Brackett Elliott was an American comedian and actor, one-half of the comedy duo of Bob and Ray. | American actor and comedian | 92 | 4 |
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Lino Oviedo | Lino César Oviedo Silva was the leader of the National Union of Ethical Citizens, which split from the Colorado Party in 2002. | Paraguayan politician | 69 | 7 |
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Darrel Baldock | Darrel John Baldock AM was an Australian sportsman and state politician. | Australian rules football player and coach | 72 | 9 |
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Max Schmeling | Maximilian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. | German boxer | 99 | 15 |
Claude Brown | Claude Brown is the author of Manchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. | Writer | 64 | 18 | |
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Donald Pleasence | Donald Henry Pleasence was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before transitioning into a screen career, where he played numerous supporting and character roles including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape , the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice , SEN 5241 in THX 1138 , and the deranged Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright . | British actor | 75 | 25 |
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Hermann Prieß | Hermann August Fredrich Priess was a German general in the Waffen-SS and a war criminal during World War II. | German general | 83 | 35 |
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Bertrand Russell | Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. | Philosopher | 97 | 50 |
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Alfred Delp | Alfred Delp was a German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance. | German priest | 37 | 75 |
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Eugène Fichel | Benjamin Eugène Fichel son of Moise Mayer Fichel and Lili Abigail Sasias, was a French painter. | French painter | 68 | 125 |
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Philip Seymour Hoffman | Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor, director, and producer. | American actor | 46 | 6 |
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Girish Sant | Girish Sant was a noted energy analyst held in high esteem as an energy policy commentator from India. | Indian social worker | 46 | 8 |
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Cochin Haneefa | Muhammed Haneefa , better known by his stage name Cochin Haneefa, was an Indian film actor, director, and screenwriter. | Indian actor | 58 | 10 |
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David C. Rowe | David C. Rowe was an American psychology professor known for his work studying genetic and environmental influences on adolescent onset behaviors such as delinquency and smoking. | American psychologist | 53 | 17 |
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Michael Zerner | Michael Charles Zerner was an American theoretical chemist, professor at the University of Guelph from 1970 to 1981 and University of Florida from 1981 to 2000. | physicist | 60 | 20 |
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Jadwiga Apostoł | Jadwiga Apostoł, or Jadwiga Apostoł-Staniszewska was a Polish teacher in the interwar period, an underground activist during World War II, and a writer in postwar Poland. | Polish resistance fighter | 76 | 30 |
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Bryan Wynter | Bryan Herbert Wynter was one of the St. Ives group of British painters. | British artist | 59 | 45 |
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Emory Sparrow | William Emery Sparrow was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played one season in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins. | Canadian ice hockey player | 66 | 55 |
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Field Eugene Kindley | Captain Field Eugene Kindley was an American aviator and World War I flying ace credited with twelve confirmed aerial victories. | United States Army officer | 23 | 100 |
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Esther Hunt | Esther Hunt was a pioneer who lived on America's frontier as a wife, a mother and a leader in her Quaker faith. | American pioneer | 68 | 200 |