Died on This Day (05-Feb)
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Andy Nisbet | Andrew Nisbet was a Scottish mountaineer, guide, climbing instructor, and editor of climbing guidebooks. | Scottish mountaineer | 65 | 1 | |
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Cardiss Collins | Cardiss Hortense Collins was an American politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. | American politician | 81 | 7 |
John Paul Getty III | John Paul Getty III was the grandson of American oil tycoon J. | American businessman | 53 | 10 | |
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Thomas Hinman Moorer | Thomas Hinman Moorer was an admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy who served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1967 to 1970, and as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974. | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | 91 | 16 |
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Angela du Maurier | Angela du Maurier was an English novelist who also wrote two volumes of autobiography, It's Only the Sister and Old Maids Remember. | British writer | 97 | 18 |
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Doug McClure | Douglas Osborne McClure was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. | Actor | 59 | 25 |
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Hans Croon | Hans Croon was a Dutch football manager who won the 1976 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final with Anderlecht. | Dutch football manager | 48 | 35 |
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Ben F. Jensen | Benton Franklin Jensen served thirteen consecutive terms as a U. | American businessman and politician | 77 | 50 |
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Denise Bloch | Denise Madeleine Bloch ; 21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was an agent working with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive organization in the Second World War. | French secret agent | 29 | 75 |
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John Christopher Guise | Lieutenant General John Christopher Guise was a British Army officer and English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 68 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Leopoldo María Panero | Leopoldo María Panero was a Spanish poet, commonly placed in the Novísimos group. | Spanish poet | 65 | 6 |
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Brian Jacques | James Brian Jacques was an English writer known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. | Author | 71 | 9 |
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Gnassingbe Eyadema | General Gnassingbé Eyadéma was the President of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005. | President of Togo | 69 | 15 |
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Manfred von Brauchitsch | Manfred Georg Rudolf von Brauchitsch was a German auto racing driver who drove for Mercedes-Benz in the famous "Silver Arrows" of Grand Prix motor racing in the 1930s. | German racing driver | 97 | 17 |
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G. E. M. de Ste. Croix | Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, , known informally as Croicks, was a British historian who specialised in examining the classical era from a Marxist perspective. | British academic | 89 | 20 |
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Edgar Herschler | Edgar Jacob Herschler was an American politician and attorney who served as the 28th Governor of Wyoming from 1975 to 1987. | American politician | 71 | 30 |
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Ad Swigler | Adam William "Ad" Swigler , nicknamed "Doc", was an American professional baseball pitcher. | American baseball player | 79 | 45 |
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Anastasy Vonsyatsky | Anastasy Andreyevich Vonsyatsky , better known in the United States as Anastase Andreivitch Vonsiatsky, was a Russian anti-Bolshevik émigré and fascist leader based in the United States from the 1920s. | German spy | 66 | 55 |
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Adrien Lavieille | Adrien Lavieille was a French painter. Son of the landscape painter Eugène Lavieille, and nephew of the wood engraver Jacques Adrien Lavieille, he was a painter of the country : near Paris, in Brittany, near Cancale and on the riverside of the Vilaine in the south of Rennes, in Touraine, at Saint-Jean-de-Monts in Vendée, where he was invited by a friend, the painter and engraver Auguste Lepère, around Vendôme where he sojourned in the home of his daughter, Andrée Lavieille, so a painter, and of his son-in-law, the man of letters, Paul Tuffrau. | French painter | 71 | 100 |
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Thomas Harry Saunders | Thomas Harry Saunders , usually called T. H. Saunders, was a British paper-maker known especially for his watermarks, and also a philanthropist. | British businessman | 56 | 150 |