Died on This Day (17-Feb)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Ethel Ennis | Ethel Llewellyn Ennis was an American jazz musician whose career spanned seven decades. | American jazz musician | 86 | 1 |
Andy Ganteaume | Andrew Gordon Ganteaume was a Trinidadian cricketer who played one Test match for the West Indies in 1948 as a batsman. | Trinidadian cricketer | 95 | 4 | |
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Richard Briers | Richard David Briers, was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio. | Actor | 79 | 7 |
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Mildred Rebstock | Mildred Catherine Rebstock was an American pharmaceutical chemist. | American chemist | 91 | 9 |
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Dan O'Herlihy | Daniel Peter O'Herlihy was an Irish-born American film actor, known for such roles as Brigadier General Warren A. | Actor | 85 | 15 |
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Christian O'Brien | Christian Arthur Edgar "Tim" O'Brien was a British exploration geologist and author. | British geologist | 87 | 19 |
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Leslie Douglas Jackson | Leslie Douglas Jackson, DFC & Bar was an Australian fighter ace of World War II, credited with five aerial victories. | Royal Australian Air Force fighter pilot | 62 | 40 |
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. | Nobel laureate in Literature | 81 | 50 |
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Vilho Petter Nenonen | Vilho Petter Nenonen was a Finnish general. Nenonen was born in Kuopio. | Finnish general | 76 | 60 |
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Eduard von Knorr | Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr was a German admiral of the Kaiserliche Marine who helped establish the German colonial empire. | German admiral | 79 | 100 |
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Robert H. Michel | Robert Henry "Bob" Michel was an American Republican Party politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 38 years. | US House of Representatives Minority Leader | 93 | 3 |
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Bob Casale | Robert Edward "Bob" Casale , or "Bob 2", was an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer and audio engineer. | American rock musician | 61 | 6 |
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Robert Carr | Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, was a British Conservative politician who served as Home Secretary from 1972 to 1974. | British politician | 95 | 8 |
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Kathryn Grayson | Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick was an American actress and coloratura soprano. | Actor, opera singer | 88 | 10 |
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Aniruddha Mahathera | Aniruddha Mahathera was a Nepalese Buddhist monk and the Sangha Nayak of Nepal from 1998 until his death in 2003. | Nepalese Buddhist monk | 87 | 17 |
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Willi Schatz | Willi Schatz was a Nazi SS-Obersturmführer as a SS-KZ Zahnarzt who served in Auschwitz and Neuengamme. | SS officer | 80 | 35 |
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Hugo Österman | Hugo Viktor Österman was a Finnish Lieutenant-General during World War II. | Finnish general | 82 | 45 |
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Larry Gilbert | Lawrence William Gilbert was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball and a longtime manager in minor league baseball. | American baseball player | 73 | 55 |
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Ed Kahn | Edwin Bernard Kahn was an American football guard in the National Football League for the Boston and Washington Redskins. | American football player | 33 | 75 |
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Elizabeth Barnard | Elizabeth, Lady Barnard was the granddaughter of the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare. | Descendant of William Shakespeare | 61 | 350 |