Died on This Day (21-Mar)
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Martin McGuinness | James Martin Pacelli McGuinness was an Irish republican Sinn Féin terrorist leader who was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to January 2017. | Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician | 66 | 3 |
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Chuck Bednarik | Charles Philip Bednarik , nicknamed "Concrete Charlie", was an American professional football player in the National Football League . | American football player | 89 | 5 |
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Ernest Chapman | Ernest William Chapman, OAM was an Australian rower and a lifelong clubman at the Sydney Rowing Club. | Olympic medalist in rowing | 86 | 7 |
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Hans Boskamp | Hans Boskamp, born Johannes Hendricus Gerardus Hölscher, was a Dutch footballer and actor. | Dutch footballer | 78 | 9 |
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Barney Martin | Barney Martin was an American actor, comedy writer, and New York City Police Department detective. | Actor | 82 | 15 |
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Harry Eisenstat | Harry Eisenstat was a Major League Baseball player who played from 1935 to 1942. | American baseball player | 87 | 17 |
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Wolfgang Harich | Wolfgang Harich was a philosopher and journalist in East Germany. | German philosopher and journalist | 71 | 25 |
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George Hyde Fallon | George Hyde Fallon , a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 4th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1971. | American politician | 77 | 40 |
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Morteza Mahjubi | Morteza Mahjubi was an Iranian pianist and composer. | musician | 65 | 55 |
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Arthur Nebe | was a key functionary in the security and police apparatus of Nazi Germany and a Holocaust perpetrator. | German general | 50 | 75 |
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Andrew Grove | Andrew Stephen Grove was a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and a pioneer in the semiconductor industry. | Hungarian-born American businessman | 79 | 4 |
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Ignatius Zakka I Iwas | Ignatius Zakka I Iwas was the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and, as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. | Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch | 80 | 6 |
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Yuri Razuvaev | Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev Russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Разува́ев was a Russian chess player and trainer. | Russian chess player | 66 | 8 |
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Fred Heineman | Frederick K. Heineman was a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, serving in the 104th United States Congress. | United States Marine | 80 | 10 |
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Arthur Ray Hawkins | Arthur Ray "Hawk" Hawkins was an American naval aviator and flying ace of World War II. | American pilot | 81 | 16 |
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Eugene G. Rochow | Eugene George Rochow was an American inorganic chemist. | American chemist | 92 | 18 |
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Michael Redgrave | Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE was an English stage and film actor, director, manager, and author. | British actor | 77 | 35 |
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Hermann Weiser | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. | Recipient of Knight's Cross | 51 | 50 |
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Walter Francis White | Walter Francis White was an African-American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for a quarter of a century, 1929–1955, after joining the organization as an investigator in 1918. | American civil rights activist | 61 | 65 |
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Edward Thomson | Edward Thomson was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church , elected in 1864. | American bishop | 59 | 150 |