Died on This Day (15-Apr)
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Owen Garriott | Owen Kay Garriott was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission in 1983. | NASA astronaut | 88 | 1 |
Clifton James | George Clifton James was an American actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J. | American actor | 96 | 3 | |
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Eliseo Verón | Eliseo Verón was an Argentine sociologist, anthropologist and semiotician, and professor of communication sciences at Universidad de San Andrés. | Sociologist | 78 | 6 |
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Murray Rose | Iain Murray Rose, was an Australian swimmer, actor, sports commentator and marketing executive. | Australian swimmer and six-time Olympic medalist | 73 | 8 |
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Margaretta Scott | Margaretta Mary Winifred Scott was an English stage, screen and television actress whose career spanned over seventy years. | British actor | 93 | 15 |
Yuji Hyakutake | Yuji Hyakutake was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet C/1996 B2, also known as Comet Hyakutake on January 31, 1996 while using 25×150 binoculars. | Astronomer | 76 | 18 | |
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Greta Garbo | Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Generally regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, Garbo was known for her melancholic, somber persona due to her many portrayals of tragic characters in her films and for her subtle and understated performances. | Swedish-American film actress | 84 | 30 |
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Richard Conte | Richard Conte was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow, Ocean's 11, and The Godfather. | American actor | 65 | 45 |
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Karl-Otto Koch | Karl-Otto Koch was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. | SS officer | 47 | 75 |
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Charles Thomas Campbell | Charles Thomas Campbell was a United States Army soldier, and a legislator, businessman, and town mayor. | Union Army general | 71 | 125 |
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R. Lee Ermey | Ronald Lee Ermey was an American film, television and voice actor, and U. | American actor | 74 | 2 |
Guy Woolfenden | Guy Anthony Woolfenden was an English composer and conductor. | English composer and conductor | 78 | 4 | |
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Benjamin Fain | Benjamin Fain was an Israeli physicist, professor-emeritus, and former refusenik. | Israeli physicist | 83 | 7 |
Benjamin Hooks | Benjamin Lawson Hooks was an American civil rights leader. | American civil rights leader | 85 | 10 | |
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Don Bunce | Dr. Don Bunce was an American football quarterback and orthopedic surgeon. | American football player | 54 | 17 |
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Edward Gorey | Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. | Writer/illustrator | 75 | 20 |
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Jean-Paul Sartre | Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. | French philosopher/writer | 74 | 40 |
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Ripper Collins | James Anthony "Ripper" Collins was an American professional baseball player, coach and scout. | American baseball player | 66 | 50 |
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James Livingston | James Livingston was an Ontario businessman and politician. | Canadian politician | 81 | 100 |
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Władysław Hieronim Sanguszko | Prince Władysław Hieronim Sanguszko was a Polish nobleman, landowner, conservative politician. | Polish noble | 66 | 150 |