Died on This Day (17-Apr)
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Jess Roskelley | Jess Fenton Roskelley was an American mountaineer. | American mountaineer | 36 | 1 |
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Doris Roberts | Correlation Id: E75054DA43C04B14B38EF5BE35C4CACC Timestamp: 2020-07-25T12:20:43. | American actress | 90 | 4 |
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V. S. Ramadevi | V. S. Ramadevi was an Indian civil servant who was the 13th Governor of Karnataka and 9th Chief Election Commissioner of India from 26 November 1990 to 11 December 1990. | Indian politician | 79 | 7 |
Michael Sarrazin | Michael Sarrazin was a Canadia film and television actor who found fame opposite Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? . | Actor | 70 | 9 | |
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Hans Gruijters | Johannes Petrus Adrianus "Hans" Gruijters was a Dutch politician, and a co-founder of the Dutch social-liberal party D66 | Dutch politician | 73 | 15 |
Robert Atkins | Robert Coleman Atkins was an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Diet, which requires close control of carbohydrate consumption and emphasizes protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories in addition to a controlled number of carbohydrates from vegetables. | Atkins diet inventor | 72 | 17 | |
Anton Murray | Anton Ronald Andrew Murray was a South African cricketer who played in 10 Test matches in a little over a year from December 1952 to February 1954, appearing four times against Australia and then six times against New Zealand. | South African cricketer | 72 | 25 | |
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Alf Sjöberg | Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg was a Swedish theatre and film director. | Swedish film director | 76 | 40 |
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Georges Wague | Georges Wague, born Georges Marie Valentin Waag, was a French mime, teacher and silent film actor. | French mime and silent film actor | 91 | 55 |
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Jorge Isaacs | Jorge Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier. | Colombian politician | 58 | 125 |
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Barbara Bush | Barbara Bush was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 as the wife of George H. | First Lady of the United States | 92 | 2 |
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Gabriel García Márquez | Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. | Colombian novelist | 87 | 6 |
Nityananda Mohapatra | Nityananda Mahapatra was an Indian Odia politician, poet and journalist. | Indian politician | 99 | 8 | |
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John Carl Warnecke | John Carl Warnecke was an architect based in San Francisco, California, who designed numerous notable monuments and structures in the Modernist, Bauhaus, and other similar styles. | American architect | 91 | 10 |
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Geraint Howells | Geraint Wyn Howells, Baron Geraint was a leading Welsh Liberal Democrat politician. | British politician | 79 | 16 |
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John Ferraro | John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them. | American politician | 76 | 19 |
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Angelo Schiavio | Angelo Schiavio was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. | Italian footballer | 84 | 30 |
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | [[Category:EngvarB from September {{{{5ffxf}}}} 2014]] Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher, academic, and statesman who served as the first Vice President of India and the second President of India . | Indian philosopher and statesman | 86 | 45 |
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August Lambert | August Lambert was a German Luftwaffe military aviator and ground-attack pilot during World War II. | German flying ace | 29 | 75 |
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William Mudge | William Mudge was an English artillery officer and surveyor, born in Plymouth, an important figure in the work of the Ordnance Survey. | General and Army surveyor | 57 | 200 |