Died on This Day (27-Apr)
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Álvaro Arzú | Álvaro Enrique Arzú Yrigoyen was the 32nd President of Guatemala from January 14, 1996 until January 14, 2000. | President of Guatemala | 72 | 2 |
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Andréa Parisy | Andréa Parisy , was a French film actress.Born Andrée Marcelle Henriette Parisy in Levallois-Perret, she was best known for her roles in films such as Le Petit Baigneur and Bébés à gogo; she also appeared in the 1968 film Mayerling, in which she played Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. | French film actress | 78 | 6 |
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Bill Skowron | William Joseph Skowron , nicknamed "Moose", was an American professional baseball first baseman. | Professional baseball player | 81 | 8 |
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Dorothee Sölle | Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle was a German liberation theologian and writer who coined the term Christofascism. | German theologian | 73 | 17 |
C. R. Boxer | Charles Ralph Boxer FBA was a historian of Dutch and Portuguese maritime and colonial history. | British historian | 96 | 20 | |
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Earl Wilson | Earl Wilson was a United States Representative from Indiana. | American politician | 84 | 30 |
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John B. McKay | John Barron McKay was an American naval officer, World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot. | USAF/NASA test pilot and astronaut | 52 | 45 |
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Edward R. Murrow | Edward Roscoe Murrow , born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. | Television journalist | 57 | 55 |
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Karel Koželuh | Karel Koželuh was a top Czech tennis, football, and ice hockey player of the 1920s and 1930s. | Czech footballer | 55 | 70 |
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Jacob Ungerer | Jacob Ungerer was a German sculptor and Professor of Fine Arts. | Sculpture | 79 | 100 |
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Vito Acconci | Vito Acconci was an influential American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. | American performance artist | 77 | 3 |
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Aloysius Jin Luxian | Aloysius Jin Luxian was a Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai. | Chinese bishop | 96 | 7 |
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Nossrat Peseschkian | Nossrat Peseschkian lived in Germany since 1954. He was a specialist in neurology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. | German psychiatrist | 76 | 10 |
Ruth Handler | Ruth Marianna Handler was an American businesswoman and inventor. | American businesswoman | 85 | 18 | |
Peter Wright | Peter Maurice Wright CBE was a principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. | Spycatcher author | 78 | 25 | |
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A. L. Strand | August Leroy Strand was an American entomologist who served as President of Montana State University from 1937 to 1942, and as President of Oregon State University from 1942 to 1961. | American academic | 86 | 40 |
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Arthur Shields | Arthur Shields was an Irish actor on television, stage and film. | Irish actor | 74 | 50 |
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Eva Moore | Eva Moore was an English actress. Her career on stage and in film spanned six decades, and she was active in the women's suffrage movement. | Actress | 85 | 65 |
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Hendrik Bulthuis | Hendrik Jan Bulthuis was a Dutch customs official, author, and translator of more than thirty works into Esperanto. | Dutch writer | 79 | 75 |
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José Solís Folch de Cardona | José Solís y Folch de Cardona, grande de España and knight of the Order of Santiago was a Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of New Granada from November 24, 1753 to February 25, 1761. | Spanish colonial governor | 54 | 250 |