Died on This Day (12-May)
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Machiko Kyō | Machiko Kyō is a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. | Japanese actress | 95 | 1 |
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Mauno Koivisto | Mauno Henrik Koivisto GOIH was a Finnish politician who served as the ninth President of Finland from 1982 to 1994. | President of Finland | 93 | 3 |
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Constantino Romero | Constantino Romero García was a Spanish actor, voice actor and presenter. | Actor | 65 | 7 |
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Harold Loesch | Harold Carl Otto Loesch was a marine biologist and oceanographer who is credited with being the first to examine the Mobile Bay jubilee in an academic journal . | American biologist | 84 | 9 |
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Monica Zetterlund | Monica Zetterlund was a Swedish singer and actress. | Swedish jazz singer | 67 | 15 |
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Perry Como | Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an Italian-American singer, actor and television personality. | American male singer | 88 | 19 |
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Adolfo Pedernera | Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera , born in Avellaneda, Argentina, was a football player and coach. | Argentine footballer and manager | 76 | 25 |
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Edward Sayers | Sir Edward George Sayers was a New Zealand doctor, parasitologist, Methodist missionary, military medical administrator, consultant physician and, from 1958 to 1968, Dean of the University of Otago, School of Medicine. | New Zealand doctor | 82 | 35 |
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Clifford Durr | Clifford Judkins Durr was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and others accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras. | Lawyer | 76 | 45 |
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Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria | Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria was a member of the House of Habsburg-Tuscany and Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Tuscany by birth. | Austrian archduchess | 75 | 75 |
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Tessa Jowell | Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, was a British Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1997 to 2015, having previously been elected as the MP for Dulwich in 1992. | British Labour politician | 70 | 2 |
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Julius La Rosa | Julius La Rosa was an American traditional popular music singer, who worked in both radio and television beginning in the 1950s. | Italian-American singer | 86 | 4 |
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Ernst Josef Fittkau | Ernst Josef Fittkau was a German entomologist and herpetologist. | Entomologist | 84 | 8 |
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Antonio Ozores | Antonio Ozores Puchol was a Spanish actor. He was the son of actors and , brother of director Mariano Ozores and of actor , father of , and uncle of actress Adriana Ozores. | Spanish actor | 81 | 10 |
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Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan was a statesman and activist who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1977, during which he reoriented the agency's focus beyond Europe and prepared it for an explosion of complex refugee issues. | UN High Commissioner for Refugees | 70 | 17 |
Adam Petty | Adam Kyler Petty was an American professional racing driver. | American racing driver | 19 | 20 | |
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John E. Davis | John E. Davis was Director of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency from 1969 to 1976. | Governor of North Dakota | 77 | 30 |
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Lillian Roth | Lillian Roth was an American singer and actress. Her life story was told in the 1955 film I'll Cry Tomorrow, in which she was portrayed by Susan Hayward, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. | American actress, singer | 69 | 40 |
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Nelly Sachs | Nelly Sachs was a German-Swedish poet and playwright. | German author | 78 | 50 |
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Julius Hawley Seelye | Julius Hawley Seelye was a missionary, author, United States Representative, and former president of Amherst College. | American politician | 70 | 125 |