Died on This Day (21-May)
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Binyavanga Wainaina | Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. | Kenyan author | 48 | 1 |
Jane Fawcett | Jane Fawcett MBE was a British codebreaker, singer, and heritage preservationist. | British codebreaker | 95 | 4 | |
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Bill Stewart | William L. Stewart , nicknamed "Stew", was an American football coach. | American football player and coach | 59 | 8 |
Howard Morris | Howard Jerome Morris was an American actor, voice actor and director who was best known for his role in The Andy Griffith Show as Ernest T. | Actor/director | 85 | 15 | |
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Barbara Cartland | Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, was an English novelist who wrote romance novels, one of the best-selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful worldwide of the 20th century. | Romantic novelist | 98 | 20 |
The Hon Mrs Victor Bruce | Mildred Mary Petre was a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later, successful businesswoman. | British racing driver | 94 | 30 | |
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Árpád Henney | Árpád Henney was a Hungarian politician and military officer, who served as Minister without portfolio between 1944 and 1945, in the Nazi-dominated Ferenc Szálasi cabinet. | Hungarian politician | 84 | 40 |
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Vinton Hayworth | Vinton Hayworth , also known as Jack Arnold and Vincent Haworth, was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter who began in weaselly and milquetoast roles and aged into dignified character parts. | Actor | 63 | 50 |
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Eleanor H. Porter | Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter was an American novelist, most known for Pollyanna and Just David . | Novelist | 51 | 100 |
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Francisco Téllez-Girón | Francisco de Borja Téllez-Girón y Pimentel, 10th Duke de Osuna, Grandee of Spain, , Gran Cruz de la Orden de Carlos III, gentilhombre de cámara con ejercicio y servidumbre de Carlos IV y Fernando VII), , was a Spanish nobleman. | Spanish count | 34 | 200 |
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Clint Walker | Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker was an American actor and singer. | American actor and singer | 90 | 2 |
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Abir Goswami | Abir Goswami was an Indian actor. He worked in television serials like Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki, Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara, etc. | Indian actor | 37 | 7 |
Echo Valley | Cynthia Jean Dubay Gillig-Stone known professionally as Echo Valley was an American pornographic actress most known for her role as Tits Hemingway in the 2008 stoner comedy film, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. | American pornographic actor | 56 | 9 | |
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Gene Wood | Eugene Edward Wood was an American television personality, known primarily for his work as an announcer on various game shows. | Game show host | 78 | 16 |
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Les Aspin | Leslie Aspin Jr. was an American politician who served as the U. | Austrian actor | 56 | 25 |
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Murray Kenneth Guthrie | Lieutenant Murray Kenneth Guthrie was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. | American flying ace | 88 | 35 |
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Samuel Bischoff | Samuel Bischoff was an American film producer who was responsible for more than 400 full-length films, two-reel comedies, and serials between 1922 and 1964. | Film producer | 84 | 45 |
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Edwin R. Fellows | Edwin R. Fellows was an American inventor and entrepreneur from Torrington, Connecticut who designed and built a new type of gear shaper in 1896 and, with the mentoring of James Hartness, left the Jones & Lamson Machine Company to co-found the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield, Vermont, which became one of the leading firms in the gear-cutting segment of the machine tool industry. | American inventor and entrepreneur | 79 | 75 |
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Franz Von Suppe | Franz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli was an Austrian composer of light operas from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire . | Composer | 76 | 125 |
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Giovanni Andrea Sirani | Giovanni Andrea Sirani was an Italian Baroque painter from Bologna. | Italian painter | 59 | 350 |