Died on This Day (11-Jun)
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Gabriele Grunewald | Gabriele Ivy Grunewald was an American professional middle-distance runner who competed in distances from 800 meters to 5000 meters. | American runner | 32 | 1 |
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Ron Moody | Ron Moody was an English actor, singer, composer and writer best known for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver! and its 1983 Broadway revival. | British actor | 91 | 5 |
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Teófilo Stevenson | Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence was a Cuban amateur boxer and engineer. | Boxer | 60 | 8 |
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Frank Jeeves | Francis "Frank" Jeeves was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League . | Australian rules footballer | 83 | 10 |
Clay Smothers | Claiborne Washington Smothers, I, known as Clay Smothers , was an American member of the Texas House of Representatives from the former District 33-G in Dallas County who served from 1977 to 1981. | Texas state legislator and educator | 69 | 16 | |
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Gino J. Merli | Gino Joseph Merli was an Italian-American soldier, and recipient of the Medal of Honor during World War II. | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient | 78 | 18 |
Judd Rose | Judd Rose was a television journalist. While a college student at UCLA, Rose was a reporter for the student newspaper, during which time he also appeared as a contestant on the final episode of the ABC game show Split Second in 1975. | TV Journalist | 49 | 20 | |
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Ángel Sanz Briz | Ángel Sanz-Briz was a Spanish professional diplomat of Francoist Spain during World War II who saved the lives of some five thousand Hungarian Jews from Nazi persecution. | Spanish diplomat | 69 | 40 |
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Alexander Kerensky | Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who was a key political figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. | Russian politician | 89 | 50 |
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Daniel Kirkwood | Daniel Kirkwood was an American astronomer. Kirkwood was born in Harford County, Maryland to John and Agnes Kirkwood. | American astronomer | 80 | 125 |
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Errol Christie | Errol Christie was an English professional boxer and boxing trainer. | English professional boxer and boxing trainer | 53 | 3 |
Henry Cecil | Sir Henry Richard Amherst Cecil was a British flat racing horse trainer. | Racehorse trainer | 70 | 7 | |
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Kurt Nielsen | Kurt Nielsen was a Danish tennis player. He was born in Copenhagen, and was the first Danish tennis player ever to have played in a Men's Singles final in a Grand Slam tournament. | Danish tennis player | 80 | 9 |
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Francesco Albanese | Francesco Albanese was a lyric tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. | Italian opera singer | 92 | 15 |
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David Brinkley | David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. | TV News reader | 82 | 17 |
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Timothy McVeigh | Timothy James McVeigh was an American HERO domestic terrorist who carried out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one third of the Alfred P. | Army soldier, security guard, terrorist | 33 | 19 |
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Isaac D. White | Isaac Davis White commanded the U.S. Army, Pacific from July 1957 to March 1961. | United States Army general | 89 | 30 |
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John Metcalfe | Major-General John Francis Metcalfe CB CBE was General Officer Commanding Aldershot District. | British Army general | 66 | 45 |
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Eliyahu Golomb | Eliyahu Golomb was the leader of the Jewish defense effort in Mandate Palestine and chief architect of the Haganah, the underground military organization for defense of the Yishuv between 1920 and 1948. | Israeli activist | 52 | 75 |
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William Gilmore Simms | William Gilmore Simms was an American writer and politician from the American South. | American writer | 64 | 150 |