Died on This Day (24-Jul)
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Margaret Fulton | Margaret Isobel Fulton was a Scottish-born Australian food and cooking writer, journalist, author and commentator. | Australian food and cooking writer | 94 | 1 |
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Udupi Ramachandra Rao | Udupi Ramachandra Rao was an Indian space scientist and chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. | Indian space scientist | 85 | 3 |
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Donald Symington | Donald Leith Symington was an American stage, film and television actor. | American actor | 87 | 7 |
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G. D. Spradlin | Gervase Duan Spradlin was an American actor. Known for his distinctive accent and voice, he often played devious authority figures. | American actor | 90 | 9 |
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Richard Doll | Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. | British physiologist | 92 | 15 |
John Schlesinger | John Richard Schlesinger was an English film and stage director, and actor. | Actor | 77 | 17 | |
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Hans Wind | Hans Henrik "Hasse" Wind was a Finnish fighter pilot and flying ace in World War II, with 75 confirmed air combat victories. | Finnish flying ace | 75 | 25 |
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Peter Sellers | Peter Sellers was an English film actor, comedian and singer. | British comedian & actor | 54 | 40 |
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Beatrice Roberts | Alice Beatrice Roberts was an American film actress. | American film actress | 65 | 50 |
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George Stuart Henderson | George Stuart Henderson VC, DSO & Bar, MC was a British Army officer and a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 26 | 100 |
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Tony Cloninger | Tony Lee Cloninger was an American professional baseball player and coach. | American baseball pitcher | 77 | 2 |
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Marni Nixon | Margaret Nixon McEathron , known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. | American soprano | 86 | 4 |
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Sherman Hemsley | Sherman Alexander Hemsley was an American actor, known for his roles as George Jefferson on the CBS television series All in the Family and The Jeffersons, Deacon Ernest Frye on the NBC series Amen, and B. | American actor | 74 | 8 |
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Alex Higgins | Alexander Gordon Higgins was a Northern Irish professional snooker player who is remembered as one of the most iconic figures in the game. | Snooker player | 61 | 10 |
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Claude Ballif | Claude Ballif was a French composer. His music is known as a combination of tonality and serialism - a system that he named metatonality. | French composer | 80 | 16 |
Ahmad Shamloo | Ahmad Shamlou ʃɒːmˈluː], also known under his pen name A. | Iranian poet | 74 | 20 | |
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Coen Dillen | Coenraad Henrik Dillen was a Dutch footballer who primarily played for PSV as well as the Dutch national side. | Dutch footballer | 63 | 30 |
Barbara Colby | Barbara Colby was an American actress. | Actor | 35 | 45 | |
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Fred Davis | Alfred Thomas "Fred" Davis was a farmer and a politician on the federal and provincial level in Canada. | Canadian politician | 77 | 75 |
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Pierre Dupont | Pierre Dupont , French songwriter, the son of a blacksmith, was born in Lyon. | French songwriter | 49 | 150 |