Died on This Day (28-Jul)
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Loek van Mil | Ludovicus Jacobus Maria "Loek" van Mil was a Dutch professional baseball pitcher. | Dutch baseball player | 34 | 1 |
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Mahasweta Devi | Mahasweta Devi was an Indian writer in Bengali and an activist. | Indian writer | 90 | 4 |
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Bob Raczek | Robert F. Raczek was an American high school football coach. | American sports coach | 75 | 7 |
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Brian O'Leary | Brian Todd O'Leary was an American scientist, author, and NASA astronaut. | American astronomer, astronaut, writer, blogger | 71 | 9 |
Erich Zepper | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of the Third Reich during World War II. | SS Officer | 89 | 15 | |
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Archer John Porter Martin | Archer John Porter Martin was a British chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge. | British biochemist | 92 | 18 |
Jerome Smith | Jerome Smith was a guitarist at TK Records in Miami, Florida, who was a member of KC and the Sunshine Band. | Musician | 47 | 20 | |
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Red Barrett | Charles Henry "Red" Barrett was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played 11 total career seasons in the National League. | Major League baseball player | 75 | 30 |
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Alfred L. Werker | Alfred L. Werker was a film director whose work in movies spanned from 1917 through 1957. | American film director | 78 | 45 |
Thomas Brash Morison | Thomas Brash Morison was a Scottish politician and judge. | British politician | 76 | 75 |
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Charlie Gard | The Charlie Gard case was a best interests case in 2017 involving Charles Matthew William "Charlie" Gard , an infant boy from London, born with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome , a rare genetic disorder that causes progressive brain damage and muscle failure. | Genetic DNA disease victim | 0 | 3 | |
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Clive Rice | Clive Edward Butler Rice was a South African international cricketer. | South African cricketer | 66 | 5 |
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Irene Zazians | Irene Zazians , known mononymously as Irene, was an Iranian-Armenian actress of cinema and television. | Iranian actor | 84 | 8 |
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Sven Ljungberg | Sven Birger Ljungberg was a Swedish visual artist whose work was created predominantly in the genres of printmaking and painting, though his entire body of his work includes murals and mosaics. | Swedish artist | 96 | 10 |
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Francis Crick | Francis Harry Compton Crick was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. | British molecular biologist | 88 | 16 |
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Ahmed Sofa | Ahmed Sofa was a Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, and public intellectual. | bangladeshi poet | 58 | 19 |
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Don Carpenter | Don Carpenter was an American writer, best known as the author of Hard Rain Falling. | Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter | 64 | 25 |
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Georg Dragičević | Georg Dragičević was a Croatian soldier who was a member of the army of Austria-Hungary, Royal Yugoslavia, and the Independent State of Croatia. | Croatian soldier | 89 | 40 |
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Edogawa Ranpo | Tarō Hirai , better known by the pseudonym Edogawa Ranpo , also romanized as Edogawa Rampo, was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction. | Japanese writer | 70 | 55 |
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Edward Beecher | Edward Beecher D.D. was an American theologian, the son of Lyman Beecher and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher. | American theologian | 91 | 125 |