Died on This Day (02-Aug)
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Ara Parseghian | Ara Raoul Parseghian was an American football player and coach who guided the University of Notre Dame to national championships in 1966 and 1973. | American football player and coach | 94 | 3 | |
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Alla Kushnir | Alla Shulimovna Kushnir was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. | Chess player | 71 | 7 |
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Clarence E. Miller | Clarence Ellsworth Miller, Jr. was a Republican Congressman from Ohio, serving January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1993. | Politician | 93 | 9 |
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V. Balakrishnan | V. Balakrishnan was a prolific Malayalam writer and translator of texts between Malayalam, Sanskrit and English. | Indian writer | 72 | 16 |
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Ronald Townson | Ronald Townson was an American vocalist. He was an original member of The 5th Dimension, a popular vocal group of the late 1960s and early 1970s; he is the only original member of the group who is no longer living. | American singer | 68 | 19 |
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Adonias Filho | Adonias Aguiar Filho was a novelist, essayist, journalist, and literary critic from Bahia, Brazil, and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. | Brazilian novelist | 74 | 30 |
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Guy Arkins | James Guy Dalley Arkins was an Australian politician. | Australian politician | 91 | 40 |
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Annette DeFoe | Annette DeFoe , also known as Annette De Foe, was an American silent screen actress, known for her work in early romantic comedies. | American actor | 70 | 60 |
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Nina Boucicault | Nina Boucicault was an English actress born to playwright Dion Boucicault and his wife, actress Agnes Kelly Robertson. | British actor | 83 | 70 |
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George W. Anson | George W. Anson was a British actor. He specialised in comedy roles, and appeared in New York and Sydney, Australia. | British actor | 72 | 100 |
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David Huddleston | David William Huddleston was an American actor. An Emmy Award nominee, Huddleston had a prolific television career, and appeared in many films including Blazing Saddles, Crime Busters, Santa Claus: The Movie, and The Big Lebowski. | American actor | 85 | 4 |
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Jimmy Jones | James Jones was an American singer-songwriter who moved to New York City while a teenager. | American pop singer | 75 | 8 |
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Jay Hammond | Jay Sterner Hammond was an American politician of the Republican Party, who served as the fifth governor of Alaska from 1974 to 1982. | Governor of Alaska | 83 | 15 |
Lesley Woods | Lesley Woods was an American radio, stage and television actress. | American actor | 92 | 17 | |
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Adolf Scherbaum | Adolf Scherbaum was a trumpet player who specialised in the piccolo trumpet. | German classical trumpet player | 90 | 20 |
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Frank Faylen | Frank Faylen was an American film and television actor. | Actor | 79 | 35 |
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Anatoly Cherepovich | Anatoly Cherepovich was a Ukrainian cyclist. He competed in the road race at the 1956 Summer Olympics and finished in 15th place individually and in sixth place with the Soviet team. | Urainian cyclist | 34 | 50 |
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Wallace Stevens | Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. | Poet | 75 | 65 |
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Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek | Emil Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von Reznicek was an Austrian composer of Romanian-Czech ancestry. | Composer | 85 | 75 |
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Frank Lane Wolford | Frank Lane Wolford was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. | American politician | 77 | 125 |