Died on This Day (05-Aug)
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Toni Morrison | b Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison , known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. | American novelist | 88 | 1 |
Helen Alexander | Dame Helen Anne Alexander DBE was a British businesswoman. | British businesswoman | 60 | 3 | |
George Cole | George Edward Cole, OBE was an English actor whose career spanned 75 years. | English actor | 90 | 5 | |
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Roland Charles Wagner | Roland C. Wagner was a French writer of humorous science fiction. | French writer | 51 | 8 |
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Francisco María Aguilera González | Francisco María Aguilera González was a Mexican Bishop of the Roman Catholic ChurchAguilera González was born in Guanajuato and was ordained a priest April 11, 1943. | Catholic bishop | 92 | 10 |
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Samuel J. Tedesco | Samuel J. Tedesco was an American politician who was the 96th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1963 to 1966. | American politician | 88 | 17 |
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Alec Guinness | Sir Alec Guinness, was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets , in which he played nine different characters, The Lavender Hill Mob , for which he received his first Academy Award nomination, and The Ladykillers . | English actor | 86 | 20 |
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Carlo Tamberlani | Carlo Tamberlani was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1931 and 1976. | Actor | 81 | 40 |
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Otto Hardwick | Otto James "Toby" Hardwicke was a saxophone player associated with Duke Ellington. | American musician | 66 | 50 |
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Friedrich Engels | Friedrich Engels əlz, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔɛŋl̩s]), sometimes anglicised as Frederick Engels , was a German philosopher, historian, political scientist and revolutionary socialist. | German political philosopher | 74 | 125 |
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Ellen Joyce Loo | ‹See TfM› Ellen Joyce Loo Hoi Tung was a Canadian-Hong Kong musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. | Canadian-born Hong Kong singer | 32 | 2 |
Robin Chichester-Clark | Sir Robert "Robin" Chichester-Clark was Member of Parliament for Londonderry in the British House of Commons from 1955 until February 1974, and to date was the last member representing a seat in Northern Ireland to be a British government minister. | British government minister | 88 | 4 | |
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George Duke | George M. Duke was an American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. | American musician | 67 | 7 |
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Andrzej Lepper | Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper ; 13 June 1954 – 5 August 2011) was a Polish politician who was the leader of Samoobrona RP political party. | Polish politician | 57 | 9 |
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Jane Lawrence | Jane Lawrence Smith , born Jane Brotherton, was an American actress and opera singer who was part of the New York art scene beginning in the 1950s. | American opera singer and actor | 90 | 15 |
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Chick Hearn | Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn was an American sportscaster. | American basketball sportscaster | 85 | 18 |
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Arnold Horween | Arnold Horween was an American college and professional American football player and coach. | American football player and coach | 87 | 35 |
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Gustav von Wangenheim | Gustav von Wangenheim was a German nobleman, actor, screenwriter and director. | German politician | 80 | 45 |
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Amos Whitney | Amos Whitney was a mechanical engineer and inventor who co-founded the Pratt & Whitney company. | American businessman | 87 | 100 |
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Ethan A. Hitchcock | Ethan Allen Hitchcock was a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department assignments in Washington, D. | Union Army general | 72 | 150 |