Died on This Day (12-Aug)
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DJ Arafat | Ange Didier Houon , known professionally as DJ Arafat, Arafat Muana and various other stage names, was an Ivorian DJ and singer who made music in the Coupé-Décalé genre. | Ivorian disc jockey and musician | 33 | 1 |
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Martin Sostre | Martin Ramirez Sostre was an American activist known for his role in the prisoners' rights movement. | American activist | 92 | 5 |
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David McLetchie | David William McLetchie CBE was a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 1999 to 2005. | Scottish politician | 61 | 7 |
| Robert Robinson | Robert Henry Robinson was an English radio and television presenter, game show host, journalist and author. | TV Presenter | 83 | 9 | |
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Charlie Norman | Karl-Erik Albert "Charlie" Norman also known as Charles was a Swedish musician and entertainer. | Swedish musician | 84 | 15 |
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Enos Slaughter | Enos Bradsher Slaughter , nicknamed "Country", was an racist American Major League Baseball right fielder. | American baseball player and coach | 86 | 18 |
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Loretta Young | Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. | American actress | 87 | 20 |
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Kyu Sakamoto | Kyu Sakamoto and raised as Hisashi Ōshima , 10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985) was a Japanese singer and actor, best known outside Japan for his international hit song "Ue o Muite Arukō" , which was sung in Japanese and sold over 13 million copies. | Japanese singer and acttor | 43 | 35 |
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Joseph Storey | Joseph William Storey was an internationally renowned architect based in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. | Canadian architect | 52 | 45 |
| Hermann Struve | Karl Hermann von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer. | German astronomer | 65 | 100 | |
| Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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| Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim | Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim , was a Sudanese writer, women's rights activist and socialist leader. | Politician and human rights campaigner | 88 | 3 | |
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Lauren Bacall | Lauren Bacall was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures. | American actress and singer | 89 | 6 |
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Joe Kubert | Joseph Kubert was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School. | Polish-born American comic book artist | 85 | 8 |
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Guido de Marco | Guido de Marco, was a Maltese politician, who served as the sixth President of Malta from 1999 to 2004. | Maltese politician | 79 | 10 |
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Christian Boussus | Christian Boussus was a left-handed French tennis player who found success in the 1920s and 1930s. | Left-handed french tennis player | 95 | 17 |
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Jim Hughes | James Robert Hughes was an American professional baseball player. | American baseball player | 78 | 19 |
| B. Kliban | Bernard "Hap" Kliban was an American cartoonist. | American cartoonist | 55 | 30 | |
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F. S. Platou | Frithjof Stoud Platou was a Norwegian architect. He worked for the international architects Lars Backer and Erich Mendelsohn before he established his own architectural firm in Oslo. | Norwegian architect | 76 | 40 |
| Pavel Ignatieff | Count Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatiev was an Imperial Russian politician who served as Education Minister for Tsar Nicholas II. | Russian noble and politician | 75 | 75 | |
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David Bierens de Haan | David Bierens de Haan was a Dutch mathematician and historian of science. | Dutch mathematician | 73 | 125 |