Died on This Day (20-Aug)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Richard Booth | Richard George William Pitt Booth was a British bookseller, known for his contribution to the success of Hay-on-Wye as a centre for second-hand bookselling. | Welsh bookseller | 80 | 1 |
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Jerry Lewis | Jerry Lewis , nicknamed "The King of Comedy", was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian, who appeared in over sixty films and other media, from the Martin & Lewis partnership with singer Dean Martin to on his own as a soloist. | American comedian | 91 | 3 |
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Melody Patterson | Melody Patricia Patterson was an American actress known for her role as Wrangler Jane in the 1960s television series F Troop and for her role as Ellie in the cult horror film Blood and Lace . | American actress | 66 | 5 |
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Phyllis Diller | Phyllis Ada Diller was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician and artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh. | American actress | 95 | 8 |
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Conny Mus | Coenraad Willem "Conny" Mus was a Dutch journalist, known as a correspondent for RTL Nieuws in Israel and the Middle East. | Dutch journalist | 59 | 10 |
Mitch Halpern | Mitchell Howard Halpern was an American boxing referee who officiated some of the sport's biggest matches. | Boxing Referee | 33 | 20 | |
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Wolfgang Gröbner | Wolfgang Gröbner was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. | Austrian mathematician | 81 | 40 |
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Hildo Krop | Hildebrand Lucien Krop was a prolific Dutch sculptor and furniture designer, widely known as the city sculptor of Amsterdam, where his work is well represented. | Dutch sculptor | 86 | 50 |
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Alexander Roda Roda | Alexander Roda Roda was an Austrian writer. | Austrian writer | 73 | 75 |
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Herbert Edward Ryle | Sir Herbert Edward Ryle was an English Old Testament scholar and Anglican bishop, successively serving as the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Winchester and the Dean of Westminster. | British bishop | 69 | 95 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Uri Avnery | Uri Avnery was an Israeli writer, politician, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. | Israeli writer | 94 | 2 |
Brian Rix | Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, was a British actor-manager, who produced a record-breaking sequence of long-running farces on the London stage, including Dry Rot, Simple Spymen and One for the Pot. | British actor and activist | 92 | 4 | |
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Elmore Leonard | Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. | Novelist, screenwriter | 87 | 7 |
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Chal Port | Chalmers "Chal" Port was a college baseball coach at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. | American baseball coach | 80 | 9 |
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Fred Hoyle | Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. | English astronomer, writer | 86 | 19 |
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Hugo Pratt | Ugo Eugenio Prat, better known as Hugo Pratt , was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese. | Comic creator | 68 | 25 |
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Adolf Dymsza | Adolf Dymsza was a Polish comedy actor of both the pre-World War II and post-war eras. | Polish actor | 75 | 45 |
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Frank L. Smith | Frank Leslie Smith was an Illinois politician. | American politician | 82 | 70 |
Herbert Hall Turner | Herbert Hall Turner FRS was a British astronomer and seismologist. | British scientist | 69 | 90 |