Died on This Day (10-Oct)
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Paul Polak | Paul Polak was the co-founder and CEO of Windhorse International, a for-profit social venture with the mission of inspiring and leading a revolution in how companies design, price, market and distribute products to benefit the 2. | American entrepreneur | 88 | 1 |
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Scott Carpenter | Malcolm Scott Carpenter was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. | NASA astronaut | 88 | 7 |
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Jagjit Singh | Jagjit Singh, born Jagmohan Singh Dhiman , popularly known as "The Ghazal King" or "King of Ghazals", was an Indian composer, singer and musician. | Musician, Singer | 70 | 9 |
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Christopher Reeve | Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, director, and activist, best known for playing the main character and title role in the film Superman and its three sequels. | Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter | 52 | 16 |
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Teresa Graves | Terresa M. Graves , credited as Teresa Graves, was an American actress and singer best known for her starring role as undercover police detective Christie Love in the ABC crime-drama television series Get Christie Love! . | American actress and singer | 53 | 18 |
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Robert Finch | Robert Hutchinson Finch was a Republican politician from La Canada Flintridge, California. | Republican politician | 70 | 25 |
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Orson Welles | George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film. | Broadcaster, director, actor | 70 | 35 |
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Gustav von Vaerst | Gustav von Vaerst was a German general during World War II. | German general | 81 | 45 |
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Meri Te Tai Mangakahia | Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia was a campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand, a suffragist who inspired future generations of Māori women. | New Zealand suffragist | 52 | 100 |
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Wilson Cary Nicholas | {{Infobox officeholder|name = Wilson Cary Nicholas|image = Wilson Cary Nicholas 2. | American politician | 59 | 200 |
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Mary Midgley | Mary Beatrice Midgley was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights. | British philosopher | 99 | 2 |
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Basil L. Plumley | Basil L. Plumley was a career soldier and airborne combat infantryman in the United States Army who rose to the rank of command sergeant major. | United States Army soldier | 92 | 8 |
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Joan Sutherland | Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. | Australian opera singer | 83 | 10 |
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Eugene Istomin | Eugene George Istomin was an American pianist. He was a winner of the Leventritt Award and recorded extensively as a soloist and in a piano trio in which he collaborated with Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose. | American pianist | 77 | 17 |
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Bruce Vento | Bruce Frank Vento was an American politician, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 until his death in 2000, representing Minnesota's 4th congressional district. | US Representative | 60 | 20 |
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Irene Mayer Selznick | Irene Gladys Selznick was an American socialite and theatrical producer. | American theatre producer | 83 | 30 |
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Billie Thomas | William "Billie" Thomas Jr. was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang short films from 1934 until the series' end in 1944. | Film actor | 49 | 40 |
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Édouard Daladier | Édouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War. | French politician | 86 | 50 |
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Mordecai Bartley | Mordecai Bartley was a Whig politician from northeastern Ohio. | American politician | 86 | 150 |
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Antoine Coysevox | Charles Antoine Coysevox , was a French sculptor in the Baroque and Style Louis XIV, best known for his sculpture decorating the gardens and Palace of Versailles and his portrait busts. | French artist | 80 | 300 |