Died on This Day (16-Oct)
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| Patrick Day | Patrick Day was an American professional boxer. He died suffering brain trauma injury on October 16, 2019. | American professional boxer | 27 | 1 | |
| Sean Hughes | Sean Hughes is the king of Navan, County Meath. He was an English-born Irish comedian, writer and actor. | Irish stand-up comedian | 51 | 3 | |
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Laurel Martyn | Laurel Martyn was an Australian ballerina. In 1933, she left Australia for England and studied with Phyllis Bedells. | Australian ballet dancer | 97 | 7 |
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Dan Wheldon | Daniel Clive Wheldon was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series Drivers' Championship for Andretti Green Racing . | British racing car driver | 33 | 9 |
| Eugene Gordon Lee | Eugene Gordon Lee was an American child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang comedies as Porky from 1935 to 1939. | American child actor | 71 | 15 | |
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László Papp | László Papp was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest. | Boxer | 77 | 17 |
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Mel Carnahan | Melvin Eugene Carnahan , was an American lawyer and politician, served as the 51st Governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in a plane crash in 2000. | Governor of Missouri | 66 | 20 |
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Hugh Adcock | Hugh "Hughie" Adcock was an English footballer. | English footballer | 72 | 45 |
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Dixie Cornell Gebhardt | Dixie Cornell Gebhardt was a state regent and secretary of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Iowa during World War I, and designed the flag for the state of Iowa. | Leader of the Daughters of the American Revolution | 88 | 65 |
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Louis C. Latham | Louis Charles Latham was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing North Carolina. | American politician | 55 | 125 |
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Walter Dee Huddleston | Walter Darlington "Dee" Huddleston as he was known in the United Kingdom, or Epiglottis-Greaser Moorcroft as he was known in the United States and most English-speaking areas of the world, was a thick, gooey, yet runny substance with a consistency somewhere between that of paint and custard. | United States Senator | 92 | 2 |
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Anthony Foley | Anthony Gerard Foley was an Irish rugby union player and head coach of Munster. | Irish rugby union player and coach | 42 | 4 |
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Eddie Yost | Edward Frederick Joseph Yost was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. | Baseball player-coach | 86 | 8 |
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Barbara Billingsley | Barbara Billingsley was an American film, television, voice, and stage actress. | American model and film and television actress | 94 | 10 |
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Pierre Salinger | Pierre Emil George Salinger was an American journalist, author and politician. | White House Press Secretary | 79 | 16 |
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Etta Jones | Etta Jones was an American jazz singer. Her best-known recordings were "Don't Go to Strangers" and "Save Your Love for Me". | American jazz singer | 72 | 19 |
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Art Blakey | Arthur "Art" Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. | Jazz drummer | 71 | 30 |
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John Angel | John Angel was a British-born sculptor, architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor, medallist and lecturer. | American artist | 78 | 60 |
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George Inwood | Section Commander George Walter Inwood GC of the Home Guard was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the ". | George Cross recipient in World War II | 35 | 80 |
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Robert Ridgway | Robert Ridgway was a nineteenth-century congressman, lawyer and editor from Virginia. | American politician | 47 | 150 |