Died on This Day (27-Oct)
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai , was an Iraqi terrorist and the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from 2014 until his death. | ISIS Leader | 48 | 1 |
Fatim Jawara | Fatim Jawara was a Gambian footballer who played for the Gambia women's national football team and top Gambian women's football club Red Scorpions FC. | Gambian footballer | 19 | 4 | |
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Hans Werner Henze | Hans Werner Henze was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition. | German composer | 86 | 8 |
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Walter Loos | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of Nazi Germany during World War II. | German flying ace | 81 | 16 |
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Paul-Albert Kausch | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of the Third Reich during World War II. | SS officer | 90 | 19 |
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck | John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician. | American physicist | 81 | 40 |
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Frans Luitjes | Franciscus Jacobus "Frans" Luitjes was a Dutch sprinter. | Dutch sprinter | 21 | 55 |
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Clark Griffith | Clark Calvin Griffith , nicknamed "The Old Fox", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, manager and team owner. | Major League Baseball player, manager, owner | 85 | 65 |
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Augustyn Łukosz | Augustyn Łukosz was a Polish national activist and socialist politician from the region of Zaolzie, Czechoslovakia. | Polish politician | 56 | 80 |
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Oswald Reid | Oswald Austin Reid VC was a South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 26 | 100 |
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Mario Segale | Mario Arnold Segale was an American businessman and real estate developer. | American businessman and real estate developer | 84 | 2 |
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Lou Reed | Lewis Allan Reed was an American musician, singer, songwriter and poet. | American singer | 71 | 7 |
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Néstor Kirchner | Néstor Carlos Kirchner was an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and as Governor of Santa Cruz from 1991 to 2003. | President of Argentina | 60 | 10 |
Rod Roddy | Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy was an American radio and television announcer. | TV Announcer | 66 | 17 | |
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Xavier Cugat | Xavier Cugat was a Catalan musician and bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. | Band leader | 90 | 30 |
Rex Stout | Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. | Detective writer | 88 | 45 | |
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Gábor Ugron | Gábor Ugron de Ábránfalva the Younger was a Hungarian politician, a member of one of the oldest noble families of Transylvania, who served as Interior Minister between 1917 and 1918. | Hungarian politician | 80 | 60 |
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Antonio Palacios | Antonio Palacios Ramilo was a Spanish architect. Distinguished by the monumental eclecticism he left as imprint in many of his projects, he helped define the architectural identity of Madrid in the first half of the 20th century. | Spanish architect | 73 | 75 |
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Harry Webb Farrington | Harry Webb Farrington was an American author, poet, hymn writer, preacher, soldier, and educator. | American musician | 51 | 90 |
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Napoleon B. Harrison | Napoleon Bonaparte Harrison was an officer of the United States Navy who served during the Mexican–American and Civil War. | United States Navy officer | 47 | 150 |