Died on This Day (12-Nov)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Edwin Bramall | Field Marshal Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall, was a British Army officer. | British Army officer | 95 | 1 |
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Liz Smith | Mary Elizabeth Smith was an American gossip columnist. | American gossip columnist | 94 | 3 |
Jihadi John | Mohammed Emwazi was a British-Kuwaiti militiant believed to be the person seen in several videos produced by the Islamist extremist group ISIL showing the beheadings of a number of captives in 2014 and 2015. | Isis Terrorist | 27 | 5 | |
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John Tavener | Sir John Kenneth Tavener was an English composer, known for his extensive output of religious works, including The Protecting Veil, Song for Athene and The Lamb. | English composer | 69 | 7 |
Peter Roebuck | Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who achieved later renown as an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. | Cricketer | 55 | 9 | |
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Arthur K. Cebrowski | Vice Admiral Arthur Karl Cebrowski was a United States Navy admiral. | United States Navy admiral and aviator | 63 | 15 |
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Roland Dobrushin | Roland Lvovich Dobrushin was a mathematician who made important contributions to probability theory, mathematical physics, and information theory. | Russian mathematician | 66 | 25 |
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Dicky Wells | William Wells , known professionally as Dicky Wells , was an American jazz trombonist. | American jazz trombonist | 78 | 35 |
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Reginald Weaver | Reginald Walter Darcy Weaver was an Australian conservative parliamentarian who served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 28 years. | Australian politician | 69 | 75 |
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William Hayley | William Hayley was an English writer, best known as the biographer of his friend William Cowper. | British writer | 75 | 200 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Stan Lee | Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. | American comic book writer | 95 | 2 |
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Lupita Tovar | Guadalupe Natalia Tovar , known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress and centenarian best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Drácula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director. | Mexican-American actress | 106 | 4 |
Warren Clarke | Warren Clarke was an English actor. He appeared in many films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. | Actor | 67 | 6 | |
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Hans Hammarskiöld | Hans Arvid Hammarskiöld was a Swedish professional photographer. | photographer | 87 | 8 |
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Henryk Górecki | Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. | Polish composer | 76 | 10 |
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Leah Rabin | Leah Rabin was the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995. | Israeli Prime Minister | 72 | 20 |
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Eve Arden | Eve Arden was an American film, radio, stage, television actress, and comedian. | Actress | 82 | 30 |
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Vladimir Zotikov | Vladimir Evgenievich Zotikov was a prominent Russian and Soviet scientist and textile engineer best known for having developed the theory of cotton-spinning. | Russian scientist, textile engineer | 83 | 50 |
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Auguste Duméril | Auguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. | French zoologist | 57 | 150 |
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Peter Tordenskjold | Peter Jansen Wessel Tordenskiold , commonly referred to as Tordenskjold , was a Norwegian nobleman and flag officer who spent his career in the service of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy. | Danish-Norwegian admiral | 29 | 300 |