Died on This Day (02-Dec)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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George Atkinson III | George Henry Atkinson III was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League . | American football player | 27 | 1 | |
Les Whitten | Les Whitten was an American investigative reporter at the Washington Merry-Go-Round under Jack Anderson, as well as translator of French poetry by Baudelaire and influential novelist of Horror and Science Fiction books. | American investigative reporter | 89 | 3 | |
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Sandy Berger | Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger was a political consultant and convicted felon who served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor for President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. | United States National Security Advisor | 70 | 5 |
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William Allain | William Alexander "Bill" Allain was an American politician who held office as the 59th Governor of Mississippi as a Democrat from 1984 to 1988. | Governor of Mississippi | 85 | 7 |
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Ron Santo | Ronald Edward Santo was an American Major League Baseball third baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs from 1960 through 1973 and the Chicago White Sox in 1974. | Baseball player | 70 | 10 |
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Mona Van Duyn | Mona Jane Van Duyn was an American poet. She was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1992. | American poet | 83 | 16 |
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Roxie Roker | Roxie Albertha Roker was an American actress who portrayed Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons , half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime time television. | American actor | 66 | 25 |
Aniello Dellacroce | Aniello John "Neil" Dellacroce , was an American mobster and underboss of the Gambino crime family. | Mafiosi | 71 | 35 | |
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Alan Beddoe | Lieutenant-Commander Alan Brookman Beddoe, OC, OBE, HFHS, FHSC was a Canadian artist, war artist, consultant in heraldry and founder and first president of the Heraldry Society of Canada in 1965. | Canadian artist | 82 | 45 |
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Thomas Birkett | Thomas Birkett was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1891 and a member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Ottawa City from 1900 to 1904. | Canadian politician | 76 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Paul Sherwen | Paul Sherwen was an English professional racing cyclist and later a broadcaster on cycling, notably the Tour de France. | English racing cyclist | 62 | 2 |
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Sammy Lee | Samuel "Sammy" Lee was an American physician and diver. | Korean diver | 96 | 4 |
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Bobby Keys | Robert Henry Keys was an American saxophonist who performed with other musicians as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. | Saxophone player | 70 | 6 |
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Bill Tapia | William Tapia , known as "Uncle Bill" and "Tappy", was an American musician, born to Portuguese parents. | Musician | 103 | 9 |
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Nat Mayer Shapiro | Nat Mayer Shapiro was an American visual artist. | American artist | 86 | 15 |
Chris Antley | Christopher Wiley Antley was an American National Champion and U. | Jockey | 34 | 20 | |
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Aaron Copland | Aaron Copland was an American Composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. | American politician | 90 | 30 |
Jean Donovan | Jean Marie Donovan was an American lay missionary who was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries—Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel—by members of the military of El Salvador. | Missionary | 27 | 40 | |
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Felix Lembersky | Felix Samoilovich Lembersky was a Russian/Soviet painter, artist, teacher, theater stage designer and an organizer of artistic groups. | Painter and theater stage designer | 57 | 50 |
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William D. Washington | William Dickinson Washington was an American painter and teacher of art. | American artist | 37 | 150 |