Died on This Day (19-Dec)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Shahdon Winchester | Shahdon Shane Andre Winchester was a Trinidadian professional footballer who played as a winger for the Trinidad and Tobago national team. | Trinidadian footballer | 27 | 1 | |
Clifford Irving | Clifford Michael Irving was an American novelist and investigative reporter. | American novelist and investigative reporter | 87 | 3 | |
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Jimmy Hill | James William Thomas Hill, OBE was an English football professional and later a renowned television personality. | English football professional and personality | 87 | 5 |
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Peter Struck | Peter Struck was the German Minister of Defence under chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 2002 to 2005. | German politician | 69 | 8 |
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Renata Tebaldi | Renata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period and was especially prominent as one of the stars of La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera. | Opera singer | 82 | 16 |
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Jakob Weidemann | Jakob Weidemann was a Norwegian artist. Jakob Weidemann is regarded as one of Norway's more important artists of post-war Modernism. | Norwegian painter | 78 | 19 |
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Michael Oakeshott | Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of law. | British philosopher | 89 | 30 |
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Nap Rucker | George Napoleon "Nap" Rucker was a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Superbas/Dodgers/Robins. | American baseball player | 86 | 50 |
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Charles S. Farnsworth | Major General Charles Stewart Farnsworth was a United States Army officer and civic leader. | United States Army general | 93 | 65 |
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John F. Ahearn | John F. Ahearn was a New York City political figure who served in the New York State Assembly, the New York State Senate, and as Manhattan Borough President. | American politician | 67 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Norman Gimbel | Norman Gimbel was an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes. | American lyricist of popular songs | 91 | 2 | |
Andrei Karlov | Andrei Gennadyevich Karlov was a Russian diplomat who served as the Russian Ambassador to Turkey and earlier as the nation's ambassador to North Korea. | Russian Ambassador | 62 | 4 | |
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Herb Geller | Herbert Arnold Geller was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. | American musician | 85 | 7 |
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Vincent Gigante | Vincent Louis Gigante , also known as "the Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005. | American boxer, mobster | 77 | 15 |
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Hope Lange | Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American film, stage, and television actress. | American actress | 70 | 17 |
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Rob Buck | Robert Norman "Rob" Buck was a founding member and guitarist of the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs from 1981 until his death from liver disease in 2000. | American musician | 42 | 20 |
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Henk Hordijk | Hendrik "Henk" Hordijk was a Dutch association football player, who played as a midfielder for AFC Ajax and for the Netherlands national team. | Dutch footballer | 82 | 45 |
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Ivor Jennings | Sir William Ivor Jennings, was a British lawyer and academic. | British lawyer | 62 | 55 |
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Théodore Steeg | Théodore Steeg was a lawyer and professor of philosophy who became Premier of the French Third Republic. | French politician Prime Minister of France | 82 | 70 |
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John G. Talbot | John Gunnell Talbot was an officer in the United States Navy. | United States Naval officer | 26 | 150 |