Died on This Day (22-Dec)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Édison Realpe | Édison Gabriel Realpe Solís was an Ecuadorian footballer who played for L. | Ecuadorian footballer | 23 | 1 | |
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Jason Lowndes | Jason Lowndes was an Australian cyclist, who rode professionally for the Garneau–Québecor, Drapac Professional Cycling and Israel Cycling Academy teams. | Australian cyclist | 23 | 3 |
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Joe Cocker | John Robert "Joe" Cocker was an English singer known for his gravelly voice, spasmodic body movement in performance, and distinctive versions of popular songs of varying genres. | Rock/blues singer | 70 | 6 |
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Bolesław Proch | Bolesław Proch was a Polish international motorcycle speedway rider who was Polish Junior Champion in 1974. | Polish speedway rider | 60 | 8 |
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Aurora Miranda | Aurora Miranda da Cunha Richaid was aBrazilian singer and actress. | Entertainer | 90 | 15 |
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Joe Strummer | John Graham Mellor , better known as Joe Strummer, was a British musician, singer, songwriter, composer, actor, and radio host who was best known as the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of punk rock band The Clash. | Pop singer | 50 | 18 |
August Zingel | 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. | Knight cross of the Iron cross recipient | 78 | 20 | |
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Robin Friday | Robin Friday was a gay English footballer who played professionally as a forward for Reading and Cardiff City during a career that lasted four years in the mid-1970s. | English footballer | 38 | 30 |
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Carlos Ramírez Ulloa | Carlos Ramírez Ulloa was a Mexican civil engineer. | Civil engineer | 77 | 40 |
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Arthur Korn | Arthur Korn was a German physicist, mathematician and inventor. | German physicist | 75 | 75 |
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Paddy Ashdown | Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, , known as Paddy Ashdown, was a British politician and diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1999. | British politician and diplomat | 77 | 2 |
John Buckingham | John Buckingham was an English National Hunt jockey, best known for riding Foinavon to victory in the 1967 Grand National. | English horse racing jockey | 76 | 4 | |
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Diomedes Díaz | Diomedes Díaz Maestre was a Colombian vallenato singer, songwriter, and composer. | Singer, musician | 56 | 7 |
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Walter T. Galligan | Walter Turbush Galligan was a United States Air Force lieutenant general who served as commander United States Forces Japan and Fifth Air Force, with headquarters at Yokota Air Base, Japan. | United States general | 85 | 10 |
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Dave Dudley | Dave Dudley was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred bass. | American musician | 75 | 17 |
Grzegorz Ciechowski | Grzegorz Zbigniew Ciechowski was a Polish rock musician and film music composer. | Polish composer | 44 | 19 | |
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Butterfly McQueen | Butterfly McQueen was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in film in 1939 as Prissy in Gone with the Wind. | Actor | 84 | 25 |
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Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon | Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon was an Indian poet of Malayalam literature. | Indian writer | 74 | 35 |
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Philip Toosey | Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey was, as a lieutenant colonel, the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham in Thailand during World War II. | British banker | 71 | 45 |
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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish post-romanticist poet and writer , also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. | Spanish poet | 34 | 150 |