Died on This Day (31-Dec)
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| Ivo-Valentino Tomaš | Ivo-Valentino Tomaš is a Croatian football midfielder. | Croatian footballer | 26 | 1 | |
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William Christopher | William Christopher was an American actor and comedian, best known for playing Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U. | American actor | 84 | 4 |
| John Fortune | John Fortune was an English satirist, comedian, writer, and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune. | Comedian | 74 | 7 | |
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Alexander Naumov | Alexander Alexandrovich Naumov was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting, the most known for his works depicting Central Asia. | Russian artist | 75 | 10 |
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Gérard Debreu | Gérard Debreu was a French-born American economist and mathematician. | French economist | 83 | 16 |
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Flaviano Vicentini | Flaviano Vicentini was an Italian road race cyclist who was active between 1963 and 1971. | Italian cyclist | 60 | 18 |
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Alan Cranston | Alan MacGregor Cranston was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California from 1969 to 1993 and as a President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1952. | American politician | 86 | 20 |
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George Allen | George Herbert Allen was an American football coach. | American football coach | 72 | 30 |
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Marshall McLuhan | Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher, whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. | Academic | 69 | 40 |
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Roy A. Young | Roy Archibald Young was an American banker. Most significantly, he was chairman of the Federal Reserve Board between 1927 and 1930 during the presidencies of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. | American businessman | 78 | 60 |
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Ray Sawyer | Ray Sawyer was an American singer and vocalist with the 1970s rock band Dr. | American singer and vocalist | 81 | 2 |
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Natalie Cole | Natalie Maria Cole was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. | American singer, songwriter, and performer | 65 | 5 |
| Günter Rössler | Günter Rössler was a German photographer and photo-journalist who got famous for his artistic nude photographs which made him the Helmut Newton of the East The Leipzig Historical Museum dedicated an exhibition to him showing 40 of his fashion photographs. | German photographer | 86 | 8 | |
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Phillip Whitehead | Phillip Whitehead was a British Labour politician, television producer and writer. | British politician | 68 | 15 |
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Paula Raymond | Paula Raymond was an American model and actress who played the leading lady in numerous movies and television series. | American actress | 79 | 17 |
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Eileen Heckart | Eileen Heckart was an American actress whose career spanned nearly 60 years. | American actress | 82 | 19 |
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Richard Linke | 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 bomber pilot and Knight's Cross recipient | 86 | 25 |
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Ricky Nelson | Eric Hilliard Nelson , known professionally as Ricky Nelson until his 21st birthday when he officially dropped the "y" and simply became Rick Nelson, was an American rock 'n' roll star, pop pioneer, musician, singer-songwriter and actor. | Actor, Musician, Singer | 45 | 35 |
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Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege | Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege was a German general during World War II who held several corps level commands. | German general and Knight's Cross recipient | 76 | 55 |
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Lorenz Hackenholt | Lorenz Hackenholt was a member of the Schutzstaffel with the rank of Hauptscharführer . | German Nazi SS gas chamber executioner | 31 | 75 |