Died on This Day (23-Dec)
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George Cohen | George Reginald Cohen MBE is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back. | English footballer | 83 | 2 |
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Kay Purcell | Kay Purcell was an English actress. She was known for her roles as Cynthia Daggert in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale , Candice Smilie in the school-based drama series Waterloo Road , Gina Conway in the CBBC children's drama series Tracy Beaker Returns and its spin-off series The Dumping Ground , and Mrs. | English actress | 57 | 4 |
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Honey Lantree | The Honeycombs were an English beat group, founded in 1963 in North London, best known for their chart-topping 1964 hit, the million selling "Have I the Right?"The band featured Honey Lantree on drums, one of the few female drummers in bands at that time. | English drummer | 75 | 6 |
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Don Howe | Donald Howe was an English football player, coach, manager and pundit. | English football player, coach, manager | 80 | 9 |
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Eric Charles Twelves Wilson | Lieutenant Colonel Eric Charles Twelves Wilson VC was an English British Army officer and colonial administrator. | Victoria Cross recipient | 96 | 16 |
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Charlie Drake | Charles Edward Springall , known professionally as Charlie Drake, was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer. | Comedian | 81 | 18 |
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Charles Wesley Shilling | Capt. Charles Wesley Shilling USN was an American physician who was known as a leader in the field of undersea and hyperbaric medicine, research, and education. | American physician and United States Navy officer | 93 | 30 |
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Dorothy Kunhardt | Dorothy Kunhardt was an American children's-book author, best known for the baby book Pat the Bunny. | Children's Author | 78 | 45 |
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Jean Bourgknecht | Jean Bourgknecht was a Swiss politician, mayor of Fribourg and member of the Swiss Federal Council . | Swiss politician | 62 | 60 |
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Momčilo Ninčić | Momcilo Nincic was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and economist, president of the League of Nations from 1926 to 1927. | Serbian politician and economist | 73 | 75 |
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Joan Didion | Joan Didion was an American writer. Along with Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. | American writer | 87 | 3 |
| Yendris Rodriguez Valdez | Yendris Rodríguez Váldez was a Cuban professional middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and cruiserweight boxer, based in the Miami, Florida, area, whose career ended when he was shot to death during a dispute at work. | Cuban boxer | 30 | 5 | |
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Anis Amri | On 19 December 2016, a truck was deliberately driven into the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, leaving 12 people dead and 56 others injured. | Tunisian Islamic terrorist | 24 | 8 |
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Edward Schillebeeckx | Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx OP was a Belgian Catholic theologian born in Antwerp. | Belgian theologian | 95 | 15 |
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Oscar Peterson | Oscar Emmanuel Peterson CC CQ OOnt was a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer. | Jazz Pianist | 82 | 17 |
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P. V. Narasimha Rao | Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao was an Indian lawyer, statesman and politician who served as the 9th Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996. | Prime Minister of India | 83 | 20 |
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Richard Rado | Richard Rado FRS was a German-born British mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. | British mathematician | 83 | 35 |
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Tiburcio Carías Andino | Tiburcio Carías Andino was a Honduran politician and military officer with the rank of Major General. | President of Honduras | 93 | 55 |
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Hunter Scarlett | Hunter Watt Scarlett was a notable ophthalmologist, and is best known for his college football career for the Penn Quakers from 1904 to 1908. | American football player | 69 | 70 |
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Marietta Piccolomini | Marietta Piccolomini was an Italian soprano. She was most famous for the role of Violetta in La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, which she performed in England, France, and the United States, as well as her native Italy. | Italian soprano | 65 | 125 |