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Janis Paige was an American actress and singer. With a career spanning nearly 60 years, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Janis Paige, American actress and singer (born 1922)
Brigitte Bierlein was an Austrian jurist who served as President of the Constitutional Court from 2018 to 2019 and as Chancellor of Austria from 2019 to 2020. An independent, she w…
Brigitte Bierlein, former Austrian chancellor (born 1949)
William Russell Enoch was an English actor who performed as both Russell Enoch and William Russell. His career on stage and screen spanned over seven decades and he first achieved …
William Russell, English actor (born 1924)
John Blackman was an Australian radio and television presenter, voice artist, comedy writer and author. He was most widely-known for his voice-over work for the long-running Nine N…
John Blackman, Australian radio and television presenter (born 1947)
Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones was an American professional racing driver and racing team owner. He is notable for his accomplishments while competing in the Indianapolis 500 and t…
Parnelli Jones, American racing driver (born 1933)
William Alison Anders was a United States Air Force (USAF) major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. In December 1968, he was a member …
William Anders, American astronaut and lunar explorer (born 1933)
Cherukuri Ramoji Rao was an Indian businessman, media proprietor and film producer. He was head of the Ramoji Group which owns the world's largest film production facility Ramoji F…
Ramoji Rao, Indian businessman, media proprietor and film producer (born 1936)
Chester Walker was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and was selected in 2012 to become a member of the Naismith Memorial Bas…
Chet Walker, American basketball player (born 1940)
James Morris Lawson Jr. was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1…
James Lawson, American activist, professor, and minister (born 1928)
Saulos Klaus Chilima was a Malawian economist and politician who served as Vice President of Malawi from 2014 to 2019 and again from 2020 until his death in 2024. Chilima assumed o…
Victims in the 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash:
Raymond Steele Hall was an Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also served in the federal Parliament as a senator for Sout…
Steele Hall, Australian politician, 36th Premier of South Australia (born 1928)
Anthony LoBianco was an American actor.
Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (born 1936)
William Henry Donaldson was an American businessman who was the 27th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), serving from February 2003 to June 2005. He serv…
William H
Howard David Fineman was an American journalist and television commentator. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Fineman covered nine presidential campaigns as a reporter,…
Howard Fineman, American journalist (born 1948)
Françoise Madeleine Hardy was a French singer-songwriter, actress, and author. She was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 196…
Françoise Hardy, French singer-songwriter and actress (born 1944)
Majed Abu Maraheel was a Palestinian long-distance runner, football player, security officer, and athletics coach, who was the first Palestinian to compete at the Olympic Games. Bo…
Majed Abu Maraheel, Palestinian long-distance runner and football player (born 1963)
Neil Edward Goldschmidt was an American businessman and Democratic politician from the state of Oregon who held local, state, and federal offices over three decades, including mayo…
Neil Goldschmidt, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Governor of Oregon (born 1940)
Jerry Alan West was an American basketball player and executive. He played professionally for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and is widely reg…
Jerry West, American basketball player and executive (born 1938)
Angela Tomasa Bofill was an American singer, songwriter and composer. A New York native, she began her professional career in the mid-1970s and is most known for singles such as "T…
Angela Bofill, American R&B singer (born 1954)
Benjamin Gregory Hertzberg was an American actor best known for playing Brian Tanner on the 1986–1990 NBC sitcom ALF.
Benji Gregory, American child actor (born 1978)
Duduzile "Dudu" Cynthia Myeni was a South African businesswoman, a chairperson of South African Airways SOC Limited, and executive chairperson of the Jacob Zuma Foundation since Se…
Dudu Myeni, South African businesswoman (born 1963)
Jamal James Kent was an American chef. In 2010, he won the Bocuse d'Or USA. Kent and his commis Tom Allan went on to represent the U.S. at the international finals of Bocuse d'Or t…
James Kent, American chef (born 1979)
Matija Sarkic was a professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Matija Sarkic, English-born Montenegrin footballer (born 1997)
George Rector Nethercutt Jr. was an American lawyer, author, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he rose to national attention upon his election to the U.S. House of …
George Nethercutt, American lawyer, author, and politician (born 1944)