Famous people died this month
The Most Famous people died this month | |||
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Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
Guccio Gucci | March 26, 1881 | Italian, British | Guccio Gucci was a famous fashion designer from Florence, Italy, and the founder of the world-renowned fashion brand ‘Gucci.’ |
John Cabot | 1450 | Italian | John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer who was the first European to discover the coast of North America |
Sundiata Keita | August 20, 1217 | Central African | Sundiata Keita was the founder of the Mali Empire in West Africa |
Peter Finch | September 28, 1916 | Australian | Peter Finch was an English-born Australian actor, who became the first person to win an Academy Award posthumously |
Emily Greene Balch | January 8, 1867 | American | Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist who won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize |
Marcheline Bertrand | May 9, 1950 | American | Marcheline Bertrand was an American actress and humanitarian worker, best known as mother of Angelina Jolie |
Yvonne De Carlo | September 1, 1922 | Canadian, American | Yvonne De Carlo was a Canadian born American actress, singer, and dancer |
Mark Salling | August 17, 1982 | American | Mark Wayne Salling was an American actor, singer and musician |
Jack Lord | December 30, 1920 | American | Jack Lord is an American artist, actor and philanthropist famous for his role in ‘Hawaii Five-O’ as Detective Steve McGarrett |
Roza Shanina | April 3, 1924 | Russian | Roza Shanina was a Russian sniper who came to be known as “the unseen terror of East Prussia” during World War II |
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
Antony Armstrong-Jones was a British photographer and film-maker
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin was a communist revolutionary who led the famous October revolution in Russia
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was a Republican politician who served as the 30th President of the United States
Hiroo Onoda
Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer
Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly was an American journalist who is best known for her investigative and undercover reporting
Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century and is credited as the person who spread Chan Buddhism to China.
Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky was one of America’s most powerful gangsters of the 19th century