Famous people died this month - page 10
The Most Famous people died this month | |||
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| Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
| Gia Carangi | January 29, 1960 | American | Gia Carangi was one of the very first supermodels from the USA |
| Barbara Daly Baekeland | 1922 | American | Barbara Daly Baekeland was a gorgeous American model and socialite who was murdered ruthlessly by her own son |
| Benjamin Ruggiero | April 19, 1926 | American | Benjamin Ruggiero was a mobster or ‘soldato’ hailing from the Bonnano crime family |
| Merlin Santana | March 14, 1976 | American | Merlin Santana was an Afro-Latino-American television actor |
| Pat Morita | June 28, 1932 | American | Pat Morita, born as Noriyuki Morita, was an American actor and comedian |
| Alan Watts | January 6, 1915 | British, American | Alan Watts was a famous British philosopher known for his Zen teachings and interpretations of Eastern philosophy |
| Gene Tierney | November 19, 1920 | American | Gene Eliza Tierney was a yesteryear American film and stage actress |
| Alfred Wegener | November 1, 1880 | German | Alfred Wegener was a renowned German geophysicist and meteorologists who is known for pioneering the ‘Continental Drift’ theory |
| Eddie Guerrero | October 9, 1967 | American | Eddie Guerrero was a Mexican-American wrestler |
| Jonathan Brandis | April 13, 1976 | American | Jonathan Brandis was an American actor known for his role in the miniseries ‘It.’ |
Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Lysenko was a Russian agronomist who pioneered the scientific movement Lysenkoism, in genetics
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was one of the most acclaimed Russian writers, who wrote the famous ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’
Frederick Sanger
Fredrick Sanger was a two time Nobel Prize winning biochemist, who discovered the ‘Sanger method’ for sequencing DNA
Peter Debye
Peter Debye a Nobel Prize winning chemist of Dutch origin who developed the ‘Debye Model’
Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis was a famous American biologist who co-developed the Gaia theory and studied evolution in nucleated cells
Mary I of England
Mary I was the Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 until 1558
Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey was an English cardinal and statesman, who dominated King Henry VIII’s government from 1515 to 1529
Thomas Willis
Thomas Willis was a famous English physician who is best known for his discovery of ‘Circle of Willlis’