Famous people died this month - page 5
The Most Famous people died this month | |||
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Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
Muddy Waters | April 4, 1913 | American | Muddy Waters was a blues musician referred to as the 'father of modern Chicago blues.' |
Brandon Burlsworth | September 20, 1976 | American | Brandon Burlsworth was a football player who played for the Arkansas Razorbacks |
Jennifer Syme | December 7, 1972 | American | Jennifer Syme was an American actress and personal assistant |
Monika Dannemann | June 24, 1945 | German | Check out all that you wanted to know about Monika Dannemann, the famous German Figure Skater & Painter; her birthday, her family and personal life, her boyfriends, fun trivia facts and more. |
Pamela Courson | December 22, 1946 | American | Pamela Courson was the long-term companion of the American singer Jim Morrison |
Mutsuhiro Watanabe | January 18, 1918 | Japanese | Mutsuhiro Watanabe was an Imperial Japanese Army corporal in the Second World War |
Carlos Castaneda | December 25, 1925 | American | Carlos Castaneda was an American author who penned ‘The Teachings of Dan Juan’ |
Walter Kohn | March 9, 1923 | Austrian | Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist and physicist |
Emiliano Zapata | August 8, 1879 | Mexican | Emiliano Zapata was a Mexican revolutionary leader and one of the most important figures of the Mexican Revolution. |
Ashoka | 304 BC | Indian | Ashoka was the third emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty and ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent |
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn was of the most prolific English writers, authors and poets of English Restoration era
Johannes Peter Müller
Johannes Peter Müller was a German physiologist and comparative anatomist
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov was a Russian scientist, poet, geologist and astronomer
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Roger Wolcott Sperry was a noted neuropsychologist and neurobiologist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Baruch Samuel Blumberg was a Jewish-American physician and geneticist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976
Sir Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz was a German born biophysicist who is known for his remarkable work on nerve biochemistry
Hugo von Mohl
Hugo von Mohl was a German botanist who was a major figure in the field of plant anatomy in the mid-19th century
George Wald
George Wald was an American scientist and Nobel Laureate who is known for his work with pigments in the retina