Famous people died this month - page 5
The Most Famous people died this month | |||
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| Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
| Charles Bukowski | August 16, 1920 | German, American | Charles Bukowski was a German-born American novelist, short story writer and poet |
| Selena | April 16, 1971 | American | Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, famously known as the ‘Queen of Tejano music’, was a Mexican-American singer, composer, actress, spokesperson and fashion designer |
| Johnny Appleseed | September 26, 1774 | American | Johnny Appleseed was a legendary American nurseryman who is credited with the introduction of apple trees in large parts of the US |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | December 16, 1770 | German | Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the greatest composers the world has ever had |
| Sarojini Naidu | February 13, 1879 | Indian | Sarojini Naidu was an Indian freedom fighter and poet |
| Lev Yashin | October 22, 1929 | Russian | Lev Yashin was a footballer who played for Soviet Russia |
| Edmond Dédé | November 20, 1827 | American | Read on to know more about the childhood, life and timeline of this Violinist and composer who proved his mettle as a child prodigy. |
| Olga Hepnarová | June 30, 1951 | Czech | Olga Hepnarová was a Czech murderer executed for killing eight people with a truck in 1973 |
| Alexander Alekhine | October 31, 1892 | Portuguese, Russian | Alexander Alekhine was a celebrated chess player of Russia |
| Isaac Newton | January 4, 1643 | British | Isaac Newton was an English scientist and mathematician, who discovered gravitation and Newtonian Mechanics |
John Demjanjuk
John Demjanjuk was a former Nazi guard in the Sobibór extermination camp in the occupied Poland, convicted in Germany for assisting in the murder of 28,060 Jews.
Philip Showalter Hench
Philip Showalter Hench was an American physician and Nobel laureate who discovered the hormone cortisone
John James Rickard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist who is credited for the discovery of insulin
Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield was a renowned English stage and screen actor
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irene Joliot-Curie was a Nobel Laureate who along with her husband, Frederic Joliot, discovered artificial radioactivity
Friedrich Bergius
Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal
Otto Diels
Otto Diels or Otto Paul Herman Diels was a German scientist who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry
Max Delbrück
Max Delbrück was a German born American biophysicist who initiated the study of molecular biology
Norman Haworth
Sir Norman Haworth was a British Chemist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937