Famous people died this week
The Most Famous people died this week | |||
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Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
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 |
Lev Yashin | October 22, 1929 | Russian | Lev Yashin was a footballer who played for Soviet Russia |
Alexander Alekhine | October 31, 1892 | Portuguese, Russian | Alexander Alekhine was a celebrated chess player of Russia |
Mary Ann Cotton | October 31, 1832 | British | Mary Ann Cotton was an English serial-killer, whose victims included her own husbands, a lover and several children |
Ota Benga | January 1, 1883 | Congolese | Ota Benga was a Congolese Mbuti pygmy, best known for being featured in an exhibit in the Bronx Zoo in New York, with monkeys |
Mohammad Ali | April 19, 1931 | Pakistani | Mohammad Ali was a famous Pakistani film actor |
Ida B. Wells | July 16, 1862 | American | Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, suffragist and a civil rights activist |
Johan Cruyff | April 25, 1947 | Dutch | Johan Cruyff was a Dutch footballer and a football manager |
Big John Studd | February 19, 1948 | American | John William Minton, better known as Big John Studd, was a well-known American professional wrestler and actor |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | August 28, 1749 | German | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a distinguished German writer and regarded as a genius of modern German literature |
Chuck Barris
Chuck Barris was an American game show creator, producer, and host
Polykarp Kusch
Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science fiction writer, inventor and futurist who had also served in the Royal Air Force during the World War II
Cesar Milstein
Cesar Milstein was an Argentinian biochemist who received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of monoclonal antibody
Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield was a renowned English stage and screen actor
Norman Haworth
Sir Norman Haworth was a British Chemist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937
D. S. Senanayake
Don Stephen Senanayake respected as the ‘Father of the Nation’, was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Jones Chisholm was an English philanthropist and humanitarian known for working towards female immigrant welfare in Australia
Girija Prasad Koirala
Girija Prasad Koirala was a Nepalese politician who served as the Prime Minister of the country at four different times