Famous people died this week - page 3
The Most Famous people died this week | |||
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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 |
Benjamin Ruggiero | April 19, 1926 | American | Benjamin Ruggiero was a mobster or ‘soldato’ hailing from the Bonnano crime family |
Pat Morita | June 28, 1932 | American | Pat Morita, born as Noriyuki Morita, was an American actor and comedian |
Jonah Lomu | May 12, 1975 | New Zealander | Jonah Lomu was a New Zealand rugby player |
Svetlana Alliluyeva | February 28, 1926 | Russian | Svetlana Alliluyeva, also known as Lana Peters, was the only daughter and the favourite child of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin |
Flip Wilson | December 8, 1933 | American | Flip Wilson was an American comedian and actor |
Mary Kay Ash | May 12, 1918 | American | Mary Kay Ash was a famous American businesswoman and the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc |
Alexandra of Denmark | December 1, 1844 | British | Alexandra of Denmark was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India |
Cab Calloway | December 25, 1907 | American | Cab Calloway was a jazz singer and bandleader |
Lee Harvey Oswald | October 18, 1939 | American | Lee Harvey Oswald is the accused assassin of the 35th US President John F |
Roberto Matta
Roberto Matta was one of the best-known painters from Chile
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin was a famous French painter and draftsman and a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco was a Spanish general who took control of Spain after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and established a military dictatorship
Manuela Sáenz
Manuela Saenz was an iconic South American revolutionary who played a key role in the liberation of New Granada
Georges Clémenceau
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman and Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920
Jacques Anquetil
Jacques Anquetil was a French cyclist who won the most prestigious 'Tour de France' 5 times
Guru Tegh Bahadur
Guru Tegh Bahadur was the ninth of the ten Gurus of the religion of Sikhism
Rosalie Edge
Rosalie Edge was an American women’s rights activist and environmentalist who founded the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania.
Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson was a fervent abolitionist of slavery who served as the 18th Vice President of the United States, from 1873 to 1875