Famous people died this week - page 4
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 |
Garret Hobart
Garret Hobart served as the 24th Vice President of the United States, under President William McKinley
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
Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis was a famous American biologist who co-developed the Gaia theory and studied evolution in nucleated cells
Arthur Eddington
Arthur Eddington was one of the most renowned astronomers of 19th century and has many scientific achievements to his credit
Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence was a popular singer and songwriter in international music world during the 1980s and 90s
Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay was an Australian novelist, one of the country’s best-selling authors
Gustáv Husák
Gustav Husak was a Slovak politician who served as the President of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1989