Died on This Day (29-Mar)
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Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda is a film director who was born in Belgium, but has spent most of her working life in France. | French film director | 90 | 1 |
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Patty Duke | Anna Marie "Patty" Duke was an American actress who appeared on stage, film, and television. | American actress of stage, film, and television | 69 | 4 |
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Günther Kleiber | Günther Kleiber was a former communist politician from the German Democratic Republic . | German politician | 81 | 7 |
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Ângelo de Sousa | Ângelo César Cardoso de Sousa was a Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, better known for continuously experimenting new techniques in his works. | Portuguese artist | 73 | 9 |
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Denny Dent | Dennis E. "Denny" Dent was an American speed painter who was known for his frenetic performances as he painted large portraits of celebrities. | American artist | 55 | 16 |
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John Lewis | John Aaron Lewis was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. | Jazz Pianist | 80 | 19 |
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Milton Horn | Milton Horn is a Russian American sculptor and artist known for work that, according to a 1957 citation of honor from the American Institute of Architects, demonstrated "the truth that architecture and sculpture are not two separate arts but, in the hands of sympathetic collaborators, one and the same". | American artist | 88 | 25 |
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Zlatko Baloković | Zlatko Baloković was a Croatian violinist. | Croatian violinist | 70 | 55 |
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Jesse Corcoran Adkins | Jesse Corcoran Adkins was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. | United States federal judge | 75 | 65 |
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Eileen Blair | Eileen Maud Blair was the first wife of George Orwell . | British writer | 39 | 75 |
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Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov | Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. | Theoretical physicist | 88 | 3 |
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Marc Platt | Marcel Emile Gaston LePlat , known professionally as Marc Platt, was an American ballet dancer, musical theatre performer, and actor. | American ballet dancer and choreographer | 100 | 6 |
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Gerald Estrin | Gerald Estrin was an American computer scientist, and Professor at the UCLA Computer Science Department. | American computer scientist | 90 | 8 |
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Johnnie Cochran | Johnnie Lee Cochran Jr. was a high-profile lawyer and civil activist best known for his leadership role in the defense and criminal acquittal of O. | OJ Simpson Lawyer | 67 | 15 |
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Francis A. Dales | Francis Alonzo Dales was a cadet midshipman in the U. | American sailor | 79 | 17 |
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Anna Sokolow | Anna Sokolow was an American dancer and choreographer who worked internationally, creating political and theatrical pieces. | American dancer | 90 | 20 |
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Luther Terry | Luther Leonidas Terry was an American physician and public health official. | US Surgeon General | 73 | 35 |
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Kid Carsey | Wilfred "Kid" Carsey , was a professional baseball player who was a pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1891 to 1901. | American baseball player | 89 | 60 |
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Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola | Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola was a French painter. | French painter | 78 | 70 |
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Paul-Émile Botta | Paul-Émile Botta was a French scientist who served as Consul in Mosul from 1842, and who discovered the ruins of the ancient Assyrian capital of Dur-Sharrukin. | French archaeologist | 67 | 150 |