Death Anniversary Thread

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880 years ago John II Komnenos, who was Byzantine emperor, died at the age of 53

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Pablo Picasso died 50 years ago at the age of 91

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Marian Anderson died 30 years ago, the opera singer was 96 years old, The best known event of this singer's long career was her historic recital at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1939, where she drew a crowd of 75,000 people in a musical protest against racist attitudes suffered by the artist.

 

 

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Sara Montiel died 10 years ago at the age of 85

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American film and television actor, stuntman, and world-champion rodeo cowboy Ben Johnson died on this day 27 years ago, aged 77.

 

 

Mexican actress amd singer María Félix died on this day 21 years ago, aged 88.

 

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DMX died on this day 2 years ago, aged 50.

- DMX's real name was Earl Simmons, and he was born to teenage parents (18YO father and 19YO mother). His birthplace is disputed between either Baltimore, Maryland, or Mount Vernon, New York.

- DMX had a rough childhood: he was constantly abused by his mother, and drank alcohol for the first time at the age of 7, and also went to jail at that age for stealing cakes at a supermarket. He was expelled from his school at the age of 10, and his mother put him in a children's home, which he once tried to burn down.

- DMX would soon be sent to a group home, where he found a shared interest in hip hop music with other students. During this time, he got his stage name, after the Oberheim DMX drum machine- he also went by "Dark Man X".

- His life would take a downturn again, often committing theft and carjacking. He would be in jail 30 times over the course of his life.

- In 1991, DMX was signed to Ruffhouse Records, and would later sign on to Def Jam in 1998.

- DMX's best selling album was 1999's ... And Then There Was X, known for its single "Party Up (Up in Here)", which was nominated for a Grammy in 2001.

- In February of 2016, DMX was found unresponsive in a hotel parking lot, allegedly from an asthma attack. He was resuscitated using Narcan.

- On April 2, 2021, DMX had a heart attack from a cocaine overdose, and would die from multiple organ failure a week later- he died on the same day as Prince Philip, though his death still received substantial media coverage.

 

- My favorite song of his:

 

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On this day 2 years ago, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, passed away at the age of 99.

 

He said that he called living to 100 a "ghastly prospect" and had no desire to live to this age.

 

Photo Credit: Allan Warren per Creative Commons license

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740 years ago Margaret of Scotland died at the age of 22,who was Queen of Norway,as the wife of King Eric II,

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American architect, designer, writer, and educator Frank Lloyd Wright died on this day 64 years ago, aged 91.

 

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Sigfrid Karg-Elert died 90 years ago at the age of 55, the German composer had considerable fame in the early twentieth century, well known for his lieder for choir, chamber music and pieces for piano, organ and harmonium

 

 

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Jean Vander Pyl died on this day 24 years ago, aged 79.

- Vander Pyl's career started on radio shows, and she also starred in live-action television series such as Leave It to Beaver.

- Vander Pyl is however much more known for her voice work in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Characters she voiced include the following:

• Wilma and Pebbles Flintstone on The Flintstones
• Rosie the Robot on The Jetsons
• Ogee on Magilla Gorilla
• Maw and Floral Rugg on The Hillbilly Bears
• Winsome Witch on the cartoon of the same name
• Various characters on Scooby-Doo, Where are You!

- In 1994, she provided a cameo in the live-action Flintstones movie as Mrs. Feldspar.

- Vander Pyl's final performance was a cameo in The Weird Al Show in a cutaway gag:

- Vander Pyl was the last surviving original cast member of The Flintstones.

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490 years ago died Frederick I who had been King of Denmark since 1523

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Joseph-Louis Lagrange was an Italian mathematician, who gave his name to several formulas, Lagrange polynomial, Lagrange function, Lagrange mechanics, Lagrange multipliers, Lagrange points, Lagrange theorem.Died 210 years ago, aged 77

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Karl Leonhard Reinhold was an Austrian philosopher who, supported by the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, founded the speculative theories that founded German idealism and died 200 years ago at the age of 65

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At 90, Italian Cardinal Lorenzo Antonetti died 10 years ago

Robert Geoffrey Edwards was 87 when he died 10 years ago, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2010 for his pioneering contribution to the treatment of sterility and for the development of in-vitro fertilization.

Gordon Thomas was a cyclist who won silver in the Olympics of 48 team time trials, and won the Tour of Great Britain in 1953, died 10 years ago aged 91

 

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Its 33 years since the death of German chemist Gerhard Schrader, aged 87.

As a 33 year-old employee of IG Farben, he was tasked to develop new insecticides, either to help the fight against hunger or to reduce Germany's reliance on imported food. In doing so he accidentally discovered the nerve agent Tabun.

 

Under the Nazi regime, his teams discovered Sarin and Soman, and following the war, Cyclosarin.

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Scottish painter and musician best known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band the Beatles Stuart Sutcliffe died on this day 61 years ago, aged 21.

 

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Pope Donut 

Pope Donus died on this day 1345 years ago, aged 68.

- Donus' life is largely shrouded in mystery, although it is known that his father's name was Maurice and that he was a native Roman (the city, not the empire).

- Donus was elected pope in 676 following the death of Adeodatus II. He is currently the only pope to choose the name "Donus", but there was an accidental Donus II inserted in the official list (placed after Benedict VI) due to mistaking the title "domnus" with "Donus".

- During his papacy, Donus remodeled several churches in Rome, and a schism between the Catholic Church and the Bishop of Ravenna was resolved.

- Donus died after less than a year and a half as pope and was succeeded by Pope Agatho- who was allegedly 100 years old at the time (which was highly improbable considering the time period).

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Gemma Maria Humberta Pia Galgani was an Italian saint, died 120 years ago at age 25, and called Santa Gemma Galgani, The marks of the stigmata appeared on the hands, feet and sides on June 8 of the same year: Gemma said that she went into a painful ecstasy every Thursday- fair, starting to bleed profusely until Saturday morning, when the wounds closed again, leaving only small marks.

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Hilary Koprowski was a Polish virologist and immunologist based in the United States. He was the inventor of the first effective attenuated virus vaccine against polio. He died 10 years ago of pneumonia at the age of 96

 

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On this day 18 years ago, French football player Lucien Laurent died aged 97

He is mainly known for being FIFA World Cup first goalscorer, during the 1930 opening game against Mexico 

- At the time of his death, aged 97 years 4 months and 1 day, he was the longest lived FIFA World Cup participant (player or unused substitute) and goalscorer.

- However, this record was beaten by 1930 Peruvian player Luis De Souza, who died in 2008 aged 99 years and 358 days, 1930 Argentinian player Francisco Varallo who died in 2010 aged 100 years 6 months and 25 days (now the longest lived goalscorer) and 1934 and 1938 French goalkeeper René Llense who died in 2014 aged 100 years 7 months and 28 days (now the longest lived player or unused substitute)

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American comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist Jonathan Winters died on this day 10 years ago, aged 87.

 

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Gilbert Gottfried died on this day a year ago, aged 67.

- Gottfried started off as a teenage stand-up comedian, doing impressions of people such as Humphrey Bogart and Boris Karloff. He would then turn to raunchy comedy.

- In 1980, Gottfried was hired onto SNL, here he would impersonate Roman Polanski.

- By the early 1990s, Gottfried had gone into voice acting, providing voices such as Jerry the Belly Button Elf in Ren and Stimpy, Berkeley Beetle in Don Bluth's Thumbelina, and of course Iago in Aladdin:

Later on, he voiced Digit in Cyberchase (which he did for nearly 20 years), Dr. Bender in The Fairly OddParents, Mr. Mxyzptlk in Superman: The Animated Series, and a cameo as Jerry Seinfeld in Clerks: The Animated Series.

- Beginning in 1999, Gottfried provided the voice of the duck mascot for Aflac insurance. He would be fired in 2011 for making jokes about the Japan tsunami that year on his Twitter account.

- Speaking of which, Gottfried was very active on social media, having his own Cameo account:

He also portrayed Fred Fucks in the Angry Video Game Nerd's review of the PS4 game Life of Black Tiger, and his final role that aired before his passing was as the voice of God on Smiling Friends (co-created by the YouTuber psychicpebbles):

 

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Its 33 years since the death of Johnny Reder.

Reder was an (US) American sportsman born in Lublin, Poland in 1909, who emigrated as a child, with his family, settling in Fall River, Massachusetts.

 

He played association football as a goalkeeper for several local teams before joining the Fall River Marksmen (named after their owner Sam Mark) in 1929. During his time there, the team won two American Soccer League titles, and two National Challenge Cups. then a further ASL title with the New Bedford Whalers (which was the same club, the franchise having relocated firstly to New York City, merging with New York Soccer Club to become the New York Yankees, then to New Bedford, Mass. merging with Fall River FC to become the Whalers).

 

With the decline of the ASL, Reder reverted to baseball; he'd been a first-baseman at school, and had a brief MLB career with the Red Sox, before dropping to the minors, retiring at 28.

 

He served with the US Navy in WW2, and died of heart disease aged 80.

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Lionel Logue died 70 years ago at the age of 73, he was an Australian speech therapist, famous for having helped King George VI of the United Kingdom with his stutter, which gave rise to the film The King's Speech. Logue was played by Geoffrey Rush. In 2011 the film won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.