Death Anniversary Thread

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José Pinheiro de Azevedo was born in Luanda (ANG), and died in Lisbon 40 years ago, he was Prime Minister of Portugal in the Sixth Provisional Government. He died of an acute myocardial infarction

Euronymous was born in died in Oslo aged 25 30 years ago,was a guitarist who played mainly in the band Mayhem. He was a pioneer in Nordic heavy metal and a creator of the Norwegian black metal scene, in addition to being the owner of the Deathlike Silence label and the record store called Helvete. from 1993 by Varg Vikernes, another musician of the genre, from the band Burzum.

 

 

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American actor Douglas Kennedy died on this day 50 years ago, aged 57.

 

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American sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein died on this day 4 years ago, aged 66. Epstein began his professional life by teaching at the Dalton School despite lacking a college degree. After his dismissal from the school, he entered the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in various roles before starting his own firm. Epstein developed an elite social circle and procured many women and children whom he and his associates sexually abused.

 

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Phil Harris died on this day 28 years ago, aged 91.

- Harris' real first name was "Wonga"- this unusual name is apparently derived from a Cherokee word meaning "fast messenger".

- Harris would play drums for big bands in the 1920s, and formed his own by the end of the decade.

- In 1933, Harris made a short film called So This Is Harris, which won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. From there, Harris would begin to act in full-length movies, often starring with Jack Benny- whom he would also work for on his radio show as its musical director and bandleader, before joining the cast due to his comedic talent.

- In 1950, Harris recorded the novelty song "The Thing", topping Billboard's "Best Sellers in Stores" (a predecessor to the Hot 100) for four weeks:

 

- Harris is probably best known for his voice acting roles, particularly for Disney movies. He would voice Baloo in The Jungle Book, Thomas O'Malley in The Aristocats, and Little John in Robin Hood:

(Disney would recycle the animation of the bears he voiced.)

Harris would continue to voice Baloo up to 1989- for the TaleSpin TV show- though was soon replaced by Ed Gilbert during the show's production.

- Harris' final film role was the voice of Patou the dog in Don Bluth's 1991 film Rock-a-Doodle.

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American actress Peggie Castle died on this day 50 years ago, aged 45.

 

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Magnêncio morreu com 50 anos, há 1670 anos, foi um usurpador romano contra os imperadores Constante I e Constâncio II entre 350 e 353, Magnêncio era o comandante dos Hercúleos e Júpiterianos, como unidades responsáveis pela proteção do imperial. Quando a insatisfação contra o imperador Constante I se tornou insuportável, o exército romano em Autun proclamou Magnêncio imperador em 18 de janeiro de 350. Constante foi abandonado por praticamente todas as suas forças e acabou sendo assassinado por um grupo de cavalaria leve perto dos Pirineus.

Clara de Assis (Santa Clara) nasceu em Assis (ITA) e morreu na mesma cidade há 770 anos, aos 59 anos, foi a fundadora do ramo feminino da ordem franciscana, a chamada Ordem de Santa Clara (ou Ordem das Clarissas).

Tazio Nuvolari was born in Castel d'Ario and died in Mantua 70 years ago at the age of 60, he was an Italian racing driver, motorcycles and cars, He raced for several teams, including Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Maserati, died nine months ago after having probably suffered a heart attack or a thrombosis.

Karl Ziegler was born in Kassel, and died 70 years ago in Mülheim, was a German chemist. He was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Giulio Natta, for his "excellent work on organometallic compounds ... which led to new polymerization reactions and ... paved the way for new and highly useful industrial processes".

 

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American actor and comedian Robin Williams died on this day 9 years ago, aged 63. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on film, in dramas and comedies alike, he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time. He received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Grammy Awards.

 

 

English actor Peter Cushing died on this day 29 years ago, aged 81. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage and radio roles. He achieved recognition for his leading performances in the Hammer Productions horror films from the 1950s to 1970s, and as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977).

 

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Henry Fonda died on this day 41 years ago, aged 77.

- Fonda's acting career began on stage when he was 20- his mother was friends with Dorothy Brando- Marlon's mom.

- Fonda would act on Broadway before his film debut in 1935, starring in an adaptation of a play he starred in, The Farmer Takes a Wife. He quickly became a leading actor, starring in films with celebrities such as Bette Davis and Gene Tierney within five years.

- Fonda would win his first Oscar nomination for his role in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, and received another nomination in 1957 for his production of 12 Angry Men. He would receive an honorary award in 1980, only to win Best Actor the following year for On Golden Pond, and was the oldest winner of that category (aged 76), until 2020 when Anthony Hopkins received one at the age of 83.

- Fonda was nearly an EGOT, only failing to receive an Emmy- albeit he was nominated three times between 1973 and 1980.

- Besides 12 Angry Men, Fonda was known for producing How the West Was Won and The Longest Day.

- Fonda would star in several made-for-TV films, although appearances on shows were rare. One show he appeared on was the pilot episode of the American version of That Was The Week That Was in 1963 (the show is now largely lost media, save for a few archived episodes and the songs Tom Lehrer wrote for it).

- Fonda married Frances Seymour in 1936- their two children, Jane and Peter, became very successful actors in their own right.

- Fonda was too ill to attend the 1982 Oscars (for which he won the aforementioned Best Actor award), and so Jane accepted his award on his behalf. He would die less than five months later from a combination of heart disease and prostate cancer.

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Jacopo Peri was born in Rome and died in Florence 390 years ago ,aged 71, was an Italian composer and singer of the transition period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Daphne (circa 1597), and also the first opera that survives to this day, Euridice (1600).

 

Walter Rudolf Hess born in Frauenfeld and died in Muralto 50 years ago aged 92, was a Swiss physiologist. He was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly with António Egas Moniz.

João Friso de Orange-Nassau was born in Utrecht and died 10 years ago in The Hague, he was a member of the Dutch royal family, second son of Queen Beatrix and her husband, Prince Consort Claus von Amsberg. , being forced to abdicate his rights in the line of succession to the Dutch throne, not being part of the Royal House since then, but maintaining his title (Prince of the Netherlands). The reason for the abdication was Mabel's controversial past. On February 17, 2012, Prince Friso was surprised by an avalanche in Lech am Arlberg, Austria, while skiing off-piste.[1] He was taken to a hospital in Innsbruck in critical but stable condition. Further tests showed that he suffered massive brain damage due to lack of oxygen. After a year and a half, on the morning of August 12, 2013, the prince died at the age of 44 due to complications from the accident.

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American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died on this day 35 years ago, aged 27.

 

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American actress Lauren Bacall died on this day 9 years ago, aged 89. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures. She was known for her alluring, sultry presence and her distinctive, husky voice. Bacall was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

 

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Una Stubbs, who played Rita Rawlins in Til Death Us Do Part, died on this date 2 years ago, aged 84.

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Tony Jay died on this day 17 years ago, aged 73.

- Jay moved from the UK to South Africa when he was 33, and found acting roles on radio shows. He was known for adapting episodes of The Avengers (the spy show, not the Marvel characters) to radio from 1971 to 1972.

- Jay would move back to England in 1973, and became a film actor. He would agree to playing Obi-Wan Kenobi during the production of the first Star Wars film- yet George Lucas chose Alec Guinness even after Jay agreed to the role.

- In the 1990s, Jay became known as a voice actor, closely associated with Disney. He voiced the asylum runner in Beauty and the Beast, Shere Khan in TaleSpin and The Jungle Book 2, and most notably Judge Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame:

- Jay was also known as the voice of Megabyte, one of the main villains in the early CGI TV series ReBoot, Lord Dregg in the original Ninja Turtles show, Spiderus in Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, and child psychologist Dr. Lipschitz in Rugrats.

- Jay died from surgery complications- a benign tumor was removed from his lungs, and he became very ill soon after the operation.

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Gerard David born in Oudewater (now Utrecht) (NED), died in Bruges (BEL) 500 years ago, was a Flemish painter of the late Gothic period, known for his brilliant use of colour.

Vieira Lusitano, born in Lisbon, died 240 years ago, was a painter, illustrator and academic of merit at the Academia de São Lucas, in Rome. He was a professed knight in the Order of Santiago da Espada, historical painter for the Portuguese Royal House and illustrator of multiple contemporary works. After having studied in Rome and a complicated love story, he ended up dying at the Convent of Beato António, in Lisbon.

Eugène Delacroix was born in Saint-Maurice and died in Paris 160 years ago, aged 65, was a French painter of Romanticism, Delacroix is considered the most important representative of French Romanticism. In his work, the voluptuousness of Rubens, the refinement of Veronese, the chromatic expressiveness of William Turner and the pathetic feeling of his great friend Géricault converge. The painter, who like few others knew how to sublimate feelings through color, wrote: "...painting does not always need a theme". And that would be of vital importance for the painting of the first vanguards.

 

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American singer, songwriter, producer and attorney Ed Townsend died on this day 20 years ago, aged 74.

 

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English writer H. G. Wells died on this day 77 years ago, aged 79. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells' science fiction novels are so well regarded that he has been called the "father of science fiction".

 

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King Duncan I of Scotland died on this day 983 years ago, aged 38.

- Through his mother Bethoc, Duncan was the grandson of King Malcolm II, whom he succeeded as king upon his death in 1034.

- Duncan's reign was largely uneventful, save for a military campaign he led into England in 1038 as revenge against Eadult (the Earl of Northumbria) attacking Cumberland.

- Duncan was killed in battle after nearly 6 years on the throne, having led a punitive expedition against his cousin Macbeth, the Earl of Moray. Afterwards, Macbeth became king- and he would end up being killed by Duncan's son Malcolm III in 1057.

- In Macbeth, William Shakespeare portrayed Duncan as elderly (when he was anything but) and a very righteous man- instead of being killed by Macbeth in battle, Shakespeare wrote Macbeth as killing him in his sleep after being convinced to do so by his power-hungry wife.

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American playwright, screenwriter and actor Clifford Odets died on this day 60 years ago, aged 57.

 

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João I of Portugal was born in Lisbon and died in the same place 590 years ago, he was the king of Portugal and the Algarves from 1385 until his death, being the first Portuguese monarch of the House of Avis and the tenth king of Portugal.

Alceu Amoroso Lima was born in Rio de Janeiro and died in Petrópolis 40 years ago, he was a literary critic, writer, professor, intellectual and Brazilian Catholic leader. Elected on August 29, 1935, he became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, won the Jabuti award (one of the main Brazilian literary awards) in 1979 for personality of the year

Helmut Rahn was born in Essen and died 20 years ago in the same city. He became famous as the author of two goals that gave the West German team victory in the 1954 FIFA World Cup final, the first ever won by the country, including in the bid that won the title against favorites Hungary, in the so-called "Miracle of Bern". He was nicknamed Der Boss ("The Boss") and has averaged a goal per game in the history of the FIFA World Cups, with four in 1954 and six in the 1958 edition, in which he was joint top scorer alongside Pelé

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American professional baseball player Pee Wee Reese died on this day 24 years ago, aged 81. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958. A ten-time All-Star, Reese contributed to seven National League championships for the Dodgers and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984. Reese is also famous for his support of his teammate Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the major leagues' modern era, especially in Robinson's difficult first years.

 

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Emperor Honorius died on this day 1600 years ago, aged 38.

- Honorius was declared his father Theodosius I's successor in 386, and became emperor upon his father's death in 395 (then aged 10). He and his older brother Arcadius divided the Roman Empire amongst themselves- Honorius ruled the western part, while Arcadius ruled the east.

- After an invasion from the Visigoths in 401, Honorius moved the capital from Mediolanum (Milan) to Ravenna, which would remain its capital until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476.

- Another major Visigoth siege occurred during Honorius' reign in 410, where their king, Alaric, would ransack Rome. Many Romans saw this event as punishment for abandoning Roman polytheism in favor of Christianity, prompting Augustine of Hippo to write The City of God in response (published in 426, three years after Honorius died).

- Honorius ended the practice of gladiatorial games in 404, likely due to the death of Saint Telemachus (a monk who tried to stop a gladiator fight and was promptly stoned to death by an angry audience).

- After Honorius died without an heir, his advisor Castinus elevated a civil servant named Joannes to emperorhood.

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American pianist, ethnomusicologist and composer John Powell died on this day 60 years ago, aged 80.

 

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On this day 1 year ago, American theologian and writer Frederick Buechner who wrote tje novels "The Book of Bebb" and "Godric", passed away at the age of 96.

 

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Richard Williams died on this day 4 years ago, aged 86.

- Williams was an animator whose love for the medium began when his mother took him to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs during its initial theatrical release.

- Before entering animation, Williams drew advertisements and was a painter.

- Williams' first film was The Little Island in 1958- a film about three people stuck on an island, with each one representing a virtue (truth, beauty, and goodness).

- Williams founded his own animation studio in 1962, and would animate the title credit sequences for What's New Pussycat? and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

- Williams won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1972 for his animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

- Williams was the director of the 1977 Raggedy Ann and Andy movie, and in 1988 became the animation director for Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He would design the toon characters in the latter film.

- Williams' magnum opus was The Thief and the Cobbler, a film known for its troubled production history. It began work in 1964, but was not released until 1993 in Australia and 1995 in the US- and the film had undergone severe studio meddling (examples included making some of the mute main characters have inner monologues, and making the movie a musical). Fans have attempted to collect things such as storyboards and animatics to remake Williams' original vision, dubbed "The Recobbled Cut":

- Williams continued to produce animation until his death, and his 2015 short film Prologue would receive an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film.

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American blues musician and songwriter Robert Johnson died on this day 85 years ago, aged 27.