Death Anniversary Thread

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4 hours ago, Drewsky1211 said:

Brian Clough died on this day 20 years ago, aged 69.

- The first football team Clough played for was Middlesborough, from 1951 to 1953. He would return to the team for his senior career beginning in 1955, remaining with them until 1961.

- Of the 274 games Clough played during his senior career, he scored 251 goals- among the highest of any footballer.

- After retirement as a player, Clough would become a team manager, coaching Hartlepool United, Derby County, Leeds United (this one for only six and a half weeks), and Nottingham Forest (his longest tenure, from 1975 to 1993). He was considered for a job as the manager of England's national team, but was never appointed.

- Throughout his life, Clough suffered from alcoholism, which was likely the reason he was put on the 1991 DeathList. It ended up being stomach cancer that did him in.

Clough also managed Brighton & Hove Albion after Derby, lasting less than a year, & left to take up the Leeds position (leaving Peter Taylor behind at Brighton, thus ending - temporarily - their successful partnership).

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American film and theatre actor Olin Howland died on this day 65 years ago, aged 73.

 

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Pope Conon died on this day 1337 years ago, aged 57.

- Conon was the son of a Byzantine soldier, who would take him from Greece to Sicily; it is there that Conon received his clerical education. When the Rashidun Caliphate began to lead raids on the island, Conon would move to Rome.

- Conon was made a cardinal in 683, and after Pope John V died in 686, Conon would be elected pope. It is believed this was due to a large influx of Greek and Syrian Christians emigrating to Rome, and therefore the cardinalate decided to choose someone they could identify with.

- Conon had a short papal reign of one year, but notably consecrated the Irish missionary (and future saint) Kilian, sending him off to preach in Germany. After his death, Conon would be succeeded as pope by Sergius I.

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American novelist and actress Jacqueline Susann died on this day 50 years ago, aged 56.

 

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Giorgio Napolitano died on this day a year ago, aged 98.

- During World War II, Napolitano would be part of the Italian antifascist movement, and would soon become a member of the Italian Communist Party; Napolitano would become the party chairman in the 1960s and remained a member until its dissolution in 1991.

- Napolitano was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1953, serving for 10 years, and would return to parliament in 1968- in total, he was an Italian MP for 38 years. He would only leave when he was appointed the Minister of the Interior in 1996.

- Napolitano was made a senator for life in 2005, and he would be elected president of Italy the following year. He would oversee a political crisis in 2008, he appointed Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister following the previous PM being ousted by a vote of no confidence, and would also appoint his successor Mario Monti after Berlusconi's resignation in 2011.

- After being reelected in 2013, Berlusconi would announce that he did not intend to serve the entire term, resigning in January of 2015. He would be made a senator for life once again immediately afterwards.

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American composer and songwriter Irving Berlin died on this day 35 years ago, aged 101.

 

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Louise Fletcher died on this day 2 years ago, aged 88.

- Fletcher's acting career began on TV, where she made guest appearances on notable shows such as Maverick, Perry Mason, and Wagon Train.

- Fletcher's first major film role was as Mattie in the 1974 movie Thieves Like Us, and after seeing the film, Milos Forman would cast her in her most famous role- Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, released the following year:

She would win the Oscar for Best Actress for this role.

- Cuckoo's Nest was considered the peak of her career, and Fletcher would star in films and shows of varying degrees of critical reception- among the more notable works include Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Lady in Red, Firestarter, and Virtuosity. Her last role before her death was as the character of Rosie on the 2017 Netflix series Girlboss.

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American professional golfer Jerry Barber died on this day 30 years ago, aged 78.

 

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Tupac Amaru died on this day 452 years ago, aged 27.

- Tupac was a grandson of the Incan emperor Huayna Capac, whose relatives would soon fight against the Spanish conquistadors by forming a neo-Incan state to rebel against them. "Tupac Amaru" was Quechua for 'shining snake'.

- Tupac would succeed his brother Titu Cusi as the leader of the neo-Incan state. The viceroy of Peru had declared war on them after an ambassador was killed on the border by an Incan border guard. Their city of Vilcabamba would end up being heavily damaged due to Spanish cannon fire, and Tupac Amaru would retreat with a group of about 100 before splitting up deeper into the rainforest.

- The Spanish would interrogate local indigenous people about Tupac's whereabouts, and found him about 55 miles from where he was last seen three months before.

- Tupac was subjected to a kangaroo court where he was found guilty of killing Spanish priests, and was ordered beheaded- despite the objections of Spanish king Philip II.

- Tupac's main legacy is his namesakes- one José Condorcanqui claimed to be a direct descendant of him and took the name 'Tupac Amaru II' when leading another indigenous rebellion in Peru in 1780; in turn Tupac Amaru II was the namesake of none other than the rapper Tupac Shakur.

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American stage, film and television actor Neil Hamilton died on this day 40 years ago, aged 85.

 

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Billy Carter died on this day 36 years ago, aged 51.

- The fourth and youngest child of James and Lillian Carter, Billy would serve as a Marine before joining his family's peanut farming business. By 1970, he became the farm's manager, and would use the profits to buy a gas station, which he would operate it until the 1979 energy crisis.

- Carter would run for the mayor of his hometown of Plains, Georgia in 1976- but lost to a local air traffic controller in a vote of 97-71 despite his older brother running and winning a much more notable election that year.

- Carter was known to be an alcohol aficionado, and became the spokesman for Peanut Lolita whiskey before becoming the official sponsor of Billy Beer. His drinking would spiral out of control to the point where he peed in public places, and soon sought rehabilitation and became sober.

- Carter would accept bribe money from the Libyan government in 1978 and registered as a foreign agent, resulting in a government scandal due to being the brother of the current president at the time- known as "Billygate". He would testify at a Senate hearing that he had no influence on US foreign policy.

- In 1987, Carter was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died the following year. His father died from the disease in 1953, and his sisters Ruth and Gloria also died of pancreatic cancer in 1983 and 1990 respectively. On the other hand, his brother Jimmy is still around... set to turn 100 in less than a week (subject to change- I can't see the future).

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8 hours ago, Drewsky1211 said:

Billy Carter died on this day 36 years ago, aged 51.

- The fourth and youngest child of James and Lillian Carter, Billy would serve as a Marine before joining his family's peanut farming business. By 1970, he became the farm's manager, and would use the profits to buy a gas station, which he would operate it until the 1979 energy crisis.

- Carter would run for the mayor of his hometown of Plains, Georgia in 1976- but lost to a local air traffic controller in a vote of 97-71 despite his older brother running and winning a much more notable election that year.

- Carter was known to be an alcohol aficionado, and became the spokesman for Peanut Lolita whiskey before becoming the official sponsor of Billy Beer. His drinking would spiral out of control to the point where he peed in public places, and soon sought rehabilitation and became sober.

- Carter would accept bribe money from the Libyan government in 1978 and registered as a foreign agent, resulting in a government scandal due to being the brother of the current president at the time- known as "Billygate". He would testify at a Senate hearing that he had no influence on US foreign policy.

- In 1987, Carter was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died the following year. His father died from the disease in 1953, and his sisters Ruth and Gloria also died of pancreatic cancer in 1983 and 1990 respectively. On the other hand, his brother Jimmy is still around... set to turn 100 in less than a week (subject to change- I can't see the future).

 

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Canadian-American actor Walter Pidgeon died on this day 40 years ago, aged 87.

 

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On this day 1 year ago, Scottish-born American actor David McCallum, who starred in the TV shows "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and NCIS, passed away at the age of 90.

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Levi Strauss died on this day 122 years ago, aged 73.

- Born in Germany, Strauss emigrated to the United States in 1847 with several other family members to join his brothers already there; they ran a dry goods store in New York. He would become a naturalized citizen in 1853.

- In 1854, Strauss would move to San Francisco to set up his own store there; he mostly manufactured tents, and would import goods from the New York store to the other side of the country. In 1871 he began working with tailor Jacob Davis, who had came up with a way to reinforce pants with rivets and wished to mass produce this product. The two of them were granted a patent in 1873:

While often credited as such, Strauss did not invent blue jeans- his business simply became the biggest blue jean supplier due to the reinforcements they added.

- At the time of his death in 1902, Strauss' net worth was $30 million- over $800 million adjusted for inflation. He was a philanthropist who donated to universities and charities.

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American tennis player Ellen Roosevelt died on this day 70 years ago, aged 86.