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Dead at age 53
534 Notable deaths
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian author.
Born February 1st, 1884 in Lebedyan. [ref]
Died March 10th, 1937 at 53 years old in 16th arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Karl Radek
Russian revolutionary (1885-1939).
Born October 31st, 1885 in Lviv.
Died May 19th, 1939 at 53 years old in Verkhneuralsk, Nerchinsk.
Jimmy Dorsey
American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of tommy dorsey.
Born February 29th, 1904 in Shenandoah. [ref]
Died June 12th, 1957 at 53 years old in New York City (esophageal cancer). [ref]
Paweł Adamowicz
Mayor of gdańsk (1998-2019).
Born November 2nd, 1965 in Gdańsk. [ref]
Died January 14th, 2019 at 53 years old in University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk (stabbing). [ref]
Jacques Anquetil
French cyclist (1934-1987).
Born January 8th, 1934 in Mont-Saint-Aignan. [ref]
Died November 18th, 1987 at 53 years old in Rouen (stomach cancer). [ref]
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Vietnamese political tactician (1910-1963).
Born October 7th, 1910 in French Annam.
Died November 2nd, 1963 at 53 years old in Ho Chi Minh City (lynching, extra-judicial killing).
Granville Woods
American inventor.
Born April 23rd, 1856 in Columbus.
Died January 30th, 1910 at 53 years old in New York City (smallpox, cerebral hemorrhage).
Asa Earl Carter
Political speechwriter, politician, novelist, memoirist (1925-1979).
Born September 4th, 1925 in Anniston.
Died June 7th, 1979 at 53 years old in Abilene. [ref]
Kenneth Tynan
English theatre critic and writer (1927-1980).
Born April 2nd, 1927 in Birmingham. [ref]
Died July 26th, 1980 at 53 years old in Santa Monica (pulmonary emphysema). [ref]
Natalia Molchanova
Russian free diver (1962-2015).
Died August 2nd, 2015 at 53 years old in Formentera (drowning).
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