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Dead at age 55
815 Notable deaths
Aníbal Tarabini
Argentine association football player (1941-1997).
Born August 4th, 1941 in La Plata.
Died April 21st, 1997 at 55 years old in Berazategui (traffic collision).
Johann Friedrich Horner
Swiss ophthalmologist (1831-1886).
Born March 27th, 1831 in Zurich.
Died December 20th, 1886 at 55 years old in Zurich.
Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
Iraqi twelver shi'a cleric (1943-1999).
Born March 23rd, 1943 in Najaf.
Died February 19th, 1999 at 55 years old in Najaf.
Anne Bremer
American painter (1868-1923).
Born May 21st, 1868 in San Francisco.
Died October 26th, 1923 at 55 years old in San Francisco.
Jan Skala
Sorbian journalist and author (1889–1945).
Born June 17th, 1889 in Nebelschütz.
Died January 22nd, 1945 at 55 years old in Dziedzice (gunshot wound).
Frederick W. True
American biologist, mammalogist and curator (1858-1914).
Born July 8th, 1858 in Middletown.
Died June 25th, 1914 at 55 years old
Jumabek Ibraimov
Kyrgyz politician (1944-1999).
Born January 1st, 1944 in Dzhany-Alysh.
Died April 4th, 1999 at 55 years old in Bishkek (stomach cancer).
Erhard Wunderlich
German handball player (1956–2012).
Born December 14th, 1956 in Augsburg.
Died October 4th, 2012 at 55 years old in Cologne (cancer).
Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
German botanist and pharmacist (1805-1860).
Born June 9th, 1805 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
Died November 5th, 1860 at 55 years old in Berlin.
Jan Zahradníček
Czech catholic poet (1905–1960).
Born January 17th, 1905 in Mastník. [ref]
Died October 7th, 1960 at 55 years old in Uhřínov. [ref]
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When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed. Ovid