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Dead at age 55
815 Notable deaths
Julien Dillens
Belgian sculptor (1849-1904).
Born June 8th, 1849 in Antwerp.
Died December 24th, 1904 at 55 years old in Saint-Gilles.
Oleg Goncharenko
Ukrainian soviet speed skater (1931–1986).
Born August 18th, 1931 in Kharkiv.
Died December 16th, 1986 at 55 years old in Moscow.
Volodymyr Hnatiuk
Ukrainian ethnographer and writer.
Born May 9th, 1871 in Velesniv.
Died October 6th, 1926 at 55 years old in Lviv.
Caleb Blood Smith
American judge and politician (1808–1864).
Born April 16th, 1808 in Boston.
Died January 7th, 1864 at 55 years old in Indianapolis.
Nikolay Abramov
Soviet and russian footballer (1950–2005).
Born January 5th, 1950 in Kotelniki.
Died August 6th, 2005 at 55 years old in Moscow (myocardial infarction).
Soltan Hajibeyov
Azerbaijani composer (1919-1974).
Died September 19th, 1974 at 55 years old in Baku.
Helga Haase
German speed skater (1934–1989).
Born June 9th, 1934 in Gdańsk.
Died June 16th, 1989 at 55 years old in East Berlin.
Milutin Garašanin
Serbian politician (1843-1898).
Born February 22nd, 1843 in Belgrade.
Died March 5th, 1898 at 55 years old in Paris.
Hugo Gyldén
Finnish-swedish astronomer (1841-1896).
Born May 29th, 1841 in Helsinki.
Died November 9th, 1896 at 55 years old in Stockholm, Adolf Fredriks parish.
Eric Mjöberg
Swedish zoologist and ethnographer (1882–1938).
Born August 6th, 1882 in Ås Municipality.
Died July 8th, 1938 at 55 years old in Adolf Fredriks parish.
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