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Dead at age 86
1,685 Notable deaths
Jess Willard
American boxer (1881–1968).
Born December 29th, 1881 in Kansas.
Died December 15th, 1968 at 86 years old in Los Angeles.
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu
Romanian engineer.
Born November 10th, 1887 in Galați.
Died November 25th, 1973 at 86 years old in Bucharest.
Louise Bennett-Coverley
Poet, writer and folklorist (1919-2006).
Born September 7th, 1919 in Kingston. [ref]
Died July 26th, 2006 at 86 years old in Toronto. [ref]
Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962).
Born February 2nd, 1875 in Vienna.
Died January 29th, 1962 at 86 years old in NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.
Johnny Tillotson
American singer.
Born April 20th, 1938 in Jacksonville. [ref]
Died April 1st, 2025 at 86 years old in Los Angeles (Parkinson's disease). [ref]
Daniel Keyes
American author.
Born August 9th, 1927 in Brooklyn. [ref]
Died June 15th, 2014 at 86 years old in Boca Raton (pneumonia). [ref]
Albert Sabin
Polish-american physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993).
Born August 26th, 1906 in Białystok.
Died March 3rd, 1993 at 86 years old in Washington, D.C. (heart failure).
Ernest Thompson Seton
British/american author, artist and naturalist, and one of the founders of the scouting movement.
Born August 14th, 1860 in South Shields. [ref]
Died October 23rd, 1946 at 86 years old in Seton Village. [ref]
Alberto Vargas
Peruvian pin-up artist (1896-1982).
Born February 9th, 1896 in Arequipa.
Died December 30th, 1982 at 86 years old in Los Angeles (myocardial infarction).
Sugathakumari
Indian poet and activist (1934-2020).
Born January 3rd, 1934 in Aranmula.
Died December 23rd, 2020 at 86 years old in Thiruvananthapuram (bronchopneumonia, COVID-19). [ref]
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