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Dead at age 86

1,647 Notable deaths

Cécile Chaminade

French composer and pianist.

Born August 8th, 1857 in Batignolles. [ref]

Died April 18th, 1944 at 86 years old in Monte Carlo. [ref]

Clyde Lovellette

American basketball player (1929-2016).

Born September 7th, 1929 in Petersburg.

Died March 9th, 2016 at 86 years old in North Manchester (cancer). [ref]

P. F. Strawson

British philosopher (1919–2006).

Born November 23rd, 1919 in Ealing.

Died February 13th, 2006 at 86 years old in John Radcliffe Hospital. [ref]

Hannes Alfvén

Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908-1995), winner of the 1970 nobel prize for physics.

Born May 30th, 1908 in Norrköping. [ref]

Died April 2nd, 1995 at 86 years old in Danderyd parish. [ref]

Lazar Koliševski

Yugoslav macedonian political leader (1914–2000).

Born February 12th, 1914 in Sveti Nikole.

Died July 6th, 2000 at 86 years old in Skopje.

Kurt Westergaard

Danish cartoonist.

Born July 13th, 1935 in Døstrup.

Died July 14th, 2021 at 86 years old in Copenhagen. [ref]

Beatrix Farrand

American landscape architect.

Born June 19th, 1872 in New York City. [ref]

Died February 28th, 1959 at 86 years old in Mount Desert Island. [ref]

Richard Evans Schultes

American ethnobotanist (1915-2001).

Born January 12th, 1915 in Boston.

Died April 10th, 2001 at 86 years old in Boston.

Donald Hume

American rower.

Born July 25th, 1915 in Olympia.

Died September 16th, 2001 at 86 years old in Monroe.

Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst

British diplomat (1858-1944).

Born June 20th, 1858 in London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [ref]

Died August 2nd, 1944 at 86 years old in United Kingdom, Kent. [ref]

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