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December 21st
161 Notable deaths
Hannelore Hoger
German actress.
Born August 20th, 1939 in Hamburg. [ref]
Died December 21st, 2024 at 85 years old in Hamburg. [ref]
Sydney Wooderson
British middle distance runner (1914-2006).
Born August 30th, 1914 in Camberwell.
Died December 21st, 2006 at 92 years old in Dorset (kidney failure). [ref]
Carlyle Glean
Grenadian politician.
Born February 11th, 1932 in Grenada.
Died December 21st, 2021 at 89 years old [ref]
Géza Losonczy
Hungarian politician (1917-1957).
Born May 5th, 1917 in Érsekcsanád.
Died December 21st, 1957 at 40 years old in Budapest.
Franz Gertsch
Swiss artist (1930–2022).
Born March 8th, 1930 in Mörigen. [ref]
Died December 21st, 2022 at 92 years old in Riggisberg. [ref]
Ján Cikker
Slovak composer (1911–1989).
Born July 29th, 1911 in Banská Bystrica. [ref]
Died December 21st, 1989 at 78 years old in Bratislava. [ref]
Ermindo Onega
Argentine footballer.
Born April 4th, 1940 in Las Parejas.
Died December 21st, 1979 at 39 years old in Lima, Buenos Aires (traffic collision).
Ata al-Ayyubi
Ottoman civil servant (1877-1951).
Born March 25th, 1877 in Damascus.
Died December 21st, 1951 at 74 years old in Damascus.
Jean Bertin
French scientist, engineer and inventor.
Born September 5th, 1917 in Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines. [ref]
Died December 21st, 1975 at 58 years old in Neuilly-sur-Seine (brain cancer).
Sitor Situmorang
Indonesian poet.
Born October 2nd, 1923 in Sumatra.
Died December 21st, 2014 at 91 years old in Apeldoorn.
Deaths 101 to 110 of 161
It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks