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September 26th
164 Notable deaths
Ottó Bláthy
Hungarian mechanical engineer.
Born August 11th, 1860 in Tata.
Died September 26th, 1939 at 79 years old in Budapest.
Geoffrey Wilkinson
British nobel laureate in chemistry.
Born July 14th, 1921 in Todmorden.
Died September 26th, 1996 at 75 years old in London. [ref]
Henri Navarre
French general (1898-1983).
Born July 31st, 1898 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue. [ref]
Died September 26th, 1983 at 85 years old in 5th arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Jerry Juhl
American screenwriter.
Born July 27th, 1938 in Saint Paul.
Died September 26th, 2005 at 67 years old in San Francisco (pancreatic cancer).
Ludmila Belousova
Soviet-russian figure skater (1935–2017).
Born November 22nd, 1935 in Ulyanovsk.
Died September 26th, 2017 at 81 years old in Interlaken. [ref]
Breckinridge Long
American diplomat (1881-1958).
Born May 16th, 1881 in St. Louis.
Died September 26th, 1958 at 77 years old in Laurel.
Manne Siegbahn
Swedish physicist (1886-1978).
Born December 3rd, 1886 in Örebro Nikolai parish. [ref]
Died September 26th, 1978 at 91 years old in Engelbrekt church parish. [ref]
Carl Brisson
Danish actor (1893-1958).
Born December 24th, 1893 in Copenhagen. [ref]
Died September 26th, 1958 at 64 years old in Copenhagen.
Mark Dvoretsky
Russian chess trainer, writer and international master (1947-2016).
Born December 9th, 1947 in Moscow.
Died September 26th, 2016 at 68 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Mark Souder
American politician.
Born July 18th, 1950 in Grabill.
Died September 26th, 2022 at 72 years old (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
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