Most notably...
66,747 Notable deaths
Dean Smith
American basketball coach (1931–2015).
Born February 28th, 1931 in Emporia.
Died February 7th, 2015 at 83 years old in Chapel Hill.
Carlos Gracie
Brazilian brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner.
Born September 14th, 1902 in Belém.
Died October 7th, 1994 at 92 years old in Petrópolis.
Fannie Lou Hamer
American civil rights activist (1917–1977).
Born October 6th, 1917 in Montgomery County. [ref]
Died March 14th, 1977 at 59 years old in Mound Bayou (heart failure). [ref]
Kamala Nehru
Indian independence activist.
Born August 1st, 1899 in Delhi.
Died February 28th, 1936 at 36 years old in Lausanne (tuberculosis).
Rube Goldberg
American cartoonist (1883-1970).
Born July 4th, 1883 in San Francisco. [ref]
Died December 7th, 1970 at 87 years old in New York City. [ref]
Sheila Dikshit
Indian politician and former chief minister of delhi (1938-2019).
Born March 31st, 1938 in Kapurthala.
Died July 20th, 2019 at 81 years old in Delhi (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Kalpana
Indian actress.
Born October 5th, 1965 in Kerala.
Died January 25th, 2016 at 50 years old in Hyderabad (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024).
Born February 3rd, 1947 in Newark.
Died April 30th, 2024 at 77 years old in New York City (lung cancer). [ref]
Erich von Däniken
Swiss pseudoscientific writer and ufologist (1935–2026).
Born April 14th, 1935 in Zofingen.
Died January 10th, 2026 at 90 years old in Unterseen. [ref]
Ramdas Gandhi
Gandhi family member (1897-1969).
Born January 2nd, 1897 in Durban.
Died April 14th, 1969 at 72 years old in Mumbai.
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. Mahatma Gandhi