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82,810 Notable deaths
Hans Bethe
German-american nuclear physicist.
Born July 2nd, 1906 in Strasbourg.
Died March 6th, 2005 at 98 years old in Ithaca.
Franz Stangl
Austrian-born ss officer, commandant at first sobibór extermination camp and then treblinka extermination camp (1908-1971).
Born March 26th, 1908 in Altmünster.
Died June 28th, 1971 at 63 years old in Düsseldorf (heart failure).
Mary Higgins Clark
American author of suspense novels (1927–2020).
Born December 24th, 1929 in New York City. [ref]
Died January 31st, 2020 at 90 years old in Naples. [ref]
Kirby Morrow
Canadian actor (1973–2020).
Born August 28th, 1973 in Jasper.
Died November 18th, 2020 at 47 years old in Vancouver (substance abuse). [ref]
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
American golfer and athlete.
Born June 26th, 1911 in Port Arthur.
Died September 27th, 1956 at 45 years old in Galveston (colorectal cancer).
William Kunstler
American lawyer and civil rights activist (1919-1995).
Born July 7th, 1919 in New York City.
Died September 5th, 1995 at 76 years old in Manhattan.
Vincent Bugliosi
American lawyer and true crime writer (1934–2015).
Born August 18th, 1934 in Hibbing.
Died June 6th, 2015 at 80 years old in Los Angeles (cancer).
Pee Wee Reese
American baseball player and coach.
Born July 23rd, 1918 in Ekron. [ref]
Died August 14th, 1999 at 81 years old in Louisville (lung cancer). [ref]
Brenda Fassie
South african pop singer (1964-2004).
Born November 3rd, 1964 in Langa.
Died May 9th, 2004 at 39 years old in Johannesburg (asthma, drug overdose, death from AIDS-related complications). [ref]
Ellison Onizuka
American astronaut from kealakekua, kona, hawaii, first asian american to reach space, later died in the space shuttle challenger accident.
Born June 24th, 1946 in Kailua-Kona.
Died January 28th, 1986 at 39 years old in Cape Canaveral (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster).
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. Leo Tolstoy