D.E.A.D. vol.3 Distinguished Existence Award Dedication

People who died today in history

By mordechai

Published 14 years ago

People who died today in history

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Ludwig II (Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm; sometimes rendered as Louis II in English) (25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886) was King of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. Ludwig is best known as an eccentric whose legacy is intertwined with the history of art and architecture. He commissioned the construction of several extravagant fantasy castles and palaces, the most famous being Neuschwanstein, and was a devoted patron of the composer Richard Wagner.

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Tankei (湛慶 1173 – June 13, 1256) was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He was the student of and son of the master sculptor Unkei.

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Princess Stephanie Julianne von Hohenlohe (16 September 1891 - 13 June 1972) was a member of a German princely family by marriage and a close friend of Adolf Hitler who spied for Nazi Germany. A 1941 memo to President Franklin D. Roosevelt described her as extremely intelligent, dangerous and clever, claiming that as a spy she was worse than ten thousand men.

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Saint Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon, O.F.M., (born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; c. 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. Though he died in Padua, Italy, he was born to a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, which is where he was raised. Noted by his contemporaries for his forceful preaching and expert knowledge of Scripture, he was declared a saint almost immediately after his death and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1946.

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Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (December 6, 1805 – June 13, 1871) was a French magician. He is widely considered the father of the modern style of conjuring.

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Riccardo Paletti (15 June 1958 - 13 June 1982) was an Italian motor racing driver. Paletti's Formula One career was cut short as he fatally crashed on the start grid in only his second Formula One start; it was his first race with a full grid of cars.

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Miyamoto Musashi (宮本武蔵?, c. 1584 – June 13, 1645) was a Japanese swordsman and samurai. Musashi, as he was often simply known, became renowned through stories of his excellent swordsmanship in numerous duels. He is widely considered as a Kensei sword saint and one of the greatest warriors of all time.

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Mitsuharu Misawa (June 18, 1962 - June 13, 2009) was a Japanese professional wrestler. He made his professional debut on August 21, 1981 for All Japan Pro Wrestling. From 1984 until 1990, Misawa wrestled as the second generation Tiger Mask, as All Japan Pro Wrestling had purchased the rights of the Tiger Mask gimmick from New Japan Pro Wrestling.

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Martin Mordechai Buber (Hebrew: מרטין בובר‎; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship.

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Georg von Békésy (Békésy György) (June 3, 1899 – June 13, 1972) was a Hungarian biophysicist born in Budapest.

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Kočo Racin (Macedonian: Koчо Рацин) (22 December 1908, Veles – 13 June 1943, Lopušnik) was a Macedonian revolutionary and poet who is considered a founder of modern Macedonian literature.

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Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave (22 September 1896 – 13 June 1930) was famous for setting three land speed records and the water speed record. He was the first person to hold both the land and water speed records simultaneously. He was the first person to travel at over 200 mph (320 km/h) in a land vehicle. The Segrave Trophy was established in 1930 to commemorate his life.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Romanov; Russian: Михаи́л Александрович Рома́нов) (4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1878 – 13 June 1918) was the youngest son of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. Even though he never reigned he is sometimes referred to by historians as Michael II and the last Tsar of Russia.

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Sheikh Dr. Fathi Yakan (February 9, 1933 – June 13, 2009) was an Islamic cleric who held a seat in the parliament of Lebanon in 1992. He was born in Tripoli. He was among the pioneers of the Islamic movement in the 1950s and the head of the Islamic Action Front (Lebanon).

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Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel (September 26, 1887 – June 13, 1958), was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge between 1948 and 1956.

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Dorothea Christiane Erxleben born Leporin (November 13, 1715, Quedlinburg – June 13, 1762 in Quedlinburg) After being admitted to study by a dispensation of Frederick the Great she became the first female medical doctor in Germany.

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Demetrio Stratos (Alexandria, April 22, 1945 – New York, June 13, 1979) was a Greek lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, music researcher, and co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion band Area – International POPular Group.

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Benjamin David Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the King of Swing.