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Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (born 1924)
Claude Sautet was a French film director and screenwriter.
Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (born 1924)
The 2000s
Explore 2493 historical events from 2000–2009.
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Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (born 1934)
Rudolf "Rudi" Faßnacht was a German football manager.
Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (born 1934)
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Gordon Solie, American sportscaster (born 1929)
Gordon Solie was an American professional wrestling play-by-play announcer. He is best known for working for Georgia Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, US…
Gordon Solie, American sportscaster (born 1929)
2000
William Keepers Maxwell Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1908)
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1…
William Keepers Maxwell Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1908)
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Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (born 1920)
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered many discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucro…
Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (born 1920)
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Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and journalist (born 1925)
Ahmad Shamlou, also known under his pen name A. Bamdad was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. His initial poetr…
Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and journalist (born 1925)
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John Tukey, American mathematician and academic (born 1915)
John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, the box plot and for laying the foun…
John Tukey, American mathematician and academic (born 1915)
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Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (born 1918)
Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch univer…
Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (born 1918)
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Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (born 1921)
Joann Lõssov, also known as Ioann Fyodorovich Lysov, was an Estonian basketball player. Lõssov trained at VSS Kalev, in Tallinn. He was named MVP of the 1947 EuroBasket. Member of …
Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (born 1921)
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Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (born 1920)
Otto Buchsbaum was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Brazil in 1939. In 1967, he led, together with his wife, Florence Buchsbaum, the movement "Teatro ao Encontro do Povo", whos…
Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (born 1920)
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Tullio Crali, Montenegrin-Italian pilot and painter (born 1910)
Tullio Crali was a Dalmatian Italian artist associated with Futurism. A self-taught painter, he was a late adherent to the movement, not joining until 1929. He is noted for realist…
Tullio Crali, Montenegrin-Italian pilot and painter (born 1910)
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Lala Amarnath, Indian cricketer (born 1911)
Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj was an Indian cricketer. He is considered to be the father figure of Indian cricket. He scored the first ever century for India in Test Cricket in 1933. He w…
Lala Amarnath, Indian cricketer (born 1911)
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John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in…
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
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Alec Guinness, English actor (born 1914)
Sir Alec Guinness was an English actor. In the BFI listing of the 100 most important British films of the 20th century, he was the single most noted actor, represented across nine …
Alec Guinness, English actor (born 1914)
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Nicholas Markowitz, American murder victim (born 1984)
Nicholas Samuel Markowitz was an American teenager who was kidnapped and murdered at the age of 15 after a feud over drug money between his half-brother Benjamin Markowitz and Jess…
Nicholas Markowitz, American murder victim (born 1984)
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Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (born 1925)
William Gilbert Anthony Parkhouse was a Welsh cricketer who played in seven Tests for England in 1950, 1950–51 and 1959.
Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (born 1925)
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Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (born 1916)
Jean Papineau-Couture, was a Canadian composer and academic.
Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (born 1916)
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Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (born 1955)
Gennady Petrovich Lyachin was a Russian navy officer. He was the commanding officer of the Russian submarine Kursk when the vessel suffered a series of explosions and sank on 12 Au…
Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (born 1955)
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Loretta Young, American actress (born 1913)
Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1916 to 1989. She received numerous honors including an Academy Award, two…
Loretta Young, American actress (born 1913)
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Nazia Hassan, Pakistani singer-songwriter (born 1965)
Nazia Hassan was a Pakistani-English singer, songwriter, and philanthropist. Regarded as the "Queen of South Asian Pop,” she is considered one of the most influential musical figur…
Nazia Hassan, Pakistani singer-songwriter (born 1965)
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Lancelot Ware, English barrister and biochemist, co-founder of Mensa (born 1915)
Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE was an English barrister and biochemist. He co-founded Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Rol…
Lancelot Ware, English barrister and biochemist, co-founder of Mensa (born 1915)
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Jack Walker, English businessman (born 1929)
Jack Walker was a British industrialist and businessman. Walker built his fortune in the steel industry, amassing a personal fortune of £600 million. He then went on to become the …
Jack Walker, English businessman (born 1929)
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Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (born 1948)
Bineshwar Brahma was the president of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha in Assam, India. He was born in a small village of Bhatarmari in Kokrajhar. He was the son of Late Taramoni Brahma and …
Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (born 1948)
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Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (born 1948)
David Xavier Harrigan, also Tomata du Plenty, was an American singer of the late 1970s and early 1980s Los Angeles electropunk band The Screamers. He was also the founder of Seattl…
Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (born 1948)