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Common Chemical Found in Sunscreen Could Be Supercharging Plastic Pollution

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Plastic Bottle Waste LakeSunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms and hindering the bacteria that would otherwise degrade plastic. A widely used ingredient in sunscreen may be interfering with the natural breakdown of plastic waste in the ocean, according to new findings from the University of Stirling. The compound, […]



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Strange Tales Of Loughareema – The Vanishing Lake Where People Are Lost

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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com –  If you travel to the Glens of Antrim, a few miles from the seaside town of Ballycastle, in Northern Ireland, you may or may not see Loughareema. Whether you can spot the lake depends on whether the water is blocked.

Known as the Vanishing Lake, it has been a source of amazement not only because of its odd geological behavior throughout the year. “The Vanishing Lake” is a chalk sinkhole that occasionally gets blocked up when peat washes into it.

Strange Tales Of Loughareema - The Vanishing Lake Where People Are Lost

Water draining off from the surrounding land fills the lake up, sometimes flooding the nearby road after particularly heavy rains.

Once the blockage is cleared, or the aquifer beneath can accept more water, the “Vanishing Lake”… vanishes.” 1

This beautiful place has been mentioned in several strange tales.

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JMI cuts assistant professor, guest faculty vacancies, updates eligibility criteria – Careers360

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Many Tummy Tuck Patients Keep Losing Weight for Years — Here’s Why

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Happy Young Woman Weight Loss Results Holding ScalePatients who undergo tummy tuck surgery may be getting more than just a flatter abdomen — they could be setting themselves up for years of continued weight loss. A new study tracked nearly 200 patients for up to five years after abdominoplasty and found a steady drop in weight over time, especially in those who […]



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North America’s Oldest Known Pterosaur – Discovered

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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight.

North America’s Oldest Known Pterosaur - Discovered

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. IThe newly described pterosaur Eotephradactylus mcintireae is seen eating an ancient ray-finned fish alongside an early species of turtle and an early frog species, with the skeleton of an armored crocodile relative lying on the ground and a palm-like plant growing in the background. Credit: Brian Engh.

In a paper published today, July 7, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by paleontologist Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, present the fossilized jawbone of the new species and describe the sea gull-sized pterosaur alongside hundreds of other fossils—including one of the world’s oldest turtle fossils—unearthed at a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.

These fossils, which date back to the late Triassic period around 209 million years ago, preserve a snapshot of a dynamic ecosystem where older groups of animals, including giant amphibians and armored crocodile relatives, lived alongside evolutionary upstarts like frogs, turtles and pterosaurs.

“The site captures the transition to more modern terrestrial vertebrate communities where we start seeing groups that thrive later in the Mesozoic living alongside these older animals that don’t make it past the Triassic,” Kligman said. “Fossil beds like these enable us to establish that all of these animals actually lived together.”

The new site helps fill in a gap in the fossil record that predates the end-Triassic extinction (ETE). Around 201.5 million years ago, volcanic eruptions associated with the break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea dramatically altered global climates and wiped out roughly 75% of the species on Earth. This cleared the way for newer groups, like dinosaurs, to diversify and dominate ecosystems worldwide.

Direct evidence of this transition on land is difficult to find due to a lack of terrestrial fossil outcrops from right before the ETE. However, there are few better places to look than Petrified Forest National Park, which is famed for its Triassic fossil beds and colorful deposits of petrified wood.

One of the park’s geologic outcrops, the Owl Rock Member, is rich in volcanic ash. Minerals within the ash have allowed researchers to date the Owl Rock layer to around 209 million years old, making them among the park’s youngest rocks.

These rocks are also among the park’s least studied according to William Parker, a paleontologist at Petrified Forest National Park and co-author of the new study. The exposures of the Owl Rock Member at the park are found in very remote areas and therefore have not received the same attention as other geological members in the park.

In 2011, a team co-led by research geologist Kay Behrensmeyer, the National Museum of Natural History’s curator of vertebrate paleontology, braved the area’s rugged badlands, which are home to rattlesnakes and wild horses. They were searching for fossils of prehistoric precursors to mammals and ended up discovering a bonebed containing an entire Triassic ecosystem.

“That’s the fun thing about paleontology: you go looking for one thing, and then you find something else that’s incredible that you weren’t expecting,” said Kligman, who began working on this site as part of his doctorate in 2018.

This part of northeastern Arizona was positioned in the middle of Pangaea and sat just above the equator 209 million years ago. The area’s semi-arid environment was crisscrossed by small river channels and likely prone to seasonal floods. These floods washed sediment and volcanic ash into the channels.

One of these floods likely buried the creatures preserved in the bonebed. The site is so rich in small fossils that excavating them all in the field was impossible. So the team encased large pieces of the surrounding sediment in plaster and brought them back to prepare in the lab. Many of these sediment blocks ended up at the museum’s FossiLab, where a team of volunteers spent thousands of hours, often in view of curious museum visitors, carefully chiseling rock away from bones under the microscope.

In total, the team has uncovered more than 1,200 individual fossils, including bones, teeth, fish scales and coprolites, or fossilized poop. This assemblage contains 16 different groups of vertebrate animals that once inhabited a diverse ecosystem. The region’s braided rivers were filled with fish, like freshwater sharks and coelacanths, as well as ancient amphibians, some of which grew up to 6 feet long. The surrounding environment was home to fearsome reptiles that evolved earlier in the Triassic, including armored herbivores and toothy predators that resembled giant crocodiles.

Living alongside these strange creatures were a variety of more familiar critters, including relatives of tuataras and early frogs. The researchers also described the fossils of an ancient turtle with spike-like armor and a shell that could fit inside a shoebox. This tortoise-like animal lived around the same time as the oldest known turtle, whose fossils were previously uncovered in Germany.

“This suggests that turtles rapidly dispersed across Pangaea, which is surprising for an animal that is not very large and is likely walking at a slow pace,” Kligman said.

The turtle was not the only evolutionary newcomer at this site. The new species of pterosaur the team discovered is one of the oldest species of pterosaur found outside of Europe. The winged reptile would have been small enough to comfortably perch on a person’s shoulder.

The remarkable fossil was unearthed by preparator Suzanne McIntire, who volunteered in the museum’s FossiLab for 18 years.

“What was exciting about uncovering this specimen was that the teeth were still in the bone, so I knew the animal would be much easier to identify,” McIntire said.

The tooth-studded jaw revealed crucial clues about how the earliest pterosaurs lived. Because the tips of the teeth were worn down, the team concluded that the pterosaur likely fed on the site’s fish, many of which were encased in armor-like scales.

The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of the pterosaur evolutionary tree. The species name references its discoverer, McIntire, who retired last year.

The bonebed is the latest research collaboration between the National Museum of Natural History and Petrified Forest National Park. Smithsonian scientists have collected petrified wood, fossils and archaeological objects from the region since the turn of the 20th century.

In addition to Kligman and Behrensmeyer, the new paper included contributions from Adam Fitch, who is also affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History. The study also includes authors affiliated with Columbia College Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Petrified Forest National Park.

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Paper – “Unusual bone bed reveals a vertebrate community with pterosaurs and turtles in equatorial Pangaea before the end-Triassic extinction”  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505513122

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God’s Machines: Descartes and Nature

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As a young man, the not-yet-famous philosopher René Descartes lived for a while in a very famous place: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 20 km outside Paris, where French kings had been building magnificent residences since the 12th century. By the 1600s the palatial châteaux were not even the main attraction. King Henry IV had commissioned two renowned Italian engineers, the Francini brothers, to embellish his gardens with lifelike moving automata and intricate hydraulic amusements, all sophisticated enough to rival those of the grand dukes of Tuscany.

These ‘frolicsome engines’, as they were known, were all the rage across Europe. The essayist Michel de Montaigne spent the summer of 1581 admiring one Italian grotto where he saw ‘not only music and harmony made by the movement of the water, but also a movement of several statues and doors with various actions, caused by the water; several animals that plunge in to drink; and things like that’. Unsuspecting visitors even found that ‘all the seats squirt water on your buttocks’ (although that trick got old after a while). Soon enough, the residents of Saint-Germain could also marvel at lifelike mechanical wonders of their own. In his work on physics and physiology, the Treatise on Man, Descartes describes a grotto where spectators: 

cannot enter without stepping on certain tiles which are arranged in such a way that, for example, if they approach a Diana bathing they will cause her to hide in the reeds, and if they move forward to pursue her they will cause a Neptune to advance and threaten them with his trident; or if they go in another direction they will cause a sea monster to emerge and spew water in their faces; or other such things depending on the whim of the engineers who constructed them.

By the time the Treatise on Man was published in 1662, 12 years after Descartes’ death in 1650, he was viewed as a philosophical revolutionary and one of the principal founders of the ‘new science’, along with figures such as Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes. In 1633 Galileo had been arrested and imprisoned for following Copernican astronomy in placing the sun at the centre of the universe. This was the reason for the posthumous publication of Descartes’ treatise: he simply could not risk being seen to hold the same view, since it went against the received understanding of holy scripture, which placed the Earth at the centre of everything. Nevertheless, he fully subscribed to the new scientific understanding of the world, in which our solar system is just one among many. He shelved his manuscript and, instead, published a different, more autobiographical kind of work: the Discourse on Method, in which he recounted his own search for a ‘method for conducting one’s reason well and attaining truth in the sciences’. There, Descartes aimed to illustrate the discipline of cultivating a wakeful, attentive, considerate mind: a mind trained to separate reason and unreason, sensitive to its own biases and propensity for self-deception and doubt.

This short text makes him, today, one of the most quoted philosophers in the world. It contains his catchphrase, ‘je pense, donc je suis’, also known as ‘cogito, ergo sum’, or ‘I think, therefore I am’. Descartes founded his new philosophy on the reasoning mind. Doubting is a kind of thinking, so the argument goes; so if I am doubting, I cannot doubt that I am thinking, even if nothing else about the world or my body is true. That basic dualistic insight (my mind versus the world) gave him the kind of certainty he was looking for in the sciences: a foundational insight that could be built upon.

But the Discourse is also famous (and infamous) for other assertions, too. Animals, wrote Descartes, can be considered ‘comme une machine’: not just like a machine, but as a machine. Considering the bones, muscles, nerves, arteries, veins, and all the other parts that are in the body of every animal, he concluded that they all worked together just like a complete hydraulic system, or a large mechanical clock. Descartes wanted to understand all such processes. If we study the world, he said, then, ‘knowing the power and action of fire, water, air, stars, the heavens, and all the other bodies that are around us as distinctly as we know the different trades of our craftsmen, we could put them to all the uses for which they are suitable, and thus make ourselves as it were the masters and possessors of nature’.

Very often, these combined statements, all consistent with the new science, have conjured up awful images of animals as unfeeling entities, and the entire natural world as a resource that humans can exploit at will. Many of Descartes’ readers have understood his text in this way. An internet search for his views currently produces a generative-AI summary along the following lines: ‘Descartes’s philosophy, particularly his ideas about the human-nature relationship, has been criticized for contributing to an ecological crisis due to his anthropocentric worldview, metaphysical dualism, and mechanistic view of nature.’

Thinking back to the marvellously lively machines that Descartes grew up with, though, and harnessing the idea of the ‘different trades of our craftsmen’, can help us understand things differently. Craft brings in a sense of careful skill and scale: an artisanal use of natural resources, rather than a plundering. And we should remember that, for Descartes, the entire universe can be conceived as an unimaginably vast mechanism. Within it, both animal and human bodies function in exactly the same way. These living body-machines, which comprise instinct and sensation, are so extraordinarily complex, so ‘astounding’, that they can be manufactured only by God. God’s machines will always be ‘incomparably more complex’, wrote Descartes to his friend, the mathematician Marin Mersenne, than anything that humans could come up with.

Early 17th-century machines were intricate, impressive, responsive, and lively in equal measure. Even so, for Descartes just as for the other proponents of mechanistic science, the natural, living world will always surpass even the most sophisticated contraptions. In its subtle matter and its infinite wonder, it always retains an element of the unknowable. In this way, we can read 17th-century philosophy today not just for its statements about mechanism and mastery, but for the form of environmental awareness it brings with it. As their elements collide, rotate, and interact, the automata of the world encourage a respect for natural processes. After all, as Descartes says, the whole of his philosophy is also ‘like a tree’, a growing, changing thing: metaphysics as its roots, physics as its trunk, but its branches spreading out towards ‘the ultimate degree of wisdom’.

 

Emma Gilby is Professor of Early Modern French Literature and Thought at the University of Cambridge, and the author of Descartes and the Non-Human (Cambridge University Press Elements, 2025).



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Scientists Unveil Cheaper, Smarter Way To Capture Carbon Dioxide

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Carbon Dioxide Clouds SkyBy repurposing the cold energy from LNG processing, scientists have developed a new, cost-efficient technique to trap carbon dioxide from the air using advanced sorbent materials. Scientists at Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) have introduced a new method aimed at reducing carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere, a key strategy […]



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1600-year-old iron scale, weights found in Turkey – The History Blog

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An iron scale and weights have been discovered in the ancient city of Uzuncaburç in Mersin, southern Turkey. It consists of a scale, still articulated, and five weights in the shape of Greek letters. They date to Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries A.D.) and are estimated to be around 1,600 years old.

Uzuncaburç is one of the best preserved ancient cities from the Hellenistic era. Excavations have uncovered planned streets, city gates, monumental fountains, temples and a theater. The scale set was unearthed in the excavation of a the two-columned street that crossed the middle of the ancient city.

The remains of numerous shops have been found there, many, if not all, of which would have used weighing scales to determine the value of the commodity being sold. Everyone from butchers to doctors to metalworkers to restaurants to bread bakers and potters charged by weight for raw materials and finished products. The military used them to weigh out rations. Even amphorae, essential transportation vessels for food and drink, were sold by weight to merchants.

This type of iron balance scale was widespread in Late Antiquity. The design features a cross-beam with a pivoting hanger at the center point. At each end were plates, one held the commodity, the other the weights. Romans used these scales for trade, to assess taxes and to ensure accurate metal weight in the production of coins. Ancient sources report frequent problems with fraudulent weights. False scales and weights would be destroyed and dishonest merchants fined.

Drawing attention to the fact that the scale was found as a complete set, Aydınoğlu explained: “These types of iron balance scales with hanging pans were quite common during Late Antiquity. What is even more interesting is that alongside the scale set, five weights were found. The weights are made in the form of letters from the ancient Greek alphabet. Each weight corresponds to multiples of certain standard weights. At that time, a weight system called “litra” was used. Our weights range from half a litra up to 5 litras. In modern measurements, this corresponds to roughly between 150 grams and 1.5 kilograms.”

Aydınoğlu stated that such examples had not been encountered in previous excavations and emphasized that the weights were labeled using letters.

He said: “They used symbolism on the weights. It might have been a method employed by local merchants or a commonly used system. We are very happy to have found the first complete set of a measurement system.”



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Famous Deaths on July 10

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Roman Emperor (117-138) and builder of Hadrian’s Wall, dies at 62

Hadrian

  • 518 Anastasius I Dikoros [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor (491-518), dies at 87
  • 649 Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China (626-49), dies at 51
  • 1086 Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered

Castilian nobleman and military leader and general strategist, dies at about 59

El Cid

  • 1103 Erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies
  • 1290 King Ladislaus IV (“the Cuman”), Árpád dynasty King of Hungary and Croatia (1272-90), dies at 27
  • 1460 Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
  • 1480 René of Anjou, King of Naples (1435-42) and last heir of the House of Anjou, dies at 71
  • 1535 Jacob van Campen, Dutch Anabaptist bishop and martyr, beheaded and burnt in Amsterdam

King of France (1547-59), dies

Henry II

  • 1573 Willem van Bronckhorst-Batenburg, Dutch nobleman and army leader, dies fighting for William of Orange at about 44

Dutch nobleman and revolutionary known as ‘the Silent’ who led the revolt against Spanish rule and founded the House of Orange-Nassau (Prince of Orange, 1544-84), assassinated at 51 by Balthasar Gérard in Delft, Holland

William I of Orange

  • 1590 Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
  • 1594 Paulo Bellasio, Italian organist and late Renaissance composer, dies at 40
  • 1621 Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy, French soldier, Commander of the Spanish Imperial Army, dies conducting a siege at 50
  • 1653 Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar, personal librarian to Cardinal Mazarine, assembled his Bibliothèque Mazarine, dies at 53
  • 1668 Adam-Nicolas Gascon, Dutch-Walloon composer and kapellmeister (Saint Paul Collegiate Church, 1659-68), dies at 45
  • 1680 Louis Moréri, French priest and encylopedist (The Great Historical Dictionary), dies of consumption at 37 [1]
  • 1683 François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
  • 1686 Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restaurateur, dies at 76
  • 1686 John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
  • 1690 Domenico Gabrielli, Italian Baroque composer, dies at 39
  • 1690 Jan van Brakel, Dutch vice admiral (Chatham), dies in battle at 48
  • 1762 Johann Fredericus Gronovius, Dutch physician and botanist, dies at 76
  • 1776 Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
  • 1806 George Stubbs, British animal painter (Horse Frightened by Lion), dies at 81
  • 1820 William W. Bibb, American politician, Senator for Georgia, 1st governor of Alabama state and territory (1817-1820), dies after being thrown from a horse at 38
  • 1826 Luther Martin, American Founding Father of the United States and Anti-Federalist, dies at 78
  • 1838 Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43
  • 1839 Fernando Sor, Spanish classical guitarist, and composer (Twelve Studies), dies at 61

Louis-Jacques Daguerre

  • 1863 Clement Clarke Moore, American Professor and writer (‘Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
  • 1863 Paul Jones Semmes, American businessman and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 48
  • 1868 Carlo Conti, Italian composer, dies at 71
  • 1875 Henry L. Benning, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 61
  • 1881 Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
  • 1882 Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean hero of the War of the Pacific, dies at 34

American chess player considered the greatest of his era (1857-61), dies at 47

Paul Morphy

  • 1888 Rafael Hernando, Spanish composer of zarzuelas, dies at 66
  • 1889 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler (1841-45), dies at 69
  • 1902 Albert, King of Saxony (1873-1902), dies at 74
  • 1908 Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar, poet and writer, dies at 78
  • 1908 Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer and organist, dies at 69
  • 1909 Flooi Du Toit, South African cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies at 40
  • 1910 Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer, discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies at 98
  • 1915 Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag), dies at 84
  • 1920 Eugénie de Montijo, Emperor of France (1853-71), dies at 94
  • 1920 Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
  • 1920 John A “Jacky” Kilverston, adm/designer (dreadnought), dies at 79
  • 1924 Joannes Benedictus van Heutsz, Dutch general (ended Aceh War) and Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1904-09), dies at 73
  • 1927 Kevin O’Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated at 35
  • 1932 Martha Hughes Cannon, American politician, polygamous wife and women’s rights activist (1st US female state senator, Utah 1897-1901), dies at 75
  • 1935 Paul Hines, American MLB outfielder (Triple Crown 1878, Providence Grays), dies at 80
  • 1937 Attilio Brugnoli, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 56
  • 1937 Johan Bernard Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga), dies at 71
  • 1940 Donald Francis Tovey, British musicologist and composer, dies at 64
  • 1941 Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton [LeMothe], American jazz pioneer pianist and composer (“King Porter Stomp”), dies at 56
  • 1943 Arthur Nevin, American composer, dies at 72
  • 1943 Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and director of the Yale University Observatory (1920-41), dies at 72
  • 1946 Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-American union leader (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union; Congress of Industrial Organizations), dies of a heart attack at 59
  • 1952 Rued Immanuel Langgaard, Danish composer and organist (Music of the Spheres; Antikrist), dies at 58
  • 1953 Sidney Homer, American composer, dies at 88
  • 1954 Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian Mafia boss, dies at 76
  • 1956 Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
  • 1957 Sholem Asch [Szalom Asz], Polish-Jewish-American novelist and playwright (East River; Three Cities), dies while writing at his desk at 77
  • 1963 John Sutton, British actor (The Three Musketeers, Tower of London, Return of Fly), dies of a heart attack at 54
  • 1963 Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster (BBC) and rugby union player (captain Harlequin RFC), dies at 70
  • 1965 Jacques Audiberti, French poet and playwright (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66
  • 1970 Bjarni Benediktsson, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (1963-70), dies at 62
  • 1970 Félix Gaillard, French Radical Party politician (Prime Minister, 1957-58), dies in a yacht accident at 50
  • 1971 Harry M O’Connor, dies of pneumonia at 98
  • 1971 Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death
  • 1971 Samuel Bronfman, Jewish-Russian-Canadian businessman, distiller (founder of Seagrams), and philanthropist, dies at 82
  • 1973 Wallace “Bud” Smith, American boxer (World lightweight title 1955-56), dies of gunshot wounds at 49
  • 1975 Achiel H van Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58), dies at 77
  • 1977 Norman Paris, American orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure), and composer (” Big Blue Marble”, “I’ve Got A Secret”), dies of stroke complications at 51
  • 1978 Joe Davis, English snooker player (World Champion 1927-40, 1946), dies at 77
  • 1978 John D. Rockefeller III, American oil billionaire and philanthropist, dies in a car crash at 71
  • 1978 Michel Gusikoff, American violinist, concert master, and composer, dies at 85
  • 1979 Arthur Fiedler, American orchestra leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84
  • 1980 Komako Kimura, Japanese suffragette, actress and editor, dies at 92
  • 1981 Ken Rex McElroy, American resident of Skidmore, Missouri known as “the town bully”, murdered at 47 in an unsolved killing in front of a crowd of 30-46 in Skidmore’s main street
  • 1982 Gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist, dies at 79
  • 1982 Maria Jeritza [Marie Jedličková], Czech soprano, known as the Moravian Thunderbolt (Vienna Opera, 1912-34, 1953-56; Metropolitan Opera, 1921-32, 1951); dies at 94
  • 1983 Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82
  • 1985 Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered
  • 1987 John H. Hammond, American music producer, talent scout, promoter, and activist, “discovered” Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, dies at 76
  • 1988 Errol John, Trinidadian actor and playwright (A Man from the Sun, The Nun’s Story, Assault on a Queen), dies at 63
  • 1989 Mel Blanc, American radio comedien and voice actor, best known for his Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig), dies at 81
  • 1989 Thomas “Tommy” Trinder, British radio comedian and actor (Save a Little Sunshine, Phoenix), dies at 80
  • 1990 Hans Faverey, Dutch poet, dies at 55
  • 1990 Irene Champlin, American actress (Dale Arden in “Flash Gordon”), dies after long illness at 59
  • 1991 Gerome Ragni, American playwright and songwriter (Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical), dies of cancer at 55
  • 1992 Albert Pierrepoint, last and longest serving British executioner (est. 433-608 executed), dies at 87
  • 1993 Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95
  • 1993 Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91
  • 1993 Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • 1994 Earl Strum, American NBA basketball referee, dies of brain cancer at 66
  • 1994 Henrik Blichmann, Danish swing jazz pianist, composer (92 Minutes of Yesterday), and orchestra leader, dies at 79
  • 1994 Otto Bonsema, Dutch soccer striker (6 caps; Velocitas 1897, GVAV) and manager (SC Heerenveen, GVAV, BV Veendam), dies at 84
  • 1995 Hugh Dundas, British WWII fighter pilot and businessman, dies at 74
  • 1998 Victor Smith, Australian Admiral (Australian Chief of Naval Staff, 1st RAN officer promoted to admiral), dies at 85 [1]
  • 2000 Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
  • 2000 Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
  • 2002 Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, dies at 76
  • 2003 Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
  • 2003 Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, dies at 101
  • 2003 Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
  • 2005 A. J. Quinnell [Philip Nicholson], English writer (Man on Fire), dies at 65
  • 2005 Bobby Younkin [Robert Allan Younkin], American aerobatics pilot, dies at 49 due to a mid-air collision with fellow pilot Jimmy Franklin
  • 2005 Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
  • 2005 Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
  • 2005 Jimmy Franklin, American aerobatics pilot, dies at 57 due to a mid-air collision with fellow pilot Bobby Younkin
  • 2005 Richard Eastham, American actor (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Falcon Crest), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 89
  • 2005 Roland Bengtsson, Swedish guitarist, lute player and double bassist, dies at 88
  • 2006 Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
  • 2007 Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist, dies in a military raid at 43
  • 2007 Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (Kudzu), dies at 57
  • 2007 Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese politician and director of the State Food and Drug Administration, dies at 62
  • 2008 Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
  • 2008 Mike Souchak, American golfer (15 PGA Tour titles; Ryder Cup 1959, 61), dies of a heart attack at 81
  • 2010 (Lincoln) “Sugar” Minott, Jamaican reggae singer (The African Brothers), dies at 54
  • 2010 John Coates, British naval architect best known for reconstructing an Ancient Greek trireme, dies from cancer at 88
  • 2011 Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano, dies at 89
  • 2011 Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
  • 2012 Paul Turok, American composer (Ragtime Caprice; Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty), educator, and music critic, dies at 82
  • 2015 Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor (Covent Garden, 1957-87; New York Metropolitan Opera, 1960-87), dies at 88

Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia), dies at 83

Omar Sharif

  • 2015 Roger Rees, Welsh Tony winning stage and screen actor (Cheers – “Robin Colcord”), dies of brain cancer at 71
  • 2017 Betty Dukes, American Walmart employee who fought against gender discrimination (2001 Betty Dukes v. Walmart lawsuit), dies at 67
  • 2017 Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher and poet, dies at 92
  • 2018 Cliff Downey, Canadian politician (MP, 1968–1972), dies at 89
  • 2019 Jerry Lawson, American a cappella singer and arranger (The Persuasions – “Street Corner Symphony”; Frankly A Cappella: The Persuasions Sing Zappa), dies of Guillain–Barré syndrome at 75

American baseball pitcher, 1962-70 and 1978 (New York Yankees and 3 other teams; All-Star, 1969), author (“Ball Four”), and broadcaster, dies of cerebral amyloid angiopathy at 80

Jim Bouton

  • 2019 Valentina Cortesa, Italian actress (Day for Night, Kidnap Syndicate), dies at 96
  • 2019 Walt Michaels, American NFL linebacker, coach (5-time Pro Bowl; Cleveland Browns; head coach NY Jets 1977-82), dies at 89
  • 2020 Corra Dirksen, South African rugby union winger (10 caps; Northern Transvaal), dies from COVID-19 complications at 82
  • 2020 Jack Charlton, English soccer defender (35 caps; World Cup 1966; Leeds United) and manager (Middlesborough, Sheffield Wed, Newcastle, Rep of Ireland), dies from lymphoma and dementia at 85
  • 2020 Lara van Ruijven, Dutch short track speed skater (World C’ship gold 500m 2019; Olympic bronze 3000m relay 2018), dies from an autoimmune disease at 27
  • 2020 Olga Tass, Hungarian gymnast (Olympic gold, team portable apparatus 1956), dies at 91
  • 2021 Barbara “Bibs” Allbut, American rock vocalist (Angels – “My Boyfriend’s Back”), dies at 80
  • 2021 Byron Berline, American world champion bluegrass fiddle player, dies of stroke complications at 77 [1]
  • 2021 Esther Bejarano, German accordionist, singer (Coincidence; Microphone Mafia), anti-fascism activist, and Holocaust survivor, dies at 96
  • 2021 Gwendolyn Faison, American politician (Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, 2000-10), dies at 96
  • 2021 Jimmy Gabriel, Scottish soccer midfielder (2 caps; Everton, Southampton) and coach (Seattle Sounders; SJ Earthquakes, Seattle Storm, Everton), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 80
  • 2022 Barry Sinclair, New Zealand cricket batsman and captain (21 Tests, 3 x 100s; Wellington CA), dies at 85
  • 2023 Bob Segarini, American-Canadian musician (The Wackers; Family Matters), and radio personality (CHUM-FM; Q107), dies of complications of diabetes at 77
  • 2023 Marga Minco [Sara Menco], Dutch journalist and writer (Bitter Herb), dies at 103
  • 2024 Bob Banks, Australian rugby league five-eighth (15 Tests, 2 World Cup; Queensland 26 games), dies at 94
  • 2024 Dave Loggins, American singer-songwriter (“Please Come To Boston”), dies at 76
  • 2024 Joe Engle, American USAF Major General, test pilot (X-15), and NASA astronaut (STS-2; STS-51-I), dies at 91 [1]

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