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Instant Sex Swap: How a Female Fish Becomes a Male Boss in Minutes

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Female Spotty Paketi FishWhen the top spotty fish in a tank disappears, the runner-up turns aggressive within minutes, rushing and nipping rivals while its body quietly begins a weeks-long switch from female to male. Otago scientists linked this lightning-fast coup to a dominance hierarchy based on size and to a neural decision-making network that fires up the moment […]



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Sea Spider Shock: Missing Gene, Vanishing Body, Evolution’s Strangest Plot Twist

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Pycnogonum litorale Adult Female Feeding on Sea AnemoneIn a scientific first, researchers have mapped the sea spider’s entire genome in high resolution, uncovering a fascinating link between its unusual body and a missing gene. Unlike its arachnid cousins, the sea spider has no real abdomen and even keeps some of its organs inside its legs. Scientists found that this strange anatomy may […]



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Secrets Of The Scarab – Ancient Sacred Symbol In Human History

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A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Ornaments in the shape of beetles are known from the late Paleolithic epoch (10,000 to 20,000 years ago). However, since the Egyptian civilization was so much earlier, it isn’t easy to know the exact meaning these people attributed to beetle body ornaments.

Secrets Of The Scarab - Ancient Sacred Symbol In Human History

Scarab is one of the ancient Egyptians’ oldest and most widely used symbols. Egyptian pharaohs worshipped dung beetles; most probably, it was symbolically as sacred to the Egyptians as the cross is to Christians.

The scarabs, with their aesthetic qualities and shamanic symbolism, were already known in the Old Kingdom (3rd millennium BC) and played a significant role in the early worship of animals. It is supported by archaeological evidence discovered in graves during the time of King Den of Dynasty I.

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Evidence Of Extensive Human Fire Use 50,000 Years Ago

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Fire, an ancient natural phenomenon, has played a key role in shaping our planet for over 400 million years.

It can transform habitats, impact the carbon cycle, and is closely connected to shifts in climate and vegetation.

Evidence Of Extensive Human Fire Use 50,000 Years Ago

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With the advent of human civilization, fire evolved from being solely a natural force to one that could be deliberately harnessed for specific purposes. Nevertheless, the precise timeline of when humans began extensively employing fire to regulate their lives and significantly influence its occurrences remains uncertain.

To address this inquiry, researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), in collaboration with colleagues from China, Germany, and France, conducted an analysis of the pyrogenic carbon record within a 300,000-year-old sediment core extracted from the East China Sea.

Dr. ZHAO Debo, the study’s corresponding author, said the findings challenge the widely held belief that humans only began influencing the environment with fire in the recent past, during the Holocene.

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) examines the occurrence of charred plant remains, referred to as pyrogenic carbon. These remains are created when vegetation burns but is not entirely consumed by fire.

In their study, researchers found a significant increase in fire activity across East Asia approximately 50,000 years ago.

This finding is consistent with previous reports indicating increased fire activities in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Papua New Guinea–Australia region. It suggests a continental-scale intensification of fire use during this period.

Paleoanthropologists who support the theory of evolution propose that the common ancestors of all contemporary humans originated in Africa approximately 300,000 years ago, with Homo sapiens first appearing during this era. It is posited that between 70,000 and 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens migrated from Africa to regions such as Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. This migration ultimately led to the replacement of local ancient human populations.

The study emphasizes that the global increase in fire use coincides with the rapid expansion of Homo sapiens, higher population densities, and a growing dependence on fire, particularly during cold, glacial periods.

During this period, fire played a crucial role in human development. It enabled more efficient cooking, which improved nutrient absorption from food. Additionally, fire offered protection against predators and helped humans endure extreme climates. This dependence on fire had a significant influence on cultural advancements and technological innovations. Furthermore, it had a notable impact on natural systems, particularly affecting the carbon cycle.

It is likely that humans began influencing ecosystems and the global carbon cycle through the use of fire before the Last Ice Age. Professor WAN Shiming, another corresponding author, noted that “even during the Last Glaciation, the use of fire had likely begun to alter ecosystems and carbon fluxes.”

These conclusions significantly impact understanding Earth’s sensitivity to human impacts. If ancient fire management changed atmospheric carbon levels, current climate models might underestimate the historical baseline of human–environment interactions.

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NASA’s SPHEREx Is Mapping the Infrared Universe in 102 Colors – And It’s All Public

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NASA Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) MissionSPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen stargazers alike can trace water, organics, and the universe’s first moments while NASA’s open-science philosophy turbo-charges discovery. NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, launched in March with an exciting mission: to create a complete map […]



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Tiny Crystals Hidden in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite What We Know About Water and Life

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Space Ice Art ConceptScientists have uncovered a hidden structure inside the Universe’s most common ice—found on comets, moons, and interstellar dust—challenging decades of belief. What was thought to be shapeless, “amorphous” ice is actually embedded with tiny crystals, each about the width of a DNA strand. These crystals could reshape how we understand the formation of planets, the […]



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‘Saudi Arabia: A Modern History’ by David Commins review

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I am struck by how little many expatriates in Saudi Arabia or the Gulf know about the history of the region in which they live. Many are unaware that it was a political and economic backwater until the oil era began just before the Second World War. Some are even surprised that, before the 1930s, there had only once been a powerful state covering most of the Arabian peninsula – and that was well over a millennium before. Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Baghdad, and Mosul were the great cities of the eastern Arab world, all located to the north or west of the peninsula. Mecca and Medina were merely pilgrimage centres, while most of the ports dotted around the peninsula were of only local significance. Few people outside Arabia knew of Riyadh. The arid Arabian subcontinent was one of the poorest and most desolate places on earth.

In 1932, the year in which Saudi Arabia was officially created, the kingdom had a diverse, albeit exclusively Muslim, population. Najd in the centre of the peninsula was the home of the fierce warriors who followed the puritanical and intolerant Wahhabi version of the faith. It pronounced that Muslims who were not Wahhabis were infidels. To the east, in the region where the Kingdom’s oil wealth would begin to appear in 1938, at least half the population was Twelver Shi’i. To the west, in the Hijaz, the population of the towns was predominantly Sunni but not Wahhabi. It was also cosmopolitan. This reflected the legacy of 13 centuries of pilgrimage from all over the Muslim world. To the south, near the Yemeni border, there was a substantial Ismaili community. Outside towns and oases, everywhere was tribal. The tribes followed codes of honour that acknowledged pillage as having its proper place in ordinary life, and saw the deterrent of the blood feud as the most effective way to maintain order. The new kingdom was one of the last bastions of officially tolerated slavery.

It is often said that Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries that takes its name from the man who founded it, the Najdi warrior Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Ibn Saud (1880-1953). This is not quite true. The name is that of the family from which he came, and which had intermittently ruled an emirate based in the centre of Najd since some point in the early 18th century. There were many such warrior families whose fiefdoms survived for a while and are long since forgotten except by their descendants. Yet one tribal shaykh, Muhammad Ibn Saud (1687-1765), struck up a pragmatic alliance with a religious scholar and preacher, Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab (1703-92), the eponymous founder of Wahhabism. The two men came to an agreement. Ibn Abdul Wahhab would recognise Muhammad Ibn Saud as the lawful ruler in terms of the Islamic sharia, and the warriors who followed him would expand the dominions of the House of Saud so that the ‘true’ version of Islam could be preached everywhere they conquered. A crucial tenet of Wahhabism was submission to the lawful ruler. That was very convenient, and is why the Saudi state became ideologically dependent on Wahhabism.

This story, and what happened over the following two and a half centuries, is expertly told by David Commins in Saudi Arabia: A Modern History. One of the main purposes of history is to understand where we are today, and that is exactly what Commins’ achieves. He shows how the main drivers that have made Saudi Arabia what it is are the internal politics of the House of Saud, the religious politics of Wahhabism, the effects of oil wealth, and the dilemmas that have confronted the kingdom in its dealings with the outside world. Commins describes factional division as the Achilles heel of Arabian clans, not least the House of Saud.

After Ibn Saud’s death in 1953, the kingdom was ruled on a clan basis by a succession of his sons until a grandson, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), consolidated power in the Ritz-Carlton purge of 2017. Saudi Arabia now seems to be on a new path, but it is that of autocracy. At least the kings who were sons of Ibn Saud had to consult among their family. There is a very real risk that MBS will morph into a dictator of the sort that has plagued the Arab world since the 1950s, and whose judgements have been impaired by the obsequiousness of the sycophants that surround them. The murder of Jamal Khashoggi suggests that the new regime does not like those who speak truth publicly to power.

That said, a very real transformation is going on. Commins shows how this began gently during the 20 years under King Abdullah, who died in 2015. This groundwork enabled MBS to end the grip Wahhabism had enjoyed over Saudi society, as well as to embark on a cautious reconciliation with Iran (assisted by Chinese good offices). MBS’ 2030 vision of Saudi Arabia envisages it becoming a high-earning, high-tech society no longer dependent on hydrocarbons. This is leading to a spending spree on the pet projects beloved by kings and dictators, and benefiting legions of foreign consultants. At the risk of understatement, it is unlikely to be completely successful. He is also trying to replace the militancy of Wahhabism with a modern, secular nationalism as the focus of Saudi identity. If he succeeds in dethroning the currents of Islam that ultimately led to al-Qaeda and ISIS, we will all owe him a debt.

Yet Saudi Arabia is a very diverse country. Foreign policy experts in the 1930s and 1940s doubted that it would survive the death of Ibn Saud. Its varied peoples will expect to be listened to by their ruler and that can only imply evolution towards some form of democratic participation. That will be the great challenge for MBS. He has shown he can respond to his people, most recently by encouraging the Saudi media to express its outrage at Donald Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, something MBS probably does not care deeply about himself. But as the years of his rule extend into decades, will he maintain a sure touch? Or will his grip on reality weaken, as it did with Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad – and, for that matter, his own uncle King Saud, who was deposed by the family in 1964?

  • Saudi Arabia: A Modern History
    David Commins
    Yale University Press, 384pp, £25
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Breaking the Bottleneck: All-Optical Chip Could Unlock Light-Speed Communication

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Programmable All Optical Signal Processing on Silicon ChipNew optical chip enables ultra-fast computing and data processing. Built using silicon photonics for next-gen networks. The rise of the big data era presents major challenges for information processing, particularly in terms of handling large volumes of data and managing energy consumption. These issues are further compounded by the fact that over 90% of data […]



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Bayeux Tapestry to return to England after 900 years – The History Blog

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For the first time in nearly a millennium, the Bayeux Tapestry will return to England thanks to a historic loan agreement between the UK and France. The iconic tapestry depicting the Norman invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings will be loaned to the British Museum in the autumn of 2026. In exchange, the British Museum will loan some of the greatest treasures in its collection, including pieces from the Sutton Hoo ship burial and the Lewis Chessmen, to museums in Normandy.

Woven in around 1077, 11 years after the William, Duke of Normandy, conquered England, the embroidered linen is 224 feet long and 2’4″ high and is believed to have been produced in or around Canterbury. It was commissioned by Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, brother of William, so it moved to Normandy as soon as it was completed.

The multi-colored wool thread embroidery is a unique depiction of 12th century France and England captured in 58 scenes with 626 people, 202 horses and 93 penises. (Duke William’s horse has the largest one.) Scene 57 shows King Harold Godwinson’s death from an arrow in the eye, labelled by the stitched inscription above the scene as “Hic Harold rex interfectus est,” meaning “Here King Harold is killed.”

This is the second attempt to arrange a homecoming for the tapestry. In 2018, France and the UK announced that it would be loaned for a 2022 exhibition, but that plan was scrapped when a three-year study of the Bayeux Tapestry found that it was simply too fragile to move before a comprehensive program of restoration and repair addressed the tens of thousands of points of weakness, including 30 unstabilized tears.

The conservation is now complete and the Bayeux Tapestry is stable enough to cross the Channel once more. It will be at the British Museum for a year while the Bayeaux Museum is closed for renovations.

Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the British Museum, said: ‘The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most important and unique cultural artefacts in the world, which illustrates the deep ties between Britain and France and has fascinated people across geographies and generations. It is hard to overstate the significance of this extraordinary opportunity of displaying it at the British Museum and we are profoundly grateful to everyone involved. This will be the first time the Bayeux Tapestry has been in the UK since it was made, almost 1,000 years ago. We are also delighted to send treasures from the British Museum representing all four nations of the UK – including Sutton Hoo treasures and the Lewis chess pieces – to France in return.



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Famous Deaths on July 9

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  • 1228 Stephen Langton, English Cardinal and scholar, Archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228), negotiated the Magna Carta, thought to have divided Bible into chapters (b. c. 1150)
  • 1386 Leopold III, Duke of Austria (1365-68), dies at 34
  • 1441 Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (The Ghent Altarpiece), dies
  • 1553 Maurice, Duke and Elector of Saxony (1541-7, 1547-53), dies of his wounds from the Battle of Sievershausen at 32 [some sources place death as July 11th]
  • 1639 Entonius Walaeus, Dutch Calvinist theologist, dies at 65
  • 1654 Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary, dies of smallpox at 20
  • 1668 Jacob Balde, German poet (Jephthe), dies at 64
  • 1677 Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German mystic, poet and court physician, dies at 52
  • 1696 Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies
  • 1704 Yan Ruoqu, Chinese scholar of Qing dynasty, dies at 67
  • 1706 Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer and adventurer (explored Hudson Bay and Louisiana), dies of fever in Havana at 44
  • 1716 Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician, physicist and sound engineer who coined the name acoustics for the study of sound from the ancient Greek word ακουστός, meaning “able to be heard”, dies at 63
  • 1737 Gian Gastone de’ Medici, last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany (1723-37), dies at 66
  • 1742 John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)
  • 1746 Philip V, King of Spain (1700-24, 1724-46), dies at 62
  • 1747 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian cellist and opera composer (Astianatte), dies at 76

  • 1755 Gottlob Harrer, German composer, dies at 52
  • 1756 Pieter Langendijk, Dutch painter, etcher and playwright (Wiskunstenaars), dies at 72
  • 1766 Jonathan Mayhew, American Congregational minister, dies at 45
  • 1795 Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
  • 1797 Edmund Burke, British statesman, philosopher and author (A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution in France), dies at 68
  • 1805 Georg Panzer, German vicar and librarian, dies at 76
  • 1821 Tommaso Sogner, Italian composer, dies at 58
  • 1828 Gilbert Stuart, American portrait painter (unfinished portrait of George Washington), dies at 72
  • 1843 Washington Allston, American painter (pioneer of America’s Romantic movement of landscape painting) and author, dies at 63
  • 1845 Jacob van Rechteren van Appeltern, Dutch politician (advocated for elections as one of “Nine Men”), dies at 57
  • 1850 Bab [Shirazi, Sayyid Ali Muhammad], Persian founder of Babism, executed by firing squad on orders of the Persian government at 30

12th US President (1849-50) and major general in the Mexican–American War, dies in the White House of an unknown digestive ailment at 65 after reportedly consuming copious amounts of raw fruit and iced milk

Zachary Taylor

  • 1852 Thomas M. T. McKennan, American politician who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior for only 11 days (1850), dies at 58
  • 1855 FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, British Army officer (commander of the British forces during the Crimean War), dies of dysentery in Crimea at 66

Italian scientist who contributed to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro’s law (6.022 x 10 ^ 23), dies at 79

Amedeo Avogadro

  • 1856 James Strang, American Mormon splinter group leader (self-proclaimed king of Beaver Island), dies of his wounds three weeks after being attacked by disaffected members at 43
  • 1875 Francis Preston Blair Jr, famed St Louis lawyer, dies at 54
  • 1880 Paul Broca, French brain surgeon and anthropologist (located speech center), dies at 56
  • 1883 Adrien Louis Boieldieu, French composer, dies at 67
  • 1883 Tự Đức, Emperor of Vietnam (1847-1883) last Independent Vietnamese monarch, dies at 53
  • 1893 George Christopher Cato, Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban South Africa, dies at 79
  • 1893 William Scotton, English cricketer (wicket in 15 Tests for Eng), commits suicide at 37
  • 1895 Jack Simpson, Scottish golfer (British Open 1884), dies of typhoid fever at 35
  • 1902 Mark Antokolsky, Russian sculptor (Peter the Great monument), dies at 58
  • 1903 Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist, dies at 60
  • 1909 Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62
  • 1914 Fred A. Busse, American politician, Mayor of Chicago (1907-11), dies of heart disease at 48
  • 1922 Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist (The Wild Geese), poet and surgeon, dies at 60
  • 1923 William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dies at 74
  • 1926 Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, American nun and daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne (founded Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne), dies at 75
  • 1927 John Drew Jr., American Shakespearean actor (The Big Bonanza), dies at 73
  • 1932 Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies

American businessman and inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor blades, dies at 77

King C. Gillette

  • 1934 Erich Mühsam, German author and political anarchist, dies at 56 after being tortured by Nazi guards at the Oranienburg concentration camp
  • 1934 Otakar Zich, Czech composer, dies at 55
  • 1937 Oliver Law, American soldier and labor leader (commander of Lincoln Battalion of the XV International Brigade in Spaniah Civil War), dies in battle at 36
  • 1938 Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and jurist, dies at 68
  • 1943 Clifford Whittingham Beers, American mental hygiene pioneer, dies at 67
  • 1947 Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
  • 1948 James Baskett, American actor (Song of the South) 1st African American male to receive an Oscar, dies of heart failure related to diabetes at 44
  • 1949 Frank Johnston, Canadian artist, cheifly of landscapes (Group of Seven; “Sun Song of Algoma”), and educator (Winnipeg School of Art; Ontario College of Art), dies at 61 [1]
  • 1949 Fritz Bennicke Hart, British composer, and conductor (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), dies of cardiac issues at 75
  • 1951 Egbert Van Alstyne, American popular music songwriter and ragtime pianist (“In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree”; “For Your Boy and My Boy”), dies after a stroke at 73 [1]
  • 1951 Harry Heilmann, American Baseball HOF outfielder (4 × AL batting champion, Detroit Tigers) and broadcaster (WXYZ), dies from lung cancer at 56
  • 1951 Jørgen Bentzon, Danish composer (Racconto; Saturnalia), dies at 54
  • 1954 Henri Dillon, French composer (Arlequin), dies in combat in Indo-China at 41
  • 1955 Arch Ward, American sportswriter (Chicago Tribune – proposed baseball’s all-star game), dies at 58
  • 1957 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Soviet-Russian pianist, and composer, dies at 80
  • 1957 Manfred Julius Susskind, South African cricketer (1924 Test series), dies
  • 1960 Edward Burlingame Hill, American composer and educator, dies at 86
  • 1960 Vallance Jupp, cricketer (28 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1921-28), dies
  • 1961 Alan Marshal, Australian actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express), dies from a heart attack at 52
  • 1961 Whittaker Chambers, American writer (Time Magazine) and intelligence agent (defected Soviet spy), dies from heart attack at 60 [1]
  • 1963 Frank Mayo, American silent screen actor (Burning Gold, Hell’s Headquarters), dies of a heart attack at 77
  • 1966 Mule Suttles, American Baseball HOF infielder (5 x NgL All Star; NL batting champion 1926, 28; NgL Triple Crown 1926; St. Louis Stars), dies of cancer at 65
  • 1967 Douglas MacLean, silent film comedian turned producer, dies at 77

Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), dies at 93

Eugen Fischer

  • 1968 Allyn Edwards, host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53
  • 1968 Vardis Fisher, American writer (Passion Spin the Plot), dies at 73
  • 1969 Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, dies
  • 1969 Pierre Capdevielle, French conductor, composer (Élégie de Duino), music critic (Monde musicale), and teacher, dies at 63
  • 1969 Rob de Vries, actor and director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), dies at 51
  • 1972 Robert Weede [Wiedefeld], American operatic and musical theater baritone (Metropolitan Opera, 1937-48; The Most Happy Fella), dies at 69

Earl Warren

  • 1974 Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer, dies at 90
  • 1974 Sonia Gaskell, Russian-Dutch choreographer (Diaghilev), dies at 70
  • 1974 Ted Bowley, cricketer (England batsman in 5 Tests 1929-30), dies
  • 1976 Tom Yawkey, American Baseball HOF executive (owner Boston Red Sox 1933-76), dies from leukemia at 73

American suffragist who founded the National Woman’s Party (NWP), dies at 92

Alice Paul

  • 1977 Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist and natural science writer (The Unexpected Universe), and poet (Another Kind of Autumn), dies of cardiac arrest at 69
  • 1978 Abdul Razak al-Naif, premier of Iraq, murdered
  • 1978 Zoltán Aladár, Transylvanian composer, music critic and teacher (The Goat and the Three Goons), dies at 49
  • 1979 Betty Evans Grayson, American softball pitcher (National Softball Hall of Fame 1959; Chicago Queens), dies at 53
  • 1979 Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay), dies at 78
  • 1980 Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist, dies at 66
  • 1981 Oscar van Hemel, Belgian-Dutch violinist and composer, dies at 88
  • 1981 Wilhelm H C Tenhaeff, para-psychologist, dies at 87
  • 1982 (Joseph) “Wingy” Manone, American jazz trumpeter, composer, singer, and bandleader (“Tar Paper Stomp”; “Downright Disgusted Blues”), dies at 82
  • 1984 Peter Hurd, American painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera), dies at 80
  • 1984 Randall Thompson, American composer, chiefly of choral music (Trip to Nahant; Frostiana), and educator (Curtis Institute; Harvard University), dies at 85
  • 1985 Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
  • 1985 Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
  • 1985 Rafael Campos, Dominican born actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49
  • 1986 Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered at 56
  • 1986 Lê Duẩn, Vietnamese communist politician (General Secretary of Vietnam 1960-86), dies at 78
  • 1988 Anthony Holland, American actor (Break Up) who suffered from HIV/AIDS, commits suicide at 60
  • 1988 Barbara Woodhouse, Irish-born British dog trainer and TV personality (“walkies”), dies at 78 of a stroke
  • 1989 Piet Lieftinck, Dutch politician (Minister of Finance 1945-52 – oversaw rebuilding of Dutch economy after WWII), dies at 86
  • 1990 Brigitte D’Ortschy, German author, trnslator and Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69
  • 1992 Eric Sevareid, American author and News correspondent (CBS), dies at 79
  • 1992 Kelvin Coe, Australian ballet dancer (Australian Ballet; Bolshoi Ballet), dies of AIDS related illness at 45
  • 1993 Jaap Meijer, Dutch historian and rabbi in Paramaribo, dies at 80
  • 1993 Will Rogers Jr, American politician (D-Representative 1943-44) writer, political commentator, and actor (Down to Earth), commits suicide at 81
  • 1994 Bill Mosienko, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (fastest hat trick in NHL history, 21 seconds 1952; 5-time All Star), dies at 72
  • 1994 Cornelius Boyson, American blues bassist, dies at 57
  • 1994 Sabby Lewis, American jazz pianist and arranger, dies at 79
  • 1995 Fenton Morley, British parish priest who chaired the Church of England Morley Commission, dies at 83
  • 1995 James Cameron Tudor, Barbadian politician and diplomat (founded Democratic Labour Party), dies at 66
  • 1995 Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Shout), dies at 47
  • 1996 Christopher Casson, Irish-English actor (Zardoz, Educating Rita, The Riordans), dies at 84
  • 1996 Douglas G. Chapman, Canadian-American biomathematical statistician (whale conservation), dies at 76 [1]
  • 1996 Melvin Belli, American lawyer known as “The King of Torts” and “Melvin Bellicose”, dies at 88
  • 1996 Peter Martini, British journalist, dies at 31
  • 1996 Susan Cowdy, English ornithologist (Bardsey Island Trust), dies at 81
  • 1999 Robert de Cotret, French Canadian politician, Secretary of State for Canada (1991-93), dies at 55
  • 1999 Talib Dawud [Alfonso Rainey], Antiguan-American jazz trumpeter (Dizzy Gillespie Big Band), dies at 76
  • 2000 Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
  • 2000 John Morgan, British writer and etiquette expert (The Times Book of Modern Manners, Morgan’s Manners), discovered deceased outside his residence at 41 (cause of death undetermined) [1] [2]
  • 2002 Kenneth Snowman, British jeweller and antiquarian, dies at 82
  • 2002 Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933)

American actor (In the Heat of the Night; The Pawnbroker; The Illustrated Man), dies of pneumonia at 77

Rod Steiger

  • 2004 Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
  • 2004 Isabel Sanford, American actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family), dies at 86 (b. 1917)
  • 2004 Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)
  • 2005 Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
  • 2005 Kevin Hagen, American actor (Little House on the Prairie), dies at 77
  • 2005 Rafiq Zakaria, Indian politician and Islamic religious cleric, dies at 86
  • 2005 Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (4 Olympic gold 1956, 60), dies at 74
  • 2006 Milan Williams, American keyboardist (Commodores – “Three Times A Lady”), dies of cancer at 58
  • 2007 Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
  • 2008 Séamus Brennan, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and Minister, dies of cancer at 60
  • 2009 Henry Cadbury Brown, English architect (Royal College of Art), dies at 96
  • 2010 Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist (Tirra Lirra By The River; The Impersonators), dies following a stroke at 93
  • 2010 Vonetta McGee, American actress, dies from cardiac arrest at 65
  • 2011 Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
  • 2011 Facundo Cabral, Argentine folk, rock, and protest singer-songwriter, shot and killed riding in a car with a concert promoter at 74
  • 2011 Würzel [Michael Burston], British musician (Motörhead), dies of ventricular fibrillation at 61
  • 2012 Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal, dies at 91
  • 2012 Terepai Maoate, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, dies from prostate cancer at 78
  • 2013 Andrea Veneracion, Filipina singer, choral conductor (Philippine Madrigal Singers), composer, arranger, and educator, dies from stroke complications at 84

American modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency), dies from complications of meningioma and osteoporosis at 92

Eileen Ford

  • 2015 Michael Masser, American pop music composer (“The Greatest Love of All”, “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where Your Going To)”), dies at 74
  • 2016 Chuck Cassey, American choral director (Jimmy Dean Show), dies at 82
  • 2016 Robert Nye, British novelist and poet (Falstaff), dies at 77
  • 2018 Hans Günter Winkler, German equestrian (Olympic gold Individual jumping 1956, team 1956, 60, 64, 72), dies at 91
  • 2018 Lord Carrington [Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington], British conservative politician, former British Foreign Secretary (1979-82) and NATO Secretary General (1984-8), dies at 99
  • 2019 Fernando de la Rúa, Argentine politician, 51st President of Argentina (1999-2001), dies at 81
  • 2019 Rip Torn [Elmore Rual Torn Jr], American actor, voice artist and comedian (Cross Creek, The Larry Sanders Show), dies at 88

American businessman (Electronic Data Systems, Perot Systems), billionaire and presidential candidate (1992, 1996), dies of leukemia at 89

Ross Perot

  • 2019 William E. Dannemeyer, American politician who opposed LGBT rights (Rep-R-CA, 1979-93), dies at 89
  • 2021 Boris Dmitriyevich Andreyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 80
  • 2021 Jehan Sadat (née Safwat Raouf), Egyptian human rights activist, widow of Anwar Sadat and 1st Lady of Egypt (1970-81), dies at 87 [1]
  • 2021 Jonathan Coleman, British-Australian television and radio, writer, and comedian, dies of prostate cancer at 65
  • 2021 Paul Mariner, English soccer striker (35 caps; Plymouth Argyle, Ipswich Town, Arsenal, Portsmouth) and coach (Plymouth Argyle, Toronto FC), dies from brain cancer at 68
  • 2022 András Törőcsik, Hungarian soccer forward (45 caps; Újpest Dozsa FC, Montpellier), dies of pneumonia at 67
  • 2022 Barbara Thompson, British jazz saxophonist and composer, dies from complications of Parkinson’s disease at 77
  • 2022 Davie Robb, Scottish soccer forward (5 caps; Aberdeen FC 251 games), dies at 74
  • 2022 John Gwynne, English sports commentator and reporter (PDC darts tournaments Sky Sports), dies from cancer at 77
  • 2022 Tommy Jacobs, American golfer (US Open 1964 runner-up; US Masters 1966 runner-up), dies at 87
  • 2023 James W. Lewis, American convicted extortionist, suspected of killing 7 people with cyanide-laced Tylenol, dies at 76 [1]

Spanish soccer midfielder (32 caps; Barcelona, Inter Milan, Sampdoria) and manager (Spain 1988-91; Cagliari, SPAL, Como, Inter Milan, Deportivo La Coruña), dies at 88

Luis Suárez Miramontes

  • 2023 Tommy Møller Nielsen, Danish soccer manager (B1909, Viborg FF, HB Køge) and scout (Manchester United 2016-23), dies at 61
  • 2024 Jim Inhofe, American politician (US Senator -R- Oklahoma 1995-2023, US Representative -R- Oklahoma 1987-94), and climate change skeptic, dies of a stroke at 89 [1]
  • 2024 Joe Bonsall, American country singer (Oak Ridge Boys – “Elvira”), dies from complications of ALS at 76

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