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Name:   Christa McAuliffe
Date of Death:   1/28/1986
Description:   The American teacher who died in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion.
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Name:   Mahalia Jackson
Date of Death:   1/27/1972
Description:   American known as the queen of gospel singing.
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Name:   Dizzy Gillespie
Date of Death:   1/6/1993
Description:   American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader.
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Name:   Ida Tarbell
Date of Death:   1/6/1944
Description:   American journalist best known for her study of the Standard Oil Company.
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Name:   Ray Krok
Date of Death:   1/14/1984
Description:   American businessman who built the McDonald's fast food empire
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Name:   Mohandas Gandhi
Date of Death:   1/30/1948
Description:   Indian nationalist leader whose philosophy of nonviolence influenced movements around the world.
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Name:   Winston Churchill
Date of Death:   1/24/1965
Description:   British statesman, orator and author who served as prime minister during World War II.
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Name:   Robert Frost
Date of Death:   1/29/1963
Description:   Poet.
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Name:   Alexander Graham Bell
Date of Death:   1/25/1915
Description:   The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
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Name:   Vladimir Lenin
Date of Death:   1/21/1924
Description:   Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
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Name:   Al Capone
Date of Death:   1/24/1947
Description:   American gangster and prohibition era crime leader.
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Name:   Henry Stimson
Date of Death:   10/20/1950
Description:   States Secretary of War during World War II.
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Name:   Alf Landon
Date of Death:   10/12/1987
Description:   The American politician who ran against Franklin Roosevelt for United States president in 1936,
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Name:   Ed Sullivan
Date of Death:   10/13/1974
Description:   He entertained millions of Americans with his long-running Sunday night variety show
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Name:   John Heisman
Date of Death:   10/3/1936
Description:   Coach who revolutionized the game of college football.
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Name:   Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Date of Death:   10/26/1902
Description:   Pioneering American women's rights leader and social reformer
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Name:   Robert E. Lee
Date of Death:   10/12/1870
Description:   Confederate General.
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Name:   Indira Gandhi
Date of Death:   10/31/1984
Description:   Former prime minister of India who served four terms over 15 years.
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Name:   Al Smith
Date of Death:   10/4/1944
Description:   Four-time governor of New York State and 1928 presidential candidate.
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Name:   Anwar el-Sadat
Date of Death:   10/6/1981
Description:   Egyptian president who won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a peace treaty with Israel.
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Name:   Anna Freud
Date of Death:   10/9/1982
Description:   Austrian-born psychologist who pioneered the field of child psychoanalysis.
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Name:   Jackie Robinson
Date of Death:   10/24/1972
Description:   Made history in 1947 by becoming the first black baseball player in the major leagues
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Name:   Christian Dior
Date of Death:   10/24/1957
Description:   French fashion designer and creator of the ''New Look'' in 1947.
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Name:   Federico Fellini
Date of Death:   10/31/1993
Description:   Italian film director.
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Name:   Upton Sinclair
Date of Death:   11/26/1968
Description:   Author of The Jungle and crusader for social justice..
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Name:   Richard Wright
Date of Death:   11/28/1960
Description:   His books "Native Son" and "Black Boy" exposed the harsh effects of American racism.
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Name:   Enrico Fermi
Date of Death:   11/28/1954
Description:   The Italian-born physicist who helped develop America's first atomic weapons
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Name:   Eugene O'Neill
Date of Death:   11/27/1954
Description:   The foremost American playwright of his time
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Name:   Henri Matisse
Date of Death:   11/3/1954
Description:   One of the foremost painters of 20th century French art.
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Name:   Eleanor Roosevelt
Date of Death:   11/7/1962
Description:   American first lady, social reformer, diplomat and author.
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Name:   Dale Carnegie
Date of Death:   11/1/1955
Description:   Author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
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Name:   Charles de Gaulle
Date of Death:   11/9/1970
Description:   Leader of Free France during World War II and the chief architect of France's Fifth Republic
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Name:   Jerome Kern
Date of Death:   11/11/1945
Description:   One of America's foremost composers of music for the theatre and screen
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Name:   Leonid Brezhnev
Date of Death:   11/10/1982
Description:   Soviet statesman who was the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years
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Name:   Margaret Mead
Date of Death:   11/15/1978
Description:   American anthropologist who authored 44 books and over 1000 articles.
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Name:   Francisco Franco
Date of Death:   11/20/1975
Description:   Spanish dictator who overthrew the democratic republic and headed an authoritarian regime in Spain for 36 years
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Name:   Grandma Moses
Date of Death:   12/13/1961
Description:   Famous American folk painter.
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Name:   Alfred Thayer Mahan
Date of Death:   12/1/1917
Description:   the influential American naval strategist.
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Name:   George Patton
Date of Death:   12/21/1945
Description:   Famous World War II American military officer
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Name:   Robert Louis Stevenson
Date of Death:   12/3/1984
Description:   Scottish author best known for his novel "Treasure Island."
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Name:   Branch Rickey
Date of Death:   12/9/1965
Description:   American baseball executive famous for creating the farm team system and hiring the first black players.
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Name:   Melvil Dewey
Date of Death:   12/26/1931
Description:   American librarian famous for creating the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
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Name:   Walt Disney
Date of Death:   12/15/1966
Description:   Pioneer of animated cartoon films and founder of the Disney theme parks
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Name:   Ralph Bunche
Date of Death:   12/9/1971
Description:   American diplomat who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950
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Name:   Sylvia Plath
Date of Death:   2/11/1963
Description:   American poet known for an intense, confessional quality of writing.
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Name:   Theolonious Monk
Date of Death:   2/17/1982
Description:   World-renowned American jazz pianist and composer
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Name:   Elijah Muhammad
Date of Death:   2/25/1975
Description:   American leader of the Black Muslim movement from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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Name:   Charles Schultz
Date of Death:   2/12/2000
Description:   American cartoonist and creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip
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Name:   Lee Strasberg
Date of Death:   2/17/1982
Description:   Director who pioneered the technique of "method acting."
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Name:   King Hussein
Date of Death:   2/7/1999
Description:   King of Jordan from 1953 to 1999.
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Name:   William Howard Taft
Date of Death:   3/8/1930
Description:   The only person to serve as both United States president and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Name:   Jesse Owens
Date of Death:   3/31/1980
Description:   He caused a sensation at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin by winning four gold medals
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Name:   Fred Friendly
Date of Death:   3/3/1998
Description:   pioneering American broadcast journalist
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Name:   Dwight David Eisenhower
Date of Death:   3/28/1969
Description:   34th United States president and highly respected American general.
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Name:   John Philip Sousa
Date of Death:   3/6/1932
Description:   American band conductor and composer of popular marches.
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Name:   Louisa May Alcott
Date of Death:   3/6/1888
Description:   American author of the classic "Little Women."
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Name:   W.C. Handy
Date of Death:   3/28/1958
Description:   American composer known as the "father of the blues."
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Name:   Georgia O'Keeffe
Date of Death:   3/6/1986
Description:   One of America's foremost 20th-century painters.
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Name:   Joseph Stalin
Date of Death:   3/5/1953
Description:   Soviet statesman who was leader of the Communist Party and dictator of the Soviet Union for 25 years.
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Name:   Virginia Woolf
Date of Death:   3/28/1941
Description:   British novelist.
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Name:   Greta Garbo
Date of Death:   4/15/1990
Description:   Swedish-born American film icon.
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Name:   Chiang Kai-Shek
Date of Death:   4/5/1975
Description:   the Chinese general and president whose regime collapsed to the Communists in 1949
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Name:   Fanny Brice
Date of Death:   4/29/1951
Description:   American comic singer.
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Name:   Pablo Picasso
Date of Death:   4/8/1973
Description:   Spanish-born painter and sculptor considered the most influential artist of the 20th century.
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Name:   Walker Evans
Date of Death:   4/10/1975
Description:   American photographer best known for his portrayal of America during the Great Depression.
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Name:   Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Date of Death:   4/12/1945
Description:   32nd president of the United States.
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Name:   Douglas MacArthur
Date of Death:   4/5/1964
Description:   American general who achieved acclaim as a grand strategist in World War II and in Korea
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Name:   Willa Cather
Date of Death:   4/24/1947
Description:   American novelist famous for her descriptions of life on the American frontier
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Name:   Lucille Ball
Date of Death:   4/26/1989
Description:   American radio, television and film comedic actress
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Name:   Henry Ford
Date of Death:   4/7/1947
Description:   American automobile manufacturer who founded the Ford Motor Company
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Name:   Claude Pepper
Date of Death:   5/30/1989
Description:   The American politician and champion of aid to the elderly
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Name:   Jane Addams
Date of Death:   5/21/1935
Description:   Famed American social worker, reform activist and proponent of world peace.
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Name:   Walter Reuther
Date of Death:   5/9/1970
Description:   The powerful president of the United Automobile Workers Union from 1946 to 1970
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Name:   Rita Hayworth
Date of Death:   5/14/1987
Description:   Legendary Hollywood beauty
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Name:   Marlene Dietrich
Date of Death:   5/6/1992
Description:   Magnetic movie star and singer who was considered an international symbol of glamour.
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Name:   Sarah Breedlove Walker
Date of Death:   5/25/1919
Description:   American businesswoman and philanthropist considered to be the first black female millionaire.
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Name:   Frank Sinatra
Date of Death:   5/14/1998
Description:   American singer and actor who elevated popular song into an art.
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Name:   Sammy Davis, Jr.
Date of Death:   5/16/1990
Description:   American performer famous for his singing, dancing and comedy routines
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Name:   Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Date of Death:   5/19/1994
Description:   American first lady noted for her style and elegance
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Name:   Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin
Date of Death:   6/11/1927
Description:   Pioneer advocate of women's rights.
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Name:   Sarah Orne Jewett
Date of Death:   6/24/1909
Description:   Popular turn of the century novelist.
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Name:   Jonas Salk
Date of Death:   6/23/1995
Description:   The American medical researcher who developed the first vaccine against polio.
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Name:   John Dewey
Date of Death:   6/1/1952
Description:   Influential American philosopher and educator.
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Name:   Stephen Crane
Date of Death:   6/5/1900
Description:   American writer best known for his novel, "The Red Badge of Courage,"
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Name:   Robert F. Kennedy
Date of Death:   6/6/1968
Description:   United States attorney general and senator from New York assassinated during his 1968 campaign for president
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Name:   I.F. Stone
Date of Death:   6/18/1989
Description:   American journalist famous for his witty commentary in his newsletter, "I.F. Stone's Weekly."
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Name:   J. Paul Getty
Date of Death:   6/6/1976
Description:   American businessman and oil tycoon who controlled the Getty Oil Company.
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Name:   William Faulkner
Date of Death:   7/7/1962
Description:   Nobel Prize winning Southern novelist.
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Name:   Marie Curie
Date of Death:   7/1/1934
Description:   Polish-born French physicist twice awarded the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity.
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Name:   Edward V. Rickenbacker
Date of Death:   7/23/1973
Description:   World War I flying ace who went on to lead Eastern Airlines for thirty years.
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Name:   Alan Shepard
Date of Death:   7/21/1998
Description:   First American astronaut to travel in space.
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Name:   Andrew Johnson
Date of Death:   7/31/1875
Description:   17th president of the United States and the first American president to be impeached.
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Name:   Louis Armstrong
Date of Death:   7/6/1971
Description:   Influential American jazz trumpeter
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Name:   Truman Capote
Date of Death:   8/25/1984
Description:   The American author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood."
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Name:   Friedrich Nietzsche
Date of Death:   8/25/1900
Description:   Influential German philosopher.
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Name:   Lenny Bruce
Date of Death:   8/3/1966
Description:   Controversial American comedian.
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Name:   Will Rogers
Date of Death:   8/15/1935
Description:   American actor and comedian.
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Name:   Warren Harding
Date of Death:   8/2/1923
Description:   29th president of the United States.
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Name:   Bruce Catton
Date of Death:   8/28/1978
Description:   American writer and historian known for his books about the Civil War.
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Name:   Andrew Carnegie
Date of Death:   8/11/1919
Description:   Industrialist and philanthropist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
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Name:   Edith Wharton
Date of Death:   8/11/1937
Description:   American novelist.
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Name:   John Huston
Date of Death:   8/28/1987
Description:   American motion-picture director
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Name:   Charles Spaulding
Date of Death:   8/1/1952
Description:   Insurance man who built one of America's largest black-owned businesses
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Name:   J.R.R. Tolkien
Date of Death:   9/2/1973
Description:   Author of Lord of the Rings.
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Name:   Frank Capra
Date of Death:   9/3/1991
Description:   Film director.
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Name:   Ho Chi Minh
Date of Death:   9/2/1969
Description:   Leader of North Vietnam.
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Name:   Albert Schweitzer
Date of Death:   9/4/1965
Description:   Doctor who won Nobel Peace Prize for work in Africa.
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Name:   Margaret Sanger
Date of Death:   9/6/1966
Description:   Led campaign for birth control.
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Name:   Mao Tse-Tung
Date of Death:   9/9/1976
Description:   Father of the Chinese Revolution.
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Name:   Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Date of Death:   9/20/1947
Description:   Three time mayor of New York.
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Name:   Theodore Seuss Geisel
Date of Death:   9/24/1991
Description:   Children's author Dr. Seuss
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Name:   Ring Lardner
Date of Death:   9/25/1933
Description:   Author and sportswriter.
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Name:   Miles Davis
Date of Death:   9/28/1991
Description:   Trumpeter and jazz muscian.
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Name:   Ferdinand Marcos
Date of Death:   9/28/1989
Description:   Ousted leader of the Philippines.
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Name:   Emily Post
Date of Death:   9/25/1960
Description:   American authority on proper etiquette.
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Name:   Chaim Weizmann
Date of Death:   9/9/1952
Description:   Leader and first president of the state of Israel.
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Name:   William McKinley
Date of Death:   9/14/1901
Description:   25th president of the United States
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Name:   Fred Vinson
Date of Death:   9/8/1953
Description:   13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Name:   Dag Hammarskjold
Date of Death:   9/18/1961
Description:   Nobel Prize-winning Swedish statesman and secretary-general of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961
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