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25,206 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

Cristian Erbes
association football player
36 years old
January 6 · 1990
Source: Transfermarkt
Einar Førde
politician, athletics competitor
1943–2004 · aged 61
January 20 · 1943
Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon
Fernando Ovelar
association football player
22 years old
January 6 · 2004
Source: fbref.com
Johan Gastien
association football player
38 years old
January 25 · 1988
Source: Transfermarkt
Jiří Beran
fencer
44 years old
January 18 · 1982
Source: Czech Olympic Committee database
István Szőnyi
politician, graphic artist
1894–1960 · aged 66
January 17 · 1894
Source: BnF authorities
María de la Paz Hernández
field hockey player
49 years old
January 1 · 1977
No external source identified
Grigoriy Yegorov
athletics competitor, pole vaulter
59 years old
January 12 · 1967
Source: World Athletics database
Kurt Landau
politician
1903–1937
January 29 · 1903
Source: BnF authorities
Vladimir Zharkov
ice hockey player
38 years old
January 10 · 1988
No external source identified
Martha P. Haynes
astronomer, university teacher
75 years old
January 1 · 1951
No external source identified
Omar Ramos
association football player
38 years old
January 26 · 1988
Source: FBref
Sebastián Gamarra
association football player, association football coach
29 years old
January 15 · 1997
Source: As
Steven Scott
sport shooter
41 years old
January 10 · 1985
No external source identified
Pascal Collasse
choreographer, composer
1649–1709 · aged 60
January 22 · 1649
Source: SNAC
Joan Spillane
swimmer
83 years old
January 31 · 1943
No external source identified
Kim So-hui
taekwondo athlete
32 years old
January 29 · 1994
No external source identified
Daniel Halfar
association football coach, association football player
38 years old
January 7 · 1988
Source: As
Rasoul Korbekandi
association football player, association football coach
73 years old
January 27 · 1953
Source: Transfermarkt
Cynthia Hotton
politician
57 years old
January 17 · 1969
No external source identified
Ștefan Berariu
rower
27 years old
January 14 · 1999
Source: World Rowing athlete database
Vera Zozulya
luger
70 years old
January 15 · 1956
No external source identified
Dimitris Chondrokoukis
high jumper, athletics competitor
38 years old
January 26 · 1988
Source: World Athletics database
Jeanne Matthey
tennis player
1886–1980 · aged 94
January 25 · 1886
Source: roglo.eu
Francis Alexander, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar
aristocrat
1674–1711 · aged 37
January 27 · 1674
No external source identified
Miodrag Jovanović
association football player, association football coach
1922–2009 · aged 87
January 17 · 1922
Source: Transfermarkt
Herivelto Martins
singer, guitarist
1912–1992
January 30 · 1912
Source: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural
Moshe Leon
association football player
82 years old
January 9 · 1944
Source: Transfermarkt
Bayarjargal Agvaantseren
translator, conservationist
57 years old
January 11 · 1969
No external source identified
Fons Bastijns
association football player, association football coach
1947–2008 · aged 61
January 28 · 1947
No external source identified
Adolfo Suárez Rivera
Catholic priest, theologian
1927–2008
January 9 · 1927
Source: Find a Grave
Andrzej Bachleda*
alpine skier
Date disputed
January 21 · 1947
Source: Integrated Authority File
Rosalyn Bryant
athletics competitor
70 years old
January 7 · 1956
Source: World Athletics database
Sinikka Langeland
musician, jazz musician
65 years old
January 13 · 1961
No external source identified
Martynas Mažeika
basketball player
41 years old
January 29 · 1985
Source: FIBA database
Abraham Roentgen
cabinetmaker, engineer
1711–1793 · aged 82
January 30 · 1711
Source: RKDartists
Javier Villarreal*
association football player
Date disputed
January 3 · 1979
Source: Soccerway
Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová
writer, editor
1855–1939 · aged 84
January 6 · 1855
Source: BnF authorities
Emil Voigt
long-distance runner
1883–1973 · aged 90
January 31 · 1883
Source: World Athletics database
Arkady Shvetsov
engineer, politician
1892–1953 · aged 61
January 24 · 1892
No external source identified
Karl Edvard Diriks*
translator, painter
Date disputed
January 9 · 1855
Source: KulturNav
Jahir Ocampo
competitive diver, swimmer
36 years old
January 12 · 1990
No external source identified
José Juan Figueiras*
association football player
Date disputed
January 25 · 1979
No external source identified
Paul Apreku Twum Barimah
communications officer, lawyer
49 years old
January 28 · 1977
Source: parliament.gh
Gustavo Bebianno
lawyer, politician
1964–2020 · aged 56
January 18 · 1964
No external source identified
Ivo Ćipiko
prose writer, novelist
1869–1923 · aged 54
January 13 · 1869
Source: Croatian Biographical Lexicon
Adolph Kupffer*
physicist, meteorologist
Date disputed
January 7 · 1799
Source: Q20803813
Federico Edwards
association football player, association football coach
1931–2016 · aged 85
January 25 · 1931
Source: FBref
Pierre de Marca
Catholic theologian, archbishop
1594–1662 · aged 68
January 24 · 1594
Source: SNAC
Manuel Onwu
association football player
38 years old
January 11 · 1988
Source: As
Charles Secrétan
university teacher, philosopher
1815–1895 · aged 80
January 19 · 1815
Source: CERL Thesaurus
Knut Olav Åmås
politician, journalist
58 years old
January 19 · 1968
No external source identified
Jan Wasiewicz
association football player
1911–1976 · aged 65
January 6 · 1911
No external source identified
Tamás Major
actor, anti-fascist
1910–1986 · aged 76
January 26 · 1910
Source: A magyar antifasiszta ellenállás és partizánmozgalom
Elizabeth Nicholls
zoologist, paleontologist
1946–2004 · aged 58
January 31 · 1946
No external source identified
Olha Zemlyak
sprinter
36 years old
January 16 · 1990
Source: World Athletics database
Shuji Tsurumi
artistic gymnast
88 years old
January 29 · 1938
Source: Olympedia
Nataša Ljepoja
handball player
30 years old
January 28 · 1996
No external source identified
Basil Nikitin
diplomat, iranologist
1885–1960 · aged 75
January 13 · 1885
Source: Integrated Authority File
Gilbert A. Pierce
politician, writer
1839–1901 · aged 62
January 11 · 1839
Source: Find a Grave
Jennifer Klein
association football player
27 years old
January 11 · 1999
Source: Soccerdonna
Charles Toubé
association football player
1958–2016 · aged 58
January 22 · 1958
Source: Transfermarkt
Marius Holst
film director, screenwriter
61 years old
January 15 · 1965
Source: Freebase Data Dumps
Ole Jacob Broch*
politician, mathematician
Date disputed
January 14 · 1818
Source: Integrated Authority File
Wang Chunyu
athletics competitor
31 years old
January 17 · 1995
Source: World Athletics database
Jorge Mora
association football player
35 years old
January 16 · 1991
Source: Transfermarkt
Gennadi Sarafanov
astronaut, aircraft pilot
1942–2005 · aged 63
January 1 · 1942
Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
Carlo Giovanardi
politician
76 years old
January 15 · 1950
No external source identified
Giovanni Frattini
mathematician
1852–1925 · aged 73
January 8 · 1852
Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
Roderich Benedix
actor, theatre manager
1811–1873 · aged 62
January 21 · 1811
Source: SNAC
Želimir Terkeš
association football player
45 years old
January 8 · 1981
Source: FBref
Karen Josephson
swimmer, synchronized swimmer
62 years old
January 10 · 1964
No external source identified
Thomas Rytter
association football player
52 years old
January 6 · 1974
Source: Transfermarkt
Juan Carlos Mariño
association football player
44 years old
January 2 · 1982
Source: Transfermarkt
Herbert Walter Levi
entomologist, zoologist
1921–2014 · aged 93
January 3 · 1921
Source: news.harvard.edu
Agnes Christine Johnston
film screenwriter, writer
1896–1978 · aged 82
January 11 · 1896
Source: IMDb
Gyula Szilágyi
association football coach, association football player
1923–2001 · aged 78
January 18 · 1923
No external source identified
Choi Dae-shik
association football player
1965–2024 · aged 59
January 10 · 1965
Source: FBref
Henryk Skarżyński
otolaryngologist, physician
72 years old
January 3 · 1954
Source: chopin.edu.pl
Miguel M. Abrahão
television actor, children's writer
65 years old
January 25 · 1961
No external source identified
João de Lucca
swimmer
36 years old
January 6 · 1990
No external source identified
Stefano Oldani
sport cyclist
28 years old
January 10 · 1998
Source: uci.org
Pedro Schwartz
economist, university teacher
91 years old
January 30 · 1935
No external source identified
Ansley Cargill
tennis player
44 years old
January 5 · 1982
Source: WTA website
Arquímedes Figuera*
association football player
Date disputed
January 6 · 1989
No external source identified
Naoum Aronson
sculptor
1873–1943 · aged 70
January 6 · 1873
No external source identified
Richard Buchta
draftsperson, photographer
1845–1894 · aged 49
January 19 · 1845
Source: RKDartists
Arturo Coddou
association football coach, association football player
1905–1954 · aged 49
January 14 · 1905
Source: FBref
Karsten Forsterling
rower
46 years old
January 21 · 1980
Source: Sports-Reference.com
Fuyuko Tachizaki
biathlete
37 years old
January 13 · 1989
No external source identified
Paolo Grossi
politician, historian
1933–2022 · aged 89
January 29 · 1933
Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it
Ernst Fast
marathon runner, long-distance runner
1881–1959 · aged 78
January 21 · 1881
No external source identified
Viktor Láznička
chess player
38 years old
January 9 · 1988
Source: Chess International Titleholders, 1950–2016
Fernanda Ferreira
volleyball player, beach volleyball player
46 years old
January 10 · 1980
No external source identified
John Galliquio*
association football player
Date disputed
January 12 · 1979
Source: Soccerway
Andriy Totovytskyi
association football player
33 years old
January 20 · 1993
Source: FBref
Ngozi Onwumere
bobsledder, athletics competitor
34 years old
January 23 · 1992
Source: Olympedia
Jan Wegereef
association football referee
64 years old
January 17 · 1962
No external source identified
Lee Hye-in
fencer
31 years old
January 15 · 1995
No external source identified
Henrik Sjöberg
artistic gymnast, athletics competitor
1875–1905
January 20 · 1875
No external source identified
Ferdinand von Roemer
mineralogist, paleontologist
1818–1891
January 5 · 1818
Source: Czech National Authority Database
Gintaras Januševičius
pianist
41 years old
January 16 · 1985
No external source identified
Wellington Clayton Gonçalves dos Santos
association football player
43 years old
January 2 · 1983
Source: Transfermarkt
Christer Majbäck
cross-country skier
62 years old
January 30 · 1964
No external source identified
Unai Vergara
association football player
49 years old
January 20 · 1977
Source: Transfermarkt
Jim McCourt
boxer
1944–2023 · aged 79
January 24 · 1944
No external source identified
Alfonso Pérez
boxer
77 years old
January 16 · 1949
No external source identified
Hamdi Marzouki
association football player
49 years old
January 23 · 1977
Source: Transfermarkt
Marie Durocher
gynecologist, obstetrician
1809–1893 · aged 84
January 6 · 1809
No external source identified
Harold Barclay
writer, anthropologist
1924–2017 · aged 93
January 3 · 1924
Source: SNAC
Dragan Todorović
politician
73 years old
January 25 · 1953
Source: pace.coe.int
Denys Yurchenko
pole vaulter, athletics competitor
48 years old
January 27 · 1978
Source: World Athletics database
Kirill Denisov
judoka
38 years old
January 25 · 1988
No external source identified
Jorge Aguilar
tennis player
41 years old
January 8 · 1985
Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website
Esteban Valencia
association football player, association football coach
54 years old
January 8 · 1972
Source: Transfermarkt
Daniel Lovinho
association football player
37 years old
January 9 · 1989
Source: Transfermarkt
Simon Gougnard
field hockey player
35 years old
January 17 · 1991
No external source identified
Younoussi Touré
minister, poet
1941–2022 · aged 81
January 1 · 1941
Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror
Fabijan Komljenović
association football player, association football coach
58 years old
January 16 · 1968
Source: FBref
José Catalá
association football player
41 years old
January 1 · 1985
Source: Transfermarkt
Mike Ireland
speed skater
52 years old
January 3 · 1974
No external source identified
Jarmo Lehtinen
rally driver
57 years old
January 3 · 1969
No external source identified
Merle Randall
physicist, chemist
1888–1950 · aged 62
January 29 · 1888
Source: SNAC
Karl Isakson*
painter
Date disputed
January 16 · 1878
Source: Kunstindeks Danmark
Selina Jörg
snowboarder
38 years old
January 24 · 1988
No external source identified
Roberto Fernández Alvarellos
association football player, association football coach
47 years old
January 25 · 1979
Source: Transfermarkt
Ruslan Otverčenko
basketball player
1990–2023 · aged 33
January 6 · 1990
Source: FIBA database
Febo Mari*
film director, screenwriter
Date disputed
January 16 · 1884
Source: IMDb
Gamze Tazim
film actor, actor
37 years old
January 28 · 1989
Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze
Frederick Koolhoven
design engineer, entrepreneur
1886–1946 · aged 60
January 11 · 1886
Source: Biografisch Portaal
Inna Suslina
handball player
47 years old
January 5 · 1979
No external source identified
Olga Alexandrova
chess player
48 years old
January 28 · 1978
No external source identified
Izabella Bashmakova
historian of mathematics, university teacher
1921–2005 · aged 84
January 3 · 1921
Source: core.ac.uk
Nikita Glasnović
taekwondo athlete
31 years old
January 17 · 1995
Source: sok.se
Ovington Weller
military officer, politician
1862–1947 · aged 84
January 23 · 1862
Source: Find a Grave
Shahdon Winchester
association football player
1992–2019 · aged 27
January 8 · 1992
Source: Transfermarkt
Bjørn Tore Godal
politician, diplomat
81 years old
January 20 · 1945
Source: Munzinger Personen
Adam Christian Thebesius
anatomist
1686–1732 · aged 46
January 12 · 1686
Source: Who Named It?
Marlon Pérez Arango
sport cyclist
1976–2024 · aged 48
January 10 · 1976
Source: uci.org
Albion Avdijaj
association football player
32 years old
January 12 · 1994
Source: Transfermarkt
Dmytro Boiko
fencer
40 years old
January 16 · 1986
No external source identified
Nadezhda Ilyina
athletics competitor, sprinter
1949–2013 · aged 64
January 24 · 1949
No external source identified
Carlos Aponte
association football player
1939–2008 · aged 69
January 24 · 1939
Source: FBref
Caspar Creuziger*
Protestant theologian, Protestant reformer
Date disputed
January 1 · 1504
Source: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija Online
Mikhail Sivakow
association football player
38 years old
January 16 · 1988
Source: Transfermarkt
Janine Micheau*
opera singer
Date disputed
January 6 · 1914
Source: death certificate
Larisa Ratushnaya
partisan
1921–1944 · aged 23
January 9 · 1921
No external source identified
Stanisław Grochowiak
opinion journalist, screenwriter
1934–1976 · aged 42
January 24 · 1934
Source: BnF authorities
Sílvio José Canuto
association football coach, association football player
49 years old
January 17 · 1977
Source: Transfermarkt
Anatolii Zahorodnii
researcher, physicist
75 years old
January 29 · 1951
No external source identified

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