Flashcards: Deaths from fire

Nicolás Ruiz Espadero (February 15, 1832 – August 30, 1890) was a Cuban pianist, composer, piano teacher and editor of the posthumous works of American composer-pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor.

Heather Stohler (29 November 1979 – 11 May 2008) was an American model.

Valentin Vasiliyevich Bondarenko (Ukrainian: Валентин Васильович Бондаренко, Russian: Валентин Васильевич Бондаренко, 16 February 1937 – 23 March 1961) was a Soviet fighter pilot selected in 1960 for training as a cosmonaut.

Lorenzo Bandini (21 December 1935 – 10 May 1967) was an Italian motor racing driver who raced in Formula One for the Scuderia Centro Sud and Ferrari teams.

Emma Livry (born as Jeanne Emma Emarot or Emma Marie Emarot; 24 September 1842 – 26 July 1863) was one of the last ballerinas of the Romantic ballet era and a protégée of Marie Taglioni.

King Zhou (Chinese: 紂王; pinyin: Zhòu Wáng) was the pejorative posthumous name given to Di Xin (Chinese: 帝辛; pinyin: Dì Xīn), the last king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China.

Mitsuteru Yokoyama (横山 光輝 Yokoyama Mitsuteru, June 18, 1934 – April 15, 2004) was a Japanese manga artist born in Suma-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo.

Barbara Jane Harrison GC (24 May 1945 – 8 April 1968), typically known as Jane Harrison, was a British air stewardess.

Julien Carette (23 December 1897 – 20 July 1966) was a French film actor.

James Ireland Craig FRSE CBE (1868–1952) was a Scottish mathematician, meteorologist and creator of the Craig retroazimuthal projection.

Michael Keith Beale Colvin (27 September 1932 – 24 February 2000) was a politician in the United Kingdom.

John Clements GC, a schoolmaster at Sherrardswood School, Welwyn Garden City was awarded the George Cross for his heroism in rescuing others from a hotel fire at the Sappada Ski Resort in Italy on 12 April 1976.

Paul Comtois, PC (August 22, 1895 – February 21, 1966) was a Canadian politician.

Trevor Edward Bailey CBE (3 December 1923 – 10 February 2011) was an England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster.

Garnett Silk (born Garnet Damion Smith; 2 April 1966 – 9 December 1994), was a Jamaican reggae musician and Rastafarian, known for his diverse, emotive, powerful and smooth voice.

Mrs Woodham (formerly Smith; née Spencer) was an entertainer known in both Dublin and London with the nickname "Buck Spencer".

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Peter of Bruys (also known as Pierre De Bruys or Peter de Bruis; fl. 1117 – c.1131) was a popular French religious teacher, who is called a heresiarch (leader of a heretical movement) by the Roman Catholic Church because he criticized infant baptism, opposed the erecting of churches and the veneration of crosses, opposed the doctrine of transubstantiation, and denied the efficacy of prayers for the dead.

Aglaé Louise Françoise Gabrielle de Polignac (7 May 1768 – 30 March 1803) was the daughter of Gabrielle de Polastron, the favourite and confidante of Marie Antoinette, and her husband, the 1st duc de Polignac.

Claire Anita Aho, real surname Brofeldt (2 November 1925 – 29 November 2015), was a Finnish photographer.

Hasret Gültekin (May 1, 1971 - July 2, 1993) was an Alevi Kurdish musician and poet who was murdered, along with 37 other people, in the Sivas Province of Turkey when a fundamentalist Islamist mob set fire to the hotel (Madımak Hotel) at which he was staying.

Sandeep Kothari, (ca. 1975 – 21 June 2015), an Indian freelancer investigative crime journalist for the Nai Duniya (sometimes transliterated as Nayi Duniya), was murdered in the Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Murder of Jagendra Singh refers to the killing of a journalist in India by setting him on fire on 1 June.

Henri Feulard (1858–1897) was a leading French dermatologist of the nineteenth century.

Empedocles (/ɛmˈpɛdəkliːz/; Greek: Ἐμπεδοκλῆς [empedoklɛ̂ːs], Empedoklēs; c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Acragas (Agrigentum), a Greek city in Sicily.

Walburga Ehrengarde Helena, Lady Paget (née Countess von Hohenthal; 1839 - 1929) was a diarist, writer and an intimate friend of Queen Victoria.

Louis Jean Marie de La Trémoïlle (8 February 1910 – 9 December 1933), prince and 12th duc de La Trémoïlle, 13th duc de Thouars and premier duke of France, 13th prince de Tarente and 17th prince de Talmond was a French soldier.

Thomas William Brown GM (c. 1926 – 13 February 1945) English recipient of the George Medal, and is the youngest person to have ever received that award.

Aarno Raninen (27 April 1944 – 3 September 2014) was a Finnish singer, songwriter and musician.

James Laver, CBE, FRSA (14 March 1899 – 3 June 1975) was an English author, critic, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959.