Flashcards: Deaths from peritonitis

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John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.

Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876 – February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect.

Reginald Harold Haslam "Reg" Parnell (2 July 1911 – 7 January 1964) was a racing driver and team manager from Derby, England.

Kustaa Kustaanpoika Pihlajamäki (7 April 1902 – 10 February 1944) was a Finnish wrestler.

Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov (Russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Аста́нгов), pseudonym of M.

She was canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 2004.

Steve Prest (1966 – 30 May 2009) was an English professional snooker player and coach.

Gesya Mirokhovna Gelfman (Gesia Gelfman or Helfmann); (Гельфман, Геся Мироховна in Russian) (her name is often incorrectly spelled Gesya Mironovna and she sometimes gave an abbreviated "Mirovna"; she is sometimes referred to as Gesia, Hesse, Hessy or Jessie) (between 1852 and 1855, Mazyr — 2.1(13).1882, Saint Petersburg), Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya, implicated in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.

Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, GCVO, CH, CB (15 February 1853 – 7 December 1923) was a prominent British surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, now known for his friendship with Joseph Merrick, "the Elephant Man".

Anton Joseph "Tony" Cermak (Czech: Antonín Josef Čermák, pronounced [ˈantɔɲiːn ˈjɔzɛf ˈtʃɛrmaːk]; May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933) was an American politician of Czech origin who served as the mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1931 until his assassination in 1933.

James William Good (September 24, 1866 – November 18, 1929) was an American politician from the state of Iowa, who served in the U.

Lady Cynthia Blanche ("Cimmie") Mosley (23 August 1898 – 16 May 1933) was a British politician of Anglo-American parentage and the first wife of the British Fascist and New Party politician Sir Oswald Mosley, who was formerly a Member of Parliament in both the Conservative and Labour parties.

Edmund James "Ted" Banfield (4 September 1852 – 2 June 1923) was an author and naturalist in Queensland, Australia.

Master Sergeant Albert Blithe (June 25, 1923 – December 17, 1967) was a career soldier who had been a Private First Class with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II.

Mitsuhiro Momota (Japanese: 百田 光浩 Hepburn: Momota Mitsuhiro) (born Kim Sin-rak; Hangul: 김신락; hanja: 金信洛; November 14, 1924 – December 15, 1963), better known as Rikidōzan (力道山, Hangul: 역도산; RR: Yeokdosan), was a Korean-Japanese professional wrestler, known as the "Father of Puroresu" and one of the most influential men in professional wrestling history.

Robert Williams (September 15, 1894 – November 3, 1931) was an American stage and film actor.

Asbury Churchwell Latimer (July 31, 1851 – February 20, 1908) was a United States Representative and Senator from South Carolina.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford VC KCIE (20 July 1847 – 30 December 1900) born Mullaghbrack, County Armagh, Ireland was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Caroline Grills, born Caroline Mickelson (1890 – October 1960), was an Australian serial killer.

Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era.

Adrian Philip "Tim" Goldsmith, DFC, DFM (25 April 1921 – 25 March 1961) was an Australian flying ace of the Second World War.

John Caldwell Calhoun Mayo (September 16, 1864 – May 11, 1914) was an American entrepreneur, educator, and politician.

José Gola (February 7, 1904 – April 27, 1939 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s.

Ilias Tantalidis (Greek: Ηλίας Τανταλίδης 1818 – 1876) was a Greek poet of the First Athenian School and educator.

Tsuru Aoki (青木 鶴子 Aoki Tsuruko, September 9, 1892 – October 18, 1961) was a popular Japanese stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s.

John Grant Williams (August 18, 1931 – July 28, 1985) was an American film actor and operatic tenor.

Garry David, also known as Garry Webb, was an Australian criminal born on 20 November 1954 to Rupert and Betty David.

Gladys Brockwell (September 26, 1894 – July 2, 1929) was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era.

Samuel Parkes Cadman (December 18, 1864 – July 12, 1936), better known as S.

William Joseph "Bill" Green Jr.

Anthony Frederick Sarg (April 21, 1880 – February 17, 1942), known professionally as Tony Sarg, was a German American puppeteer and illustrator.

Prince Christian of Hanover (Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Peter Waldemar Prinz von Hannover) Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 4 July 1885 in Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary; died 3 September 1901 in Gmunden) was the second eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845–1923) and Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853–1933), the youngest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (1818–1906) and Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (1817–1898).

Frances Ridley Havergal (14 December 1836 – 3 June 1879) was an English religious poet and hymn writer.

Agnès Souret, (1902-1928) was a French actress and dancer who was the winner of the inaugural Miss France competition in 1920.

Charles Floyd (1782 – August 20, 1804) was a United States explorer, a non-commissioned officer in the U.

Jujiro Wada (Japanese: Wada Jujiro) (ca. 1872-5 March 1937) was a Japanese adventurer and entrepreneur who achieved fame for his exploits in turn-of-the-20th-century Alaska and Yukon Territory.

Linda Loredo (June 20, 1907, Arizona Territory – August 11, 1931, Los Angeles. California) was an American-born actress and dancer of Mexican descent.

Frank Percy Doel (14 July 1908 – 22 December 1968) was an antiquarian bookseller for Marks & Co in London, England who achieved posthumous fame as the recipient of a series of humorous letters from American author Helene Hanff, to which he scrupulously and, at first, very formally replied.

Oliver Percy Bernard OBE MC (8 April 1881 – 15 April 1939) was an English architect, and scenic, graphic and industrial designer.

Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (Russian: Павел Иванович Беляев; 26 June 1925 – 10 January 1970), was a Soviet fighter pilot with extensive experience in piloting different types of aircraft.

Herbert Michael "Bert" Cremean (8 May 1900 – 24 May 1945) was an Australian politician.

Gordon Thomas Crown (20 June 1929 – 17 November 1947) was a promising British chess player who died of appendicitis at the age of eighteen.

Dennis Craig Jurgens (December 6, 1961 – April 11, 1965) was the only fatal victim of prolific child abuser Lois Jurgens, who abused a total of six adopted children during the time from 1950 to 1970.

Michael Riley "Doc" Powers (April 22, 1870 – April 26, 1909) was an American Major League Baseball player who caught for four different teams from 1898 to 1909.

William Hope "Coin" Harvey (1851-1936) was an American lawyer, author, politician, and health resort owner best remembered as a prominent public intellectual advancing the idea of monetary bimetallism.

Denis "Dinny" McKay (23 November 1867 – 17 August 1897) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and Victorian Football League (VFL).

Christian Nephi Anderson (January 22, 1865 – January 6, 1923) was a prolific LDS author and the most well-known from the "Home Literature" period of LDS fiction.

Gheorghe Emil Ursu (known to friends as Babu; July 1, 1926 – November 17, 1985) was a Romanian construction engineer, poet, diarist and dissident.

John Proctor "Jack" Darragh (December 4, 1890 – June 25, 1924) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.

Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 – 12 October 1961) was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord", "Hymne à l'amour") and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce.

Robert Francis Kilvert (3 December 1840 – 23 September 1879), always known as Francis, or Frank, was an English clergyman remembered for his diaries reflecting rural life in the 1870s, which were published over fifty years after his death.

Thomas Joseph "Tom" Corrigan (24 February 1903 – 9 January 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and Nothcote in the VFA during the 1920s and 1930s.

Dr. Erasmus Arlington "Arlie" Pond (January 19, 1873 – September 19, 1930) was an American major league baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles from 1895-1898, as well as a doctor in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War and World War I.

Arthur Ramon "Art" Rico (July 23, 1895 – January 3, 1919) was an American professional baseball player whose career spanned two seasons (1916–17), including parts of those seasons in Major League Baseball with the Boston Braves.

Caleb Vance Haynes (March 15, 1895 – April 5, 1966) was a United States Air Force (USAF) major general.

Lawrence Hargrave, MRAeS, (29 January 1850 – 6 July 1915) was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer.

Eben Smith (December 17, 1832 - November 5, 1906) was a successful mine owner, smelting company executive, railroad executive and bank owner in Colorado in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Hyrum Mack Smith (March 21, 1872 – January 23, 1918) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow (July 10, 1820 – February 27, 1867) was an American publisher and statistician, best known for his influential magazine DeBow's Review, who also served as head of the U.

Jackie Benyon was a Welsh footballer who played for Doncaster Rovers and Aberdeen until his death from peritonitis on a club tour of South Africa in 1937.

James "Jim" Trickey (c. 1891 - December 4, 1913) was an American football player for the University of Iowa.