Notable Deaths on December 5th
December 5th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
63 |
Publius Cornelius Lentulus (Sura), Roman statesman |
BC AD | |
749 |
Saint John of Damascus, theologian |
1212 |
Derek II of Are, Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies |
1244 |
Johanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies |
1355 |
Jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies |
1560 |
Francis II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16 |
1570 |
Johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494) |
1594 |
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82 |
1624 |
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560) |
1654 |
Jean François Sarrazin, French writer |
1663 |
Severo Bonini, composer, dies at 80 |
1675 |
John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73 |
1745 |
Christoph Forster, composer, dies at 52 |
1749 |
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, New French explorer and trader (b. 1685) |
1758 |
Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70 |
1770 |
James Stirling, Scot mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78 |
1784 |
Phillis Wheatley, American poet and first published African-American woman, dies in Boston at 31 |
1791 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35 |
1791 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The King's Speech |
1799 |
Robert Kimmerling, composer, dies at 61 |
1818 |
Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60 |
1819 |
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750) |
1835 |
August v Platen, writer, dies at 39 |
1842 |
MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82 |
1853 |
Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80 |
1859 |
Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 |
1870 |
Alexandre Dumas, French writer, dies at 68 |
1870 |
Alexandre Dumas père, The Man in the Iron Mask |
1886 |
Peter Hofstede de Groot, Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84 |
1887 |
Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804) |
1887 |
Philippe Rousseau, Les deux vies du serpent |
1891 |
JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies |
1895 |
Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840) |
1902 |
Henry Stephen Cutler, composer, dies at 78 |
1908 |
Joseph B. Coghlan, U.S. Cruiser 'Raleigh' |
1916 |
Hans Richter, composer, dies at 73 |
1916 |
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, |
1922 |
Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies |
1923 |
James Kyrle MacCurdy, A Little Girl in a Big City |
1923 |
Herbert Standing, Stella Maris |
1925 |
Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist, dies at 78 |
1925 |
Robert Saidreau, Monsieur le directeur |
1925 |
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, The Promised Land |
1926 |
Claude Monet, French impressionist, dies at 86 |
1926 |
Claude Monet, Claude Monet 1840-1926 |
1928 |
Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, actor/husband of Truus Soete, dies at 61 |
1928 |
Gyula Dezséri, A Csodagyerek |
1930 |
Manfred Noa, Nathan der Weise |
1930 |
Umberto Fracchia, La volete sapere la novità? |
1931 |
Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879) |
1934 |
Rafael Bermúdez Zatarain, El caporal |
1935 |
Frans, [MJ Francois] Erens, literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78 |
1937 |
Lindsay J. Hall, The New Dress |
1938 |
Christina "Dina" Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer, dies at 54 |
1939 |
William Lugg, Old Scrooge |
1940 |
Jan Kubelik, composer, dies at 60 |
1940 |
Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893) |
1940 |
Wilfred Lucas, Modern Times |
1940 |
Fred Warren, The Matrimaniac |
1940 |
Eddie Nelson, Hot and Heavy |
1941 |
Harry Bowen, Grandma's Buoys |
1942 |
Buck Jones, Hollywood's last cowboy hero actor (Headin' East), buried |
1942 |
Hugh Hoffman, The Untameable |
1942 |
Richard Tucker, Wings |
1948 |
Randall Faye, The Ghost Goes Wild |
1948 |
Kerry Mills, Chaplin |
1949 |
Vin Moore, The Drag-Net |
1949 |
Karl Gotham, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1949 |
Johnnie Walker, The Matinee Idol |
1950 |
Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872) |
1950 |
Shri Aurobindo, Shri Aurobindo: Glimpses of His Life |
1951 |
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies |
1951 |
Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871) |
1951 |
Joe Jackson, |
1951 |
Jack Raymond, The Last Command |
1951 |
Harry Lauder, Happy Days |
1952 |
Mark Kelly, One in a Million |
1952 |
Mark Kelly, Talk to Me |
1952 |
Jaime Redondo, Fogo de Palha |
1953 |
Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911) |
1953 |
Jorge Negrete, Canaima |
1953 |
William Parsons, |
1953 |
Rudolph Monter, Voice in the Wind |
1953 |
Hubert Moest, Ut mine stromtid |
1954 |
Ernest Sefton, Double Alibi |
1955 |
Paul Harvey, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73 |
1955 |
Kay Sherris, Broadway Bill |
1955 |
Paul Harvey, Spellbound |
1955 |
James V. Murray, I Cover Chinatown |
1955 |
James Murray, Stark Love |
1956 |
Virginia Engels, Obliging Young Lady |
1957 |
Mario Puccini, La prigione |
1957 |
Fredy Scheim, Sommerliebe am Bodensee |
1958 |
Ferdinand Bruckner, writer, dies at 67 |
1958 |
Ferdinand Bruckner, Krankheit der Jugend |
1958 |
Carl Lundbeck, Lyntoget |
1959 |
K S Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), dies |
1960 |
Gustav Holm, The King Steps Out |
1961 |
Fred Kruger, What You Need |
1961 |
Emil Fuchs, |
1962 |
Edward Lewis Wallant, The Pawnbroker |
1962 |
William Schurr, Rear Window |
1963 |
Herbert H Lehman, (Gov-D-NY), dies |
1963 |
Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer, dies at 58 |
1963 |
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892) |
1963 |
Herbert Lehman, The March of Time: Volume 3, Number 11 |
1963 |
Emilius Jorgensen, Joan the Woman |
1964 |
Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Tailor Wibbel), dies at 70 |
1964 |
Remy Angenot, Met den helm geboren |
1965 |
Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate for shock therapy (b. 1874) |
1966 |
Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist, dies at 57 |
1968 |
Fred Clark, actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54 |
1971 |
Hugh Wakefield, actress (Blithe Spirit), dies |
1972 |
Kenny Dorham [McKinley], American jazz trumpeter, dies at 48 |
1974 |
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis player (US Open 1909-11), dies at 87 |
1974 |
Henry Wadsworth, actor (Applause, Ceiling Zero), dies at 72 |
1974 |
Pietro Germi, actor/director (Serafino, Climax), dies at 60 |
1975 |
Jimmy Nervo, actor (Frozen Limits), dies |
1977 |
Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895) |
1978 |
Jacques Daniel-Norman, L'aventure est au coin de la rue |
1979 |
Sonia Delaunay, Russian born French artist, dies aged 94 |
1979 |
JoAnne Gaylord, Rosie's Contract |
1979 |
Lesley Selander, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold |
1979 |
Michael Conroy, First Offenders |
1979 |
Sonia Delaunay, The Small Parisian One |
1980 |
Don Taylor, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ 1947-56, 159 runs), dies |
1980 |
Al Wahrman, The Road Runner Show |
1981 |
Leon Pardue, Shadows and Sunshine |
1981 |
Darien Angadi, Antony and Cleopatra |
1982 |
Betty Carpenter, A Lady Bell Hop's Secret |
1983 |
Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65 |
1983 |
Fred V. Merrick, Spy of Napoleon |
1983 |
Roy Hauck, Right Off the Bat |
1983 |
Kurt Guggenheim, Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe |
1983 |
Casandra Damirón, Las pecadoras |
1983 |
Betty Welsh, Circus Daze |
1983 |
Estelle Omens, Dog Day Afternoon |
1983 |
Robert Aldrich, The Dirty Dozen |
1983 |
Robert Miller Driscoll, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! |
1984 |
Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917) |
1984 |
Joe Rock, The Whirlwind |
1984 |
Manlio Scarpelli, We Are All in Temporary Liberty |
1984 |
Gene Darcy, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie |
1985 |
Maria Stadler, Hunting Scenes from Bavaria |
1985 |
Tilestone Perry, This Is the Army |
1985 |
Cliff Richardson, Lawrence of Arabia |
1985 |
Howard Rodman, Coogan's Bluff |
1985 |
Alexia González Barros, Camino |
1985 |
Teixeirinha, Tropeiro Velho |
1985 |
Into Lätti, At the Junction |
1986 |
Carmol Taylor, country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer |
1986 |
Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924) |
1986 |
Walter Radetz, Waldidyll |
1986 |
Erwin Neal, The Wild Bunch |
1986 |
Roberto Escalada, Safo, historia de una pasión |
1987 |
"Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38 |
1988 |
Raymond Kaalund, Temptation |
1988 |
Edwin Granberry, A Trip to Czardis |
1988 |
George Tregre, Stepsisters |
1989 |
John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68 |
1989 |
John Pritchard, The Departed |
1989 |
Glenn Cook, Matt Gets It |
1990 |
Steven Shaw, dies at 25 |
1990 |
Robert Chesley, Jerker |
1990 |
Steve Shaw, It's a Mile from Here to Glory |
1990 |
Aarne Laine, Sleeping Beauty |
1990 |
Jack Pleis, The Night of the Bubbling Death |
1991 |
Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies |
1991 |
Jill Browne, dies at 54 |
1991 |
Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday |
1991 |
Robert Karvelas, American actor (b. 1921) |
1991 |
Jack Trevor Story, The Trouble with Harry |
1991 |
Roy Welensky, Sir Roy Welensky |
1991 |
Slávo Záhradnik, A Fresh Start |
1991 |
Richard Speck, |
1991 |
Robert Karvelas, Get Smart, Again! |
1992 |
Hilary Tindall, dies of cancer at 54 |
1992 |
Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41 |
1992 |
Otto Koenig, |
1992 |
Ira Avery, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing |
1992 |
June O'Dea, Cab Waiting |
1992 |
Hilary Tindall, Max Headroom |
1992 |
Lourival Batista, Soledade, a Bagaceira |
1993 |
Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer (Harem), dies at 87 |
1993 |
Arthur Staal, Dutch architect (Shell Tower Amsterdam), dies at 86 |
1993 |
Douglas Hopkins, guitarist (Gin Blossoms), dies of gun shot at 32 |
1993 |
Yevgeni Gabrilovich, Lenin v Polshe |
1993 |
Milan Djokovic, Dobro dosao druze Tito u svoju staru fabriku |
1993 |
Robert D. Christie, Around the World in Eighty Days |
1993 |
Don Christie, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot |
1993 |
Doug Hopkins, Shhh... Don't Tell |
1993 |
Dick Webster, Small Town Girl |
1993 |
Alexandre Trauner, The Man Who Would Be King |
1994 |
Harry Horner, Czech/US set designer/director (Our Town), dies at 84 |
1994 |
Richard Brian Waring Barton-Chapple, writer, dies at 69 |
1994 |
Ronald Ridout, school textbook author, dies at 78 |
1994 |
Robert Lowry, That Kind of Woman |
1994 |
Richard Waring, Joint Assignment |
1994 |
Harry Horner, Beware, My Lovely |
1994 |
Günter Meisner, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
1994 |
E.W. Swackhamer, The Dain Curse |
1994 |
Nellie Doerschlag, Run, Girl, Run |
1994 |
Heinz Fülfe, Flax und Krümel |
1995 |
Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor, dies at 77 |
1995 |
Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79 |
1995 |
Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday |
1995 |
Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (b. 1920) |
1995 |
Lisa McPherson, former Scientologist (b. 1959) |
1995 |
Stanley K Runcorn, British Geophysicist (reversals of earth's magnetic field), dies at 73 |
1995 |
Dwight Larick, Seduced |
1995 |
Krysti Lynn, Dog Walker |
1995 |
Bill Bruton, Game 7 |
1995 |
John Boulter, Sharpe's Sword |
1995 |
Reiner Bredemeyer, Die Frau und der Fremde |
1996 |
Peter Hall, folklorist/musician, dies at 60 |
1996 |
Wilf Carter, country singer, dies at 91 |
1996 |
Peter Glushanok, Appalachian Spring |
1996 |
Kate McKeown, One Life to Live |
1996 |
David Cubedo, El futuro ante Franco |
1996 |
Wilf Carter, Stagecoach |
1996 |
Joey Alan Phipps, The Edge of Night |
1996 |
Cliff Mapes, Game 3 |
1997 |
Colin Franklin, doctor, dies at 67 |
1997 |
Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer, dies at 93 |
1997 |
Janina Garycka, On the Move |
1997 |
Jan Voigt, Elskere |
1997 |
Henry H. Tobias, Atonement |
1997 |
Eugen Cicero, Episode dated 15 December 1980 |
1998 |
Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907) |
1998 |
Jean Fenwick, Arrest Bulldog Drummond |
1998 |
Albert Gore Sr., Public Power vs. Private Power |
1998 |
Virginia Peters, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare |
1998 |
Doris Baker, Ella Cinders |
1998 |
Erik Ib Schmidt, Tallenes tale |
1999 |
Masaru Satô, Yojimbo |
1999 |
Gloria Caruso, |
1999 |
Ted Cooper, Family Feud |
1999 |
Bohumil Musil, Futbol |
1999 |
Alexander Baron, Jane Eyre |
2000 |
Alvin R. Friedman, The Spanish Moss Murders |
2000 |
Sonoko Suzuki, Waratte iitomo! |
2000 |
Norman Swallow, Ten Days That Shook the World |
2000 |
John Christensen, Waking Life |
2000 |
Tjadden Hällström, Täcknamn Coq Rouge |
2001 |
Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901) |
2001 |
Moya Lear, Ole Olsen |
2001 |
Stephanie Powell, The Devil's Advocate |
2001 |
Alessandro Bodrero, Concrete Cowboys |
2001 |
Peter Blake, Heart of Ice |
2002 |
Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer, dies of prostate cancer at 71 |
2002 |
Ne Win, Burmese leader (b. 1911) |
2002 |
Pedro de Aguillón, The Living Coffin |
2002 |
Randy Oness, The Big Bounce |
2002 |
Arvell Shaw, The Glenn Miller Story |
2002 |
Roone Arledge, NFL Monday Night Football |
2002 |
Bob Berg, Miles Davis: Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival |
2003 |
Yehoshua Lakner, Zum Beispiel: Fritz Lang |
2003 |
Gerald Gaiser, Fun with Dick and Jane |
2003 |
Gregorio García Segura, The Things of Love |
2003 |
Avie Lee Parton, A Tennessee Mountain Thanksgiving |
2003 |
Leigh Anne Tarbill, Spymaster USA |
2003 |
Walter Stocker, The Madmen of Mandoras |
2004 |
Giuseppe Campora, Aida |
2004 |
John Trayne, How Green Was My Valet |
2004 |
Robert Dhéry, Crazy Show |
2004 |
Manzanita, Miami Vice |
2004 |
Mark Arvin, From Broadway: Fosse |
2004 |
Jean Tournier, Moonraker |
2005 |
Ed Masry, American lawyer (b. 1932) |
2005 |
Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, Australian businessman (b. 1949) |
2005 |
Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1905) |
2005 |
George Walsh, Remember My Name |
2005 |
Ed Masry, Spotlight on Location: Erin Brockovich |
2005 |
Rolf Ulrich, Rosemary |
2005 |
Liu Binyan, China |
2005 |
Pat Betz, So Dear to My Heart |
2005 |
Tommy Hanneford, Barnum |
2005 |
Charles McElmurry, A Boy Named Charlie Brown |
2005 |
Constance Hays, Coke's Water Bomb |
2005 |
Milo Dor, An einem ganz gewöhnlichen Tag |
2005 |
Gilbert Mack, The Birth of Astroboy |
2006 |
David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (b. 1924) |
2006 |
Marshall Sehorn, The Departed |
2006 |
Michael Gilden, Pulp Fiction |
2006 |
Van Smith, Cry-Baby |
2006 |
Rudy Diaz, Coogan's Bluff |
2006 |
Tim Moxon, Come Spy with Me |
2007 |
Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928) |
2007 |
Andrew Imbrie, American composer (b. 1921) |
2007 |
Makwan Moloudzadeh, Makwan, a Letter from Paradise |
2007 |
H. Wiley Hitchcock, Stephen Foster |
2007 |
Dode Weyant, Prince of Darkness |
2007 |
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Modulations |
2007 |
Rene Villanueva, Gabi na, kumander |
2007 |
Ken Parry, The Taming of the Shrew |
2007 |
Peter Orton, The Wind in the Willows |
2007 |
Joe Brooks, Gremlins |
2007 |
Tony Tenser, Cul-De-Sac |
2007 |
Jillian Kesner, Firecracker |
2007 |
Abderrahim Bargache, Hideous Kinky |
2008 |
Patriarch Alexy II of Russia, head of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1929) |
2008 |
Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Romanian politician and president of the Association of Romanian Former Political Prisoners. (b. 1928) |
2008 |
Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924) |
2008 |
Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer and composer (b. 1957) |
2008 |
Patriarch Alexiy II, Vremya lyubit i vremya nenavidet |
2008 |
Vera Radulovic, Pavle Pavlovic |
2008 |
Nina Foch, Spartacus |
2008 |
Shuichi Kato, Kurosawa |
2008 |
Beverly Garland, D.O.A. |
2008 |
Jimmy Anderson, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys |
2009 |
Vimolchatra, Princess of Thailand and cousin of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (b. 1921) |
2009 |
William J. Lederer, The Ugly American |
2009 |
Alfred Hrdlicka, Hitler: A Profile |
2009 |
Kálmán Markovits, Freedom's Fury |
2009 |
Jerry Birn, Episode #1.5026 |
2009 |
Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Wer ist der größte Deutsche? |
2009 |
Garfield Morgan, 28 Weeks Later |
2009 |
Malcolm Perry, |
2010 |
Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1938) |
2010 |
Alan Armer, American television producer and director (b. 1922) |
2010 |
Virgilio Teixeira, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad |
2010 |
John Leslie, Brianna Love: Her Fine Sexy Self |
2010 |
Paul Emrich, The Forgotten One |
2010 |
Herman Groves, The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper |
2010 |
W.G. Foxley, Battle of Britain |
2010 |
Boris Borisov, Strogovy |
2010 |
Don Meredith, Happy Birthday, Las Vegas |
2010 |
Ryan Ransdell, Idiocracy |
2010 |
Stefan Hörberg, Show Me Love |
2010 |
Alan A. Armer, Nemesis |
2010 |
David Drucker, Wacko |
2011 |
Peter Gethin, British racing driver (b. 1940) |
2011 |
Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer (b. 1942) |
2011 |
Els Ingeborg Smits, Godforsaken! |
2011 |
Michel Descombey, Le trésor des Hollandais |
2011 |
Dan Biggers, Glory |
2011 |
Violetta Villas, My Nikifor |
2012 |
Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist, dies from heart failure at 91 |
2012 |
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, dies from a respiratory infection at 104 |
2012 |
Kanzaburô Nakamura, Face |
2012 |
Charles Maquignon, Hannibal Rising |
2012 |
Albie Thoms, Palm Beach |
2012 |
Janet Gleeson, Seven Little Australians |
2012 |
Eileen Pollock, The Doctors |
2012 |
Frigyes Hollósi, Feri és az édes élet |
2012 |
Milka Gazikalovic, Dr |
2012 |
Allan De Waal, Epidemic |
2012 |
Oscar Niemeyer, Brizola - Tempos de Luta |
2012 |
Elisabeth Murdoch, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch |
2012 |
Dave Brubeck, Silver Linings Playbook |
2012 |
Earl Watson, You Got Served |
2013 |
Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner (1962-1990) and South African President (1994-99) dies of a lung infection at 95 |
2013 |
Colin Wilson, English writer, dies at 82 |
2013 |
Barry Jackson, Barry Lyndon |
2013 |
Zbigniew Szymanski, Autumn |
2013 |
Colin Wilson, Lifeforce |
2013 |
Nelson Mandela, Mandela's Fight for Freedom |
2013 |
Wilson P.Y. Lau, Charlotte Holmes |
2013 |
Günther Förg, Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language |
2014 |
Gil Marks, They Came to Stay/A World of Their Own |
2014 |
Arlene Burns, Vermillion Eyes |
2014 |
Luis Herrera de la Fuente, La edad de la inocencia |
2014 |
Manuel De Sica, Cemetery Man |
2014 |
Gennadi Poloka, Vozvrashchenie 'Bronenostsa' |
2014 |
Queen Fabiola, Baudouin, König der Belgier |
2014 |
Zavala Silvio, Sencillamente Guty |
2014 |
Kôichi Kawakita, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla |
2015 |
Bill Bennett, former BC premier, dead at 83 |
2016 |
General Tso's Chicken creator dies in Taiwan aged 98 |
2016 |
Daddy Cool Bassist Wayne Duncan Dies Aged 72 |
2017 |
Colombian Olympic Weightlifter Edwin Mosquera Roa Dies at Age 32 |
2017 |
Prolific logo designer Ivan Chermayeff dies aged 85 |
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