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Who died on 24 December?
Celebrities who died on 24 December
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Harold Pinter
playwright from England
Karl Dönitz
President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II
Bernard Herrmann
American composer
Ivry Gitlis
Israeli violinist
Franco Frattini
Italian politician
Tita Merello
Actress, tango dancer and singer
Tunisha Sharma
Indian actress
M. G. Ramachandran
Indian film actor, director, producer, politician, and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
Charles Durning
American actor
John Osborne
English playwright
Heather Menzies
Canadian actress
Jack Klugman
American actor
Richard Adams
English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down
Peter Lawford
English-American actor
Marcus Raskin
American philosopher
Rick Parfitt
British musician
Norma Talmadge
American actress and film producer
Toshirō Mifune
Japanese actor
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Iranian politician and cleric
Alban Berg
Austrian composer
Johnny Oates
American baseball player and coach
Irene Fenwick
American actress
Johannes Heesters
Dutch actor, singer and entertainer
R. R. Brown
American football and baseball coach
Stan Benjamin
Major League Baseball player, scout
Robert Leckie
US writer
Vittorio Adorni
Italian racing cyclist
Tammareddy Chalapathi Rao
Indian actor
Mohamad Aziz
Malaysian politician
Guy N. Smith
British writer
Freddie Roulette
American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist
Louis Sockalexis
American baseball outfielder
Osvaldo Bayer
Argentine journalist, historian and writer
Edmund Goulding
British film director
Rossano Brazzi
actor, singer
Noor Ali Tabandeh
Iranian spiritual leader
Joe Cobb
American baseball player
Tilly Losch
Ballerina, dancer, actress
Robert H. Reed
American general
Errol Sawyer
American photographer
Oskar Nedbal
Czech conductor, composer and violist
Allan McKeown
British producer
Jozef Adamec
Slovak footballer
J. D. Crowe
American musician
Mitsumasa Anno
Japanese painter and picture book writer
Martha Érika Alonso Hidalgo
Mexican politician
Yehuda Henkin
rabbi
T. Paramasivan
Cultural scholar