Not widely known people who died however recently

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Thread to cover people not many new or lived ordinary lives in general. Maybe relatives, friends or that person who did something or even a great deal but hardly anyone in Australia or beyond new them or ever heard of their existence. Perhaps they did nearly zero but suffered a great deal. Or what they did was something very few were interested in. One of my distant relatives did nothing really, described as useless, but was very good at the game 'shove ha'penny'.

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Icelandic: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson) (November 3, 1879 – August 26, 1962) was a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson - Wikipedia

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Albert Dyrlund - Wikipedia, den frie encyklopædi

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Navy lieutenant commander drowns off Kovalam Beach near Chennai | Chennai News - Times of India

CHENNAI: A 36-year-old Navy lieutenant commander drowned in the sea off Kovalam Beach near Chennai on Thursday.

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Gold Coast surf life saving legend Dean Mercer dies on way home from grocery shopping​

FORMER ironwoman champion Reen Mercer has publicly expressed her gratitude for the support her family has received in the wake of the shock death of her husband -
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Gold Coast Police confirmed Mr Caserta's body was located off Main Beach in Southport Spit on Friday after an extensive 36-hour air and sea search.

Tragedy as body of jockey Chris Caserta is found

 

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In 1960, Leonid Rogozov, a 27-year-old surgeon accompanying the Antarctic research team and the only doctor on the team, suddenly developed a high fever and pain in his lower right abdomen. He immediately diagnosed that he had appendicitis and that the hospital was so far away that no one could save him except himself.
He planned carefully how to do this operation on his own and asked two of his teammates to be his assistants.
General anesthesia was not possible, and he was only injected with the local anesthetic drug Novocaine in the abdominal wall.
"There was a lot of bleeding, but I pressed on, opened the peritoneum, I accidentally damaged the appendix and had to repair it, my head was getting dizzy and every five minutes I had to rest for 20-25 seconds" .
"Finally I found the damn appendix and I saw black spots on the tail, which meant that in another day it could have perforated".
But he didn't fail. Two hours later he finally got the last stitches in.
After taking antibiotics and sleeping pills, he fell into a deep sleep... and two weeks later, he was back at his job.
Forrest Taylor
Learned Scholar in Economics
Quora

Leonid Rogozov - Wikipedia

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Czeslawa Kwoka, Polish Catholic, 14 years old.

She died in the Auschwitz extermination camp on 18 February 1943 with an injection of phenol into her heart. Shortly before the execution, she was photographed by the prisoner Whilem Brasse, who testified against the executioner of Czeslawa, a woman who, before the photo was taken, hit her in th...

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Peirson Frank - Wikipedia

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Sir Thomas Peirson Frank – Ebb & Flow

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Warning: This link takes you to an actual image of a person who has been hanged by the Nazis.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Could also be put in the Significant people who died recently

Billy Young — known as the last survivor of the Sandakan camp — has died, aged 96, from COVID-19.

Key points:​

• Roughly 2,500 Commonwealth troops became Japanese prisoners of war in Borneo in World War II
• By the end of the war, Billy Young and five others were the only survivors who went to the Sandakan camp
• In an interview with ABC in 2016, Mr Young said he never regretted joining the military

Surrounded by family in Hobart, Mr Young was crucial in remembering one of the most atrocious and neglected chapters in Australia's wartime history.

After the fall of Singapore in World War II, nearly 2,500 Commonwealth troops became prisoners of war in Borneo. They were transported by the Japanese to Sandakan, where they were used as slave labour to build an airfield.

By the end of the war, just six of them were alive...

Last survivor of one of WWII's most brutal prisoner camps dies from COVID-19

Billy Young was crucial in remembering one of the most atrocious and neglected chapters in Australia's wartime history.

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[sptrawler]

My mum died last week 90 years old, interesting life, emigrated to Australia in the 1960's. Four kids that all worked for their full working years, best 10 pounds Australia ever spent IMO.

 

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Today it was announced that Kane Tanaka passed away on April 19th , 2022 at the age of 119 years and 107 days. She was the oldest living ...

Today it was announced that Kane Tanaka passed away on April 19th , 2022 at the age of 119 years and 107 days. She was the oldest living person until her death, the oldest Japanese person ever and the second oldest person of all time. she was about 40 during WW2. one of her sons was captured as a...

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List of Japanese supercentenarians - Wikipedia

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Bartholomew Gosnold - Wikipedia

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Martha's Vineyard - Wikipedia

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There is no definitive source for "Martha's Vineyard" but it is thought to be named for the mother-in-law or daughter, both named Martha, of the English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, who led the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod in 1602.[a] A smaller island to the south was first to be named "Martha's Vineyard" but this later became associated with this island. It is the eighth-oldest surviving English place-name in the United States.[13] The island was subsequently known as Martin's Vineyard (perhaps after the captain of Gosnold's ship, John Martin); many islanders up to the 18th century called it by this name.[14]

Virginia Company - Wikipedia

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Arthur Ashe​

Arthur Ashe - Wikipedia

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Well known as a tennis player in the 1970's and 1980's but less well known for his work supporting Heart Disease Foundations and those stricken with Aids from blood transfusions.

Ashe's Legacy Is the Gift for Inspiration​

Ashe's Legacy Is the Gift for Inspiration (Published 1993)

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A Heart Healthy Message From Arthur Ashe, Jr.

By Ginny A. Roth ~ This early 1980s-era poster from NHLBI, NIH features Ashe promoting good heart health.

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Patrick White became the first Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.

Patrick White - Wikipedia

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 was awarded to Patrick White "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature"

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The Aunt’s Story by Patrick White - ABC Radio National

The Aunt’s Story by Patrick White was published in 1948. After the death of her domineering mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman travels to France, and then to America, where she experiences what is either a gradual mental breakdown or an epiphany. Although the novel was shunned by critics and...

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The Australian Patrick White has been awarded the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature”, as it says in the Swedish Academy’s citation. White’s growing fame is based chiefly on seven novels of which the earliest masterly work is The Aunt’s Story, a portrayal imbued with remarkable feeling of a lonely, unmarried, Australian woman’s life during experiences that extend also to Europe and America. The book with which White really made his name, however, was The Tree of Man, an epically broad and psychologically discerning account of a part of Australian social development in the form of two people’s long life together, and struggle against outward and inward difficulties.

 

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Wallace Carothers - Wikipedia

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Wallace Hume Carothers

Through his inventions of nylon and neoprene in 1930, Carothers helped demonstrate the macromolecular theory of polymers and establish the field of modern polymer science.

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Nylon: A Success Story​

In the years that followed, Carothers’s scientific creativity was crippled by worsening bouts of depression that finally prompted his suicide in April 1937, just when the true magnitude of the discovery of nylon was becoming apparent. By this time Bolton had decided to commercialize nylon, setting his sights first on capturing the lucrative silk-stocking market with alternative products made from the synthetic fiber. Other applications would come later.

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A giant leg, 35 feet high, advertised nylons to the Los Angeles area.
Hagley Museum and Library
Nylon went into production in 1939, and the display of the new stockings was a sensation at the World’s Fair in New York City that year. With the onset of World War II, nylon was commandeered for war purposes—for example, to make parachute canopies. But once the war was over, sales to civilian consumers skyrocketed.

 

[basilio]

The story of t death of guy who spent the longest time in solitary confinement in the US bears reading. Just for a start he spent all his time in jail in solitary - and was released as an innocent man .. How he survived that regime is ...

Albert Woodfox, held in solitary confinement for 43 years, dies aged 75​

Woodfox, member of ‘Angola Three’, was wrongfully convicted of 1972 murder of Louisiana prison guard and released only in 2016

Albert Woodfox with his brother Michael Mable, as he walks free in 2016. Woodfox was thought to have been held in solitary confinement longer than any individual in US history. Photograph: Billy Sothern, attorney for Albert Woodfox/EPA

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Thu 4 Aug 2022 20.52 BST

Albert Woodfox, who is thought to have been held in solitary confinement longer than any individual in US history, having survived 43 years in a 6ft x 9ft cell in one of America’s most brutal prisons, has died aged 75.

Woodfox’s death was made public on Thursday by his long-term lawyers, George Kendall and Carine Williams, and by his brother Michael Mable. They said he had died from complications caused by Covid.



43 years in solitary: 'There are moments I wish I was back there'

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Woodfox was a member of the so-called “Angola Three” – prisoners who were wrongfully convicted of the 1972 murder of a prison guard, Brent Miller, in Louisiana state penitentiary. The prison was built on the site of a former slave plantation and was commonly known as Angola, after the country from which most of the plantation’s enslaved people had been transported.

Albert Woodfox, held in solitary confinement for 43 years, dies aged 75

Member of ‘Angola Three’ was wrongfully convicted of 1972 murder of Louisiana prison guard and released only in 2016

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Hugo Stinnes - Wikipedia

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Hugo Stinnes spotted the situation in Germany. He borrowed large sums in Deutschmarks before the currency crashed and invested it. Then paid back the loans when the currency collapsed paying only 1% to 2% in value.

 

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Hugo Stinnes - Wikipedia

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Hugo Stinnes spotted the situation in Germany. He borrowed large sums in Deutschmarks before the currency crashed and invested it. Then paid back the loans when the currency collapsed paying only 1% to 2% in value.

Very clever chap.