From: famous.deaths.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net   
      
   1324 - Marco Polo, Venetian explorer (The Travels of Marco Polo), dies at 69   
      
   1919 - Peter Altenberg, writer, dies at 59   
      
   1938 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy   
   (b. 1880)   
      
   1948 - John Lomax, American folk song collector and ethnomusicologist   
   (American Folklore Society), and educator, dies of a stroke at 83   
      
   1958 - Mary Colter, American architect and designer (Fred Harvey Company,   
   Santa Fe Railroad), dies at 88   
      
   1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (Ashes and Diamonds), dies at 39   
      
   1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician, songwriter and vocalist (Carter   
   Family), dies at 81   
      
   1987 - Manuel Blancafort, Spanish-Catalan pianist and composer, dies at 89   
      
   2017 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (1989-97) and de facto   
   commander-in-chief of the Iranian military during the Iran-Iraq War, dies of a   
   heart attack at 82   
      
   2023 - Bernard Kalb, American journalist, moderator, lecturer and author, one   
   of the most respected broadcast journalists of his time (CBS News, New York   
   Times), dies at 100   
      
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   https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/january/8   
      
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