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Sir Robert Nairn "Bom" Gillies KNZM (14 February 1925 – 7 November 2024) was a New Zealand soldier who served with B Company, 28th (Māori) Battalion, during World War II. [1] He was the last surviving member of the Māori Battalion, and was knighted on 31 December 2021.
Robert G. Nairn (died 30 September 2023) [1] was a South African Buddhist teacher, author and populariser. He was born and grew up in Rhodesia . Nairn was a follower of Tibetan Buddhism , in the Karma Kagyu lineage.
Robert A. Hall, 78, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Senate (1973–1982). [80] Keith Jennings, 70, English cricketer . [81] Parnelli Jones, 90, American Hall of Fame racing driver and team owner (Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing), 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner. [82] John Kerr, 90, Australian pathologist. [83]
The Spencer-Nairn Baronetcy, of Monimail in the County of Fife, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 January 1933 for Robert Spencer-Nairn, a Major in the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. Born Robert Nairn, he was the second son of the first Baronet of the 1904 creation by his wife Emily Frances, daughter of Alfred Rimington Spencer.
According to Robert Wodrow he fell asleep while the pleadings for the relevancy were being read to him, but on being awakened voted for the relevancy of the indictment. On 10 April 1683 Lord Castlehill was appointed to be one of the criminal lords in place of Lord Nairne, who was excused from attendance on account of his great age.
Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana (Centerville) Harry S. New, U.S. Postmaster General (Indianapolis) Mike Pence, former congressman, former governor of Indiana, 2013–2017, and 48th vice president of the United States under Donald Trump ; Dennis Pennington, State Senator and early abolitionist (Central Barren)
Nairn MacEwan, 76, Tanzanian-born Scottish rugby union coach. [634] Roland Penner, 93, Canadian politician, MLA (1981–1988), complications of a broken ankle. [635] Steven Pitt, 59, American forensic psychiatrist, shot. [636] Aníbal Quijano, 90, Peruvian sociologist, developer of coloniality of power concept. [637]
Lieutenant Commander (USN) Robert Adrian Marks (February 18, 1917 – March 7, 1998) was the U.S. Navy pilot who rescued 56 crewmen of the USS Indianapolis after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes. [1] Marks disobeyed standing orders not to land in open ocean and rescued survivors by lashing them to the wing. His actions rendered the aircraft ...