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  2. Evelyn McHale - Wikipedia

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    Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) [1] was an American bookkeeper who jumped to her death from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. Robert Wiles, a photography student, took a picture of her corpse where it lay on top of a crushed car.

  3. Category:1940s deaths - Wikipedia

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    People killed in World War II (12 C, 1 P) V. Victims of the Siege of Leningrad (62 P) Pages in category "1940s deaths" The following 95 pages are in this category ...

  4. List of fatalities from aviation accidents - Wikipedia

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    1940 Governor-General of Italian Libya Savoia-Marchetti SM.79: Tobruk, Italian North Africa: Shot down by friendly fire, Italian anti-aircraft batteries defending the airfield misidentified the aircraft as British Frederick Banting: Canada 1941 Scientist, co-discovered insulin: Lockheed Hudson: Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada Engine problems

  5. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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    Post-mortem photography in the Nordic countries was most popular in the early 1900s, but later died out around 1940, transferring mainly to amateur photography for personal use. When examining Iceland 's culture surrounding death, it is concluded that the nation held death as an important and significant companion. [ 19 ]

  6. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Valley of the Shadow of Death: 23 April 1855 Roger Fenton Sevastopol, Crimea Wet collodion negative Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3]

  7. List of people who were executed - Wikipedia

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    Aleksandr Uspensky (1940) Iosif Vareikis (1938) Nikolai Efimovich Varfolomeev (1939) Mikhail Vasilyev-Yuzhin (1937) Ivan Voronaev 9d. 1937) Alexei Voshchakin (1937) Gaspar Voskanyan (1937) Genrikh Yagoda (1938) Iona Yakir (1937) Varvara Yakovleva (1941) Victor Yartsev (1940) Grigory Yevdokimov (1936) Yu Xiusong (1939) Aleksandr Yegorov (1939 ...

  8. List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

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    50 Auschwitz-Birkenau, Germany Hirsch, an Olympian footballer who played for the Germany national football team during the 1912 Summer Olympics, was deported by the Nazis to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 March 1943 and was not seen again. He was declared dead in 1950 with a death date of 8 May 1945. [119] 6 March 1943 Hans Beißwenger: 26

  9. Category:1950s deaths - Wikipedia

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    1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 15th; ... People killed by the Ukrainian ... Pages in category "1950s deaths" The following 50 pages are in this ...