Deaths from leukemia

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979. He succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution led by Ruhollah Khomeini, which abolished the Iranian monarchy to establish the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 1967, he took the title Shahanshah, and held several others, including Aryamehr and Bozorg Arteshtaran. He was the second and last ruling monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty.

Hungarian composer and pianist (1881–1945)

King of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, Duke of Austria

British occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer (1890-1946)

Burmese prime minister (1947-2007)

Honduran footballer (1988-2018)

Czech nobleman (1854-1912)

Russian painter and writer (1877-1913)

Ukrainian soviet actor (1920–1989)

Czech chess player (1908–1952)

Slovak actor and entrepreneur (1949-2021)

American botanist, physiologist and mathematician (1923-1989)

American basketball player and coach (1925–1985)

Finland-Swedish author and illustrator (1924–1984)

American poet, playwright, and professor (1925–2002)

Ukrainian artist (1977-1989)

American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist (1916-2002)

Russian politician (1932–2006)

Lebanese catholic priest (1875-1954)

Portuguese cardinal (1889–1962)

American singer-songwriter (1974-2021)

Dutch professional bike racer (1944–2014)

German classical philologist (1861-1907)

American mechanical engineer (1918-2001)

French singer (1949-1990)

British musician (1953–2023)

Indonesian actress (1939–1989)

German American aviation engineer (1917–1997)

Serbian association football player (1968-2019)

Burmese politician

Nigerian actor

Armenian actor (1938–2010)

American writer (1901-1989)

Russian opera singer (1871-1913)

American architect (1944–2001)

Austrian actress (1860-1887)

Czech music educator, pianist and university educator (1899–1975)

Taiwanese singer (1950-2014)

Polish politician (1951–2023)

Labour MP (1894-1967)

Chinese bishop

Taiwanese track athlete

Welsh Royal Air Force officer (1884–1955); recipient of the Victoria Cross

Norwegian footballer and manager (1940-1997)

Ghanaian actress

American geneticist (1896–1954)

German canoeist (1966–2004)

American basketball player

Iraqi writer (1941-2004)

Welsh footballer and manager (1940-2010)

Ugandan environmental journalist,children's writer

Argentine basketball coach (1941-1998)

Irish software developer

actress (1950-1978)

Croatian architect (1891–1941)

professor of economics/finance (1929–2002)

Hong Kong/Chinese accountant and businessman

Greek canoeist (1976-2013)