Maid Lair Lain

 Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2021 site lists under July 4: 

• Rick Laird, 80, Irish jazz fusion bassist , lung cancer.^[26]
• Maidarjavyn Ganzorig, 72, Mongolian cosmonaut, Soyuz 39 reserve pilot.
• Richard Quentin Laird (5 February 1941 – 4 July 2021)

Maidarjavyn Ganzorig 5 February 1949 – 4 July 2021)

• 1999 – Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist, Nobel Prize(b. 1906)
• 2000 – Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
•  Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999)
• Claude Autant-Lara (5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000)  

• 1998 – Otto Kretschmer, German commander (b. 1912)
• Otto Kretschmer (1 May 1912 – 5 August 1998) 
• 1998 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian commander and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1920)\
• Otto Buchsbaum (May 2, 1920 – August 5, 2000) 
• 2000 – Tullio Crali, Montenegrin-Italian pilot and painter (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Lala Amarnath, Indian cricketer who scored India's first Test century (b. 1911)
• Lala Amarnath Bharadwaj (11 September 1911 - 5 August 2000)
• 2000 – Alec Guinness, English actor (b. 1914)^[24]
• 2001 – Otema Allimadi, Ugandan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Christopher Skase, Australian-Spanish businessman (b. 1948)

• 1994 – Alain de Changy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1922)
• Alain Carpentier de Changy (5 February 1922 –  5 August 1994) 

Later German form of Audo or Odo, originally a short form of various names beginning with the Germanic element aud meaning "wealth, fortune". 

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