Mira Furlan

DeathJanuary 202021

Mira Furlan

Mira Furlan, Croatian actress and singer (born 1955)

5th anniversary in 2026

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When
Wednesday, January 20 20215 years ago
Category
DeathA notable person who died on this day.
Era
21st century · 2020s
Anniversary
5th in 2026
Recorded from
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Person
Mira Furlan

Who they were

Mira Furlan was a Croatian-American actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998), and as Danielle Rousseau in Lost (2004–2010), and also appeared in multiple award-winning films such as When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and The Abandoned (2010).

Why this date

Mira Furlan appears on our January 20 calendar for 2021 as a death entry.

January 20 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

  1. 1990Red Army
  2. 1991Sudan
  3. 1992Air Inter Flight 148
  4. 2001President of the Philippines
  5. 20092008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis
  6. 2009Iceland
  7. 2009First inauguration of Barack Obama
  8. 20182018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack
  9. 2018Taliban
  10. 2018Syrian civil war
  11. 2021Mira Furlan

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January 20 2021 — 5 years ago, on a Wednesday.

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