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Mohammad Daoud Khan, also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan, was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as…
Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (died 1978)
Harriet Nelson was an American actress. Nelson is best known for her role on the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (died 1994)
Nalapat Balamani Amma was an Indian poet who wrote in Malayalam. Amma (Mother), Muthassi (Grandmother), and Mazhuvinte Katha are some of her well-known works. She was a recipient o…
Balamani Amma, Indian poet and author (died 2004)
Eric Alfred Burchell Rowan was a South African cricketer who played for Transvaal, Eastern Province and South Africa.
Eric Rowan, South African cricketer (died 1993)
Licia Albanese was an Italian-born American operatic soprano. Noted especially for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini, Albanese was a leading artist with the…
Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (died 2014)
Teodoro "Dorino" Serafini was an Italian racing driver and motorcycle road racer who most notably finished second in his only Formula One World Championship race for Ferrari, the 1…
Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (died 2000)
John William Finn was a sailor in the United States Navy who, as a chief petty officer and aviation ordnanceman, received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal…
John William Finn, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2010)
Elizabeth Francis was an American supercentenarian who was the oldest-living person in the United States from the death of Edith Ceccarelli on February 22, 2024, until her own deat…
Elizabeth Francis, American centenarian (died 2024)
George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1957 and 1958.
Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1994)
Aenne Burda, born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, was a German publisher of the Burda Group, a media group based in Offenburg and Munich, Germany. She was one of the symbols of the Germa…
Aenne Burda, German publisher (died 2005)
Vivian Vance was an American actress best known for playing landlady Ethel Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstand…
Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (died 1979)
Clarence Malcolm Lowry was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list.
Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (died 1957)
Samm Sinclair Baker was the author/co-author of many how-to and self-help books, most notably The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet which he co-authored with Dr. Herman Tarnower.
Samm Sinclair Baker, American author (died 1997)
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novel…
Chester Himes, American-Spanish author (died 1984)
Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson named t…
C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (died 1993)
Nathalie Sophia Nielsine Caroline Rink was a Danish writer and ethnologist. Together with her husband Hinrich, she founded Greenland's first newspaper, Atuagagdliutit, in 1861. She…
Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (born 1836)
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a signif…
Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1860)
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a r…
George Meredith, English novelist and poet (born 1828)
Ernest Hogan was the first Black American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show, The Oyster Man in 1907, and helped to popularize the musical genre of ragtime.
Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (born 1859)
Thomas Price served as the South Australian United Labor Party's first Premier of South Australia. He formed a minority government at the 1905 election and was re-elected with incr…
Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (born 1852)
Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in su…
Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (born 1822)
Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributions to the science of interna…
Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (born 1845)
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is reco…
Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1849)
Simon Newcomb was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hop…
Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (born 1835)