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Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953.
Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player (died 1986)
Mahāsī Sayādaw U Sobhana was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana (insight) meditation in the West and …
Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (died 1982)
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was a French-born Indian industrialist, and aviator, who was the chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group from 1938 to 1991.
J. R. D. Tata, French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (died 1993)
Salvador Novo López was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. As a noted intellectual, he …
Salvador Novo, Mexican poet and playwright (died 1974)
Brett Halliday is the primary pen name of Davis Dresser, an American mystery and western writer. Halliday is best known for the long-lived series of Michael Shayne mysteries he wro…
Brett Halliday, American engineer, surveyor, and author (died 1977)
María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete, known professionally as Dolores del Río, was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the fir…
Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (died 1983)
Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer and journalist. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its thir…
Clifford D. Simak, American journalist and author (died 1988)
Kenneth Vivian Thimann was an English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist known for his studies of plant hormones, which were widely influential in agriculture and horti…
Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American botanist and microbiologist (died 1997)
Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist fla…
Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (died 1969)
Jean Dessès was an Egyptian fashion designer, who was among the most prominent couturiers in Paris from the 1930s to 1960. Known for his lavishly draped gowns, he was one of the pr…
Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (died 1970)
Henry Payne “Hank” Iba was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College, n…
Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (died 1993)
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He is the f…
Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Achille Varzi was an Italian racing driver. He is remembered as the winner of the 1933 Monaco Grand Prix, as well as the winner of the first Formula One Grand Prix at the 1946 Turi…
Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver (died 1948)
Idel Jakobson was an NKVD officer. According to the materials of Kaitsepolitsei, Jakobson took part in sentencing around 1,200 people to death and persecuting and torturing at leas…
Idel Jakobson, Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer (died 1997)
Tamás Lossonczy was a Hungarian abstract painter. He is considered by many critics to be one of the leading figures of modern art in Hungary of the 20th century.
Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter (died 2009)
Alexei Nikolaevich was the last Russian tsesarevich. He was the youngest child and only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. He was born with haemophilia, whic…
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (died 1918)
Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers was an American film actor and musician. During the peak of his popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was publicized as "America's Boyfrien…
Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician (died 1999)
Maria Margarita "Margaret" Tafoya was the matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters. She was a recipient of a 1984 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for …
Margaret Tafoya, Native American Pueblo potter (died 2001)
General Minoru Genda was an Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, JASDF general and politician. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war he …
Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (died 1989)
Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry …
Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Mary Dawson Cain was an American newspaper editor, political activist, and gubernatorial candidate in Mississippi. A Democrat, she advocated for conservative causes and is particul…
Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (died 1984)
George Johann Klein, was a Canadian inventor who is widely regarded as the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century. Although he struggled as a high school student, h…
George Klein, Canadian inventor, invented the motorized wheelchair (died 1992)
Leopold Nowak was an Austrian musicologist chiefly known for editing the works of Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society. He reconstructed the original form of some …
Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist (died 1991)
Francis Factor, also known as Max Factor Jr., was an American businessman who was president of the Max Factor Cosmetics empire.
Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (died 1996)