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Léo Alphonse Joseph Cadieux was a Canadian politician.
Léo Cadieux, Canadian journalist and politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (died 2005)
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fle…
Ian Fleming, English journalist and author, created James Bond (died 1964)
Mary Diana Morgan was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter and novelist, mostly associated with her work for Ealing Studios as Diana Morgan. She was married to fellow screenwriter Robe…
Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (died 1996)
Annemarie Minna Renée Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist and photographer. Her bisexual mother brought her up in a masculine style, and her androgynous image suited the b…
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss author and photographer (died 1942)
Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1…
Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963)
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was a South Vietnamese politician who was the first vice president of South Vietnam, serving under President Ngô Đình Diệm from 1956 until Diệm's overthrow and assa…
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Vietnamese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (died 1976)
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described …
Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
Melvin Jerome Blanc was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over sixty years. Referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices", he is regarded as the gr…
Mel Blanc, American voice actor (died 1989)
Don Ameche was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, whi…
Don Ameche, American actor (died 1993)
Emmett B. "Branch" McCracken was an American basketball player and coach. He served as the head basketball coach at Ball State University from 1930 to 1938 and at Indiana Universit…
Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (died 1970)
Karl Hein was a German hammer thrower who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (died 1982)
Francisco de Jesus Marto and Jacinta de Jesus Marto were siblings from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima, Portugal, who, with their cousin Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005), reporte…
Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (died 1919)
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975, and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1988.
Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator (died 2010)
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, inclu…
Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (died 1975)
Luis Kutner was a US human rights activist, FBI informant, and lawyer who was on the National Advisory Council of the US branch of Amnesty International during its early years and …
Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (died 1993)
Bud Collyer was an American radio actor, announcer and game show host who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars. He is best remembered for his work as t…
Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (died 1969)
Stanley Howard Knowles was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federati…
Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (died 1997)
Nedra Volz was an American actress. On television, she portrayed Aunt Iola on All in the Family, Adelaide Brubaker on Diff'rent Strokes, Emma Tisdale on The Dukes of Hazzard, Pearl…
Nedra Volz, American actress (died 2003)
William Murray Werber was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox (1933–1936), Philadelphia Ath…
Billy Werber, American baseball player (died 2009)
August "Gus" Schilling was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in f…
Gus Schilling, American actor (died 1957)
William Klaas Frankena was an American moral philosopher. He was a member of the University of Michigan's department of philosophy for 41 years (1937–1978), and chair of the depart…
William Frankena, American philosopher and academic (died 1994)
Helmut Ulm was a German mathematician who established the classification of countable periodic abelian groups by means of their Ulm invariants.
Helmut Ulm, German mathematician (died 1975)
August Hugo Distler was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.
Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (died 1942)
Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane was an Estonian military commander. He was the most highly decorated Estonian military officer during World War II, serving in various Wehrmacht and Wa…
Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (died 1976)