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Marcel Camus was a French film director. He is best known for Orfeu Negro, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Fi…
Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (died 1982)
Kathleen Mary Ferrier was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong a…
Kathleen Ferrier, English operatic singer (died 1953)
Kaneto Shindō was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Ch…
Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Ruth Osburn was an American athlete who competed mainly in the discus. She was born in Shelbyville, Missouri, United States.
Ruth Osburn, American discus thrower (died 1994)
Eugene Earl Bostic was an American alto saxophonist. Bostic's recording career was diverse, his musical output encompassing jazz, swing, jump blues and the post-war American rhythm…
Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (died 1965)
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born American science fiction writer. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, including Philip K. Dic…
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Jacques de Bourbon, Count of Busset was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of …
Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (died 2001)
Zohra Mumtaz Sehgal was an Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer. Having begun her career as a member of a contemporary dance troupe, she transitioned into acting roles beginni…
Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (died 2014)
Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes,, also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Sansom, code named Lise, was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Execut…
Odette Hallowes, French soldier and spy (died 1995)
Kaneto Shindō was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Ch…
Kaneto Shindō, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Richard Dutoit Carlson was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his leading roles in sci-fi classic It Came from Outer Space…
Richard Carlson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1977)
Otto Kretschmer was a German naval officer and submariner in World War II and the Cold War.
Otto Kretschmer, German admiral (died 1998)
Axel Cäsar Springer was a German publisher and founder of what is now Axel Springer SE, the largest media publishing firm in Europe. By the early 1960s his print titles dominated t…
Axel Springer, German journalist and publisher, founded Axel Springer AG (died 1985)
Marten Toonder was a Dutch comic strip creator. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence on the Dutch language by introducing n…
Marten Toonder, Dutch comic strip creator (died 2005)
Nigel Dennis Patrick Wemyss-Gorman was an English actor and stage director born into a theatrical family.
Nigel Patrick, English actor and director (died 1981)
Virgil Keel Fox was an American organist, known especially for his years as organist at Riverside Church in New York City, from 1946 to 1965, and his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" conce…
Virgil Fox, American organist and composer (died 1980)
May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, a Belgian and American novelist, poet, and memoirist. Although her best work is strongly personalized with erotic female image…
May Sarton, American poet, novelist and memoirist (died 1995)
George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published sev…
George Woodcock, Canadian author and poet (died 1995)
Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings was a Mexican and American actor. With the actresses Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars of …
Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (died 1963)
Saadat Hasan Manto NI was a Pakistani writer, playwright and novelist from Punjab, who is regarded as the greatest short-story author in Urdu literature. He was active from 1933 du…
Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (died 1955)
Ian Ernest Gilmore Evans was a Canadian–American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest orchestrators in jazz, playing an i…
Gil Evans, Canadian-American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 1988)
Arthur Victor Berger was an American composer and music critic who has been described as a New Mannerist.
Arthur Berger, American composer and educator (died 2003)
Archibald Cox Jr. was an American legal scholar who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. Durin…
Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General (died 2004)
Richard Brooks was an American film director, screenwriter, journalist and novelist. He directed 24 feature films between 1950 and 1985, and was known for his portrayals of hard-hi…
Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1992)