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Kishore Kumar was an Indian playback singer, musician and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most influential and dynamic singers in the history of Indian music. …
Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1987)
John Henry Moore II was an American lawyer and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
John H. Moore II, American lawyer and judge (died 2013)
Mike Elliott is a Jamaican-born British saxophonist. He played on ska recordings in the early 1960s and on pop and soul music hits in the late 1960s. He is best known as a co-found…
Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist
Roch La Salle was a Canadian politician from the province of Quebec. He represented the riding of Joliette in the House of Commons of Canada for 20 years. He was re-elected six tim…
Roch La Salle, Canadian politician, 42nd Canadian Minister of Public Works (died 2007)
Don James Larsen was an American professional baseball pitcher. During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he pitched from 1953 to 1967 for seven different teams: the St.…
Don Larsen, American baseball player (died 2020)
Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union.
Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist (died 2004)
Luis Arturo García Meza Tejada was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations…
Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia (died 2018)
Ronald Arthur Biggs was a British criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, livin…
Ronnie Biggs, English criminal (died 2013)
Abdi İpekçi was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and human rights activist. He was murdered when he was editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers Milliyet which…
Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (died 1979)
Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the frontman for The Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. …
Buck Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006)
Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. was an American Emmy Award–winning stage and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the sitcom One D…
Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor (died 2016)
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay was an Indian singer and music composer in Bengali films. Coming to limelight in the early 1950s Manabendra was an innovative and stylish singer who had a s…
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer (died 1992)
Giacomo Capuzzi was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi.
Giacomo Capuzzi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi from 1989 to 2005 (died…
Richard Ihetu GCOI, professionally known as Dick Tiger was a Nigerian professional boxer who held the undisputed middleweight and light-heavyweight championships.
Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (died 1971)
William John Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His extensive use of impressionist harmony, block chords, innovative ch…
Bill Evans, American pianist and composer (died 1980)
Helmut Rahn, known as Der Boss, was a German footballer who played as a forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup. Rahn…
Helmut Rahn, German footballer (died 2003)
Jack Barton Adkisson Sr., better known by his ring name Fritz Von Erich, was an American professional wrestler, wrestling promoter, and the patriarch of the Von Erich family. He wa…
Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler and trainer (died 1997)
Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, whe…
Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (died 1977)
Hugues Jean Marie Auffray, better known as Hugues Aufray, is a French singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is known for French-language covers of Bob Dylan's songs. Aufray knew Dyla…
Hugues Aufray, French singer-songwriter
William Edwin Foster was the head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University, University of Utah, Duke University, University of South Carolina, and Northwestern University. He i…
Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (died 2016)
Ion N. Petrovici was a German neurologist, professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Cologne.
Ion N. Petrovici, Romanian-German neurologist and academic (died 2021)
Kevin Heffernan was an Irish Gaelic footballer and manager who played as a left corner-forward at senior level for the Dublin county team.
Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (died 2013)
Herman Badillo was an American lawyer and politician who served as borough president of The Bronx and United States Representative, and ran for Mayor of New York City. He was the f…
Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (died 2014)
Joseph Charles Kennedy, known by the pen name X. J. Kennedy, was an American poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and author of children's literature and textbooks on English lit…
X. J. Kennedy, American poet, translator, anthologist, editor (died 2026)