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Arthur Ashkin was an American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Labs. Ashkin has been considered by many as the father of optical tweezers, for which he was awarded t…
Arthur Ashkin, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
Leigh Kamman was an American radio host who focused on bringing jazz music to the airwaves during his career, which spanned more than six decades.
Leigh Kamman, American radio host (died 2014)
Per Olof Sundman was a Swedish writer and politician.
Per Olof Sundman, Swedish author and politician (died 1992)
Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS was a British nuclear physicist.
Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic (died 2016)
Adriano José Alves Moreira, ComC GCC GOIH GCSE was a Portuguese lawyer, professor and a leading political figure in Portugal throughout the second half of the 20th century.
Adriano Moreira, Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS – People's Party…
Lucien "Frenchie" Jarraud was a Quebec radio host for nearly 50 years. He was best known as being the host that started the open talk radio format in Quebec in the 1950s.
Lucien Jarraud, French-Canadian journalist and radio host (died 2007)
Isaac Sidney Caesar was an American comic actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows…
Sid Caesar, American comic actor and writer (died 2014)
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). He was a…
Lyndon LaRouche, American politician and activist, founded the LaRouche movement (died 2019)
Hoyt Stoddard Curtin was an American composer, music producer and the primary musical director for Hanna-Barbera from its beginnings with The Ruff and Reddy Show from 1957 to 1965,…
Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (died 2000)
Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which the…
Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
Manolis Glezos was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and guerrilla fighter most famous for his role in the Greek Resistance during World War II. After the end of th…
Manolis Glezos, Greek journalist and politician (died 2020)
Warwick Estevam Kerr was a Brazilian agricultural engineer, biologist and professor notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees.
Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist, entomologist, and engineer (died 2018)
Antonio Francisco Cafiero was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. Cafiero held a number of important posts throughout his career, including, most notably, the governorship …
Antonio Cafiero, Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province (died 2014)
Jackson Mac Low was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practitioner of systematic chance operations and other non-i…
Jackson Mac Low, American poet, playwright, and composer (died 2004)
Mark Richard Rosenzweig was an American research psychologist whose research on neuroplasticity in animals indicated that the adult brain remains capable of anatomical remodelling …
Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist and academic (died 2009)
Tony Russell "Charles" Brown was an American singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced nightclub style influenced West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1949 and 19…
Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (died 1999)
Caroline Duby Glassman was an American attorney and former jurist in the state of Maine. A native of Oregon, she completed college and law school in that state before moving to Por…
Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (died 2013)
Michel Auclair was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema.
Michel Auclair, German-French actor (died 1988)
Frances Bergen was an American actress and fashion model. She was the wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the mother of actress Candice Bergen and film and television editor Kri…
Frances Bergen, American model and actress (died 2006)
Alfred Käärmann was an Estonian resistance fighter, also known as a forest brother, as the Estonians call their guerrillas, and author. In 2007 he was decorated with a military hon…
Alfred Käärmann, Estonian soldier and author (died 2010)
Robert James Gilbert Anderson was an English Olympic fencer and a renowned film fight choreographer, with a cinema career that spanned more than 50 years and included films such as…
Bob Anderson, English fencer and choreographer (died 2012)
John Cooper Jr., known professionally as Jackie Cooper, was an American actor and director. He began his career as a child actor and was a featured member of the Our Gang ensemble …
Jackie Cooper, American actor (died 2011)
Gaetano Cozzi was an Italian historian, professor at Padua University, and researcher with the Giorgio Cini Foundation and Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche. He was a specialist…
Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian and academic (died 2001)
Mary Soames, Baroness Soames was an English author. The youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, she worked for public organisations including t…
Mary Soames, English author (died 2014)