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Konstantin Kalser was a German-American film producer and advertising executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1957 with Crashing the Water Barrier.
Konstantin Kalser, German-American film producer and advertising executive (died 1994)
Peter Racine Fricker was an English composer, among the first to establish his career entirely after the Second World War. He lived in the US for the last thirty years of his life…
Peter Racine Fricker, English-American composer and educator (died 1990)
Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007)
Harri Webb was a Welsh poet, journalist and librarian, and a prominent Welsh republican nationalist.
Harri Webb, Welsh journalist and poet (died 1994)
Neil Chotem was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and music educator.
Neil Chotem, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2008)
Feng Kang was a Chinese mathematician. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. After his death, the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Fe…
Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and physicist (died 1993)
Robert Wood Johnson III was an American businessman. He was a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I.
Robert Wood Johnson III, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1970)
Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer, and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the firs…
Elvira Pagã, Brazilian actress, singer, and author (died 2003)
Fabio Taglioni was an Italian engineer. He is known for creating the Ducati 125 Desmo engine.
Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (died 2001)
Else Holmelund Minarik was an American author of more than 40 children's books. She was most commonly associated with her Little Bear series of children's books, which were adapted…
Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American journalist and author (died 2012)
Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published …
Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist and author (died 2009)
Lawrence Robert Klein was an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics in the Department of Economics at…
Lawrence Klein, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Alberto Pedro Calderón was an Argentine-American mathematician. His name is associated with the University of Buenos Aires, but first and foremost with the University of Chicago, w…
Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (died 1998)
Hugh Reskymer "Kym" Bonython, was an Australian politician, World War Two veteran, musician, gallery owner, and racing driver.
Kym Bonython, Australian racing driver, drummer, and radio host (died 2011)
Staryl Chester Austin, Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He was a P-47 pilot during World War II. He later joined the Oregon Air National Guard. Austin co…
Staryl C. Austin, American air force general (died 2015)
Dame Sheila Margaret Imelda Quinn, DBE, FRCN, RGN, RM, RNT, was a British nurse and fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. She was president of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) …
Sheila Quinn, English nurse and educator (died 2016)
Arthur Baldwin Sansom Jr., better known as Art Sansom, was an American comic strip cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip The Born Loser.
Art Sansom, American cartoonist (died 1991)
Dinah Sheridan was an English actress with a career spanning seven decades. She was best known for the films Genevieve (1953) and The Railway Children (1970), the long-running BBC …
Dinah Sheridan, English actress (died 2012)
Hans Otto Jung was a German viticulturist, jazz musician and patron of music. In the 1940s, he played as a pianist in the Hotclub Combo, which he cofounded with Emil Mangelsdorff a…
Hans Otto Jung, German viticulturist, jazz musician and patron of music (died 2009)
Jack Warden was an American actor who worked in film and television. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).…
Jack Warden, American actor (died 2006)
Roger Angell was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many…
Roger Angell, American journalist, author, and editor (died 2022)
Joseph Ward Cohen Jr., known professionally as Jay Ward, was an American animator and producer. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, al…
Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (died 1989)
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century. He made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinit…
Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (born 1887)
Princess Margaret of Connaught was Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of the future King Gustaf VI Adolf. Known in Sweden as Margareta, she was the elder daughter of Prince…
Princess Margaret of Connaught (born 1882)