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Yang Chen-Ning also known as C.N. Yang and Franklin Yang, was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable syste…
Chen-Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
Howard Malcolm "Mac" Baldrige Jr. was an American businessman. He served as the United States secretary of commerce from 1981 until he died in 1987. He was inducted into the ProRod…
Malcolm Baldrige Jr., American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1987)
Shin Kyuk-ho, known in Japan as Takeo Shigemitsu , was a Zainichi Korean businessman known for being the founder of the South Korean-Japanese conglomerate Lotte Corporation (Group)…
Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group (died 2020)
Donald Eugene Lenhardt was an American outfielder, first baseman, third baseman, scout and coach in Major League Baseball. In his playing days, he stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) ta…
Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (died 2014)
José Froilán González was an Argentine racing driver who competed in Formula One between 1950 and 1960. Nicknamed "the Pampas Bull" and "el Cabezón", González was runner-up in the …
José Froilán González, Argentinian racing driver (died 2013)
William Aloysius Keane was an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip The Family Circus. He began it in 1960 and his son Jeff Keane continues to produce it.
Bil Keane, American cartoonist (died 2011)
John Stein was a Scottish football player and manager. He was the first manager of a club from a Northern European country to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967. Stein also …
Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (died 1985)
Joseph Filmore Frazier was an American outfielder and manager in Major League Baseball.
Joe Frazier, American baseball player and manager (died 2011)
Teala Loring was an American actress who appeared in over 30 films during the 1940s.
Teala Loring, American actress (died 2007)
Grady Edgebert Hatton Jr. was an American professional baseball second baseman, third baseman, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds / Redle…
Grady Hatton, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2013)
William Knowlton Zinsser was an American writer, editor and teacher. He began his career working as a feature writer for the New York Herald Tribune. He then became a free-lance co…
William Zinsser, American journalist and critic (died 2015)
Nils Erik Liedholm was a Swedish professional football player and coach. Il Barone, as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of the Swedish "Gre-No-Li" t…
Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager (died 2007)
Herbert Breiter Leonard was an American producer and writer. Leonard was a production manager at Screen Gems for many years.
Herbert B. Leonard, American production manager and producer (died 2006)
Léon Dion was a Canadian political scientist.
Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (died 1997)
Philip "Fyvush" Finkel was an American actor and director known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences, for…
Fyvush Finkel, American actor (died 2016)
Olga Guillot was a Cuban singer who was known as the "Queen of Bolero". She was a native of Santiago de Cuba.
Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (died 2010)
G. C. Edmondson was the working name of science fiction author Garry Edmonson. According to the obituary published in Locus Magazine, Edmondson was born in Washington state During …
G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and author (died 1995)
William Healy Sullivan was an American Foreign Service career officer who served as ambassador to Laos from 1964 to 1969, the Philippines from 1973 to 1977, and Iran from 1977 to 1…
William H. Sullivan, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (died 2013)
Mervin Pregulman was an American football player, businessman, and philanthropist. He played college football as a tackle and center for the Michigan Wolverines from 1941 to 1943 a…
Merv Pregulman, American football player, businessman, and philanthropist (died 2012)
Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was an American professional basketball player who was one of the first African Americans to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He wa…
Nathaniel Clifton, American athlete (died 1990)
Gilberto Mendes was a 20th-century Brazilian avant-garde composer, and one of the pioneering fathers of the company New Consonant Music.
Gilberto Mendes, Brazilian composer (died 2016)
Agustina Bessa-Luís, GOSE was a Portuguese writer. From 1986 and 1987, she was director of the daily O Primeiro de Janeiro (Porto). From 1990 to 1993, she was director of the D. Ma…
Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author (died 2019)
Thomas Jefferson Edwards was an American singer and songwriter. His most successful record was the multi-million-selling song "It's All in the Game", becoming the first African-Ame…
Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (died 1969)
Preben Hempel Munthe was a Norwegian economist.
Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (died 2013)