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Walter William "Max" Bygraves was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between so…
Max Bygraves, English-Australian actor and singer (died 2012)
Leon Howard Sullivan was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans, a longtime Gene…
Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist (died 2001)
Luiz Floriano Bonfá was a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He was best known for the music he composed for the film Black Orpheus.
Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 2001)
John Robert Anderson was an American character actor. He was best known for his more than 500 television roles.
John Anderson, American actor (died 1992)
Franco Ventriglia was an opera singer who sang bass in every major European opera house during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He returned to the U.S. in 1978, where he continued to p…
Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (died 2012)
Liliane Henriette Charlotte Bettencourt was a French heiress, socialite and businesswoman. She was a board member and one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal. At the time of h…
Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman and philanthropist (died 2017)
Pierre Juneau was a Canadian film and broadcast executive, a one-time member of the Canadian Cabinet, the first chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Com…
Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (died 2012)
Jack Northman Anderson was an American newspaper columnist, syndicated by United Features Syndicate, considered one of the founders of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won…
Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (died 2005)
Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington, was a British Conservative politician and life peer. In the 1960s and 1970s she served in local government in Cambridgeshire. In 1980 she wa…
Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (died 2018)
Coleen Gray was an American actress, best known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley (1947), Red River (1948), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).
Coleen Gray, American actress (died 2015)
George Miller was an American politician who served as the mayor of Tucson, Arizona from 1991 until December 6, 1999. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He received both a ba…
George Miller, American educator and politician, Mayor of Tucson (died 2014)
Rosa Vicenta Montserrat Coscolín Figueras known professionally as Gloria Lasso was a Spanish-born canción melódica singer, long based in France. In the 1950s, she was one of the ma…
Gloria Lasso, Spanish singer (died 2005)
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham was an American banker and the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham rai…
Madelyn Dunham, American grandmother of Barack Obama (died 2008)
Fred Wood, died January 2003) was an English actor.
Fred Wood, English actor (died 2003)
Poul Arne Bundgaard was a Danish actor and singer. He is probably best known for his role as the henpecked Kjeld in the Olsen-banden films.
Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (died 1998)
Ruby Dee was an American actress. She was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until his death in 2005. She received numerous accolades, including an Emmy Awa…
Ruby Dee, American actress and poet (died 2014)
Michel Louis Edmond Galabru was a French actor.
Michel Galabru, French actor and playwright (died 2016)
Ralph McPherran Kiner was an American professional baseball left fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) and later a broadcaster. Kiner played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cu…
Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2014)
Gershon Kingsley was a German-American composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founder of the F…
Gershon Kingsley, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2019)
Simon Vengai Muzenda was a Zimbabwean politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2003 under President Robert Mu…
Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (died 2003)
Willem Hendrik "Butch" van Breda Kolff was an American basketball player and coach. He played four seasons for the New York Knicks before becoming a head coach at Lafayette. Ultima…
Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball player and coach (died 2007)
Neal Paul Hefti was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for The Odd Couple movie and TV series and for the Batman TV series.
Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer (died 2008)
Elena Nestorovna Mikhnenko was the daughter of the Ukrainian anarchist revolutionaries Nestor Makhno and Halyna Kuzmenko. Born in exile, she spent her early life in France, where s…
Elena Mikhnenko, Ukrainian exile (died 1993)
Iancu Țucărman was a Romanian Jewish agricultural engineer and survivor of the Holocaust and the Iași pogrom. He was the penultimate survivor of the "Death's Train" that was used t…
Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (died 2021)