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George Robb was a footballer who played outside left for Tottenham Hotspur and England. Robb represented Great Britain at the 1952 Olympic Games. He also had a career as a school…
George Robb, English international footballer and teacher (died 2011)
Milo Donal O'Shea was an Irish actor. He received nomination for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his breakthrough role of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses (1967), and was t…
Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (died 2013)
Andy Samuel Griffith was an American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television. Known for his Southern dra…
Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Richard Schultz Schweiker was an American businessman and politician who served as the 14th U.S. secretary of health and human services under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1…
Richard Schweiker, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (died 2015
Chiyonoyama Masanobu was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Fukushima, Hokkaidō. He was the sport's 41st yokozuna, between 1951 until 1959. He is regarded as the first "mo…
Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (died 1977)
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac…
Allen Ginsberg, American poet (died 1997)
Flora Isabel MacDonald was a Canadian politician and humanitarian. Canada's first female foreign minister, she was also one of the first women to vie for leadership of a major Cana…
Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2015)
Robert Earl Hughes was an American man who was, during his lifetime, the heaviest human being recorded, weighing 1,071 pounds (486 kg). He remains the heaviest human in the world a…
Robert Earl Hughes, American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (
Ain Kaalep was an Estonian poet, playwright, literary critic and translator.
Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic (died 2020)
Judith Malina was an American actress, director and writer. With her husband Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prom…
Judith Malina, German-American actress and director, co-founded The Living Theatre (died 2015)
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov or Tschuprov was a Russian statistician who worked on mathematical statistics, sample survey theory and demography.
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (born 1874)
Elizabeth Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, and is the earliest known Black p…
Bessie Coleman, American pilot (born 1892)
Libert H. Boeynaems, formally Libert Hubert John Louis Boeynaems was a Belgian Catholic priest who served as the fourth vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian I…
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Joseph James Fletcher was an Australian biologist, winner of the 1921 Clarke Medal.
Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (born 1850)
Mehmed VI Vahideddin, also known as Şahbaba among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman caliph, reigning from 4 July 1918 unti…
Mehmed VI, the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1861)
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist lar…
Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (born 1886)
Symon Vasyliovych Petliura was a Ukrainian revolutionary, politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People'…
Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (born 1879)
Srečko Kosovel was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets. He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region, a political po…
Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (born 1904)
Vladimir Andreevich Steklov was a prominent Russian and Soviet mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1864)
Frederick Robert Spofforth, also known as "The Demon Bowler", was an Australian cricket team pace bowler of the nineteenth century. He was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets,…
Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and coach (born 1853)
The Norge was a semi-rigid Italian-built airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the North Pole, an overflight on 11 through 14 May 1926. It was also the fi…
The crew of the airship Norge (pictured), led by Roald Amundsen, became the first people to make a verified trip to the
Pentecostalism, also known as classical Pentecostalism, is a movement within the evangelical wing of Protestant Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God throu…
Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was reportedly kidnapped near Venice Beach in Los Angeles before reappeari
Pentecostalism, also known as classical Pentecostalism, is a movement within the evangelical wing of Protestant Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God throu…
Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (pictured) was reportedly kidnapped near Venice Beach in Los Angeles befor
Dodge is an American brand of automobiles and a division of Stellantis, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles have historically included performance cars, and for much of…
Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc, is sold to Dillon, Read & Co