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Norman Dewis was a British car test driver. He worked for Lea-Francis as a test driver from 1946 to 1951 then for Jaguar Cars from 1952 to 1985.
Norman Dewis, English test driver and engineer (died 2019)
Maxwell Edgar Fatchen, AM was an Australian children's writer and journalist.
Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (died 2012)
Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of de…
P. D. James, English author (died 2014)
Charles James Shavers was an American jazz trumpeter who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, Tommy …
Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player and composer (died 1971)
Elmar Tampõld was an Estonian-Canadian architect and founder of an academic base for Estonian studies in Toronto.
Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect (died 2013)
Helen Amelia Thomas was an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S…
Helen Thomas, American journalist and author (died 2013)
John Alexander Graves III was an American writer known for his book Goodbye to a River.
John Graves, American author (died 2013)
Ella Wallace Raines was an American film and television actress active from the early 1940s through the mid-1950s. Described as "sultry" and "mysterious", the green-eyed star appea…
Ella Raines, American actress (died 1988)
George Clair Tooker, Jr. was an American figurative painter. His works are associated with magic realism, social realism, photorealism, and surrealism. His subjects are depicted na…
George Tooker, American painter and academic (died 2011)
Leo Matteo Chiosso was an Italian lyricist mostly known for his work with Fred Buscaglione. They formed a songwriting duo who produced about forty songs and created Buscaglione's p…
Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer (died 2006)
James Witherspoon was an American jump blues and jazz singer.
Jimmy Witherspoon, American jump blues singer (died 1997)
Enzo Biagi was an Italian journalist, writer and former partisan.
Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and author (died 2007)
William "Red" Holzman was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NB…
Red Holzman, American basketball player and coach (died 1998)
Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lin…
Henrietta Lacks, African-American tobacco farmer whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, extensively…
Michael Delaney Dowd Jr., known as Mike Douglas, was an American big band singer, entertainer, television talk show host of The Mike Douglas Show, and actor.
Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (died 2006)
Claude Earl "Chuck" Rayner, nicknamed "Bonnie Prince Charlie", was a Canadian professional hockey goaltender who played nine seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York …
Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2002)
Charles Gibson was an American ethnohistorian who wrote foundational works on the Nahua peoples of colonial Mexico and was elected President of the American Historical Association …
Charles Gibson, American ethnohistorian (died 1985)
Percy Mayfield was an American rhythm and blues singer with a smooth vocal style. He was also a songwriter, known for the songs "Please Send Me Someone to Love" and "Hit the Road J…
Percy Mayfield, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 1984)
Lawrence Neville Brand was an American soldier and actor. He was known for playing villainous or antagonistic character roles in Westerns, crime dramas and films noir, and was nomi…
Neville Brand, American actor (died 1992)
Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, was an Australian painter.
Judy Cassab, Austrian-Australian painter (died 2008)
Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home c…
Charles Bukowski, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1994)
Maureen O'Hara was an Irish and American actress and singer who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for play…
Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (died 2015)
Lida Moser was an American photographer and author, with a career that spanned more than six decades, before retiring in her 90s. She was known for her photojournalism and street p…
Lida Moser, American photographer and author (died 2014)
Thomas Godfrey Evans was an English cricketer who played for Kent and England. Described by Wisden as 'arguably the best wicket-keeper the game has ever seen', Evans collected 219 …
Godfrey Evans, English cricketer (died 1999)