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Margit Bara was a Hungarian film actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1956 and 1975. She retired from acting in 1977 and later in 1992 received the Order of Merit of the Repub…
Margit Bara, Hungarian actress (died 2016)
Ralph Waite was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two o…
Ralph Waite, American actor and director (died 2014)
Jean S. Cione [″Cy″] was a pitcher who played from 1945 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5' 8", 143 lb., she batted and threw…
Jean Cione, American baseball player (died 2010)
Klaus Karl Anton von Dohnanyi is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as mayor of Hamburg between 1981 and 1988. As of 2026, he is the oldest living …
Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician
Michael Shaara was an American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction.
Michael Shaara, American author and academic (died 1988)
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient…
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of direct cinema, characteristic of the French …
Michel Brault, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
Pierre Culliford was a Belgian comics writer and artist who worked under the pseudonym Peyo. His best-known works are the comic book series The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit, in the …
Peyo, Belgian author and illustrator, created The Smurfs (died 1992)
Jacob Raphael Druckman was an American composer.
Jacob Druckman, American composer and academic (died 1996)
Yoshiro Nakamatsu , also known as Dr. NakaMats , is a Japanese inventor. He regularly appears on Japanese talk shows demonstrating his inventions. Nakamatsu is known as a perennial…
Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
William Jennings Sheffield Jr. was an American Democratic politician who was the fifth governor of Alaska from 1982 to 1986. Sheffield's term in the governor's mansion was marked b…
Bill Sheffield, American politician; 5th Governor of Alaska (died 2022)
Samuel Belzberg, was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
Samuel Belzberg, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 2018)
Rudolph George Perpich Sr. was an American politician who served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from 1976 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. A member of the Democratic-Farm…
Rudy Perpich, American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (died 1995)
Hans Martin Blix is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the Inter…
Hans Blix, Swedish politician and diplomat, 33rd Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
Patrick Miller Hemingway was an American wildlife manager and writer who was novelist Ernest Hemingway's second son and the first born to Hemingway's second wife Pauline Pfeiffer. …
Patrick Hemingway, American writer
Sir Harold Matthew Evans was a British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Britain, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and its sister titl…
Harold Evans, English-American historian and journalist (died 2020)
Peter Samuel Heine was a South African cricketer who played in fourteen Test matches between 1955 and 1962. On his Test debut, he took five wickets in the first innings against Eng…
Peter Heine, South African cricketer (died 2005)
Sir Cyril Richard Smith was a British Liberal Party and Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale from 1972 to 1992.
Cyril Smith, English politician (died 2010)
Ian Edmund Bannen was a Scottish stage and screen actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), th…
Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (died 1999)
Jean-Louis Poisson, better known as Jean Louis Pesch, was a French author of comics series, including Sylvain et Sylvette.
Jean-Louis Pesch, French author and illustrator (died 2023)
Radius Prawiro was an Indonesian economist and politician.
Radius Prawiro, Indonesian economist and politician (died 2005)
Hasan Hasanzade Amoli was an Iranian Shi'ite theologian known for his mystical tendencies and Islamic philosophy. He was among clerics who overcame the traditional opposition to te…
Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli, Islamic philosopher, theologian, mathematician and mystic (died 2021)
Nathaniel Tarn was a French-American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He was born Edward Michael Mendelson in Paris, France, to a French-Romanian mother and a Britis…
Nathaniel Tarn, American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator (died 2024)
Evelyn Bridget Patricia Ward-Thomas, better known by the pen name Evelyn Anthony, was a British writer. Anthony was born in the Lambeth district of London. She had a very prolific …
Evelyn Anthony, English author (died 2018)