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Gilles Loiselle was a Canadian politician.
Gilles Loiselle, Canadian politician and diplomat, 33rd Canadian Minister of Finance (died 2022)
Larance Norman Marable was a jazz drummer from Los Angeles, California.
Larance Marable, American drummer (died 2012)
Robert Radford Welch MBE, RDI, was an English designer and silversmith.
Robert Welch, English silversmith and industrial designer (died 2000)
Ahmad Fo'ad Negm, popularly known as El-Fagumi الفاجومي, was an Egyptian vernacular poet. Negm is well known for his work with Egyptian composer Sheikh Imam, as well as his patriot…
Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet (died 2013)
Ulla Jacobsson was a Swedish actress. She had the lead role in One Summer of Happiness (1951) and played the only female speaking role in the film Zulu (1964).
Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish-Austrian actress (died 1982)
Beverly Sills was an American operatic soprano whose career peak was between the 1950s and 1970s.
Beverly Sills, American soprano and actress (died 2007)
Ernest Carroll was an Australian puppeteer, entertainer, radio and television personality, comic writer, television producer and comic strip writer, most recognised for his role as…
Ernie Carroll, Australian television personality and producer (died 2022)
Jacob Festus Adeniyi Ajayi, commonly known as J. F. Ade Ajayi, was a Nigerian historian and a member of the Ibadan school, a group of scholars interested in introducing African per…
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Hans Charles Freeman AM, FAA was a German-born Australian bioinorganic chemist, protein crystallographer, and professor of inorganic chemistry who spent most of his academic career…
Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (died 2008)
Catherine Sauvage was a French singer and actress.
Catherine Sauvage, French singer and actress (died 1998)
Sir Patrick Michael Ernest David McNair-Wilson was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and consultant.
Patrick McNair-Wilson, English politician
Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. Frankfurt also taught a…
Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic (died 2023)
Peter Ware Higgs was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Roberto Enrique Vargas Vélez was a Puerto Rican pitcher in Major League Baseball and Negro league baseball. Vargas played for the Chicago American Giants for one season in 1948, in…
Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2014)
Georges Robert Edmond Gilson was a French Roman Catholic archbishop.
Georges Gilson, French archbishop (died 2024)
Sir Patrick Michael Ernest David McNair-Wilson was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and consultant.
Patrick McNair-Wilson, English politician (died 2025)
Menahem Golan was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget…
Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (died 2014)
Nargis Dutt, known mononymously as Nargis, was an Indian actress and politician who worked in Hindi cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema…
Nargis, Indian actress (died 1981)
James Hadley Billington was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions. He…
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Norton Juster was an American academic, architect, and writer. He was best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) and The Dot and the Line…
Norton Juster, American architect, author, and academic (died 2021)
Kenneth Bruce McGregor was an Australian tennis player from Adelaide who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, F…
Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (died 2007)
Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or …
Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
Charles Hirsch Barris was an American game show creator, producer, and host, author, and songwriter. A key crew member of several hugely successful television game shows, he was th…
Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer (died 2017)
Karolos Papoulias was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015.
Karolos Papoulias, Greek lawyer and politician, 5th President of Greece (died 2021)