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Rudolf Anderson Jr. was an American Air Force major and pilot. He was the first recipient of the Air Force Cross, the U.S. military's and Air Force's second-highest award and decor…
Rudolf Anderson, pilot and commissioned officer in the United States Air Force (died 1962)
Norman Lawrence Crosby was an American comedian born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was often referred to as "The Master of Malaprop".
Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor (died 2020)
Peter Michael Falk was an American actor. He played the title character Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC/ABC series Columbo, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden G…
Peter Falk, American actor (died 2011)
John Augustus Kelly Jr. was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of Bart Maverick in the television series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962.
Jack Kelly, American actor and politician (died 1992)
George Frederick Blanda was an American professional football player who was a quarterback and placekicker in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).…
George Blanda, American football player (died 2010)
Kevin Schubert (1927-2007) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. An international and interstate representative hooker, he playe…
Kevin Schubert, Australian rugby league player (died 2007)
Sadako Ogata, née Nakamura , was a Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor emerita at the Roman Catholic Sophia University. She was widely known as the he…
Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic and diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (died 2019)
Phyllis Kirk was an American actress.
Phyllis Kirk, American actress (died 2006)
Muriel Winifred Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden was a British Labour politician and trade union leader.
Muriel Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden, English politician (died 2018)
Helen Myrl Carter Jones was an American country music singer. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter, she performed with her mother and her younger sisters, June Carter and Anita C…
Helen Carter, American singer (died 1998)
William Edward Hickey was an American actor and acting teacher. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston film Prizzi's Honor (…
William Hickey, American actor (died 1997)
Nicholas E. Macioci was an American bass singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist. He is best known for his work as the bassist and bass vocalist for The Four Seasons, for whom he pe…
Nick Massi, American singer and bass player (died 2000)
Colette Bonheur was a singer from Montreal, Quebec.
Colette Bonheur, Canadian singer (died 1966)
Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, and bandleader. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo La…
John Dankworth, English saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 2010)
Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet.
Red Mitchell, American bassist, composer, and poet (died 1992)
Rachel Roberts was a Welsh actress. She is best remembered for her screen performances as the older mistress of the central male characters in both Saturday Night and Sunday Mornin…
Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress (died 1980)
Enrique Simonet Lombardo was a Spanish painter.
Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (born 1866)
Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology,…
Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (born 1866)
José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to …
Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1887)
Major Harold Geiger was an American military officer and pioneer U.S. Army aviator, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1927. He was U.S. military aviator number 6. He was also …
Harold Geiger, American pilot and lieutenant (born 1884)
William Payne Whitney was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. He inherited a fortune and enlarged it through business dealings, then devoted much …
Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1876)
Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and stage designer during the Modernist period.
Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (born 1878)
Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was…
Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (born 1860)
John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the…
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