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Martin Caidin was an American author, screenwriter, and an authority on aeronautics and aviation.
Martin Caidin, American author and screenwriter (died 1997)
Janet Kathleen Davies was an English actress best known for her recurring role as Mrs. Pike in the long-running sitcom Dad's Army.
Janet Davies, English actress (died 1986)
Gardner Edward Dickinson, Jr. was an American professional golfer.
Gardner Dickinson, American golfer (died 1998)
William James Fanning was an American-Canadian catcher, manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball. Often called "Gentleman Jim", Fanning was the first general man…
Jim Fanning, American-Canadian baseball player and manager (died 2015)
Edmund Casimir Szoka was an American Catholic prelate who served as president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and as president of the Governorate of Vatican Cit…
Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (died 2014)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Gordon Astall was an English professional footballer. He played as an outside right, and represented the Football League, the England B team and the full England side. At club leve…
Gordon Astall, English footballer and coach (died 2020)
Thomas Charles Lasorda was an American professional baseball pitcher and manager. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1976 through 1996. He was i…
Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Vivian Arthur Rivers Malet was an English actor. He was known for his films Mary Poppins (1964), Halloween (1978), The Secret of NIMH (1982), and Hook (1991). His last film role wa…
Arthur Malet, English-American actor and singer (died 2013)