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Faidon Matthaiou, was a Greek professional basketball player and coach. He was a center at the start of his career, and at the end of his career, he also played as a point guard. H…
Faidon Matthaiou, Greek basketball player and coach (died 2011)
Michel d'Ornano was a French politician.
Michel d'Ornano, French politician (died 1991)
Warren Kenneth Giese was an American state legislator in South Carolina and a college football coach. He served as the head football coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks for five…
Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (died 2013)
Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. was an American politician and United States Navy two-star admiral who served as a U.S. senator representing Alabama from 1981 to 1987. He was the first …
Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (died 2014)
Gullan Marianne, Princess Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg, also known as Princess Marianne Bernadotte, was a Swedish actress, fashion icon, and philanthropist who in 1961 married S…
Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress and philanthropist (died 2025)
James Lloyd Greenfield was an American journalist and government official. He served as the United States deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1962 to 1964, …
James L. Greenfield, American journalist and politician (died 2024)
Dorothy Amora Stanley was an American educator, consultant, Miwok activist, and politician. Trained in Northern Miwok culture during her youth, she became involved in Native Americ…
Dorothy Stanley, American educator (died 1990)
Bess Myerson was an American politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Miss America who was Jewish. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust,…
Bess Myerson, American model, actress, game show panelist, and politician, Miss America 1945 (died 2014)
Rupert Deese was an American ceramic artist. He is known for innovative design and decoration of high fired ceramics. Deese wrote "It is my hope in making these vessels that as the…
Rupert Deese, Northern Mariana Islander ceramic artist (died 2010)
Garde Basil Gardom, was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and the 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (died 2013)
Inge Sørensen, later Inge Tabur, sometimes known as "Lille henrivende Inge" was a Danish swimmer who at age 12 won a bronze medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 1936 Summer O…
Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (died 2011)
Tullio Altamura is an Italian actor, best known for his roles in spaghetti Westerns and action films in the 1960s.
Tullio Altamura, Italian actor
Stanley Knapp Hathaway was an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Wyoming from 1967 to 1975 and as the 40th United States secretary of the interior under Preside…
Stanley K. Hathaway, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2005)
Martin Patterson Hingle was an American actor. He was best known to screen audiences for his character roles, often as tough blue-collar authority figures, in over 200 productions …
Pat Hingle, American actor and producer (died 2009)
Arthur Gardner Rankin Jr. was an American director, producer and screenwriter, who mostly worked in animation. Co-creator of Rankin/Bass Productions with his friend Jules Bass, he …
Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Lola Jean Albright was an American singer and actress, best known for playing the sultry singer Edie Hart, the girlfriend of private eye Peter Gunn, on all three seasons of the TV …
Lola Albright, American actress and singer (died 2017)
Morton Sanford Garson was a Canadian composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Mother Earth's…
Mort Garson, Canadian-American songwriter and composer (died 2008)
Robert D. Maurer was an American industrial physicist noted for his leadership in the invention of optical fiber.
Robert D. Maurer, American scientist and co-inventor of optical fiber (died 2025)
Jesse Donald Knotts was an American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife on the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, for which he earne…
Don Knotts, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (died 2006)
Thomas Louis Berger was an American novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn, Berger explored and manipulated ma…
Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (died 2014)
Margaret Eleanor Whiting was an American singer of popular music who gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s.
Margaret Whiting, American singer (died 2011)
Gavin Lambert was an English screenwriter, film critic, novelist and biographer. Described as "an incisive observer of life in Hollywood," his writing was mainly fiction and nonfic…
Gavin Lambert, English-American screenwriter and author (died 2005)
Gazanfer Bilge was a Turkish sports wrestler of Circassian descent who won the gold medal in the Featherweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1948 Olympics.
Gazanfer Bilge, Turkish wrestler (died 2008)
Wilfred Josephs was an English composer.
Wilfred Josephs, English composer (died 1997)