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Jonah J. "Bud" Greenspan was an American film director, writer, and producer known for his sports documentaries.
Bud Greenspan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)
Joseph Kubert was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and H…
Joe Kubert, American author and illustrator, founded The Kubert School (died 2012)
Victoria Ivanovna Barbă was a Moldovan animated film director, focused on movies for children. Having been born in modern Russia, she studied in Saint Petersburg and then in Chișin…
Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (died 2020)
Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in …
Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
Louis James Lipton was an American writer, actor, talk show host, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the executive prod…
James Lipton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2020)
Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider, nicknamed "the Duke of Flatbush", was an American professional baseball player. Primarily a center fielder, he spent most of his Major League Baseball (…
Duke Snider, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2011)
Margarita Andrey was a Spanish film actress. She appeared in a number of female lead roles during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Margarita Andrey, Spanish actress (died 2026)
Libero Liberati was an Italian former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1952 to 1959, most prominentl…
Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (died 1962)
Carmen Petra Basacopol was a Romanian composer, pianist, musicologist and academic teacher. She taught at the National University of Music Bucharest, between 1962 and 2003, and at …
Carmen Petra Basacopol, Romanian composer, pianist and musicologist (died 2023)
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov or Tschuprov was a Russian statistician who worked on mathematical statistics, sample survey theory and demography.
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (born 1874)
Elizabeth Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, and is the earliest known Black p…
Bessie Coleman, American pilot (born 1892)
Libert H. Boeynaems, formally Libert Hubert John Louis Boeynaems was a Belgian Catholic priest who served as the fourth vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian I…
Libert H
Joseph James Fletcher was an Australian biologist, winner of the 1921 Clarke Medal.
Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (born 1850)
Mehmed VI Vahideddin, also known as Şahbaba among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman caliph, reigning from 4 July 1918 unti…
Mehmed VI, the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1861)
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist lar…
Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (born 1886)
Symon Vasyliovych Petliura was a Ukrainian revolutionary, politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People'…
Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (born 1879)
Srečko Kosovel was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets. He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region, a political po…
Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (born 1904)
Vladimir Andreevich Steklov was a prominent Russian and Soviet mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1864)
Frederick Robert Spofforth, also known as "The Demon Bowler", was an Australian cricket team pace bowler of the nineteenth century. He was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets,…
Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and coach (born 1853)
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with mos…
Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (born 1852)
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas…
Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (born 1843)
Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.
Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Hellenes (born 1851)
Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosu…
Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (born 1857)
Pier Giorgio Frassati was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable org…
Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (born 1901)