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Ernest Jackson Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior was a British microbiologist and parasitologist. In 1990 he was made a Conservative life peer and sat in the House of…
Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, English microbiologist and parasitologist (died 2017)
Magda Herzberger, was a Romanian-born author, poet, lecturer, and composer. Herzberger was a survivor of the Auschwitz, Bremen, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Her book Surv…
Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust (died 2021)
Annette Mbaye d’Erneville is a Senegalese writer. She is the mother of filmmaker Ousmane William Mbaye, and was the subject of his 2008 documentary film, Mère-Bi.
Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, Senegalese writer
Arnaldo Pomodoro was an Italian sculptor based in Milan. His signature works are Sphere Within Sphere, bronze spheres with smooth exterior and broken interiors. They are displayed …
Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor (died 2025)
Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author. She is regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century. In 1963, she was nominated for the …
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (died 1973)
Keppel Earl Enderby was an Australian politician and judge. Enderby was a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Australian Labor Party between 1970 and 1975 and …
Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (died 2015)
Stig Oskar Sollander was a Swedish alpine skier who competed in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics. He had his best results in the slalom, finishing fifth in 1952 and winning …
Stig Sollander, Swedish Alpine skier (died 2019)
Kenneth Clayton Baker was an American fiddle player best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe and his group The Blue Grass Boys.
Kenny Baker, American fiddler (died 2011)
Mahendra Bhatnagar was an Indian Hindi and English poet. He is seen as one of the significant post-independence voices in his field of poetry, who expressed lyricism and pathos, as…
Mahendra Bhatnagar, Indian poet (died 2020)
Fernando Rafael Mönckeberg Barros is a Chilean surgeon, doctor of medicine specializing in nutrition, professor, researcher, and economist at the University of Chile. He is the fou…
Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Chilean surgeon
Gabriel Toma Nicolae Constantin "Dinu" Zamfirescu is a Romanian politician, former political prisoner during Communism, BBC reporter, human rights activist, researcher of Communist…
Dinu Zamfirescu, Romanian politician
George Booth was an American cartoonist who worked for The New Yorker magazine. His cartoons usually featured an older everyman, everywoman, or everycouple beset by modern complexi…
George Booth, American cartoonist (died 2022)
Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a vari…
Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Robert Steven Ledley, professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, pioneered the use of electronic digital compute…
Robert Ledley, American academic and inventor (died 2012)
Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, also known as Jaber III, was the Emir of Kuwait from 31 December 1977 until his death in 2006. The 13th ruler in his family's dynasty, Jabe…
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (died 2006)
Julius Wesley Becton Jr. was a United States Army lieutenant general, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and education administrator. He served as Commandi…
Julius W
Roger Stuart Bacon was a Canadian politician who served as the 21st premier of Nova Scotia from 1990 to 1991.
Roger Stuart Bacon, Nova Scotia politician (died 2021)
Robert Morris Morgan was an American professional baseball infielder. He played eight seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1950 and 1958 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Philade…
Bobby Morgan, American professional baseball player (died 2023)
Paul Berg was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University. He received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic…
Paul Berg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguis…
Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Carl Horst Hahn was a German businessman and head of the Volkswagen Group from 1982 to 1993. He served as the chairman of the board of management of the parent company, Volkswagen …
Carl Hahn, German businessman (died 2023)
Mohamed Abshir Muse ; 1 July 1926 – 25 October 2017), also known as Mahamed Abshir Haamaan, was a prominent Somali General and the first Commander of the Somali Police Force.
Mohamed Abshir Muse, Somali general (died 2017)
Hans Werner Henze was a German composer. His large oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Neoclassicism, Italian music, Arabic music a…
Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (died 2012)
Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.
Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (died 2007)