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Wallace Clayton "Wah Wah" Jones was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1949 to 1952 with the Indianapolis Olymp…
Wallace Jones, American basketball player and coach (died 2014)
Harry Dean Stanton was an American actor and musician. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films including Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kel…
Harry Dean Stanton, American actor, musician, and singer (died 2017)
Himayat Ali Shair was an Urdu poet, writer, film songwriter, actor and radio drama artist from Pakistan.
Himayat Ali Shair, Urdu poet (died 2019)
Driss Chraïbi was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often perceived as semi-autobiogra…
Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan-French journalist and author (died 2007)
Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli was an Argentine military officer who held power as the de facto President of Argentina from December 1981 to June 1982. Galtieri ruled as a mi…
Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (died 2003)
Raymond George Gosling was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. The crystall…
Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (died 2015)
Sir John Alexander Noble Graham, 4th Baronet, was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Iraq, Iran and NATO.
Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (died 2019)
Ivan "Ivica" Horvat was a Croatian and Yugoslav professional football player and manager.
Ivica Horvat, Croatian footballer and manager (died 2012)
Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated…
Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
Édouard Ignacz Weiczorkiewicz, better known by his ring name Édouard Carpentier, was a French and Canadian professional wrestler, gymnast, and member of the French Resistance durin…
Édouard Carpentier, French-Canadian wrestler (died 2010)
Willis Allison Carto was an American far-right political activist. He described himself as a Jeffersonian and a populist, but was primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic c…
Willis Carto, American activist and theorist (died 2015)
Jean Margaret Laurence was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canad…
Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (died 1987)
Nita Gale Bieber was an American actress and dancer.
Nita Bieber, American actress (died 2019)
Bernard Pons was a French politician and medical doctor who was a member of the Union of Democrats for the Republic from 1971 to 1976 and a member of the Rally for the Republic par…
Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor (died 2022)
Maunu Kurkvaara was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. Kurkvaara has been widely regarded as the initiator of the "new wave" of Finnish cinema in the spirit of French New Wa…
Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter (died 2023)
Elizabeth Joan Jennings was a British poet. She won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1955 for her second poetry collection, A Way of Looking.
Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (died 2001)
Helen Gallagher was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She received three Daytime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Donaldson Award, and a Drama Desk Award.
Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2024)
Paul Raymond Burke was an American actor, best known for his lead roles in two 1960s ABC television series, Naked City and 12 O'Clock High. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award…
Paul Burke, American actor (died 2009)
Rahimuddin Khan was a Pakistani four-star general who served as the fourth Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Pakistan Army from 1984 to 1987. He also served as the se…
Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 7th Governor of Balochistan (died 2022)
William Desmond Anthony Pertwee was an English actor. He played Chief ARP Warden Hodges in Dad's Army and P.C. Wilson in You Rang, M'Lord?.
Bill Pertwee, English actor (died 2013)
Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known fi…
Karel Reisz, Czech-English director and producer (died 2002)
Bryan Forbes was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man" and "one of the most important figures in the British fi…
Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
Wolfgang Iser was a German literary scholar.
Wolfgang Iser, German scholar, literary theorist (died 2007)
Ludvík Vaculík was a Czech writer and journalist. He was born in Brumov, Moravian Wallachia. A prominent samizdat writer, he was best known as the author of the "Two Thousand Words…
Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author (died 2015)