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Leslie Samuel Phillips was an English actor. He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases. He app…
Leslie Phillips, English actor and producer (died 2022)
Bror Ingemar Ture Johansson was a Swedish race walker who won a silver medal in the 10 km at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was also an accomplished speed skater.
Ingemar Johansson, Swedish race walker (died 2009)
Franco Mannino was an Italian film composer, pianist, opera director, playwright and novelist.
Franco Mannino, Italian pianist, composer, director, and playwright (died 2005)
Paulo Emilio Vanzolini was a Brazilian scientist and music composer. He was best known for his samba compositions, including the famous "Ronda", "Volta por Cima", and "Boca da Noit…
Paulo Vanzolini, Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (died 2013)
Harris Browning 'Brownie' Ross is often referred to as the father of long-distance running in the United States.
Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (died 1998)
Vernon Bradford Romney was an American lawyer who served as the attorney general of Utah from 1969 to 1977, and the Republican candidate for Governor of Utah in 1976. He was a memb…
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Richard Bache Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silve…
Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (died 2014)
Margrethe Blossom Dearie was an American jazz singer and pianist. She had a distinctive light and girlish voice. Dearie performed regular engagements in London and New York City ov…
Blossom Dearie, American singer and pianist (died 2009)
Renée Marcelle "Zizi" Jeanmaire was a French ballet dancer, actress and singer. She became famous in the 1950s after playing the title role in the ballet Carmen, produced in London…
Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballerina and actress (died 2020)
Sheldon Mayer Harnick was an American lyricist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as Fiorello!, She Loves Me, and Fiddler on…
Sheldon Harnick, American lyricist (died 2023)
Uno Laht, was an Estonian writer and poet who wrote about the characteristics of everyday Soviet life in poetry. Laht was also a NKVD officer who participated in arrests and deport…
Uno Laht, Estonian KGB officer and author (died 2008)
Kenneth Kaunda, also known as KK, was a Zambian politician who served as the first president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991. He was at the forefront of the campaign for independence f…
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (died 2021)
Evelyn Boyd Granville was an American mathematician and computer scientist. She was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American university;…
Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (died 2023)
Terry Southern was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in …
Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter (died 1995)
Theodore Meir Bikel was an Austrian-American actor, singer, and political activist.
Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2015)
Sir Arthur Henry Hugh Cortazzi, was a British diplomat. He was also a distinguished international businessman, academic, author and prominent Japanologist. He was Ambassador from t…
Hugh Cortazzi, English soldier, historian, and diplomat, British Ambassador to Japan (died 2018)
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew in modern times. Yehuda Amichai, the poet of everyday life, love, and death, is the mo…
Yehuda Amichai, German-Israeli author and poet (died 2000)
Robert Kenneth Tyrrell was a British Formula Two racing driver and the founder of the Tyrrell Formula One constructor.
Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver, founded Tyrrell Racing (died 2001)
Nestor Basterretxea Arzadun was a Basque artist, born in Bermeo, Biscay, Basque Country. In the 1950s and 1960s, he spearheaded along with other artists such as Jorge Oteiza, Remig…
Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 2014)
Patricia Helen Lawford was an American socialite. She was a sister of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy, as well as a sister-in-law of J…
Patricia Helen Kennedy, American socialite, activist, and author (died 2006)
Antony Hewish was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Ro…
Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
Anthony John Hancock was an English comedian and actor.
Tony Hancock, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 1968)
Harry Heinz Schwarz was a South African lawyer, statesman, and long-time political opposition leader against apartheid in South Africa who eventually served as the South African Am…
Harry Schwarz, South African anti-apartheid leader, lawyer, and Ambassador (died 2010)
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet …
Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (died 1997)