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Pope Shenouda III was the 117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. His papacy lasted 40 years, 4 months, and 4 days, from 14 November 1971 until his death in …
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (died 2012)
Chengara Veetil Devan Nair was a Singaporean union leader and politician who served as the third president of Singapore from 1981 until his resignation in 1985.
Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd President of Singapore (died 2005)
Jess Collins, known today simply as Jess, was an American visual artist.
Jess Collins, American painter (died 2004)
Paul Theodore Hellyer was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the longest serving member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his dea…
Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Defence (died 2021)
Francis William Doolittle was an American football player and coach. Doolittle attended high school in Mansfield, Ohio, where he was selected as an all-state quarterback in his sen…
Bill Doolittle, American football player and coach (died 2014)
Rhonda Fleming was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most glamor…
Rhonda Fleming, American actress (died 2020)
Frederick Ridgway was an English professional cricketer who played in five Test matches for the England cricket team on the 1951–52 tour of India. Ridgway played county cricket as …
Fred Ridgway, English cricketer and footballer (died 2015)
Sheikh Mohammed Sultan, popularly known as S M Sultan, was a Bengali decolonial artist who worked in painting and drawing. His fame rests on his striking depictions of exaggeratedl…
SM Sultan, Bangladeshi painter and illustrator (died 1994)
Stanley Holroyd "Stan" Chambers was an American television reporter who worked for KTLA in Los Angeles from 1947 to 2010.
Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (died 2015)
John Kenneth Constantine Holt, known as J. K. Holt junior, OD was a West Indian international cricketer who played in 17 Test matches between 1954 and 1959.
John Holt, Jamaican cricketer (died 1997)
Alice Margaret Ghostley was an American actress and singer on stage, film and television. Ghostley was best known for her roles as bumbling witch Esmeralda (1969–72) on Bewitched, …
Alice Ghostley, American actress (died 2007)
Rose Marie Guy, known professionally as Rose Marie, was an American actress, singer, comedienne, and vaudeville performer with a career spanning nine decades, which included film, …
Rose Marie, American actress and singer (died 2017)
Millôr Fernandes was a Brazilian writer, journalist, cartoonist, humorist and playwright. Born Milton Viola Fernandes, his birth was registered on May 27, 1924; the handwriting on …
Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian journalist and playwright (died 2012)
Carlos Cruz-Diez was a Franco-Venezuelan artist recognized within the kinetic art movement. He lived and worked in Paris from 1960 until his death. Cruz-Diez proposed conceiving co…
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist (died 2019)
Larry Rivers was an American painter, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the f…
Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (died 2002)
Katherine Victor was an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles in Ron Ormond's Mesa of Lost Women (1953) and a number of Jerry Warren's films. She was also known as Kat…
Katherine Victor, American actress (died 2004)[better source needed]
Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd was a British computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational data…
Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist, inventor of relational model of data (died 2003)
James Travis Reeves was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. One of the earliest pioneers and practitioners of the Nashville sound, he played a central role in the sonic d…
Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (died 1964)
Courtney Keith "Bingo" Allen was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and National Hockey League (NHL) head coach and general manager. He played 28 games in the NHL for th…
Keith Allen, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2014)
Arthur Robert Jensen was an American psychologist and writer. He was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen was known for his work …
Arthur Jensen, American psychologist and academic (died 2012)
Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, which revolves around th…
Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (died 2013)
Allyre Louis Joseph Sirois was a Canadian fransaskois judge of the Court of the Queen's Bench in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Allyre Sirois, Canadian lawyer and judge (died 2012)
Wolfgang Sawallisch was a German conductor and pianist.
Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (died 2013)
James Radcliffe Greenhalgh was an English football player and manager. He played as a wing half and made nearly 300 appearances in the Football League for Hull City, Bury and Gilli…
Jimmy Greenhalgh, English footballer and manager (died 2013)