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Derek Shackleton was a Hampshire and England bowler. He took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket, but only played in seven Tests for England. He has t…
Derek Shackleton, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 2007)
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was a Pakistani general who ruled Pakistan from his coup in 1977 until his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He served as the chief martial law administrator …
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (died 1988)
Sverre Fehn was a Norwegian architect.
Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum (died 2009)
Georges Prêtre was a French orchestral and opera conductor.
Georges Prêtre, French conductor (died 2017)
Robert Oxton Bolt was an English playwright and a screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two …
Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (died 1995)
Hedy Epstein was a German-born Jewish-American political activist and Holocaust survivor known for her support of the Palestinian cause through the International Solidarity Movemen…
Hedy Epstein, German-American Holocaust survivor and activist (died 2016)
Phyllis Stewart Schlafly was an American attorney and activist who was nationally prominent in conservatism. She opposed feminism, gay rights, and abortion, and campaigned against …
Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist (died 2016)
Fess Elisha Parker Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of the title characters in Walt Disney Productions' television miniseries Davy Crocke…
Fess Parker, American actor (died 2010)
Yoshirō Muraki was a Japanese production designer, art director, and costume designer. Muraki joined Toho Film studio in 1944. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award f…
Yoshirō Muraki, Japanese production designer, art director, and fashion designer (died 2009)
Inez Ferne Voyce, nicknamed Lefty, was a first basewoman who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5' 6", 148 lb.…
Inez Voyce, American baseball player (died 2022)
Evan Shelby Connell Jr. was a U.S. novelist, short-story writer, essayist and author of epic historical works. He published under the name Evan S. Connell Jr.
Evan S. Connell, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (died 2013)
Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device…
Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)
William Horace Marshall was an American actor, director and opera singer. He played the title role in the 1972 blaxploitation classic Blacula and its 1973 sequel Scream Blacula Scr…
William Marshall, American actor, director, and opera singer (died 2003)
George Zuverink was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of eight Major League Baseball seasons with the Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Redlegs, …
George Zuverink, American baseball player (died 2014)
John Francis Buck was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals. His play-by-play work earned him recognit…
Jack Buck, American sportscaster (died 2002)
Jack Weston was an American actor. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1976 and a Tony Award in 1981.
Jack Weston, American actor (died 1996)
James Kirkwood Jr. was an American playwright, author and actor. In 1976 he received the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize …
James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (died 1989)
Harishankar Parsai was an Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He was a noted satirist and humorist of modern Hindi literature and is known for his simple and direct style. He wrote v…
Harishankar Parsai, Indian writer, satirist and humorist (died 1995)
Ephraim Kishon was a Hungarian-born Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director. He was one of the most widely read contemporary satirists in Israel …
Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (died 2005)
Robert Merton Solow, GCIH was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial P…
Robert Solow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
Alyn Ainsworth was a British musician, singer and conductor of light entertainment music.
Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and conductor (died 1990)
Marie-Madeleine Riffaud was a French Resistance fighter, poet, journalist and war correspondent. After active resistance to the German occupation of France during World War II, she…
Madeleine Riffaud, French poet, journalist and Resistance member (died 2024)
Louis Milton Teicher was an American piano player, half of the piano duo Ferrante & Teicher.
Louis Teicher, American pianist (died 2008)
Zsuzsa Körmöczy was a Hungarian tennis player. She reached a career high of World No. 2 in women's tennis, and won the 1958 French Open at the age of 33.
Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach (died 2006)