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Edward Thomas Adams was an American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and for coverage of 13 wars. He is best known for his photog…
Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (died 2004)
Joan Alexandra Molinsky, known professionally as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, producer, writer and television host. She was noted for her blunt, often controvers…
Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (died 2014)
Charles Leo Fairbanks was an American football coach who was a head coach at the high school, college and professional levels. He served as the head coach at the University of Okla…
Chuck Fairbanks, American football player and coach (died 2013)
Gene Wilder was an American actor, author, comedian, writer and filmmaker. He was mainly known for his comedic roles, including his collaborations with Mel Brooks on the films The …
Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2016)
Thomas Jeremy King, Baron King of Bridgwater, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1983 to 1992, and was the Member of Parliam…
Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
Sir Norman Lloyd-Edwards served as the Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan from 1990 to 2008.
Norman Lloyd-Edwards, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan
Jerzy Kosiński was a Polish-born American writer and two-time president of the American chapter of PEN, who wrote primarily in English.
Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (died 1991)
Vladislav Stepanovich Rastorotsky was a Soviet and Russian female artistic gymnastics coach, Honoured Trainer of the USSR, who worked at the Dynamo sports society. Sportswomen trai…
Vladislav Rastorotsky, Russian gymnast and coach (died 2017)
Mohammad-Ali Rajai was an Iranian politician who served as the second president of Iran from 2 August 1981 until his assassination four weeks later. Before his presidency, Rajai ha…
Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (died 1981)
Predrag Koraksić Corax was a Serbian political cartoonist.
Predrag Koraksić Corax, Serbian political caricaturist
Christian Ferras was a French violinist.
Christian Ferras, French violinist (died 1982)
Maurice Stokes was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Cincinnati/Rochester Royals of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1955 to 1958. Stokes …
Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (died 1970)
Colin James Brumby was an Australian composer and conductor.
Colin Brumby, Australian composer and conductor (died 2018)
Charles James Hunt was an American soul and northern soul singer, and a 2001 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee as a member of famed R&B group the Flamingos.
Tommy Hunt, American singer (died 2025)
Harry Edson Browne was an American writer, libertarian political activist, and investment advisor. He was the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee in the U.S. elections of 1996…
Harry Browne, American soldier and politician (died 2006)
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Saly…
Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (died 1971)
Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in numerous motion pictures, including The Godfather Part II (1974), The Front (1976), Once Upon a Time in America (1984)…
Danny Aiello, American actor (died 2019)
Claire Tomalin is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Claire Tomalin, English journalist and author
Bernard Morton Kopell is an American character actor known for his roles as Siegfried in Get Smart from 1966 to 1969 and as Dr. Adam Bricker ("Doc") on The Love Boat from 1977 to 1…
Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian
Dianne Emiel Feinstein was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she pre…
Dianne Feinstein, American politician (died 2023)
Robert Cecil Cole was a Canadian sports television announcer who worked for CBC and Sportsnet and a competitive curler. He was known primarily for his work on National Hockey Leagu…
Bob Cole, Canadian sports announcer (died 2024)
Samuel Jones was an American professional basketball player who was a shooting guard for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A five-time NBA All-Star, …
Sam Jones, American basketball player and coach (died 2021)
Ngìna Kenyatta, popularly known as "Mama Ngìna", is the former First Lady of Kenya. She is the widow of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta (~1889–1978), and mother of the fourt…
Ngina Kenyatta, 1st First Lady of Kenya
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza and in Portugal as Siza Vieira.
Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect, designed the Porto School of Architecture