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Michael Deeley is a British film producer. He is known for producing films such as The Italian Job (1969), The Deer Hunter (1978), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and…
Michael Deeley, English screenwriter and producer
Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.
Howard Hodgkin, English painter (died 2017)
Charles Gerald Wood was an English playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film.
Charles Wood, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2020)
Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold med…
Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (died 1973)
Edward Cedric Hardwicke was an English actor who had a career on the stage and on-screen. He was best known for playing Captain Pat Grant in Colditz (1972–73), and Dr. Watson in Gr…
Edward Hardwicke, English actor (died 2011)
Rien Poortvliet was a Dutch artist and illustrator.
Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (died 1995)
Maurice F. Rabb Jr. was an American ophthalmologist. He is widely known for his pioneering work in cornea and retinal vascular diseases.
Maurice Rabb Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (died 2005)
Lonnie Melvin Tillis was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the …
Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)
Sir Thomas Dalyell, 11th Baronet, known as Tam Dalyell, was a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Linlithgow from 1962 to 2005. A member of the Labour P…
Tam Dalyell, Scottish academic and politician (died 2017)
John Howard Gomery was a Canadian jurist from Quebec. He was a Justice of the Quebec Superior Court from 1982 to 2007, and appointed Commissioner for the Royal Commission investiga…
John Gomery, Canadian lawyer and jurist (died 2021)
Peter Alexander Goehr was a German-born English composer of contemporary classical music and academic teacher. A long-time professor of music at the University of Cambridge, Goehr …
Alexander Goehr, English composer and academic (died 2024)
Gaudencio Borbón Rosales, also known as Lolo Dency, is a Filipino Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Manila, from 2003 to 2011. He was made a cardinal in 2006.
Gaudencio Rosales, Filipino cardinal
Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Ar…
Fernando Arrabal, Spanish actor, director, and playwright
Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper was a Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate. He was the founder and owner of the now-defunct TV and media company CanWest Global Communications Corp and …
Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician, founded Canwest (died 2003)
Sir Geoffrey Arthur Cass MA (Oxford), MA (Cambridge), CCMI, HonFInstD. Chairman of the Royal Theatrical Support Trust. Spent twenty years as chief executive of Cambridge University…
Geoffrey Cass, English businessman
Peter David Eisenman is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his high modernist and deconstructive designs, as well as for his authorsh…
Peter Eisenman, American architect, designed the City of Culture of Galicia
John Summer Gorrie is an English director and screenwriter. He began his career as an actor, but in early 1963 he completed the BBC's directors' course. His first assignments as a …
John Gorrie, English director and screenwriter
Dallin Harris Oaks is an American religious leader and former jurist who is the eighteenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as the first coun…
Dallin H. Oaks, American lawyer, jurist, and religious leader
Charles John O'Donnell was an American radio and television announcer, primarily known for his work on game shows, and for his distinctive baritone voice. Among them, he was best k…
Charlie O'Donnell, American radio and television announcer (died 2010)
Sirikit was Queen of Thailand from 28 April 1950 to 13 October 2016 as the wife and distant cousin of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Sirikit, Queen mother of Thailand (died 2025)
Shirley Bell Hoffman (1932–2007) was an American science fiction fan, an editor of early folk music fanzines, and an author of science fiction, Western and romance novels. She wrot…
Lee Hoffman, American author (died 2007)
Gladys Marlene Wasden, known professionally as Abby Dalton, was an American actress, known for her television roles on the sitcoms Hennesey (1959–1962) and The Joey Bishop Show (19…
Abby Dalton, American actress (died 2020)
Robert Lull Forward was an American physicist and science fiction writer. His literary work was noted for its scientific credibility and use of ideas developed from his career as a…
Robert L. Forward, American physicist and engineer (died 2002)
James John Lange was an American game show host and disc jockey. He was known to listeners in the San Francisco and Los Angeles radio markets with stints at several stations in bot…
Jim Lange, American game show host and DJ (died 2014)