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Barbara Frum, OC was an American-born Canadian radio and television journalist, acclaimed for her interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Barbara Frum, American-Canadian journalist (died 1992)
Oleg Ivanovich Lobov was a Russian politician who served as acting First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic from 19 Apri…
Oleg Lobov, Russian politician, Premier of the Russian SFSR (died 2018)
Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is known for his Warren and Marvel Comic…
Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (died 1998)
Leslie Herbert Wexner is an American billionaire businessman and political activist. He is the co-founder and chair emeritus of Bath & Body Works, Inc. He has been the principal in…
Les Wexner, American businessman
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997…
Jared Diamond, American biologist, geographer, and author
Thomas Cary Overstreet was an American country music singer. Often referred to as "T.O." by fans and radio disc jockeys, Overstreet had five top-five hit singles in the Billboard c…
Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as pilot of STS-1 in April…
Robert Crippen, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Paola Margherita Maria-Antonia Consiglia dei Principi Ruffo di Calabria is a member of the Belgian royal family who was Queen of the Belgians during the reign of her husband, King …
Queen Paola of Belgium
George Louis Chuvalo is a Canadian former professional boxer who was a five-time Canadian heavyweight champion and two-time world heavyweight title challenger. He is famous for hav…
George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
Renzo Piano is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the W…
Renzo Piano, Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building
Michael Conrad "Joey" Carew was a West Indian cricketer who played in 19 Tests from 1963 to 1972.
Joey Carew, Trinidadian cricketer (died 2011)
Fernando de la Rúa was an Argentine politician who served as the President of Argentina from 1999 until his resignation in 2001. A member of the Radical Civic Union, he previously …
Fernando de la Rúa, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (died 2019)
Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia controlling his Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. The Mafia killed him on h…
Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (died 1993)
Sir Wesley Winfield Hall is a Barbadian former cricketer and politician. A tall, strong and powerfully built man, Hall was a genuine fast bowler and despite his very long run up, h…
Wes Hall, Barbadian cricketer and politician
Donald Virgil Bluth is an American filmmaker, animator, video game designer and author. He came to prominence working for Walt Disney Productions before creating his own film studi…
Don Bluth, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios
Curtis Piehu Iaukea III was an American professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional U.S. promotions, both as…
King Curtis Iaukea, American wrestler (died 2010)
Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. was an American economist at the University of Chicago. Widely regarded as the central figure in the development of the new classical approach to macroecon…
Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Medved was a Ukrainian-born Soviet Belarusian freestyle wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union and was named "one of the greatest wrestlers in history" by…
Aleksandr Medved, Russian wrestler (died 2024)
Vincent Joseph Naimoli was an American businessman, and the first owner of the Major League Baseball team the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Vince Naimoli, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2019)
Nigel Boocock was a motorcycle speedway rider from England. who appeared in eight Speedway World Championship finals. He holds the record number of caps for Great Britain (64) and …
Nigel Boocock, English-Australian motorcycle racer (died 2015)
Orlando Manuel Cepeda Pennes, nicknamed "the Baby Bull" and "Peruchin", was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) a…
Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player (died 2024)
Sitakant Mahapatra is an Indian poet and literary critic in Odia as well as English. He served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1961 until he retired in 1995, and ha…
Sitakant Mahapatra, Indian poet and literary critic
Rut Birgitta Dahl was a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. Dahl was a Member of Parliament from 1969 to 2002. She served as Minister for Energy from 1982 to 1990, a…
Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for the Environment
Ralph Gerald Backstrom was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and later a coach, entrepreneur and hockey executive. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal…
Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2021)