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Beatrice "Sathima Bea" Benjamin was a South African vocalist and composer based in New York City for nearly 45 years.
Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Hiroo Kanamori is a Japanese seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them.
Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic
Santiago Navarro was a Spanish basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (died 1993)
Roberto Jose Dela Cruz Nievera was a Filipino-American singer and businessman. He rose to prominence in 1959 after winning the "Search for Johnny Mathis of the Philippines", a sing…
Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (died 2018)
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino was a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Havana from 1981 to 2016. He was appointed to the College of Cardinals in 1994, …
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (died 2019)
Anthony LoBianco was an American actor.
Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (died 2024)
Colonel John Nicholas Blashford-Snell is a former British Army officer, explorer and author. He founded Operation Raleigh and the Scientific Exploration Society.
John Blashford-Snell, English soldier, author, and explorer
James Luther Bevel was an American minister and a leader and major strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. As a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)…
James Bevel, American civil rights activist and minister (died 2008)
Sir Peter Cook is an English architect, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a founder of Archigram, and was knighted in 2007 by Elizabeth II for his services to a…
Peter Cook, English architect and academic
Jovan Pavlović was a Serbian Orthodox prelate who was the metropolitan bishop of Zagreb and Ljubljana of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1982 until his death in 2014. He was one o…
Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (died 2014)
Bobby Seale is an African American revolutionary, political activist, engineer, and author. Seale co-founded the Marxist–Leninist political and militant organization the Black Pant…
Bobby Seale, American political activist and author, co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Charles Albert Eric Goodhart, is a British economist. He worked at the Bank of England on its public policy from 1968 to 1985, and worked at the London School of Economics from 196…
Charles Goodhart, English economist and academic
Philip Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning nearly five decades. He has received numerous accolades including…
Philip Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Jüri Arrak was an Estonian painter, whose works with distinguished and recognizable style have won acclaim around the world.
Jüri Arrak, Estonian painter (died 2022)
James Henry “Jimmy” Dawkins was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He is generally considered to have been a practitioner of the "West Side sound" o…
Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (died 2013)
David Oswald Nelson was an American actor, producer and director. He was the older brother of musician Ricky Nelson.
David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (died 2011)
Sir Martin John Gilbert was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century…
Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (died 2015)
William George Wyman is an English musician who was the bassist of the rock band the Rolling Stones from 1962 to 1993. Wyman was part of the band's first stable lineup and performe…
Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
Arnfinn Nesset was a Norwegian nurse and nursing home manager who was a convicted serial killer. His crimes include the murders of at least 22 people, as well as attempted murder, …
Arnfinn Nesset, Norwegian nurse and convicted serial killer
Masako Nozawa is a Japanese actress. Beginning work as a child actress at the age of three, by the time she became an adult, voice acting had inadvertently become her main occupat…
Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and singer
Alvin Wayne Casey was an American guitarist. He was mainly known for his work as a session musician, but also released his own records and scored three Billboard Hot 100 hits in th…
Al Casey, American guitarist (died 2006)
Etelka Kenéz Heka, sometimes Etelka Heka was a Hungarian writer, poet and singer.
Etelka Kenéz Heka, Hungarian writer, poet and singer (died 2024)
Shelley Morrison was an American actress. Morrison was known for her role as maid Rosario Salazar in the NBC comedy Will & Grace, which she played from 1999 to 2006. She was also a…
Shelley Morrison, American actress (died 2019)
György Pauk was a Hungarian violinist, chamber musician and music pedagogue.
György Pauk, Hungarian violinist and educator