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Isa bin Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa was a Bahraini royal who served as the first Emir of Bahrain from 1961 until his death in 1999.
Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahranian king (died 1999)
Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal is an Austrian-born Australian research biologist. He is famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological toleranc…
Gustav Nossal, Austrian-Australian biologist and academic
Yves Blais was a politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. He served in National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 to 1998 as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ).
Yves Blais, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1998)
Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.…
Jacques Demy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1990)
Jerzy Prokopiuk was a Polish anthroposophist, gnostic, philosopher, and translator of literature, born in Warsaw. He translated into Polish works written by Aldous Huxley, Rudolf S…
Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish anthropologist and philosopher (died 2021)
Richard Eugene Hickock was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman …
Richard Hickock, American convicted murderer (died 1965)
Dame Virginia Anne McKenna is a British actress. She is best known for the films The Cruel Sea (1953), A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966),…
Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
Jackie Mason was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2021)
Nandini Satpathy was an Indian politician and author. She was the Chief Minister of Odisha from June 1972 to December 1976.
Nandini Satpathy, Indian author and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Odisha (died 2006)
Dana Wynter was a German-born British actress who was raised in the United Kingdom and southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the…
Dana Wynter, British actress (died 2011)
William Charles Virdon was an American professional baseball outfielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). Virdon played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pit…
Bill Virdon, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Sir Bryan Cartledge, is a former British diplomat and academic.
Bryan Cartledge, English academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia
João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto, was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late…
João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
Rodney William Whitaker was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved bestsell…
Trevanian, American author and scholar (died 2005)
Rona Jaffe was an American novelist who published numerous works from 1958 to 2003. During the 1960s, she also wrote cultural pieces for Cosmopolitan.
Rona Jaffe, American novelist (died 2005)
Nora Kovach was a Hungarian ballerina who defected in 1953 together with her husband and fellow ballet dancer Istvan Rabovsky, the first highly publicized defection of individuals …
Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (died 2009)
Philip Reed Scowen was a Canadian business executive, author and politician, living in Quebec.
Reed Scowen, Canadian politician (died 2020)
Irvin David Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.
Irvin D
Marla Gibbs is an American actress, singer, comedian, writer, and television producer whose career spans seven decades. She is known for her role as George Jefferson's maid, Floren…
Marla Gibbs, American actress and comedian
Ross Higgins was an Australian vaudevillian, character actor, television host, comedian, singer and voice actor. He was best known for his role as Ted Bullpitt in the 1980s televis…
Ross Higgins, Australian actor (died 2016)
Autry DeWalt Mixon Jr., known professionally as Junior Walker, was an American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who recorded for Motown during the 1960s. He also performed as a s…
Junior Walker, American saxophonist (died 1995)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Joseph Alfred Gilbert, is a former Royal Air Force officer who served as Deputy Commander of Strike Command from 1984 to 1986.
Joseph Gilbert, English air marshal
John Anthony Baldessari was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, Ca…
John Baldessari, American painter and illustrator (died 2020)
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, also known by his initials FHC, is a Brazilian sociologist, professor, and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 1…
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian sociologist, academic, and politician, 34th President of Brazil