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Gloria Pearl Katz was an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for her association with film director George Lucas.
Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and producer (died 2018)
SmileyWorld Limited, trading as The Smiley Company, is a brand licensing company based in London, United Kingdom. It claims to hold the rights to the smiley face in over 100 countr…
Franklin Loufrani, French President of the Smiley Company
Robert William Hoskins was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making …
Bob Hoskins, English actor, singer, and director (died 2014)
Milton Silva Campos do Nascimento, also known as Bituca, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Milton Nascimento, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Zdenko Runjić was a Croatian songwriter. His career spanned decades in the former Yugoslavia and Croatia.
Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (died 2004)
Jonathan James Williams was a British racing driver.
Jonathan Williams, English race car driver and pilot (died 2014)
Melvin Lee Greenwood is an American country music singer. Active since 1962, he won a Grammy Award and has had 33 singles chart on the Hot Country Songs with seven singles reaching…
Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter
Abdelkader Benfréha, known more commonly as Abdelkader Fréha, was an Algerian footballer who played nine times for the Algerian national team. He was nicknamed Béka or Head of gold…
Abdelkader Fréha, Algerian footballer (died 2012)
Gillian Lovegrove is a retired computer scientist and academic. She was Dean of the School of Informatics at Northumbria University, president of the Conference of Professors and H…
Gillian Lovegrove, English computer scientist and academic
Cornelis Arie "Kees" Verkerk is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.
Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
Lee Clayton was an American songwriter and musician. He notably wrote Waylon Jennings' 1972 outlaw country song "Ladies Love Outlaws".
Lee Clayton, American rock/country musician and songwriter (died 2023)
Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke, also known by his initials JKM or simply as Korwin, is a Polish politician and author. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2018.…
Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician
Terence Patrick Donovan was an Australian actor of stage, television and film. Donovan is perhaps known to audiences for his roles in the Australian police dramas Division 4 and Co…
Terence Donovan, English-Australian actor (died 2026)
Robert Norman Ross was an American painter and art instructor who created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in…
Bob Ross, American painter and television host (died 1995)
Sven-David Sandström was a Swedish classical composer of operas, oratorios, ballets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works.
Sven-David Sandström, Swedish composer and historian (died 2019)
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was princess consort of Hohenlohe-Langenburg from her husband Ernst II's accession as prince in 1913 until her death in 1942. The fourth…
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1878)
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phen…
Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870)
Aleksander Mitt was an Estonian speed skater who competed at the 1928 and 1936 Winter Olympics.
Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (born 1903)
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent soci…
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b
Jüri Jaakson was an Estonian lawyer and statesman.
Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, 6th State Elder of Estonia (born 1870)
Lucy Maud Montgomery, published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of G…
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (born 1874)
Thorvald August Marinus Stauning was the first social democratic prime minister of Denmark. He served as prime minister from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1929 until his death in 194…
Thorvald Stauning, Danish politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1873)
Qemal Stafa was an Albanian politician and one of the founding members of the Albanian Communist Party, and the leader of its youth section.
Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (born 1920)