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Richard Anthony Sterban is an American singer. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. In 1972, he joined the country and gospel quartet the Oak Ridge Boys, in which he sings bass.
Richard Sterban, American country and gospel bass singer
Gordon West was an English professional football goalkeeper. He won three international caps in a career that included a long stint at Everton.
Gordon West, English footballer (died 2012)
Anthony Fitzgerald, known professionally as Tony Christie, is an English musician and singer. He found prominence in the early 1970s with successful singles including "Las Vegas", …
Tony Christie, English singer-songwriter and actor
Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist. Though managing a relatively small firm and not being a prolific architect, …
Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals
Helmut Marko is an Austrian former racing driver and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One at 10 Grands Prix from 1971 to 1972. In endurance racing, Marko won the 24 Hou…
Helmut Marko, Austrian race car driver and manager
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as the General Secretary of the Co…
Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered ar…
The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwit
BOAC Flight 777 was a KLM flight scheduled as a British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal to Whitchurch Airport near Bri…
BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and le
Los Angeles (LA) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3.87 millio…
In Los Angeles, California, white U
The 1943 Argentine Revolution was a coup d'état on 4 June 1943 that ended the government of Ramón Castillo, who had been fraudulently elected to the office of vice-president befor…
A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo
Aryeh Bibi is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima between 2009 and 2013.
Aryeh Bibi, Iraqi-born Israeli politician
Duane David Allen is an American singer and songwriter, who had formal training in both operatic and quartet singing before becoming a member of the Oak Ridge Boys in 1966. Allen i…
Duane Allen, American country singer
Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. As general secretary of SOGAT from 1985 until 1991, she was "the first wo…
Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, English union leader and politician (died 2018)
Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE is a British academic, bioethicist and politician, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), from 1994 t…
Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech, English lawyer and academic
Richard Allen Epstein is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is t…
Richard Allen Epstein, American lawyer, author, and academic
Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemp…
Janet Evanovich, American author
Gail Charles Goodrich Jr. is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is best known for scoring a then record 42 points fo…
Gail Goodrich, American basketball player and coach
Gary Malcolm Wright was an American musician and composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive". Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975)…
Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2023)
Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba was a Zambian politician who was the second president of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presid…
Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (died 2011)
Robert Thomas Velline, known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine,…
Bobby Vee, American pop singer-songwriter (died 2016)
James Elroy Risch is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served as lieu…
Jim Risch, American lawyer and politician, 31st Governor of Idaho
Georgi Asparuhov Rangelov, nicknamed Gundi, was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker.
Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (died 1971)
Sir Michael Edward Palin is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2013…
Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter
Ignacio Ramonet Miguez is a Spanish academic, journalist, and writer who has been based in Paris for much of his career. After becoming first known for writing on film and media, h…
Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and author