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Gale Eugene Sayers was an American professional football halfback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL). Sayers played for the Chicago Bears from 1965 to 1971…
Gale Sayers, American football player and philanthropist (died 2020)
Sharon Marguerite Gless is an American actress known for her television roles. She portrayed Maggie Philbin on Switch (1975–1978), Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police procedural dr…
Sharon Gless, American actress
Joseph William Namath is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, pr…
Joe Namath, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
Orietta Galimberti, known professionally as Orietta Berti, is an Italian folk-pop singer and television personality.
Orietta Berti, Italian singer and actress
Richard Goode is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven.
Richard Goode, American pianist
Anthony Lorraine "Lorrie" Wilmot was a South African first-class cricketer from Cape Province who played from 1960–61 to 1988–89.
Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (died 2004)
Ivi Eenmaa is an Estonian politician.
Ivi Eenmaa, Estonian politician, 36th Mayor of Tallinn
Charles Maurice Haid III is an American actor and television director, with notable work in both movies and television. He is best known for his portrayal of Officer Andy Renko in …
Charles Haid, American actor and director
Crescenzio Sepe is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Naples from 2006 to 2020. He served in the Roman Curia as Prefect of the Congregation for t…
Crescenzio Sepe, Italian cardinal
William John Cunningham is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who was nicknamed the Kangaroo Kid for his leaping and record-setting rebounding abilities. …
Billy Cunningham, American basketball player and coach
John Richard Burgess is an Australian radio and television personality and host. He is often referred to as "Burgo" and sometimes "Baby John Burgess" or "Baby John", nicknames deri…
John Burgess, Australian radio and television host
Sandra Jane Haynie is an American former professional golfer on the LPGA Tour starting in 1961. She won four major championships, 42 LPGA Tour career events, and is a member of the…
Sandra Haynie, American golfer
Tom Jaine is a former restaurateur, a food writer and former publisher of Prospect Books.
Tom Jaine, English author
Isoroku Yamamoto was an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II. He commanded the fleet from 1939 until his death i…
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (born 1884)
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art The…
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright (born 1858)
Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist, who settled in the United States. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develo…
Joseph Achron, Russian composer and violinist (born 1886)
Ricardo Viñes y Roda was a Spanish pianist. He gave the premieres of various works by Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Falla and Albéniz. He was the piano teacher of the composer Francis Pou…
Ricardo Viñes, Spanish pianist (born 1875)
Eddy Hamel was an American soccer player who played as a right winger for Dutch club AFC Ajax. Hamel was the first Jewish player for Ajax. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1943 in A…
Eddy Hamel, American footballer (born 1902)
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar…
Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist and academic (born 1860)
Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, was an English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and play…
Beatrice Webb, English sociologist and economist (born 1858)
Johan Oscar Smith was a Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical non-denominational fellowship now known as Brunstad Christian Church.
Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (born 1871)
Harold Arminius Miller, commonly called Harry, was an American race car designer and builder who was most active in the 1920s and 1930s. Griffith Borgeson called him "the greatest …
Harry Miller, American engineer (born 1875)
Ali Fethi Okyar was a Turkish diplomat and politician, who also served as a military officer and diplomat during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. He was also the second Prime…
Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1880)
Mordechai Anielewicz was the Polish leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. …
Mordechai Anielewicz, Polish commander (born 1919)