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Edward Montgomery Clift was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men", according to The New York Times.
Montgomery Clift, American actor (born 1920)
Anthony David Lema was an American professional golfer who rose to fame in the mid-1960s and won a major title, the 1964 Open Championship at the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotla…
Tony Lema, American golfer (born 1934)
Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is …
Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic (born 1926)
Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi was a Nigerian military officer who served as the first military dictator and head of state of Nigeria. He seized power during the ensuing ch…
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian general and politician, 2nd Head of State of Nigeria (born 1924)
Francis Adekunle Fajuyi was a Nigerian soldier of Yoruba origin and the first military governor of the former Western Region, Nigeria.
Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian colonel (born 1926)
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, Powell's application of …
Bud Powell, American pianist (born 1924)
Charles Joseph Whitman was an American mass murderer who committed the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, one of the first mass shootings in modern American history to receiv…
Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (born 1941)
Leonard Alfred Schneider, better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, a…
Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1925)
Artur Alliksaar was an Estonian poet.
Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (born 1923)
Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene.…
Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (born 1918)
Francis Xavier Bushman was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female followin…
Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1883)
Shu Qingchun, known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese writer of Manchu ethnicity, known for his vivid portrayal of urban life and his colorful use of the Beijing dialect, such…
Lao She, Chinese novelist and dramatist (born 1899)
William Wrighton Eustace Ross [often misspelt William Wrightson Eustace Ross] was a Canadian geophysicist and poet. He was the first published poet in Canada to write Imagist poetr…
W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (born 1894)
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (born 1906)
Dezső Lauber was a Hungarian all-round sportsman and architect. He was born in Pécs and died in Budapest.
Dezső Lauber, Hungarian golfer, tennis player, and architect (born 1879)
Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood,…
Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (born 1879)
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, academic, and newspaper editor who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from …
Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1901)
John Malcolm Taylor was a racing driver from England. He participated in five World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, and also participated in several non-championship Formula …
John Taylor, American race car driver (born 1933)
Emil Julius Gumbel was a German mathematician and political writer.
Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (born 1891)
Collett Everman Woolman, commonly known as "C.E.", was an American airline entrepreneur best known as the principal founder and first CEO of Delta Air Lines.
Collett E. Woolman, American businessman, co-founded Delta Air Lines (born 1889)
Gertrude Berg was an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. A pioneer of classic radio, she was one of the first women to create, write, produce, and star in a long-running …
Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter (born 1899)
Hiram Wesley Evans was an American white supremacist who was Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist hate group, from 1923 until his resignation in 1939. Trained a…
Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader (born 1881)
Cemal Gürsel was a Turkish military officer and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1960 to 1966 after taking power in a coup d'état.
Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and politician, 4th President of Turkey (born 1895)
Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertoire and various Lieder.
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor and actor (born 1930)