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Louis Stephen St. Laurent was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957.
Louis St. Laurent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1882)
Norman Walter Smith was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After more than 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smit…
Norm Smith, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)
Roger Williamson was a British racing driver and a two time British Formula 3 champion, who died during his second Formula One race, the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Circuit …
Roger Williamson, English race car driver (born 1948)
Azumafuji Kin'ichi was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Taitō, Tokyo. He was the sport's 40th yokozuna, and later a professional wrestler.
Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (born 1921)
Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.
Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (born 1882)
Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht was a German communist politician and revolutionary. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) an…
Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (born 1893)
Ismail bin Abdul Rahman was a Malaysian politician who served as the second Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia from September 1970 to his death in August 1973. A member of the Unite…
Ismail Abdul Rahman, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1915)
Major General Richard Jaquelin Marshall was a senior officer in the United States Army.
Richard Marshall, American general (born 1895)
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer, political leader, and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s u…
Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (born 1901)
Jean-Pierre Grumbach, known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville, was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-i…
Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1917)
Jack Morrison Gregory was an Australian cricketer.
Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (born 1895)
Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater. His literary career, spanning more than 45 years, is associated with his four‑volume…
Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (born 1898)
Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs.…
Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work…
Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
Frederick Benjamin Gipson was an American writer and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. Gipson was …
Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (born 1908)
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discove…
Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
Conrad Potter Aiken was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published w…
Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (born 1889)
Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué was a French composer and music writer. His relatively small œuvre is known for its serialism.
Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (born 1928)
Paul Williams was an American baritone singer. He was noted for being one of the founding members and the original lead singer of the Motown group the Temptations. Personal problem…
Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (born 1939)
Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám de Dancka was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister and temporary Minister of Finance of the second counter-revolutionary govern…
Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1875)
Carl Ward Dudley (1910–1973) was an American film director and producer. He was best known for directing and producing short travelogues.
Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)
John Martin Feeney, better known as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden …
John Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1894)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).
J. R. R. Tolkien, English novelist, short story writer, poet, and philologist (born 1892)
John Frank Fournier was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, …
Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (born 1889)