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Charles Patrick Tully was a Northern Irish football player and manager who played for Celtic.
Charlie Tully, Irish footballer and manager (born 1924)
Colonel Lawrence Vincent Moore Cosgrave, was a Canadian soldier, author, diplomat and trade commissioner. He was the Canadian signatory to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender at t…
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian colonel and diplomat (born 1890)
Myril Oliver Hoag was an American professional baseball player. An outfielder, Hoag played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White …
Myril Hoag, American baseball player (born 1908)
Thomas Tuke Hollway was the 36th Premier of Victoria, and the first to be born in the 20th century. He held office from 1947 to 1950, and again for a short period in 1952. He was o…
Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (born 1906)
Frederick Spencer Chapman, was a British Army officer and World War II veteran, most famous for his exploits behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya. His medals include the …
Freddie Spencer Chapman, English lieutenant (born 1907)
Charles Ernest Pont was an American artist and Baptist minister. Although his ministerial career was not particularly noteworthy, he was a prolific artist in many media including w…
Charles E. Pont, French-American minister and painter (born 1898)
Walter Percival Carter was an activist and central figure in Baltimore, Maryland during the Civil Rights Movement. He earned that designation by organizing demonstrations against d…
Walter P. Carter, American soldier and activist (born 1923)
Walter Owen Bentley, was an English engineer who founded Bentley in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man. After making a name for himself as a designer of aircr…
W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (born 1888)
Paul Lukas was a Hungarian actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, as well as a Photoplay Award and …
Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor (born 1887)
Spyros Panagiotis Skouras was a Greek-American motion picture pioneer and film executive who was the president of 20th Century-Fox from 1942 to 1962. He resigned June 27, 1962, but…
Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (born 1893)
Maedayama Eigorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ehime Prefecture. He was the sport's 39th yokozuna.
Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (born 1914)
Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List was a German war criminal and Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Wilhelm List, German field marshal (born 1880)
Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas NH was a Pakistani fighter pilot and the fifth recipient of Pakistan's highest military award, the Nishan-e-Haider. Minhas was the first and only office…
Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (born 1951)
George Lester Jackson was an American author, prisoner, and revolutionary. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $71 at gunpoint from a gas station in 1960, Jackson …
George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (born 1941)
Birger Nerman was a Swedish archaeologist, historian and philologist who specialized in the history and culture of Iron Age Sweden.
Birger Nerman, Swedish archaeologist (born 1888)
Ted Lewis was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He was well known for his catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" He fronted a band and touring stage show that p…
Ted Lewis, American singer and clarinet player (born 1890)
Bennett Alfred Cerf was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, …
Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (born 1898)
Margaret Bourke-White was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was known as an architectural and commercial photographer for the first half of her career, …
Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (born 1906)
Reuben Margolies was an Israeli author, Talmudic scholar and head of the Rambam library.
Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (born 1889)
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, together known as Leopold and Loeb, were two American murderers who kidnapped and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago…
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (born 1904)
Paul Lukas was a Hungarian actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, as well as a Photoplay Award and …
Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor (born 1894)
Ali Hadi Bara was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey.
Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor (born 1906)
Brigadier Alan Ward Brown was a British Army tank officer of the Second World War.
Alan Brown, English soldier (born 1909)
Robert Mensah was a Ghanaian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. As a player, he was best known for his exploits at Asante Kotoko where he won the African Clubs Cup in 1970. He …
Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (born 1939)