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Daniel Julius Bernstein is an American mathematician, cryptologist, and computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago. He was a vi…
Daniel J. Bernstein, American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic
Gregory Scott Blewett is an Australian international retired cricketer who played Test cricket and One-Day Internationals between 1995 and 2000.
Greg Blewett, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
Matthew Lawrence Hayden is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer. His playing career spanned fifteen years. Hayden was a powerful and aggressive left-handed openin…
Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
Winona Laura Horowitz, known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. Having come to attention playing "quirky" characters in the late 1980s, she achieved success wi…
Winona Ryder, American actress and producer
Fredi Bobic is a German football executive and former player who played as a striker. He is currently the head of football operations and the sporting director at Ekstraklasa club …
Fredi Bobic, Slovenian-German footballer and manager
Tzanis Stavrakopoulos is a Greek former professional basketball player. At a height of 2.02 m, he played at the small forward and power forward positions.
Tzanis Stavrakopoulos, Greek basketball player
Suzan Jacobien Unia van der Wielen is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who played 191 international matches for the Netherlands, in which the striker scored a tot…
Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch field hockey player
Luigi Piotti was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in nine Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on January 22, 1956. He scored no championship points.
Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (born 1913)
François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician and physician who served as president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.
François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (born 1907)
William Brown Meloney V was a journalist, novelist, short-story writer and theatrical producer.
William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (born 1902)
Violet Constance Jessop was an Irish-Argentine ocean liner stewardess and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in the early 20th century. She survived the sinking of both RMS Titanic in …
Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (born 1887)
Henry Emmett Manush, nicknamed "Heinie", was an American baseball outfielder. He played professional baseball for 20 years from 1920 to 1939, including 17 years in Major League Bas…
Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (born 1901)
Sir William Tyrone Guthrie was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and t…
Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and playwright (born 1900)
Aleksandr Gennadyevich Kurosh was a Soviet mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He is credited with writing The Theory of Groups, the first modern and high-level …
Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1908)
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New…
Ogden Nash, American poet (born 1902)
Waldo Goronwy Williams was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the 20th century. He was also a notable Christian pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist. He is …
Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (born 1904)
Béla Juhos was a Hungarian-Austrian philosopher and member of the Vienna Circle.
Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1901)
Armando Picchi was an Italian football player and coach. Regularly positioned as a libero, he captained the Inter Milan side known as "La Grande Inter".
Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (born 1935)
Audie Leon Murphy was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, and has been described as …
Audie Murphy, American soldier and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1925)
Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.
Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (born 1886)
Heinz Hopf was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of dynamical systems, topology and geometry.
Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1894)
Jerome Irving Rodale was a publisher, editor, and author who founded Rodale, Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and The Rodale Institute, formerly the Soil Health Foundation.
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Michael Rennie was a British film, television and stage actor, who had leading roles in a number of Hollywood films, including his portrayal of the space visitor Klaatu in the scie…
Michael Rennie, English actor (born 1909)
Carlos Polestico García, often referred to by his initials CPG, was the eighth president of the Philippines, serving from 1957 to 1961. He served as the fourth vice president of th…
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