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Gerard Thurston Warren is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. He played college foo…
Gerard Warren, American football player
Diarmuid O'Sullivan is an Irish hurling coach and hurler who plays for Cork Premier Championship club Cloyne. He played for the Cork senior hurling team for 12 years, during which …
Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Irish hurler and manager
Hitomi Yaida 矢井田瞳 is a Japanese pop/folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. She often goes by the nickname Yaiko. Yaida is an established musical artist in Japan and has also h…
Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jon Michael Adams is an American former professional baseball right-handed relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers (2004–06), San Diego P…
Mike Adams, American baseball player
Marina Lazarovska is a former Macedonian tennis player.
Marina Lazarovska, Macedonian tennis player
Andrea Joy Cook is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Supervisory Special Agent Jennifer "JJ" Jareau on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds. Cook has also appeare…
A.J. Cook, Canadian actress
Lucius Dubignon Clay was a senior officer of the United States Army who was known for his administration of occupied Germany after World War II. He served as the deputy to General …
Lucius D
Lord Richard Valentine Gascoyne-Cecil was a British soldier, Conservative politician and freelance journalist who was killed in Rhodesia whilst covering the country's Bush War. The…
Lord Richard Cecil, British soldier and journalist in the Rhodesian Bush War
Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. She has been described as "arguably the pre-em…
Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (born 1947)
Thomas Wyatt Turner was an American civil rights activist, biologist, and educator. He was the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. in botany, and helped found both the NAACP an…
Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and academic (born 1877)
Will Geer was an American actor, musician, and social activist who was active in labor organizing and communist movements in New York City and Southern California in the 1930s and …
Will Geer, American actor (born 1902)
Mohammad Daoud Khan,, also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan, was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, a…
Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (born 1909)
Theodor Helfrich was a racing driver from Germany. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 3 August 1952, but scored no championship points. He was Ger…
Theo Helfrich, German race car driver (born 1913)
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.
Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (born 1903)
William Randall Downs, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He worked for CBS News from 1942 to 1962 and for ABC News beginning in 1963. He was one of th…
Bill Downs, American journalist (born 1914)
Mortimer Weisinger was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s, in the Silver Age of comic books. He als…
Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (born 1915)
Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato, was an Italian political activist who opposed the Mafia, which ordered his murder in 1978.
Giuseppe Impastato, Italian journalist and activist (born 1948)
Aldo Moro was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy for five terms from December 1963…
Aldo Moro, Italian lawyer and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1916)
Albert Kivikas was an Estonian writer and journalist. He is best known as the author of the book Names in Marble, the subject of which is the Estonian War of Independence.
Albert Kivikas, Estonian-Swedish journalist and author (born 1898)
Cybele Andrianou was a Greek actress.
Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (born 1887)
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. He held office as the …
Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1894)
Jean Deslauriers was a Canadian conductor, violinist, and composer. As a conductor he had a long and fruitful partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; conducting orc…
Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1909)
József Bozsik was a Hungarian footballer who played as a central midfielder. He spent his entire club career at his hometown club, Budapest Honvéd. Bozsik was a key member of the l…
József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1925)