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Nathan Robert Barragar was an American collegiate and professional football player.
Nate Barragar, American football player and sergeant (born 1906)
Hisashi "Kyu" Sakamoto , legally registered as Hisashi Ōshima since 1956, was a Japanese singer and actor.
Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Manfred Winkelhock was a German racing driver, who competed in Formula One between 1980 and 1985.
Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (born 1951)
Gale Sondergaard was an American actress.
Gale Sondergaard, American actress (born 1899)
Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken was a Vizeadmiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. From July 1944 to…
Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken, German admiral (born 1897)
Charles Gibson was an American ethnohistorian who wrote foundational works on the Nahua peoples of colonial Mexico and was elected President of the American Historical Association …
Charles Gibson, historian of Mexico and its Indians, president of the American Historical Association (born 1920)
Paul Creston was a prolific American composer of classical music and an organist. His catalogued works number over 120 compositions in several major musical genres. They include si…
Paul Creston, American composer and educator (born 1906)
Donald Olding Hebb was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psycholo…
Donald O. Hebb, Canadian psychologist and academic (born 1904)
Ruth Gordon Jones was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, widely known for a career that spanned seven decades, beginning by performing on Broadway at age 1…
Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (born 1896)
Evelyn Felisa Ankers was a British-American actress who often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during the 1940s, most …
Evelyn Ankers, British-American actress (born 1918)
Janet Miriam Caldwell was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also k…
Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (born 1900)
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for pre…
Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Stefan Bellof was a German racing driver. Bellof was the winner of the Drivers' Championship in the 1984 FIA World Endurance Championship, driving for the factory Rothmans Porsche …
Stefan Bellof, German racing driver (born 1957)
Arumugam Murugesu Alalasundaram was an assassinated Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.
M. Alalasundaram, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician
Abe Minderts Lenstra was a Dutch footballer and national football icon in the 1950s who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the greatest players ever to hail from the Net…
Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (born 1920)
Visvanathan Dharmalingam was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament.
V. Dharmalingam, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (born 1918)
Steven Nicolas Romero was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Jay Youngblood. He wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions i…
Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (born 1955)
John David Marks was an American songwriter. He specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many holiday standards, including "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Rockin' Around the Chr…
Johnny Marks, American songwriter (born 1909)
George O'Brien was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the sound film era of the 1930s. He is best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 A…
George O'Brien, American actor and singer (born 1899)
Vasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his wo…
Vasyl Stus, Ukrainian poet, publicist, and dissident (born 1938)
Johannes Rudolph Hint was an Estonian scientist and the only person to create and successfully run a limited company under the communist planned economy of the Soviet Union. With h…
Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (born 1914)
Franco Ferrara was an Italian conductor and teacher. Among his many students are various prominent conductors, including Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Andrew Davis and Riccardo…
Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor and composer (born 1911)
Jacoba van Velde was a Dutch writer, translator, and dramaturge. Her first novel, De grote zaal, appeared in the literary journal Querido in 1953 and was translated into thirteen l…
Jacoba van Velde, Dutch author (born 1903)
José Zabala-Santos, nicknamed as "Mang Pepe" by hometown neighbors and as "Zabala" by colleagues in the cartooning profession, was a successful cartoonist in the Philippines and wa…
José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (born 1911)