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John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."
John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
Neil Brian Davis was an Australian combat cameraman who was recognised for his work as a photojournalist during the Vietnam War and other conflicts in the region. He was killed in …
Neil Davis, Australian photographer and journalist (born 1934)
Paul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a pioneer in understanding the behavior of…
Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
Ernst Julius Öpik was an Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career (1948–1981) at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. He is best known …
Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1893)
John Stein was a Scottish football player and manager. He was the first manager of a club from a Northern European country to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967. Stein also …
Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1922)
William Alwyn was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher who composed over 200 cinematic scores, of which some 70 were for full-length features, as well as number of ope…
William Alwyn, English composer, conductor, and educator (born 1905)
Air Commandant Dame Mary Henrietta Barnett was a senior officer of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF). From 1956 to 1960, she served as its director.
Henrietta Barnett, British Women's Royal Air Force officer (born 1905)
Antonino Votto, sometimes spelt Antonio Votto, was an Italian operatic conductor and vocal coach. Votto developed an extensive discography with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan durin…
Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (born 1896)
Eleanor Dark AO was an Australian writer whose novels included Prelude to Christopher (1934) and Return to Coolami (1936), both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Me…
Eleanor Dark, Australian author (born 1901)
Dane Rudhyar, born Daniel Chennevière, was an American author, modernist composer, painter and humanistic astrologer. He was a pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.
Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, composer, and author (born 1895)
Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.
Cootie Williams, American trumpet player (born 1910)
Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman, who founded the eponymous fashion retailer. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the busine…
Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (born 1925)
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965)…
Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (born 1923)
Xiong Yaohua, better known by his pen name Gu Long, was a Taiwanese novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. Born in Hong Kong and educated at Cheng Kung Senior High Sch…
Gu Long, Chinese author and screenwriter (born 1937)
Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American stage, film and television actor who rose from a supporting player and B-movie lead early in his career to featured player status after creatin…
Lloyd Nolan, American actor (born 1902)
Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. He is one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 19…
Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (born 1900)
Simone Signoret was a French actress. She received various accolades, including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a César Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Fes…
Simone Signoret, French actress (born 1921)
Ryan Wayne White was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending clas…
Ryan White, an HIV/AIDS patient in the U
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an anarchist international, leaderless, decentralized movement that emerged in Britain in the 1970s, evolving from the Bands of Mercy. It opera…
The Animal Liberation Front raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, rescuing 467 animals and cau
The 1985 World Snooker Championship final, also known as the black-ball final, was played on the weekend of 27–28 April 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The fina…
The black-ball final, one of the most famous snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor
Black theology, or black liberation theology, refers to a Christian theological perspective that originated among African-American churchmen and scholars, and has since spread to m…
Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a b
Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He…
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
The White House Farm murders took place near the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England, during the night of 6–7 August 1985. Nevill and June Bamber were shot and killed insi…
Five members of the Bamber family were found murdered at a farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, England.
Japan Air Lines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On the evening of Monday, August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747 flying the route suffered…
Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (aircraft involved pictured) crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing…