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George Balanchine was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century. Styled as the father of American balle…
George Balanchine, Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1904)
McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is of…
Muddy Waters, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader (born 1913)
Edouard Wyss-Dunant was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad. He published a number of treatises in his pro…
Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (born 1897)
Norman Mack Van Brocklin, was an American professional football quarterback and coach who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. Nicknamed "the Dutchman", he …
Norm Van Brocklin, American football player and coach (born 1926)
Nino Sanzogno was an Italian conductor and composer.
Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (born 1911)
Horst Schumann was an SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and medical doctor who conducted sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz and was particularly interested in the mass …
Horst Schumann, German physician (born 1901)
Hugh Ernest Leo Williams, known professionally as John Williams, was an English stage, film and television actor. He is remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Alfred…
John Williams, English-American actor (born 1903)
Kai Chresten Winding was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is known for his collaborations with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson. His version of "More", the th…
Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (born 1922)
Roger John Traynor was an American lawyer who served as Chief Justice of California from 1964 to 1970 and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1940 to 1…
Roger J
Miguel Alemán Valdés was a Mexican politician who served a full term as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952. He was the first civilian president after a string of revolutiona…
Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (born 1900)
Jean Rey was a Belgian Liberal politician who served as the second president of the European Commission from 1967 to 1970. He served as European Commissioner for External Relations…
Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (born 1902)
Ezra Jack Keats was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for The Snowy Day, which won the 1963 Caldecott Medal and is considered one of the most…
Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator (born 1916)
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini…
John Fante, American author and screenwriter (born 1909)
Brigadier Henry Bachtold, was an Australian soldier and railway engineer. He fought during the First World War as an engineer with the 1st Field Company at the Gallipoli Campaign, …
Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (born 1891)
Zenna Chlarson Henderson was an American elementary school teacher and science fiction and fantasy author. Her first story was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fictio…
Zenna Henderson, American writer (born 1917)
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark was a British art historian, museum director and broadcaster. His expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods, but he is particularly…
Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (born 1903)
Erna Scheffler was a German senior judge.
Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (born 1893)
Ahmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, Islamist ideologue, and conspiracy theorist. He is also known simply by his initials NFK. He was noticed by th…
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (born 1904)
Idris was King of Libya from 24 December 1951 until his ousting in the 1 September 1969 coup d'état. He ruled over the United Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1963, after which the co…
Idris of Libya (born 1889)
Erastus Corning 2nd was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as the 72nd mayor of Albany, New York from 1942 to 1983, when Albany County was controlle…
Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (born 1909)
Arvīds Pelše was a Latvian Soviet politician, functionary, and historian.
Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (born 1899)
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, nicknamed Kid Blackie and The Manassa Mauler, was an American boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and was world heavyweight champion from 1919 to…
Jack Dempsey, American boxer and lieutenant (born 1895)
Albert Claude was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. H…
Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
John Sherratt Stewart was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a defenceman for 12 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Haw…
Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1917)