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Prince Charles, Count of Flanders was a member of the Belgian royal family who served as regent of Belgium from 1944 until 1950, while a judicial commission investigated his elder …
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (born 1903)
Anna Reiling, known by the pen name Anna Seghers, was a German writer. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish …
Anna Seghers, German writer (born 1900)
Stanley Allison Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter who sang traditional-sounding songs frequently inspired by Canadian history and the working people's daily lives,…
Stan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1949)
Raymond Ernest Stehr was an Australian rugby league footballer, a state and national representative player whose club career was played at Sydney's Eastern Suburbs club. He has bee…
Ray Stehr, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1913)
Hans Leip was a German novelist, poet and playwright, best remembered as the lyricist of Lili Marleen.
Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright who wrote the lyrics of Lili Marleen (born 1893)
Ghanshyam Das Birla was an Indian businessman and member of the Birla Family.
Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman and politician (born 1894)
Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptation…
Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (born 1902)
Peter Mennin was a prominent American composer, teacher and administrator. In 1958, he was named Director of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and in 1962 became President of …
Peter Mennin, American composer and educator (born 1923)
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the Americas.
Alberto Ginastera, Argentinian pianist and composer (born 1916)
Alf Francis was a motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor.
Alf Francis, German-English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (born 1918)
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in hi…
Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (born 1895)
Harry Haag James was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band …
Harry James, American trumpet player and actor (born 1916)
Kenneth Millar, known mainly by the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern…
Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (born 1915)
Christopher Gordon Blandford Wood was a British rock musician, best known as a founding member of the rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason.
Chris Wood, English saxophonist (born 1944)
Gabrielle Roy was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba. She became one of the major voices in French-language literature in Canada, known for her portrayals of working-cla…
Gabrielle Roy, Canadian engineer and author (born 1909)
Frank James Reynolds was an American television journalist for CBS and ABC News.
Frank Reynolds, American soldier and journalist (born 1923)
Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, France. He was considered one of Les Six, a group of artists informally associated with Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie. B…
Georges Auric, French composer (born 1899)
Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the…
Luis Buñuel, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1900)
James David Graham Niven was an English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist. Niven was known as a handsome and debonair leading man in classic Hollywood films. His ac…
David Niven, English military officer and actor (born 1910)
Howard Dietz was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist, best remembered for his songwriting collaboration with Arthur Schwartz. According to historian Stanley Green, Diet…
Howard Dietz, American songwriter and publicist (born 1896)
Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian and American actor. Known for his commanding stage-trained voice, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the t…
Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (born 1896)
Lynn Fontanne was an English actress. After early success in supporting roles in the West End and United States, she married the American actor Alfred Lunt in 1922, with whom she c…
Lynn Fontanne, English actress (born 1887)
James Lee Jamerson was an American bassist. He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s, and is now regarded as one of the greates…
James Jamerson, American bass player (born 1936)
Carolyn Sue Jones was an American actress of television and film. She began her film career in the early 1950s and by the end of the decade, in 1958, had achieved recognition with …
Carolyn Jones, American actress (born 1930)