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Jordan Arthur Tata (TAY-ta) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers from 2006 to 2007. He played colleg…
Jordan Tata, American baseball player
Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote politi…
Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and author (born 1897)
Jim Davis was an American actor, best known for his roles in television Westerns. In his later career, he became famous as Jock Ewing in the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas, a role…
Jim Davis, American actor (born 1909)
Nargis Dutt, known mononymously as Nargis, was an Indian actress and politician who worked in Hindi cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema…
Nargis, Indian actress (born 1929)
Chelliah Loganathan was a Ceylon Tamil banker and the first Ceylonese general manager of the Bank of Ceylon.
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Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to pl…
Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (born 1954)
Uri Zvi Greenberg was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.
Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (born 1896)
Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (born 1909)
Rolf Just Nilsen was a Norwegian singer, impressionist and actor. He was particularly known for his imitations of famous comedians at the time. He worked for the theatres Studiot…
Rolf Just Nilsen, Norwegian singer and actor (born 1931)
Odd Hassel was a Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.
Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Francis Joseph Sean Hughes was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Nor…
Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker (born 1956)
Benjamin Henry Sheares was a Singaporean obstetrician, gynaecologist, and academic who served as the second president of Singapore between 1971 until his death in 1981.
Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean professor and politician, second President of Singapore (born 1907)
Arthur Joseph O'Connell was an American stage, film and television actor, who achieved prominence in character roles in the 1950s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best S…
Arthur O'Connell, American actor (born 1908)
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy A…
William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (born 1908)
Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, he fused elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady, and was renowned f…
Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
Francis Joseph Sean Hughes was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Nor…
Francis Hughes, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1956)
Ernest Aaron Freeman was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger. He was responsible for arranging many successful rhythm and blues and pop records from the 1950s t…
Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1922)
Willy Hartner was a German scientist and polymath. He studied at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, where he obtained his PhD in physics in 1928 and where he later served as pro…
Willy Hartner, German physician and academic (born 1905)
Raymond McCreesh was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while att…
Raymond McCreesh, PIRA volunteer and Hunger Striker (born 1957)
Patsy O'Hara was an Irish republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). O'Hara was one of 10 Irish republicans who died in the 1981 hunger stri…
Patsy O'Hara, INLA volunteer and Hunger Striker (born 1957)
Gene Leroy Green was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and catcher who played all or portions of seven MLB seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals (1957–1959), Baltimore Ori…
Gene Green, American baseball player (born 1933)
John Rayner Heppenstall was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.
Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (born 1911)
George Albert "Georgie" Jessel was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and film producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level…
George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1898)
David Lewis was a Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1936 to 1950 and one of …
David Lewis, Belarusian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1909)