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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)
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)
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)
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)
Judy Canova, born Juliette Canova, was an American comedienne, actress, singer, and radio personality who appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own eponymous network ra…
Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (born 1913)
Joan Violet Robinson was a British economist known for her wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. One of the most prominent economists of the century, Robinson incarnated t…
Joan Robinson, English economist and author (born 1903)
Klaus Sperber, known professionally as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor and baritone noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona.
Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (born 1944)
Theodor Burchardi was an Admiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. He was responsible…
Theodor Burchardi, German admiral (born 1892)
Howard Earl Averill, nicknamed "the Rock", was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a center fielder from 1929 to 1941, including 1…
Earl Averill, American baseball player (born 1902)
Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable English-language songs of the 20th c…
Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (born 1896)
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German-British historian who specialised in the areas of art and architecture. He is best known for his monumental 46-volume series of coun…
Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (born 1902)
Kalevi Kotkas was an Estonian-born Finnish athlete, specializing in high jump, discus throw and shot put. He became the first ever European champion in high jump, in 1934 in Turin,…
Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (born 1913)
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative (1941–1953) and U.S. senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington. A Cold…
Henry M. Jackson, American lawyer and politician (born 1912)
Benigno Simeón "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., was a Filipino politician and journalist who served as a senator of the Philippines (1967–1972) and governor of the province of Tarlac (1963–1967…
Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (born 1932)
Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living. In 1915, he was dismissed from a teaching…
Scott Nearing, American economist, educator, and activist (born 1883)
Lawrence Patton McDonald was an American physician, politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Georgia's 7th congressional district as a De…
Larry McDonald, American physician and politician (born 1935)
Feriha "Feri" Cansel was a Turkish Cypriot actress.
Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (born 1944)
Jon Brower Minnoch was an American man who is reported as the heaviest recorded human in history, weighing approximately 1,400 lb at his peak. Obese since childhood, Minnoch normal…
Jon Brower Minnoch, famous for being the world's heaviest person recorded (born 1941)