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Robert Edward Stevenson was a British-American screenwriter and film director.
Robert Stevenson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1905)
Hylda Baker was an English comedian, actress and music hall performer. Born and brought up in Farnworth, Lancashire, she is perhaps best remembered for her role as Nellie Pledge in…
Hylda Baker, English comedian, actress and music hall performer (born 1905)
Hugo E. Peretti was an American songwriter, trumpeter, and record producer.
Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (born 1916)
Sergio Cresto was the American co-driver of Finnish Henri Toivonen at the Lancia Martini team for the 1986 World Rally Championship season. He was also a former co-driver for fello…
Sergio Cresto, American race car driver (born 1956)
Henri Pauli Toivonen was a Finnish rally driver born in Jyväskylä, the home of Rally Finland. His father, Pauli, was the 1968 European Rally Champion for Porsche and his younger br…
Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (born 1956)
Robert Alda was an American actor, singer and dancer. He was the father of actors Alan and Antony Alda. Alda was featured in a number of Broadway productions, then moved to Italy d…
Robert Alda, American actor (born 1914)
Haldun Taner was a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.
Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (born 1915)
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford was a noted 20th-century British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics. He was also an authority on antique jewellery and …
Ernle Bradford, English historian and author (born 1922)
Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirme…
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (born 1914)
Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard was an American professional football player and coach. In 1921, he became the first African-American head coach in the National Football League …
Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (born 1894)
Elio de Angelis was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1979 to 1986.
Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (born 1958)
Theodore Harold White was an American political journalist and historian, first known for his 1946 best-seller Thunder Out of China, reporting from China during World War II and th…
Theodore H
Jimmy Lyons was an American alto saxophone player. He is best known for his long tenure in the Cecil Taylor Unit. Lyons was the only constant member of the band from the mid-1960s …
Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (born 1931)
Sterling Walter Hayden was an American actor. A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in Westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's Th…
Sterling Hayden, American actor (born 1916)
Chester Bliss Bowles was an American diplomat and ambassador, governor of Connecticut, congressman and co-founder of a major advertising agency, Benton & Bowles, now part of Public…
Chester Bowles, American journalist and politician, 22nd Under Secretary of State (born 1901)
Elisabeth Bergner was an Austrian-British actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris before she moved to London to work in films. She played the …
Elisabeth Bergner, German actress (born 1897)
Ismaʿil Raji al-Faruqi was a Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar of religion. He contributed significantly to Islamic studies, ethics, and interfaith dialogue, and …
Murder of the Faruqis:
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian independence activist and politician who served three short terms as the Chief Minister of West Bengal. He hailed from Tamluk, Purba Medinipur di…
Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1901)
Giorgos Tzifos was a Greek actor in theater and movies. He played mostly secondary roles in comedies, even Law 4000 of Giorgos Dalianidis. I Will Make You Queen and I de gyni na fo…
Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor and cinematographer (born 1918)
Edip Cansever was a Second New Movement Turkish poet. Talât Sait Halman referred to Cansever as in the light of surrealist Asaf Halet Celebi and Orhan Sarıkaya characterized him as…
Edip Cansever, Turkish poet and author (born 1928)
Perry Edwin Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house in the mid-1970s. Ellis's influence on the fashion industry has been called "a huge tu…
Perry Ellis, American fashion designer, founded his own eponymous fashion brand (born 1940)
Jane Schenthal Frank was an American multidisciplinary artist, known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, illustrator, and textile artist. Her landscape-like, mixed-media ab…
Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (born 1918)
Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
Josef Anton Gartner was a Formula One and sports car endurance driver from Austria. After a successful lower formula career, including a win in the Formula Two Pau Grand Prix, he p…
Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (born 1958)