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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)
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)
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)
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)
Aurèle Émile Joliat, nicknamed the "Mighty Atom" and "Little Giant", was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the …
Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1901)
Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, known professionally as Anna Neagle, was an English stage and film actress, singer, and dancer.
Anna Neagle, English actress and singer (born 1904)
Merle Dale Miller was an American writer, novelist, and author, who gained notability with his best-selling biography of Harry S. Truman, and as a pioneer in the gay rights movemen…
Merle Miller, American author and playwright (born 1919)
Chesley Knight Bonestell Jr. was an American painter, designer, and illustrator, best known for his realistic-looking paintings of space exploration, including future spacecraft an…
Chesley Bonestell, American painter and illustrator (born 1888)
Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".
Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter and bandleader (born 1909)
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. Hi…
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (born 1899)
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring work…
Alan Jay Lerner, American composer and songwriter (born 1918)
Maurice Gustave Duruflé was a French composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher. He is particularly well known for his Requiem (1947).
Maurice Duruflé, French organist and composer (born 1902)
Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was an American contralto. Referred to as The First Lady of Radio, Smith became well known for her renditions of "God Bless America" and "When the Moon Come…
Kate Smith, American singer (born 1907)