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Daniel Hale Rowan was an American actor and comedian. He was featured in the television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, in which he played straight man to Dick Martin and won the 1…
Dan Rowan, American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1922)
Mary Astor was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941)…
Mary Astor, American actress (born 1906)
George Emlyn Williams was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.
Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (born 1905)
Andi Ramang was an Indonesian footballer who played as a forward, who was considered one of the most influential players in the country in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also referred…
Ramang, Indonesian footballer and manager (born 1928)
Robert Louis Fosse was an American choreographer, dancer, actor, filmmaker, and stage director. He is known for his work on stage and screen, and was arguably the most influential …
Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1927)
Herbert Tichy was an Austrian writer, geologist, journalist and climber.
Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, journalist, and mountaineer (born 1912)
Henry Ford II, commonly known as "Hank the Deuce," was an American businessman in the automotive industry. He was the oldest son of Edsel Ford and oldest grandson of Henry Ford I. …
Henry Ford II, American businessman (born 1917)
Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor, and scriptwriter for comics. He is best remembered for his science fiction, includ…
Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (born 1913)
Edith Madeleine Carroll was an English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid …
Madeleine Carroll, English actress (born 1906)
Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a Brazilian-born biologist and writer of Lebanese-British descent who, from a succession of research and teaching posts, and senior U.K. biomedical lead…
Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is be…
Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (born 1910)
Huugo Kalervo Palsa, known as Kalle, was a Finnish artist whose style has been described as fantastic expressionism, often influenced by depictions of sexuality.
Kalervo Palsa, Finnish painter (born 1947)
Konstantinos D. Tsatsos was a Greek diplomat, professor of law, scholar and politician. He served as the second President of the Third Hellenic Republic from 1975 to 1980.
Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece (born 1899)
William Parry Murphy Sr. was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combine…
William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
Behice Boran was a Turkish Marxist-Leninist politician, author and sociologist. As a dissenting political voice from the far-left, Boran was repeatedly imprisoned for her work and …
Behice Boran, Turkish Marxist politician, author and sociologist (born 1910)
Clare Boothe Luce was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and public intellectual. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-fem…
Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1903)
Alfred Mossman Landon was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nomine…
Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (born 1887)
Fahri Sabit Korutürk was a Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1973 to 1980. Before his presidency, he served as the commander of the Turk…
Fahri Korutürk, Turkish commander and politician, 6th President of Turkey (born 1903)
Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transist…
Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
Kishore Kumar was an Indian playback singer, musician and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most influential and dynamic singers in the history of Indian music. …
Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director (born 1929)
Nilgün Marmara was a Turkish poet.
Nilgün Marmara, Turkish poet and author (born 1958)
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkina Faso military officer, politician, Marxist and pan-Africanist revolutionary who served as the first president of Burkina Faso from 1983 un…
Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (born 1949)
Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandr…
Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (born 1908)
Adriaan Ditvoorst was a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1984. His 1967 film Paranoia was entered into the 17th Berlin International Fi…
Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch director and screenwriter (born 1940)