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António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine, using the stage name …
António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1944)
Alan Harrison Berg was a Jewish-American talk radio show host in Denver, Colorado. He had outspoken atheistic and liberal views and a confrontational interview style. Berg was assa…
Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (born 1934)
Estelle Winwood was an English actress who moved to the United States mid-career and became celebrated for her wit and longevity, starring in film and TV roles until her nineties.
Estelle Winwood, English actress (born 1883)
Joseph Walton Losey III was an American film and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the…
Joseph Losey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)
Clarence Sutherland Campbell was a Canadian ice hockey executive and referee, and soldier. He refereed in the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 1930s, served in the Canadian …
Clarence Campbell, Canadian businessman (born 1905)
Yigael Yadin was an Israeli archeologist, soldier and politician. He was the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Deputy Prime Minister from 1977 to 1981.
Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician (born 1917)
Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais was an Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais method.
Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1904)
Jimmie Andrew Spheeris was an American singer-songwriter who released four albums in the 1970s on the Columbia Records and Epic Records labels. Spheeris died in 1984, at the age of…
Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (born 1949)
Charles Myron "Chic" Murray was a Canadian politician who served as the second Mayor of the Town of Mississauga, before it amalgamated with several surrounding towns to form the cu…
Chic Murray, Canadian politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga (born 1914)
George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and moved to Mexico i…
George Oppen, American poet and author (born 1908)
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addres…
Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (born 1926)
Lillian Florence Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activi…
Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright (born 1905)
Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar, born Edna Ernestine Kramer, was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books.
Edna Ernestine Kramer, American mathematician (born 1902)
Ernest Ralph Tidyman was an American author, journalist, and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. His screenplay for the 197…
Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter; Academy Award winner for The French Connection (born 1928)
Philippé Wynne was an American singer, best known for his role as a lead vocalist of The Spinners. Wynne scored notable hits such as "How Could I Let You Get Away", "The Rubberband…
Philippe Wynne, American soul singer (The Spinners) (born 1941)
Kathleen "Lally" Bowers was an English actress.
Lally Bowers, English actress (born 1914)
Grigori Kromanov was an Estonian theatre and film director. He directed some of the best-known Estonian movies, including Viimne reliikvia and "Hukkunud Alpinisti" hotell.
Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (born 1926)
Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya was a Soviet actress. She is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms.
Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (born 1896)
Aziz Sami Bey Abi-Samim was an Iraqi writer and translator. Born in Kirkuk, then part of the Ottoman Empire he moved to Istanbul to continue his studies and taught in schools in va…
Aziz Sami, Iraqi writer and translator (born 1895)
Bryan Aldwyn Hextall was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL). Considered one of the top wingers of th…
Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1913)
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, was an American singer and songwriter of blues and R&B.
Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)
George Horace Gallup was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a statistically based survey sampled measure of public opinion.
George Gallup, American mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company (born 1901)
Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Pla…
Ed Gein, American serial killer (born 1906)
James Neville Mason was an English actor. He achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming a star in Hollywood. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, three G…
James Mason, English actor (born 1909)