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Ted Knight was an American actor known for playing the comic roles of Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort, and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddys…
Ted Knight, American actor (born 1923)
Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images docu…
Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (born 1903)
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizi…
Elizabeth Coatsworth, American author and poet (born 1893)
Henry Spencer Moore was an English visual artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moo…
Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (born 1898)
Murray Hamilton was an American stage, screen and television character actor who appeared in such acclaimed films as The Spirit of St. Louis, Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, The …
Murray Hamilton, American actor (born 1923)
Otto Martins Glória was a Brazilian football coach.
Otto Glória, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1917)
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also s…
Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland (born 1900)
Henry Benjamin Greenberg, nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", "Hankus Pankus", and "the Hebrew Hammer", was an American professional baseball player and team executive. He played in Major …
Hank Greenberg, American baseball player and manager (born 1911)
Neerja Bhanot was an Indian flight attendant. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian ter…
Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight purser, known for her heroic actions on Pan Am Flight 73, during which she was killed…
Sarah Blanche Sweet was an American silent film actress who began her career in the early days of the motion picture film industry. Throughout her career, Sweet appeared in 121 sil…
Blanche Sweet, American actress (born 1896)
Leslie Harry Ernest Bury CMG was an Australian politician and economist. He was a member of the Liberal Party and was a senior cabinet minister in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Les Bury, English-Australian public servant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1913)
Magdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro was a Brazilian pianist.
Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (born 1893)
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos or Panayotis Kanellopoulos was a Greek writer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece. He was the Prime Minister of Greece deposed by the Greek military j…
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek academic and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1902)
Mary Noel Streatfeild was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series. Random House, the US publisher of the 1936 novel …
Noel Streatfeild, English author (born 1895)
Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.
Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (born 1894)
Charlotte Wolff was a German-British physician who worked as a psychotherapist and wrote on sexology and hand analysis. Her writings on lesbianism and bisexuality were influential…
Charlotte Wolff, German-English psychotherapist and physician (born 1897)
Gordon Barton McLendon was an American radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commerciall…
Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System (born 1921)
Darshan Singh Canadian was a Sikh trade union activist and communist organizer in Canada and India.
Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (born 1917)
Donald MacDonald was a Canadian social democratic politician and trade unionist who led the Nova Scotia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was elected as a member of the Nova…
Donald MacDonald, Canadian union leader and politician (born 1909)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on t…
Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
Hans Kamstrup Vogt was a Norwegian linguist who specialized in the Caucasian languages, especially Georgian. He also did significant early work on the Kalispel language and produce…
Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (born 1909)
Clifford Lee Burton was an American musician who served as the bassist for the thrash metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986. He is renowned for his musicianship an…
Cliff Burton, American bass player and songwriter (born 1962)
Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor, born Káldor Miklós, was a Hungarian-born British economist. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare compa…
Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (born 1908)
The Isles of Scilly are a small archipelago off the southwestern tip of mainland Cornwall. One of the islands, St Agnes, is over four miles further south than the most southerly po…
The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single