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Shin Se-kyung is a South Korean actress. She started as a child actress and had her breakthrough in the sitcom High Kick Through the Roof (2009). Since then, she starred in the fil…
Shin Se-kyung, South Korean actress, singer and model
Ralph David Abernathy Sr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. Being a leader of the civil rights movement,…
Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (born 1936)
Romain de Tirtoff, known by the pseudonym Erté, was a Russian-born French artist and designer. He worked in several fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume, set…
Erté, Russian-French illustrator (born 1892)
Albert Salmi was an American actor of stage, film, and television. Best known for his work as a character actor, he appeared in over 150 film and television productions.
Albert Salmi, American actor (born 1928)
Paulette Goddard was an American actress and socialite. She was a prominent leading actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Paulette Goddard, American actress (born 1910)
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He was among the most influential early bebop musicians. Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm…
Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor (born 1923)
Sergio Franchi was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s. In 1962, RCA…
Sergio Franchi, Italian-American tenor and actor (born 1926)
David Stephen Rappaport was an English actor with achondroplasia. He appeared in the films Time Bandits and The Bride, and television series L.A. Law, The Wizard and Captain Planet…
David Rappaport, English-American actor (born 1951)
Emily Remler was an American jazz guitarist, active from the late 1970s until her death in 1990.
Emily Remler, American guitarist (born 1957)
Charles David Farrell was an American film actor and later Mayor of Palm Springs, serving from 1947 to 1955. Farrell was known for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor i…
Charles Farrell, American actor (born 1900)
Samuel Pennington Thavarasa Tambimuttu was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.
Luigi Nono, Italian composer and educator (born 1924)
Stratos Dionysiou, nicknamed "To Geraki tis Pistas", was a Greek singer, composer and lyricist.
Stratos Dionysiou, Greek Singer, composer and lyricist (born 1935)
Walker Percy, OblSB was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, …
Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (born 1916)
Jill Dorothy Ireland was an English actress and singer.
Jill Ireland, English actress (born 1936)
Samuel George Davis Jr. was an American singer, actor, comedian, dancer, and musician.
Sammy Davis Jr
James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer, actor, animator, creative producer, and director who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Henson was also well…
Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, creator of The Muppets (born 1936)
Thomas Rocco Barbella, better known as Rocky Graziano, was an American professional boxer and actor who competed in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions. He held the lineal …
Rocky Graziano, American boxer (born 1922)
Arthur Villeneuve, was a Québécois painter and member of the Order of Canada.
Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (born 1910)
Victor Tayback was an American actor. He was best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples on the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), as well as his multiple guest appearanc…
Vic Tayback, American actor (born 1930)
Robert Baumle Meyner was an American Democratic Party politician and attorney who served as the 44th governor of New Jersey from 1954 to 1962. Before being elected governor, Meyner…
Robert B
Julius Eastman was an American composer. He was among the first composers to combine the processes of some minimalist music with other methods of extending and modifying his music …
Julius Eastman, American composer (born 1940)
Cécile Chabot was a Canadian poet and illustrator.
Cécile Chabot, Canadian poet and illustrator (born 1907)
Steven John Bator, known professionally as Stiv Bator and later as Stiv Bators, was an American punk rock vocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for hi…
Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1949)