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Utpal Dutt was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he…
Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (born 1929)
Bernardus Maria Ignatius "Bernard" Delfgaauw was a Dutch philosopher. He studied Dutch language and (thomistic) philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In 1947 he earned his doc…
Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic (born 1912)
Tatiana Troyanos was an American mezzo-soprano remembered as "one of the defining singers of her generation". Her voice, "a paradoxical voice — larger than life yet intensely human…
Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (born 1938)
Frans Reima Ilmari Pietilä was a Finnish architect and theorist. He did most of his work together with his wife Raili Pietilä; after 1963 all their works were officially attributed…
Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (born 1923)
William Edgar Stafford was an American poet and pacifist. He was the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He was appointed the twentieth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of…
William Stafford, American poet and academic (born 1914)
Robert Anson Jordan Jr., known professionally as Richard Jordan, was an American actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway a…
Richard Jordan, American actor (born 1938)
Sir David Brown was an English industrialist, managing director of his grandfather's gear and machine tool business David Brown Limited and more recently David Brown Tractors, and …
David Brown, English businessman (born 1904)
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor. He is best known for his roles as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and as Mr. R…
Hervé Villechaize, French-American actor (born 1943)
Claude Renoir was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and the nephew of director Jean Renoir.
Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (born 1914)
Larry Noble was a Lebanese-born British stage comedian and actor best known for starring in the Whitehall farces with Brian Rix. He starred in the original production of Reluctan…
Larry Noble, English comedian and actor (born 1914)
Helen O'Connell was an American singer, actress, and hostess, described as "the quintessential big band singer of the 1940s".
Helen O'Connell, American singer (born 1920)
Antoine Izméry was a Haitian businessman and pro-democracy activist.
Antoine Izméry, Haitian businessman and activist
Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a re…
Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-American conductor (born 1912)
Mary Jane Reoch was an American cyclist. She won 11 national championships during her cycling career and afterwards worked as a cycling coach. She was killed in a road accident whi…
Mary Jane Reoch, American cyclist (born 1945)
Raymond William Stacy Burr was a Canadian actor who had a lengthy Hollywood film career and portrayed the title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.
Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (born 1917)
Carl Potter Voss was an American ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League. He played for several teams between 1926 and 1938. He later became a referee, and was inducted in…
Carl Voss, American ice hockey player and referee (born 1907)
Clayton Young is an American long-distance runner, who competes for Brooks Running. He ran collegiately for Brigham Young University, and won the 10,000 metres at the 2019 NCAA Div…
Clayton Young, American long-distance runner
Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia controlling his Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. The Mafia killed him on h…
Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (born 1937)
František Jílek was a Czech conductor, known especially for his interpretation of Leoš Janáček's works.
František Jílek, Czech conductor (born 1913)
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, earlier known as Kath Walker, was an Aboriginal Australian political activist, artist and educator, who campaigned for Aboriginal rights. Noonuccal was best kno…
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and activist (born 1920)
Christian Nyby was an American television and film director and editor. As an editor, he had seventeen feature film credits from 1943 to 1952, including The Big Sleep (1946) and Re…
Christian Nyby, American director and producer (born 1913)
William Joseph Mosconi was an American professional pool player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mosconi is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. Between …
Willie Mosconi, American pool player and actor (born 1913)
Erich Alfred Hartmann, nicknamed Bubi, was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat mis…
Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (born 1922)
Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent. The term Black British developed in the 1950s, referring to the Black B…
Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager, was murdered while waiting for a bus in Eltham, London, leading to cultural