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Junious "Buck" Buchanan was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League (AFL) and National Footba…
Buck Buchanan, American football player and coach (born 1940)
David Michael Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village…
David Wojnarowicz, American painter, photographer, and activist (born 1954)
Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat, known professionally as Arletty, was a French actress, singer, and fashion model. As an actress she is particularly known for classics directed by Marce…
Arletty, French actress and singer (born 1898)
Samuel Berger, was a Canadian owner of the Canadian Football League's Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes and president of the CFL.
Sam Berger, Canadian lawyer and businessman (born 1900)
Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.
Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (born 1914)
Mary Esther Wells was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s.
Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC OBE was an Australian modernist photographer.
Max Dupain, Australian photographer and educator (born 1911)
Tzeni Karezi also known as Jenny Karezi, was a Greek film and stage actress.
Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress and screenwriter
Sulev Nõmmik was an Estonian theatre and movie director, actor, humorist and comedian. He's mostly associated with the comical character of Kärna Ärni and the related fictional vil…
Sulev Nõmmik, Estonian actor and director (born 1931)
Michel Raymond "Bunny" Larocque was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blue…
Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1952)
Brenda Marshall was an American film actress.
Brenda Marshall, Filipino-American actress and singer (born 1915)
Joseph Shuster was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1.
Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (born 1914)
Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire was a British Royal Air Force pilot, officer and philanthropist.
Leonard Cheshire, English captain and pilot (born 1917)
Michel Jean Hamburger, known professionally as Michel Berger, was a French singer and songwriter. He was a figure of France's pop music scene for two decades as a singer. As a song…
Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and producer (born 1947)
Wang Hongwen was a Chinese politician who was the youngest member of the Gang of Four. He rose to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), after organizing the Shangh…
Wang Hongwen, Chinese labor activist and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1935)
Seichō Matsumoto was a Japanese writer, credited with popularizing detective fiction in Japan.
Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (born 1909)
Sir Robert David Muldoon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 31st prime minister of New Zealand, from 1975 to 1984, while leader of the National Party. Departing from Na…
Robert Muldoon, New Zealand politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1921)
Leszek Błażyński was a Polish boxer who twice won the bronze medal in the men's flyweight division at the Summer Olympics. He first did so in 1972, when Munich hosted the Games. Fo…
Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (born 1949)
Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei was a major Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja and dean of the Hawza of Najaf. Khoei was widely considered the most influential Twelver Shia Muslim scholar of…
Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (born 1899)
Fereydoun Farrokhzad was an Iranian showman, host, poet, actor, political activist, singer, humanitarian, and writer. He is best known for his television variety show, The Silver C…
Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer and actor (born 1938)
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, …
John Cage, American composer and theorist (born 1912)
John Joseph Sirica was an American lawyer and jurist who was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1957 to 1992. Siri…
John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (born 1904)
Linda Jane Laubenstein was an American physician and early HIV/AIDS researcher. She was among the first doctors in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic of the early 198…
Linda Laubenstein, American physician and academic (born 1947)
John Mark Heard III was an American record producer, folk rock singer and songwriter from Macon, Georgia.
Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1951)