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Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure.
Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit (born 1902)
Cromwell Everson was primarily known as a composer during his lifetime. He was brought up as an Afrikaner by his mother, Maria De Wit and father, Robert Everson. He continued this …
Cromwell Everson, South African composer (born 1925)
Dame Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft was an English actress whose career spanned more than six decades, both on screen and stage.
Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (born 1907)
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. was an American politician from Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate and served as its 44th and 49th governor. Aside from his p…
Happy Chandler, American businessman and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky (born 1898)
Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis remains the only black person to have won …
Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
Jean Arthur was an American film and theater actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.
Jean Arthur, American actress (born 1900)
Sumner Locke Elliott was an Australian novelist and playwright.
Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (born 1917)
Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, pa…
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1899)
Milton Subotsky was an American producer and writer of film and television. He was the co-founder of Amicus Productions with Max J. Rosenberg, which produced horror and science-fic…
Milton Subotsky, American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1921)
Michael Landon Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1…
Michael Landon, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)
Lee Ann Remick was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film Days of Wine and Roses (1962) and was nominated for the Tony Award for…
Lee Remick, American actress (born 1935)
Victor Peter Chang was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia.
Victor Chang, Chinese-Australian surgeon and physician (born 1936)
Arthur Baldwin Sansom Jr., better known as Art Sansom, was an American comic strip cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip The Born Loser.
Art Sansom, American cartoonist (born 1920)
Howard Nemerov was an American poet. Nemerov was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University …
Howard Nemerov, American poet and essayist (born 1920)
Mudashiru Babatunde "Muda" Lawal was a Nigerian footballer who played as a midfielder for both club and country.
Mudashiru Lawal, Nigerian footballer (born 1954)
James Grover Franciscus was an American actor, known for his roles in feature films and in six television series: Mr. Novak, Naked City, The Investigators, Longstreet, Doc Elliot, …
James Franciscus, American actor (born 1934)
Bernard Whalen "Bert" Convy was an American actor, singer, game-show panelist, and host known for Tattletales, Super Password and Win, Lose or Draw.
Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (born 1933)
Meindert De Jong, also spelled de Jong, DeJong, or Dejong, was a Dutch-born American Newbery Medal–winning writer of children's books. During the height of his popularity, he frequ…
Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author (born 1906)
Dato' Mohd Mokhtar bin Dahari was a Malaysian professional footballer who played for Selangor. He is considered a legendary footballer in Malaysian history. FIFA acknowledged his 8…
Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer and coach (born 1953)
Constance Stokes was an Australian modernist painter who worked in Victoria. She trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School until 1929, winning a scholarship to continu…
Constance Stokes, Australian painter (born 1906)
Robert Motherwell was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York Sc…
Robert Motherwell, American painter and academic (born 1915)
Francis Lazarro Rizzo was an American police officer and politician. He served as commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from 1967 to 1971 and mayor of Philadelph…
Frank Rizzo, American police officer and politician, 93rd Mayor of Philadelphia (born 1920)
John Patrick Spiegel was an American psychiatrist, and expert on violence and combat stress and the 103rd President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). As president-elec…
John Patrick Spiegel, American psychiatrist and academic (born 1911)
Paul Jason Warwick was a British racing driver.
Paul Warwick, English race car driver (born 1969)