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Clifford Douglas "Cliff" Lumsdon Jr., was a Canadian world champion marathon swimmer.
Cliff Lumsdon, Canadian swimmer and coach (born 1931)
Otto "Otl" Aicher was a German graphic designer and typographer. Aicher co-founded and taught at the influential Ulm School of Design. He is known for having led the design team of…
Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (born 1922)
Alfonso García Robles was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
Alfonso García Robles, Mexican politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Frank Russell Capra was an Italian-born American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind several major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940…
Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1897)
Charles Daly Barnet was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1913)
Dottie West was an American country singer and songwriter. She also had several credits as an actress. A distinguished figure in the country genre, West was among several women who…
Dottie West, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1932)
Sharad Joshi was an Indian poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990.
Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (born 1931)
Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry …
Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907)
Thomas Lester Tryon was an American actor and novelist. As an actor, he was billed as Tom Tryon and is best known for playing the title role in the film The Cardinal (1963), featur…
Tom Tryon, American actor and author (born 1926)
Alex North was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?…
Alex North, American composer and conductor (born 1910)
Robert Creel Davis, known professionally as Brad Davis, was an American actor. For his debut film role as Billy Hayes in the 1978 film Midnight Express, he won the Golden Globe Awa…
Brad Davis, American actor (born 1949)
John Herbert Crawford, was an Australian tennis player during the 1930s. He was the World No. 1 amateur for 1933, during which year he won the Australian Open, the French Open, and…
Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (born 1908)
Ernst Herbeck was an Austrian poet. In 1940, at the age of 20, Herbeck was committed to the national mental hospital in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich). He lived in the institutio…
Ernst Herbeck, Austrian-German poet (born 1920)
Major General Albert Bruce Matthews was a senior Canadian Army officer and businessman. Although not a professional soldier, he nevertheless rose to be the General Officer Commandi…
Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman (born 1909)
Robert Augustine Irving, DFC*, was a British conductor whose reputation was mainly as a ballet conductor.
Robert Irving, English soldier and conductor (born 1913)
Metin Oktay nicknamed the Crownless King by Galatasaray fans, was a Turkish footballer and one of the most successful goal scorers in Turkey.
Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (born 1936)
Julia Anne Bovasso was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.
Julie Bovasso, American actress and playwright (born 1930)
Russell Lynes was an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine.
Russell Lynes, American historian, photographer, and author (born 1910)
John Hoyt was an American actor. He began his acting career on Broadway, later appearing in numerous films and television series.
John Hoyt, American actor (born 1904)
Warner Troyer was a Canadian broadcast journalist and writer.
Warner Troyer, Canadian journalist and author (born 1932)
Olga Alexandrovna Spessivtseva was a Russian ballerina whose stage career spanned from 1913 to 1939.
Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (born 1895)
René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti was a French virtuoso violinist, renowned for his lyrical playing style.
Zino Francescatti, French violinist and composer (born 1902)
The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant …
Riots broke out in Washington, D
Joseph Herman Pasternak was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood. Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producing many successfu…
Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American production manager and producer (born 1901)