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Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel T…
Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (born 1930)
Oseola McCarty was a local washerwoman in Hattiesburg, Mississippi who became The University of Southern Mississippi's (USM) most famous benefactor.
Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (born 1908)
Escott Graves Meredith Reid, CC, was a Canadian diplomat who helped shape the United Nations and NATO, author, international public servant and academic administrator.
Escott Reid, Canadian academic and diplomat (born 1905)
Edward William O'Rourke was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Peoria in Illinois from 1971 to 1990.
Edward William O'Rourke, American bishop (born 1917)
Heinz G. Konsalik was a German novelist. Konsalik was his mother's maiden name.
Heinz G. Konsalik, German journalist and author (born 1921)
Akio Morita was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka.
Akio Morita, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (born 1921)
Bernard Buffet was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurativ…
Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (born 1928)
Arthur Stewart Farmer was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet–flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identic…
Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (born 1928)
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues was a Portuguese fado singer (fadista). Dubbed Rainha do Fado, she was instrumental in popularising fado worldwide and travelled internationally through…
Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (born 1920)
Robert James "Gino" Marella, better known by his ring name, Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play commentator, and booker.
Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1937)
John B. McLendon Jr. was an American basketball coach who is recognized as the first African American basketball coach at a predominantly white university and the first African Ame…
John McLendon, American basketball player and coach (born 1915)
Milton Jackson, nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant…
Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (born 1923)
Akhter Hameed Khan was a Pakistani-Bangladeshi development practitioner and social scientist. He promoted participatory rural development in West Pakistan, East Pakistan and other …
Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (born 1914)
Leo Lionni was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Born in the Netherlands, he moved to Italy and lived there before moving to the United States in 1939, where …
Leo Lionni, Dutch-American author and illustrator (born 1910)
Wilton Norman Chamberlain was an American professional basketball player. Standing 7 feet 1 inch (2.16 m) tall, he played center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 14…
Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (born 1936)
Robert Marsden Hope, was a Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal and Royal Commissioner on three occasions, most notably the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security.…
Robert Marsden Hope, Australian lawyer and judge (born 1919)
Michael Hartnett was an Irish poet who wrote in both English and Irish. He was one of the most significant voices in late 20th-century Irish writing and has been called "Munster'…
Michael Hartnett, Irish poet (born 1941)
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, revolutionary and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and th…
Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (born 1922)
Joseph McLaughlin, known professionally as Josef Locke, was an Irish tenor. He was successful in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.
Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (born 1917)
Jean Parker Shepherd Jr. was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Ch…
Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was a Greek-American physicist.
Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (born 1915)
James Cunningham Murray was a U.S. representative from Illinois from 1955 to 1957. He graduated from De Paul University Law School in 1940 and subsequently worked as a lawyer. He s…
James C. Murray, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1917)
Nathalie Sarraute was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten.
Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-French lawyer and author (born 1900)
Calvin Robertson Griffith, born Calvin Griffith Robertson, was a Canadian-born American Major League Baseball team owner. As president, majority owner and de facto general manager …
Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (born 1911)