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Norman Fitzroy Maclean was an American professor at the University of Chicago who, following his retirement, became a major figure in American literature. Maclean is known for his …
Norman Maclean, American short story writer and essayist (born 1902)
Edwin Richfield was an English actor.
Edwin Richfield, English actor and screenwriter (born 1921)
Ettore Maserati was an Italian automotive engineer, one of five brothers who founded the Maserati firm in Bologna 1914. He was born in Voghera.
Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (born 1894)
Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of…
Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (born 1912)
Joseph Mercer was an English footballer and manager. He played as a defender for Everton and Arsenal and managed Aston Villa and Manchester City, and served as caretaker manager of…
Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (born 1914)
Dorothy Mackaill was a British-American actress, most active during the silent-film era and into the pre-Code era of the early 1930s.
Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress (born 1903)
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was a Soviet singer-songwriter and actor who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and influential bands in the history of Russian music.
Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician and actor (born 1962)
Patrick John O'Connor was a New Zealand-American amateur wrestler and professional wrestler. Regarded as one of the premier workers of his era, O'Connor held the AWA World Heavywei…
Pat O'Connor, New Zealand wrestler and trainer (born 1925)
Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress, singer, comedian and author. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special…
Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (born 1918)
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 194…
B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (born 1904)
David Daniel Rose was a British-American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His best known compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and …
David Rose, American pianist and composer (born 1910)
Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov was a Soviet journalist and writer. Internationally, he is one of the most popular Russian writers of the late 20th century.
Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (born 1941)
Gely Abdel Rahman Arabic: جيلي عبد الرحمن was one of the leading Sudanese poets of the second half of the 20th century.
Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese-Egyptian poet and academic (born 1931)
Edward Morley Callaghan was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.
Morley Callaghan, Canadian author and playwright (born 1903)
Tang Chang was a self-taught artist, poet, writer and philosopher of Sino-Thai heritage.
Tang Chang, Thai artist (born 1934)
Avdy Andresson was the Estonian Minister of War in exile from April 3, 1973, until two months before his death on June 20, 1990, and disputed Commander of Armed Forces from 14 Octo…
Avdy Andresson, Estonian soldier and diplomat (born 1899)
Willebrord Jan Frans Maria "Willy" Vandersteen was a Belgian creator of comic books. In a career spanning 50 years, he created a large studio and published more than 1,000 comic al…
Willy Vandersteen, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1913)
Manly Palmer Hall was a Canadian writer, lecturer, astrologer, and mystic. Over his 70-year career he gave thousands of lectures and published over 150 volumes, of which the best k…
Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian-American mystic and author (born 1901)
Bernard D.H. Tellegen was a Dutch electrical engineer and inventor of the pentode and the gyrator. He is also known for a theorem in circuit theory, Tellegen's theorem.
Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic (born 1900)
Stephen Ray Vaughan, also known abbreviated as SRV, was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.…
Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1954)
Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was an American professional basketball player who was one of the first African Americans to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He wa…
Nathaniel Clifton, American basketball player and coach (born 1922)
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar …
Edwin O. Reischauer, American scholar and diplomat (born 1910)
Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court was a South African-born Australian businessman who became Australia's first billionaire. He died suddenly of heart failure in 1990 at the ag…
Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (born 1937)
Lawrence Arthur Cremin was an American educational historian and administrator.
Lawrence A. Cremin, American historian and author (born 1925)