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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Irene Dunne was an American actress who appeared in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her comedic roles, though she performed in films of other genres…
Irene Dunne, American actress and singer (born 1898)
Turan Dursun was a Turkish author and atheist who was a critic of Islam. A former Muslim cleric and scholar of Shia Islam, he became an atheist during his study of the history of m…
Turan Dursun, Turkish scholar and author (born 1934)
Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon was an English colonial administrator and diplomat who was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and the last gov…
Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (born 1907)
Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur. With business partner Will Eisner, he co-founded Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produ…
Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (born 1903)
Ivan Mihaylov Gavrilov, also known as Vancho Mihaylov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary in interwar Macedonia and the last leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary O…
Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (born 1896)
Thomas Richard Fogerty was an American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fa…
Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
Sir Leonard Hutton was an English cricketer. He played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and…
Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier (born 1916)
Earle Everard "Pat" Partridge was a four-star general in the United States Air Force and a Command Pilot.
Earle E. Partridge, American general and pilot (born 1900)
Alan John Percivale Taylor was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to milli…
A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and journalist (born 1906)
Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was an English naturalist, artist and author under the pen name 'BB'. He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for The Little Grey Men.
Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (born 1905)
Nicola Abbagnano was an Italian existential philosopher.
Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher and academic (born 1901)
Samuel Kanyon Doe was a Liberian politician and military officer who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 until his execution in 1990. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of …
Samuel Doe, Liberian field marshal and politician, 21st President of Liberia (born 1951)