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Stefano Casiraghi was an Italian offshore powerboat racer, socialite, and businessman. He was the second husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco; he died during a racing accident de…
Stefano Casiraghi, Italian-Monegasque businessman (born 1960)
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individu…
Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
Eleanor Steber was an American soprano and voice teacher. She was particularly celebrated for her performances in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss. A nativ…
Eleanor Steber, American soprano and educator (born 1914)
Mārtiņš Zīverts was a Latvian playwright.
Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (born 1903)
Bahriye Üçok was a Turkish academic of theology, left-wing politician, writer, columnist, and women's rights activist whose assassination in 1990 remains unresolved.
Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (born 1919)
Beatrice May Hutton was an Australian architect. On 30 October 1916, she became the first female to be accepted into an institute of architects in Australia. This followed the reje…
Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (born 1893)
Chiara Badano was an Italian woman who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. At age nine, she joined the Focolare Movement and received the nickname "Luce" ("light") by …
Chiara Badano, Italian beatified (born1971)
Myron "Grim" Natwick was an American artist, cartoonist, animator, and film director. Natwick is best known for drawing the Fleischer Studios' most popular character, Betty Boop.
Grim Natwick, American animator (born 1890)
Thomas O. Murton was a penologist best known for his wardenship of the prison farms of Arkansas. In 1969, he published an account of the endemic corruption there which created a na…
Tom Murton, American penologist and activist (born 1928)
Rifaat El Mahgoub was an Egyptian politician who served as the 8th speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt from 1984 until his assassination in 1990. He was a member of the then …
Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (born 1926)
Lê Đức Thọ, born Phan Đình Khải in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician. He was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly …
Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She came to prominence in Alain Resnais's 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, and later acted in…
Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (born 1932)
Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (born 1919)
Nikolaos Pavlopoulos was a Greek sculptor and writer. His education in his years in Volos, he learned himself with calligraphy, music and theatre. When he finished at the Practical…
Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and academic (born 1909)
Dorothy Amora Stanley was an American educator, consultant, Miwok activist, and politician. Trained in Northern Miwok culture during her youth, she became involved in Native Americ…
Dorothy Stanley, American educator (born 1924)
Peter Wessel Zapffe was a Norwegian philosopher, author, artist, lawyer and mountaineer. He is often noted for his philosophically pessimistic and fatalistic view of human existenc…
Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian physician, mountaineer, and author (born 1899)
Hans Namuth was a German-born American photographer. He specialized in portraiture, photographing many artists, including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. His photos of Poll…
Hans Namuth, German-American photographer (born 1915)
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was …
Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)
Jorge Bolet was a Cuban-born American concert pianist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter a renowned pupil of Franz L…
Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist and educator (born 1914)
Joel Albert McCrea was an American actor whose career as a leading man spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adven…
Joel McCrea, American actor (born 1905)
Dany Chamoun was a prominent Lebanese politician. A Maronite Christian, the younger son of former President Camille Chamoun and brother of Dory Chamoun, Chamoun was also a politici…
Dany Chamoun, Lebanese engineer and politician (born 1934)
Thomas Williams was an American novelist. He won one U.S. National Book Award for Fiction—The Hair of Harold Roux split the 1975 award with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers—and his las…
Thomas Williams, American author and academic (born 1926)
Alberto da Costa Pereira was a Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Alberto da Costa Pereira, Portuguese footballer (born 1929)
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, also known by his spiritual name Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti, and known as Bábá ("Father") to his disciples, was a spiritual guru, philosopher, social reformer, …
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian spiritual guru, philosopher and author (born 1921)