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James Tolbert Hearn was an American professional baseball player who was a pitcher in Major League Baseball for 13 seasons (1947–1959). The right-hander was listed as 6 feet 3 inch…
Jim Hearn, American baseball player (born 1921)
Ralph Hammond Innes was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as works for children and travel books.
Hammond Innes, English author (born 1913)
Dame Catherine Ann Cookson was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while she retained a relatively low…
Catherine Cookson, English author (born 1906)
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, also known as "Dr. Love", was an American author, motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of South…
Leo Buscaglia, American author and educator (born 1924)
Theresa Merritt Hines, known professionally as Theresa Merritt, was an American actress. She is known for her role in That's My Mama (1974–1975) and for her film roles in The Wiz (…
Theresa Merritt, American actress and singer (born 1922)
Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture th…
Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (born 1899)
Birger Johannes Ruud was a Norwegian ski jumper and alpine skier.
Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (born 1911)
Reginald Smyth was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running Andy Capp comic strip.
Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (born 1917)
Frederick G. Wacker Jr. was an engineer and former president of two large Chicago companies. He was also a prominent Chicago socialite, a jazz musician, and a racing driver. He par…
Fred Wacker, American race car driver and engineer (born 1918)
William Felix Knight, was an American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher, best known for his role as Tom-Tom in the 1934 Laurel and Hardy holiday musical film Babes in Toyland.
Felix Knight, American actor and tenor (born 1908)
Harry Cranbrook Allen was a British historian of the United States.
Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (born 1917)
Maureen Paula O'Sullivan was an Irish-American actress who played Jane in the Tarzan series of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller. She starred in dozens of feature films ac…
Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (born 1911)
Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, religious name Anastasio del Santissimo Rosario, was an Italian cardinal and member of the Discalced Carmelites who served as the Archbishop of Turin…
Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian cardinal (born 1913)
Alexander Sebastian Campanis was an American executive in Major League Baseball (MLB). He had a brief major league playing career, as a second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1…
Al Campanis, American baseball player and manager (born 1916)
Hacı Sabancı was a Turkish businessman, philanthropist, and second-generation member of the renowned Sabancı family.
Hacı Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist (born 1935)
Gilles Rocheleau was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. He co-founded the Bloc Québécois with Lucien Bouchard in 1990.
Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1935)
Horst Jankowski was a classically trained German pianist, most famous for his internationally successful easy listening music.
Horst Jankowski, German pianist and composer (born 1936)
Danielle Bunten Berry, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E., one of the first influential multiplayer video games, and 1984's The Seven Ci…
Danielle Bunten Berry, American game designer and programmer (born 1949)
Sidney Luckman was an American professional football quarterback who played for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 1939 through 1950. During his 12 season…
Sid Luckman, American football player (born 1916)
Roy Rogers, nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, was an American actor, singer, television host, and rodeo performer.
Roy Rogers, American cowboy, actor, and singer (born 1911)
Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, also known as M. K. O. Abiola, was a Nigerian business magnate, publisher and politician. He was the honorary supreme military commander of …
Moshood Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician (born 1937)
Elia Maria González-Álvarez y López-Chicheri, also known as Lilí de Álvarez, was a Spanish multi-sport competitor, an international tennis champion, an author, feminist and a journ…
Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (born 1905)
Panagiotis Kondylis was a Greek philosopher, intellectual historian, translator and publications manager who principally wrote in German, in addition to translating most of his wor…
Panagiotis Kondylis, Greek philosopher and author (born 1943)
James Corbitt Morris, known professionally as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was an American folk-style songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New …
Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (born 1907)