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Willem "Wim" Drees Jr. was a Dutch politician of the Democratic Socialists '70 (DS'70) party and economist.
Willem Drees, Jr., Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Transport (born 1922)
Verner Panton is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a va…
Verner Panton, Danish interior designer (born 1926)
Leo Zalman Penn was an American television director and actor. He was the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean and Chris Penn.
Leo Penn, American actor and director (born 1921)
Richard Vincent Macaraeg, better known as Ric Segreto, was an American-born Filipino singer, songwriter, actor, teacher, journalist and historian, who became popular in the Philipp…
Ric Segreto, American-Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (born 1952)
Ernst-Hugo Alfred Järegård was a Swedish actor.
Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (born 1928)
Lucio Battisti was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting.
Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)
Bill Cratty was an American modern dancer and choreographer.
Bill Cratty, American dancer and choreographer (born 1951)
Dane Clark was an American character actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average."
Dane Clark, American actor (born 1912)
Necdet Calp was a Turkish civil servant and politician.
Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant and politician (born 1922)
Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. With a bold and dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet dis…
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)
Harry "Apple Cheeks" Lumley was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Chicago Bl…
Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1926)
Sir Francis Henry Renouf was a New Zealand stockbroker and financier.
Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman (born 1918)
George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and lawyer who was the 45th and longest-serving governor of Alabama, and the longest-serving governor from the Democratic Party…
George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (born 1919)
Yang Shangkun was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of M…
Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and 4th president of China (born 1907)
Louis Rasminsky was a Canadian economist who served as the third governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973, succeeding James Coyne. He was succeeded by Gerald Bouey.
Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist, 3rd Governor of the Bank of Canada (born 1908)
Inez Foxx and her elder brother Charlie Foxx were an American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina. Inez sang lead vocal, while Charlie sang backing vocals…
Charlie Foxx, American singer and guitarist (Inez and Charlie Foxx) (born 1939)
Patricia Lawlor Hayes was an English character actress. She is best known for playing the titular Edna in the Play for Today, Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971), for which she won th…
Patricia Hayes, English actress (born 1909)
Pokhran-II was a series of five nuclear weapon tests conducted by India in May 1998. The bombs were detonated at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. It was the secon…
India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier
Suharto was an Indonesian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998. He is the longest serving president of Indonesia at 31 …
Indonesian president Suharto resigned after a collapse of support for his presidency amid economic and political crises,
An earthquake occurred in northern Afghanistan on May 30, 1998, at 06:22 UTC in Takhar Province, with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum modified Mercalli intensity of VIII (S…
A magnitude-6
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his earl…
Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer
The Trisakti shootings, also known as the Trisakti tragedy, took place at Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia, on 12 May 1998. At a demonstration demanding President Suharto's …
Four students were shot and killed by Indonesian soldiers at Trisakti University in Jakarta, which led to widespread rio
Public Prosecutor v. Taw Cheng Kong is a landmark case decided in 1998 by the Court of Appeal of Singapore which shaped the landscape of Singapore's constitutional law. The earlier…
In Public Prosecutor v Taw Cheng Kong, the Court of Appeal of Singapore overruled a High Court decision in the only time
Terry Lynn Nichols is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted for conspiring with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing plot.
Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing