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Charles David Farrell was an American film actor and later Mayor of Palm Springs, serving from 1947 to 1955. Farrell was known for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor i…
Charles Farrell, American actor (born 1900)
Samuel Pennington Thavarasa Tambimuttu was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.
Luigi Nono, Italian composer and educator (born 1924)
Stratos Dionysiou, nicknamed "To Geraki tis Pistas", was a Greek singer, composer and lyricist.
Stratos Dionysiou, Greek Singer, composer and lyricist (born 1935)
Walker Percy, OblSB was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, …
Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (born 1916)
Jill Dorothy Ireland was an English actress and singer.
Jill Ireland, English actress (born 1936)
Samuel George Davis Jr. was an American singer, actor, comedian, dancer, and musician.
Sammy Davis Jr
James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer, actor, animator, creative producer, and director who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Henson was also well…
Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, creator of The Muppets (born 1936)
Thomas Rocco Barbella, better known as Rocky Graziano, was an American professional boxer and actor who competed in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions. He held the lineal …
Rocky Graziano, American boxer (born 1922)
Arthur Villeneuve, was a Québécois painter and member of the Order of Canada.
Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (born 1910)
Victor Tayback was an American actor. He was best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples on the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), as well as his multiple guest appearanc…
Vic Tayback, American actor (born 1930)
Robert Baumle Meyner was an American Democratic Party politician and attorney who served as the 44th governor of New Jersey from 1954 to 1962. Before being elected governor, Meyner…
Robert B
Julius Eastman was an American composer. He was among the first composers to combine the processes of some minimalist music with other methods of extending and modifying his music …
Julius Eastman, American composer (born 1940)
Cécile Chabot was a Canadian poet and illustrator.
Cécile Chabot, Canadian poet and illustrator (born 1907)
Steven John Bator, known professionally as Stiv Bator and later as Stiv Bators, was an American punk rock vocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for hi…
Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1949)
Zdenka Ziková, also known as Zdenka Zika, was a Czech soprano opera singer and music teacher.
Zdenka Ziková, Czech opera singer (born 1902)
Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Ter…
Rex Harrison, English actor (born 1908)
Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 196…
Robert Noyce, American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (born 1927)
Gruinard Island is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres long by one kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapoo…
Gruinard Island in Scotland, the site of biological warfare testing by British scientists, was declared free of anthrax
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the …
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the country's first female president. Previously,…
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created …
Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr