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Beryl Burton OBE was an English racing cyclist who dominated the women's sport, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles, and setting numerous national re…
Beryl Burton, English cyclist (born 1937)
Luis Miguel González Lucas, better known as Luis Miguel Dominguín, was a Spanish bullfighter. The son of the noteworthy bullfighter Domingo Dominguín, he adopted his father's pseud…
Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (born 1926)
Larry Patrick Levis was an American poet and teacher who published five books of poetry during his lifetime. Two more volumes of previously unpublished poems appeared posthumously,…
Larry Levis, American poet, author, and critic (born 1946)
Garth Montgomery Williams was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children's books. Many of the books he illustrated have bec…
Garth Williams, American illustrator (born 1912)
Charles Britton Fulton was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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Kevin Matthew Gilbert was an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and producer. He was best known for his solo progressive rock projects, Toy Matinee and his contributi…
Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1966)
Jeremy Michael Boorda was a United States Navy admiral who served as the 25th Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda is notable as the first person to have risen from the enlisted ranks…
Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (born 1939)
John Beradino was an American Major League Baseball infielder and actor. Known as Johnny Berardino during his baseball career, he was also credited during his acting career as John…
John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (born 1917)
John Devon Roland Pertwee, known professionally as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor. He made many appearances on television, film and in the theatre throughout the 1950s and 1960s…
Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed the Third Doctor (born 1919)
Paul Delph was a Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, producer, engineer, and studio musician whose catalog includes work with many well-known recording artists from the late 1970…
Paul Delph, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1957)
Alfred "Lash" LaRue was a Western motion picture star of the 1940s and 1950s.
Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (born 1917)
Villem Raam was an Estonian art historian, art critic and conservator-restorer. His work in documenting and preserving the cultural heritage of Estonia, not least during the Soviet…
Villem Raam, Estonian art historian, art critic and conservator (born 1910)
Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky was a Russian journalist, dissident, human rights activist and political prisoner.
Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist and activist (born 1934)
Vice Admiral Thomas Francis Connolly Jr. was a three-star rank admiral in the United States Navy, aviator, and gymnast. As a member of the United States men's national artistic gym…
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Enrique Álvarez Félix was a Mexican actor.
Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (born 1934)
Joseph Quincy Mitchell was an American writer best known for the work he published in The New Yorker. He is known for his carefully written portraits of eccentrics and people on th…
Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (born 1908)
Tamara Toumanova was a Russian-born Georgian-American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her debut at the age of…
Tamara Toumanova, American ballerina and actress (born 1919)
Renzo De Felice was an Italian historian who specialized in the Fascist era. Among other works, he authored a 6000-page biography of Mussolini. He argued that Mussolini was a revol…
Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and author (born 1929)
Léon-Étienne Duval was a French prelate and cardinal. He served as Archbishop of Algiers from 1954 to 1988, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.
Léon-Étienne Duval, French cardinal (born 1903)
Alo Mattiisen was an Estonian musician and composer.
Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (born 1961)
Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from "bold oracle" to …
Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (born 1920)
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was an Indian politician who served as the president of India from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress in the ind…
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (born 1913)
John Alton was an American cinematographer of Hungarian-German origin. Alton photographed some of the most famous films noir of the classic period and won an Academy Award for the …
John Alton, Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (born 1901)
Leon Garfield FRSL was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted…
Leon Garfield, English author (born 1921)