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Raymond Neil Combs Jr. was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and game show host. He began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led …
Ray Combs, American game show host (born 1956)
Kuber Nath Rai, also written as Kubernath Ray and Kuber Nath Ray, was a writer and scholar of Hindi literature and Sanskrit.
Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian poet and scholar (born 1933)
George Davis Snell NAS was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.
George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for
George Harris Hees was a Canadian politician and businessman.
George Hees, Canadian soldier, football player, and politician (born 1910)
Jo Van Fleet was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual ag…
Jo Van Fleet, American actress (born 1915)
Brigitte Helm was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.
Brigitte Helm, German-Swiss actress (born 1908)
Noemí Gerstein was an Argentine sculptor, illustrator and plastic artist.
Noemí Gerstein, Argentinian sculptor and illustrator (born 1908)
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American improvisational vocal musician, singer, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady …
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer and actress (born 1917)
Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer, writer and politician. A Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1974 Maclean was one of only two so…
Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Scottish general and politician (born 1911)
Hoyt Richard Murdoch was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names "Dirty" Dick Murdoch and "Captain Redneck". He was best known for his time in the NWA, Wo…
Dick Murdoch, American wrestler (born 1946)
Mel Allen was an American sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the primary play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees. During the peak of his career in the 1940s, 1…
Mel Allen, American sportscaster and game show host (born 1913)
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles…
Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (born 1922)
Douglas Curtis Swan was an American comics artist. The artist most associated with Superman during the period fans call the Bronze Age of Comic Books, Swan produced hundreds of cov…
Curt Swan, American illustrator (born 1920)
Endel Karlovich Puusepp was a Soviet bomber pilot of Estonian origin who completed over 30 nighttime strategic bombing campaigns during World War II. He was a recipient of the Hero…
Endel Puusepp, Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (born 1909)
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou was a Greek academic and economist who was prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996. He founded PASOK, the Panhellenic Soc…
Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 174th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)
Raymond Russell Lindwall was an Australian cricketer who played 61 Test matches for Australia between 1946 and 1960. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers in cr…
Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and rugby player (born 1921)
Sir Arthur Wendell Snelling was a senior British civil servant and diplomat.
Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to South Africa (born 1914)
Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu was a Turkish poet, linguist and writer.
Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu, Turkish linguist and academic (born 1932)
Lakis Petropoulos was a Greek football player who played as midfielder for Panathinaikos and a later manager.
Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (born 1932)
William Thomas Cahill was a liberal American politician, lawyer, and academic who served as the 46th governor of New Jersey from 1970 to 1974. A Republican, Cahill previously serve…
William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (born 1904)
Veronica Guerin Turley was an Irish investigative journalist focusing on organised crime in Ireland, who was murdered in a contract killing believed to have been ordered by a South…
Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (born 1958)
Albert Romolo Broccoli, nicknamed "Cubby", was an American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career. Most of the films were made in the United King…
Albert R
Margaux Louise Hemingway was an American fashion model and actress. The granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, she gained independent fame as a supermodel in the 1970s, appearin…
Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (born 1954)
Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the film Breaking Away.
Steve Tesich, Serbian-American author and screenwriter (born 1942)