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Clement Greenberg, occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mi…
Clement Greenberg, American art critic (born 1909)
George Peppard was an American actor. He secured a major role as struggling writer Paul Varjak when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later …
George Peppard, American actor and producer (born 1928)
Elias Mathope Motsoaledi OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. He was Accused No.9 in the Rivonia Trial and was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1963 with a group…
Elias Motsoaledi, South African activist (born 1924)
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Towns…
John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (born 1942)
Erik Homburger Erikson was a German-American child psychoanalyst and visual artist known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity c…
Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (born 1902)
John Smith was a British politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death in May 1994. He was also Member of Parliament (MP…
John Smith, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Labour Party leader, Leader of the Opposition (born 1938)
Timothy Agoglia Carey was an American film and television character actor who was typically cast as manic or violent characters who are driven to extremes. He is particularly known…
Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (born 1928)
James Duncan Hamilton was a British racing driver. He was known for his colourful and extroverted personality. After fighting in the Second World War, he took up motorsport. Althou…
Duncan Hamilton, Irish-English race car driver (born 1920)
John Burley Swainson was a Canadian-American politician and jurist who served as the 42nd governor of Michigan from 1961 to 1963.
John Swainson, Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd Governor of Michigan (born 1925)
Cihat Arman was a Turkish football goalkeeper and manager. He represented Turkey at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was the coach of the Turkish national …
Cihat Arman, Turkish footballer and manager (born 1915)
William Graham Claytor Jr. was an American attorney, United States Navy officer, railroad executive, and administrator of railroad, transportation, and defense affairs for the Unit…
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Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until…
Gilbert Roland, American actor (born 1905)
René Xavier Marie Alain Cuny was a French actor of stage and screen. He was closely linked with the works of Paul Claudel and Antonin Artaud, and for his performances for the Théât…
Alain Cuny, French actor (born 1908)
Jacques Ellul was a French born philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, resistance fighter and professor. Noted as a Christian anarchist, Ellul was a longtime professor of Histor…
Jacques Ellul, French sociologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1912)
Jesús Luis Ocaña Pernía was a Spanish road bicycle racer who won the 1973 Tour de France and the 1970 Vuelta a España. During the 1971 Tour de France he launched an amazing solo br…
Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (born 1945)
Olav Håkonson Hauge was a Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet.
Olav Hauge, Norwegian poet (born 1908)
Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock was an American jazz guitarist. His first wife was singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he recorded and performed.
Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist (born 1940)
Julius Nicholas Boros was an American professional golfer noted for his effortless-looking swing and strong record on difficult golf courses, particularly at the U.S. Open.
Julius Boros, American golfer (born 1920)
Ely Jacques Kahn Jr. was an American writer with The New Yorker for five decades.
Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr
Lady May Helen Emma Abel Smith was a member of the British royal family. On her mother's side, she was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and on her father's side, a great-gr…
Lady May Abel Smith, member of the British Royal Family (born 1906)
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. She rede…
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1929)
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He h…
Erich Honecker, German lawyer and politician (born 1912)
Ezra Taft Benson was an American farmer, federal government official, and religious leader. He served as the 15th United States Secretary of Agriculture during the entirety of both…
Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 189
Marcel Bich, Baron Bich was an Italian-French manufacturer and co-founder of Bic, the world's leading producer of ballpoint pens, lighters and razors.
Marcel Bich, Italian-French businessman, co-founded Société Bic (born 1914)