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Leopold Nowak was an Austrian musicologist chiefly known for editing the works of Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society. He reconstructed the original form of some …
Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist and theorist (born 1904)
Margaret Barr was an Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama who worked in the United States, England, New Zealand and Australia. During a career of more than sixty yea…
Margaret Barr (choreographer), Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama (born 1904)
David Eli Ruffin was an American soul singer most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations (1964–1968) during the group's "Classic Five" period as it was l…
David Ruffin, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Ahmed Arif was a Turkish-Kurdish poet.
Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author (born 1927)
Brian Eyrl Bevan, also known by the nickname of "Wing Wizard", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He became the only p…
Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league player (born 1924)
Catherine Joséphine "Katia" Krafft and her husband, Maurice Paul Krafft were French volcanologists and filmmakers who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan, on…
Katia Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (born 1942)
Catherine Joséphine "Katia" Krafft and her husband, Maurice Paul Krafft were French volcanologists and filmmakers who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan, on…
Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (born 1946)
Lê Văn Thiêm was a Vietnamese scientist. Together with Hoàng Tụy, he is considered the father of Vietnam Mathematics society. He was the first director of the Vietnam Institute of …
Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (born 1918)
Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being t…
Stan Getz, American saxophonist and jazz innovator (born 1927)
Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Be…
Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (born 1903)
Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure.
Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit (born 1902)
Cromwell Everson was primarily known as a composer during his lifetime. He was brought up as an Afrikaner by his mother, Maria De Wit and father, Robert Everson. He continued this …
Cromwell Everson, South African composer (born 1925)
Dame Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft was an English actress whose career spanned more than six decades, both on screen and stage.
Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (born 1907)
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. was an American politician from Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate and served as its 44th and 49th governor. Aside from his p…
Happy Chandler, American businessman and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky (born 1898)
Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis remains the only black person to have won …
Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
Jean Arthur was an American film and theater actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.
Jean Arthur, American actress (born 1900)
Sumner Locke Elliott was an Australian novelist and playwright.
Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (born 1917)
Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, pa…
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1899)
Milton Subotsky was an American producer and writer of film and television. He was the co-founder of Amicus Productions with Max J. Rosenberg, which produced horror and science-fic…
Milton Subotsky, American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1921)
Michael Landon Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1…
Michael Landon, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)
Lee Ann Remick was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film Days of Wine and Roses (1962) and was nominated for the Tony Award for…
Lee Remick, American actress (born 1935)
Victor Peter Chang was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia.
Victor Chang, Chinese-Australian surgeon and physician (born 1936)
Arthur Baldwin Sansom Jr., better known as Art Sansom, was an American comic strip cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip The Born Loser.
Art Sansom, American cartoonist (born 1920)
Howard Nemerov was an American poet. Nemerov was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University …
Howard Nemerov, American poet and essayist (born 1920)